Dance Italia set for August '11

Dance Italia

a new, international summer dance intensive 

organized by choreographer Stefanie Nelson

Classes run from August 1-19, 2011, (Monday through Friday, 6 hours daily) in the magical city of Lucca, located on the Tuscan coast of Italy, and will be held at Fuorientro Spazio Danza e Teatro, (Via Nottolini, 43, 55100, Lucca, Italia www.fuoricentro.org). The studio is located just outside the majestic Renaissance-era wall surrounding the city center, near the train station (3 minute walk), which provides a convenient jumping off point for traveling throughout the region.

Dance Italia offers Italian language classes, guided tours, and the unique opportunity to access Italian culture while pursuing creative and artistic fulfillment. 

The program brings world-renowned, cutting-edge, contemporary choreographers and teachers to a select group of advanced level dance students in an intimate and professional environment.

2011 faculty includes Massamiliano Barachini, Julian Barnett, Shaked Dagan, Cristiano Fabbri, Bruce Michelson, Stefanie Nelson, and Richard Siegal.

If you know anyone who may be interested in an extraordinarily rewarding, cross-culturally minded, intensive dance experience mixed with la vita bella, please help me spread the word!

Thank you.

Stefanie Nelson

www.sndancegroup.org

snelson@sndancegroup.org

347-831-3384

Yummy baked goods at Fall for Dance

Mmmm... Some scrumptious doings at last night's Fall for Dance dance-sampler festival at City Center from Ayman Harper and Mario Zambrano of Richard Siegal/The Bakery in Siegal's The New 45, a duet premiered in 2006. It was like watching some of those Tharp-heyday performances from Sara Rudner, Shelley Washington, Rose Marie Wright...and then some. Loose, fluid, spritely physical with impulses that come from everywhere and from out of nowhere, zippy timing, an outpouring of invention and easygoing humor, and that impudent way of snuggling up to jazz and calypso. The audience roared.

Siegal will perform his solo, As If Stranger--which won Siegal and his collaborators a 2008 Bessie Award for visual design--for the opening ceremonies of EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, New York, October 9-10). I missed As If Stranger when it ran at Danspace Project this past season. After savoring The New 45, I intend to run to the next show Siegal brings to New York City.