Provincetown Dance Festival 2008

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Castle Hill Presents the:

PROVINCETOWN DANCE FESTIVAL

When: October 24 & 25, 2008
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)

Featuring companies from Cape Cod, New York, Hartford & Boston

Performers include: Adam Miller Dance Project Hartford Innovative & Unique
| Configuration: Cape Cod Contemporary Ballet
| Kino Dance - A Boston contempemporary
| Margaret Morrison Tap Dancer - feather-footed and musically astute
| Shridar and Rachna Agrawal - classical Indian and contemporary
| Adam Scher -New York, witty, cutting-edge, Modern Dance
| Camille Brown - New York - noted in Dance Magazine as top 25 dancers to watch!

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 sixth year, the project has defined itself as an innovative and leading edge performing experience. They have now performed twelve original new works by the director and eleven works by visiting choreographers. Sixteen 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.

Kinodance Company (Boston, MA) is an artist collective making stage performances, installations and films. Called "a breathtaking synthesis of live and filmed dance" by the Boston Globe, "DENIZEN" their second evening length work, premiered in May 2007 with the Bank of America Celebrity Series. Their first intermedia performance "Secret Streams" premiered at the St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival in Russia and toured to Armenia in October 2006.

Recently chosen as one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" companies for 2008, they have been produced by Monaco Dance Forum, Boston Cyberarts Festival, HIGH Fest (Armenia), the Berkshire Fringe, Thornes A.P.E., and supported by LEF Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, NEFA & Open Society Institute among others. Kinodance has been commissioned by World Music CrashARTS to present new work in April 2008 at ICA Boston. Kinodance was founded by Alissa Cardone(dancer/choreography), Alla Kovgan (film), Dedalus Wainwright (set design) and core members include Ingrid Schatz (dance/choreography) and Kathy Couch (lights). (www.kinodance.org)

Configuration Dance Theatre's world-class performances have been described as elegant and daring, innately classical yet boundary -expanding. These descriptions reflect the contrasting influences behind the troupe's creations as Configuration Dance Theatre innovatively melds classical ballet with contemporary dance. These disparate disciplines are beautifully integrated to create physically challenging and artistically compelling performances. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Dance Magazine, and The Buffalo News are a few of the numerous publications that have praised the troupe's programs.

Based on Cape Cod, this non-profit company showcases contemporary ballets and specially commissioned works, as well as excerpts from the classics. Configuration’s repertoire includes: Thadeus Davis’ Situation Red, choreographed for Configuration in 2003, Peter Quanz’s Corelli Variations, choreographed for the company in 2004. Yuri Zhukov’s Saying Goodbye, specially commissioned for the company, Royston Maldoom’s mesmerizing Adagietto #5, Resident Choreographer Harrison McEldowney’s witty Group Therapy and his poetic Enredandos Sombras, a piece specially choreographed for Configuration in 2002, to name just a few.

Adamscherdance:
By exploring the complexities of human emotions and relationships, adamscherdance creates work that is highly accessible to its audience. They present a versatile repertoire where each piece investigates different components of the human psyche. Drawing from many learned disciplines, Scher's choreography embodies a wide range of movement styles from ballet to African dance. Using set movement phrases he directs his dancers through improvisational studies, which then become the skeleton for his works. Though a narrative arc carries many of his works, he takes advantage of this wide variety of movement vocabulary to deconstruct literal meanings and allow for personal interpretation. adamscherdance has been presented by the Joyce Soho Presents, Dixon Place, DTW's DanceNOW festival, Galapagos Arts Space, Fort Wayne Ballet, the Queens Museum, The Yard at Martha's Vineyard, Solar One Arts Festival, The Hatch, and DUMBO Dance. For more information you can check out the company's website at www.adamscher.com.

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.

For over 20 years Margaret Morrison has presented her tap artistry across the United States, Europe and Brazil. A week ago she performed in Armenia with Tap City on Tour, and in July the New York Times called her "feather-footed and musically astute" for her performance at the New York City Tap Festival. She was a member of the acclaimed American Tap Dance Orchestra. Reviewers have called her a "consummate artist who breaks the mold," an "exciting virtuoso dancer," and her choreography "a tour de force" and "the witty highlight of the evening." She is joined by (musician name TBA).

Rachna Agrawal: Performer, choreographer, singer, educator, and a published author, Rachna Ramya Agrawal has studied the Lucknow style of Kathak under Smt. Maya Rao, recipient of Sangeet Natak Academy award, and the Jaipur style of kathak under Guru Rajendra Gangani, an exponent of Kathak. Rachna teaches at India Performing Arts Center in CT and at Kathak Nritya Kala Kendra in Chicago. Currently, Rachna is also teaching a dance course at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Rachna has won many awards in dance, including a gold medal from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, in recognition of her Kathak skill.

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.

Gianna Russillo Ms. Russillo is from New York and has studied at the Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts. As a member of American Repertory Ballet, she danced roles in works by Balanchine, Pilobolus, Matthew Nash and Septime Webre. She has danced leading roles in Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Gianna was a founding member of Terra Firma Dance Theatre under the direction of Stuart Loungway. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, Russia and Asia. Gianna is currently in the Broadway cast of Phantom of the Opera. Ms. Russillo has performed with the Adam Miller Dance Project for the last four years.

As a costume designer, Gianna began her career in 1995. She has created costumes for many dance works. She has designed costumes for Carolina Ballet’s full-length Dracula, as well as costumes for the North Carolina School of the Arts, American Repertory Ballet, Terra Firma Dance Theatre, Dance Connecticut and BalletNY (formerly DanceGalaxy). She is currently creating new costumes for Eastern Connecticut Ballet’s full-length production of the Nutcracker.

Deborah Goffe:
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. For Artistic Director, Deborah Goffe, Scapegoat Garden has served as the vehicle through which she cultivates a creative community, new artistic works and artistic innovation. Through works layered with multi-sensory stimulation and attention to detail, Scapegoat Garden invites its audiences to participate in a heightened experience. The company’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.

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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