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Upcoming at The Garden Center ...
Dance Connect Company Class Series
Sundays, October 2, 9 & 16 from 10:30am-12pm
Since taking up residence at 56 Arbor Street, it has been our intention to share the space, dialogue, and a sense of exploration with the larger dance community in Hartford. Tomorrow morning, Chloe Carlson will begin a 3 class series of open classes for her company Dance Connect, and for interested dancers with at least 3 years of modern/contemporary dance training. Phrase work will reflect her current movement influences and her ongoing interest in Limon Technique. The material will also be filtered though one key question as she prepares for her rehearsal: How do we cultivate a more present engagement in the technique class and effectively transfer that practice into performance?
Drop-ins are welcome, $15/class
$35 for all 3 classes
Talking Dance
Monday, October 3, 2011 from 6-7:30pm
We invite you to join us twice a month for Talking Dance, a forum facilitated by Leslie Frye Maietta. Fresh from her first summer of graduate study, Leslie is eager to share material from her theory, history and research studies as a basis for group discussion. Talking Dance will be open to local dance artists, educators and enthusiasts as a way to connect, mobilize and enliven conversation surrounding dance. How can we move beyond complacency in our teaching? How can we examine race, gender and class in relation to our dance community? Where and how can we push the boundaries of knowledge and art making and what impact does that have on the people around us? How will others resist or push back in the challenging of their ideas and beliefs? Articles and readings will be emailed and a book list is provided below. This, however, if not a class. All are welcome, to join the discussion even if you haven't had the chance to read all the materials.
The Black Dancing Body, by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Metaphysics in Motion, by Sondra Fraleigh
Critical Moves, by Randy Martin
Cruising Utopia, by Jose Esteban Munoz
To confirm your participation and to receive supplemental reading materials, email leslie.frye@hotmail.com.
Works in Progress Showings
Friday, October 7, 2011 from 6:30-8pm
contact deborah@scapegoatgarden.org if you would like to share work this month.
Monthly Works in Progress Showings are intended to provide an opportunity for area dance makers to share works in progress, engage in meaningful discussion and receive constructive feedback in a safe and supportive environment. Interested participants are invited to share a complete work (no longer than 15 minutes), a movement phrase, or musings about a newly conceived idea. Each work in progress will be followed by facilitated non-directorial feedback from those in attendance. The evening is also open to those who are simply interested in nurturing the creative work being incubated in our city.
If you are interested in sharing work in October, please register in advance via
deborah@scapegoatgarden.org
(re)Birth Salon
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7:30pm
Salon: a lively coming together of people from varied segments of the community, gathered under one roof by an inspired host, to share art, ideas, and conversation. After a year in development as part of the Artist in Residnece program at Billings Forge, (re)Birth premiered at Charter Oak Cultural Center this past spring. Now we are revisiting the intimate origins of the piece by inviting guests to experience the work and the company's hospitality aesthetic ... exploring the place where our human capacity for creativity and regeneration meets old fashioned hospitality.
To learn more about the salons and to be added to this or future salon, please contact deborah@scapegoatgarden.org.
Contact Improvisation Jam
Sunday, October 30, 2011 from 4-6pm
This is an opportunity for like-minded movers to come together to explore Contact and ensemble improvisation in a fun, supportive, sometimes instructive, disorienting and listening environment. Relationship in Contact can mirror relationship in life: build trust, take risks and push your own edges. The body demands honesty in this form. We usually begin with a facilitated warm-up and then follow the path of least resistance. The Jam is open to seasoned Contact dancers, improvisational movers and those interested in being open and curious.
$10 per session
The Garden Center
for Contemporary Dance
56 Arbor Street, Suite 411
Hartford, CT 06106
(Parking is available behind and to the south side of Real Arts Ways. You MUST, however, access the elevator or stairs in the main lobby of 56 Arbor, on the street side of the building.)
Past Performances . . .
Homegrown Dance at the Billings Forge MashUp
August 4, 2011 at 8pm & 9pm
The Gardens at Billings Forge
(re)Birth
May 20-21, 2011 at 8pm
Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford
Gestation: (re)Birth in Process
May 11, 2011 from 6:30pm
The Studio @ Billings Forge, Hartford
Low Lives 3 Exhibit
April 29, 2011 at 8pm
Real Art Ways
Garden Party
April 15, 2011 at 6pm
The Garden Contemporary Dance Center, Hartford
Rebound Dance Festival
April 9, 2011 at 7:30pm
Arts Hall, ACES/ECA, Hartford
Open Studio Hartford
November 14, 2010 at 11am
The Studio @ Billings Forge, Hartford
Saya Woolfalk Exhibit Opening Reception
October 23, 2010 at 6pm
Real Art Ways, Hartford
Last Saturdays for Families
September 25, 2010 at 11:30am & 12:30pm
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Different Voices
Bates Dance Festival
August 5-6, 2010 at 8pm
Schaeffer Theater, Lewiston, ME
(re)Birth
July 7-9, 2010 at 8pm
The Studio at Billings Forge, Hartford
7th Annual 5 x 5 Dance Festival
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 7:30pm
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
Prazer em conhecê-lo: Espaço Infinito
(Pleased to meet you: Infinite Space)
Friday & Saturday, September 4-5, 2009 at 8pm
Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford
Dancing from the Heart of the People:
Celebrating Katherine Dunham
Friday and Saturday, March 27 & 28, 2009 at 7:30pm
Trinity College, Hartford
Dance Masters Weekend
New England Choreographer Showcase
Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7pm & 9:30pm
Wesleyan University, Middletown
Pleased to Meet You
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 7:30pm
Trinity College Performance, Hartford Lab
5 x 5 Dance Festival
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 7:30pm
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
Provincetown Dance Festival
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 7:30pm
Truro Center for the Arts, Provincetown
CT Dance Exchange
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 1pm
ECA Arts Hall, New Haven
CalArts Alumni Concert
Monday, December 10, 2007 at 8pm
New York Theater Workshop, NY
Studies in Empathy
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 7:30pm
Ethel Walker School, Simsbury
Dancing in the Moonlight: COCC Dance Benefit
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 7pm
Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford
5 x 5 Dance Festival
Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 7:30pm
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
Provincetown Dance Festival
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 7:30pm
Truro Center for the Arts, Provincetown
Dance Salon
International Festival of Arts and Ideas
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 9pm
Gotham Citi Cafe, New Haven
Present Company Included
Friday & Saturday, March 30–31, 2007 at 7:30pm
Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford
Choreographer’s Workshop
Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 2pm & 7:30pm
Friday, December 8, 2006 at 7:30pm
GHAA Theater of the Performing Arts, Hartford
Hero
Friday, December 1, 2006 at 2pm & 7:30pm
Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 9:30pm
West End Theater, New York
DUMBO Dance Festival
Sunday, October 22, 2006 at 4pm
John Ryan Theater in D.U.M.B.O., Brooklyn
5 x 5 Dance Festival
Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 7:30pm
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
CT Meets NY Dance Fest
Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 8pm
Crystal Theater, Norwalk
Studies in Empathy
Friday & Saturday, April 7 & 8, 2006 at 7:30pm
Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford
Celebrating 35 Years of Dance
November 18, 2005
Trinity College, Hartford
5x5 Dance Festival
October 22, 2005 at 7:30pm
Saint Joseph College, West Hartford
Fridays @ Noon
October 21, 2005
92nd St. Y, New York
“Every now and then she takes flight.”
Studio 47 Series
October 12, 2005 at 7:30pm
Trinity College, Hartford
Eve Descending
Six Figures Theatre Company Artists of Tomorrow Festival
October 8, 2005 at 7pm
October 9, 2005 at 2pm
West End Theatre, NYC
Provincetown Dance Festival
September 30, 2005
Truro Center for the Arts, Provincetown
CT Meets NY Dance Fest
September 16 & 17, 2005 at 8pm
Crystal Theater, Norwalk
Middletown Dances!
September 10, 2005 at 2:45pm
Citizen’s Bank Stage, Middletown
Beaux Arts Ball: A Grand Opening
September 10, 2005 at 7pm
Hartford Marriott Downtown
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