Young Dancemakers Company
2010 SUMMER PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 21,
2:00 PM
Fieldston School, 3901 Fieldston Road, Bronx
Thursday, July 22, 5:00 PM
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
East 47th St. between 1st and 2nd Ave., Manhattan
Friday, July 23, 2:30 PM
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Tuesday, July 27, 2:00 PM
Stern Auditorium, Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Madison Ave. & 100th St., Manhattan
Wednesday, July 28, 11:30 AM
Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts
1 University Plaza, Brooklyn
Thursday, July 29, 1:00 PM
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
153 St. & Jamaica Ave., Queens
Friday, July 30, 2:00 PM
New York City Center, Studio 5
130 West 56 St., Manhattan
GALA FINALE AND RECEPTION
Saturday, July 31, 7:30 PM
Ailey Citigroup Theater
9th Ave. & 55 Street, Manhattan
STUDIO PERFORMANCE WITH BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCERS
Thursday, August 5, 6:30 PM
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
248 West 60th Street, Manhattan
Group and individual reservations to FREE performances throughout the metropolitan area should be made by calling 718-329-7250.
ABOUT YOUNG DANCEMAKERS COMPANY
Young Dancemakers Company (YDC) is a completely free summer ensemble of students selected from NYC public high schools, grades 9-12, who love to dance and seek to create and perform original choreography. A guest Repertory Project provides students a unique opportunity to learn works of master choreographers, such as Donald McKayle, Robert Battle, Sean Curran, Ronald K. Brown, José Limón, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, and Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane. In addition to touring throughout New York City, YDC has performed as part of Dancenow/NYC Festival; Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival; The Yard, in Martha’s Vineyard; Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY; and International Conference 2000 & Dancing in the Millennium; held by the NDEO at the Kennedy Center.
The program is funded by the Richenthal Foundation, the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, Jody and John Arnhold, individual contributors, and is hosted by the Fieldston School in the Bronx.
For more information please visit the company website: www.ecfs.org/ydc.asp.
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TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2010: Workshops
For the 20th time, dance and theatre enthusiasts from all over the world meet in Munich from August 4 – 14, 2010 to share and enrich their knowledge in movement, dance and performance.
You can choose from a wide range of styles and techniques. Apart from Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance, exercises for the enhancement of body awareness and sensory perception by the use of voice are equally offered. In addition to that, we are very
proud that we can again offer a 5-day program especially for children and young people!
Courses for adults
Henry Montes (GB): Release-based Contemporary Dance (Professionals)
Janez Janša (SI): Interdisciplinary Performance Workshop – “What am I not allowed to do” (Advanced & Professionals)
Chiang-Mei Wang (TW/DE): Floating Body – Modern Dance / Tai Chi Dao Yin (Advanced & Professionals)
Amanda Miller (USA): Composition / Matrix (Advanced & Professionals)
Patricia Bardi (USA/NL): Embodied Voice in the Moving Body (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Richard Siegal (USA/DE): Creation -(c)oPirates” (Advanced & Professionals)
Ivana Müller (HR/NL): Physical Theatre – “The 17 of us looking at each other and guessing what is this dance all about” (Advanced & Professionals)
Stefan Dreher (DE): Yoga for Dancers (all levels)
Dr. Liane Simmel (DE): Dance Medicine “Not just any body” (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Katja Wachter (DE): Contemporary Dance (Beginners & Advanced)
Niako (F): Hip Hop Freestyle (Beginners, Advanced & Professionals)
Goran Bogdanovski (SI): Fico Training and Improvisation Tools (Advanced & Professionals)
Courses for children (classes of 5 days)
Andrea Marton (DE): Contemporary Dance for Children (age 6-10)
Annerose Schmidt (DE): Contemporary Dance for Girls and Boys (age 11-15)
Aloun Phetnoi (LAO/DE): Breakdance for Kids (age 8-11)
Aloun Phetnoi (LAO/DE): Breakdance for Young People (age 12-16)
For further information (concerning the courses and the application form) please visit:
http://www.tanzwerkstatt-europa.net
www.jointadventures.net
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Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theater to perform at the
Emerging Arts Festival (A.R.T.)
SLDT is proud to announce that they will be part of the Emerging America Festival at the A.R.T. (Harvard University) on Sunday May 16. Festival celebration party featuring decode; created by Salvatore LaRussa celebrate the end of the festival weekend with a raucous party featuring a dance performance where silent dialogues and physical commands are exchanged
between dancers throughout the venue.
Tickets: $20/$15
Venue: A.R.T. @ OBERON, at 2 Arrow St. Cambridge, MA.
www.emergingamericafestival.org
SLDT – The Academy: Free Sunday Arts Performances series & Queens Arts Express
Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre – The Academy located at 66-85 73rd Place, Middle Village, Queens, NY 11379, presents the Free Sunday Performance series during which The Academy will showcase six emerging NYC choreographers. Sponsored by Queens Council on the Arts, all events are free and open to the general public.
Scheduled performances: May 23 at 2 pm Vissi Dance Theatre and Trainor Dance; May 30 at 2 pm Circle of Dance and DiMauro Dance; June 6 at 2 pm Dina Denis Dance and KerPlunk Dance.
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THINKING, TALKING, WRITING DANCE
Dance Ireland wishes to support a community of writers who engage in ideas about their own artistic practice, and the creative work of others across a wide range of disciplines. Jeffrey Gormly, editor of choreograph.net, will bring his experience as writer, dramaturge, editor and cultural producer to a process of discovering while addressing the needs of creative producers.
29 January 12 – 4pm
26 February 12 – 4pm
26 March 12 – 4pm
The aim of the pilot is to identify and address the needs of creative artists around writing. It is acknowledged that there are three general aspects to the use of writing in artistic professional practice and development:
• Writing as process: use of notebooks, reading and research as part of the creation of artistic material;
• Writing as interface: creation of texts for publicity, marketing, and artistic proposals;
• Discursive practices as a means of developing artistic ‘working friendships’, community and eliciting feedback: blogging, article writing, dialogical and discursive formats.
This pilot will involve raw thinking and talking, note-taking, discussion, and development of a critical, associative field of ideas relating to the particular thoughts and ideas occupying each participant’s mind. The program also incorporates space/time for free dance as an essential and constructive part of an embodied thinking process. The final session of the workshop will include publishing texts and images produced by the participants in a raw thinking thread on choreograph.net, for those happy to do so.
Open to all creative artists interested in exploring and developing their writing practice; €10 per workshop or sign-up for all three and pay €25. As places are limited, please reserve your place by calling 01 855 8800 or email reception@danceireland.ie.
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DANCE RESEARCH READING AND DISCUSSION GROUP
Pilot project coordinated by Antje Schneider
Tuesdays 6-8pm
16 March, 20 April, 04 May, 18 May @ DanceHouse
This group is an initiative to create a space for verbal exchange about theoretical and practice-based research in dance and performance. It addresses all dancers and researchers who want to reflect their ideas and engage with the ideas of a wider community. Discussions will be stimulated by reading texts that will be provided to the group. The pilot term will kick off with a focus on improvisational practice.
Join us, and enrich and reflect your movement practice through communication with other dancers and stay up to date with the current concerns in dance research.
For further information, please email: infodanceresearch@gmail.com
This group is supported by Dance Ireland and co-facilitated by GradCAM (Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media)
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Citydance Auditions
CityDance Ensemble, a contemporary repertory company based in Washington, DC, is seeking male and female modern dancers ages 18 and up for its main professional company and second company. Dancers in the main company will be hired for 32-26 week salaried contracts and must be available to rehearse Monday through Friday from 9:30am-5pm. Extensive touring is a possibility. Strong modern and ballet technique is required, previous professional experience preferred. Salary is commensurate with experience.
Dancers in the second company are not salaried at this time and work on a per performance fee structure. CityDance2 is both a performance company and an outreach and teaching residency company. The second company appears periodically with CityDance Ensemble.
For Questions, please email CityDance Ensemble Rehearsal Director Christopher K. Morgan at christopher@citydance.net.
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choreography commissions
CityDance Ensemble, “Washington’s preeminent modern dance company” (The Washington Times), seeks promising choreographers to create dances for the company’s 2010-2011 Next series. Next is an annual concert series that presents work by today’s up-and-coming dance artists.
for info email commissions@citydance.net or call 202.347.3909.
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Audition for Spring Production:
Les Ballets Persans
Video auditioning for European Youth Dance Project:
Professional and semiprofessional dancers
Online registration required
Spring performance production includes three dance creations:
Turquoise Land – Dream of Peace
Symphony of Elegy in Green
A whole new ballet for EYDP
http://www.artira.com/balletspersans/eng/mainframe.htm
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Learn Balinese music & dance with Cudamani in Bali
Çudamani Music & Dance Summer Institute. Bali, Indonesia
Three week program JUNE 28 – JULY 17, 2010
Application due Feb 15, 2010 or until enrollment fulfilled!
Apply Online
www.cudamani.org
Artistic Team: I Dewa Putu Berata & Emiko Saraswati Susilo
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For the fourth time, internationally acclaimed Gamelan Çudamani ensemble invites you participate in the study of Balinese music & dance in Bali, Indonesia.
Intensive study with 6 master artists and a team of 12 assisting teachers using pedagogy developed collaboratively by Ibu Ni Ketut Alit Arini, Bapak I Nyoman Cerita and Çudamani; lectures and demonstrations by internationally renowned scholars and artists; observation of rehearsals, ‘backstage’ preparation and performances; visits to sacred sites and ceremonies. Participants engage with Pengosekan’s community of artists, well known as weavers, painters, dancers and musicians. For the very first time, Çudamani will offer elective courses on the fine of making masks, bamboo instruments and offerings.
With the success of the 2007, 2008 & 2009 summer programs, Çudamani invites you to participate in a rigorous study of Balinese music and dance in the village of Pengosekan, Ubud, Bali. Çudamani has provided gamelan and dance instruction to
hundreds of youth and adults over the past eleven years. The company’s technical accomplishments on the seven-toned Semarandana are unparalleled.
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ABUNDANCE dance festival
The tri-annual ABUNDANCE dance festival will take place in Karlstad and the Värmland region in Sweden on June 15 – 17, 2010. Our aim is to gather choreographers, dancers, critics and philosophers from many countries, and offer a platform for exchange, feedback and critique of new work as well as being a forum for creating new knowledge about dance and choreography. The festival will offer opportunities to see, talk about and participate in performances and workshops.
ABUNDANCE 2010 will coincide with the international congress World Summit, which will be situated in Karlstad in June 2010, – on Media for Children and Youth and the general theme of dance, body and media is at the centre of ABUNDANCE dance festival.
please visit us online
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Salvatore LaRussa Dance Theatre
Celebrates 5th Anniversary with First Full-Length Work decode
Friday, Oct 23 – 9pm; Saturday, Oct 24 & Sunday, Oct 25 – 8pm
Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune Street, NYC, 10014, 11th Floor.
The general public can reserve seats in advance by emailing rsvp@sldt.org. Pay at the door, cash only. Tickets are $20 general admission and $15 for students.
Choreographed by Salvatore LaRussa, with costumes by designer Guillaume Boulez (of ThreeASFOUR) and original score by composer Steve Sclafani.
In his first full-length work, decode, LaRussa deconstructs the inner mind of evil controllers, through out history, who dedicated their lives to destroy what is considered “different” or “other”. The second half changes direction to the figures that have saved them from this destructive society.
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24th International Competition for Choreographers
Hanover 2010
taking place during “OsterTanzTage” at the Staatsoper Hannover
on April 3rd and 4th, 2010
Since 24 years the Ballet Society Hanover organize the International Competition for Choreographers Hanover. Within the last years the competition estimated as an important event in the national and international dance scene.
We are proud receiving the following statement: “This is the most interesting, well organised, progressive choreographic competition in central europe with an international reputation. It is a privilege to have been part of this renowned competition, a platform of artistic exchanges. The support of the Ballett Gesellschaft Hannover for the world of dance is paramount!”
Richard Wherlock, Director Ballet Basel.
Since 2004 the Staatsoper Hanover and the Ballett Gesellschaft Hanover organize the OsterTanzTage, a four day long dance festival with performances of the Ballett der Staatsoper Hannover, a guest performance and several other activities. Centre of the OsterTanzTage is the International Competition for Choreographers.
These are the competition guidelines:
In order to take part in the competition, all participants, choreographers and dancers must have a completed professional training and education.
The competition is limited to choreographers 35 years or younger. The length of the performance has to be from 5 to 15 minutes and a solo ballet may not be interpreted by the choreographer him/herself. The choice of subject and music is optional. The choreographic work must be submitted on videotape/DVD.
This competition is open to all styles of ballet subject to the formal conditions provided.
Performances will be evaluated based on a creative arrangement of space and time, the concept of the performance and its adaptation to and by the dancers.
A prejury will select a maximum of 20 of the submitted works, which will enter the contest. The artistic director of the jury is Ed Wubbe, director of the Scapino Ballett.
Prize:
The money that can be won for the first 3 endowed prizes amounts 13.500 EUR. The audience prize amounts 1.000 EUR. Furthermore there is a critics prize of 1.500 EUR and the Scapino Production Prize.
For any questions please do not hesitate to contact us, telephone ++49. (0)5109 .5646-14. Please find the actual terms of conditions, application forms and photos of the last competitions on the internet at http://www.ballettgesellschaft.de.
info@ballettgesellschaft.de
www.ballettgesellschaft.de
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European Youth Dance Project’s Upcoming Season; Fall 2009
Highlights:
The New Production: Symphony of Elegy in Green
Available participation possibilities and vacancies:
Audition for Fall Season 2009 and Spring Season 2010
Vacancies for ballet master and contemporary dance instructor
Call for participation: Young contemporary choreographers
International Master Classes Seminar | 7-19 December 2009
New videos available on Ballets Persans
go to: www.balletspersans.org
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YOUTH BALLET WEST AUDITIONS
for the 2009/10 season
27 August 2009 at 11AM
Dance Academy’s studios in Briarhill
Those interested in auditioning contact: info@youthballetwest.ie.
Youth Ballet West (YBW) is a non-profit organisation offering young dancers in the west of Ireland the opportunity to audition for, and perform in professionally choreographed ballets of the highest standard while they continue to train with their own teachers.
By providing the opportunity for young dancers to gain performance experience, train with top-class teachers, work with acclaimed choreographers and work closely with professional dancers we aim to lead these young dancers to fully develop their artistic potential.
Membership of Youth Ballet West is free to those dancers selected at audition.
What we have been up to:
Last Monday saw the Youth Ballet West performers take the streets of Galway in a fund raising extravaganza that helped them raise over a thousand euro for the company. The dancers performed six pieces, drawing an audience of over a thousand people throughout the day.
Youth Ballet West are commencing work on a new piece entitled The Celebration. The company are delighted to have acclaimed international choreographer Cathy Sharp, creating this piece. The work will highlight the young dancer’s energy and youth, while providing a new and inspiring outlet for their technical prowess and abilities. YBW has been supported by The Arts Council’s Commissions Awards Scheme.
The company have also been busy all summer. In May, they were delighted to perform Ballet Egyptian, to large crowds at the hugely successful Volvo Ocean Race. In July they took part in The Dublin Youth Dance Festival in Dun Laoghaire and also performed a new piece by Judith Sibley in collaboration with Noeline Kavanagh for the Galway Arts Festival’s Macnas Parade.
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Transdisciplinary Artistic Investigation
From October 12th 2009 till March 26th 2010
c.e.m : centro em movimento | Lisbon | Portugal
F.I.A 2009/2010
A transdisciplinary artistic investigation deeply rooted in the Studies of the Body. A period of 6 months dedicated to a practical daily work which promotes the arising of essential questions brought by each individual in her/his own investigation. This daily work includes reflexion and discussion. Through it the proposals developed by each creator will come to form allowing a growing understanding and a profound knowledge of the matter under investigation.
F.I.A is organized in blocs of 3 weeks of practical work focusing on the Body (sensation, perception, movement, relation) tangled with short term proposals from two days to one week long. All the work is guided by professionals from different artistic and scientific backgrounds (dance, writing, video, sound art, philosophy, anthropology, biology, body theory). At the same time each person is individually coached, having regular dialogues with the tutors and producing weekly papers that are presented to the collective for feedback. During these six months of practical work each creator should find the ways that better suit him in the process of sharing with others the questions of his current investigation. The final public communication will assume the form that each creator considers adequate as an exercise fitted to the matter of study.
In F.I.A.‘s following ‘c.e.m. — centro em movimento’ is open to applications for artistic research (Zona Z) during April, May and June integrated in c.e.m’s continuous work – Creation/Community.
Applications from April 13th till September 6th 2009.
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Dance Studies
The center Maxime d’ Harroche school of formation and improvement in Barcelona wish to promote the program Dance Studies in order to research potential pupils who would like to spend one year in Barcelona. This formation accommodates foreign students (all levels) to improve in Modern Jazz, Classic, Hip Hop and Contemporary. The technical courses will proceed
every day of 10:00 at 14:30.The characteristic of this formation, in partnership with an academy of language, allows deepening, the afternoon, their Spanish knowledge and their will be used to live new experiences thanks to the discovery of another culture.
For a description of the formation as well as the dates of preregistrations and also a flyer which makes the description of a training course of two week during the summer which will make it possible to the pupils make a first impression of the program “Dance Studies”, contact me by email: jdenis153@gmail.com.
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TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2009
We are happy to announce the workshop program for this year’s TANZWERKSTATT EUROPA 2009!
For the 19th time, dance and theatre enthusiasts from all over the world meet in Munich from
August 5 – 15, 2009
to share and enrich their knowledge in movement, dance and
performance.
You can choose from a wide range of styles and techniques. Apart from Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance, exercises for the enhancement of body awareness and sensory perception by the use of voice are equally offered. In addition to that, we are very
proud that we can again offer a 5-day program especially for children and young people!
Here is an overview of the courses offered:
Courses for adults
Iñaki Azpillaga (B/ES): Dynamic Changes in Contemporary Dance (Intermediate & Advanced)
Patricia Bardi (USA/B): Physical Voice in the Moving Body (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Stefan Dreher (D): Yoga (all levels)
Jeremy Nelson (USA): Contemporary Dance Technique (Advanced & Professionals)
Dr. Liane Simmel (D): “Inside out” – The Body in Motion (Pedagogues & Dancers)
Katja Wachter (D): Contemporary Dance (Beginners & Advanced)
Anna Williams (UK): Contemporary Dance (Advanced)
Niako (F): Hip Hop Freestyle (Beginners, Advanced & Professionals)
Goran Bogdanovski (SI): Ficot Balet – Technique and Improvisation Tools (Intermediate & Professionals)
Kenneth Flak (S/N): Contemporary Dance Technique (Intermediate & Advanced)
Kenneth Flak (S/N): Moving in Character (Professionals)
Boris Charmatz (F): 50 years of dance (Professionals)
Courses for children (classes of 5 days)
Andrea Marton (D): Contemporary Dance for Kids (age 7 – 11; 5.8. – 9.8.)
Annerose Schmid (D): Contemporary Dance for Boys (age 8 – 11; 5.8. – 9.8.)
Aiga Keller (D): Hip Hop for Kids (age 8 – 12; 10.8. – 14.8.)
Aiga Keller (D): Contemporary Dance for Young People (age 12 – 16; 10.8.-14.8.)
For further information (concerning the courses and the application form) please visit:
http://www.tanzwerkstatt-europa.net
www.jointadventures.net
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts February
11-May9, 2009
Vincent Astor Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts is a multimedia exhibition that captures the 40 years of art and accomplishment of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Through unique stage props, spectacular costumes, programs, posters, intimate photographs and more, this exhibition highlights the historic productions and community outreach that brought ballet to Harlem and the Dance Theatre of Harlem to the international stage.
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Research: computer program for choreographers
My name is Jennifer Pierce.
I am a Master’s student at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies in Tokyo, Japan.
Prior to moving to Japan, I studied art history, dance, and photography in the United States.
I am in the beginning stages of preparing for my Master’s thesis which will focus on intermedia dance, specifically interdisciplinary choreography. It is my tentative goal to collaborate with computer scientists in my school to create a computer program designed for choreographers.
In order to better understand the needs and processes of choreographers I have prepared a questionnaire. My questions are very general although my curiosity is great so any creative feedback would be very much appreciated!
if you are willing to give a little time to help me, please contact me
photo.color.fashion.dance[at]gmail[dot]com
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