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THE ARTIST
The
8th Annual Goose Route Dance Festival was
a smashing success! Many thanks to our major funders: The
Mardi Gras Fund, the WV Commission on the Arts, the WV Humanities
Council, and the Arts & Humanities Alliance of Jefferson
County. Scroll down for the 2008 schedule and make plans
NOW to attend next year's festival.
2008
Festival Artists:
Megan
Mazarick (Philadelphia, PA), Heather Ahern (Morgantown,
WV), Cara Hagan (Winston Salem, NC), Sweetie Pie Productions
(Boulder, CO), Karen Schupp (Phoenix, AZ), Courtney Greer,
Carson Efird, and Katherine Kiefer Stark (Raleigh, NC),
Guta Hedewig Dance (NYC), Kitty Clark (Shepherdstown, WV).
More
info on the 2008 Artists
1:30-2:30
pm : Green Dancing -Class for Kids at
the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library with Megan
Mazarick and Company (FREE)
Celebrate
our natural environment and find ways to bring about positive
environmental change through dynamic dance discoveries with
Megan and friends.
10:30
am : Open Dress Rehearsal/Family Show
at the War Memorial Building, Shepherdstown. (pay-what-you-can;
no adults admitted without a child)
7
pm : Opening Night Dance Concert (Show
A) -
Ticket holders are invited to come at 6:15 for an opening
night toast to the Goose Route Dance Festival!
9:30-10:30
am : Contact Improvisation for Kids
(ages 8-14), taught by Megan Mazarick (pay-what-you-can)
Roll,
slide, fly, and float! This is no ordinary dance class...this
is the place where adventurous boys and girls experiment
with new ways of moving and playing with partners or a
group.
10:00
am-noon : Natural Movement Video Project (for ages
12 and up)
facilitated by Ted Bain
Saturday, July 12, 10 am-12 pm ** Suggested
Donation: $5
Meet
at the War Memorial Building at 10 am
Non-dancers and dancers alike - come out for your 15 minutes
of fame! Artist and film-maker Ted Bain creates opportunties
for the performance of natural movement, which he films,
in a site-specific exploration of Shepherdstown. Scenarios
and characterizations emerge in Bain’s editing of
a short dance film, starring class participants, which
will be screened the 2nd weekend of the Festival.
10:30
am-noon : Master Class
- Modern Dance Technique taught by Heather Ahern
($12)
Find
your inner dancer in this upbeat class, taught with humor,
emphasizing musicality, phrasing, and dynamics. Heather’s
class pays homage to Limon, Graham, Cunningham, and Brown,
as well as several somatic practices.
2
pm :
Truckers, Presidents, and Debutantes: Re-Imagining
Icons
- a Pre-Performance Talk with
Libby Smigel, PhD, and Ted Bain, PhD (FREE)
Dance
scholars Smigel and Bain provide historic context for
the choreography presented in Show A. They will discuss
some of the satiric modern dance precedents for the program
of three choreographers who, through their own versions
of inverted burlesque, elegantly reconfigure the clumsiness
of workaday stereotypes, blunt ideologies, and coming-of-age
uncertainties.
3
pm : Dance Concert
(Show A)
- Megan
Mazarick (Philadelphia) - Roadkill
- Guta
Hedewig (NYC) -Dog Days
- Heather
Ahern (Morgantown) - Blink and There's
a Groove in My Jam
TICKETS::$12/$15;
$10/$12 (seniors/students)
7
pm : Dance Concert (Show
B)
10:30-noon
: Master Class - Contact Improvisation for
Every Body, taught by Megan Mazarick ($12)
Roll,
slide, and float over other bodies in this playful movement
practice. Megan creates an open and generous environment in
which to play with the forces of momentum and gravity. If
you’re scared of going to a dance class, then this is
the class for you!
3
pm : Dance Concert (Show B)
10:30
: BodyWorks: Experiments in Dance, a Performance
for Kids, sponsored by the Shepherdstown Public
Library (FREE)
West
Virginia High School Dance Teacher Training, sponsored
by the Appalachian Education Initiative (open to WV high
school teachers by application)
10
am : Outreach Class for Kids at the
Shepherdstown Day Care Center with Cara Hagan
(FREE for Day Care Center enrollees).
10:30
am : Open Dress Rehearsal/Family Show
at the War Memorial Building, Shepherdstown. (pay-what-you-can;
no adults admitted without a child)
7
pm : Dance Concert (Show C)
9:30-10:15
: Big Moves for Little People - a Dance Class
for Kids (ages 4-7), taught by Erika Randall and
Anna Sapozhnikov (pay-what-you-can)
A
fun and creative dance romp for young girls and boys, full
of exploration and discovery.
10:30
am-noon :
Master
Class - Modern Dance Technique, taught by Erika Randall
($12)
Dance
from the inside out in this class that encourages dancers
to explore movement initiation and pathways of movement, rather
than the making of shapes. Class begins quietly and gradully
builds in complexity, culminating in a phrase that brings
together ideas covered in class.
3
pm : Dance Concert (SHOW
D)
Festival
events are wheelchair accessible.
If
you are in need of large print information, please contact
us at 304-876-6751.
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