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Dance Charlotte! Dance Charlotte! is a repertory concert that consists of highly talented and innovative local and national emerging choreographers and companies. The adjudication process to select the performers for this event has toughened every year with the number of quality applications that the festival receives. |
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2009 Performers Facettes of the I “FACETTES OF THE I” is a self portrait (excerpt of a larger work). Karola Lüttringhaus, Choreographer and Dancer, was born and grew in Berlin , Germany . She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Ms Lüttringhaus has worked as a dancer and choreographer in Europe including various productions for Benoit Maubrey's Audio Ballerinas and Robert Wilson, before relocating to North Carolina in 1999. Since 1997 she has been the artistic and executive director, the choreographer and a dancer for alban elved dance company/KAROLA LÜTTRINGHAUS which serves as an outlet for most of her multifaceted artistic endeavors. Ms Lüttringhaus's work is fiercely physical, tracing the changeable electricity of thought and sensation that underlies human interaction and interpersonal relationships. The interdisciplinary nature of her works expands the boundaries of dance performance, creating startling and evocative psychological landscapes. A quote from the Classical Voice North Carolina describes Ms Lüttringhaus's work as “marked by an unpretentious athleticism and a philosophic quality. … the dances are closely reasoned sequences that exploit the physics of movement for its emotional resonance. Not pretty but often beautiful, Lüttringhaus' dances depend on the proud power and flexibility of the dancers' bodies – and their joint and mutual willingness to risk themselves.” Ms Lüttringhaus is recipient of the 2006 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Currently the company is in residence at Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington , NC . ( www.albanelved.com ) |
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Temperature Rising Caroline Calouche & Co. Gastonia, NC A secret whether it is good or bad resounds in our souls that echos in our relationships. Founded in 2005, Caroline Calouche & Co. evolved from years of independent choreography and performance in the U.S. and Europe . Caroline Calouche gathered a small group of 3 dancers to debut the contemporary dance company with Risk in her hometown of Gastonia , North Carolina . Since the initial performance, CC&Co. has performed in North Carolina , South Carolina , Virginia , Tennessee and Texas . In 2006, Caroline Calouche began her explorations of blending contemporary dance with aerial dance in harness and fabric. The company's reputation for providing innovative, entertaining and edgy work was pushed to another level with the aerial work. With the increase of performances and touring, CC&Co. continues to connect to their home community along with the communities that they visit with their outreach programs in all age, ethnic and social groups. Caroline Calouche & Co. is a non-profit organization formed with the mission of creating an arts organization dedicated to producing and promoting contemporary dance choreography in conjunction with multi-disciplinary artistic collaborations. The goal is to build cross-cultural dialogs with dance as a means to unite and educate the global community through an exchange of philosophies and methods. Visit our website for an updated performance schedule. www.carolinecalouche.org |
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| Bubble October 29, 1929: An estimated $30 billion worth of stock vanished ¾ the bubble burst. The times surrounding the 1929 stock market crash filled investors' heads with confusion and hearts with an overwhelming ache. Using the society of 1929 to mirror that of today, Bubble traps eight citizens in the midst of financial strife and watches as they begin to reach out to one another to ease their feelings of isolation. Bubble leaves the audience with one final question: can we break free internally from a situation externally imposed? Code f.a.d. Company (where f.a.d. in an acronym for film—art—dance) is a group of artists committed to combining film, visual art, and dance into precisely designed performance experiences. Artistic Director Autumn Mist Belk is a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and graphic designer and has previously shown her choreography and visual artwork in venues across the southeastern United States. Belk earned her B.A. in dance and studio art from the University of Alabama and her M.F.A. in dance from the University of Maryland. In addition to leading Code f.a.d. Company, Belk serves as the Assistant Director of the Dance Program at NC State University, where she teaches improvisation, modern and post-modern dance technique, and acrobatic conditioning. For more information, visit www.codefadcompany.org . |
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| Forward/Rewind The scene is set for a relationship filled with intrigue and suspense. The mid-point is the end but then it begins to rewind. E.E. Balcos is Artistic Director of E.E.Motion. He resides in Charlotte , NC and is originally from Minneapolis , MN . He began studying dance with modern dance pioneer Hanya Holm in Colorado at the age of nineteen and has been dancing and choreographing professionally for over 25 years. Since 2006, E.E.Motion has presented dance that address the public with narratives and abstract imagery that stimulate thought provoking ideas, and kinesthetic and emotional responses. The company has been featured with NC Dance Festival, Charlotte Dance Festival, and American Dance Festival's Acts to Follow Series. Balcos continues to choreograph new works on his company while looking for commissions and projects that support the art of contemporary dance performance. As a performer Balcos toured nationally and internationally with Shapiro & Smith Dance, Demetrius Klein Dance Company, Zenon Dance Company, numerous regional companies , and has worked with nationally known choreographers including Danny Buraczeski, Ping Chong, Sean Curran, David Dorfman, Joe Goode, Dwight Rhoden, David Rousseve, and Bill Young. He was recently an Artist-in –residence with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. E.E. has a B.A. in Vocal Music from The Colorado College, and an M.F.A. in Choreography from The University of Iowa. He is an Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte, teaching modern technique, choreography, and improvisation. E.E. was an Artist-in Residence at University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2009. |
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Memory for Me Displacement is a profoundly disorienting condition that challenges ones sense of identity and produces intense longing for the familiar. Sybil Huskey, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte , has worked as a teacher, choreographer and performer in New York City , Finland , New Zealand , Mexico , France , Brazil and England . Her work has been commissioned by the Universities of Wisconsin/Madison, Illinois , and Utah and seen throughout the United States . While working in New York City in the 1970's, Ms. Huskey was selected for the prestigious Affiliate Artists, Inc. program, working with the Arts Commissions of South Carolina and Mississippi . The recipient of two Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, Ms. Huskey was resident artist in the inaugural year of the first university dance degree program in Helsinki , Finland and developed choreographic resource materials for New Zealand 's national arts curriculum. She was recently an invited Visiting Professor in Drama at Kingston University in London , where she co-authored the curriculum for the new dance program. Sybil has held faculty and administrative positions at Cornell University , Arizona State University, Winthrop University and UNC Charlotte and has served as President of the American College Dance Festival Association. She recently received a 3-year National Science Foundation grant for her choreographic work with dance and technology. In the past two years, Sybil has had her choreographic work funded by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Arts and Science Council, the Center for Humanities, Technology and Science at UNC Charlotte, the York County Arts Council, UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grants and the National Science Foundation/Creative IT. She recently performed at the North Carolina Dance Festival, Piccolo Spoleto Festival and the World Dance Assembly. Ms. Huskey holds the M.F.A. degree from the University of Utah. |
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Sarah Emery and Bridget Morris |
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Dante and Beatrice – DIVINE COMEDY South Carolina Contemporary Dance Company Columbia , SC The choreography captures a moment in the epic poem, Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, when Beatrice descends and leads Dante through the spheres of Heaven. Ms. Miriam Barbosa is the SC Contemporary Dance Company Artistic Director and Founder. She is a former member of the Martha Graham Dance Company and former Assistant Professor of Dance at USC. She holds an MFA from the University of Fine Arts of San Paulo - Brazil , where she received her classical training until she joined the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in 1991. She was awarded a scholarship as Technique Demonstrator. From 1993 onward, Ms. Barbosa taught and choreographed as guest artist throughout Europe, South America and the U.S. She has taught the Graham Technique as a faculty member at Fashion Institute of Technology, SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Paul Taylor at the School of Performing Arts in NY City, Nevada Festival Ballet, Martha Graham School's Teen Program, Institute of Theater of Barcelona, Spain, Lisbon Dance Co, National Conservatory of Dance of Portugal, and the Ginasiano Ballet School. In May 2008, she was invited to perform at the Olympic Auditorium in Rome , Italy . Ms. Barbosa was awarded several grants as a choreographer, and during the spring 2007 she collaborated artistically with the Martha Graham Center , ETV, and USC Dance Co. to produce an educational documentary on the development of Martha Graham's masterpiece “Sketches from Chronicle.” She has collaborated with several artists in the creation of masterpieces such as “Catharsis” with Argentinean Artist Marcelo Novo and “The Divine Comedy” with Set Designer Nic Ularu and choreographer Brenda Nieto. Most recently she has choreographed a new work inspired by Beth Melton's installation “Story Lines.” Miriam Barbosa founded the SC Contemporary Dance Co. to guest as a performer with the Martha Graham solo from Spectre from Chronicle at the Charlotte Dance Festival 2007 in Charlotte, NC . The company has since performed several times for various festivals. |
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