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EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE 2008 MISSION |
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Holly Shaw is a San Francisco Bay Area performer and choreographer known for her skills as a transformative dancer of different styles. She combines her deep and continuing knowledge of several world dance traditions such as flamenco, middle-eastern, and Indian Kalbeliya dance, with her strong training in ballet and modern dance to tap into different emotional threads and create unique contemporary dance. Shaw likes to take risks with tradition and raise the question of what constitutes "authentic" world dance by reaching deep for her own personal potency. www.hollyshaw.net Sunny Staton Mitchell is a former professional ballet dancer and proud member of Actor’s Equity. Her childhood training involved classical ballet and tap. She danced soloist and principal roles with The Sacramento Ballet and performed often with Sacramento Music Circus, also serving as Assistant Choreographer . Sunny Mitchell creates choreography that is a seamless fusion of ballet modern, jazz, and musical theatre, giving a fresh look to centuries-old genres of dance and creating a style that is uniquely her own. Ms. Mitchell’s company, E:motion Dance Ensemble is at the forefront of the Sacramento arts community’s evolution, pushing new boundaries through movement. |
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Gretchen Garnett's work is a trip into the mind and body of one who is obsessed with pattern and distortion, organization and random chance. The work incorporates fiercely physical movement sprinkled with contorted shapes and eccentric gestures, and a focus on space and design. This new work looks at time – our relationship to it and our perception of it. The piece's sweeping physicality sees legs and arms extending, slicing, and reaching through space with a strength and power reminiscent of the linear quality of time – marching on and seeming to only get faster as we speed through it. Time seems infinite and unchangeable, but through multi-layered, reiterative movement the four dancers move the audience through, around, and back in time, creating the feeling of a dimension, which can be affected and changed, where a gesture can last a lifetime and time passes in the blink of an eye. Brendan Barthel Jerene Aldinger |
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