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Provincetown Dance Festival 2009

Castle Hill Presents the:

PROVINCETOWN DANCE FESTIVAL

When: October 23 & 24, 2009
at The Provincetown Theater
238 Bradford Street, Provincetown
Time: 7:30 pm

2 Nights Only-
Friday & Saturday Night Full Troupes
Tickets: $25.00 Friday
$25.00 Saturday
$45.00 Both

Premier Seating at $75 ticket or $100 for both nights

Student & Senior Citizen discounts are available. ($5.00 off)

The following are companies from 2008

More information on 2009 will posted this summer.

Performers include:
Adam Miller Dance Project | Spectrum In Motion from Hartford | Ori Flomin from NY | Nicole Wolcott | Scapegoat Garden from Hartford | Tap Group from Boston | Sridar Traditional Indian Dance |

The Adam Miller Dance Project The Adam Miller Dance Project has established itself as a unique artistic presence in Hartford and beyond. Now in its seventh year, the project has defined itself as an innovative and leading edge performing experience. They have now performed fourteen original new works by the director and twelve works by visiting choreographers. eighteen of these works have been world premieres made specifically for the Adam Miller Dance Project. Along with performing in its home in Hartford, AMDP has performed at the Provincetown Dance Festival, the Untermeyer Summer Festival, the Joyce Soho in New York City, Rhode Island College, the Candlelight Series in Syracuse, New York and in East Lyme, CT. AMDP has received significant support from The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation, The Greater Hartford Arts Council, The Kaufman Family Foundation, the Hartt School Faculty Development Fund and the Motorola Company. This support has helped realize the Adam Miller Dance Project’s commitment to the idea that the Hartford community is willing and able to be a home for adventurous, professional dance performance at the highest level. On June 24 and 25 , AMDP will participate in the NEFA Dance Showcase at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, and on June 27 the company will appear at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

Spectrum in Motion Dance
Theatre Ensemble

Under the direction of Olivia Davis, this ensemble is dedicated to people of color and the American experience and embraces movement from the world’s cultures, celebrating music ranging from classical to contemporary. This young company is currently engaged in a teaching and performance residency for Hartford youngsters. Spectrum in Motion is the resident dance company of the Charter Oak Cultural Center.

“Spectrum in Motion was founded in 1982 in the Pioneer Valley/5 College Community of Western Massachusetts. Its premise is that Dance should once again be part of every day life. Dance should tell and share the stories of our lives. The second generation of dancers was launched in the fall of 2003 at Charter Oak Cultural Center and came from an ensemble of student dancers from The Youth Dance Performance Project. I have been blessed to have an opportunity to raise dancers (1998 to the present) and to continue to build original work. It is with excitement that The Company and I look forward to what lies ahead as we continue to take baby steps and inspire others to dance (young and not so young) embracing the simple notion that Dance is for everyone. We all should be dancing!

Spectrum in Motion Dance Theatre Ensemble maintains a full season at Charter Oak Cultural Center that includes but not limited to annual Fall (October) and Spring (May) Dance Concerts as well as premiering original children's ballet in June. The Company presents annual dance presentation and workshops for Hartford Public Schools and for many youth agencies and cultural organizations. The Company has toured throughout Hartford, the Greater Hartford Region, Western Massachusetts, and New York. Most recently, The Company was featured in a Fox News segment highlighting the City of Hartford.”
-Director, Olivia Davis

Camille A. Brown (formerly of Ronald K. Brown/Evidence) began her early dance training at Bernice Johnson and Carolyn Devore Dance studios. She attended LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts and received her BFA in Dance from The North Carolina School of the Arts.

Ms. Brown has been honored with awards and fellowships that include a 2006 Princess Grace Award, The PROJECT NEXT GENERATION Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, two Fund for New York grants, The Presidential Scholar of the Arts Award in Dance, NFAA Young Artists' Award (Level I) and The Helen Tamiris Award. Ms. Brown has also received commissions from Hubbard Street II, Reflections Dance Company, The Queens
Museum of Art/Topaz Arts, Inc., Ailey II, and Urban Bush Women. Under This Woman's Work, Ms. Brown was noted in Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch article.

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will premiere a new ballet by Ms. Brown this December for their City Center season.

Sridhar Shanmugam was trained in "Kalakshetra" the most prestigious school of dance from Tamil Nadu, Indi a, Later started working with Chandralekha, the legendary Dancer in 1983 and danced in all her major productions and performed in all major National and International dance festivals under the banner of Cultural Center Chennai. Sridhar Shanmugam has toured around the world over the past two decades, working with many of the world's most famous artists. Sharing with Pina Bausch, Suzanna Linke, and countless others, Sridhar has been an international ambassador for the arts, and a pilgrim for art as well. A core member of Chandralekha's groundbreaking modern dance company as well as the Cultural Centre, Chennai he has also done individual work consistentl y. His exacting training in Bharat Natyam traditional Indian dance, Rangoli painting, modern and post-modern dance, acting, choreography, stage lighting theatre & stage technique. Won Sangeeth Natak Akademy Awards, Time out Dance umbrella award GIAI Award for culture and ecology as part of Chandralekha's group, has given him the basis with which to step onto any stage or into any classroom.

"CHAYYA" - A confluence of Kathak & Barathanatyam , depicting the co-existance of both the classical dance forms of Indian Heritage. T his dance begins with exotic expressions with soft and sutle movements depecting the pangs of saparetion in the search for the "all pervading" Lord Krishna by the loved one, followed by the vigerous and vibrant foot works and moves of the "Tharana, the Thillana, celebrating the confluence of natya.

Ori Flomin is from Israel and has been dancing in New York City since 1989. His Choreography has been seen in NYC at DTW's Fresh Tracks and Split Stream, PS122 New Stuff, Movement Research at Judson Church, Joyce soho and internationaly in Austria, Japan and Israel. He was a member of the Stephen Petronio Dance Company(1991-1999) and recently rejoined the company as Rehearsal director and assistant to Mr. Petronio. He also danced in the works of Neil Greenberg, Mollisa Fenely, Kevin Wynn, Maria Hassabi and Michael Clark among others.
He teaches dance as a guest artist at several companies and schools in Europe such as ImpulsTanz(Vienna), PARTS(Brussels) DansesHus (Copenhagen) and Sasha Waltz company(Berlin), as well as regularly at Dance New Amsterdam and Movement Research in NYC.
He also teaches yoga and received his Shiatsu certification from the Ohashi institute in spring 2001.

Deborah Goffe & Scapegoat Garden:
Scapegoat Garden is a collaborative dance theater based in Hartford, Connecticut, driven to create daring, interdisciplinary performance that goes in through the nose, eyes, skin, ears and mouth to stir those who witness or participate. The company was founded in 2002, and established as a non-profit 501(c)(3) arts organization in 2004. Under the direction and vision of Deborah Goffe, Scapegoat Garden explores themes that are as much universal as they are personal, inviting audiences to participate in a heightened theatrical experience. Scapegoat Garden’s repertory has been selected for performance in festivals and venues throughout the region including: the Bushnell’s Belding Theater, Trinity College’s Austin Arts Center, the Carol Autorino Center at Saint Joseph College, Hartford’s Charter Oak Cultural Center , the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Truro Center for the Arts in Provincetown, White Mountain Dance Festival at Springfield College and New York City’s Raw Material Performance Series, Artist’s of Tomorrow Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival and 92nd Street Y. Scapegoat Garden is currently developing a new work in collaboration with Mano Preto, Artistic Director of Cape Verde’s internationally acclaimed Raiz di Polon. Prazer em conhecê-lo: Espaço Infinito will premiere in Connecticut in February 2009. www.scapegoatgarden.org

Nicole Wolcott is a choreographer, teacher and performance artist based in New York City. She has been performing with dance companies, rock bands and video artists around the country for sixteen years. In 2002 Nicole co-founded KEIGWIN + COMPANY with Larry Keigwin and continues to be the company's Associate Artistic Director.

Wolcott's choreography has been presented in New York City at Symphony Space, the Frying Pan, Galapagos, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo, Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, CBGB's, Monkeytown and around the country at Summerdance Santa Barbara, Bates Dance Festival, and the American Dance Festival.

Legacy Dance Company
The Legacy Dance Company is the youth performing company of The Dance Inn in Lexington, MA. Under the direction of Thelma Goldberg, these energetic and enthusiastic young dancers recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of their program, which provides serious dance training in tap, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary and musical theater. They have uniquely benefited from intensive workshops with such notable masters and weekly faculty as Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, Billy Siegenfeld, Adrienne Hawkins, and Jimmy Locust to name just a few. Annual performances include numerous charitable events as well as participation in the New York City Tap Festival and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. They will be appearing with the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project in May at Boston’s annual National Tap Dance Day celebration.

For Tickets to the performance on October 1st call PTOWN Tix at 508-487-9793 or go to ptowntix.com

All photos are by Dee Portnoy and will be on display in the lobby and available for purchase.

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