WINTER MINI-FEST Saturday, March 13, 2010 Ashamu Dance Theatre (Brown Campus, off Waterman, near Thayer) General Information: info@adli.us MASTER CLASS with Robert Battle 10:00am-12:00pm Free and Open to the Public REPERTORY SHOWINGS docent-led informal sharing by local dance artists 12:30pm-2:00pm Free and Open to the Public CONCERT works by Arabella Project, Robert Battle, Laura Bennett, Rosalie Elkinton, Danny Grossman, Eva Marie Pacheco, Jude Sandy, Anna Sokolow 8:00pm $17.00 General; $12.00 Seniors/Brown Staff; $7.00 w/Student ID Ticket Sales: 401-863-2838 Dancing Legacy's Amy Burns and Jude Sandy in Laura Bennett's Reverie Robert Battle teaching class American Dance Legacy Institute's Winter Mini-Fest begins at 10:00 am with a high-energy master class by Robert Battle followed at 12:30 by a docent-led informal sharing of repertory and works-in-progress by local artists. The day culminates in a performance at 8:00pm featuring a diverse roster of performers and choreographers. After spending the last ten years focusing on choreography and teaching, Robert Battle returns to the stage performing his Still, a duet with Erika Pujic. "Mr. Battle makes an audience sit up and take notice, marvel, even laugh," states Joy Godwin of the New York Sun. "His work reaches over the edge of the stage and communicates with people." Mr. Battle founded Battleworks Dance Company in 2001 to showcase his own work, but he is also in high demand as an independent choreographer and master teacher. His works have been commissioned by Hubbard Street Repertory Ensemble, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, River North Dance Company, Koresh Dance Company, Introdans, and PARADIGM, among others. The concert also includes Danny Grossman's trio from Ecce Homo inspired by the paintings and sculptures of Michelangelo to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Mr. Grossman, former featured dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, established the Danny Grossman Dance Company in Toronto in 1977. Since its inception, this award-winning, critically acclaimed company has performed Grossman's 41 works, in 17 countries in North America, South America and Europe. Other choreographers on the concert roster are: modern dance pioneer Anna Sokolow; Rhode Island natives Laura Bennett and Eva Marie Pacheco; local artists Rosalie Elkinton and Jude Sandy (recent graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep acting program); and Arabella Project, which was established in 1999 by former members of the Rhode Island Dance Repertory Company to explore what "mature" dancers have to offer. Winter Mini-Fest 2010 was made possible in part by a grant from the Brown University Creative Arts Council and by the Brown University department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies.