Green Street Studios

Green Street studios is still accepting applications to the Fall 2009 Emerging Artists Program. APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th BY 5:00PM!Please visit our website at www.greenstreetstudios.org to download the application.

Green Street Studios announces the fall 2009 cycle of its Emer...ging Artists Award Program. This program is designed to provide infrastructure for choreographers, to create new work with a focus on group work and to provide deep, ongoing mentorship between experienced and early-to-mid-career choreographers. The Emerging Artist Award provides the opportunity for New England-based choreographers to be in residence at Green Street Studios from September 2009 to November 2009. Green Street Studios will provide choreographers with Mentor/Choreographers, and will provide 40 hours of rehearsal space per awardee for the creation of new work. The new works will premiere in a fully produced, shared concert at Green Street Studios in December, 2009.

All awardees and their dancers will meet with the Mentor/Choreographers together twice in the process to show their ongoing work and to discuss/provide feedback. Scheduled group meetings with individual groups and mentors will take place several times over the rehearsal process to provide a forum for group discussion.For the final concert, choreographers will share production responsibilities including but not limited to: marketing, public relations, program design, press release, costume design, and care of the performance space. Audience interaction is the final component of the Emerging Artists: following the final performance, a panel discussion open to the public will follow. The Mentor/Choreographer will moderate a discussion encouraging audience questions and comments directed to the choreographers.

Program Requirements:
- group work will be emphasized in this cycle; no solo or duet work.
- minimum of five years of professional experience in contemporary dance
- past award recipients are not eligible
- must be able to schedule and use 40 hours of rehearsal space effectively
- must be ready to create 20 minutes of new work and interested in collaborating in with other artists
- applicant must commit to attend all mentoring sessions with their dancers (see Scheduling on the application)

Mentors for the Fall 2009 session are Kelli Edwards and Dean Vollick.

KELLI EDWARDS has been performing and choreographing in the Boston area since 1993. Her concert work has been presented at Green Street Studios, The Dance Complex, the ICA, and just recently at Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy. She has also choreographed numerous theatre productions for The New Rep, American Repertory Theatre. The Huntington, Actor's Shakespeare Project, and Stoneham Theatre. She has performed in the works of Marcus Schulkind, David Parker, Sara Rudner, Ruth Birnberg, Brian Crabtree, and Nicola Hawkins among others. Kelli received her MFA in Choreography from Smith College and is currently on the performing arts faculty at Milton Academy.

DEAN VOLLICK began his ballet training at the late age of twenty, already a college student in Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He has studied with many fine Canadian teachers including Lois Smith, Glen Gilmour, Luc Amyot, Mavis Staines; the Artistic Director of Canada's National Ballet School, Laura Alonso (daughter of Alicia Alonso) at the Banff School of Fine Arts. His career as a classical dancer spanned several years and included work with Ontario Ballet Theatre, Ballet Omaha, and Ballet Florida. Though he loved the classics, he found that contemporary dance was his forte, and acquired training in Graham based technique while working with Toronto Dance Theatre. As a company dancer and freelance artist Mr. Vollick danced across Canada and many parts of the US. A desire to teach led him back to the National Ballet School where he completed the two-year teacher-training course for professional dancers. He is on the faculty of the American Academy of Ballet at their Summer School of Excellence, held at SUNY College in Purchase New York. He spent four years as a full time teacher at Boston Ballet and was Principal of Boston Ballet's ground breaking Citydance outreach program. Currently Mr. Vollick is working as a freelance teacher and choreographer in the Boston Area, and is on the faculty of Ballet Arts Worcester, Walnut Hill Academy, and Boston Conservatory. He recently completed certification in the foundations of Gryrotonic Exercise, and is enjoying working as a trainer with dancers and non-dancers alike.

To apply, please visit Green Street Studio's website at www.greenstreetstudios.org to download the Emerging Artists Application for Fall 2009 or email info@greenstreetstudios.org for more information.
Thank you. Application Deadline: Sunday, September 20th by 5:00 PM
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Green Street Studios presents
WINTER 2009 EMERGING ARTISTS

Choreography by ABRAZO DANCE
COURTNEY PEIX
MARIAH STEELE
MARISSA VENTRE

Featuring: Melissa Alexis, Heather Azano-Brown, Nina Brindamour, Ruth Bronwen, Kathryn Dunkel, Jenny Lus...tig, Cat Murcek, Jessica Newman, Courtney Peix, Ellen Philpott, Lindsey Ridgeway, Hans Rinderknecht, Mariah Steele, Marissa Ventre and Jessica Whiteley.
Mentored by: Martha Mason and Anna Myer

Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18
8:00 p.m.

Green Street Studios
185 Green Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Accessible by the Red Line at Central Square
Tickets: $15 for adults / $12 for students and BDA members

For reservations and information, please call: 617-864-3191

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miniature dances and other mini works by

Adriane Brayton
Caitlin Corbett
Edison Dupree
Phania Exavier
John Kramer
John McDonald
Nicole Pierce
Megan Schenk

curated and produced by Daniel McCusker

Friday & Saturday, March 27 & 28, 8:00 pm
at
Green Street Studio

(Cambridge, MA) Daniel McCusker Dance Projects presents tHisTHat #2 ; a p...rogram of miniature dances and other mini works by Adriane Brayton, Caitlin Corbett, Edison Dupree, Phania Exavier, John Kramer, John McDonald, Nicole Pierce, and Megan Schenk; curated and produced by Daniel McCusker. Friday & Saturday, March 27 & 28, 8:00 pm. [Discussion with the artists after the Friday night performance.] Tickets (available at the door, cash or check only): $20, $15 for seniors, students and BDA members. Green Street Studios, 185 Green Street, Central Sq., Cambridge. For specific information visit www.danielmccuskerdanceprojects.org/thisthatshow/. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 617-864-3191.

Last spring, dancer/choreographer Daniel McCusker produced his first tHisTHat showcase, which paid tribute to some of the many kindred spirits who figure in McCusker’s lively artistic world. The showcase was a huge success, critically and otherwise, and now McCusker is intent on establishing this showcase as his annual spring fling.Read More

Choreographer Annie Kloppenberg returns to Boston with her latest work, Indelible Marks. Kloppenberg, called A choreographer of nuances by Thea Singer of the Boston Globe, was among the first group of artists to be selected for the first incarnation of Green Street Studios Emerging Artist program, which presented her C...aution: Flammable in 2002. In 2005, she brought her company of dancers from New York to perform in Between the Lines, a shared program with Andrea Blesso and Jill Jackson. Now, Kloppenberg returns to Boston with a stirring multimedia project created by dancers and collaborators from Columbus, OH. The piece premiered in Columbus from Feb 12-14, and will be presented by Movement Research at the historic Judson Church in New York City on Monday, March 23.

Inspired by the landscape architectural concept of desire lines or desire paths (foot paths that people wear away on the land), in Indelible Marks, lush physical vocabulary activates those intangible experiences as moving bodies navigate a theatricalized terrain of illusory, shifting pathways. The bodies themselves first seem to form a landscape and then become actors on it. The piece weaves together diverse images and movement content to form a slightly disjunctive, moving whole.

The Columbus-based improvisational movement trio, Like You Mean It--Noelle Chun, Adriana Durant, and Kloppenberg--will present a work with their trademark blend of dynamic physicality, theatricality, and humor to reveal a cohesive composition in real time.

Tickets $15 and $12 for Students, Seniors and Members.

For Reservations:
Email: info@greenstreetstudios.org
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MONDAY MARCH 23 5:45-7:15 PM*
WEDNESDAY MARCH 25 5:45-7:15PM*
TUESDAY MARCH 31 5:45-7:15PM*
THURSDAY APRIL 2 7:30-9PM

$15 general/$12 GSS members

*Jody, Nicole and Cheri's usual classes at those times are cancelled for these dates

Sean Curran's Modern Dance Class concentrates on a multi-disciplined approach to contemporary... dance training and technique. Beginning with a warm up that incorporates extensive stretching and ideas about release and effort, the class will progress with exercises derived from Limón and Cunningham Techniques. There is a awareness of weight, flow, space, gesture, anatomy and intention throughout the class. From this basis we can move bigger, find more detail and take more chances discovering new strengths in our dancing.

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Critical Moves Contemporary Dance Series presents:

Adele Myers & Dancers (NYC/New Haven, CT), Carol Somers (Boston), Karl Cronin (NYC), Rebecca Pappas (LA), Talya Epstein (NYC)

Fri March 20, 8pm & Sat March 21, 8pm
Reservations at 617-864-3191
Tickets: $20/$15 students & BDA

Choreographers from Boston, New York City, New ...Haven, CT and Los Angeles, CA team up for an evening of quirky, absurd, emotional, hysterical and LIVE contemporary dance.

*Adele Myers &Dancers * will present "Is That All There Is" (2007)

Employing humor, theatricality and social commentary through popular culture, Is That All There Is exposes the underbelly of modern motherhood.

*Karl Cronin: dryearth * will present

"A Presentation from the International Experiential Geography Society" A quirky dance theatre piece that blurs personal narrative with a science presentation and dance repertoire.

*Carol Somers*

has been presenting work throughout the New England area since 1996. Drawing from a background in classical ballet, modern dance, and gymnastics she has developed a unique propulsive style that has become her trademark and is at once bold and raw with a clear unaffected naturalness. Her choreography exposes the strengths as well as the delicateness of our human nature creating dances that are fervently powerful.

*Rebecca Pappas*will present "Thumbnail"

a solo for small spaces that weaves together personal shames about appearance and body with larger political shames about my own Jewish heritage and the state of Israel. With music by Michael Gordon. California based Pappas and Dancers has been presenting challenging imagistic choreography in San Francisco and Los Angeles since Spring of 2002.

*Talya Epstein*

presents a new work where a performer gives audience members verbal instructions that audience members may choose to follow. The performers proceed to engage in aggressive task related force games. Through different levels of individual and collection participation the audience determines the pace of these activities, thus heightening the performers' dependency on the audience.Read More

LEGENDARY DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER SARA RUDNER WORKSHOP

AT GREEN STREET STUDIOS
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
MARCH 23 - 28

Summer Stages Dance and Green Street Studios have announced an Intensive Workshop with legendary dancer/choreographer Sara Rudner.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime for Boston area dancers to work with Sara and ...for observers to not only witness her riveting creative process, but also be involved in it! The workshop is in advance of Sarah Rudner & Friends Boston premier of Dancing on View: The ICA Variations presented by Summer Stages Dance in July at the ICA. Sara will be working with phrases from the upcoming production during the Intensive Workshop. All workshop sessions will end with Rudner holding a short question and answer session.

Sara Rudner, chair of the dance department at Sarah Lawrence College, participated in the development and performance of Twyla Tharp’s modern dance repertory from 1965-1985. During this time she began to choreograph for a small group of dancers known as the Sara Rudner Performance Ensemble. She received a Bessie award in 1984 and has been awarded grants from the NEA, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and NYSCA. She served as adjunct faculty at NYU and was a teaching fellow at Bennington College. Ms. Rudner, who will be in residence at Summer Stages Dance 2008, brings "Dancing-on-View: The ICA Variations," a dance installation to Boston on July 26 and 27.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

Sunday, 3/23: 1:30pm – 5pm
Monday, 3/24: 1pm – 5pm
Tuesday, 3/25: 1pm – 5pm
Wednesday, 3/26: 12:15pm - 3:15pm
Thursday, 3/27: 1pm – 5pm
Friday 3/28: 10:30am - 1:30pm

Workshop Participants: $10 for each 4-hour session; Observers: $5 suggested donation (workshop open to observers one hour after the start of each day).

Participants can attend any number of sessions. Call 617-864-3191 for reservations, however walk ins are also welcomeRead More