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Press Kits & Reviews





Dancers:  Paige Ettin, Anne-Marie Talmadge, Dominique Kersh, and Emily Zefferman in Ocean Trilogy            
Photo by William Roden, New Dawn Studios

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Ocean Trilogy Press Kit 2018 Click on photo to download
Reviews for Ocean Trilogy

Dancer choreographs her causes and what matters most
By Lisa Watson (This Carmel Pine Cone)

Link: http://pineconearchive.fileburstcdn.com/160923PCA.pdf page 37A of Women in Business

What Happens when dance and science merge?
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Link: 
http://www.mbari.org/what-happens-when-dance-and-science-merge/
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East West Press Kit 2017 Click on photo to download
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Reviews for East West

SpectorDance’s East West
By: Scott MacClelland (Performing Arts Monterey Bay)
Link:  
http://performingartsmontereybay.com/spectordances-east-west

SpectorDance performance conveys the push and pull of gang life
By: Jennie Tezak (Monterey Herald)
Link:
 http://www.montereyherald.com/20141020/spectordance-performance-conveys-the-push-and-pull-of-gang-life

East West:  Local Artist’s Response to Gang Violence
By Lisa Ledin (KAZU interview)
Link:
 http://kazu.org/post/east-west-local-artists-response-gang-violence#stream/0

SpectorDance’s new inspiration is its most daring and difficult-gangs.  By Walter Rice (Monterey County Weekly)
Link: 
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/entertainment/art/spectordance-s-new-inspiration-is-its-most-daring-and-difficult/article_878537ea-5a3b-11e4-915a-001a4bcf6878.html


The first look at SpectorDance’s fluid and graphic gang-related dance piece, East West.
By:  Walter Ryce (Monterey County Weekly)
Link:
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/arts_culture_blog/the-first-look-at-spectordance-s-fluid-and-graphic-gang/article_38414824-5bc9-11e4-9493-0017a43b2370.html

Trifold Brochures For Ocean Trilogy, East West, Ocean, & Figures In The Dust
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2018 Ocean Trilogy Trifold Brochure
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East West Trifold Brochure
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Ocean Trifold Brochure
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Figures In The Dust Trifold Brochure
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Reviews For SpectorDance in Washington DC at the Smithsonian
Link:
 http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/changing-tides-series-ocean-discussions

“DID YOU KNOW that a world-class center for contemporary dance has sprung up in the growing community of Marina? OK, it didn’t exactly “spring up,” but rather was born of the vision and dedication of its founder and artistic director, Fran Spector Atkins and her husband, Jim Atkins…”  Monterey Herald
Link:
 http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_13442515?IADID=Search-www.montereyherald.com-www.montereyherald.com

“Spector Dance has been a fantastic school of ballet and dance that we would highly recommend. Our daughter has taken ballet at several local schools, and Spector Dance has been by far the most impressive…”  Nonprofit Reviews
Link:
http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/spectordance/#r_id-29545–user_id-30559

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“In typical Spector Atkins fashion, the dance teacher/choreographer’s latest work has taken on a massive topic – in this case, one that covers about 70 percent of the planet. She interviewed top scientists, read books and journals and watched hours of underwater footage. After plunging deeply into ocean research, now she’s surfacing with something deep and mesmerizing, a sensory delight of movement and music…
”  Monterey County Weekly
Link:
 
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2011/may/05/tidal-creativity

“After a heated online voting race between Galveston Tree Conservancy and the Spokane Reforesting Group, among others, SpectorDance came out on top scoring a $20,000 grant from Tom’s of Maine thanks to a flurry of voters clicking them across the finish line when they needed it most…”  Monterey County Weekly
Link:
 
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/weblogs/culture-blog/2011/oct/11/spectordance-nets-cool-20k-ocean

“SpectorDance is to be commended for your pioneering work. Congratulations again on your award. I for one look forward to experiencing in dance the dangers of ocean acidification and changes in sea levels!”  Congressman Sam Farr
Link: 
A letter from Congressman Sam Farr

Articles About SpectorDance

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Monterey County Gives
The SpectorDance (SD) mission is to connect dance and community by establishing a vibrant center for the performing arts, offering a wide variety of dance-based activities that connect diverse artists and audiences, bridge disciplines through collaboration, and celebrate the power of dance to inform and inspire. The SD vision is to utilize dance as a vehicle to open doors, ignite creativity, and fuel the human spirit.

Link to full article:    https://www.montereycountygives.com/nonprofit/spectordance/

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Monterey Coast Weekly
Marina >> SpectorDance has received a $9,100 grant from the California Arts Council for its Veterans Initiative in the Arts program.

The program will enable SpectorDance to offer dance classes at the Veterans Transition Center in Marina and to interview those veterans on film as the foundation produces a new multidisciplinary piece about deployment.
“It’s very ambitious, but that’s what artists have to do … take more and more risks,” said Fran Spector Atkins, artistic director of SpectorDance School and Company. “Dance can have an impact on critical issues.”

Link to full article:    https://www.montereycountygives.com/nonprofit/spectordance/


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Articles About Fran Spector Atkins
Fran Spector Atkins
By Scott MacClelland (Performing Arts Monterey Bay)
Link:
 http://performingartsmontereybay.com/fran-spector-atkins/



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