This one is a bit out of the way, but has a connection to the dance program at Brockport. A SUNY Brockport dance alumnus sent me an announcement of the fourth edition of "Rebound—An Independent Dance Festival," which will be presented Saturday, April 25th at 7:30pm in the ACES/Educational Center for the Arts, at Arts Hall, Audubon and Orange Streets, in New Haven, CT.
Presented by Clark Dance Theatre and ghe Neighborhood Music School,Rebound provides performing opportunities for professional and semi-professional dancers and choreographers and promotes diverse choreographic voices and collaborates with other art forms such as film.
Brockport Dance alumni include Curator of Rebound Judie Clark, as well as Anne Burnidge of Anne Burnidge Dance, who will be among the artists scheduled to perform, including:
- Clark Dance Theatre (New Haven, CT) will be presenting two new works “Tellum” by company member Katie Jackson and “Keeping Composure” by Rebound’s Curator Judie Clark
- A film by Bates College Director of Dance Carol Dilley
- Melissa Gendreau’s Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company (Boston, MA)
- Anne Burnidge and dancers (Buffalo, NY) present ‘Discesa in Bianco,’ a piece based on Dante’s Inferno (this was performed at Brockport last year)
- Colleen Cintron and Katie Jackson (Norwalk, CT)
- Krisen Day will be dancing ‘Carpe Lucem’ to the music of Tom Waits (Northampton, MA
- A film by Bates College student Barbara Byers
- James Robey Dance Company (Ridgefield, CT)
- Tiffany Rhynard, Big Action Performance Ensemble (Big APE) will be presenting ‘Trash’ a “social commentary on the excess of garbage in our culture and how we negotiate through the messes we make or avoid them completely” (Middlebury, VT)
- Laura Ward/ Octavia Cup Dance Theatre, is on faculty at the Laban/ Bartenieff Institute in New York and will be dancing with Buddy Valdez in a modern duet en pointe to original music by Fa Ventilato; Lindsey Bauer, (New Haven, CT)
- A student dance company from the New Canaan Dance Academy will be dancing ‘Palladino’ an energetic and physical piece.
- Students at Central Connecticut State University will be providing video PSA’s for Dancers Responding to Aids a non-profit organization which partial proceeds of the performance will be donated. DRA supports people living with HIV/AIDS, social services for performing professionals, and women’s health organizations www.dradance.org.
Admission is $20.00 adults $10.00 Students/ Seniors. General Admission (doors open at 7:00 pm) For more information see the website or call 203.889.7308.
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