Rebound Dance Festival Showcase

Saturday, April 10, 2010 -7:30pm, ACES Educational Center for the Arts- Arts Hall

Audubon and Orange Streets, (enter on Orange), New Haven, CT

$20.00 Adults, $15.00 Students/ seniors and CDA Members -General Admission-Group Rates Available

Scheduled Artists:

Katie Jackson and Colleen Cintron

                        Elm City Dance Collective

                        Meredith Lyons

Lorlei Chang/ dancEnlight

Crystal Gipe

                        Alexa Melonopoulos/ Miss Porter’s School

Daniela Hoff Dance Company

                        Clarence Brooks

                        Kathie Kececi

Anne Wilcox/ Present Tense Dance Company

Kista Tucker/ Kista Tucker Dance Company

Clark Dance Theatre

Dance Jam!! Elm City Dance Collective-Friday April, 9 that 8pm-Center for the Arts at Christ Church, 84 Broadway in New Haven. $10.00 suggested donation.

Rebound Dance Festival-Three Modern Dance Masterclasses

Saturday, April 10, 2010- 9:00am-12:30pm, $15.00 for all three classes (community price), Group Rates Available. Neighborhood Music School, Recital Hall, 100 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510

9:00-10:00               Anne Wilcox/ Present Tense Dance Company- Anne Harris Wilcox’s contemporary dance technique class draws from a wide range of styles and movement principals.  Her class combines fundamental technical exercises with dynamically varied movement enabling the participant to feel like they are “dancing” every minute of class.  The class focus is on movement efficiency, moving with commitment, breath awareness, and joy.  Class customarily begins on the floor and progresses to standing and across the floor combinations.  The goal of each class is to offer a thorough warm-up with whole body movement combinations that support the idea that sound technique leads the dancer to artistry.

10:00-11:30             Kista Tucker/ Kista Tucker Dance Company- The KT philosophy of creating, performing, and just plain moving engages a strong sense of honesty, curiosity, and commitment.  While Tucker recognizes and works on developing a plethora of areas in movement/art technique, the issues emphasized in this class will consist of Honesty, Courage, and Integration.  Discarding limitations that typical movement styles present, participants will have an opportunity to explore and question an assumed as well as an overlooked movement vocabulary.  Two or three of Tucker’s professionally recognized KT Warm-Ups will be taught and it is anticipated that participants will encompass an inner/outer awareness of self and environment.  It is understood that in order to communicate and for longevity as a performer, one should strive toward healthy, efficient, and expressive movement.  While one class is not enough, a sense of the Tucker philosophy will be provided.  

11:30-12:30             Lorelei Chang/ dancEnlight- Limon based modern technique class consists of a series of floor, center and across-floor exercises with oriental influenced movement. This workshop helps dancers develop a basic understanding on the use of weights and breathing, coordination skills; how to establish the correct body alignment, establish a strong sense of center while building body awareness; how the body moves through space.