Monday, June 30, 2014
Mountain Empire Performance Collective: One Week Until The Capitol Fringe
Mountain Empire Performance Collective: One Week Until The Capitol Fringe: Everybody Knows This Is Now Here Capitol Fringe, July 10-17, 2014 Katie here: I am patiently awaiting the 4th of July weekend. It...
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Laban Inspired Dance and Ophelia
This Thursday, Friday and Saturday (6/26 - 6/28) are the last days of show for Taffety Punk's run of Enter Ophelia: Distracted at CHAW.
"Enter Ophelia, distracted combines the striking intensity of actor Kimberly Gilbert with the refined and investigative choreography of Erin Mitchell, immersed in a sea of music and sound to expose the inner and outer workings of Ophelia's self."
As a bonus, on Saturday night (6/28) I am presenting a re-worked excerpt of my piece Space-Time:
"Event Horizon (solo) and Gravity (duet) are from a suite of dances called Space-Time that explores the relationship between astrophysical phenomena and human relationships. Energetic vacillations, spatial foci, and the images we create when we make decisions, form relationships, break ties, and move each other through life drive these pair of dances through space. The creation of Space-Time is the creative arm of Katie’s heuristic research on Laban’s theories of the flow effort, his theories on its psychophysical manifestations and Sopoci Drake’s specific theories on their connection to 4-dimensional space that she’s been developing since 2009."I'd like to invite all Labanites out to analyze the show.
TAFFETY PUNK SHOW INFO: http://www.taffetypunk.com/shows/shows.html
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Help! My Choreography Doesn't Fit The Dancers!
What do you do when you're hired to do a job, but when you show up, you realize what you're ready to do does not equal what they're ready to do?
I've got solutions and more in this new post for 4dancers.org. Here's a little taste:
"...sometimes directors just need someone to fill the spot and sometimes you just need to get a choreography gig. I know all of this too well because, baby, sometimes Momma just needs a new pair of shoes… or to pay the utility bill. How do we turn this around? Here are a couple of lessons I’ve learned from all sorts of gooey, hot, messes:"
Read the rest HERE
I've got solutions and more in this new post for 4dancers.org. Here's a little taste:
"...sometimes directors just need someone to fill the spot and sometimes you just need to get a choreography gig. I know all of this too well because, baby, sometimes Momma just needs a new pair of shoes… or to pay the utility bill. How do we turn this around? Here are a couple of lessons I’ve learned from all sorts of gooey, hot, messes:"
Read the rest HERE
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Nice Write Up From Philly
Read about our exploits courtesy of ThinkingDance.net
Thursday, May 1, 2014
May 2014 D.C. Area Dance Events Guide
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| Wayne McGregor | Random Dance |
5/1-5/3, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
Kennedy Center
“Random Dance brings their multimedia work FAR, with score by Ben Frost and jaw-dropping visuals, including a computerized pin board of 3,200 LED lights.”
5/3-5/4, JOMDC Companies in Concert
5/3 at 6:30pm & 5/4 at 4pm DanceFusion Jazz Project, Jazz Factor, Raqs Jameel & Vibe Tribe!
5/3 at 8:30pm & 5/4 at 2pm Groove Elements, Soles of Steel & Rhythmix!
Atlas Performing Arts Center
“Join Joy of Motion Dance Center as they celebrate another season of Dance! Don’t miss this noisy celebration of dance!”
WEEKEND TWO May 5-11
5/6 at 7pm, Master Class: KEIGWIN + COMPANY
Kennedy Center
“The Explore the Arts master class series gives you an opportunity to take classes led by some of the most talented and creative artists in the world of dance.”
5/7-5/8, National Symphony Orchestra: NEW MOVES: symphony + dance: Thomas Wilkins, conductor; KEIGWIN + COMPANY / From Schuman to Bernstein
Kennedy Center
“Enjoy selections from Bernstein's On the Town and On the Waterfront with KEIGWIN + COMPANY in new choreography by Larry Keigwin, plus Schuman's New England Triptych and a new concerto with Sue Heineman, principal bassoon.”
5/9-10 at 8pm, John Jasperse presents From once between
American Dance Institute
“From once between is a new evening-length work by Jasperse in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler.”
5/9-5/10 at 8pm, Sean Dorsey Dance presented by Dance Place
Joe’s Movement Emporium
“The Secret History Of Love reveals the underground ways that LGBT people managed to survive and find love in decades past, despite tremendous obstacles. 1920’s speakeasies, wartime love affairs, police raids and steamy underground cabarets explode onstage in this powerful work by transgender trailblazer Sean Dorsey.”
5/10-5/11, National Symphony Orchestra: NEW MOVES: symphony + dance: Thomas Wilkins, conductor; New Ballet Ensemble / From Gershwin to Ellington
Kennedy Center
5/11 at 6pm, Ballet Company M presents their Spring Concert
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
“Ballet Company M presents their Spring Concert! Come out to see acclaimed works from Swan Lake, La Bayadere, as well as original choreography by their members.”
WEEKEND THREE May 12-18
5/12-5/13, National Symphony Orchestra: NEW MOVES: symphony + dance: Thomas Wilkins, conductor; New Ballet Ensemble / From Gershwin to Ellington
Kennedy Center
5/16-5/17, National Symphony Orchestra: NEW MOVES: symphony + dance: Thomas Wilkins, conductor; Jessica Lang Dance; with Leila Josefowicz, violin / From Adams to Copland
Kennedy Center
5/16-17 at 8pm, Tere O’Connor presents Bleed
American Dance Institute
“With each piece lending its own unique dancers, ideas, and approaches, Bleed forms a serendipitous new choreographic language.”
5/17 at 2pm, Connect the Dots Dance Company presents Sleeping Beauty
Atlas Performing Arts Center
”The performance will feature a ballet workshop, a ballet performance and a ballet craft.”
5/17 at 8pm & 5/18 at 4pm, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion: Live! The Realest MC, presented by Dance Place
Ira Aldridge Theater, Howard University
“Live! The Realest MC, is a new ensemble dance work inspired by the duality of Pinocchio’s plight to be a “real boy.” The piece investigates gender roles in the black community and societal perspectives on the quest for acceptance in the world of hip-hop celebrity.”
WEEKEND FOUR May 19-25
5/23 at 7:30pm, The American Embassy of Dance presents: For the Love of Tap
Atlas Performing Arts Center
“Join American Embassy of Dance as we commemorate the 35th Anniversary of National Tap Dance Day, with performances by local artists and dancers from across the Nation.”
WEEKEND FIVE May 26-31
5/28 at 8pm, Modern Moves, in partnership with Dance Place
Reston Community Center
“Three of D.C.'s most prominent choreographers - Daniel Burkholder, Daniel Phoenix Singh and Erica Rebollar - come together to create an eclectic evening of thrilling and fascinating modern dance.”
What do you know? I'm in this one! Come see me :-)
5/29-6/1, Step Afrika! presents Green Is The New Black, presented by Dance Place
The Catholic University of America Hartke Theatre
“What if we could take the energy of stepping, harness it and reuse it to power devices and communities? Green is the New Black is a new work created by Step Afrika! that will explore, through the use of piezoelectric technology, our capacity to capture the “power” created through stepping and convert that power into electrical energy.”
5/30-5/31 at 8pm, Christopher K. Morgan presents By The Inch
American Dance Institute
“CKM&A concludes their season in their artistic home at ADI with an evening of mixed repertory that features two world premieres and a special anniversary reconstruction.”
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Audition For Dance Place's New Releases Choreographers Showcase
Hi Friends,
I wanted to pass along a D.C. opportunity for all those dance makers out there in the DC/VA/MD area. Our local dance-hub Dance Place has just announced their audition dates for the latest round of the New Releases Choreographers Showcase. If you're an emerging choreographer, this is the place to be. Here's the deets:
I wanted to pass along a D.C. opportunity for all those dance makers out there in the DC/VA/MD area. Our local dance-hub Dance Place has just announced their audition dates for the latest round of the New Releases Choreographers Showcase. If you're an emerging choreographer, this is the place to be. Here's the deets:
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| ReVision Dance Company |
"If you don't already know, Dance Place has an annual showcase where we
present new works by local artists, selected by a panel of judges. I performed
in it last year and it was a real treat! It's geared towards emerging
choreographers -- you get to show your work in the Dance Place theater free of
charge, tons of exposure and DP provides all selected artists with an
honorarium."
You can get more info right here: http://www.danceplace.org/top-news/audition-new-releases-choreographers-showcase-2014/
The audition times are:
Friday, June 13 @ 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, June 14 @ 4:00-8:00pm
Saturday, June 14 @ 4:00-8:00pm
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
April 2014 D.C. Area Dance Events Guide
Washington D.C.
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| New York City Ballet: Emeralds Photo © Paul Kolnik |
The Kennedy Center
4/2 – 4/6, New York City Ballet:
Jewels at the Opera House
Tickets:
$25-$95
“Boasting "an impressive new generation of dancers" (The
New York Times), the company performs Balanchine's dazzling full-length Jewels,
plus a program of works by Christopher Wheeldon, Justin Peck, and Alexei
Ratmansky.”
Atlas Performing Arts Center
4/5 - 4/6, Camille A. Brown and
Dancers
Tickets:
$20-$35.50
“Camille A. Brown has sought to defy the
boundaries between dance and theatre. Brown has been commissioned by the
Ailey Company, Ballet Memphis, and the August Wilson Dance Ensemble, among
others. Storytelling through dance and engaging social issues that persist
among past and present, Camille A. Brown & Dancers present Mr. Tol E.
RAncE, a piece inspired by the Spike Lee film, Bamboozled (2002)
that explores the sustained racial archetypes of black performers while
celebrating their tenacity and perseverance.”
Dance Place
4/5 at 8pm, Companhia Urbaba de
Danca, Edgewood Arts Center
Tickets: $8-$22
“Founded in Brazil in 2004 by
dancer Tiago Sousa and choreographer and Artistic Director Sonia Destri Lie,
Companhia Urbana de Dança is an ensemble of street performers working to foster
the human experience through dance. Destri’s boldly original mix of
contemporary Brazilian dance and hip-hop infuses both forms with new rigor,
meditative one moment, explosive the next.”
The Kennedy Center
4/6, 8pm One Mic: Breaking Form:
global urban contemporary dance at the Eisenhower Theater
Tickets: $19-$50
“Hosted by Jonzi D, this showcase of hip-hop dance features Project Soul (South Korea), Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang
(France), and Companhia Urbana
(Brazil).
Joy of Motion
4/12 – 4/13, Dissonance Dance
presents Black To Silver, The Jack Guidone Theater
Tickets: $18
“Black to Silver: A Black LGBT
(now in its 2nd year), is a multidisciplinary arts production that examines and
explores interpersonal relationships, identity and love within the
African-American LGBT community.”
The Kennedy Center
4/15 – 4/20, American Ballet
Theatre: Mixed Bill: Don Quixote and Works by Fokine, Ashton and Gomes, at
the Opera House
Tickets: $25-$109
“ABT offers a feast of
choreographic fireworks with its spirited staging of Don Quixote--praised
for its "glorious passages of choreography" (The New York Times)--plus
works by Michel Fokine, Sir Frederick Ashton, and Marcelo Gomes.”
The Washington Ballet
4/16 - 4/27, Peter Pan, The
Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater
Tickets: $25-$125
“Take a high-flying adventure to Neverland with the The Washington Ballet's
NEW Production of Septime Webre's dazzling Peter Pan. A swashbuckling coming of age tale
that pits Peter and the Lost Boys against Captain Hook and his outrageous band
of pirates, this whimsical adventure is told through vibrant dance. Peter Pan is a story about
growing up that never seems to grow old.”
Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company
4/19, 1pm and 2:30pm, Premier of
new work, The National Portrait Gallery, 1st Fl
Tickets: Free
“Choreographer Dana Tai Soon
Burgess,Dancing the Dream artist-in-residence, has created a second
site-specific work in response to the exhibition.”
The Washington Ballet
4/23 – 4/25, Tour-De-Fource:
Balanchine!, The Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater
Tickets: $35-$12
“Only three performances! The brilliant next chapter of Tour-de-Force, a
gala-style program of provocative and engaging, showstopping classical and
contemporary ballets including Swan
Lake, Flames of Paris, D-Construction and more. George Balanchine's
Theme and Variations, the
evening's centerpiece, evokes the great period in classical dance when Russian
ballet flourished with the aid of Tchaikovsky's music. Only available to
subscribers, Tour-de-Force is
a season highlight not to be missed.
Washington Performing Arts Society
4/25 – 4/26 at 8pm, MOMIX
Botanica, GWU Lisner Auditorium
Tickets: $28-$48
“With an eclectic score ranging from
birdsong to Vivaldi, Botanica shows off the endlessly renewable energy
of the superb MOMIX performers, with costumes, projections, and custom-made
props and puppetry adding an extra dose of fantasy to the elixir. This is dance
at its most organic and inventive. The seasons will never be the same. Co-presented
with GW Lisner Auditorium and CityDance”
http://www.wpas.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=2355
Joy of Motion
4/26 – 4/27, Tappenstance In
Concert!, The Jack Guidone Theater
Tickets: $12-$15
“Join JOMDC's resident adult tap
company Tappenstance for
our annual rollicking tap concert that'll have you keeping the beat in
your seat! From 80's icons the Go-Go's to 00's R&B sensation Blu Cantrell,
from North African Samba to Jackson 5 disco, you'll travel the world of music
through the soles of our feet. Be sure to bring your tap shoes and show off
your rhythms during intermission in our improv circle.
MARYLAND
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| Cirque Ziva Photo Credit: Amitava Sarkar |
4/9 at 8pm, Cirque Ziva, The Music Center at Strathmore
Tickets: $26-$47
“Eye-popping fast-pace fun for the whole family!
“Breathtaking! Cathedrals of contortionists in backbend rise before your eyes,
body by body. Human obstacles, which tumblers flip over, widen in person-size
increments. The thrill is escalation. These acrobats from China…keep topping
themselves” (The New York
Times). Catch the show before it debuts in New York City!.”
The Clarice Smith Center for the Performing
Arts
4/12 - 4/13, Shared Graduate Dance
Concert, Dance Theatre
Tickets: Free
“This concert features
provocative choreography by Master of Fine Arts students in dance, focusing on
new works in development. As the first opportunity for them to put material
onstage and see what develops, it often contains the seeds of movement ideas
that will be featured in their MFA Thesis programs — an unguarded exploration
of their talents and interests.”
Dance Exchange
4/17 from 7-9pm, Showing and Critical
Response Process feedback session w/ guest artist-in-residence Jessie
Laurita-Spanglet, Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, MD
Tickets: Free
“This season, Dance Exchange
brings the Critical Response Process HOME, offering our three Guest
Artists-in-Residence the opportunity to share their dance-making with the
DC-area community and to receive valuable feedback to shape and fine-tune their
artistic products.”… “Facilitated by Dance Exchange staff and artists, these
evenings will not only give audiences a chance to learn about these Guest
Artists, but also the opportunity to see CRP in action.”
VIRGINIA
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| Moscow Festival Ballet, Swan Lake Photo: Larissa Pedenchuk |
George Mason University4/5 – 4/6, Moscow Festival Ballet, Concert Hall
Tickets: $28-$56
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