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Events and Meetings
Master Classes and Workshops
Performances
Dance-A-Day 2010
A year long online performance updated daily at http://danceaday.com
January 1, 2010- December 31, 2010
Local Performance
New Releases Showcase
July 31st at 8pm
August 1st at 7pm
Dance Place
3225 8th St, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Two blocks from Redline Brookland/CUA stop; Free and convenient parking.
Dance Place’s annual showcase of the best new works submitted by established and emerging choreographers, covering genres from modern dance to classical Indian dance. This year’s program includes choreography by Orit Sherman, Stephanie Yezek, Vidya Sankaranarayanan, Tiffany Haughn, Danah Bella, Natty Mncube, Keira Hart-Mendoza.
$22 general admission; $17 members, students, teachers (PreK-12), artists & seniors; $8 for children 17 & under
To purchase tickets visit www.danceplace.org or call (202)269-1600
Local Performance
The Dance Educators Training Institute
August 2-6, 2010 from 10am-5:30pm daily
Goucher College
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204
ClancyWorks Dance Company & Baltimore County Public School System
co-present this week of workshops that will help us to get ready for the 2010-2011 School Year by re-energizing our dance interests!
Sessions are open to the public, with a particular interest to serve choreographers and performers to highly experienced dance educators as well as teaching artists who are just beginning to work in the field of dance education. Administrators and participants from various arts and educational disciplines including college students are invited and encouraged to attend the workshops.
The workshops will begin each day with a dance technique class in multiple genres of dance. The Institute has four main tracks:
• Arts Integration
• Composition/Improvisation
• Somatics/Dance Science
• Dance Technique Classes- including different genres for all levels
1 MSDE credit available through Baltimore County Public Schools continuing Professional Development: Course no. 05-02-02 - Dance Composition
Tuition: $250 for Week-Long Institute (study positions available)
To register or for more information: please contact Allison Pearsall, Program Coordinator at Info@ClancyWorks.org or 301-717-9271, https://www.bcps.org/apps/registration/.
Haunted at Joe's Movement Emporium
August 5 at 7:30pm
Joe's Movement Emporium
Featuring Stephen Clapp and Laura Schendelmeier with special guest artists Leah and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia and Kofi Dennis. Get up-close and personal with Dance Box Theater as they prepare for 12 peformances of Haunted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Proceeds for this studio performance of Dance Box Theater's Haunted will support their Edinburgh or Bust campaign! Suggested donation of $10. For more information, visit http://joesmovement.org/joesmove/
Local Performance
Swagger and Street Hip Hop Workshop with Joshua Davis
August 7 from 11am to 1pm
Joy of Motion Dance Center: Friendship Heights
Ever wanted to dance like the crews on ABDC such as Poreotixs or Soreal Cru? Join us for this awesome Autobots vs Decepticons workshop that will show you all the latest street moves fused with illusions, tutting, popping, & turfing and video choreography based on today’s hottest dance movies & concepts. Visit us at Level: Low Intermediate and above Hip Hop
$25 advanced registration; $30 day of workshop
Visit us at www.joyofmotion.org or http://bit.ly/9vRQYV for more info.
Local Performance
Cambodian American Heritage Master Ensemble: Stories of the Gods
August 7 at 2pm
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Meyer Auditorium
Cambodian American Heritage Master Ensemble: Stories of the Gods
Pre-performance tour: Gods of Angkor, 1 pm, Sackler sublevel 1
NEA Heritage Fellows Sam-Oeun Tes and Ngek Chum, Cambodia’s prima ballerina Devi Yim, and master dancers and musicians of Cambodian American Heritage retell classic stories related to the Buddhist and Hindu sculptures on view in Gods of Angkor.
Free tickets are required. Up to four tickets per person can be reserved (for a service fee of $2.75 per ticket and $1.25 per order) beginning 10:00 a.m. the second Monday before the event. Contact Ticketmaster at (202) 397-7328, (410) 547-7328, or (703) 573-7328; at www.ticketmaster.com; or at Ticketmaster walk-up locations.
In Person
Two tickets per person are also distributed (for no service fee) at the Meyer Auditorium beginning one hour before showtime, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Local Performance
Sharna Fabiano Tango Company
August 7 at 8pm
August 8 at 7pm
Dance Place
3225 8th St, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Two blocks from Redline Brookland/CUA stop; Free and convenient parking.
Sharna Fabiano Tango Company acknowledges the transformative power of human connection found in contemporary tango communities. Inspired by authentic tango aesthetics and social themes, the company explores the deep nostalgia, intimacy, and longing inherent to the form. Passionate embraces meet quiet moments of personal reflection, and gender roles are challenged as women and men exchange following and leading.
$22 general admission; $17 members, students, teachers (PreK-12), artists & seniors; $8 for children 17 & under
To purchase tickets visit www.danceplace.org or call (202)269-1600
Local Performance
Summer Classes at Knock On Wood Tap Studio
July 6 to August 12
Registration for Summer Session has begun! We have some great summer fun in store for you. Everything from Little Rhythms (for ages 3-4) to Tap Tech, a class designed to improve your clarity and clean up your tap technique. We wanted to bring you even more TapHappiness this year so we've extended the Summer Session to run from July 6 to August 12 (6 weeks).
There's something for everyone! For more information please visit our website at www.knockonwood.org.
Local Performance
The Dinner Party
August 12 at 8pm
Atlas Performing Arts Center, lab II
The Dinner Party and the INTERSECTIONS festival are partnering this Fall at the ATLAS Performing Arts Center. We will be at ATLAS for a monthly performance on Thursdays at 8pm from August to February.
In it's third year, The Dinner Party is an ongoing monthly alternative venue for experimental dance, music and performance art. Following the performance, there will be a feedback session between the artists and the audience.
Space is still available to perform. To submit, visit http://ilanaspace.com/contact/submit-to-the-dinner-party
Local Performance
Metro DC Dances
August 13 at 7:30pm
Carter Barron Amphitheater
Come see Contradiction Dance perform.
FREE!! Please visit contradictiondance.com for more info!
Local Performance
8th Annual Metro DC Dances
August 13 at 7:30 pm
Carter Barron Ampitheatre
featuring Capitol Movement Inc (CMI) Junior Company, Contradiction Dance, New School of Dance & Arts, Next Reflex Dance Collective & special guests!
FREE! for more information, visit http://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/cbarronschedule.htm
Local Performance
Egyptian Nights, Saffron Dance’s Summer Show
August 13 at 8pm
Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre, 1611 North Kent Street, Arlington, VA
Enjoy this amazing variety of talent featuring over 85 belly dancers. This show presents two world class Egyptian dance stars, Mohamed El Hosseny and Mohamed Shahin, Saffron faculty soloists Saphira, Katrina, Catarina, Kostana and Shahrzad, the Saffron Dance Student Companies, and four guest belly dance troupes from the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Cost: $30 in advance, $40 at door. Purchase tickets at www.saffrondance.com
Info: info@saffrondance.com or 703-276-2355
Local Performance
Faces of Dance with Step Ahead
August, 13th at 6pm
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Come join us for “Faces of Dance,” a show by the teens of Step Ahead featuring jazz, hip hop, modern, West African, and tap. This show wraps up the Step Ahead summer, where 50 DC teens at JOMDC's Atlas studio have been training, rehearsing, working together, and gaining critical life skills along the way.
Cost: Free to the public
Please RSVP by contacting Quynn Johnson at outreach@joyofmotion.org
Local Performance
Make Contact!
July 17 and August 14 from 3:30pm to 5pm
Contradiction Dance.
Come be part of Make Contact! A Contact Improvisation with acclaimed instructor Boris Willis!
Join Master Teacher Boris Willis as he shares his techniques for a more
Fee: $15 per class
Check out contradictiondance.com for more info!
Local Performance
Culture Shock East Coast Dance Concert 2010
August 14 at 7:30pm
Carter Barron Amphitheatre
4850 Colorado Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20011
Cost: Free
Info: 202-426-0486
Local Performance
Lyrical Hip Hop Workshop with Nikki Gambhir
August 14 from 11am to 1pm
Joy of Motion/Friendship Heights
Level: All levels of Hip Hop
“New School” Hip Hop continues to push its boundaries and explore unique territory, and contemporary is the latest dance style to take the nation by storm! Come experience the magic as this class mixes the expressive flow of contemporary-lyrical with the street styles of hip hop. Combos will focus on dynamics, musicality, and contrasts in movement quality, set to hip hop, R&B, pop, and even rock music.
Cost: $25/Advanced registration; $30/day of workshop
Info: www.joyofmotion.org
A Dance Called Baltimore
August 13 at 12:30pm
August 14 at 6pm
Historic North Avenue Market
20 W.North Ave., Baltimore, MD
Open to the public - All ages welcome!
"See the city's sights, sounds and rhythms brought to life through contemporary dance, video, soundscapes, snow cones, sprinklers and more!" The performance will begin on the sidewalk outside the market and then move inside. Free pizza provided by Joe Squared.
"A Dance Called Baltimore" is a collaboration between the University of Baltimore and Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University as part of the Baltimore Song Project. Choreographed by Meghan Flanigan with students from Peabody Dance.
You can read more about the project here: http://www.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=3959
For more information, please contact Christina Ralls, Art Coordinator, at cralls1@gmail.com.
This event is made possible through the support of the Marian I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation, University of Baltimore Provost's Office, Peabody Dance and Station North Arts & Entertainment District
The Collective presents POP ART
August 20 at 8pm
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-276-1651
Baltimore's Best Dance Company, The Collective, brings pop culture to the stage infusing the company's modern dance roots with aspects of capriora, salsa, swing, jazz, and hip hop. Local B'more nine-member crew, The Regulators, show off their formidable street dancing–aka popping—skills. The clever choreographers of The Collective will delicately balance the images and music of pop culture with the art of dance to create POP ART – a delicious summer treat! POP ART will feature the choreography of Lynne Price, Cait Moler, Adrienne Latanishen, Camille Lattimore, Jenny Seye, and Emily Tankersley.
www.collective-dance.com
Tickets: $15/general admission; $12/students and CA members
Tickets are available at www.creativealliance.org, by calling 410-276-1651, or at the door.
Local Performance
Mao's Last Dancer - Opening at E St. Cinema & Bethesda Row
Opens August 20
E Street Cinema & Bethesda Row
From Academy Award-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) comes the inspiring true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin (Chi Cao) and his extraordinary journey from a poverty stricken boy in China to international stardom as a world-class dancer. Based on Li’s bestselling autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life. The film poignantly captures the struggles and triumphs, as well as the intoxicating effects of first love and celebrity amid the pain of exile. Mao’s Last Dancer showcases ballet sequences from acclaimed Australian choreographer Graeme Murphy and co-stars Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan and Joan Chen. (Partially subtitled)
For tickets and showtimes please visit: www.landmarktheatres.com
7th Annual Dance DC Festival
August 20-22
Atlas Performing Arts Center
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Dance DC Festival: Experience Global Movement. Dance DC Festival highlights the District’s most talented folk and traditional dance and music performers from various cultures. The genres include hand dance, African dancing and drumming, tap, tango, traditional Asian dance and much more! Performances as well as interactive workshops are FREE to the public over this three-day event!
This year’s Dance DC Festival opening night theme, Carnaval Africana!, will be held at the Atlas Performing Arts Theater on August 20th at 6:00pm. This night captures the essence of Carnaval fusing an array Afro-Brazillian dance and music expressions! The closing night party celebrates the native dance tradition of hand dancing, Hand Dance Mania on August 22nd at 7:00pm.
Experience Global Movement travels the audience through the cultural dances of: India, Asia, Morocco, West Africa, Europe, Panama, Brazil, and more!
For a full schedule of events please visit www.dcarts.dc.gov
Local Performance
Tutting and Botting Hip Hop Workshop with Joshua Davis
August 21 from 11am to 1pm
Joy of Motion Dance Center: Friendship Heights
Come take part in this futuristic Hip-hop workshop with choreography based on today’s hottest music and dance moves. This workshop will cover the basics for popping, locking, tutting & Finger-tutting with a more up-to-date style and look. You decided Autobots or Decepticons, which one are you??!!
$25 advanced registration; $30 day of workshop
Visit us at www.joyofmotion.org or http://bit.ly/9vRQYV for more info.
Local Performance
Sahara Dance Caravan: Exploring the Evolution of Belly Dance
August 21 at 5pm and 8pm
American University Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre
4200 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Washington, DC
Tenleytown Metro
Trace the earthy roots of an ancient art form through the branches of fusion and fun. Cultivating the diverse talent in the studio, “Sahara Dance Caravan” will be our most imaginative show yet. Catch a glimpse of our organic and intertwined dance lineages through works in many genres. We’ll explore the rich ancestral themes of feminine beauty and power in traditional and experimental pieces. Join us for a delightful evening of something new!
Tickets: $25 - Choose your seats online: http://saharadance.com/performances/
Local Performance
Dance Asia 2010: Asia in Reflection: Selected Works
August 21 from 5pm to 6pm
(seating begins at 4:30pm)
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H St NE Washington, DC 20002
The 7th annual Dance Asia showcase is taking a step back through time and bringing to you the best of the best works. Themes range from Asia in Celebration, Asia in Legend, Asia in Nature, Asia in Thunder to Asia in Movie. Multiple dance groups will razzle & dazzle you with an hour of diverse Asian dance splendor. Come join us on a trip down memory lane and ogle at the intricacy of Asian art of movement!
Participating Groups include:
Fairfax Chinese Dance Troupe
Fil-Am Heritage Dance Ensemble
Gamelan Wrhatnala of Boyds
Mongolian Dance Ensemble
Natyabhoomi School of Dance
Sutera Malaysia
Info: Please contact Wuiping Yap at 202-468-5668/ wuiping@yahoo.com
Dance Asia co-presents this festival segment with DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities as part of the DC Dance Festival series.
Local Performance
Musical Theater Center Open House
August 25 & 26 from 4pm to 7pm
Musical Theater Center in Rockville is holding their annual Open House on August 25th and 26th. See the list below as well as our website: www.musicaltheatercenter.org
This open house is an event for current and new students!!!! Come take a free class, meet new students and reunite with your classmates. Faculty and staff members will be on hand to answer questions about exciting new Fall schedule and to take your registrations. Refreshments will be served!!
Wednesday, August 25
Intermediate Jazz 4-5:15 p.m. Robert Moses
Intermediate Tap 4-5 p.m. Diane Hamilton
Advanced Jazz 5:30-7 p.m. Robert Moses
Acting Techniques 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tammy Roberts
Thursday, August 26
Intermediate Lyrical 4-5:15 p.m. Debbie Clark
Intermediate Tap 4-5 p.m. Diane Hamilton
Vocal Techniques 4-4:45 p.m. John Marlowe
Advanced Lyrical 5:30-7 p.m. Debbie Clark
Acting Techniques 5-6 p.m. John Marlowe
Come take a free class, meet new students and reunite with your classmates. Faculty and staff members will be on hand to answer questions about exciting new Fall schedule and to take your registrations
Dancewear Sale: Our fall dancewear sale will be taking place on Thursday August 26th during our Open House. Les Gals Activewear will be on site and have all dance and active wear needs.
Hip Hop Dance Camp by Joy of Motion Dance Center
August 23 - August 27 from 9:30am - 4pm
Joy of Motion Dance Center, Friendship Heights
With Aysha Upchurch: This advanced beginner and above camp will cover every ground from old skool to new skool, classic moves and new hot video choreography, high energy athleticism will mix with cool fluid styles, students will learn and hone fundamental skills and techniques and work on that thing that makes hip hop so attractive...its swagga!
To register please visit www.joyofmotion.org. Registration: $300
Local Performance
Classical Ballet Repertoire series and performance with Elizabeth Wisenberg from Stuttgart Ballet.
August 16 to August 27 from 10:30am to 12:30pm
BTI Dance Institute
1515 14th Street NW,
Washington DC 20005
$190.00 for 2 weeks Ballet Class, Repertoire Series and Studio Performance
This is a 2-week intermediate/advanced level workshop in Classical Ballet with international dancer Elizabeth Wisenberg from the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany. It is ideal for dancers who have already finished summer intensives elsewhere but haven't started the fall semester yet, or is a great way for dancers who did not go to a summer intensive to get back in shape before the fall semester. Minimum 3 years of pointe work required. The workshop will consist of a daily ballet class and pointe work/repertoire rehearsal with excerpts from Swan Lake. An informal studio performance will be held at the end of the course on Friday, August 27th at BTI Dance Institute.
Sign up and enroll online at www.btidance.org or call 202-588-8282
Local Performance
Swan Ballet Dance Schools Open House
August 27 from 4pm to 6pm
August 28 from 1pm to 4pm
Pickett Shopping Center
9416 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22031
Swan Ballet Dance Schools - Fairfax Studio will host an open house with FREE classes and discount on registration for the fall 2010 season of classes.
Visit the Swan Ballet website for a list of the FREE classes available: www.swanballetdance.com or call 703-425-9400
Swan Ballet Dance Schools, celebrating 30 years in 2010, offers quality instruction with small class sizes and individual attention for all levels of ballet, jazz and tap, beginner through advanced for ages 2 1/2- adult. Two locations: Fairfax and Chantilly
Egyptian Raqs Sharqi Choreography to "Alf Layla wa Layla"
June 27 - August 29 from 11am to 12noon, Sundays
no class July 4th
Joy of Motion Friendship Heights Studio
Belly Dance Performance Class with Laurel Victoria Gray
Learn an Egyptian "Golden Age" Raqs Sharqi (belly dance) choreography to the famous and beloved song Alf Layla wa Layla - "A Thousand and One Nights." This elegant piece highlights the sensuous grace and precise isolations of the "Golden Age" -- an era made famous in Egyptian films of the mid-20th century. Students will increase their musical and rhythmic awareness while mastering one of the greatest Egyptian classics of all time.
All students are required to attend every class, be prompt and participate on a regular basis in order to perform. Students must purchase their own costuming according to teacher guidelines. All efforts will be made to keep costuming expenses affordable.
Studio to Stage classes will culminate in a showcase performance for friends, family and the community on Saturday, August 28 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, August 29 at 7 p.m. $15.00 General Admission (advanced purchase), $20 General Admission (at the door), $12.00 (Seniors/children 12 & under).
Registration: $162 for 9 weeks, for more information please visit www.joyofmotion.org
Local Performance
BOND-A dance and poetry exploration of relationships that connect us all!
August 28 at 7pm
Agust 29 at 4pm
Baltimore Theatre Project
45 West Preston Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
Poetic Xpressions Dance Company presents...BOND: Exploring the relationships that connect us all.
Ticket prices- general admission only- $20 for saturday evening and $15 for the sunday matinee
www.poeticxpressions.webs.com
Eureka Dance Festival
August 29
Takoma Park, MD
The artists of the Eureka Dance Festival (www.dancefestival-eureka.org) believe in connecting dancers and audience members through choreography and conversation. In the first of six open studio showings before the full concert at Dance Place (December 11-12, 2010), the public is invited view and discuss “dances-in-progress.” At each event, leaders in the dance community facilitate these informal showings and discussions, creating an invigorating atmosphere of dance, conversation, and creativity targeted towards novice and experienced dance viewers alike. Features work by Orit Sherman, Nathan Andary, and Roxie Doniphan Thomas , this opening event of the Eureka Dance Festival will take place on Sunday August 29th from 3:00-6:00pm at the Dance Exchange (www.danceexchange.org).
Cultivating Choreographers and Dance Audiences
After a sold out inaugural 2009 show, the Eureka Dance Festival founders and DC-based dancer/choreographers Kate Jordan and Orit Sherman sat down with a team of artistic advisors from across the DC arts community. The two experienced dance educators asked: 1) How can we go beyond a single concert and instead support emerging artists through the creative process? And 2) How can we make opportunities for the curious DC public to see and understand dance? The result of these discussions is an exciting season of six public viewing and discussion sessions; five community master classes; and a concert at DancePlace on December 11 & 12, 2010.
The Story of Eureka
The Eureka Dance Festival nurtures new works by up and coming DC-area choreographers and cultivates audiences for dance. The festival provides a platform for artists to present new and innovative work on stage. The artists receive guidance and mentoring throughout the process by the artistic panel of the festival. In addition, the festival promotes close interaction among the artists, their peers and public audience, enabling collaborative work across various artistic media. A group of DC-metro area choreographers are chosen annually to create new works for the festival; taking their ideas from conception to full stage production. Enabling the presentation of this new work, the emerging artists receive production assistance in the form of lighting design, photographs, and video documentation of the performance weekend. During the Eureka Dance Festival process, artists create connections with other artists and with the greater community, sparking future opportunities.
Local Performance
Adult Walk-In Week at BalletNova
August 30-September 4
The BalletNova Center for Dance
3443 Carlin Springs Road, Falls Church, VA
BalletNova Center for Dance is holding an Adult Walk-In Week between regular semesters - a great way for adult dancers to stay in shape before Fall classes begin. *SPECIAL RATE!* Classes are only $10 during this week! Class cards can be used (no additional discounts apply).
Go to www.BalletNova.org for the full schedule, or email info@BalletNova.org or call 703-778-3008