Trans Body (2019, 2021)
A dance making process that celebrates the transgender experience.
Elm City Dance Collective and the New Haven Pride Center collaborate on a month-long process workshop with a community of Transgender dancers and non-dancers alike to explore meaning, making and movement within the context of transgender identity, history and corporeality.
The project asks: how do we embody and perform our own history? How do we tell stories about ourselves through movement? How can we express trans identity through dance?
2019 PARTNERSHIPS:
Nasty Women Connecticut's exhibition Complicit: Erasure of the Body at Yale Divinity School
Ely Center for Contemporary Art
SPONSORS:
- Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (2020)
- Arts Council (2019)
- City of New Haven, Department of Arts, Culture, and Tourism (2019)
THROUGH THE ECHOES | CWOS Alternative Space (2018)
“Wellbeing” — community, ritual, invitation
Elm City Dance Collective and friends from the community will embrace this years City Wide Open Studios' theme, "Wellbeing" through visually evocative movement that reflects the performers' humanity and pays homage to the site they will be performing at, Yale University's West Campus. The performers will embody the essence of wellbeing through movement that engages the space and physically expresses metaphor inspired by contemplative practices and ritualistic ways of being in community. Seen from the outside, performed inside within the glass walkway connecting the Yale School of Nursing to Building #410. Conceived directed by Kellie Ann Lynch in collaboration with the performers.
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Through the Echoes was commissioned by Artspace New Haven.
NATIONAL WATER DANCE (2018)
Activism in Action
National Water Dance is an artist-driven collective of dancers and educators confronting critical water issues facing the United States. Stretching from New York to Hawaii and from Alaska to Puerto Rico we create simultaneous, site-specific dance performances with movers of all ages and experience. Created and directed by Dale Andree, National Water Dance believes that our environment is the most pressing issue of this generation and as dancers we are using our bodies to create a community that reaches out for action. Conceived and directed by Kellie Ann Lynch in collaboration with the dancers. More information HERE
*NATIONAL WATER DANCE participants involve anyone who would like to participate in activism, performing and the creative process through dance.*
PRESS — ECDC’S NATIONAL WATER DANCE 2018 | PRESS HERE
NATIONAL WATER DANCE — VIDEO HERE
PEOPLE IN MOTION (2016)
Community Engagement Through Making
People In Motion is a movement and performance project for adult non-movers and movers alike. ECDC invites people to experience the power of dance through the practice and performance of making dance in the moment also known as dance improvisation or compositional improvisation. ECDC is looking to help people remember what their bodies are capable of and how great it feels to connect with other human beings through the art of dance and dance making. This project involves a 3-4 class/skill building structure; a weekend-long workshop; and a final performance by the participants. Conceived and directed by Kellie Ann Lynch in collaboration with the dancers.
People in Motion 2016: Sunday, April 24 10am-12pm/skill building class; Sunday, May 15, 10am-12pm/skill building class; June 4-5, 12:30-3:30pm/workshop and performance. For more information contact Kellie at elmcitydance@gmail.com
People in Motion 2016 was supported by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
