Thrilled to announce the artist line-up for Cultivate 2013! Looking forward to hosting these award-winning artists in August when Cultivate returns to Bethlehem and the Colonial Theatre, August 15-18!
Overwhelmed with beautiful proposals to come share work and be a part of this year’s Cultivate festival. An embarrassment of riches, a glorious overflowing. Mille gracias to all of you who care so much about growing a community from the ground up!
Look for this year’s line-up of artists to be announced mid-May!
Cultivate returns to Bethlehem, NH August 15-20, 2013. Do you have new work you’d like to show? A proposal for a workshop? An idea for ways that artists and audiences can meet, mingle and have a meaningful exchange? Would you like to spend a summer weekend in the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire, sharing your work and cultivating the community for contemporary dance and performance in the North Country?
Cultivate is a unique festival in a unique town. Artists are be housed comfortably within walking distance to the theatre and studio spaces, in the homes of Bethlehem residents who love and support contemporary dance and dance-makers. Most meals are provided by community potluck, and offer artists and audiences a way to connect outside of the theatre. Each artist receives a modest honorarium for performing and/or teaching. Performances take place on the stage of the Colonial Theater, the oldest continuously operated movie theater in the country, in addition to various sites around the village.
Looking for work that is low-tech, small-cast, and relatively family friendly. Also looking for engaging workshops for a wide range of age and ability.
E-mail proposals to Katherine Ferrier, Director and Curator of Cultivate: katherine(at)katherineferrier(dot)net
Proposals must include the following:
Deadline March 31, 2013
Stay tuned for more information and a Call for Proposals!
Click here to REGISTER for this great conference!
8:00-9:00 registration | coffee | networking
9:00-9:15 introductions
9:15-10:30 Round Table Discussion: Dance in Our Schools | Where are we now? Where do we want to be?
A panel of dancers, educators and arts administrators discusses the challenges and opportunities of bringing dance into schools. Panelists include Emily Anderson, a recent graduate of the Bennington College dance program and a participant in Extending the Dance Map; Ashley Hensel-Browning, a Vermont juried teaching artist and fellow of Extending the Dance Map; Jeanne Limmer, NH State Council on the Arts Arts in Education roster artist and director of the Jeanne Limmer Dance Center and Axis Dance Company; Marcia McCaffrey, arts consultant, New Hampshire Department of Education and a dance educator; and Marcia Murdock, director of the dance program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Keene State College.
10:30-12 Workshop: Finding Empathy: Movement as a Tool for Students, Teachers and Parents |Jeanne Limmer
Experience, explore and discuss strategies for teachers, parents and students to address issues of bullying, and cultivate compassion and understanding through movement and dance. Limmer is a NH State Council on the Arts Arts in Education roster artist and director of the Jeanne Limmer Dance Center and Axis Dance Company in North Conway.
12:00-1:00 Lunch & time for discussion, peer learning, networking
1:00-3:00 Workshop: Dance and Learning: An Integrated Partnership with Stephen Clapp
Based on a Collaborative Integrated Curriculum Model using both state curriculum frameworks and National Dance Standards, this participatory workshop explores tools for integrating the arts with non-arts disciplines in school settings. Clapp is a choreographer, theater artist and writer and has served as a faculty member for the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and guest artist with companies around the country. He is Director of Maryland’s Dance Box Theater.
3:00-4:00 Closing discussion: Moving the Process Forward: The need for more dance in our schools!
4:00-4:30 Evaluation, networking
Conference cost: $25 ($15 for Arts Alliance members); $15 for high-school and college students ($10 for AANNH members). Lunch included. Scholarships available.
This conference is presented through a partnership with the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire, as part of Extending the Dance Map, an initiative to bring more dance to rural northern New England schools, with support from the Dana Foundation and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
Thursday, August 9 | 8:00am – 4:30 pm | Town Hall Meeting Room, Second Floor, Bethlehem, NH
The historic Colonial Theatre, in the heart of Bethlehem, NH, is the home of Cultivate 2012!
7:30pm Meet and Make | FREE on the Side!
Watch as Cultivate dancers and musicians, many of whom will have met only a few hours before the show, collaborate improvisationally to create a spontaneous performance before your very eyes. Meet and Make is a free improvisation event where dance and music meet in the moment, creating a unique and unrepeatable performance of instant composition bound to be fresh and inspiring!
9pm Linger and Mingle Relax on the Colonial Patio after the performance with a beverage and welcome the artists of Cultivate to Bethlehem! Bring your questions and curiosities as we encourage conversations to develop between artists and audiences.
7:30pm Bounty: Dance Works by the Artists of Cultivate (Program A) |$10
Artists of Cultivate present an evening of contemporary dance works. Artists include: Bethany Nelson, Sarah Gamblin, Jennifer Kayle, Cori Olinghouse, Kai Kleinbard, Alicia Christophi-Walshe and Goldie Peacock, with special musical guests.
9pm Linger and Mingle Relax on the Colonial Patio after the performance with a beverage and welcome the artists of Cultivate to Bethlehem! Bring your questions and curiosities as we encourage conversations to develop between artists and audiences.
7:30pm Harvest: Dance Works by the Artists of Cultivate (Program B) | $10
Artists of Cultivate present an evening of contemporary dance works. Artists include: Monkey House Dance, The Architects, Pamela Vail, Katherine Keifer Stark, Stephen Clapp& Community Dancers, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Angie Muzzy and Jessica Howard and special musical guests.
9pm Linger and Mingle Relax on the Colonial Patio after the performance with a beverage and welcome the artists of Cultivate to Bethlehem! Bring your questions and curiosities as we encourage conversations to develop between artists and audiences.
7:30 pm PINA | $8 or $6 for members of the Colonial
Magnificent, breathtaking, mysterious. A tribute to choreographer Pina Bausch. A cinematic eulogy. An immersive, gorgeously shot tribute to the people who express life through movement. Pina is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in 2009. Wim Wenders takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal-the place, which for 35 years was the home and centre for Pina Bausch’s creativity. Opens on Sunday, Aug 12th and runs through Wednesday, August 15th
“This meditation on movement and space, transportation and transcendence is not to be missed.” -Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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