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Excognito Dance Festival 4-Show Pass
The Festival 4-Show Pass grants admission to one pass holder to the four different performances he/she selects. Specific performance date/time selection will be made while purchasing the pass.
EXCOGNITO DANCE FESTIVAL PRESENTS THREE COMPANIES:
BELINDA MCGUIRE DANCE PROJECTS (BROOKLYN/TORONTO)
JOSHUA BEAMISH/MOVE: THE COMPANY (VANCOUVER)
LOUDHOUNDMOVEMENT (BROOKLYN)
Featuring new works by Joshua Beamish, Idan Sharabi, Doug Varone and Brendan Duggan and Mallory Lynn, alongside repertory works by Belinda McGuire and Sharon B. Moore and Duggan.
From January 8 -18, 2016, the Festival will feature sixteen performances consisting of MIXED programs (with work by all three companies) and single-company programs, all between 40-60 minutes in duration, at The Actors Fund Arts Center, 160 Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn.
This $60 pass covers admission to any four festival performances (all are listed below), but PLEASE BE SURE TO SELECT YOUR SHOW DATES AFTER COMPLETING YOUR PURCHASE. For more information about the festival, the companies, and the programs, visit www.excognitodance.com
Friday, January 8
7:30pm MIXED
Saturday, January 9
5pm MIXED
7:30pm BMDP
8:30pm LHM
Sunday, January 10
5pm MIXED
7:30pm JBMTC
8:30pm BMDP
Monday, January 11
7:30pm MIXED
9pmJBMTC
Tuesday, January 12
7:30pm MIXED
9pm LHM
Wednesday, January 13
7pm LHM
8PMBMDP
Thursday, January 14
7:30pmMIXED
Monday, January 18
9:30am JMBTC
10:30am MIXED
BELINDA MCGUIRE (dancer, artistic director, choreographer), originally from Toronto, graduated from The Juilliard School (BFA 2006). Through Belinda McGuire Dance Projects, she performs primarily solo work, choreographs and engages in collaboration and production. McGuire was nominated for the 2013 Dora Award for Outstanding Performance (The Heist Project), was recognized by the 2007 Susan Braun Award of The Dance Films Association, and has taken part in choreographic residencies at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts (Nova Scotia, 2014), Éspace Marie Chouinard (Montreal, 2013), The International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam (2010), and the Bessie Schönberg Residency at the Yard (Martha's Vineyard, 2008). Her choreography has been presented across North America, including the Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal (Nova Scotia, 2015), Juilliard in Aiken Festival (South Carolina, 2015), Dance Ontario Weekend (Toronto, 2014 and 2015), at Festival de la Ciudad Merida (Mexico, 2009), the Canada Dance Festival (Ottawa, 2002), and in New York City on the stages of the Peter Jay Sharp Theater and Alice Tully Hall, and Joyce Soho. She has danced with The José Limón Dance Company, Gallim Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers and The Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre. She teaches and choreographs as a guest artist for The Limón Institute, New York University/Tisch and The Juilliard School, the New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble, for CCDT (Toronto), École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal, New Dialect (Nashville) and for various other schools and universities across North and Central America. As a producer, Belinda launched her one-woman show The Desert Island Project in New York City and Toronto (autumn, 2008) and The Heist Project in NYC (December 2011) and in Toronto (March 2013). Through these solo endeavors, she has commissioned new work from Kate Alton, Andrea Miller, Sylvain Émard, Sharon B. Moore, Idan Sharabi, Zoe Scofield and has collaborated with Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.
Established in 2007, Belinda McGuire Dance Projects (BMDP) supports the research, development, production, and presentation of international and collaborative multidisciplinary dance performance as a means to stimulate the conscientious capacity of wide-ranging publics through exposure to creative experimentation and artistic excellence. www.belindamcguire.org
JOSHUA BEAMISH (dancer, artistic director, choreographer) founded MOVE: the company in 2005 and has toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Outside of the company, he has created work in collaboration with The Royal Ballet, Wendy Whelan and Ashley Bouder of the New York City Ballet, Compania Nacional de Danza de Mexico, Cape Dance Company/South Africa, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Toronto Dance Theatre, and The Juilliard School.
Joshua choreographed the Cultural Olympiads for both the 2010 and the 2012 Olympics and with Cirque du Soleil for World EXPO Shanghai. Joshua is the recipient of artistic residencies throughout North America, including the Banff Centre, Jacob's Pillow, and a term as the National Incubator Artist for the American Dance Institute in Washington, DC. He is an alum of the New York Choreographic Institute and a Jerome Robbins Foundation grantee. Notable presentations include The Joyce Theater in New York, The Royal Opera House in London, Princeton University, London's The Place, New York's Guggenheim Museum, and Jacob's Pillow.
MOVE: the company is a non-profit charitable dance organization registered in Canada and fiscally sponsored by The Field in America. The primary mandate of our society is to further the awareness of, and appreciation for, contemporary dance at local, provincial, national and international arenas. We place equal focus placed on educational programming, primarily targeting youth, and the creation and presentation of professional theatrical productions. Founded in Vancouver in 2005 by current Artistic Director, Joshua Beamish, MOVE: the company quickly emerged as one of Western Canada's most prolific dance companies. The company has performed throughout the globe at venues such as Montreal's Tangente, Usine C and Studio 303, NYC's Joyce SoHo, Singapore's Odyssey Dance Theatre, the International Ballet Festival in Miami and the Quinzena de Danca Festival in Portugal. At home, the company has been presented by the Made in BC: Dance On Tour Program, The VIDF, Dancing on the Edge and the Chutzpah Festival, among others. MOVE:the company received the distinction of a commission from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as the only choreographic residency ever awarded to a Western Canadian company by the Djerassi Program in San Francisco, CA. MOVE: the company was notably selected by curators Cirque du Soleil for presentation at WORLD EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China, performing the Closing Gala of the Canadian Cultural Pavilion and toured an ensemble of 24 Vancouver-based artists for a commissioned presentation at Bangkok International Festival for Dance & Music/Bangkok Opera House. The company also toured Allemande to Nottingham, UK as the Canadian representatives at World Event Young Artist, a satellite of the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad. MOVE: the company most recently made their Joyce Theater debut as the Opening Event of the 2015 Ballet Festival. http://joshuabeamish.com
BRENDAN DUGGAN (co-director, choreographer, dancer) is originally from Amherst, New Hampshire, where he began his dance training at the age of 16. He continued his studies at Skidmore College and eventually graduated Magna Cum Laude in Dance and a Math minor. Throughout his career, he has had the distinct pleasure of working and performing with Deganit Shemy & Artists, Gallim Dance, Jonathan Royse Windham, KB & The Artists, Danaka Dance, Loni Landon Dance Projects, ChristinaNoel Reaves & The Creature, Danielle Russo Performance Project, Emily Terndrup, and Third Rail Projects, among others.
A Salt Lake City native, MALLORY LYNN (co-director, choreographer, dancer) received her BFA from the University of Utah Department of Modern Dance in 2011. After relocating to New York City, Mallory co-founded LoudHoundMovement and has since been creating work for various venues in the city, working with a wide range of artists in many different mediums. Over the past few years, Mallory has worked as choreographic assistant to Marina Mascarell for her work at Korzo Theater in The Hague, natherlelands, and dabble as a freelance dance photographer for various companies. Recently, Mallory assisted with the creation and choreography for two experimental immersive theater productions at The Knockdown Center directed by Emily Terndrup and Derrick Belcham, entitled, The WIlder Papers and Debut.
LoudHoundMovement (LHM) is a New York City-based contemporary dance collective creating and performing the works of Co-Artistic Directors Brendan Duggan and Mallory Lynn. Since the premier of its first evening of work at the Center for Performance Research in November 2012, LHM has been presented at CURRENT SESSIONS, Gallim Dance Block Party, the Playground After Dark, the Dance Gallery Festival at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, FAB! Festival NYC, Gowanus Art + Production (GAP) Open Studios, GAP Presents! at The Green Building and Sky Gallery, Hoover Dam Collective, the Creator's Collective, Gibney Dance Center, Place Des Arts, and Usine C. In 2015, Duggan and Lynn were selected as Emerging Choreographers for Springboard Danse Montréal. http://www.loudhoundmovement.com
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160 Schermerhorn St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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