2006-07 MEMBERS

Members are individuals or organizations who sponsor dance in Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga or Schenectady counties and who value the mission of Partners in Dance. Members engage dance companies in their programs and serve constituencies that want to learn more about dance. Members are drawn to a common interest in developing dance audiences, increasing dance literacy for all ages and enjoying a dance-rich environment in the Capital Region.

MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

Abram Lansing Elementary
Contact: Cliff Bird
(518) 237-5044
cbird@cohoes.org

Abram Lansing Elementary is a K-5 elementary school in the Cohoes City School District. It is located at 26 James Street.

Capital Region BOCES
Contact: Mindy Noxon Ianotti
(518) 464-3910
miannott@gw.neric.org

The Capital Region BOCES Arts and Enrichment Service provides a directory of artists and cultural resources, networking opportunities and a process for scheduling artists and resources for its component school districts. The schools use these features to address the NYS Learning Standards and integrate the arts into the curriculum.

Capital Region Center for Arts in Education
Contact: Maureen Pagano
(518) 442-4240
mpagano@uamail.albany.edu

The Capital Region Center for Arts in Education (CRCAIE) facilitates partnerships between artists and teachers to make the arts central to teaching and learning. Established in 1983 and modeled on the aesthetic education program at the Lincoln Center Institute, CRCAIE helps teachers and their students to become actively involved with the arts through participation in artistic experiences, and observing, listening to and analyzing works of art in dance, drama, music, visual arts and literature.

Dance Alliance is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization of dancers and lovers of dance designed to support and promote dance in the Capital District and Saratoga regions. The Alliance publishes a monthly newsletter with dance calendar and offers discount performance tickets to its members. It also sponsors dance courses for seniors and an annual weekend Dance Festival for the public.

eba
Contact: Maude Baum, Artistic Director
(518) 465-9916
ebadance@earthlink.net

eba Artists have been creating, performing and teaching the art of Dance Theatre in the Capital Region and throughout the world since 1972. Metroland named eba and Maude Baum and Company as the BEST REGIONAL DANCE COMPANY for 2005. eba supports five programs to to fulfill its mission: Maude Baum and Company Dance Theatre, eba's professional performing and touring company rivals companies from around the world; everything but anchovies Dance Theatre, a pioneering Arts in Education company that brings creativity into the classroom; eba Center for Dance & Fitness offering over 25 dance, fitness and wellness classes for Adults and Teens; Kids Dancspace @ eba, a creative dance school and camp for kids; and The eba Art Gallery, a visual art gallery. All programs are housed in The eba Theater, the Company-owned, historic theater and community arts center on the corner of Hudson Avenue and Lark Street in Albany, NY.

Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company
Contact: Ellen Sinopoli, Artistic Director
(518) 408-1341
ellen@sinopolidances.org

The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company (ESDC) is the resident company of The Egg. Founded in 1991, ESDC presents the uniquely American art form of contemporary modern dance interpreted through the work of choreographer Ellen Sinopoli. ESDC shares its works through concerts, showcases, residencies, workshops, classes and educational outreach.

Emma Willard School
Contact: Sue Lauther
(518) 274-4440 ext. 273
slauther@emma.troy.ny.us

Emma Willard School has been a preparatory high school for girls since 1814. The historic buildings, built circa 1910, house a modest theater for dance, concert music and theatre in Troy, NY. The dance program hosts community contact improvisation jams and master classes. The Emma Willard Dance Company is a group of talented and dedicated dancers, ages 15­19, interested in exploring and performing several styles of dance. Each year, a world-renowned guest artist works with the dancers. They perform the season's repertoire in the Capital Region, in a different city each April and at the school to end their season each May.

Hudson Valley Community College presents a full slate of performances including dance, music, theater, and lecture/demonstration in the humanities, each fall and spring. The venue most commonly used for dance is the Maureen Stapleton Theatre (350 seats). Other venues located at Hudson Valley Community College include the Bulmer Center Auditorium (240 seats), and the McDonough Sports Complex (up to 4000 seats). Informal performance locations include the Siek Campus Center and open air spaces throughout the college campus.

The National Museum of Dance is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to American Professional Dance. The museum houses galleries with rotating dance exhibitions, the Lewis A. Swyer School for the Performing Arts, Petite Gift Shop and the Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame.

Proctor presents a 12-month season of touring Broadway musicals, dance, opera, classical and popular performers, as well as an extensive movie series and arts education division.

Questar III BOCES
Contact: Arlene Sampson
(518) 477-8771
asampson@questar.org

The Questar III Cultural and Performing Arts Program brings artists of quality to the pupils of the component school districts as an integral part of the school curriculum. An arts program (drama, music, opera, dance, theater, writing, visual and media arts) that is integrated with curriculum objectives has a long-term impact on students.

Saratoga Savoy
Contact: Dave Wolf
(518) 587-5132
dance@saratogasavoy.com

The Saratoga Savoy is a dance studio specializing in social dancing. Some of the dances that the studio offers instruction in are: Argentine Tango, Ballroom, Club Latin, Lindy Hop, Swing and more. The studio also enjoys bringing some of the world's best dancers to Saratoga to offer special workshops in various social dances.

Skidmore College Dance Department
Contact: Mary DiSanto-Rose
(518) 580-5375
mdisanto@skidmore.edu

Skidmore College Dance Department has a long and distinguished tradition, offering academic and technical study as well as many performance opportunities. The Dance Department's focus encompasses classical ballet, modern/contemporary dance and non-western dance forms. The expression of human experience through movement is an integral part of the liberal arts education. The Skidmore College Dance Theater gives the students, faculty and guest artists various opportunities to perform and choreograph and offers our community and opportunity to experience dance as a performing art.

Skidmore College Office of the Dean of Special Programs
Contact: Sharon Arpey
Contact: Maria McColl
(518) 580-5595
mmccoll@skidmore.edu

Skidmore College's commitment to lifelong learning and community enrichment is nowhere more apparent than in the educational offerings sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Special Programs. A distinctive array of credit and noncredit programs in the fine and performing arts, community and continuing education, undergraduate and graduate individualized study degree programs and the College's Summer Sessions, all share the spirit of innovation, broad access and serious educational endeavor.

The Egg
Contact: Peter Lesser, Executive Director
(518) 473-1061
plesser@theegg.org

A work of art in itself, The Egg presents an array of performances during a fall-thru-spring season. Known for its acclaimed dance series, The Egg presents world-class dance companies, hosts short and long-term dance residencies, provides arts-in-education programs in dance and is home to the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company.

The Vanaver Caravan
Contact: Livia Vanaver
(845) 256-9300
vanaver@aol.com

The Vanaver Caravan, now celebrating its 30th Anniversary, is a dance and music company based in the Hudson Valley. They have traveled throughout the US and abroad collecting and performing world dance and their own original pieces. The company is currently touring programs of Pastures of Plenty: Tribute to Woody Guthrie and World Dance and Music.

University at Albany Performing Arts Center
Contact: Patrick Ferlo, Director
Contact: Kim Engel, Assistant Director
Performing Arts Center 266
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-3995
pferlo@albany.edu
kengel@albany.edu

The University at Albany Performing Arts Center includes a five-theatre complex on the uptown campus and Page Hall, an 800 seat theatre located on the downtown campus. Using all six performance spaces, the Performing Arts Center (PAC) hosts over 500 events annually in all of the performing arts including dance, music and theatre. The PAC facility also houses a scene shop, a costume shop, a large lounge space, a mirrored dance studio, two music rehearsal spaces, ten dressing rooms, twenty music practice rooms, five general-purpose classrooms, a drafting classroom, a lighting laboratory and a music library.

INDIVIDUALS

Judy Atchinson
(518) 527-1784
quest_kids@yahoo.com

Ione Beauchamp
(518) 794-9720
ione@albany.edu

Madeline Cantarella Culpo
(518) 426-0660
abballet@taconic.net

Nan Guslander
(518) 581-9274

Hélène Lesterlin
276-3918
lesteh@rpi.edu

Frank Lombardo
(518) 581-0493
flombar1@yahoo.com

Sally Rhoades
(518) 456-4993
lucy1299@aol.com

Paul Rosenberg
(518) 482-9255
paul@homespun.biz

Dee Sarno
(518) 584-4132
deeed@nycap.rr.com

Toni Smith
(518) 629-0034
tsmith818@nycap.rr.com