2009-2010 PROJECTS
Dance
Theatre in our Own Neighborhood (October - May)
Project Contact: Jenn Newman, eba
This project will enhance understanding of and appreciation for the art of Dance Theatre while bringing people interested in dance and the eba Theater together through an Introductory Lecture Demonstration and Social Event as part of a joint Neighborhood Association Meeting, attendance at performances by Maude Baum and Company Dance Theatre, and a Dance Making workshop. eba Center for Dance students and eba Theater neighbors will be the target audience. The project will build the dance audience by demystifying dance and through performance experiences, discussion of dance and personal involvement in making a dance. This is a collaborative project of the Neighborhood Associations, the eba Center for Dance and Fitness, Maude Baum and Company Dance Theatre, the Albany County Department for Aging and the eba Theater.
Bringing
Dance to Families (January)
Project Contact: Ellen
Sinopoli, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company
This fall, the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will collaborate with storyteller Bairbre McCarthy on the creation of Celtic Footprints, a new performance program which will weave a fantastical journey of stories, song and dance to follow the footprints of the Celts from Central Europe to Scotland, Wales & Ireland and then across the Atlantic to Appalachia. Performed with dance and spoken word, audiences will see and hear the myth of the seal people, the legend of the swans, the adventures of Jack (beyond the beanstalk) and the tales of the Appalachian wise women. Celtic Footprints will premiere in January 2010 in the Joe Bruno Theatre at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in relation to its Family Sunday series. Prior to the premiere, Ellen Sinopoli and Bairbre McCarthy will conduct free story and movement programs for families in public libraries throughout Rensselaer County.
Keeping
the Heritage of American Modern Dance Alive (May)
Project Contact: Beth
Fecteau, Nacre
This project will afford area modern dancers the opportunity to work alongside visiting artists to learn the works of master choreographers and present these works to audiences in the capital region through master classes, lectures, and performances. For the 2010 spring performance series, Nacre will bring guest artists to the capital region to teach master works by American Modern dance choreographers; Isadora Duncan, Eleanor King, Doris Humphrey, May O'Donnell, Anna Sokolow, Jose Limon, Danny Grossman. Nacre annually selects a guest choreographer to share current work. For the 2010 season Nacre will present the work of Rebecca Rabideau who serves as an adjunct dance faculty member at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Musical talent by Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys, Barbara Musial and Kara Cornell will accompany select pieces of repertory on the program.
Celtic
Footprints (May & June)
Project Contact: Cliff
Bird, Abram Lansing Elementary
Students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades will view a performance of Celtic Footprints by the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company (ESDC) and storyteller Bairbre McCarthy, a magical journey weaving songs, stories and dance to follow the footprints of the Celts from Central Europe to Scotland, Wales and Ireland, then across the Atlantic to Appalachia. Following the performance, 5th grade students will participate in a series of dance and storytelling workshops with ESDC and Bairbre McCarthy to create their own stories and performance.