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GREEN STREET STUDIOS EMERGING
ARTISTS AWARD PROGRAM Fall 2009
Fall 2009 Emerging Artists:
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Angela Conte
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Kathryn Dunkel
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Kendra Heithoff
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Sara Smith
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Wanda Strukus
This program is designed to provide infrastructure
for choreographers, to create new work with a focus on group work
and to provide deep, ongoing mentorship between experienced and
early-to-mid-career choreographers. The Emerging Artist Award
provides the opportunity for New England-based choreographers
to be in residence at Green Street Studios from September 2009
to November 2009. Green Street Studios will provide choreographers
with Mentor/Choreographers, and will provide 40 hours of rehearsal
space per awardee for the creation of new work. The new works
will premiere in a fully produced, shared concert at Green Street
Studios in December, 2009.
All awardees and their dancers will
meet with the Mentor/Choreographers together twice in the process
to show their ongoing work and to discuss/provide feedback. Scheduled
group meetings with individual groups and mentors will take place
several times over the rehearsal process to provide a forum for
group discussion. For the final concert, choreographers will share
production responsibilities including but not limited to: marketing,
public relations, program design, press release, costume design,
and care of the performance space. Audience interaction is the
final component of the Emerging Artists: following the final performance,
a panel discussion open to the public will follow. The Mentor/Choreographer
will moderate a discussion encouraging audience questions and
comments directed to the choreographers.
Program Requirements:
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group work will be
emphasized in this cycle; no solo or duet work.
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minimum of five years
of professional experience in contemporary dance
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past award recipients
are not eligible
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must be able to schedule
and use 40 hours of rehearsal space effectively
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must be ready to create
20 minutes of new work and interested in collaborating in with
other artists
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applicant must commit
to attend all mentoring sessions with their dancers (see Scheduling,
below)
Mentors for the
Fall 2009 session are Kelli Edwards and Dean Vollick.
KELLI EDWARDS
has been performing and choreographing in the Boston area since
1993. Her concert work has been presented at Green Street Studios,
The Dance Complex, the ICA, and just recently at Summer Stages
Dance at Concord Academy. She has also choreographed numerous
theatre productions for The New Rep, American Repertory Theatre.
The Huntington, Actor's Shakespeare Project, and Stoneham Theatre.
She has performed in the works of Marcus Schulkind, David Parker,
Sara Rudner, Ruth Birnberg, Brian Crabtree, and Nicola Hawkins
among others. Kelli received her MFA in Choreography from Smith
College and is currently on the performing arts faculty at Milton
Academy.
DEAN VOLLICK
began his ballet training at the late age of twenty, already a
college student in Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario,
Canada. He has studied with many fine Canadian teachers including
Lois Smith, Glen Gilmour, Luc Amyot, Mavis Staines; the Artistic
Director of Canada’s National Ballet School, Laura Alonso
(daughter of Alicia Alonso) at the Banff School of Fine Arts.
His career as a classical dancer spanned several years and included
work with Ontario Ballet Theatre, Ballet Omaha, and Ballet Florida.
Though he loved the classics, he found that contemporary dance
was his forte, and acquired training in Graham based technique
while working with Toronto Dance Theatre. As a company dancer
and freelance artist Mr. Vollick danced across Canada and many
parts of the US. A desire to teach led him back to the National
Ballet School where he completed the two-year teacher-training
course for professional dancers. He is on the faculty of the American
Academy of Ballet at their Summer School of Excellence, held at
SUNY College in Purchase New York. He spent four years as a full
time teacher at Boston Ballet and was Principal of Boston Ballet’s
ground breaking Citydance outreach program. Currently Mr. Vollick
is working as a freelance teacher and choreographer in the Boston
Area, and is on the faculty of Ballet Arts Worcester, Walnut Hill
Academy, and Boston Conservatory. He recently completed certification
in the foundations of Gryrotonic Exercise, and is enjoying working
as a trainer with dancers and non-dancers alike.
Thank You & Congratulations to the
Fall 2009 Emerging Artists & Mentors on a wonderful and successful
show!
Questions? Call or email
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Past
Emerging Artist Choreographers
  
Choreography
by Karl Cronin
Photography
by Julian Russell, Metropl Photos
Dancers:
Karl Cronin and Sarah Heartt
Emerging Artist Award Concert, 2006/12/21
  
"Three
Won't Lock", Choreography by Hannah Naiman
Photography by Julian Russell, Metropl Photos
Dancers:
Hannah Naiman, Claire Morrison, Katrina Sukola
Emerging
Artist Award Concert, 2006/12/1,2
 
"Raw
Footage", Choreography
by Lindsay Caddle - Linden Tree Dance Company
Photography
by Julian Russell, Metropol Photos
Dancers: Jill Jackson, Erin Pellecchia, Serena
Hadsell, Kathryn Lucek, Jessie Boudreau, Lindsay Caddle
New Salt From the Stock, Emerging
Artist Award Concert, 2006/12/1,2
Emerging Artists for Winter
2009
Abrazo Dance – Vyvane
Loh, Melissa Alexis, & Heather Azano-Brown
Courtney Peix
Mariah Steele
Marissa Ventre
Emerging Artists for Winter/Spring
2008
Jimena Bermejo
Kelli Edwards
Betsi Graves
Gabrielle Orcha
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Artist Links
Boston
Dance Alliance
www.bostondancealliance.org
Dance Complex
www.dancecomplex.org
Jeanette Neill Dance Studio
www.jndance.com
SpringStep
www.springstep.org
Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre of Boston
www.ballettheatre.org
Origination
www.originationinc.org
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Dance Theatre Workshop
www.dtw.org
Brooklyn Arts Exchange
www.bax.org
Velocity Dance Center
www.velocitydancecenter.org
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