FALMOUTH, 
Massachusetts
aPRIL 19-21, 2002
-EARTH DAY DANCE VISION FESTIVAL-
FALMOUTH,
aPRIL 19-21, 2002
---WORKSHOPS, GUIDED RITUALS, OPEN JAMS AND PERFORMANCES
(CLICK ON NAMES TO FIND OUT ABOUT THESE FESTIVAL LEADERS)--
Bobbi Bailin, Geordie Holmes, Steven Malkus, Dawna Hammers, KatrinaValenzuela, tarin chaplin, Maya Apfelbaum
* Festival general info, daily program Registration: GET 20% OFF BY TAKING TWO OR MORE WORKSHOPS! REGISTRATION INFO.
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The Dance Vision Festival is a project of the Virtual Dance Festival, A Dance Sources Project
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This is the fourth in a series of festivals dedicated to dance as spiritual practice. The first was in New York City April 2000.
When/Where: The upcoming EARTH DAY Dance Vision Festival will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 19-21 and will occur at the Falmouth Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 840 Sandwich Road, The Alchemy Farm studio and the Mary French Dance School. Falmouth is a sanctuary seacoast town on the "heel" of the boot of Cape Cod. SEE MAP.
Our intention is for people in the region---old, young, dancers and non-dancers alike---to find activities in our festival that put them in the dancing mood of celebration for this beautiful planet! All of the workshops are designed for beginners with challenges still for the more experienced . If you take a workshop, you can attend the evening PERFORMANCE FREE, and also the CEREMONIES (see below.) and warm-ups---a chance to dance with professional dancers. Some workshops will prepare short pieces for the evening performances as well---(Check with workshop leader.)...
...The festival's underlying premise is that dance has always been at the spiritual heart of community...
Events: Friday evening 8:00pm Geordie Holmes, Steven Malkus, and Heidi Mrusek, full-time Falmouth residents, will appear in new works. Bobbi Bailin, another Falmouth dancer, will conduct a guided movement meditation. Saturday evening 8:00pm: Dawna Hammmers from Hingham will sing and lead the audience, Khadija (KatrinaValenzuela) from Barnstable will perform Egyptian dance, tarin chaplin and Christine Harris from Montpelier,Vermont will perform a duet, and Maya Apfelbaum from Boston will perform with live didgeridoo. (Audience participation optional during some Fri. and Sat. evening events)---Reservations accepted—–$12 adults, $10 seniors and students and $6 for children). Sunday 1:30pm there will be a special outdoor ceremony, "Dance Lightly On The Earth," free and open to the public (location TBA). CALL 508-495-3311.
(If you take a workshop, that evening's performance is free!)
The line-up of daily WORKSHOPS (click on names to see full description): Steven Malkus, VISIONING (Fri. April 19th,10am-1pm, $60); Geordie, DANCE STORIES (Friday, 1:15-4:15pm, $60); Bobbi Bailin, SACRED CIRCLES (Fri. 4:30-6:00pm, $30); Dawna Hammers, CHANT, DRUM AND DANCE, (Sat.April 20th 10am-12pm, $40); Maya Apfelbaum, RHYTHMS OF EVOLUTION, Saturday 12:15-1:45pm); Khadija, AWAKENING THE GODDESS, for women only, (Saturday 2pm-4pm. $40); tarin chaplin, EARTH RITUALS, Saturday 4:15-6:15pm);
Workshops are in the day($60 for a three hour session, $40 for 2hr, $30 for one and half hours) and evenings will be for performances and facilitated jams/events.
GET 20% OFF BY TAKING TWO OR MORE WORKSHOPS ! REGISTRATION INFO BELOW.
Group rates are available.
Good and inexpensive motels: http://www.vacationinnproperties.com . http://www.carletoncircle.com
There are also camping locations. The Sippewissett Campgrounds---508 548-2542. Also limited availability in some local homes and B&B's---email Steven ...or CALL 508 495-3311
Each day, Friday and Saturday, will begin (9am) and end (10pm) with a free CEREMONY DEDICATED TO THE EARTH open to all, (mornings---also, yoga sun salutation, stretch and brief dance warm-up) conducted by festival leaders with special surprise guests. These will be 10-20 minutes and outdoors if appropriate at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. ALSO, Reverend Bob Murphy will give a special service at the UU Sunday at 9:30am dedicated to the theme of EARTH DAY.
CREDO: We are not just another dance event. We are trying to create a network of people that pool resources to promote this very needed work of health, spirit and community. We hope that "hosting" will catch on with an active exchange of teachers and performers. Please consider what can happen in your area and freely use our model. Above all let us help each other...there is a whole world out there in need and waiting! By all means stay in touch! We have a listserv and their is an email list of people who would love to hear from you on ideas and collaborations.
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* FOR ANY 3 HOUR WORKSHOP($60)---($40 FOR 2 HOUR; $30 FOR 1 1/2) Remember if you take a workshop that evening's performance is free---normally $12.
* FOR 2 OR MORE WORKSHOPS AND GET 20% OFF!
* TO HOLD A SPACE FOR A WORKSHOP($20)
* FOR MORE INFO AND TO GET A FREE BROCHURE
EMAIL STEVEN MALKUS (stevenmalkus1@prodigy.net) OR SEND CHECK (payable to Dance Vision Festival) AND INFORMATION ON YOUR CHOICES TO:
Dance Vision Festival, 50 GLENWOOD AVE. FALMOUTH, MA 02540
OR CALL: 508-495-3311
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DESCRIPTIONS(of festival leaders---alphabetical)
Sacred Circles Dances
(One and 1/2 hour workshop---Friday, April 19th, 4:30pm-6:00pm $30)
Bobbi Bailin is a teacher of the Alexander Technique, an artist
and healer who lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She
creates movement environments using awareness and images of
Nature to
focus on and free the divine, creative energy flowing through us.
Background includes study of Gurdjieff Movements, Noyes Rhythm,
Sacred Circle
Dance. Taught Sacred Dance at Interface and Hancock Church.
Recipient of
Mass Cultural Council Grant for movement 2000. Bobbi will also facilitate an evening
movement meditation on Friday evening.
EMAIL: bobbibysea@aol.com
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AWAKENING THE GODDESS---EGYPTIAN DANCE (FOR WOMEN ONLY)---Sat.2-4pm $40
Awaken your
creativity, joy and sense of play.
Never apologize for being an ALIVE woman!
Celebrate your feminine self whatever your age or size.
Enjoy a new challenge that makes you feel great!
Khadija (Katrina Valenzuela)
studied dance since early childhood, and
Egyptian dance since age 15. She teaches and performs at schools,
healing
centers and cultural events in the US and abroad. Khadija uses
the dance as a bridge between human experience and spiritual
experience in her practice as a healer at her center,
Transformations in Barnstable, MA.
Khadija was guest performer at a reception for former Secretary
General
Boutros Ghali at the United Nations in NYC, as well as at the
Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in Cairo. Her lifelong association with Egypt and
its culture
and language led to her creation of a sacred site tour company.
She has
personally designed and led 30 tours since 1985 throughout Egypt,
Jordan and Morocco.
No dance experience required. Dress to move freely: long skirt or scarf, with footless tights or leggings, bare midriff or leotard.
"There is but one
heart, God's heart; we all dance there."
Website: www.transformationscenter.com
Email: Dancerkat@aol.com
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DANCE STORIES.....3hrs Friday April 19th 1:15-4:15pm $60
"Revisiting an event or an observation
that we have recently experienced, one that has made an
impression upon us, we will incorporate this into a small
movement phrase -- thus, a dance story-- .
Dance may be inspired by events and observations in our
lives. Our inner responses can create a path towards
personal dance making . When the dance movements come about
from such a motivation, there is clarity for the story-teller-dancer,
providing insightful feedback as well as enjoyment thru
communication..."-geordie holmes
Georgiana
Holmes("Geordie")
studied at the North Car
olina School for the Arts('65-69). Moving to New York
City in '69 she danced with Norman Walker and Pearl Lang. She was
a soloist with Louis Falco,Jennifer Muller, Pauline Koner, Erin
Martin, and danced/choreographed with Pilobolus for two years.
She has toured internationally, received two NEA choreography
fellowships, taught at the Boston Conservatory of Music and
Dance,the Mudra School in Brussels, and at other colleges and
schools for over twenty-five years.
Email: Geordie@capecod.net
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Dawna Hammers
----Workshop. Sat.April 20th 10am-12pm--$40
"Chant, Drum & Dance!"
led by spirited singer, songwriter & music teacher; Dawna
Hammers
In a sacred circle of sound, movement and rhythm Dawna will
lead everyone in simple, beautiful chants, beats and dances from
several "Native Inspired Traditions" as well as her own
"New Tribal Traditions!" Together we will
experience the unity, joy and healing found in joining our
voices, drums and dances together as one. No experience necessary.
All are welcome!
Dawna Hammers is one of the most unique, exciting and versatile singer/ songwriters to emerge in a long time. She has an earthy, ethereal voice and plays rhythmic, flowing piano and percussion. She is also an inspiring freestyle dancer. From the Boston area, she teaches music to hundreds of children and performs in concerts, clubs, festivals, healing centers, churches, schools and community events.
Website: www.dawnahammers.com
Email: dawna@dawnahammers.com
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Steven Malkus ---Workshop 3hrs Friday April 19th 10am-1pm $60
VISIONING
"This
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orkshop is about visioning.
After a warmup we will concentrate on bringing visions up from
the source and flowing with their power as inspiration for making
your own dance.Visions are not images---they come through the
spirit and pervade the entire being, all the senses, and with
great force, feeling and clarity. They are vivid communications
from the deep well of our hopes,desires and dreams---also from
the intangible presences which surround us. In this workshop we
will learn how to crystalize these gifts into prayer and art."
--Steven Malkus
Steven Malkus studied ballet and modern dance while earning his BA at Harvard University (class of '75) in Special Concentrations:Dance in Film and Video. He received his MFA in choreography from ASU in 1983. He has taught dance in schools and privately for over twenty-five years. He has directed his own dance company in Boston, received grants(CETA, a Regents Fellowship, and for a NEA funded videodance collaboration). His teaching stresses the importance of making your own dance as an expression of your unique life force.
Email: stevenmalkus1@prodigy.net
WEBSITE: http://pages.prodigy.net/stevenmalkus1
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WORKSHOP:EARTH
RITUALS--Saturday April 20th 4:15-6:15 $40
For over 20 years tarin chaplin, master teacher of choreography, has created and performed ritual-based, environmental, site-specific work that honors the natural and supernatural worlds--at the headwaters of Callanish standing stone circle, the Alaskan tundra, Vancouveršs English Bay, Vermontšs Calendar II, the headwaters of Jamaicašs Bueno Rio, and elsewhere. Co-author of The Intimate Act of Choreography and The Moment of Movement, she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, American-Israeli Foundation, and the Vermont Arts Council. Her work binds art, the environment, and the psyche with the Great Spirit... in the belief that many of todayšs major problems are directly related to our culturešs dearth of rituals (and the humility they foster).
For more info from this leader about her workshop write: Missing Bridge 754 Elmore Rd. Worcester, VT 05682 ........or.....Call: 802-223-5844
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WORKSHOP-RHYTHMS OF EVOLUTION--Saturday, April 20th 12:15-1:45pm $30
RHYTHMS OF
EVOLUTION will take us on a guided visioning, moving, breathing
playful and serious journey from when we were still star
material, through when we were single celled sea creatures, to
when
we evolved our spines and became fish, amphibians reptiles,
birds,
mammals, apes and humans standing upright, breathing the same air
that is shared by all the other living beings, and with a mind
prone
to innovation and exploration. We will dance and speak
personally and eloquently of this enormous "deep time"
journey, out
of which our cells, movements and consciousness has evolved, and
bring ourselves into listening to the environment, and making
dancing
rhythms with sounds, hands and body in community as a closing.
Maya Apfelbaum is an interdisciplinary performer, artist and
teacher with a MA in Arts, Culture and Ecology from Lesley University.
She often produces events with a social action focus such as "All
Souls" (http://artsept11.twindsl.com), a multi-media event for the
Boston area community after the September 11th, 2001 tragedy. She
started studying dance and gymnastics as a child, and then as a
college student and graduate, continued her studies in dance and
theatre forms ranging from Classical Indian to Modern and Contact
dance and from traditional Stanislavsky acting to avante-garde Ritual
Theatre at NYU. Maya performs her original pieces with their
pioneering spirit locally and nationally, and danced with a small
improvisational troupe called Tarnation in Boston last year. One of
her dancing career's greatest delights was dancing in Bill T. Jones'
brilliant ensemble piece "Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The
Promised Land".
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Contact info.: maya@yoga.com
INFO ON MAYA'S PERFORMANCE PIECE:
"Elephants and the Seven Sacred Directions" is a unique and beautiful
dance/narrative that speaks in direct ways and metaphors to raise
awareness and offer a prayer for Earth and interspecies healing. It
weaves personal experiences of elephants drawn from a childhood in
India, environmental education work, and a stay at the Hohenwald
Elephant Sanctuary in Tennesee, with stories about elephants from
scientific, cultural and spiritual perspectives.
The performance combines creative gestures with movements
influenced by Indian classical dance, West African, and Modern dance.
Its story unfolds around a ritual structure of calling in the spirit
of each of the four cardinal directions: East, South West, and North,
and three remaining directions: the Earth, the Sky, and the Heart
Center.
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