DPW PERFORMANCES 2011-2012

LIVING PROOF

A year-end culminating performance featuring student and director choreography as well as BAXco repertory.

Director, Helen Tocci (DPW III)
Co-Directors, Donna Costello & Penelope McCourty (BAXco)
Friday & Saturday, May 18-19, 2012 @ 8:00pm

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DPW I & II DANCE SHOWCASE

A year-end culminating performance featuring student and director choreography.

Director, Donna Costello (DPW I)
Director, Jules Skloot (DPW II)
Friday & Saturday, June 1-2, 2012 @ 8:00pm

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Dance Performance Workshops (DPWs) are full-year programs intended for motivated young people (ages 9-17) who are ready to commit to comprehensive dance study, emphasizing:

Performance skills and improvisation
Student-directed choreography
Multiple performance opportunities

DPW admission and advancement is evaluated based on ability, commitment, potential and progress. Interested students new to BAX are encouraged to call the Education Department. Currently enrolled BAX students are invited to join DPW I from Modern III or Modern IV.

Click here to download the 2011-2012 season’s schedule for DPW I, II and III.

DPW I had a successful performance at the White Wave’s COOL NY 2011 DANCE FESTIVAL located at John Ryan Theater.

DPW II and III had a successful performance as part of our Teen Arts Conference 2011 that culminated in a gala performance including performances by 100 teen artists from schools and organizations across New York City located at our facility.

ABOUT DPW GUEST ARTIST SERIES

As members of DPW II & III, students are required to take the Guest Artists Series.  The intention is to build a solid technique base, in addition to their regular class.  The Guest Artist Series is intended to expose our students to the diversity and range of working artists in the Dance community.  Guest artists are carefully selected by the DPW Directors in collaboration with the Education Director in order to address specific needs of the students, as well as areas of special interest for development.  The Guest Artist series is open to students outside of DPW, in the age range, that have some dance background  and are interested in developing as dancers.

DPW GUEST ARTISTS – SPRING 2012

Guest Artist Series Intermediate (ages 11-14)
Christiana Axelsen

Christiana Axelsen is a Brooklyn based teacher, dancer, and choreographer. For the last ten years, she has had the pleasure of teaching ballet and modern to dancers aged 3 to adult with a focus on using technique to find greater efficiency and a full range of movement possibilities. Christiana is a member of the contemporary dance company zoe|juniper and she also dances with Kawamura the 3rd/Mana Kawamura, the Feather Theory/Raja Kelly, and the Mill/Michou Szabo. In 2010, she was awarded the Chris Komar Merit Scholarship to study at the Merce Cunningham Studio where she performed alongside the Repertory Understudy Company in reconstructions of seminal Cunningham works.

Guest Artist Series Advanced (ages 13 & up)
Monstah Black

Multidisciplinary performing artist Monstah Black a.k.a Reginald Ellis Crump, studied choreography/performance at Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an M.F.A. in New Media Art and Performance from Long Island University. He has choreographed for nightclubs, art galleries, black box theaters, warehouses and has toured internationally with his work as well as with The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Maida Withers Dance Construction, Court Dance Theater of Philadelphia, Muse Dance Theater of New York City, Grisha Coleman’s Echo::System and Nicholas Leichter Dance of New York City. He has worked collaboratively with Superfront Architects Gallery in Brooklyncreating a show/installation entitled Suspended Gardens. Monstah is also the front man of his band Monstah Black and The Sonic Leroy, is the guest vocalist for (electro pop dance band) Girls Like Bass and performs as a duo with his life partner as The Blackz. Seasonally he co-hosts with his glam partner Cabaret Cataplexy, a fun, sexy, variety show.

Monstah is currently an Artist In Resident at Dance New Amsterdam where he is collaboratively building the show Black Moon and codifying his signature movement language, www.blackmoon-pierrotlunaire.com. He was also choreographic consultant for Iona Rozeal Browns show, The Battle Of Yestermore, fusing Kubuki theater, hip hop and voguing which was presented in the Performa Biennial and also was a highlight of Art Basel in Miami in Dec. of 2011.

He has received generous support from American Music Association’s Music For Dance (for The Whizz with Nicholas Leichter Dance) and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Topaz Arts, Dance Theater Workshop (NYLA), Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, Blackout Arts Collective, DC Commission On The Arts and Humanities, Career Transitions For Dancers and Dance New Amsterdam.

PAST GUEST SERIES ARTISTS

Past Guest Series Artist have included: Faye Driscoll, Penelope McCourty, Tara O’Con, Katy Pyle, Jules Skloot, Sasha Welsh, and Emily Wexler.