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Core Dance Announces 18-19 Season
The internationally-recognized dance organization will present its 39th season of original dance works and community outreach.
ATLANTA – Core Dance, the internationally-recognized, award-winning contemporary dance organization based in Atlanta, GA and Houston, TX, will present its 39th season of original dance works and community-based performances and outreach.
The season is filled with contemporary works from the Core Dance repertoire exploring personal loss, body and culture, the individual and the group, and the tension between culture and identity.
Core Dance continues its collaboration with international dance makers Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor of Israel, with performances on February 1 – 3, 2019 at 7 Stages of the humorous, deeply-felt, high-intensity American Playground, and a new work The Third Dance, the follow-up to Niv and Oren’s award-winning Two Room Apartment, exploring the evolution and pathos of love and relationships.
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Core Dance also continues its transformative community-based initiative, Dynamic X-Change, a healing arts program that uses movement as a catalyst for change. Community partners in Atlanta are Clarkston Community Center and East Atlanta Kids Club. The program receives support from Georgia Council for the Arts.
For more information on these collaborations and performances, and the 2018-2019 season in Houston, Texas, please visit coredance.org.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
February 21, 2019
April 25, 2019
12:00 – 1:00pm
Core Studios
139 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030
Free, but reservations required.
Lunchtime in the Studio offers “a close-up and personal look at how contemporary dance is crafted and performed” (AJC) and provides a free “backstage pass,” including lunch, with the opportunity for the public to actively engage in the innovation, collaboration, investigation and community-building that forms the heart of Core Dance’s vision. Guests receive a complimentary lunch and have the opportunity to observe and respond as art-makers share their work.
Fall Fieldwork
October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2018
November 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018
7:00 – 9:30pm
Core Studios
139 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030
$75 for the 10-Week Session. Info and registration at coredance.org
Fall Fieldwork Showcase
December 9, 2018
5:00 pm
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
1700 N. Decatur Rd
Atlanta, GA 30322
Showcase tickets are $7 and available online at coredance.org.
Spring Fieldwork
January 28, 30, 2019
February 6, 11, 13, 20, 25, 27, 2019
March 6, 11, 13, 20, 25, 27, 2019
April 3, 2019
7:00 – 9:30pm
Core Studios
139 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030
$75 for the 10-Week Session. Info and registration at coredance.org.
Field Day/Spring Fieldwork Showcase
April 14, 2019
5:00pm
Core Studios
133 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030
Showcase tickets are $7 and available online at coredance.org.
Core Dance, in partnership with The Field NYC, will offer Fieldwork, a unique forum for artists of all disciplines to share developing works and exchange feedback, peer to peer. The works created in the workshops will be performed in a Fieldwork Showcase on December 9, 2018 at Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Emory University, and at Field Day on April 14, 2019 at Core Studios. Field Day is an opportunity for community artists to show works-in-process and receive feedback from the audience and fellow performers. This non-curated performance opportunity is available to artists of all mediums - dance, theater, spoken word, music, visual art, etc. Field Day 2019 will include the Spring Fieldwork Showcase.
American Playground/The Third Dance
By Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor
February 1-3, 2019
7:30 pm
7 Stages
105 Euclid Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Tickets are $20 at coredance.org; $25 at the door.
American Playground investigates multiple themes including ‘body as resistance,” personal authenticity and the dialogue between public and private spaces. Approximately one hour in length, the work is an active collaboration between the choreographers and the dancers, and is structured with a blend of pre-determined movement and improvised movement. The work evokes both humor and pathos, as the dancers explore the themes in partnership with one another and through the manipulation of props and costume pieces. Sheinfeld and Laor seek to coax complete authentic presence from the performers through the themes and formal structure, leaving a deeply-felt impact upon the audience.
The Third Dance
A couple in life and on stage, Israeli choreographers Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor give us a thrilling opportunity to revisit a seminal dance piece through the lens of the time that passed since their last duet, Two Room Apartment. The Third Dance explores changes in their bodies, in their relationship, in their perception of stage and space, and in their relationship to the audience.
EnCore: Dance on Film Festival
May 24 and 25, 2019
5:00 – 10:00pm
Core Studios
139 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030
Free and open to the public. Part of the Decatur Arts Festival.
Presented by Core Dance, EnCore: Dance on Film Festival brings together a collection of original dance works for screen. Filmmakers are invited to submit films for consideration. Guidelines are available in January at coredance.org.
Planetary Dance
June 2, 2019
TIME TBD
Core Studios
139 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030
Free and open to the public.
The Planetary Dance is an annual all-day ritual of healing and community renewal. It brings people of all ages and abilities together in a beautiful setting to dance for a purpose. The Planetary Dance Community invites people all over the world to join in a dance for peace in their own communities and peace with the Earth.
About Core Dance
Core Dance, an award-winning contemporary dance company with global reach, creates, performs, and produces compelling original dance that ignites the creative spirit and actively encourages participation and conversation with the community. For nearly four decades, Core Dance has supported innovation, collaboration, artistic risk-taking and sustainable art-making in dance. Core Dance was co-founded in 1980 in Houston, Texas by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister, Kathy Russell. Five years later, the organization added Atlanta, Georgia as a second home base, creating a context for dance that is relevant in both cities and around the globe. Core Dance uses dance to educate, question and illuminate, and is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary collaborations, the humanity of the individual Dance Artists, and its rigorous physicality. (coredance.org)
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