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Excognito Dance Festival 2017
www.excognitodance.com
EXCOGNITO DANCE FESTIVAL PRESENTS TWO COMPANIES:
BELINDA MCGUIRE DANCE PROJECTS (BROOKLYN/TORONTO)
IDAN SHARABI & DANCERS (TEL AVIV)
Featuring established and new works by Idan Sharabi and Belinda McGuire.
From January 7th-8th, 2016, the Festival will feature four performances consisting of:
Program A (performance by BMDP, work by McGuire)
January 7th at 6pm, January 8th at 5:30pm.
Program B (performance by BMDP and IS&D, work by McGuire and Sharabi)
January 7th at 8pm, January 8th at 4pm.
All performances are between 60-75 minutes in duration, at The Actors Fund Arts Center, 160 Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn.
Post-show receptions (after the second show of each day) are hosted by our sponsor, NU Hotel, around the corner at 85 Smith Street Brooklyn, New York 11201.
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
A graduate of The Juilliard School, IDAN SHARABI performed with the Netherlands Dans Theater, Batsheva Dance Company, and has been commissioned by the Israeli Opera House, the Israel Ballet, Ballet Junior de Geneve, and Zhukov Dance Theater. Just two months before founding his company in Tel Aviv in September 2012, Idan was named Israeli Artist of the Month by both American-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Jewish Federations of North America. In the three years that followed, his company has been presented across Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Italy, Russia, Holland, and Israel.
A prolific teacher, Sharabi has instructed pre-professionals at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg, Gothenburg Ballet Academy, Alvin Ailey School, Italian Dance Alliance, Springboard Dance Montreal, Maslool Dance Program, and Sadna in Ga'aton. Currently, Sharabis company is preparing for a tour that includes engagements at Copenhagen Summer Dance in Denmark, the Vignale Monferrato Festival in Italy, the Sziget Festival in Hungary, Operaestate Festival Veneto in Italy, and the National Arts Centre in Canada.
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LocationThe Actors Fund Arts Center (View)
160 Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States
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