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WINTER MINI-FEST 2011
a day-long tour of dance through viewing, experiencing, and exchanging
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Come spend a day with the ADLI family... a dynamic and varied intergenerational group of passionate and energetic artists, creative practitioners, and dance enthusiasts from all walks of life. Winter Mini-Fest 2011 features movement experiences, dialogues about creative process and collaboration, multi-media installations, and dance performance. The Mini-Fest takes place in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University's brand new 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.
Location: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (Angell Street between Thayer & Brown streets)
Admission: All events free and open to the public - Donations welcome!
Information & Questions: info@adli.us | DANCING ACROSS TIME
master class with Carolyn Adams
1:00pm
Designed for: dancers of all backgrounds, ages, shapes, and sizes; the class progresses methodically, so dancers of all levels and even adventurous non-dancers are welcome to participate as long as desired
ADLI co-founder Carolyn Adams was a principal dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1965-82. Her class skillfully synthesizes the major influences, techniques, and styles of contemporary dance.
A graduate of the Ethical Culture Schools and Sarah Lawrence College, Adams holds a masters in social work from Fordham University. Faculty emerita at The Juilliard School, she has authored multiple published articles on arts education, has served on numerous panels including the National Endowment for the Arts, and she chaired Dance/USA's National Task Force on Dance Education. She is a 2009 recipient of the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching, presented by the American Dance Festival. Adams currently serves on the Paul Taylor board. | 
Granoff Center
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Maenad, after Skopas - one of the sculptures
that inspired Danny Grossman's Ecce Homo | COLLABORATING THROUGH FORM
dialogue about creative process with
choreographer
Danny Grossman and artists
followed by an optional interactive workshop
3:00pm
Designed for: artists of all disciplines, cultural programming and public humanities practitioners, anyone interested in going "behind the scenes" with artists to learn more about their thinking and approach to their work
The conversation will focus on collaboration and creation across
disciplines, featuring choreographer Danny Grossman and artists who have engaged with his work. The session will include the viewing of an excerpt from Grossman's Ecce Homo, inspired by sculptures of
Michaelangelo and other artists, and an optional interactive workshop that explores themes and motifs of the piece. "Collaborating through Form" is designed to provide stimulation for participants to explore
their own creative process and methods of collaboration. It will also
inform viewing of dance in general and the Mini-Fest evening program
in particular, which includes a cross-disciplinary installation
created by Brown University dancers and sculptors inspired by Ecce Homo.
Danny Grossman has created a repertoire of more than 40 works for his Company (formed in 1977) which have been performed across Canada and internationally. Grossman's committed social awareness can be seen in the humanistic concerns that animate much of his work. As a creative artist, his greatest influence was Paul Taylor, with whom Grossman danced for more than a decade. |
REFLECTIVE VIEWING
an evening of dance installation and performance
7:30pm
Designed for: anyone interested in encountering dance in a friendly and approachable way with a diverse roster of works and artists in an unconventional, quirky space
The evening will combine installations, performance, food, and conversation. Programming will be situated throughout the Granoff Center and dances can be viewed from new perspectives. The evening will be anchored by ADLI's own performing ensemble Dancing Legacy and by Dance Extension, Brown University's modern repertory company that has exhilarated and commanded audiences within and beyond the university for over thirty years.
Performances feature classic and new works from Carolyn Adams' tribute to Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance, to a work-in-progress by Meg Weeks, a Brown University senior who has just co-launched the professional company ReGroup Dance. The installations include Ecce Mash Up, created by Brown University students including video, original sculpture, and reimagined dances inspired by Danny Grossman's choreography; Beauty Project, originally developed by RAWdance (a San Francisco based company founded by Brown alumni) for a vacant storefront that will be viewed through the internal and external windows of the Granoff Center; and Regarding Rooms Etude, a multi-site installation inspired by Anna Sokolow's 1955 masterwork Rooms with original choreography by Central Falls High School students curated in collaboration with master's students from the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
Space is limited. Reservations suggested: info@adli.us | 
Dancing Legacy in Laura Bennett's Current.
which will be seen in "Reflective Viewing"
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 | Winter Mini-Fest 2011 was made possible in part by a grant from the Brown University Creative Arts Council, support from the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, and by the Brown University department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. |
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