Dance Community Events
and available for everyone who wants to be a part of it.
We love hearing from our dance community! When you have a performance you would like to advertise, please send us the information and we will gladly list it here.
We advocate community involvement with the art of dance, are open to sharing our productions in nearby studios, and hosting the work of neighboring communities.
Braving the Cold/ Creating Some Heat:
Come watch an evening of works by Kiera Sauter and several other Vermont artists. This performance is to show my newest work created as part of my last semesters study. This new work is based on various aspects of cancer. There will be several other unrelated works as well. After the performance there will be refreshments and the audience can mingle with the dancers. $5-$10 suggested donation. Please come :)
Saturday, Jan. 14, 7pm
Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio, 18 Langdon Street (3rd floor), Montpelier, Donation: $5—$10
Steel Cut Theatre Presents . . .
near/far
as we arrange a timeline of our life on Facebook and tweet about what we had for breakfast, are our friends and family any closer to us than when we had to call each other on the phone? or write a letter by hand and mail it? what keeps us close? and what holds us away?
and how do we choose when to be near, and when to be far?
these were the questions Frances Binder and James Moore began with in devising near/far: a sometimes humorous, sometimes less-humorous look at how we connect over the miles, over the wires or over the distance between two people, face to face.
created using dialogue and movement culled from or inspired by letters, memories of family game time, Facebook posts, and the minds of its two creators.
Burlington Dances Studio
Friday and Saturday, January 20 and 21 at 8 pm,
Sunday, January 22 at 2 pm.
$10 — cash or check at the door.
Reservations
Burlington Dances presents
"The Giant in the Washing Machine"
"The Giant in the Washing Machine"
Artist in Residence Joy Madden, presents a dance theater exploration of motherhood and childhood:
Saturday, January 28, at 7pm
Sunday, January 29, at 4pm
upstairs in the Chace Mill, 1 Mill Street, Suite 372, Burlington, VT
802.863.3369
Choose Your Ticket Price! $10 to $110. We support Fair Trade Exchange for Art that Enhances our Lives. Our local small business venture is not Non-Profit. Box-office proceeds go directly to the Artist in Residence, dancers, and Burlington Dances, and back into the local economy. 802.863.3369
Most recently at Burlington Dances:
Lida Winfield and Ellen Smith Ahern celebrated a great year of dance work and Community Supported Arts
Guests wrapped up the year with a fun, free and informal dance event and shared some experiences from their European Tour, showed a selection of excerpts from their new work-in-progress, Long Gone, offered a brief workshop exploring memories and lineage through storytelling and creative movement.
Rising Above Water: A Vermont Irene Benefit Performance
All Proceeds went to benefit the Vermont Disaster Relief Fund which helps individuals impacted by Hurricane Irene. December 10, 2011, The Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College
On December 10th, thirteen Vermont choreographers and dance companies came together to support flood relief efforts. This was a wonderful and rare opportunity to get a taste of professional dance in Vermont while helping our neighbors. Choreographers and companies participating in this performance have shown their work Nationally and Internationally and have won awards for their choreography. There's guaranteed to be something for everyone!
We raised over $1800 from this event! Thank you to all who participated (and it was fun performing too!) Please continue your support through the VDRF.
The Vermont Disaster Relief Fund was created by the United Ways of Vermont in cooperation with the executive board of the Vermont Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (Vermont VOAD) and Vermont Emergency Management (VEM) to be used specifically for long term recovery. The United Ways of Vermont is the fiscal agent for the fund. Expenditures from the fund will be used 100% for the unmet long term needs of survivors from the Irene disaster, and decisions will be made by Long Term Recovery Committees recognized by VOAD and Vermont Emergency Management.
** For more information about the Vermont Disaster Relief fund please visit Vermont Disaster Relief
Chace Mill Holiday Hop: Arts, Crafts and Wellness Fair
Hundreds of guests visited open studios, enjoyed gift shopping for home and friends, learned about transitional life planning, healthy movement and therapies, and how visual and movement arts enhance and enchant our lives.
Visitors enjoyed free classes with Lucille Dyer, Luanne Sberna, Carol Kiewit Leinwohl, Vanessa Ament, and Sarah Austin, shopped at Creative Women, Canpaint Studio, and Third Eye Studio. They also were treated to holiday music at What's Alive Inside Productions, and joined for conversation and tea at Bayada.
Birthday Celebration — All Weekend Long, November 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2011!
Friday, November 4th:
UnRavel: An evening of Dance, Theatre, Song and Laughter
A (not Vaudeville, not Variety, not necessarily all 'Art') SHOW!
with... Miraculously Random Acts of (invisible) Improvisation!
Here is a review . . .
- Julie Peoples-Clark: Year-long Artist in Residence presents on her progress working in collaboration with the Vermont VSA
- Lucille Dyer: New Century Artist Performing Invisible acts of dance...
- Joy Madden Fall 2011 Artist in Residence shows a solo work from her work-in-progress The Giant in the Washing Machine.
- Steel Cut Theatre: Infamously dynamic duo reeling retro hither and yon.
- Karen McFeeters: Singer and songwriter, lifting hearts and minds through her beautiful and generous voice.
- Potato Sack Pants Theatre: . . .you want comedy? 'nuff said!
- Sam Resnicow and Friends: Mesmerize us with The Art of Hoop Dance
- Cathy Salmons: Argentine Tango that will light you up from the inside out!
- Joe Williams: Superbly gifted vocal and movement artist.
- and... something of a surprise... Superb Belly Dancer Naima appeared (5 months beautifully pregnant!) and performed an absolutley mezmerizing dance!
November 5th, 2011
DELSARTE IN ACTION: THE LOST ART OF BODY LANGUAGE
Joe Williams presented a free demonstration, speaking on Francois Delsarte's lost treasure trove of knowledge connecting the art of body language with some of our most loved dance styles.
Some playful audience participation: Tango, Belly Dance, and Ballet, made this presentation both extremely informative and fun.
Burlington Dances is honored to present this esteemed expert as part of the International Delsarte Bicentennial Celebration in France, Germany, Italy and Vermont.
"I am delighted to hear that Delsarte is being given some use and remembrance. I have been teaching and researching Delsarte for many years ... there is much honesty, or meaning to be found in his work with the body. I find that a thorough Delsarte class always awakens students to a brand new, and yet deeply recognizable, as if remembered,awareness of their body and the bodies of others. I have also seen dance students' technical issues resolved at times, when the symbolic meaning of a body part is activated. I like to think that when meaning and technique meet and unite, art is raised to a higher level."
Friday, October 21, 2011 Eat My Art Out
Hannah Dennison, Lucille Dyer, Julie Peoples-Clark and Michelle Lefkowitz unveiled choreographic works-in-progress while audience members noshed on provided snacks and gave feedback. This was a standing room only crowd!! with fantastic feedback - Thank you, Burlington, Wow!
October 15, 2011 Flood Benefit Dance Concert
Local Artist Melissa Ham-Ellis gathered a group of performing artists for:
"A Dynamic Evening of Dance, accented in multi-media. Vermont Choreographers join forces to benefit rebuilding efforts, post-storms of 2011, in a kinetic, visceral response to excessive H2O. Ticket purchase is not required. Join us to explore the rejuvenating, cleansing, refreshing aspects of Mad Water that Old Man Winter will soon tame into crystallized beauty." — MHE
We enjoyed an appreciative audience and a wonderful show - check back for more soon on this series of performances!
October 3, 2011: The Equus Project offered A Movement Workshop with JoAnna Mendl Shaw:
The Equus Projects DANCING IN REAL TIME is a studio movement workshop in which students experienced a warm up that began with deep imaging and ended with all-out moving. The group experienced improvisation as dancing in real time, reframing choreography as movement strategies.
The Equus Projects creates performance works for dancers and horses. Part of our movement research has been training in Natural Horsemanship. We have translated that training into some unique and challenging studio work.
This was a remarkable session filled with movers and dancers for a rare chance to study with a true 21st Century dance pioneer.
Dance Artist Sheriefs Gamble offered a 2 Part Dance Workshop Series,
Living Beyond the Veil Workshop Series:
Part 1:
Description: "As a young man growing up in Cleveland dance was not just a means of establishing identity. It was also a sharing of beliefs, values, frustration, and in many cases rage. With other young men of the neighborhood, we formed a brotherhood of young Afro-American men who taught each other the nature of friendship, history, Afro-American culture and acceptance. Most of all within this fellowship of young males was a hub to explore masculinity and male identity. Within the bounds of this workshop, exploration of male identity, heroic imagination and the vast richness of male movement both athletic, bold, fearless and quiet. This is a class which fuses athletic movement with rhythm and tempo meant to push the participant's mind, body and soul. "
Part 2:
Description: Pushing the boundaries of pure and raw movement, this workshop:
- Is a fusion of Krumping with Modern Dance.
- Meant to honor the history of the Afro-American experience while exploring the spiritual nature of Krumping.
- It is pure movement that breaks new ground.
- Develop body awareness and aesthetics needed for Krumping
- Learn about rhythmic movement
- Understand the spirit of Afro-American vernacular dance in its emphasis on ‘natural’ movement, and with movement originating within the belly and between hips (rather than chest-high)
- Rhythym - Rebound - Suspend – Rawness
August 5th, 2011 Delsarte in Action: Lecture and Demonstration:
As part of the International Delsarte Bicentennial Celebration in France, Germany, and Vermont, Franck Waille, Joe Williams and Megan Davis presented a lecture / demonstration which explored Delsarte implications in Ted Shawn’s Modern dance solo, Gnossienne. This was a rare opportunity for dance students and historians to understand the meaning of this piece of choreography, and to witness how Ms. Davis' performance of the dance was enhanced by the Delsartean interpretation.
French Historian Franck Waille offered an informative discussion on the historic influences Delsarte on Modern Dance. As a PhD in History and Arts and member of the International Dance Council CID/Unesco, M. Waille teaches dance and the Delsarte System in France, Spain, French Guyana, Surinam. His studies of the Delsarte Expressive Body Training in 2005-06 with Joe Williams was one of the main elements of his doctoral thesis, Corps, arts et spiritualité chez François Delsarte (1811-1871) (2009), which takes into account the historical, artistic, spiritual, metaphysical and physiological aspects of Delsarte's life and teachings. He writes articles and books in the field, and is currently writing a book on Delsarte, which will be published in Québec/Canada. His dance studies include Contemporary Dance with Marie-Hélène Desmaris (Aix-en-Provence), Anne Garrigues, Sylvie Guillermin (Grenoble), Pierre Deloche and Kilina Crémona (Lyon), Classic Dance with Nicolas Dufloux (from the Opera of Lyon), Contact-Improvisation in France and Spain with Lulla Chourlin (Besançon) and Nancy Starksmith (USA). He is currently pursuing certification in Body-Mind Centering (BMC®), and continuing his studies with master Delsarte teacher, Joe Williams.
Informal questions and lively conversation followed the presentation.
Saturday, August 6th, 2011:
UnRavel: An evening of Dance, Theatre, Song and Laughter
A (not Vaudeville, not Variety, not necessarily all 'Art') SHOW!
with... Miraculously Random Acts of (invisible) Improvisation!
...Here is a review:
VSA Awareness Arts Theatre:: Bringing messages of awareness and community support through dance.
Sarah Austin: Our Summer Artist in Residence creates The Art of Play
for Elementary School aged children and adults who love to move with child-like playfulness.
Julie Peoples-Clark: Choreographer/ Dancer extraordinaire
Megan Davis: Burlington Dances Summer Intern presents original choreography and a re-staging of Ted Shawn's Gnossienne
Lucille Dyer: Invisible acts of dance...
Sonia & Ayana: Modern Egyptian Dances will move you toward a certain kind of happiness!
Karen McFeeters: Composer and songwriter, lifting hearts and minds through her beautiful and generous voice.
Steel Cut Theatre: Writers/ Actors Frances Binder and James Moore performing a Dance/Theatre/Improvisation destined to make you smile
Joe Williams: Superbly gifted movement artist.
Kelsey Wilson: Real-Time-Modern-Dance-Structured-Improvisation-in-front-of-our-very-eyes!
and... something of a surprise.
Global Water Dances performed by Burlington community dancers.
Saturday, June 25
"My inspiration for being a part of this project is to bring awareness to the relationship of beauty and our existence as a human race. When I gaze at the water, it is as if the beauty itself is nourishment, and without it I am extinguished. When we (as a human race) allow for pollution and hoarding of water we are denying ourselves, in a way, of freedom. So the message is deceptively simple, as the effort it takes to keep the waterways free and beautiful, in these times with SO much pollution, greed, and despair, will necessitate the conscious awareness of every person. My way of speaking is through the art of dance, so our dances will, hopefully, convey a sense of beauty that the water has provided us." — Lucille Dyer