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Dear Friends,
We are thrilled to announce that Ana Maria Alvarez, Artistic Director of CONTRA-TIEMPO, and Camille A. Brown, Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers, have been selected to participate in the FOCUS Dance pitch sessions which will take place during the APAP conference at Dance Meet in New York City Center Studio 5, 130 W. 56th Street, New York, NY. |
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CONTRA-TIEMPO
Ana Maria will pitch CONTRA-TIEMPO's new work, Full Still Hungry, on Saturday, January 7, 2012 between 6-7:30 pm. Full Still Hungry is an invigorating blend of physically intense and politically astute performance work about food and consumption brought to life through the company's eclectic and unique Urban Latin Dance theater technique. The original music (performed live during the full length version) uses a sonic vocabulary as far-reaching and diverse as the company members' backgrounds, deconstructing Salsa, collaging Americana with hip-hop, poetry with clave, industrial and found sound with the powerful rhythmic traditions of the African Diaspora. Full Still Hungry world premiered to a full house this September at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. For more information on the work or to schedule a meeting with Ana Maria, please contact Sophie Myrtil-McCourty at sophiem@pentacle.org
CAMILLE A. BROWN and DANCERS
Camille will pitch her company's new work Mr. TOL E. RAncE (NDP Tour support available for 2012-2013) on Monday, January 9, 2012 between 1:30-2:30 pm. Camille A. Brown & Dancers tell stories of African American humor through time in this new evening length work. Focusing on entertainment, this work uses sketch comedy, satire and multi-media as a mechanism to uncover and examine stereotypical roles of black entertainers whose origins date back to the slave trade and still dominate today's tv, film, and radio outlets. Using Mel Watkins book, On The Real Side - From Slavery to Chris Rock, as her primary source, Brown seeks to celebrate the humor and perseverance of the black performer in the midst of dehumanization in a piece that blends and contrasts the contemporary with the historic - rag time, hip hop, minstrelsy, and break dancing. Praised by Dance Magazine for her "expert comic timing," Brown is investigating the emotional skin underneath the blackface phenomenon. Collaborators for this project are J. Michael Kinsey (actor), Brandon McCune (composer), Talvin Wilks (dramturg), Philip Trevino (lighting and set designer), Carolyn Meckha Cherry (costume designer), Jonathan Melville Pratt (composer), and Isabela Dos Santos (Animation). The work consists of 7-8 dancers, 1 actor, and 1-2 musicians. For more information on the work or to schedule a meeting with Camille, please contact Lauren Nixon at laurenn@pentacle.org
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In order to attend any of these free events, please register here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Pentacle Booking Team
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Pentacle's programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.Additional funding is provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Robbins Foundation and Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation |
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