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Your #givingtuesday donations will support...
Our goal is $2000
We are raising money for our participation in the National Water Dance, a community performance and activism project that brings attention to the fragility of our waters.
National Water Dance is a Nationwide simultaneous dance event that will happen on
April 18, 2020 at 4pm est
Though nationwide, ECDC will organize a New Haven performance for non-movers and movers alike. All are welcome to participate. The project will be directed by Kellie Ann Lynch and Nikki Lee. Call for participants will happen in January.
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We BELIEVE dance has the power to inspire personal growth and social change; We BELIEVE in dance as a catalyst for building community and sharing experience; We BELIEVE dance teaches us values about life and being human; and We BELIEVE dance has the power to challenge the way we see; and We BELIEVE dance is for EVERYONE.
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Meet the Artists of TINY SHORTS 2018
Anthony Wells
Anthony Wells started his dance journey by taking a tap class at Dee Dee’s Dance Studio in New Haven, progressed to Betsy Ross Arts Magnet, Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School and Dean College. He has performed in multiple shows such as the Arts Mosaic Show and at Gilette Stadium for the Patriots. He recently returned from Rome Italy where he studied Graham Technique under Christine Dakin.
Thelma Ladeira
Thelma Ladeira is a professional Brazilian dancer and instructor with a background in classical ballet, jazz, Brazilian dances and belly dance. Thelma has taught around the world and she has performed for Brazil’s national TV shows, SBT and Record TV. She is currently performing with Mestre Efraim Silva’s company, Ginga Brasieliera, and teaches at the CT Capoeira and Dance Center.
Arien Wilkerson
Arien Wilkerson is a choreographer, movement, video and installation artist. A Hartford native, he began his dance training with Jolet Creary, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, The Artist Collective, Earl Mosely Institute of the Arts, and Batsheva Dance Company’s Gaga Intensive in Israel. He has received numerous awards, grants and public recognition for his work.http://www.tnmotaztro.com/about/
MELINDA MARQUEZ + RYAN ROCKMORE
Melinda Marquez is Artistic Director of Melinda Marquez Flamenco Dance Center in New Haven CT. She is thrilled to be joined by Flamenco dancer, Ryan Rockmore, Co-Director of Al Margen Flamenco Dance Company in NYC. The Flamenco bata usually requires plenty of space, so that the dancer can walk, wrap and kick the skirt. BATAlla will explore what will transpire when two tall dancers with unique perspectives have 5 short minutes in very long flamenco skirts in a very tiny space.
EFRAIM SILVA
Mestre Efraim Silva was born in Sao Paulo Brazil and began his practice of Capoeira at thirteen. Studying Capoeira, Maculele, Puxada de Rede and Samba de Roda he became a master instructor in 1993. He is director of the CT Capoeira and Dance Center and performs with his company Ginga Brasileira in theaters, schools universities all of the US and abroad.
KIKI LUCIA
Kiki Lucia is a New Haven, CT-based drag performance artist with a vast training and performance background that includes numerous disciplines: classical ballet, aerial acrobatics, music theatre, modern dance, and acting. She also has a strong background in theatre production, directing, and costume and production design, and producing as well. Most well known as the producer and host of Let’s Have a Kiki – a variety show featuring drag and burlesque artists – that currently performs regularly at three Connecticut locations.
CHLOE CARLSON Photo by Nikki Carrara
Gusto Dance/Chloe Carlson shares her passions for dancing, spreading its empowering magic, and collaborating through performing, choreographing, teaching and directing GUSTO Dance and serving as Board President of David Dorfman Dance. Past performing with ECDC-a joy and honor. She is a wife, mother, writer, (non-practicing) attorney and mermaid.
JULIEN KANOR
Julien Kanor is originally from Guadeloupe, a tiny French Island in the Caribbean. He loves to explore movement in new ways practicing various styles and types. Julien brings us the piece "Minimalist" in the TINY SHORTS performance.
JASON RAMOS
Representing Alisa's House of Salsa, Jason Ramos and Amanda Duvall bring Salsa and Bachata. A Salsa and Martial Arts fusion; and Bachata Fusion dance. Big things can come in small packages. In our brief performance, we want to bring pops of fun and flavor that will leave you asking for more!
The Great Give 2018
May 1 @ 8am & May 2 @ 8pm
Welcome! Meet ECDC.
WHO ARE WE? We are a contemporary dance company who performs, teaches, produces and collaborates. ECDC is the only professional contemporary dance company in New Haven with a 501c3 status (all donations are tax-deductible). We serve our community through public performances of live dance in traditional and non-traditional performance spaces; offerings of adult and youth education; performances of original choreography; professional development opportunities; and community engagement performance projects. MORE ON ECDC HERE.
WE love what we do. What WE do matters.
Help ECDC achieve our goal of $5,000
LET'S PLAY
ECDC is trying for prizes. Please consider donating during these times!
May 1st (8am-9am) - EARLY BIRD PRIZE
($1,000 awarded to the 5 organizations with the greatest number of donors in the 1st hour!)
May 2nd (6am-8am) - SEIZE THE DAY PRIZE
($1,000 awarded to the organization with the greatest number of gifts from unique donors)
MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION HERE
2018 PROGRAMS
Adult classes
Boys/Girls in Motion
If You Knew You Then
TINY SHORTS (a dance festival)
SHORT VIDEOS
The See Yourself Project (30 sec)
City Wide Open Studios/The Goffe Street Armory
Featured Dancers | Luis Antonio and Samantha Russell
"It was an emotional ride, creating work based on a time in my life where everything was a blur. I was not sure who I was, where I fit in, and the choices I made reflected that experience. Looking back now, as an adult, I do ask myself, "what if I knew myself then?" Would I still make the same choices? Or would I do it differently? It's a question of knowing one's identity and the struggle of that past life, birthing the one I live now."
Luis Antonio
Luis Antonio (Teaching Artist, Dancer) is a original dancer of Elm City Dance Collective, performing since 2008. Luis graduated from the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT in 2005, where he studied dance under Susan Matheke and studied ballet at New Haven Ballet under Noble Barker. Luis wrote, choreographed, and produced “Escapade: An Unusual Experience,” which premiered in October 2015 at Lyric Hall Theater in New Haven. Luis has performed with Nazorine Paglia (New Haven, CT); Full Force Dance Theater (Hartford, CT); and Salix Productions (Hartford, CT). Luis is a teacher and choreographer at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School in New Haven, CT; New England Ballet School in Orange, CT; and Cross Drama at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, CT. Luis is excited to be dancing with stunningly talented dancers and is thankful for the opportunity to be able to do what he loves.
"My short spurt of time here in New Haven has seemed to be divinely linked with the IYKYT project. I came in right as it was beginning and will be moving away only 3 short months after it's premiere. It has been a most incredible honor to step into the shoes of an ECDC company member for one of their full length works. The way ECDC collaborates with each other and pours their lives and souls into their creative process is unlike anything I've been apart of before. This is the first full-length, evening work I've been a part of from start to finish and it has been an absolute joy ride! I have learned so much about myself (both past and present) through this process and have simply fallen in love with this company of magnificent creatures. I will miss each of them and this magical work most ardently!"
Samantha Russell
Samantha (Sam), a dancer from North Carolina, has been with ECDC since June of 2014, right as the creative process for IYKYT was beginning. Although you won't see her physical self inside of the piece (due to maternity leave) know that many of her "isims" live inside of the work with her spirit embedded in its blueprint.
Sam attended Purchase College, SUNY, as a student of their dance conservatory program and completed her BA in Dance at Appalachian State University in 2011. She co-founded the non-profit, NC based, dance company Defero Dance Collective back in 2009 and still works with them from afar. Sam also works for Aldrich Pilates as a Pilates, GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® instructor. She will be moving back home to NC this June; a bittersweet return.
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Featured Dancers | Nikki and Alicia
"The process of making "If You Knew You Then" has taken me on a journey like no other work I have been in before. Layers of my former and present self have been pealed back allowing me to accept the uncomfortable parts of my past and revel in the person I have become. It has helped bring out a new confidence in my person as well as my dancing and I am beyond thrilled to share this work with our audience."
ALICIA WHITE
Alicia White (Dancer) is a Rhode Island Native and graduate of Rhode Island College (’10) where she earned a BA in Dance and a minor in Theater. She has been dancing with ECDC since 2012. Alicia is Founder, Director and Choreographer of Metamorphosis Dance Company based in Pawtucket, RI. She has had the pleasure of performing in works by Eva Marie Pacheco (Providence Ballet Company Member ’10-’14), Wanda Strukus, Michael Bolger, Keith Terry, and Gus Solomons Jr. Alicia is also a teacher/choreographer for studios and arts education programs through out the state of Rhode Island. Her main drive is to share the spiritual, cultural and community building aspects of her art with everyone she encounters. Alicia is grateful for the opportunity to be apart of this production, for the love and support of her family and friends, and the ability to share these moments of joy with all of you.
"Collaborating with the dancers and Kellie to create IYKYT has been a long and satisfying process rich in exploration and discovery. Our stories are beautifully wound and woven together, and yet there is plenty of space for witnesses of the work to see their own lives as a part of this environment we are creating. I hope the audience is moved by the work in a way that is like how I have been moved in helping to make it."
NIKKI CARRARA
Nikki Carrara (Dancer) is a dance artist and educator living in Pawtucket, RI. Her choreography has been presented in theaters, studios, art galleries, and fields, produced by Island Moving Company, Frazier Festival, Perishable Theatre, Providence College, and The Dance Complex. Outside of ECDC, she has performed extensively in the works of choreographers Nathan Andary, Daniel McCusker, and Melody Ruffin Ward. For the past 7 years Nikki has developed and implemented RI’s only public, non-charter dance education program in Pawtucket Public Schools. Her students have gone on to major in dance at the Jacqueline M. Walsh High School for the Arts and have stepped into the professional RI dance community as performers and teachers. She is currently working on a new multi-disciplinary work with Providence-based poet and playwright Christopher Johnson. This fall, Nikki will be an MFA candidate and teaching fellow at Smith College. Nikki is also a photographer, and loves to help things grow.
Photography by James Lastowski
We need YOU for our upcoming premiere!
ECDC Event Sponsorship:
"If You Knew You Then"
In March and April 2017, ECDC will present the premiere of "If You Knew You Then" at LYRIC HALL.
WHY SPONSOR OUR PREMIERE? "If You Knew You Then" is an original ECDC production featuring 6 dancers in new choreography. ECDC’s audience is hip, active, involved, and interconnected. Sponsorship will provide visibility for your organization with ECDC’s audience, supporters and community. ECDC is a fixture in the New Haven community, and we have long standing relationships with many small and large businesses in and around the city.
Sponsorship Levels
FRIEND: acknowledgment in program (480 programs will be printed), logo and acknowledgment on website, hyperlinked logo and acknowledgment in newsletter and on ECDC Facebook page: $100.
FOLLOWER: All “friend”-level sponsorship benefits plus full-color half-page ad in program (5” x 3.75”). 480 programs will be printed: $200.
COLLABORATOR: All “follower”-level sponsorship benefits plus full-color full-page ad in program (5” x 8”). Digital banner. 480 programs will be printed: $300.
*Logo Images for Program Due to elmcitydance@gmail.com by Tuesday, February 28th, 2017. Images should be at least 300dpi.
Sponsorship payment due February 28th, 2017 by paypal (www.elmcitydance.org), or by check to ECDC, c/o the Grove 760 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510.
INTERESTED? CONTACT LINDSEY BAUER --ELMCITYDANCE@GMAIL.COM
#GivingTuesday
SAVE THE DATE - November 29, 2016
ECDC is participating in a GLOBAL day of giving fueled by social media. This charitable event kicks off the holiday season and end of year giving.
ECDC relies on the support from individual donors in order to do the work we do in New Haven and surrounding areas. Will you help ECDC reach our goal of raising $5,000 before the New Year?
Your contribution will help support:
The world premiere of "If You Knew You Then", choreographed by Kellie Ann Lynch in collaboration with Luis Antonio, Lindsey Bauer, Nikki Carrara, Samantha Russell and Alicia White.
ECDC's 2017 youth and adult programming.
The making and performing of new and seasoned ECDC repertory.
GIVING IS EASY. MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION THROUGH PAYPAL - CLICK HERE
Spread the word! Use the following Hashtags #givingtuesday #ecdc
People in Motion
Elm City Dance Collective invites you to a viewing of our community performance project, People in Motion, on June 5th, 2pm, Trinity Lutheran Church.
New Haven, CT - Elm City Dance Collective (ECDC) presents People in Motion, an Afternoon Showing of Dance, performed by ECDC and Friends. The showing will consist of three performances: “People in Motion”, performed by members of the New Haven and surrounding areas community; “If You Knew You Then” (in process), performed by ECDC; and “borderland” performed by Chloe Carlson. People in Motion will take place on Sunday, June 5th at 2pm, Trinity Lutheran Church | 292 Orange Street, New Haven. The showing is FREE and open to the public.
Over the last few months, ECDC has been working with community members from New Haven and surrounding areas on a performance project called People in Motion. Through a series of dance improvisation classes and a weekend-long workshop, ECDC’s People in Motion, community of non-dancers and dancers alike, focused on the process of creating a dance, as a community, in the moment. People in Motion engaged their creative sides through physical explorations and collaborative movement play. The community worked on building confidence and trust in themselves and each other; and cultivated a collective awareness with the intention of composing a dance in the moment. The guidelines and movement structures used to inform this project came directly from the process of “If You Knew You Then”, ECDC’s latest evening-length work (in process). “If You Knew You Then” will premiere in 2017.
People in Motion (the community performance project) is generously supported by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven through a community engagement grant. ECDC demonstrates the importance of having contemporary dance be more accessible in New Haven by offering experiences like People in Motion. We believe appreciating the art can come from welcoming others to participate in the act of making. Come out and support ECDC and Friends! We hope to see you there.
GAGA/DADA
Howard Kong Photography
SAVE THE DATE: Gaga/Dada
APRIL 2, 1pm Open Rehearsal | April 3, 2pm Performance
CLICK HERE FOR YALE DANCE THEATER PROCESS BLOG
Yale Dance Theater (YDT) and the Gallery have invited artists Saar Harari and Lee Sher to create a new choreographic work for YDT dancers and Elm City Dance Collective that incorporates Gaga, a movement language developed by choreographer Ohad Naharin. Gaga, which has become highly influential in international contemporary dance, is the focus of YDT’s spring semester project. On Saturday, April 2, YDT students have an open rehearsal within the exhibition Everything Is Dada. Then, on Sunday, April 3, they perform the new piece in the space, juxtaposing the 21st-century Gaga aesthetic with Dada works of art. Generously sponsored by the Lydia Winston Malbin Fund; cosponsored by Yale Dance Theater, Dance Studies Curriculum, and the Theater Studies Program. Open to: General Public