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ADLI MINI-FEST 2013
a tour of dance through viewing, experiencing, and exchanging
Date: Friday March 15 - Saturday, March 16, 2013
Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI (Angell
Street between Thayer & Brown Streets)
Information/Box Office: info@adli.us, 401-863-5488
Kristen Foote in Dances for Isadora
Photo Credit: Beatriz Schiller
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MINI-FEST CONCERT
a journey through nine decades of American dance
Friday March 15 & Saturday March 16 - 8:00 pm
Granoff Studio One
Tickets: $15 General/$5 Students
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Join our welcoming, innovative community for a performance of fierce, exhilarating, and beautiful dancing! Anchoring the program will be three pieces based on the repertory of dance
legend and pioneer, José Limón (1908-1972). Kristen Foote, soloist with the José
Limón Dance Company, will perform three solos from Dances for Isadora,
choreographed just one year before Limón's death. Dancing Legacy, ADLI's
performing and teaching ensemble, will perform excerpts from Colin Connor's Requiem.
Connor danced with the Limón company for eight years and Requiem clearly
honors that lineage. Dance Extension, Brown University's modern repertory
company will perform Limón Etude choreographed by Limón company artistic
director Carla Maxwell. Limón Etude includes themes and motifs from Dances
for Isadora, which Limón created on Maxwell.
Works by local artists Laura Bennett and Heather Ahern are also featured in the
concert. Bennett, artistic director of Dancing Legacy, will present her latest
work, Jehovah's Watch, based on Emily Dickinson poetry. Bennett was
invited to choreograph Jehovah's Watch by her colleague, vocalist Sarah
Pelletier. Pelletier and pianist Lois Shapiro commissioned Eric Sawyer to
compose the song cycle in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the death of
Emily Dickinson. Local audiences will remember Heather Ahern as a founding
member of Groundwerx Dance Theatre, where she co-directed, toured, performed,
and taught for fifteen years. This concert marks Ahern's return to the Rhode
Island stage in her solo, Blink, an introspective, existential journey
exploring the passage of time.
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MASTER CLASS WITH CARLA MAXWELL
Limón Company artistic director
Saturday March 16th - 12:00pm
Granoff Studio One
Free and open to the public
Carla Maxwell joined the Limón Dance Company in 1965. She soon became a
principal dancer under Limón's direction and, in 1975, assistant artistic
director under Ruth Currier. Maxwell was appointed artistic director in 1978,
and during her tenure, the Company has emerged as one of the finest repertory
dance ensembles in the world. She received the 1995 Dance Magazine Award and a
1998 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for finding a creative
present in the context of a revered past, and thereby offering choreographic
opportunity to multiple generations of artists; for inspired leadership and
artistic accomplishment. Acclaimed as a brilliant dramatic dancer, she danced
many major roles with the Company, including the title role in Carlota,
Limón's final ballet which he choreographed for her. Maxwell is responsible for
many of the Company's reconstructions of Limón dance, and as a choreographer,
she has created works for the Company and regional companies throughout the U.S.
She teaches internationally as both a representative of the Company and a guest
artist-in-residence.
Participants in the master class will have the opportunity to learn excerpts
from Dances for Isadora, one of the works featured in the Mini-Fest
Concert. |
Carla Maxwell in The Moor's Pavane
Photo Credit: Gemini Studios
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Central Falls High School Students performing in ADLI Mini-Fest
2012
Photo Credit: Lucia Lopez
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LECTURE DEMONSTRATION: DANCE, ACCESS, AND ARTS LITERACY
featuring dancers with Parkinson's Disease and students from
Central Falls High School
Saturday March 16th - 2:00pm
Granoff Studio One
Free and open to the public
"Dance, Access, and Arts Literacy" showcases ADLI's Repertory Etudes
TM with diverse populations, featuring live and video
presentations of professional dancers, persons with Parkinson's Disease, college
dancers, students from Central Falls High School, middle school students, and
children with Autism. ADLI programs are designed to engage participants with
multiple points of entry and emphasize hands-on experiences that celebrate
American dance as a cultural asset accessible to all.
In this lecture demonstration, members of a Dance for Parkinson's Disease class
will perform an adapted version of a RepEtude based on the works of American
dance legend and pioneer, José Limón (1908-1972.) Erika Pujic, co-founder of
Battleworks Dance Company, will share her work on a RepEtude, based on the
choreography of Robert Battle who is currently artistic director of Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theatre. Closer to home, students from Central Falls High School
will present choreography inspired by RepEtudes based on the works of Battle,
Limón, and David Parsons.
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INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS AND INSTALLATIONS
curated by Brown Public Humanities graduate students
March 15-16 - 10am-10pm, March 18-22 - 10am-4pm
Granoff Living Room Galleries
Free and open to the public
The Mini-Fest installations take full advantage of the Granoff Center, Brown University's
interdisciplinary arts center dedicated to fostering innovation, research,
collaboration, creativity, and education among the arts, humanities, and
sciences. The building was designed by the New York-based architecture firm,
Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The exhibits will be situated
throughout the building and provide new perspectives on viewing and experiencing
dance.
Two of the Installations are inspired by the work of American dance pioneer and
legend, José Limón (1908-1972), curated by students from Central Falls High
School under the direction of their master teacher Deanna Camputaro and Emily
McCartan, a Brown University Public Humanities graduate student. By combining
photographs, video, text and choreography, the students share their personal
connection to José Limón and his repertory. Cathedral, designed and
curated by Brown dancer/choreographer, Alison Murphy, is an interactive exhibit
of paintings by Professor of History Emeritus Tom Gleason, which he created
after the onset of Parkinson's Disease. Viewers will have the opportunity to
respond to the exhibit through text, sound, visual art, and movement. Cathedral,
is presented in partnership with ASaP: Artists and Scientists as Partners. The
final two installations showcase ADLI programs across the country. |
ADLI Installations in the Granoff Center 2012
Photo Credit: Lucia Lopez
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What We Do
ADLI produces innovative materials and programs
designed to engage artists, educators, and the general public with participatory
viewing and dancing experiences that connect with American heritage, building a
dance literate public. Founded in 1993 by dance pioneers Carolyn Adams and Julie
Adams Strandberg, ADLI is housed at Brown University's John Nicholas Brown
Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage to strengthen a shared
commitment to public engagement with the arts and culture. Operating on a
project-by-project basis, ADLI partners with a broad, geographically diverse
network of organizations, inter-generational practitioners, and dance
enthusiasts to carry out activities on Brown's campus and in communities across
the nation. These activities include:
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Repertory EtudesTM Collection:
Assisting dance artists in the passing on of their work through developing
Repertory EtudesTM (short dances based on signature works of American
choreographers) and assembling archival materials through interactive projects
involving a range of practitioners and scholars from diverse viewpoints
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Residencies: Offering Repertory EtudeTM
residencies that build literacy, investigate authenticity, and nurture an
individual relationship to the dances
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Events: Producing workshops, performances, installations, exhibits, and
Mini-Fests designed to engage participants with multiple points of entry
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Professional Development: Providing training in ADLI's teaching
methodology and workshops for practitioners in dance, arts, and cultural
heritage
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Community Engagement: Bringing together Brown, the greater Providence
community, and the nation to celebrate America's rich dance heritage together
through ongoing and stand-alone workshops and projects
Repertory EtudesTM
Repertory EtudesTM are short dances based on
signature works of American choreographers, available to the public with
unprecedented access for study, viewing, and performance.Now, just as anyone can
study and perform music from Bach to Duke Ellington or theatre from Shakespeare
to Tennessee Williams, ADLI grants access to dance works by historical and
contemporary choreographers on an ongoing and intimate basis.
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VIDEOS of RepEtudesTM
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A revolutionary concept in the
field of dance, these challenging studies stand on their own as concert pieces
and also as rich tools for improving dance technique and performance skills.
They provide any individual, particularly an educator, with usable source
material for lifelong learning about dance. Repertory EtudesTM
offer the opportunity to explore, discuss, and appreciate American dance's
personal and cultural relevance.
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