Dance Residency at the Boston Center for the Arts will give choreographers the opportunity to create dance without the financial burden of rehearsal studio or theater rental. The BCA will serve as the host for the selected company and through marketing support, develop the audience for residency events. This will alleviate the choreographer’s workload of certain logistical and financial items, enabling the artist to focus completely on the creation of work and immersion into the process.
Annie Kloppenberg
Workshops and Performances
Contemporary Dance Class Series
June 14th - 25th, Monday - Friday 10:00-11:30am
Calderwood Pavilion, 2nd floor, 527 Tremont Street, Boston 02116
Class Description:
Class will focus on developing articulate, dynamic, available, and expressive bodies in a dialogue between rigorous technical practice and targeted improvisational exercises. Movement phrases play with control, abandon, and their intersection, emphasizing principles of weight, efficiency, specificity, and torque to illuminate the patterning of movement rather than the action of it alone. Movement sequences are designed to facilitate inquiry into how one might create the physical conditions, which allow the body to perform as its most expressive, most dynamic instrument. We will explore virtuosity and subtle performance textures, increasing dynamic range and depth. As much as we will turn our attention in to become more attuned to nuanced sensory information, we will dance out, dance big, sweat, and have a great time.
Registration:
To Register contact Annie Kloppenberg at
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Any questions please call Andrea Blesso, Dance Coordinator, Boston Center for the Arts at 617.456.1132
Pricing:
Drop in; $15, Full workshop $120 (save $30), 5 classes $65 (save $10) Discount for Full Workshop Early Registration (by June 1st!) $115
Performances
Thursday, June 24th & Friday, June 25th at 7:00
Calderwood Pavilion, 2nd floor, 527 Tremont Street, Boston 02116
Free and open to the public. Donations will go directly towards BCA Dance Residency program.
Boston Center for the Arts' Dance Resident Artist, Annie Kloppenberg's new work-in-progress, "Expert Witness," eclipses narrative but invites you into a world with a sense of intrigue, mystery, and memory. With movement structures borrowed from probability theories, social psychology, and the legal system, Kloppenberg plays with perception, revealing incomplete information, the act of bearing witness to and recreating events, and how unrelated occurrences becoming linked in the memory of an event. The act of decoding, or solving, is passed over to you, the audience.
“Annie Kloppenberg is a choreographer of nuances. She takes provocative gestures… and hones them to the point of idiosyncrasy… those gestures highlight the architecture of her compositions like headlights on an oncoming train. By punctuating precise traffic patterns with minute peculiarities, Kloppenberg gives the dance its meaning: Rigor can order chaos if you’re vigilant enough.”
- The Boston Globe
Teen Dance Workshop & Performance
Saturday, June 26th workshop 1:00-3:30 performance 4:00
Calderwood Pavilion, 2nd floor, 527 Tremont Street, Boston 02116
$25 per student
This workshop is targeted toward teens with dance experience. Class will build choreography and structured improvisations based on Kloppenberg’s current work in progress “Expert Witness”. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to perform with professional dancers from New York City and Boston, in a free post-workshop performance at 4:00.
Pre-registration is suggested to ensure your spot! Email Andrea Blesso at
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to register.
About Annie Kloppenberg
Annie Kloppenberg’s recent choreography has been supported by residencies or commissions from the Boston Center for the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, The Taft School, OhioDance & Dublin Arts Council, and presented at such venues as the Judson Church, Green Street Studios, and Dancespace Center (now DNA). She has been a project dancer with the Bebe Miller Company, performed in work by Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig, Shani Collins, Rebecca Rice, Heidi Henderson, Karl Rogers, and Ashley Thorndike, among others. Annie performs and teaches nationally as a member of Like You Mean It, an improvisational ensemble. Annie has taught throughout the greater Boston Area and is on faculty at Colby College. www.anniekloppenberg.com
About the Dance Residency at the Boston Center for the Arts
1 Dance Company
2 Weeks of Rehearsal
3 Methods of Creation
Dance Residency at the Boston Center for the Arts will give choreographers the opportunity to create dance without the financial burden of rehearsal studio or theater rental. The BCA will serve as the host for the selected company and through marketing support, develop the audience for residency events. This will alleviate the choreographer’s workload of certain logistical and financial items, enabling the artist to focus completely on the creation of work and immersion into the process.
This program is meant to add to a supportive system for dance in Boston. With the result of building the selected dance company’s depth of repertoire and further the amount of high quality dance in MA.
Overview:
One dance company will be invited to participate in a residency that will last for two weeks, starting on a Monday and running through the following week’s Sunday. During their residency, the selected dance company will have unlimited rehearsal space, within Calderwood Pavilion operating hours. (Weekdays 9:00am-11:00pm, Saturdays 10:00am-11:00pm, Sundays 12:00pm-8:00pm)
Requirements for the Resident Dance Company include:
A halfway point event, a culminating showing, and to list any new work that is developed as “created as part of the Boston Center for the Arts Dance Residency program”.
The halfway point event may be one of the following, based on the Company’s expertise and method of creating work, with BCA input:
An Open Rehearsal that will be invite only, with the goals of obtaining feedback and sculpting the piece through performance. The audience will be invited to view the work in progress, learn about the choreographer’s impetus behind the piece, and share immediate audience response during a post performance Feedback Session.
A Families Connect workshop will be focused on Dance and considered part of BCA Programming. With the aim to work with Elementary – Middle School aged youth.
A Master Class will be a high level class, targeting Intermediate/Advanced movers of any age. Built through outreach to local college and high school dance programs, studios, and the dance community for participants.
The culminating Showing will be open to the public and should include any work in progress created during the residency as well as other company repertory. The event will be held for an audience of approximately 50 per show and scheduled in coordination with the BCA.
Artists must submit proposals and be accepted to participate in this program. A range of dance styles and abilities are encouraged to apply – from emerging to established artists. This program is open to a broad area and not limited to just local artists.
The Resident Dance Company will receive…
- The opportunity for an intense creative process with reduced financial burden.
- Feedback within the process of creating work, and open response from new audience members.
- A chance to teach their method of movement and creation to targeted age groups of their choice.
- The opportunity to perform new and existing work in an alternative theatre space.
- A stipend of $500 to be used at resident company’s discretion.
- A portion of the proceeds from class fees.
- To be included in BCA program listings and website.
Timeline:
One company will be selected for each Residency. The year 2010 will include two residencies through the same call for applications.
2010 Residency Dates are April 26th – May 8th and June 14th – June 26th
Applications are due on Monday, February 8, 2010 by 5:00pm.
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