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| Photo by Milton Adams taken during a past "Random Acts of Dance" at The Modern. |
Day In the District
Saturday September 26, 2009 at 2 pm
at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in the Grand Lobby
ADMISSION FREE
Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth company members will perform "Random Acts of Dance" -- a series of structured improvisations designed to illustrate how modern dancers use improvisation to develop their performing skills and discover new movement vocabulary. See how dancers play movement games as part of their working process.
Day in the District is an open house in the cultural district from 10 am to 5 pm, with free admission to a variety of museums and cultural institutions, and free performances at the same locations.
For a full performance schedule go to www.artsfortworth.org
Paper Bags and Bare Feet: art is play when the ordinary meets the imaginary
Saturday October 3 at 12:30pm and Tuesday November 3 at 1:30pm
At the Dallas Museum of Art Center for Creative Connections
Admission: FREE for "First Tuesday" of the month
Join Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth dancers as they use their imaginations to link the physical worlds of dance and visual art. Even a simple paper bag is a world of infinite possibilities lurking in your kitchen cupboard when combined with a sense of play and discovery. Designed for children ages 5 and under and their families, aspiring young artists will have an opportunity to build their own costumes and props with paper bags during artmaking activities (available from 11 am to 2 pm) and will be invited to use these creations during the CD/FW event.
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CD/FW dancers Courtney Mulcahy and Claudia Orcasitas (L to R) with Sloan Automatic musicians Cody Yates (guitar), Rob DeStefano (drums), Sloan Clark (bass/vox), and Steve Peglar (keyboards)
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Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth's 20th season takes flight at The Poultry Barn in Fort Worth when the company's fall concert returns to this striking community venue with an evening of three premieres and opportunities for audience participation.
The site-specific work "Shadow Dancing" will open the program, with dancers traversing over 300 feet across the Poultry Barn, casting shadows of all sizes throughout the barn. Imagery ranging from shadow puppets to film noir will appear, set to original music by Dallas composer Justin Eves. Lighting designer Nikki DeShea Smith will work with CD/FW artistic director Kerry Kreiman and the dancers to create a shadowy landscape of the imagination.
Guest choreographer/performer and former CD/FW company member Amy Jo (Austin) will premiere "Caution: children at play" -- a playful exploration into sibling rivalries and affections, performed with Bill Arnold.
The dancing will abound at intermission when audience members are invited to achieve economic stress relief through bipartisan group exercise, shaking their tail feathers alongside CD/FW company members in The Funky Chicken. One outstanding chicken dancer will be selected each night for a free chicken dinner from Babe's.
"Shut Up and Dance!" -- performed alongside the local experimental pop band Sloan Automatic -- A suite of lighthearted songs and dances will conclude with the song "Uncomfortable" and culminating in a giant community drum circle and dance jam. Souvenir percussion instruments will be distributed to audience members as everyone moves out into the giant dancing space to jam together. Audience members are welcome to BYODrum or percussion instrument to add into the mix. This is an opportunity for everyone's 'inner dancer' and 'inner musician' to fully participate, and we plan to have a great time together. Be sure to wear your dancing shoes.
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A Jazzy Christmas with Adonis Rose and the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra
Sunday December 13, 2009 7:00pm
University Christian Church, 2720 S. University Dr., Fort Worth, TX 76109
ADMISSION FREE
Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth joins forces with Adonis Rose and the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra to present a free, family friendly holiday event at University Christian Church on December 13 at 7:00 pm. "A Jazzy Christmas with Adonis Rose and the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra" will feature members of the Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth company and school performing dances throughout the church. The program will close with Duke Ellington's playful "Nutcracker Suite."
This is not your ordinary Nutcracker. With just nine songs, there won't be any long party scenes. It will be whimsical and playful, like the music. Long-time CD/FW company member Tina Mullone will be the Sugar Rum Cherry. Look for small mice to come scampering down the aisles.
Audience members will have an opportunity to make a "love offering" to benefit the Tarrant Area Food Bank. Tarrant Area Food Bank (TAFB) works to eliminate hunger in Fort Worth and 13 surrounding counties by providing food, education and other resources to 300 partner charities and their communities. Now in its 27th year, TAFB distributed more than 1,200,000 pounds of groceries per month to agencies serving children, abuse victims, the elderly, the chronically ill, the unemployed, the working poor, disaster victims, and other Texans in need. Admission is free.
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A collaboration between Austin composer William H. Meadows and choreographer Kerry Kreiman with members of the CD/FW company, this work uses interactive technology to transform dancers' movements and gestures into sound using Nintendo WiiMotes. Meadows will use a variety of programs he has constructed using Kyma DSP software to exploit the buttons and accelerometers on the WiiMotes, which have been configured for real time control of LIVE software. The blending of technology with the raw physicality of dance will highlight the unusual interplay of the physical and virtual worlds within daily life in our current culture. Utilizing ideas from chaos and catastrophe theory as part of a chance structure, each performance is a unique event. |
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Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth is creating a special dance event for the exhibition "All The World's A Stage" in celebration of the opening of the new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
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| Ann-Marie Heilman and Claudia Orcasitas at the Fort Worth Water Gardens Photo illustration by Milton Adams |
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| Claudia Orcasitas and Ann-Marie Heilman Photo illustration by Milton Adams |
CD/FW created a special dance event for the exhibition "All The World's A Stage" in celebration of the opening of the new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts which premiered on October 3rd and 4th. Performed in "The Stage" performance gallery within the exhibition itself, A MUSE WAS HERE: musing on artistic inspiration in the MUSEum is an original work designed to bring the exhibition to life while reflecting on the sisterly relationship of all of the arts.
The important role of inspiration and creativity in human experience is clear throughout history, and yet we have little knowledge as to how or why we are inspired to create art or participate in the arts, whether as a creator or audience member. Artists frequently do not know where their best inspirations come from... the ideas simply come to them. In Greek mythology, the muses were believed to be the true source of inspiration, creativity, and learning. The muses might speak through us as vessels for the expression of the divine. They were also frequently associated with water, springs, and fountains, and were sometimes referred to as water nymphs.
The history of the "museum" itself is based in muse mythology. The word "muse-um" is derived from museion or mousaion -- a place where the muses were worshipped. The words "amuse" "musing" and "music" also derive from theses goddesses of ancient stories. The muses were friends with Pegasus. Where Pegasus’ hooves would touch the earth, springs of water would appear, and the muses would appear at those springs. Since Pegasus is a symbol for Dallas and the Dallas skyline, the muses are a very fitting tribute for the new performing arts center. Jung believed that Pegasus was an important bridging symbol for our time, signaling the unification or synthesis of polarities and oppositions. As we move fully into the 21st century, with rapidly changing technology and the greater integration of societies and cultures, we can look to the arts as an avenue for shared life experiences.
Utilizing the imagery of muses integrated with ideas from the art featured in the exhibition, choreographer Kerry Kreiman and members of the Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth company designed this dance to highlight the universal nature of creative inspiration across cultures and across art forms. Through simple props and a variety of costumes by costume designer Crickett Pettigrew, the idea of "transformation" in performance and ritual is visually reinforced -- a theme which is highlighted within the exhibition.
The company worked closely with local photographer Milton Adams to create a series of photos and photo illustrations which are projected during the dance, representing the expression of the arts and the presence of "the muses" throughout our local community. Many of the photos feature the dancers near water/fountains and at sites and activities representing artistic inspiration and a variety of themes from the exhibition. These diverse photos include working artists, actors and musicians -- Ron Boyer, Jo Dufo, Stephanie Dunnam, Ann Ekstrom, Blaine Gray, Susan Harrington, and DeAnna Wendolyn -- and highlight artistic sites from Dallas and Fort Worth, including:
"All The World's A Stage" exhibition and sculpture garden at the Dallas Museum of Art
Fort Worth Water Gardens
Nasher Sculpture Center
8.0 restaurant murals
St. Patrick Cathedral
DECA Deep Ellum mural project
Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji's Hare Krishna Temple
Trammell Crow Center
Bass Hall
Fountain Place
Billy Bob's Texas
Stage West
Avenue of Light
NorthPark Center
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
"Ocean Life" Whaling Wall mural in downtown Dallas
Flying Red Horse Pegasus sign in the Dallas night skyline
A Muse Was Here is performed to music by Layne Redmond, from her CD "Invoking the Muse," including "Hymn to the Muse" based on an ancient Greek hymn to the Muse Kalliopeia "She of the Beautiful Voice," written by Mesomedes of Crete (c. 117-138 C.E.) In 1997, while researching the ancient music of Greece, Layne discovered the searingly beautiful "Hymn to the Muse," composed by Mesomedes of Crete in the second century. Profoundly moved by this hymn, she was inspired to create a collection of hymns to all nine Muses with her musical partner, Tommy Brunjes. The emotional and tonal center for each hymn arises from the rhythms of the frame drum, the world's oldest known drum, used for thousands of years as the core instrument for sacred liturgy in ancient Sumer, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome. In ancient Greece, the Muse is often represented playing the frame drum.
Layne Redmond is a percussionist, composer, and the premier historian of the frame drum. In 2000, when Drum! Magazine listed the 53 Heavyweight Drummers Who Made a Difference in the 90's, she was the only woman on the list, and in 2002 the same publication named her percussionist of the year. CD/FW would like to gratefully acknowledge Layne Redmond for the use of her music for this special project.
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| Courtney Mulcahy and Sarah Newton perform New Best Friend on a recent CD/FW company concert. Photo by Milton Adams. |
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Jessica Thomas performing Claudia Orcasitas' Chao, one of the dances CD/FW will perform on May 9. Photo by Milton Adams |
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9th annual Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival Saturday & Sunday June 26-27, 2010 at 2 pm (with a second entrance time at 3 pm), plus pre-show performances throughout the museum New location: Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 North Harwood, Dallas, TX 75201 Dallas Arts District Parking Map Admission FREE
This year's festival will feature Barefoot Brigade members Beckles Dancing Company (Dallas), Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth, Dancing Outside The Box (Fort Worth), Feel Good Dance (Dallas), Muscle Memory Dance Theatre (Dallas/Fort Worth), Phase 2 Dance Ensemble (Houston, Fort Worth, Denton), and Satellite-Dance (Denton), along wit adjudicated guests. The main program, which will be performed in the Horchow Auditorium, is divided into two parts with a second entrance time at 3 pm after a brief intermission. Audiences are welcome to attend just one part of the program as part of their visit to the museum. This year's lineup is a rich and diverse representation of dance from across the North Texas area and beyond. |
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Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth’s mission is to develop the art, artists, and audience for Modern Dance through performance and education in schools and the community. Fort Worth’s first professional modern dance company, CD/FW is led by Kerry Kreiman, one of the company’s co-founders. The Star-Telegram has recognized Kreiman as "one of the most inspired artistic leaders in our community." The CD/FW company's repertory includes works by choreographers recognized on local, regional, and national levels. In addition to producing the CD/FW Co., the organization also acts as a presenter, bringing nationally and internationally-recognized modern dance companies and independent choreographers to Fort Worth audiences. The CD/FW company has toured throughout the U.S. and in Mexico, and artistic leaders Kerry Kreiman (Executive/Artistic Director) and Susan Douglas Roberts (Founding Director and Artistic Advisor) have taught and performed internationally, representing the company as solo artists throughout the world (Taiwan, Brasil, Guatemala, Paraguay, Spain, France, Mexico, Hong Kong). CD/FW's annual Modern Dance Festival at The Modern, presented in the summers at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, has become one of the region's most-recognized modern dance festivals. CD/FW’s "Dance Delivered" educational and community outreach programs bring dance to under-served communities and the general public to reach audiences and participants of all ages, abilities, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds through presenting performances, teaching residencies, workshops and master classes in schools, community centers, workplaces, shopping centers, museums, parks, festivals, landmarks, and more. In 1996, CD/FW was awarded the Fort Worth ISD Adopt-A-School Program Outstanding Small Company/Organization Award for its exemplary partnership with Manuel Jara Elementary School. In addition to outreach, the CD/FW School in residence at the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts provides "in-reach" offering classes for ages 3 and up, at all levels of experience. 2009-2010 marks the CD/FW company’s 20th performance season. CD/FW is a founding member of the Barefoot Brigade. www.cdfw.org. |
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Dancing Minds & Bodies (Dallas) will premiere Angels On The Moon.
A new group work by Megan Goode for five dancers, Angels On The Moon reflects the paths people may take when facing the death of a loved one or coming to terms with one's own mortality. Loss is felt and expressed in many different ways, but each person must walk down a similar path someday. Dancing Minds & Bodies (DMB) performs a wide variety of traditional and contemporary dance styles. They have been dancing together for over 15 years. Founding members A'ngela Carter and Carrie Hamlin met in college in 1993. Ms. Carter and Ms. Hamlin danced together in the Collin Dance Repertory Theater and performed in American College Dance Festivals around the country. They continued dancing together after completing school. Late in 1997 they decided to take their original choreography and informal dance group and transform it into a professional dance company. Since forming in January 1998, DMB has performed around Dallas in venues such as the Allen Dance Festival, The Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival, Diffusion and Kismet. DMB also believes in making their art available to everyone. They have shared their love of dance with those less-mobile by performing at area health care facilities. |
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Dancing Outside The Box (Fort Worth) will premiere As Seen on TV.
This latest dance work from Dancing Outside the Box explores how our culture influences the self-perception of young women in a "multi"-generational duet as local professional dancer Jessica Thomas performs alongside the young Kati Hammonds. Performed to and inspired by original music from local artists Trinity Dogs. Lori Sundeen Soderbergh launched her own dance company, Dancing Outside the Box, in 2009. She has performed and choreographed in numerous theatres and site-specific settings in the U.S. and Europe. In North Texas she is an active member of the Barefoot Brigade and an invited guest artist with Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth. In Fort Worth, she has enjoyed participating four consecutive years at the Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth's Modern Dance Festival at The Modern. A Time to Dance (2005) filled the grand lobby with the vibration of Tibetan gongs, and Chakra Dance (2006) flowed through and around the Richard Serra sculpture "Vortex", located just outside the museum’s entrance. Starting in 2007, Lori’s work took a political flavor with the premiere of Freedom Blues> (music by Scott Lennox) at the Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival. She followed up with Peace Chain at the Modern Art Museum that summer, featuring live music by Eddie Dunlap. Peace Chain was invited for encore performances at The Modern in 2008. Freedom Blues was featured on CD/FW’s spring concert in 2009 at the Sanders Theater. Wanting to make a statement about our impact on the environment, Lori developed Footprints in collaboration with poet/performance artist Tammy Gomez and composer/musician Chris Curiel. Footprints was performed in 2008 at PrairieFest in Fort Worth, Barefoot Brigade Festival in Dallas and the DFW Fringe Festival. Lori has also worked in public relations and marketing for twelve years. She received her BFA in Modern Dance from Texas Christian University and her MA in Dance History from the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, University of London. Lori considers it a privilege and an honor to work with live music. She has worked with area composers and musicians Eddie Dunlap, Scott Lennox, Johnny Case, Wayne McKinzie, Chris Curiel, Lars Soderbergh, David Tipps, Peter Lufkin, and Harry Hoggard. Lori is a member of the Barefoot Brigade. |
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Jenefer Davies (Virginia) will present the solo This Macaroni and Cheese Crayon Tastes Like Wax. This solo is a slightly jaded and sarcastic look at expectations. Set to ironic vocals by Nellie McKay, This Maracroni and Cheese Crayon Tastes Like Wax asks the audience to question symbols and look deeply at meaning that might only be truthful in movement. Desires are up for grabs as we grapple for something familiar. Assumptions are tested and expectations are never met ... or maybe they are. Jenefer Davies received an MFA in Dance from The George Washington University in Washington DC and an MALS in performance from Hollins University. She has had works commissioned by West Virginia Wesleyan and Lycoming Colleges, George Washington and Hollins Universities, Fort Worth Contemporary Dance, Roanoke Symphony, Opera Roanoke, Roanoke Ballet Theatre and Mill Mountain Theatre, among others. Davies’ choreography has been recognized as outstanding work by the American College Dance Festival and was included in their gala performance. Her choreography and performance work has successfully toured throughout the state of Virginia. Her innovative full-length works have received international press and acclaim and have been featured on National Public Radio, Sports Illustrated and NASCAR Magazine. She has been published in the International Planetarian Magazine and the World Congress on Dance and is currently writing a paper on experiential learning in aerial dance. Jenefer is an Examiner in dance for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and serves on the advisory board of Nu Delta Alpha, the national honor society in dance. One proud dance moment was having one of her performances as the winning answer on NPR’s ‘Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me’ and on TV’s ‘Jeopardy’. Davies is the Assistant Professor of Dance at Washington and Lee University in Lexington VA and Artistic Director of the W&L Repertory Dance Company. |
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Cathy Delgadillo-Clark (Denton) will present Addressed.
Addressed was inspired by aspects of U.S. politics over the course of the last 15 years. Designed for five dancers, choreographer Cathy Delgadillo-Clark seeks to portray how people are affected by the political choices made by individuals representing the U.S. government. Cathy Delgadillo-Clark began her dance education as a young child and continues to pursue dance as a career. She attended San Jacinto Community College in Houston, TX where she studied under Dance Department Director/Educator Dr. Suzanne Oliver from 2004-2007. While studying under Dr. Oliver, Cathy was introduced to the concept of dance as a form of therapy. Cathy just completed her Bachelor’s of Arts in Dance at Texas Woman's University. While at TWU she had the privilege of training with Melissa Young and Nycole Ray of Dallas Black Dance Theater, and choreographer/performer John Dixion. She also studied under TWU professors, performers and artists Michelle Contrino, Jordan Fuchs, Sarah Gamblin and Mary Williford-Shade. Recently Cathy has choreographed a piece entitled “Forgotten Wants” which was showcased in Dance Makers Concert in November 2009. She plans to earn her teacher's certification to teach high school dance and to continue her exploration of choreography in the Central Texas area. Cathy also plans on pursuing graduate school to earn a Master's of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy. www.emotionthrumotion.com |
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Angie Dutton of Feel Good Dance will present her multi-media solo EXPRESS!!!. EXPRESS!!! is a multi-media solo incorporating video projection and set to text from Neal Donald Walsh's Conversations With God recorded series. Angie Dutton has been formally dancing since age 3. Dance has been a life-long affair that has truly evolved for her over time: dancing at her childhood studio, studying dance at TWU, founding a modern dance company, and centering her energies in therapeutic process dance. Her work in this area includes Dancing Meditations, Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement as taught by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler, and Jane Chodorow. WIth a background in dance and massage/bodywork, Angie has developed a fascination with the therapeutic effects of this type of dance and the Infinite Wisdom that the Body/Mind holds. Angie holds a degree in Dance and Psychology from Texas Woman's University. She has been blessed to study and perform with amazing dancer artists from all over the planet, cultivating an eclectic style in her own choreography. In 1999, Angie co-founded 3/A Modern Dance Company, which created a distinctive body of work over four years. These dance works included abundant partnering, raw physicality and honest emotion expressed through original movement, monologue, song and aerial dance. Her formal choreographic presentations later evolved into being presented under the name 3Dance, and are now presented under a new company name: Feel Good Dance. Angie is a producing member of the Barefoot Brigade. |
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Lacie Minyard (Denton) will present her dance Sunny Days & Sweet Tea.
This group work for eight dancers is a lighthearted exploration of friendship with the help of vibrant bouncy balls, fluttering pinwheels, and the music Down to Earthby Peter Gabriel. Lacie Minyard is an aspiring performer and choreographer. As a performer she will begin her 5th season at Six Flags Over Texas and has worked under the direction of Neil Goldberg in Cirque Dreams Coobrila, the Gary Goddard company in the Glow in the Park Parade, and with Mark Dendy at the prestigious American Dance Festival. As a graduate of the Dallas Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and a Senior at Texas Woman's University Lacie has been an active participant in master classes and choreography by Ron Brown, John Giffin, Excel Garner, Miguel Gutierrez, Bill Young, Dwight Roden and Desmond Richardson (Complexions), Kanji Segawa (Battle Works), Vernon Gooden, Camilie, John Dixon, Mary Williford-Shade, Jordan Fuchs, and Sarah Gamblin. Lacie is currently working on a full evening of her own work to be performed at Texas Woman's University in November, 2010. Her artistic work has won her several nominations and awards. During this year alone she has been nominated for the prestigious TWU Leman Award, the Dallas Dance for the Planet Festival and the Southern Region American College Dance Festival in Louisiana. Artistic Statement: My intention is to create work that draws from my personal experiences in life, love, and loss. Out of these experiences I create movement metaphors that allow both performers and audience members to also draw from their experiences. In a performance, I want to create reflective space for all participants: performers, choreographer and audience. website: Lacieminyard.weebly.com |
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Out On A Limb Dance Company (Waco) will premiere Loophole.
Loophole portrays a woman navigating through the ambiguous questions of the human experience. She is traveling with no vessel, no beginning, and no familiar entry point. In this place she creates a comfortable chaos with detailed and expansive movement, as well as moments of resolve in a series of reset moments. Inevitably, her human nature finds a way of sense making without a complete resolution. Choreographed by L. Brooke Schlecte and performed by Sarah Newton. Out On a Limb Dance Company is a group of vibrant emerging artists based in Waco, Texas, with members reaching north and south along the I-35 corridor. The company’s work nourishes and cultivates choreographic subjects that heed human experience and interactions. Out On a Limb offers performance, collaborative choreographing, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, and workshops. With this investment of ardent missions, Out On A Limb wishes to reach diverse audiences in order for both dancers and viewers to find some moment, glimpse or propsect of commonality, as it relates to our humanness and its emotion. www.outonalimbdancecompany.com L. Brooke Schlecte is the artistic director of Out On a Limb Dance Company. Her repertory ranges from solo to group work and has been performed in many settings in Texas. Schlecte holds a M.F.A. in Dance from Texas Woman’s University as well as a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Texas at Austin. She studied with Yacov Sharir, Lyn Wiltshire, Holly Williams, Sarah Gamblin, as well as professional choreographers such as Michael Foley, Vincent Mantsoe, and she performed in two of Doug Elkins’ works. Schlecte’s performances include a solo dance for camera film, "we all fall down" by choreographer/director Rachel Bruce Johnson, screened at the Film Fatale Festival in Fort Worth, Texas and Screen Door in Austin, Texas. She was honored to perform at the American College Dance Festival’s Gala in 2007 in her co-performance and choreographic work "She Drew a Picture of a Whale." She has also choreographed for the Kilgore College Rangerettes and provided a lecture demonstration/master class and performance for the Kilgore College dance department. Schlecte is currently adjunct faculty at Baylor University. |
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Perpetual Motion/Modern Dance Oklahoma is an Oklahoma City based non-profit modern and aerial dance company. Founded in 2002, Perpetual Motion has since grown to become the premier modern dance company in Oklahoma. We perform established works and create original dance pieces that explore a variety of artistic and aesthetic ideas. Our repertory is evocative, visceral and innovative and aspires to harness the energies of the human spirit. Perpetual Motion was featured on OETA's "Gallery" in October 2007. In this feature, we were described as, "seven young women who dared to dream that they could create a following for their dynamic dances that herald the strength, fragility and camaraderie of the human experience." Perpetual Motion was also featured on Oklahoma City’’s Channel 4 segment ""Is This a Great State or What"" which highlighted our work in aerial dance and the development of a modern dance community in Oklahoma. In August 2006, Perpetual Motion organized the first annual Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival, which brought together local dance companies and student performers from the Oklahoma City area, as well as regional guest choreographers. In addition to producing annual spring and fall concerts, Perpetual Motion has performed at events such as, the Out of the Loop Festival (Texas), PILOT: Choreographers Take Flight (Texas), the New Genre Festival (Tulsa), and Momentum (Oklahoma City). www.perpetualmotiondance.org Choreographer Rebekah Hampton is a company member of Perpetual Motion/Modern Dance Oklahoma and a staff instructor for the School of Ballet Oklahoma, Dance Unlimited, and the Academy of Ballet and Theatre Arts in Edmond, OK. She has previously worked with Bellevue Dance Center and Charles Harding School of the Arts in Nashville, TN and performed for 2 seasons with the Nashville-based, modern dance company, Epiphany. While her principle forms are classical ballet and modern dance, Rebekah's multi-disciplinary training includes jazz, tap, hip-hop, gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, martial arts, weaponry, stage combat, physical conditioning, drama & mime. Growing up in Edmond, OK, she trained with A.R.T.S., Metro School of Fine Arts, the Oklahoma Arts Institute and Ballet Oklahoma before moving to Jacksonville, FL to tour nationally & internationally for 3 years with Renascent Productions where, in addition to being a principle performer & choreographer, she was also the creator & director of Renascent School of the Arts. Rebekah has over 13 years experience teaching all ages and all levels in ballet, jazz, modern dance and body conditioning, and has been brought in as a guest instructor for various studios and workshops in Oklahoma, Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky. |
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Phase 2 Dance Ensemble will present two works: Moving On? and Mosaic.
Choreographed by Lauren Butschek-Neisler, Moving On? is performed by company members Holly Arnold and Cristy Jefferson. This dance explores how sometimes in our quest for power and the need to be in control, we take away the basic rights of others. Today we hear a lot about how we have changed, but have we really moved on? Mosaic is a solo created and performed by Keisha Breaker. Based on a poem expressing the desire to be seen differently, Breaker investigates how people, especially women, are often seen or defined as the roles they take on or fall into, or even as the superficial facade of what they don on any given day. Her choreography attempts to break through these perceptions and misconceptions to show how there is much more to seen in the rich and detailed mosaic of our lives. Phase 2 Dance Ensemble is a dual city modern dance company existing in both the Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan areas. It is a partnership among like-minded artists committed to full self expression, artistic development, and the restoration of creative communities through the collaboration of artistic ideas, enhancement of choreographic and pedagogical concepts and the promotion of independent works. Phase 2 Dance Ensemble is one of the founding members of Barefoot Brigade. In addition to participation with the Barefoot Brigade, Phase 2 has performed in the Dance For The Planet Festival (Dallas), Big Range Dance Festival (Houston). Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth's Modern Dance Festival at The Modern and Muscle Memory Dance Theatre's PILOT Choreographer's Showcase (Fort Worth). History: In 2005, former JAADE Dance Theatre (Fort Worth) members Keisha Breaker (Houston), Kim Jackson (Carrollton) and Lacreacia Sanders (Frt Worth) met to create a dance commissioned by Breaker. Although the trio performed countless numbers together over the previous ten years, this collaboration seemed different. Change seemed evident. A sense of forward movement had taken place in each of them on both personal and professional levels. This growth ultimately affected the work they produced. "Many aspects of JAADE will never leave us. We are still dedicated to the mission of inspiring and educating. Those elements are rooted in us, but as we individually have redefined ourselves and our goals, we simply feel like another phase has begun," said Breaker, who serves as one of the company's co-artistic directors. www.phase2dance.com |
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Satellite-Dance will perform Please stop being nice!
As the title is silently shouting, this duet takes viewers on a desperate psychological journey where the culturally distinct persona from a different culture has to be imprisoned for social and cultural assimilation. Created by choreographer Kihyoung Choi, the dance incorporates Korean traditional movement vocabularies and breathing techniques, which are internal and meditative, and contrasts these with jumping, twisting, and jerking. Through these opposing forces and feelings, the dancers illustrate the process of evolving identities as a member of a minority group. Satellite-Dance is a collective group of artists from varied disciplines dedicated to the creation and performance of original dance works. We move through boundaries, integrate with new media technologies, and share live and virtual performance. Choreographer/performer/teacher Mary Lynn Babcock is the founder and director of Satellite-Dance, and is a member of the Barefoot Brigade. www.satellite-dance.com |
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Courtyard by Marriott Special thanks to Courtyard by Marriott for sponsoring the 7th annual Modern Dance Festival at The Modern and the Bill Evans Workshop. For accommodations near Fort Worth's cultural district, click here for more info. |
 CD/FW’s 2009-2010 season is supported in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County and their Neighborhood Arts Program in collaboration with the City of Fort Worth, the Bath House Cultural Center, and the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs. CD/FW gratefully acknowledges the in-kind support of additional partners: the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts, the Dance Films Association (NYC), the TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance, Courtyard by Marriott, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. This program is supported in part by a 2009 Grant from the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.
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The NOTcracker: A Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival of Modern Dance, Contemporary Dance, and Performance Art
