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Swaying Quarters
Happy Holidays! This week, we’re sharing the gift of dance with our last clip from The Balancing Act: “Swaying Quarters,” choreographed by commissioned artist Lisa Race, with music by Michael Wall. Performers are Amy Tennant Adams, Ani Javian, Maggie Bennett, and Cara Liguori. Video by Joe Del Senno.
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Adventures in VideoDance
Our next clip comes in videodance format. Betsy Miller’s The Golden Hall was created at The Ohio State University and had its premiere showing at The Balancing Act.
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Here is an excerpt of Catherine Miller’s Juliet Looks to The West, from The Balancing Act. Catherine was the recipient of our first Emerging Artist Grant.
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Two Solos from The Balancing Act
Latest in our installment of Balancing Act excerpts are two solos: Home, choreographed by Maggie Bennett and performed by Ani Javian, and Moves She, choreographed by Ani Javian and performed by Megan MacAlpine. Enjoy! Home Moves She
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Excerpt of Impasse. Choreographed by Cara Liguori and Amy Tennant Adams. Video by Joe Del Senno. Stay tuned for more video clips from The Balancing Act!
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Still, two months later, I’m feeling good about The Balancing Act. We challenged ourselves by putting together a different kind of show: collaborating within Propel-her, commissioning an artist, and producing an artist. We set the show up as a way to exhibit different definitions of the term “emerging art.” It ended up being not only [...]
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Tags: Ani, Cara, Maggie
For Propel-her Dance Collective’s 2009 concert, The Balancing Act, we’ve turned our attention to a phenomena dominating the contemporary dance scene. For many choreographers in the U.S., a life-long career will exist in the category “emerging artist.” We are emerging artists, our peers are emerging artists, many of our mentors are emerging artists. So we [...]
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Tags: art, choreographer, commodity, consumerism, emerging artist, The Gift
The rehearsal process has officially begun for our collaborative pieces. I have to say, that it is a very interesting and different process that goes into a collaborative piece versus and individual piece– especially in this case when the collaborators are of the same facet (i.e. 2 dance choreographer vs. a dance choreographer with a [...]
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The spectrum of emerging art
Exactly what constitutes “emerging art” is a hotly contested subject in the world of dance as well as other artistic endeavor. In May 2009, Propel-her Dance Collective will present an evening of new choreography by female choreographers who represent three definitions of emerging artist. Through the range of artists presented, Propel-her aims to engage the [...]
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Tags: aesthetic, collaboration, collaborative, emerge, emerging, support
