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Event
Choreographer's Showcase
20TH ANNIVERSARY CHOREOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE
SUMMER 2017
Saturday, July 29, at 8 PM
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Sunday, July 30, at 2 PM
AT SPECTORDANCE
3343 Paul Davis Drive, Marina, CA 93933
For information & tickets
call (831) 384-1050 or visit www.spectordance.org
TOAST TO THE TWENTIETH! ~ SATURDAY, JULY 29, FROM 6PM-8PM
SpectorDance is proud to have presented to our community over 400 contemporary choreographers and over 1,000 performers from all over the globe. Join us for a glass of champagne and light hors doeuvres to celebrate this milestone.
FEATURED CHOREOGRAPHERS
Elementz of Omni (Elton Domingue & AJ Ellis) Monterey, CA
Elisabeth Kindler-Abali Berlin, Germany
Melissa Karasek Monterey, CA
Misa Dylan Kelly Santa Barbara, CA
Trina Mannino Brooklyn, NY
Angela Dice Nyugen San Francisco, CA
Anandha Ray Walnut Creek, CA
Fran Spector Atkins Monterey, CA
Raymond Tilton Walnut Creek, CA
TICKETS
Adults $25
Children 12 & under/Seniors 65+ $20
ABOUT THE SHOWCASE
In 1997, Fran Spector Atkins presented the first Choreographers Showcase at California State University, Monterey Bay. The vision was to provide much needed opportunities for choreographers to present their works beyond their home cities and, at the same time, provide Monterey County audiences with opportunities to experience the creative vitality and visual variety of contemporary dance. Now in its twentieth season, the Choreographers Showcase is an established dance event in our local community and an audience favorite. To celebrate this milestone, each choreographer in the 2017 summer showcase will present an original work inspired by an environmental theme or social issue.
To date, SpectorDance is proud to have presented to our community over 400 choreographers and 1,000 performers from all over the globe. In addition, each year we invite several choreographers to create new work for our local student dancers, which are performed as part of each summers Choreographers Showcase. This collaboration has provided our students with the opportunity to experience a wide variety of dance styles, and SpectorDance has the pleasure of sharing ideas, food, and conversation with numerous talented artists over the years.
The Choreographers Showcase is a grassroots effort to celebrate dance, nurture creativity, and expand community. As an outgrowth of the Choreographers Showcase, SpectorDance is launching the Sadie-Rose Residency Program, which provides one week of rehearsal and performance space for selected choreographers.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Elementz of Omni is a visual hip-hop movement originating from the Monterey Bay area. By combining different genres of music such as hip-hop, trap, house, EDM, and more, they create new ways of perceiving dance. Using different elementz, founders Elton Domingue and Anthony (AJ) Ellis show creativity and abstract thinking in their dance pieces. Their mission is to inspire and influence people everywhere while using Omni, meaning ALL, art forms.
Elisabeth Kindler-Abali studied classical and contemporary dance at Palucca University of Dance Dresden in Germany. During her studies, she worked with renowned choreographers and performed at Semperoper, Hellerau, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, and Kleine Szene. After graduation, Elisabeth began working at Staatstheater Darmstadt, directed by Mei Hong Lin, and in 2006 moved to Berlin. Since then, Elisabeth has worked as a freelance dancer, performing with Oxymoron Dance Company Potsdam at Musikakademie Rheinsberg, dancing for various choreographers throughout Germany, and performing in televised music shows. Recently, she has started presenting her own choreography throughout Germany in addition to teaching ballet, contemporary dance, and fitness.
About her pieces:
IMPACT - Because of many random impacts, our lives and relationships are unpredictable. Impacts influence us by shaping our beliefs and behavior, causing us to go through moments of self-reflection. No resistance stops impacts that affect us. We simply cannot remain still and silent once the change starts in us. Wunden jucken, wenn sie heilen (English: healing wounds are itchy) - Affected by Syrias war, many people fled the country, and some arrived as refugees in Germany. They left everything behind and began on an uncertain journey. By applying for asylum, new problems occurred and a new life could not be achieved for months or even years. But even if they were able to begin a new life, arent they haunted by memories?
Melissa Karasek has been a dancer and performer since the age of two. Growing up, she trained in various styles at Studio 10 Dance in San Jose and at Carmel Academy of Performing. In high school, she danced with the award-winning Pacific Grove High School dance team and then continued coaching the team for four more years after graduating in 2009. While coaching for PGHS, Melissa taught students ages 3 to adult in a variety of styles at Rockstar Dance Studio, Monterey Youth Center, and Robert Down Elementary. She also danced with the Infamous Night Rockers dance crew at CSUMB for their final season and was a part of Choreology dance crew from Salinas for two years, with whom she performed at World of Dance twice. In 2013, Melissa moved to Los Angeles to gain experience in and knowledge of the commercial dance industry. While in L.A., Melissa performed with companies including LA Unbound, Amaterasu Dance Company, and Fiasco Dance Crew and was hired for several independent paying jobs. She also spent time working with Leslie Scotts E.D.I.F.Y. Movement dance non-profit, assisted with Scotts classes at EDGE Performing Arts Complex and Millennium Dance Complex, and taught hip-hop and jazz funk for Amaterasu Dance Company. In 2014, Melissa began leading the Walk and Roll Foundations wheelchair dance team with Chelsie Hill and still travels to L.A. to choreograph for them and is a member of their Board of Directors.
Misa (Dylan) Kelly is a multidisciplinary innovator and creator entering her twenty-first year as a playfreshional dance maker and performer. Misas interest lies in the intersection between art and social innovation in interest of contributing to the greater good as an art shaman, peacenik, humanitarian, and lover of Mother Nature. Her visual art has been shown under the auspices of Dylan & Friends in Vienna, New York, and Santa Barbara, and guerrilla style in the Louvre, the Belvedere, and the Norton Simon. Her dances have been shared in California, New York, Istanbul, Vienna, Paris, and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Misa publishes as an indie author under the pen name of Ginger Freedom with her most recent publication being Donklephant Dreams, a book she is sending electronically to every member of Congress. Presently Misa is working on collating seven years of discovery, the outcome of a quest to de-dancify her body, which has resulted in development of a process she calls In-Tuit Technique. This technique is a creative modality with a built-in shed/growth cycle and an emphasis on empowering others to develop a technique/modality relevant to their individual path. She is most grateful to be returning full cycle to SpectorDance with the community she co-creates with most, ArtBark International. MORE: www.chunkyteacup.com www.mdkellydances.com www.artbark.org
About her piece: Whats the Solution is the outcome of a creative meditation which began in 2015 while on tour in Slovenia. In response to a collaborators woe over the state of the world, I suggested that each time an incident or issue surfaced that we found troubling, we ground ourselves with the question Whats the Solution as artists and let it be part of an intentional process of shifting internally in interest of shifting the world towards the type of world wed like to see. The work is an abstract non sequitur that digests impressions and reactions to an act of terrorism in Paris, a shift in the political climate in November 2016, and the power of harnessing storytelling. Excerpts of the developing work have been performed in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, New York, and Connecticut with the full-length work premiering in Santa Barbara in 2017 as a part of the HHII Festival.
Angela Dice Nguyen earned a BFA in dance from the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University under the direction of Susan S. Stowe. Angela performed with DanceWorks Chicago, August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, Dayton Arts Project, and The Mountain Playhouse prior to relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2014; she currently performs as a dancer with San Francisco Opera and has appeared with Tanya Bellos Project.b., Robert Moses KIN, Copious Dance Theater, and Kinetech Arts. As founding artistic director of The MoveMessenger(s), Angela invites artists to find voice through body language in work created for the San Francisco-based dance company. Her choreography also has been commissioned by other dance organizations such as Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, Collage dance Collective, Chicagos Dance in the Parks, Dance Attack Studios, Dance Brigades D.I.R.T. Festival, and Piel Morena Contemporary Dance. Learn more about Nguyen and fellow dancers at www.themovemessengers.org.
About her piece: Poet Walt Whitman calls on future generations of a new brood...greater than before known to write and shape history with bravery and purpose. This work is an expression of the importance of speaking loudly, with and without words.
Trina Mannino
About the piece: Artist/maker Ann Hamilton says: In a time when successive generations of technology amplify human presence at distances far greater than the reach of the hand, what becomes the place and form of making art at the scale and pace of the individual body? These words resonate with us and have prompted me to explore tactile sensations and connection to another physical body. Through this process, I realized that knitting/making and dance intersect in intriguing ways. Both are temporal practices and can be ritualistic in nature. Yet in handmade and traditional craft making, the piece of art can live on beyond the process while dance is ephemeral. In Ghost Duet, the knitted renderings allow the dance to live on long after the physical movement has ceased.
Anandha Ray has dedicated over thirty years to the study and creation of dance. She has produced over 300 concerts and choreographed more dances than she can count. She directed Moving Arts Dance on critically acclaimed international tours as an ambassador for the US Embassy, has received citations from the US Senate and the California, has been inducted into the Womens Hall of Fame and as an Honorary Kentucky Colonel. She has two master's degrees in dance, and she has served as the chairperson/director of university and college dance programs, a studio/theater, and a renowned community dance program.
About her piece: Covenant makes visible, through the poetry of movement, invisible and often unspoken aspects of our humanity. In Covenant, a dancer unravels her multiple body parts to reveal three people as one. As she entwines and entangles, losing and taking control of her disembodied selves, she emerges once again as three bodies functioning as one person.
Fran Spector Atkins is the artistic director and founder of SpectorDance School, Company, community outreach, creative projects, and the Choreographers Showcase. Her credits include a B.S. in Occupational Therapy from Boston University, an M.F.A. from Mills College in Dance and Choreography, and Certification in Laban Movement Analysis from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (New York City). She has directed schools in NYC, Cleveland, and Monterey and has choreographed throughout the United States and abroad. Some of her outstanding experiences include guest teaching and presenting her choreography at Oberlin College and Brown University and in Denmark, Egypt, England, Israel, the Island of Guam, and Taiwan. Spector Atkins has received numerous awards and was featured in Carmel Magazine as one of ten individuals making altruistic contributions to the community. She was featured in the film Luminaries of Monterey County and has twice been invited to present at TEDxMonterey. SpectorDance was selected by The Arts Council for Monterey County as the Outstanding Arts Organization in Monterey County and as a national finalist for the Ovations TV award for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
About her piece: Excerpts from Ocean Trilogy (premiering in September 2017) is a dance-science partnership between SpectorDance and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. When complete, this new, evening-length multidisciplinary performance piece will weave a tapestry of rap and classical music, hip-hop and contemporary dance, spoken word, and visual images to tell the story of the challenges facing our ocean, the hopeful possibilities from ocean science research, and the power of joining forces among various disciplines to address the larger political and environmental context in our changing world.
Raymond Tilton (Dancer) was born in San Marcos and trained at San Elijo Dance Academy and San Francisco Ballet School prior to being named an apprentice in 2010 with the San Francisco Ballet and joining the Company in 2011. Since joining Diablo Ballet in 2015, Raymond has performed in works by Sean Kelly, Robert Dekkers, Norbert Vesak, Gary Masters, Sonya Delwaidea and George Balanchine. Currently, Raymond dances with Diablo Ballet
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3343 Paul Davis Drive
Marina, CA 93933
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