Dance Anywhere

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I’ve been following the Dance Anywhere movement for a few years now.  And secretly I’ve participated in my living room.  And now I’d like to rally some Framer support of the movement.  What does it mean?  Dance wherever you are on March 22 at 2pm central time.  What if everyone, everywhere danced at once?  Participate with us!  Here’s some more information:

About dance anywhere®

What if there was a public celebration of dance everywhere, around the world, simultaneously? What if, in one moment, the whole world started dancing? Why wait for a performance opportunity to come your way? No audition, no application, no references, no formal dance training needed. Everyone is invited!

dance anywhere® is a simultaneous worldwide public art performance and we want YOU to be the star! For the past 8 years, people of all ages and artistic capacities have made dances in parks, museums, street corners, schools, work places, community centers, offices, and just about anywhere you can imagine. Participants have been professional dancers and artists, plumbers, doctors, soccer players, teachers and politicians. Some dances are choreographed, some are improvised, and some stretch the definition of what dance is.
We hope you will participate on Friday, March 22, 2013 at noon CA, 3pm NY: (click here for your time).

Where will you be?

At work? Taking a lunch break? In class? Running an errand? In line at the bank? The library? The grocery store? Walking the dog in the park?… Perfect! Your participation doesn’t need to be an event you plan months in advance! … Tap your foot, do a little jig, bob your head… You have our permission. And you will be joined by thousands around the world. Get together with your friends, family, colleagues or strangers on the street – wherever you will be – and have some fun!

the mission of dance anywhere®

  • Build community by engaging people worldwide in a simultaneous, public art, performance

  • Reconsider the definition of art, public space, and community

  • Make dance accessible to more people

  • Inspire creativity

  • Change perspectives through community art experiences

Artist Beth Fein first created dance anywhere® in 2005 …what if there was a public celebration of dance anywhere and everywhere simultaneously? Why wait for a performance opportunity to come your way? No audition, application, no references, no formal dance training needed. Everyone is invited no matter age or ability.

Beth Fein originally conceived the idea in an effort to acknowledge dance practice (rehearsal, class, etc) as an art form, that formal performances are only a part of dance, that the less observed dance practice is also an art form. As a dancer and visual artist, Fein has continued to develop this original concept to not only blur the line between art practice and art, but to dissolve the line that often separates art and dance from our daily lives. This is dance that transforms our familiar and ordinary locations.
To learn more about Beth Fein and her dance and visual arts practice visit www.bethfein.com.

–Lydia

Company Update

Performances/Screenings

Hi Framers!  Lydia here.  Hasn’t our wonderful new Development Assistant, Lena Silva been doing a fabulous job on the blog?  We’re also really excited that Technology Director Jonathon Hance brought the blog onto our website, so it’s all nice and neat, and easy to cruise the site.  Have you seen our videos?  Checked out our beautiful artists?  Mosey over.  Later.

Company update: 

We had a fabulous run of To the Brim, a collaboration with Charles Halka.  It premiered at the JCC Dance Month Choreographers X6.  We will do it again, I keep getting requests!  Thanks for your enthusiasm, we love the piece too.

 

I am currently in the middle of editing our new film Quiver.  Maybe you’ve seen some photos of it on our facebook pagequiverpress_framedanceOur own Ashley Horn (and a Houston Top 100 Creative) made these beautiful long blue skirts.  We will premiere this beauty in April at the Frame Dance Soiree.  That’s right folks, you heard it here first.  We’re having a par-tay.  More details coming so very soon.  Mark Hirsch is composing the music, and we’re thrilled to bring him into the Frame Dance madness.

 

 

And thirdly, I am in the midst of listening to our 2013 Composition Winner’s music.  We’ve talked about Rob McClure before.  This guy on the right. robmcclure

He wrote some exciting music, and I am really challenged by the rhythm and energy of it.  And that’s what I look for in music– something that challenges me.  First, I listen for something the draws me in, and holds me in.  You know that feeling when you are listening to something on the radio in the car, and you get so lost in it your body goes into autopilot and you end up driving to some place in your usual routine?  Like work or the grocery store? You just end up there.  Like the music consumes you and your flesh just goes into autopilot. And second, it has to scare me a little.  Not literally.  But choreographically.  I am pulled in, consumed, and then utterly unsettled on what I will create.   That’s how I pick music.  Micah Clark, Charles Halka and this year’s Rob McClure all composed music that did that to me.  That piece will premiere in our spring concert on June 28-29.  The show will be called Ecouter.  I’m not sure how to make an accent over the “e” on this computer, so please forgive me, dear Francophone Framer.

In summary, stay tuned and come to our Frame Dance Soiree to see Quiver, and mark your calendars for Ecouter coming June 28-29.

To Art!

Lydia