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Important
Note: There will be no East Bay Dance
Festival in 2004 or 2005. Please scroll
down to read about prior EBDF's in 2002
and 2003.
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2003
East Bay
Dance Festival
March 28
& 29 at 8:00 p.m., March 30 at 7:00
p.m.
Julia Morgan
Center for the Arts
2640 College
Avenue, Berkeley
Tickets
Available through CBON (925)
798-1300
featuring
Mark Foehringer
Dance Project
Janice Garrett
& Dancers • Savage Jazz Dance
Company
Kendra Kimbrough
Dance Ensemble • Navarrette's Works
Danny Nguyen
Dancers & Musicians
Paufve Dance
• Katherine Davis Dance
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Mission
My mission in
founding the East Bay Dance Festival is to
highlight the East Bay as a hub of cultural and
creative activity in its own right, independent of
San Francisco. There are countless choreographers,
performers, teachers, studios, theaters, and
theater-goers living and working on this side of
the bridge, yet so many of us flock to the city to
take class, present our work, or see someone
else's. What with the recent space crisis in San
Francisco, it seems more timely than ever to create
a new performance opportunity right here in the
East Bay. The concert will serve multiple purposes
at once--showing off the East Bay's considerable
and diverse talent, bringing attention and a new
audience to the beautiful and historic Julia Morgan
Theatre, as well as raising and unifying the voice
of contemporary dance in the East Bay. The East Bay
Dance Festival is a non-profit organization under
the fiscal sponsorship of Dancers' Group--donations
are tax deductible. To make a donation or
volunteer, contact Katherine Davis at
dance@katherine-davis.com.
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Julia Morgan Center for the Arts
The vision of
the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts is to advance
the role of the arts in our lives and in our
diverse communities through programs for children,
service to local artists, and presentation of local
performing artists in the historic Julia Morgan
Theatre. The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts is a
home for artists, educators, learners, and
community performers. We are committed to
presenting high quality performing art experiences
for diverse audiences; creating opportunities to
partner and collaborate with other advocates of the
arts; serving the communities in the city of
Berkeley and beyond with programs that engage the
artist within each of us; providing programs and
services for children; and applying the principles
of aesthetic education through an institute of the
Center, in affiliation with New York's Lincoln
Center Institute. Visit our site at
www.juliamorgan.org.
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Participating Companies
Mark
Foehringer Dance Project
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Mark
Foehringer Dance Project is a professional
contemporary ballet company based in San
Francisco, California and founded in 1996.
Dubbed "immensely likeable, sleekly
classical" by The New York Times, the
company performs a repertoire of
contemporary ballet works created by
founder and choreographer Mark Foehringer
and 10 professional dancers. Mark
Foehringer Dance Project has performed at
the Joyce Theater in New York City in 1999
and 2000, in Aruba in 1997, and has been
performing throughout the San Francisco
Bay Area since 1996. Founder, Artistic
Director, Choreographer Mark Foehringer
began his dance studies in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, South America where his parents
were Lutheran Missionaries. Born in
Minnesota, raised in Brazil, he was
awarded a scholarship for early studies
with the Royal Academy of Dance, Sao Paulo
and Brazil.
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Mark Foehringer
Dance Project
Photo by Marty
Sohl
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He
continued training in New York City,
London, San Francisco, and earned
scholarships to study in the Vaganova
methods and also with masters of the Cuban
schools. Mentored by Jane Blauth, under
whose tutelage he solicited his foundation
in the Vaganova and Cuban syles, he
credits Ms. Blauth for opening his eyes to
his choreographic talents. He joined the
Cisne Negro Dance Company, Sao Paulo in
1977 and performed with them through South
America and Europe for 10 years. He later
became their Assistant Director. He has a
penchant for character roles, blending the
arts of dance and acting. Well known for
his portrayals of Aunt Simone (La Fille
Mal Gardee); Carabosse (Sleeping Beauty);
Don Quizote; Herr Drosselmeyer (The
Nutcracker); Stepsister (Cinderella); and
his portrayal of Von Rothbart (Swan Lake),
he was critically acclaimed for his
performance in Men Dancing, San Francisco
1990. Visit us on the web at
www.mfdpsf.org.
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Janice Garrett
& Dancers
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Janice
Garrett is a choreographer and dance
educator based in the San Francisco Bay
Area. In 1990, following a ten-year
residency in New York where she performed
and toured extensively as a member of Dan
Wagoner and Dancers, she began
choreographing and teaching throughout the
US and abroad. In May 2001, she formed her
own San Francisco based dance company,
Janice Garrett & Dancers. Her
choreography has been presented in San
Francisco at Theater Artaud, The Cowell
Theater, ODC Theater and Brady Street
Dance Centre as well as at The Palace
Theater, Los Angeles, The Place Theatre,
London, the Nott Dance Festival,
Nottingham and Danse Scenen Copenhagen.
She has been commissioned to create dances
for companies and university performance
groups in the US and in Europe including
Scottish Dance Theatre, 4D Performance
Group, London Contemporary Dance School,
Skolen for Moderne Dans in Denmark, and
SAn Francisco's SQUAD. She has been a
frequent guest artist with the
internationally renowned London
Contemporary Dance Theatre where, in 1989,
she forged a collaborative relationship
with British choreographer Johnathan Lunn.
She and Lunn have worked together on the
repertory of LCDT as well as in creating
their own original work.In addition,
Janice has also been a frequent guest
artist at the London Contemporary Dance
School, Dansens Hus and Skolen for Moderne
Dans i Danmark as well as guest teacher
for numerous dance companies including
Rambert Dance Company, DVS Physical
Theatre and Adventures in Motions
Pictures. She has been the recipient of
choreographic grants from teh Zellerbach
Family Fund, W.A. Gerbode Foundation and
the Robin Howard Foundation. She has been
a guest artists at educational
institutions throughout the US, including
New York University, Mills College,
University of California, Berkeley, Sonoma
State University, Skidmore College, and
Bates College. Janice also serves as the
Director of Performing Arts for Center for
Changing Systems, a non-profit educational
organization whose goal is to teach an
innovative model of communication that
facilitates people more accurately
understanding the nature of problems they
face, and how to solve them. She is a
graduate of Stanford University and Mills
College.
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Kendra Kimbrough
Dance Ensemble
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The
Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble (KKDE)
focuses on paying respect to the rhythmic
cycles of life to create a holistic
cyclone of expression. The multicultural
group consists of twelve female dancers
that strive to bridge cultures through
performances and workshops that reach a
diverse audience. The ensemble teaches,
creates and presents dance works that
build on a wide array of dance forms. The
choreography integrates modern dance with
movements inspired by Africian-Haitian,
Brazilian, and North Indian Kathak
cultures.
Kendra
Kimbrough holds a B.A. in Dance,
Performance-Choreography from San
Francisco State University. She recently
completed her MA in Arts Administration on
full scholarship at Golden Gate University
and graduated with honors and the
recipient of the "Who's Who Among Students
in American Universities and Colleges"
honor award. She can remember aspiring to
be a dancer and choreographer since the
age of seven and has been taking steps
towards that goal ever since. Kendra
currently teaches dance to children ages
7-18 through Dimensions Rites of Passage
Children's program in Oakland at the Alice
Arts Center and also has plans to begin an
adult class in the Fall. Other aspirations
include touring with her company to
exchange with various cultures and opening
a multicultural performing arts center for
youth. She is honored and pleased with the
hard work and dedication of her company
members this year.
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Navarrette's
Works
photo by
Elizabeth Gorelik
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Navarrette's
Works is a "pick-up" contemporary
dance-theater company founded in 1999 by
Mexican-born choreographer Jose
Navarrette. The company's mission is to
explore the nature of emotions and to
generate a movement vocabulary capable of
expressing them--an exploration that has
been greatly enriched by our studies of
Latin American social dances such as the
Tango, Danzin, and Bolero. Navarrette's
Works repertory pieces include Dignidad
Revelde, created with Dance Brigade as
an homage to the Zapatista movement of
Chiapas; Essay on Tango for which
Jose received two Isadora Duncan Award
nominations for choreography and
performance; Valentino, a work
inspired by the memory of the immortal
movie star, and the creation and
destruction of idols; No Exit,
inspired by the Sartre play of the same
name; and Terciopelo, a work
created with proessional dancers alongside
clients of the Mission Neighborhodd Health
Center. Navarette's Works has been
commissioned by Dance Brigade and the
Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival and has
presented work at Theater Artaud,
Summerfest, and Dance Mission. rtist to
organization.
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In 2001
Navarrette's Works received a California
Arts Council Multicultural Entry Grant.
This three year grant is designed to help
minority artists cross the threshold from
individual a Jose Navarrette holds a B.A.
in Anthropology and is also an AIDS
prevention educator at a local Latino
clinic. All these experiences are in
concert with his artistic path and social
activism. Since 2001, the company began
developing choreographic works by and with
Debby Kajiyama. Based on a deep
acknowledgement and respect for each
other's life experiences and the immense
possibilities brought by their diverse
techniques and backgrounds, Kajiyama and
Navarrette began an intense process of
working and choreographing together and
for each other. This development changes
the original of a single choreographer's
company to one that includes and benefits
from many voices. In 2002, Kajiyama and
Navarette presented collaborative work in
Summerfest, Fresh Meat, the Asian Pacific
Islander Cultural Center Performance
Series, the Queer Latina Artists Festival,
and the Open Look International Modern
Dance Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Danny
Nguyen Dancers & Musicians
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Danny
Nguyen Dancers & Musicians is a
multicultural performance troupe of
dancers and musicians who present
contemporary, traditional, and
non-traditional dance styles from
different countries for audiences of all
ages. The troupe embraces ballet, modern,
jazz, ballroom, and theatrical styles to
tell stories or describe social issues in
the United States and Vietnam. Our two
primary activities are performance and
educational programs that present dance
and music as interdisciplinary art forms
bringing drama, music, dance, and
storytelling together to make a unique
whole. We believe strongly in "dance for
the people" and continually bring our
company and pieces to various social
events/gatherings, in all types of
communities. Annually, we take pride in
performing all throughout the Tet season
(Vietnamese New Year), including the San
Jose Tet Festival/Parade and the San
Francisco Chinese New Year Parade. We have
been invited to dance for San Francisco
Mayor Willie Brown two years in a row, as
well as the Alameda 4th of July Parade. We
look at each of these events as unique
opportunities to bring dance into the
lives of "everyday people" reaching beyond
just the dance community.
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Photo by Venee
Cal-Ferrer
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Danny
Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam.
Eighteen years later in 1982 he escaped
from the communist country in an 8 meter
boat with 47 other boat people to start
his journey for freedom. In March 1983 he
was afforded his first opportunity to
pursue his formal education in dance at
the San Francisco Ballet School. While
training, Danny performed in several
ballet productions including The
Nutcracker, Peter and the Wolf, and The
Bells. Once exposed to the diverse dance
community of the Bay Area, however, ballet
was no longer his only interest. His quest
for a well rounded dance education lead
him to Los Angeles and New York, where he
had the opportunity to study the
techniques of Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown,
Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Jose
Limon, and Paul Taylor. Danny received his
BFA in Dance, Performance and Choreography
at California Institute of the Arts and
his MFA at Mills College. In the early
spring of 1999, he had the honor of being
invited to Paul Taylor's annual
choreographic symposium in San Francisco,
where Mr. Taylor recognized him as one of
the seven best creative choreographers in
the Bay Area. Visit us on the web at
www.dannydancers.com.
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Paufve
Dance
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Paufve
Dance is an Oakland-based modern dance
company. Established in 2000, Paufve Dance
was founded as a vehicle to support the
continued creation of innovative work and
to further explore avenues for movement
research, performance and community
outreach. Paufve Dance functions as a pick
up company hiring dancers for specific
projects. Paufve Dance recently completed
a critically acclaimed run of In
Exhale, a concert of new and repertory
works, presented at Dance Mission Theater
in San Francisco, as well as the Mondavi
Performing Arts Center, sponsored by the
UC Davis Department of Theater and Dance
"Dancing on the Edge" series.Randee Paufve
has been working in the San Francisco Bay
Area since 1988. Her choreography has been
presented by several West Coast
organizations, including summerfest/dance,
Dancers' Group Studio Theater, Theater
Artaud, Conduit and Echo Theater in
Portland, and On The Boards/Seattle. Works
by Paufve have also appeared at several
American College Dance Festivals and at
the Regional Dance America/Pacific
Festival. Paufve was nominated for a 1997
Isadora Duncan Dance Award, and in 1999
was an artist in residence at the Djerassi
Resident Artist Program. Paufve has been a
commissioned guest artist adn teacher at
Elmira College, Lewis & Clark College,
Reed College, Saint Mary's College,
Columbia Dance Ensemble, and the VAncouver
School of Arts and Academics. A member of
the dance faculry at Cal State University
Hayward from 1994-98, Paufve currently
teaches for the Department of Theater and
Dance at UC Davis and at Shawl Anderson
Dance Center in Berkeley. Paufve's
choreography has been funded by the
Zellerbach Family Fund, the Clorox Company
Foundation, CA$H/Theatre Bay Area,
Southwest Airlines, the Helen L. Bing
Foundation, the Regional Arts and Culture
Council of Portland and the Shawl Anderson
Dance Center Foundation.
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Katherine
Davis Dance
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Katherine
Davis Dance mines the human psyche for
kinetic energy--thoughts, feelings, and
experiences that brim with momentum and
propel us towards change. Unearthing that
which is universal from our most personal
experiences, distilling that which is
communicable from our deepest mind, and
transforming our quietest reflections into
dances of thrill, abandon, and release,
the company seeks to create art that
lives, breathes, thinks, emotes, and grows
just as we do. Katherine Davis landed in
the Bay Area with a BA in Dance from
Scripps College ('93) and a Teaching
Certification in The Pilates Method of
Body Conditioning from Performing Arts
Physical Therapy/The Pilates Studio, NYC
('95). After a year of graduate study at
Mills College, she left school to pursue a
career in choreography, performance, and
teaching. In '98, she formed Katherine
Davis Dance, a pick up company utilizing
local dancers from San Francisco and the
East Bay alike. Her choreography has been
presented throughout Northern California
by DanceWorks ('02), The East Bay Dance
Festival ('02), The Vision Series at
Cowell Theater ('02 & '01), Applied
Ballet Arts Foundation at Alice Arts
Theatre ('00), Marin's 21st Century Dance
Collaboration at the Marin Center ('00
& '99), Dancer's Group Studio Theater
('99), Dance Mission ('00 & '99), ODC
Theater's PILOT Series ('98), Santa Cruz
Dance Gallery ('99), and Works in the
Works ('00).
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Photo
by Matt Haber
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In
2000, Katherine began co-producing
concerts (at Dance Mission and Alice Arts
Theatre) as well as performing in them,
which inspired her to found the East Bay
Dance Festival in 2001. As a dancer,
Katherine has performed in New York City,
St. Louis, Albuquerque, and throughout
California with Ann Berman, Ronnie
Brosterman, Chimene Pollard, Rebecca
Salzer Dance Theater, and Kirstin E.
Williams' STRONG CURRENT Dance Company.
She has taught children's dance at Sunset
Movement Arts in San Francisco, and
Pilates at Performing Arts Physical
Thearpy in Los Angeles, Zoe: A Pilates
Studio in Pasadena, and Applied Ballet
Arts Foundation in Oakland. Currently her
group classes meet at the Veteran's
Memorial Building Senior Center and East
Bay Dance Center, both in Oakland. Three
years ago, Katherine opened a studio from
her home in Oakland, where she continues
to teach private lessons (with a little
help from her pets, Leia and Buster). In
her spare time, Katherine flies airplanes.
Visit her on the web at www.katherine-davis.com.
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Savage
Jazz Dance Company
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Savage
Jazz Dance Company is dedicated to
exploring through dance the beauty and
complexity of jazz music--the authentic
American form. "It may be the most layered
and sophistocated concert jazz dance
company in these Western climes," said
K.C. Patrick of Dance Magazine. "The
ultimate step for jazz fans... for the
person who likes both jazz and dance,
Savage Jazz Dance Company is the best news
in a long time," William Glackin,
Sacramento Bee. "The company seems to add
a different dimension to the basic
experience of dance, which is the pleasure
and excitement created when music is made
visible in dancers." Founded in 1992 by
Artistic Director Reginald Ray-Savage,
Savage Jazz Dance Company is a convergence
of artistic forces, where the energy,
improvisation, and syncopation of jazz is
expressed through athletic, lyrical, and
explosive dance. The only all-jazz concert
dance company in Northern California,
Savage Jazz's repertory includes works to
the music of such jazz legends as Miles
Davis, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and
Charles Mingus, as well as some of the
country's best contemporary jazz
composers, including a long time
collaborator and award-winning jazz
bassist, Marcus Shelby. Savage Jazz's
"jazz dance" combines the fundamental
movement vocabulary of contemporary dance,
jazz dance, Dunham technique, and ballet
to draw out the complexity of jazz music.
This mixing of styles perfectly echoes the
fusion of cultural influences, individual
improvised expression, and classical
techniques that make up jazz music. In
1998, Savage Jazz's exploration of jazz
music added a new dimension when it began
to perform with live jazz accompaniment.
Using live music has allowed Savage Jazz
to stay true to the spontaneous nature of
jazz. Savage Jazz's highly0trained dancers
respond to the music in the moment within
the framework of the choreography. The
dancers and musicians perform with the
same sensibilites, reflecting the myriad
of moods and styles of jazz music. Among
the jazz groups with which Savage Jazz has
performed are the Marcus Shelby Jazz
Orchestra and the Marcus Shelby Trio.
Visit Savage Jazz on the web at
www.savagejazz.org.
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Directions to the
Theatre:
Julia
Morgan Center for the Arts is located at 2640
College Avenue (between Ashby & University) in
Berkeley. It is easily accessible from freeways
580, 24, & 13; via the 51 bus route; or via the
Pittsburg/Bay Point or Richmond BART lines.
Bus & BART
alternatives
If you are
travelling by bus, the 51 will take you directly to
JMCA. If you are travelling by BART, take the
Pittsburg/Bay Point train to Rockridge. From here
you can jump on the 51 bus heading North for a
quick drive up to the JMCA, or take your time
exploring the shops and restaurants that College
Avenue has to offer as you make your way North
towards Julia Morgan leave yourself roughly 30
minutes (more if you plan to eat and shop along the
way) for this walk. An alternate route begins with
the Richmond bound BART. Get off at Downtown
Berkeley, corner of Shattuck & University. If
you wish to walk and explore, head about two blocks
South on Shattuck to Bancroft, turn left and stroll
Bancroft all the way to College. Turn Right at
College and you will be a short distance away from
the JMCA. Or, walk 3 blocks South on Shattuck to
Durant and catch the 51 bus heading East--this line
passes directly in front of the JMCA.
Driving from San
Francisco:
-Bay Bridge to 580 East
towards Oakland
-24 towards Walnut
Creek
-Exit Claremont, turn Left
-Left again at College
Avenue
-Julia Morgan is at 2640
College Avenue
Driving from
Marin:
-Richmond Bridge to 580
East
-Exit Ashby, drive East
(away from the Bay)
-Left turn at College
Avenue
-Julia Morgan is at 2640
College Avenue
Driving from
13:
-13 North ends and becomes
Ashby (heading West)
-Right on College
Avenue
-Julia Morgan is at 2640
College Avenue
Driving from 24
East:
-24 East towards Walnut
Creek
-Exit Claremont, turn
Left
-Left again at College
Avenue
-Drive up College 2-3
miles
-Julia Morgan is at 2640
College Avenue
Driving from 24
West:
-24 West towards
Oakland
-Exit Broadway
-Right on College Avenue,
drive about 2 miles on College
-Julia Morgan is at 2640
College Avenue
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Eat n' Shop near Julia Morgan Center for the Arts
More information
coming soon!
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Links
www.katherine-davis.com/home.html*Learn
more about Katherine Davis Dance and Pilates
studio!
www.mfdpsf.org
*Learn more about Mark Foehringer Dance
Project--great photos and reviews!
www.savagejazz.org
*Learn more about Savage Jazz Dance
Company--performances, bios, reviews, and
classes!
www.dannydancers.com
*Learn more about Danny Nguyen's history,
performances, and classes!
www.kkde.org
*The official website of the East-Bay based Kendra
Kimbrough Dance Ensemble!
www.axisdance.org
*Learn about AXIS--performances, history, bios,
reviews, and educational outreach!
www.movingartsdance.org
*Learn more about Moving Arts Dance
Collective--performances, history!
www.dandeliondancetheater.org
*Learn more about Dandelion
DanceTheater--performances, classes!
www.rebeccasalzerdance.org
*Learn more about Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater
performances, film showings!
www.juliamorgan.org
*Learn about the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts:
upcoming events, classes & programs!
www.dancersgroup.org
*Dancers Group offers resources for dancers &
calendar of events in the Bay Area!
www.baydance.com
*Baydance.com is a great source of
information--companies, classes, concerts, and much
more!
www.shawl-anderson.org
*Shawl Anderson Dance Center offers daily classes
in modern, ballet, and jazz!
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Thanks
The East Bay
Dance Festival would like to thank Tanya
Calamoneri, CA$H, Dancers' Group, John Davis, Judy
Davis, The East Bay Community Foundation, The
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Rita
Fellciano, Austin Forbord, Bridget Frederick, Green
Graphics, Kimiko Guthrie, Nina Haft, Sabrina Klein,
Hilary Kretchmer, Julia Morgan Center for the Arts,
Moving Arts, David and Lucille Packard Foundation,
Chimene Pollard, Anadha Ray, Theatre Bay Area,
Wilder Press, Inc., and Allen Willner, for their
past and/or present support.
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ABOUT EBDF
2002:
East Bay Dance
Festival
February 8 & 9,
2002 at 8:00 p.m.
Julia Morgan Center for
the Arts
2640 College Avenue,
Berkeley
Tickets Available through
CBON (925) 798-1300
featuring
AXIS Dance Company •
Tanya Calamoneri
Dandelion Dancetheater
• Katherine Davis Dance
Moving Arts Dance
Collective • Nina Haft & Company
Savage Jazz Dance Company
• Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater
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Mission
My mission in founding
the East Bay Dance Festival is to highlight the East Bay as
a hub of cultural and creative activity in its own right,
independent of San Francisco. There are countless
choreographers, performers, teachers, studios, theaters, and
theater-goers living and working on this side of the bridge,
yet so many of us flock to the city to take class, present
our work, or see someone else's. What with the recent space
crisis in San Francisco, it seems more timely than ever to
create a new performance opportunity right here in the East
Bay. The concert will serve multiple purposes at
once--showing off the East Bay's considerable and diverse
talent, bringing attention and a new audience to the
beautiful and historic Julia Morgan Theatre, as well as
raising and unifying the voice of contemporary dance in the
East Bay. To make a donation or get involved, contact
Katherine Davis at dance@katherine-davis.com.
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Center for the Arts
The vision of the Julia
Morgan Center for the Arts is to advance the role of the
arts in our lives and in our diverse communities through
programs for children, service to local artists, and
presentation of local performing artists in the historic
Julia Morgan Theatre. The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts
is a home for artists, educators, learners, and community
performers. We are committed to presenting high quality
performing art experiences for diverse audiences; creating
opportunities to partner and collaborate with other
advocates of the arts; serving the communities in the city
of Berkeley and beyond with programs that engage the artist
within each of us; providing programs and services for
children; and applying the principles of aesthetic education
through an institute of the Center, in affiliation with New
York's Lincoln Center Institute. Visit our site at
www.juliamorgan.org.
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Participating Companies
Axis Dance
Company
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Since 1987, AXIS
Dance Company has created an innovative body of
work which has received acclaim from an
international audience. AXIS has performed in
theaters at its home base in Oakland, California,
on tour throughout the U.S. as well as in Germany
and Siberia. Described as a "visual and physical
discovery, creating fascinating works of movement
art, sheerly outrageous and unimaginable," AXIS has
become an internationally known resource for
physically integrated dance and is one of a handful
of companies setting high artistic standards in
this emerging field. Currently a ten member
ensemble under the Co-Artistic Direction of Judith
Smith and Nicole Richter, their repertory includes
new and signature works by AXIS choreographers,
Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Joanna
Haigood, and Sonya Delwaide.
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Photo by
Marty Sohl
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To date, AXIS
Dance Company has created nearly thirty repertory
works, two evening length works and two works for
young
audiences. Commissioned works have been created for
the San Francisco Exploratorium and the CAL
Performances UAM/PFA's 'Off the Wall' series. The
company was featured in WNETs nationally broadcast
production of "People in
Motion" and
a documentary video, "Dancing From the Inside Out,"
which won over a dozen awards including Dance On
Camera in New York and the National Educational
Film and Video Festival. AXIS dancers were
consultants and models for the creation of Life
Forms choreography software used to introduce
disabled students to dance and choreography. AXIS
recently garnered three Isadora Duncan Awards for
1999/00, receiving Outstanding Achievement in
Company Performance (for their Home Season in June,
2000), Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
(Bill T. Jones for AXIS' 'Fantasy in C Major') and
Outstanding Achievements in Individual Performance
(AXIS dancer Uli Schmitz, who is most likely the
first disabled dancer ever to receive this award).
AXIS was honored with a 'Goldie' for Dance from the
San Francisco Bay Guardian's Outstanding Local
Discovery Awards in November 2000.
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AXIS Dance
Company also maintains an extensive community
education outreach and education programs, 'Dance
Access/KIDS!' The company offers an ongoing program
of classes for adults, youth and children as well
as a wide variety of presentations, lecture
demonstrations, and residency activities. Since
1990, AXIS teachers have received the California
Arts Council Artist in REsidency grants to support
their outreach and educational work. Visit us on
the web at www.axisdance.org.
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Dandelion
Dancetheater
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Dandelion
Dancetheater collides raw, emotionally-driven,
athletic and lyrical movement with theatrical
scenes and gesture to explore the essence of what
it is to be alive. They are committed to creating
work which is accessible to a diverse public, while
at the same time pushing the boundaries between
dance and theater. Their work often re-tells
historically/politically/personally significant
events in an up-close, visceral way that resonates
at a universal, gut level. Committed to the
exploration of the endless possibilities of the
human body, Dandelion hopes to spark
self-realization, dialogue, and most importantly a
sense of inter-connectedness in the communities in
which they perform. Founded in 1991 by Artistic
Directors Eric and Kimiko Guthrie-Kupers, Dandelion
has created numerous works which have been
presented at Dancing in the Streets/Dances for Wave
Hill, Context Theater and SUNY Stoneybrook in New
York, St. John's College in Minnesota, the Palace
Theater in Hilo, Hawaii, as well as locally at
Summerfest'96-'00 in San Francisco, Asian American
Dance Performances/Unbound Spirit's home season
concerts at the Cowell Theater and Theater Artaud,
the Bread and Butter Series at Dancer's Group
Studio Theater, as well as many other venues
throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Dandelion has also performed internationally in the
states of Bihar, Orissa, and Kerala in India, and
most recently as part of the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival in Scotland. They have taught for the
Museum of Children's Art in Oakland, the Northern
California Association of Marriage Family and Child
Counselors, and Clausen House, a program for
Developmentally Disabled Adults; nationally for the
Big Island Dance Council and students at the
Community College in Hilo in Hawaii, the National
Organization for Men Against Sexism in Rhode
Island, Minnesota, and New York; and
internationally at the Draavidia Gallery in Fort
Cochin, Kerala, in India. Dandelion Dancetheater
has received numerous awards, including grants from
the Zellerbach Family Fund ('96-'00), Theater Bay
Area's CASH Grant, as well as the Serpent Source
Foundation for Women Artists and an anonymous
foundation. The company was recently granted a
residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program
in June of 2000. Dandelion Dancetheater also
received a 1999 Red Shoe Award for being one of
five Best Dance Companies in San Francisco. Visit
DDT on the web at www.dandeliondancetheater.org.
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Katherine Davis
Dance
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Katherine Davis
Dance mines the human psyche for kinetic
energy--thoughts, feelings, and experiences that
brim with momentum and propel us towards change.
Unearthing that which is universal from our most
personal experiences, distilling that which is
communicable from our deepest mind, and
transforming our quietest reflections into dances
of thrill, abandon, and release, the company seeks
to create art that lives, breathes, thinks, emotes,
and grows just as we do. Katherine Davis landed in
the Bay Area with a BA in Dance from Scripps
College ('93) and a Teaching Certification in The
Pilates Method of Body Conditioning from Performing
Arts Physical Therapy/The Pilates Studio, NYC
('95). After a year of graduate study at Mills
College, she left school to pursue a career in
choreography, performance, and teaching. In '98,
she formed Katherine Davis Dance, a pick up company
utilizing local dancers from San Francisco and the
East Bay alike. Her choreography has been presented
throughout Northern California by The Vision Series
at Cowell Theater ('01), Applied Ballet Arts
Foundation at Alice Arts Theatre ('00), Marin's
21st Century Dance Collaboration at the Marin
Center ('00 & '99), Dancer's Group Studio
Theater ('99), Dance Mission ('00 & '99), ODC
Theater's PILOT Series ('98), Santa Cruz Dance
Gallery ('99), and Works in the Works ('00).
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In 2000,
Katherine began co-producing concerts (at Dance
Mission and Alice Arts Theatre) as well as
performing in them, which inspired her to found the
East Bay Dance Festival in 2001. As a dancer,
Katherine has performed in New York City, St.
Louis, Albuquerque, and throughout California with
Ann Berman, Ronnie Brosterman, Chimene Pollard,
Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater, and Kirstin E.
Williams' STRONG CURRENT Dance Company. She has
taught children's dance at Sunset Movement Arts in
San Francisco, and Pilates at Performing Arts
Physical Thearpy in Los Angeles, Zoe: A Pilates
Studio in Pasadena, and Applied Ballet Arts
Foundation in Oakland. Currently her group classes
meet at the Veteran's Memorial Building Senior
Center and East Bay Dance Center, both in Oakland.
Three years ago, Katherine opened a studio from her
home in Oakland, where
she
continues to teach private lessons (with a little
help from her cat,
Buster).
Visit her on the web at www.katherine-davis.com/home.htm
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Moving Arts Dance
Collective
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Moving
Arts Dance, in residence at the Dean Lesher
Regional Center for the Arts, also performs annual
seasons at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and at
the Chronicle Pavilion in Concord. Under the
direction of Anandha Ray since 1990, the company
has developed a unique choreographic style,
creating award winning dances that are visually
striking and emotionally compelling. The company
works with choreographers of international renown,
recently including Tandy Beal, Bill Evans, and
Cliff Keuter, each of whom are living legends of
modern dance. The 10 member company boasts world
class dancers (many of whom have had distinguished
careers with larger companies), has two Resident
Choreographers, Charles Anderson (formerly of the
New York City Ballet for eight years) and Anandha
Ray (company founder, two Resident Composers,
Thomas Goss and Sarah Michael, and a Resident
Costumer, Loran Watkins. The Contra Costa Times
selected Moving Arts Dance in the Top Ten Bay Area
performances of 2000. Ms. Ray was recently named a
"Visionary for 2001" by Diablo Magazine and
Assistant Artistic Director Holly Morrow was named
as the Best Professional Dancer in Diablo
Magazine's "Best of the East Bay" edition. Visit
our web page for more information and for discount
coupons to our performances at www.movingartsdance.org.
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Nina Haft &
Company
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by Almudena Ortiz
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Nina Haft &
Company is an Oakland-based modern dance company.
Nina Otis Haft has been making dances in the Bay
Area since 1984. Her work has been presented
locally as part of Summerfest/dance, Dancers' Group
Bread n' Butter series, The Bay Area Dance Series,
Festival at the Lake, and numerous other events.
Her recent concerts include "The Making of
Americans: An Evening of Dance Inspired by the Life
and Writings of Gerstrude Stein" (Alice Arts
Theatre, 2000) and "Arc of the Wor(l)d: Dance as
Commentary on Jewish Text" (Temple Sinai Jewish
Culture Series 2000).
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Nina's work has
been supported by the Alameda County Arts
Commision, the City of Oakland, The California Arts
Council, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the CA$H Fund
of Theatre Bay Area, and numerous generous
individuals. A former core member of AXIS Dance
Company, Nina's choreography was presented as part
of AXIS' repertory in Boston, Minneapolis, New York
City, and Novosibirsk, Siberia. Nina has also
collaborated with Randee Paufve, performing joint
concerts in San Francisco, New York and Portland,
OR. Nina Currently teaches dance at Shawl-Anderson
Dance Center in Berkeley, and at California State
University Hayward. Nina Haft & Company's
upcoming performances with the East Bay Dance
Festival include excerpts from their forthcoming
post-modern dance opera about Jewish Gangsters in
the American West. For more information about her
work, contact Nina at Ninahaft@aol.com.
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Rebecca Salzer Dance
Theater
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The Rebecca
Salzer Dance Theater (RSDT) was founded in
February, 1996. The company includes M. Koob,
Aimée Thomas-Goodrich, Janet Weeks, Frances
Ward White, Darin Wilson, and guest performers from
the Bay Area community. Dubbed "the queen of comic
dance-theater" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
Ms. Salzer has created a unique style for the
company that often blurs the line between dance and
theater. Her work deals with a range of unusual
topics, including immigration law in California,
household appliances, and insomnia. An example of
this original mix of genres is her 1996 piece,
"Duet," which begins as a serious exploration of a
love relationship between a male and female dancer,
but gets interrupted by the female dancer's mother.
The mother character in "Duet" progresses from
being an inconspicuous member of the audience to
being an active element in the dance, firing off
questions at the couple such as "Have you known
each other long?" and "Is this a
relationship?"
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RSDT's short
film, Office Furniture, tells the story of one
woman's quest for a job in San Francisco's
financial district. The film blends comic narrative
with dances shot on the streets of downtown San
Francisco. The film's appeal to audiences outside
the dance world has won it recognition at
mainstream festivals (Golden Spire Winner, San
Francisco International Film Festival), and on
public and cable television. In May, 2000, RSDT
explored another angle of the dance-theater
equation by weaving movement into existing plays,
and casting these plays with dancers. The plays
included Night by Harold Pinter; Permanence by Fay
Weldon; A Man's Best Friend by James SAunders; and
the premier of Chain Reaction by Trevor Allen.
Visit RSDT on the web at
www.rebeccasalzerdance.org.
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Savage Jazz Dance
Company
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SAVAGE
JAZZ DANCE COMPANY is dedicated to exploring
through dance the beauty and complexity of jazz
music--the authentic American form. "It may be the
most layered and sophistocated concert jazz dance
company in these Western climes," said K.C. Patrick
of Dance Magazine. "The ultimate step for jazz
fans... for the person who likes both jazz and
dance, Savage Jazz Dance Company is the best news
in a long time," William Glackin, Sacramento Bee.
"The company seems to add a different dimension to
the basic experience of dance, which is the
pleasure and excitement created when music is made
visible in dancers." Founded in 1992 by Artistic
Director Reginald Ray-Savage, Savage Jazz Dance
Company is a convergence of artistic forces, where
the energy, improvisation, and syncopation of jazz
is expressed through athletic, lyrical, and
explosive dance. The only all-jazz concert dance
company in Northern California, Savage Jazz's
repertory includes works to the music of such jazz
legends as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dave
Brubeck, and Charles Mingus, as well as some of the
country's best contemporary jazz composers,
including a long time collaborator and
award-winning jazz bassist, Marcus Shelby. Savage
Jazz's "jazz dance" combines the fundamental
movement vocabulary of contemporary dance, jazz
dance, Dunham technique, and ballet to draw out the
complexity of jazz music. This mixing of styles
perfectly echoes the fusion of cultural influences,
individual improvised expression, and classical
techniques that make up jazz music. In 1998, Savage
Jazz's exploration of jazz music added a new
dimension when it began to perform with live jazz
accompaniment. Using live music has allowed Savage
Jazz to stay true to the spontaneous nature of
jazz. Savage Jazz's highly0trained dancers respond
to the music in the moment within the framework of
the choreography. The dancers and musicians perform
with the same sensibilites, reflecting the myriad
of moods and styles of jazz music. Among the jazz
groups with which Savage Jazz has performed are the
Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra and the Marcus Shelby
Trio. Visit Savage Jazz on the web at
www.savagejazz.org.
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• Directions to the
Theatre:
Julia Morgan Center
for the Arts is located at 2640 College Avenue (between
Ashby & University) in Berkeley. It is easily accessible
from freeways 580, 24, & 13; via the 51 bus route; or
via the Pittsburg/Bay Point or Richmond BART lines.
Bus & BART
alternatives
If you are travelling by
bus, the 51 will take you directly to JMCA. If you are
travelling by BART, take the Pittsburg/Bay Point train to
Rockridge. From here you can jump on the 51 bus heading
North for a quick drive up to the JMCA, or take your time
exploring the shops and restaurants that College Avenue has
to offer as you make your way North towards Julia Morgan
(leave yourself between 30 minutes (more if you plan to eat
and shop along the way) for this walk. An alternate route
begins with the Richmond bound BART. Get off at Downtown
Berkeley, corner of Shattuck & University. If you wish
to walk and explore, head about two blocks South on Shattuck
to Bancroft, turn left and stroll Bancroft all the way to
College. Turn Right at College and you will be a short
distance away from the JMCA. Or, walk 3 blocks South on
Shattuck to Durant and catch the 51 bus heading East--this
line passes directly in front of the JMCA.
Driving from San
Francisco:
-Bay Bridge to 580 East towards
Oakland
-24 towards Walnut Creek
-Exit Claremont, turn Left
-Left again at College
Avenue
-Julia Morgan is at 2640 College
Avenue
Driving from
Marin:
-Richmond Bridge to 580
East
-Exit Ashby, drive East (away from
the Bay)
-Left turn at College
Avenue
-Julia Morgan is at 2640 College
Avenue
Driving from
13:
-13 North ends and becomes Ashby
(heading West)
-Right on College Avenue
-Julia Morgan is at 2640 College
Avenue
Driving from 24
East:
-24 East towards Walnut
Creek
-Exit Claremont, turn
Left
-Left again at College
Avenue
-Drive up College 2-3
miles
-Julia Morgan is at 2640 College
Avenue
Driving from 24
West:
-24 West towards Oakland
-Exit Broadway
-Right on College Avenue, drive
about 2 miles on College
-Julia Morgan is at 2640 College
Avenue
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• Links
www.katherine-davis.com/home.htm
*Learn more about
Katherine Davis Dance and Pilates studio!
www.axisdance.org
*Learn about AXIS--performances, history, bios, reviews, and
educational outreach!
www.movingartsdance.org
*Learn more about Moving Arts Dance
Collective--performances, history!
www.dandeliondancetheater.org
*Learn more about
Dandelion DanceTheater--performances, classes!
www.rebeccasalzerdance.org
*Learn more about
Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater performances, film showings,
reviews!
www.savagejazz.org
*Learn more about Savage Jazz Dance Company--performances,
bios, reviews, and classes!
www.juliamorgan.org
*Learn about the
Julia Morgan Center for the Arts: upcoming events, classes
& programs!
www.dancersgroup.org
*Dancers Group offers
resources for dancers & calendar of events in the Bay
Area!
www.baydance.com
*Baydance.com is a
great source of information--companies, classes, concerts,
and much more!
www.shawl-anderson.org
*Shawl Anderson Dance Center, in Berkeley, offers daily
classes in modern, ballet, and jazz!
www.kkde.org
*The official website
of the East-Bay based Kendra Kimbrough Dance
Ensemble!
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