BIODANCE presented Thin Ice at (Un)Doing Balance as a benefit for Mission Improvable in Buffalo at the Alt Theater on Sat. Dec. 2 at 8pm. Natalia Lisina and Nanako Horikawa Mandrino performed in this excerpted work from Labyrinth, with music by Michael Wall, used with permission.
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12th Anniversary Concert – May 17-19, 2018
Save the Date to celebrate BIODANCE’s 12th Anniversary at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Stage on May 17-20, 2018.
SPECIAL VIP PRE-SALE TICKETS on sale now for BIODANCE friends! Follow this link for the best prices and seats for the BIODANCE 12th Anniversary Season at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Stage May 17-19, 2018! BIODANCE celebrates with highlights from its dozen years as a Rochester community-based company. Repertory will include a BIODANCE premiere by Missy Pfohl Smith with motion capture imaging by W. Michelle Harris and music composed by Garret Reynolds, a reprise of excerpts of “Solo/Countersolo” by NYC-based choreographer Heidi Latsky, “Possible Side Effects” by local choreographer and BIODANCER Jeanne Schickler Compisi, and other favorites from the company’s repertory.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 30, 2018
MEDIA CONTACTS: Missy Pfohl Smith
Email: [email protected]t
Phone: 585-201-1002
12 for 12: Celebrating 12 Years of BIODANCE in Rochester
May 17, 18, and 19 at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Stage
75 Woodbury Blvd, Rochester, NY 14607
Rochester, NY- BIODANCE will be celebrating its 12th anniversary by presenting 12 performances in Rochester and Monroe county throughout 2018. As one of the highlights of 12 for 12: Celebrating 12 Years of BIODANCE in Rochester, BIODANCE will hold four concerts at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Stage on May 17-19, featuring a Rochester premiere, selected repertory from the company’s dozen years of work, and the revival of Heidi Latsky’s Solo Countersolo. Former BIODANCE member Courtney World will return to the stage for this anniversary celebration.
BIODANCE is excited to revive Solo Countersolo, a masterwork created by internationally renowned artist Heidi Latsky in 2013 for her NYC-based company. Solo Countersolo focuses on a soloist (Missy Pfohl Smith) as the counterpoint to the ensemble, weaving through a landscape of vigorously moving bodies to British composer Chris Brierley’s passionate score.
12 for 12 is made possible with support from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts at the Livingston Arts Center, a member supported organization.
Details:
12 for 12: Celebrating 12 years of BIODANCE in Rochester appears at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Nextstage May 17, 18, and 19 at 7:00pm and May 19 at 2pm.
Ticket Information:
Geva Theatre Center Ticket Information: (585)-232-4382 or https://tickets.gevatheatre.org
BIODANCE Social Media: facebook.com/BIODANCE1 and Twitter: @BIODANCE1
Parking: Geva Theatre Center Parking Lot or street parking
Full Accessibility Provided at Geva Theatre Center
NOTE TO MEDIA: Interviews and photos are available upon request.
BIODANCE Dancers: Jeanne Schickler Compisi, Sarah Dearstyne, Sarah Johnson, Natalia Lisina, Nanako Horikawa Mandrino, Alaina Olivieri, Julie Schlafer Rossette, Jean Michael Rubingu, Missy Pfohl Smith, Courtney World
Biographies:
Choreographer, performer and collaborative artist, Missy Pfohl Smith directs the Program of Dance and Movement at University of Rochester and is artistic director for the contemporary repertory company, BIODANCE, based in Rochester, NY. Her work has continually sold out shows at Rochester Fringe, having been called “Gorgeous…astonishing…exceptional” and “a brilliantly crafted world of beauty, melody and calmness” by Rochester City News. She enjoys creating site specific work and recently created her second evening length show crafted for a 4 story planetarium in collaboration with a media artist, dancers, musicians and a visual artist. Missy’s viola and dance work with Bridget Kinneary is expanding to include new contemporary compositions by internationally known composers. Her choreography, performance and teaching has spanned across the US and internationally, most recently in Greece, Finland and Scotland. She is certified in Bill Evans Laban/Bartenieff-based pedagogy and also teaches choreography, dance on camera and contemporary dance and social justice. Before returning to Rochester in 2004, Smith was based in NYC for 12 years and performed and taught internationally with Randy James Dance Works and Paul Mosley, as well as apprenticing for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company.
BIODANCE is a non-profit contemporary dance company founded in 2002 that collaborates with multi-disciplinary artists and is the only true repertory company in Rochester, performing work by a roster of recognized choreographers including Missy Pfohl Smith, Bill Evans, Randy James, Ivy Baldwin, Jeanne Schickler Compisi, D. Chase Angier, Laura Regna and Courtney World. BIODANCE explores social, political and environmental issues through its works always through dance, sometimes with text, film, music, and ice cream. BIODANCE interacts with and outreaches to its community members and across the country in a variety of ways through performances, workshops, benefit concerts, interactive lecture-demonstrations and classes at venues such as Geva’s Nextstage, Hochstein Concert Hall, the Strasenburgh Planetarium, MUCCC and more. Over the past seven years, BIODANCE has been providing free dance and movement workshops to the Senior Center at Community Place of Greater Rochester. Recent collaborators have included the musical artists of Sound ExChange, digital media artist W. Michelle Harris, visual artist Allen C. Topolski, and the leading choral/orchestral ensemble Rochester Oratorio Society. BIODANCE has received Community Arts Organization Grants from the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, New York State Council on the Arts and the NYS Legislature, from the Rochester Area Community Foundation, the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, among other grants to create new work, to interact with its community and to produce various annual home performance seasons. City News chose BIODANCE two years in a row for a Best of Fringe Award in the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.
Heidi Latsky, originally from Montreal, first received recognition as a celebrated principal dancer for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1987-1993). Her experience there profoundly influenced her style and her philosophy of dance as she developed a reputation in her own right as a choreographer for stage, theater and film. In 1993, she received a commission from the Cannes International Dance Festival. Three years later, she was chosen to represent Canada at the Suzanne Dellal International Dance Competition in Tel Aviv and at Danse a Lille in France. Since then, Latsky has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe with her own company and as part of Goldhuber & Latsky (with former partner Lawrence Goldhuber) [1996-2000]. Latsky headed the Movement Department at The School for Film and Television from 1998-2005, where she developed her teaching practice: The Latsky Method. She has taught internationally throughout her career and her “Movement Portraits in Action” program has been implemented at the AIDS Service Center and The Creative Center in NYC. While working with Theater Director Mary Fulham, she received two Innovative Theater Award nominations. She served as choreographer on Academy Award nominated Katja Esson’s film “A Season of Madness” and as director and choreographer on Susan Murphy’s GIRL/GROUP at the Marquee, NYC (2003). In 2001, she founded her own company, Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD). During the fall of 2006, Latsky began an intensive period of creation with bi-lateral amputee, Lisa Bufano. This marked a significant shift of focus for HLD and a period of immense growth, during which she more fully developed the company’s mission and vision. HLD received an ARC grant through Pentacle that included mentoring Latsky for a period of 18 months, and in 2009 she was chosen by Creative Capital Foundation as one of four choreographers nationally to receive a three-year award for her evening-length work, GIMP. Her range of work is as varied as guest lecturing at Harvard University, performing with other Bill T Jones’ alumni in “SUMMER REUNION,” restaging a piece of Arnie Zane’s at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, creating a work at the Aaron Academy for high school students with learning disabilities, directing workshops in performance skills, performing in 2012’s TEDxWomen, and developing new works for her contemporaries like Li Chiao Ping as featured in several films by Douglas Rosenberg, including Seven Solos in 2012. Latsky has continued her work as an adjudicator of the American College Dance Festival Association’s (ACDFA) and serves on the Artist Advisory Board of Danspace Project. She has a BA in Psychology with Honors from Carleton University (1979), receiving the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement and The Ottawa Ladies College Scholarship.
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BIODANCE donates performance for Art of Lawyering
On Thursday, Oct. 19, BIODANCE is honored to perform for a Benefit entitled The Art of Lawyering at Village Gate in Rochester, NY. This event also holds a silent auction to benefit Volunteer Legal Services Project. The group was created to supplement the efforts of the two legal service agencies in the community: Monroe County Legal Assistance Corporation and the Legal Aid Society of Rochester. The two agencies had never been able to fully meet the needs of the low-income community for free legal assistance and VLSP was created to call upon members of the private bar in Monroe County for pro bono work to help people in need of legal assistance.
LABYRINTH at KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival 2017
BIODANCE Sold Out the Premiere of the All-New Show “Labyrinth” at Strasenburgh Planetarium
“The highly anticipated Sunday night premiere of “Labyrinth” at RMSC’s Strasenburgh Planetarium did not disappoint.”
— Rochester City News Review by Rebecca Rafferty here.
ROCHESTER, NY— Choreographer Missy Pfohl Smith, director of BIODANCE, and video artist W. Michelle Harris return to the Rochester Museum & Science Center’s Strasenburgh Planetarium for an all new work, “Labyrinth,” created for the 2017 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival. The same artistic collaboration produced the sold-out phenomenon “Anomaly,” presented at the Planetarium as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival in 2013 and 2016, called ” …a brilliantly crafted world of beauty, melody and calmness” by City News. Labyrinth is not your typical dance or music concert, nor is it your typical visit to the planetarium, it is something entirely new, imaginative and immersive.
Joining the expressive performers of BIODANCE, including Jeanne Schickler Compisi, Sarah Dearstyne, Sarah Johnson, Natalia Lisina, Nanako Horikawa Mandrino, Laura M. Regna, Julie Schlafer Rossette, Jean Michael Rubingu, and Missy Pfohl Smith, is W. Michelle Harris with live cinematic mix. Live music performance by Emlyn Johnson (flute), Zach Stern (saxophone(s)) and Henry Myers (cello), with advising from conductor Eric Laprade, all from Eastman School of Music, and the young vocal talent of Lyric Voices under the direction of Vince Salvadge will round out this large scale collaboration. Stanzi Vaubel, the site-specific visual and performance artist who is also an accomplished cellist, is joining the team of creatives, alongside costume designer Jennifer Rubens.
Pfohl Smith says “The Planetarium has nooks and crannies yet to be explored. The scale of this collaboration is thrilling for all of us, and this coming together of different perspectives is what makes hope possible in the maze of our world. I am astounded by the new ways in which we have been able to play in one of the most intriguing venues in Rochester.”
“Missy and Michelle consider the Planetarium environment with fresh eyes and ears and create work that makes the Star Theater’s unique capabilities an integral part of the artistic product,” says Steve Fentress, Planetarium Director at RMSC. “An innovative and highly professional production like this keeps Rochester’s Planetarium on the cutting edge. We are proud to be a part of this new creation for 2017.”
BIODANCE sold out four of the five performances (with only 20 seats left for the entire run) of “Labyrinth,” Sunday, September 17 through Thursday, September 21 at 6pm each day. Tickets were $12, available at http://rochesterfringe.com/tickets-and-shows/labyrinth.
Phone: (585)-201-1002
BIODANCE Social Media: facebook.com/BIODANCE1 and Twitter: @BIODANCE1
NOTE TO MEDIA: Interviews and photos are available upon request.
BIODANCE is a Rochester-based repertory dance company under the direction of Missy Pfohl Smith, who also directs the Program of Dance and Movement at University of Rochester. BIODANCE collaborates with multi-disciplinary artists, such at W. Michelle Harris, an Associate Professor in Interactive Games and Media at RIT. BIODANCE made their debut at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2017 to sold out houses, and has shared its work nationally and internationally. Visit Biodance.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and Instagram.
Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) includes the Science Museum, Strasenburgh Planetarium and Cumming Nature Center. Offering experiences at the Museum with more than 200 interactive exhibits, Planetarium with a 65-foot dome and Nature Center on 900 acres, the RMSC stimulates community interest in exploration. In addition, the more than 1.2 million RMSC collection items tell the story of Rochester’s past including its rich history of innovation and invention. RMSC receives major funding from Monroe County, where it is one of the top three most visited attractions serving children and families. For more information about RMSC, visit RMSC.org. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.
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Bach Without Boundaries at Community Place of Greater Rochester
Missy Pfohl Smith and Bridget Kinneary shared Bach Without Boundaries at the Senior Center at Community Place of Greater Rochester on July 19, giving the seniors a sneak peek at what will take place at Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s 70th Anniversary on Aug. 17 and 19, 2017 at Gallery 23 in Edinburgh, Scotland!
Bach Without Boundaries in Edinburgh Fringe’s 70th Anniversary
TOTAL SELL OUT!!!
Missy Pfohl Smith (BIODANCE) and Bridget Kinneary (violist) brought their Bach Without Boundaries to Edinburgh, Scotland Aug. 17 and 19, 2017 at Gallery 23 at 12:30pm, WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED SELL-OUT of both shows for their first appearance in the 70th Anniversary of Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The relationship between musician and dancer is turned on its head during this unique, intimate gallery performance of Bach Cello Suite No 4 by violist Bridget Kinneary and dancer/choreographer Missy Pfohl Smith (BIODANCE). Experience this classical work like never before, embodied by both performers and the audience alike. The show also features a premiere of Candle Dances with music by California composer Alan Terricciano, interspersed with playful stories of the development of the work and the relationship of the artists. New York, USA.
Gallery 23 is located on 23 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 8HQ.
Tickets and information are available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/bach-without-boundaries
Bach Without Boundaries first premiered in 2016 in the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival in Rochester, NY, marking the first iteration of this ongoing collaboration between Missy and Bridget. It has also been performed at the Eastman School of Music and the Elwanger Estate. The artists are thrilled to be premiering a new work, Candle Dances, in Edinburgh Fringe 2017, alongside Bach’s Cell Suite #4.
Premiering new work in Dances at MUCCC on June 20 and 21
BIODANCE will preview a new duet for Jean Michael Rubingu and Julie Schlafer Rossette choreographed by Missy Pfohl Smith on June 20 & 21, 2017, at Dances at MUCCC (Multi-Use Community Cultural Center, Atlantic Ave. Rochester NY).
Dances at MuCCC 2017 is coordinated by Laurie MacFarlane and Ruben Ornelas
June 20 – 24
A festival of contemporary dance by regional, national and international artists.
This year’s festival includes five nights of performance as well as open classes/workshops.
Tuesday, June 20 @ 8 PM includes: BIODANCE, Gina Bonati (NYC), Karsten Brooks (music), Valerie Carew (performance video, Canada), Donna Davenport, Laurie MacFarlane, Ruben Ornelas, Paula J. Peters, Zhonghui Sun
Wednesday June 21 @ 8 PM includes: BIODANCE, Gina Bonati (NYC), Carly Cerasuolo (NYC), Marisa Garber, Hanlon Dance & Company, Leigh Ann Kabatra (NYC), Laurie MacFarlane, Katherine Marino, MaryLee Miller, Ruben Ornelas, Amy Sullivan
*All programs are subject to change.* Admission $8 advance sale, $10 at the door; $8 for students and seniors | All classes/workshops: $10 suggested donation at the door. www.muccc.org
National Dance Week’s Atrium Concert, City Hall, Rochester, April 26
BIODANCE shared Jeanne Schickler Compisi’s “Possible Side Effects” at National Dance Week’s Atrium Concert at City Hall, Rochester, on Wednesday April 26th at 7pm. The FREE concert was open to all in the community and also included various dance groups, dance studios and artists from Rochester, including Pam Schickler Compisi’s 25North.
Circus Maximus at Eastman Theater’s Kodak Hall Feb. 3, 2017!
Join BIODANCE and the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of Conductor Eric Laprade on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 at 8pm for a FREE collaborative performance! With 18 musicians and 12 dancers, Darius Milhaud’s La creation du monde will come to life with a new interpretation of this seminal work.
The piece will be repeated on Wed. Feb. 8 at 2pm in the new Eastman Wing, in EEW-415 on the 4th floor above the RPO Box Office. The Wed. performance will feature digital media projection by W. MICHELLE HARRIS that is not to be missed.
Both shows are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Eastman Wind Ensemble Explores Artistic Collaboration in Works of Milhaud, Etezady, and Corigliano
BIODANCE at Community Place Senior Center
Celebrating another year of dancing with the seniors at Community Place of Greater Rochester at 145 Parcels Ave, BIODANCE brought their BIO/DANCE & Social Justice performance to the Senior Center to share three works – Katherine Kramer’s “The Hand We’re Dealt,” Jeanne Schickler Compisi’s “Possible Side Effects” and Missy Pfohl Smith’s “Tiny Parts of a Whole.” The seniors also performed one of their favorite dances from our weekly classes and vibrant discussion was shared!
12th Anniversary Concert – May 17-19, 2018
Save the Date to celebrate BIODANCE’s 12th Anniversary at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Stage on May 17-20, 2018.
SPECIAL VIP PRE-SALE TICKETS on sale now for BIODANCE friends! Follow this link for the best prices and seats for the BIODANCE 12th Anniversary Season at Geva Theatre Center’s Fielding Stage May 17-19, 2018! BIODANCE celebrates with highlights from its dozen years as a Rochester community-based company. Repertory will include a BIODANCE premiere by Missy Pfohl Smith with motion capture imaging by W. Michelle Harris and music composed by Garret Reynolds, a reprise of excerpts of “Solo/Countersolo” by NYC-based choreographer Heidi Latsky, “Possible Side Effects” by local choreographer and BIODANCER Jeanne Schickler Compisi, and other favorites from the company’s repertory.
BIODANCE donates performance for Art of Lawyering
On Thursday, Oct. 19, BIODANCE is honored to perform for a Benefit entitled The Art of Lawyering at Village Gate in Rochester, NY. This event also holds a silent auction to benefit Volunteer Legal Services Project. The group was created to supplement the efforts of the two legal service agencies in the community: Monroe County Legal Assistance Corporation and the Legal Aid Society of Rochester. The two agencies had never been able to fully meet the needs of the low-income community for free legal assistance and VLSP was created to call upon members of the private bar in Monroe County for pro bono work to help people in need of legal assistance.
LABYRINTH at KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival 2017
BIODANCE Sold Out the Premiere of the All-New Show “Labyrinth” at Strasenburgh Planetarium
“The highly anticipated Sunday night premiere of “Labyrinth” at RMSC’s Strasenburgh Planetarium did not disappoint.”
— Rochester City News Review by Rebecca Rafferty here.
ROCHESTER, NY— Choreographer Missy Pfohl Smith, director of BIODANCE, and video artist W. Michelle Harris return to the Rochester Museum & Science Center’s Strasenburgh Planetarium for an all new work, “Labyrinth,” created for the 2017 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival. The same artistic collaboration produced the sold-out phenomenon “Anomaly,” presented at the Planetarium as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival in 2013 and 2016, called ” …a brilliantly crafted world of beauty, melody and calmness” by City News. Labyrinth is not your typical dance or music concert, nor is it your typical visit to the planetarium, it is something entirely new, imaginative and immersive.
Joining the expressive performers of BIODANCE, including Jeanne Schickler Compisi, Sarah Dearstyne, Sarah Johnson, Natalia Lisina, Nanako Horikawa Mandrino, Laura M. Regna, Julie Schlafer Rossette, Jean Michael Rubingu, and Missy Pfohl Smith, is W. Michelle Harris with live cinematic mix. Live music performance by Emlyn Johnson (flute), Zach Stern (saxophone(s)) and Henry Myers (cello), with advising from conductor Eric Laprade, all from Eastman School of Music, and the young vocal talent of Lyric Voices under the direction of Vince Salvadge will round out this large scale collaboration. Stanzi Vaubel, the site-specific visual and performance artist who is also an accomplished cellist, is joining the team of creatives, alongside costume designer Jennifer Rubens.
Pfohl Smith says “The Planetarium has nooks and crannies yet to be explored. The scale of this collaboration is thrilling for all of us, and this coming together of different perspectives is what makes hope possible in the maze of our world. I am astounded by the new ways in which we have been able to play in one of the most intriguing venues in Rochester.”
“Missy and Michelle consider the Planetarium environment with fresh eyes and ears and create work that makes the Star Theater’s unique capabilities an integral part of the artistic product,” says Steve Fentress, Planetarium Director at RMSC. “An innovative and highly professional production like this keeps Rochester’s Planetarium on the cutting edge. We are proud to be a part of this new creation for 2017.”
BIODANCE sold out four of the five performances (with only 20 seats left for the entire run) of “Labyrinth,” Sunday, September 17 through Thursday, September 21 at 6pm each day. Tickets were $12, available at http://rochesterfringe.com/tickets-and-shows/labyrinth.
Phone: (585)-201-1002
BIODANCE Social Media: facebook.com/BIODANCE1 and Twitter: @BIODANCE1
NOTE TO MEDIA: Interviews and photos are available upon request.
BIODANCE is a Rochester-based repertory dance company under the direction of Missy Pfohl Smith, who also directs the Program of Dance and Movement at University of Rochester. BIODANCE collaborates with multi-disciplinary artists, such at W. Michelle Harris, an Associate Professor in Interactive Games and Media at RIT. BIODANCE made their debut at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2017 to sold out houses, and has shared its work nationally and internationally. Visit Biodance.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and Instagram.
Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) includes the Science Museum, Strasenburgh Planetarium and Cumming Nature Center. Offering experiences at the Museum with more than 200 interactive exhibits, Planetarium with a 65-foot dome and Nature Center on 900 acres, the RMSC stimulates community interest in exploration. In addition, the more than 1.2 million RMSC collection items tell the story of Rochester’s past including its rich history of innovation and invention. RMSC receives major funding from Monroe County, where it is one of the top three most visited attractions serving children and families. For more information about RMSC, visit RMSC.org. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.
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Bach Without Boundaries at Community Place of Greater Rochester
Missy Pfohl Smith and Bridget Kinneary shared Bach Without Boundaries at the Senior Center at Community Place of Greater Rochester on July 19, giving the seniors a sneak peek at what will take place at Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s 70th Anniversary on Aug. 17 and 19, 2017 at Gallery 23 in Edinburgh, Scotland!
Bach Without Boundaries in Edinburgh Fringe’s 70th Anniversary
TOTAL SELL OUT!!!
Missy Pfohl Smith (BIODANCE) and Bridget Kinneary (violist) brought their Bach Without Boundaries to Edinburgh, Scotland Aug. 17 and 19, 2017 at Gallery 23 at 12:30pm, WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED SELL-OUT of both shows for their first appearance in the 70th Anniversary of Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The relationship between musician and dancer is turned on its head during this unique, intimate gallery performance of Bach Cello Suite No 4 by violist Bridget Kinneary and dancer/choreographer Missy Pfohl Smith (BIODANCE). Experience this classical work like never before, embodied by both performers and the audience alike. The show also features a premiere of Candle Dances with music by California composer Alan Terricciano, interspersed with playful stories of the development of the work and the relationship of the artists. New York, USA.
Gallery 23 is located on 23 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 8HQ.
Tickets and information are available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/bach-without-boundaries
Bach Without Boundaries first premiered in 2016 in the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival in Rochester, NY, marking the first iteration of this ongoing collaboration between Missy and Bridget. It has also been performed at the Eastman School of Music and the Elwanger Estate. The artists are thrilled to be premiering a new work, Candle Dances, in Edinburgh Fringe 2017, alongside Bach’s Cell Suite #4.
Premiering new work in Dances at MUCCC on June 20 and 21
BIODANCE will preview a new duet for Jean Michael Rubingu and Julie Schlafer Rossette choreographed by Missy Pfohl Smith on June 20 & 21, 2017, at Dances at MUCCC (Multi-Use Community Cultural Center, Atlantic Ave. Rochester NY).
Dances at MuCCC 2017 is coordinated by Laurie MacFarlane and Ruben Ornelas
June 20 – 24
A festival of contemporary dance by regional, national and international artists.
This year’s festival includes five nights of performance as well as open classes/workshops.
Tuesday, June 20 @ 8 PM includes: BIODANCE, Gina Bonati (NYC), Karsten Brooks (music), Valerie Carew (performance video, Canada), Donna Davenport, Laurie MacFarlane, Ruben Ornelas, Paula J. Peters, Zhonghui Sun
Wednesday June 21 @ 8 PM includes: BIODANCE, Gina Bonati (NYC), Carly Cerasuolo (NYC), Marisa Garber, Hanlon Dance & Company, Leigh Ann Kabatra (NYC), Laurie MacFarlane, Katherine Marino, MaryLee Miller, Ruben Ornelas, Amy Sullivan
*All programs are subject to change.* Admission $8 advance sale, $10 at the door; $8 for students and seniors | All classes/workshops: $10 suggested donation at the door. www.muccc.org
National Dance Week’s Atrium Concert, City Hall, Rochester, April 26
BIODANCE shared Jeanne Schickler Compisi’s “Possible Side Effects” at National Dance Week’s Atrium Concert at City Hall, Rochester, on Wednesday April 26th at 7pm. The FREE concert was open to all in the community and also included various dance groups, dance studios and artists from Rochester, including Pam Schickler Compisi’s 25North.
Circus Maximus at Eastman Theater’s Kodak Hall Feb. 3, 2017!
Join BIODANCE and the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of Conductor Eric Laprade on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 at 8pm for a FREE collaborative performance! With 18 musicians and 12 dancers, Darius Milhaud’s La creation du monde will come to life with a new interpretation of this seminal work.
The piece will be repeated on Wed. Feb. 8 at 2pm in the new Eastman Wing, in EEW-415 on the 4th floor above the RPO Box Office. The Wed. performance will feature digital media projection by W. MICHELLE HARRIS that is not to be missed.
Both shows are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Eastman Wind Ensemble Explores Artistic Collaboration in Works of Milhaud, Etezady, and Corigliano
BIODANCE at Community Place Senior Center
Celebrating another year of dancing with the seniors at Community Place of Greater Rochester at 145 Parcels Ave, BIODANCE brought their BIO/DANCE & Social Justice performance to the Senior Center to share three works – Katherine Kramer’s “The Hand We’re Dealt,” Jeanne Schickler Compisi’s “Possible Side Effects” and Missy Pfohl Smith’s “Tiny Parts of a Whole.” The seniors also performed one of their favorite dances from our weekly classes and vibrant discussion was shared!