Dance Performance: Sarah Rose, Holly Stone & J.Michael Winward
September 21 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Canvas – Sarah Rose / Insider Ballroom – Holly Stone & J. Michael Winward
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Canvas is a trio dance performance exploring ideas for spatial design and movement quality from Dotty Kyle’s (Sarah’s grandma’s) oil paintings of New England flora. The movement is paired with close up projections of the paintings which are displayed on the dancers’ bodies. Original sound score by Ross Daniel.
Insider Ballroom
Having worked for each of the major American franchised schools, Holly and Michael are now recovering salespeople, seeking an alternative means of practice. Insider Ballroom: A Free Introductory Lesson combines professional ballroom dancing of the “American Smooth” category with personal storytelling from the performers: Queer perspectives from their time spent inside this decidedly hetero-industry.
Bios:
Sarah Rose is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on movement and performance. Her current research focuses on the intersection of movement habit and the modern dance canon. She holds a BA in Classics from Princeton University (2014) and an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Florida State University (2019).
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Helen Greider is a Queens based contemporary freelance dancer. Since moving to New York she has performed with Tabula Rasa Dance Theatre, AFFEKT Dance Company, Go.Co, and choreographer/performer Sarah Rose. Helen graduated with a BFA in Dance and Economics from Florida State University in 2021 where she studied under Anjali Austin, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Gwen Welliver, Donna Uchizono, and Ilana Goldman. Helen is dedicated to exploring and pushing her boundaries of the physical challenge of dance and also in how artistic values impact life experiences and vice versa.
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Ross Daniel is a Georgia born artist based in New York with an M.F.A. in Dance from Florida State University and a B.A. in theatre from Georgia College & State University. Ross is a 2019-2020 New Directions Choreography Lab Fellow at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and a recent participant of the “MANCC Forward Dialogues” at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography where he developed a dance collective with choreographer Sarah Rose entitled DanielRose Projects. Ross has performed in Then She Fell with Third Rail Company, with 277 Dance Projects, Alexis Zacarello (Center for Performance Research A.I.R,) and Katelyn Halpern and Dancers, on tour with Urban Bush Women (2019 Winter Tour,) and on tour with Fox and Beggar Theatre, a contemporary circus company based in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Raised in rural Vermont, Holly Stone (they/them) creates dance and theater throughout Greater Boston, and teaches at both Tufts and Boston Universities. As a performer, Holly has recently danced for Kathy Hassinger, Jo-Me Dance Theater, Lowell House Opera, Tim Glenn, and with many, many others from their time in the American Ballroom Dance Industry. Holly has a B.S. in Bioengineering and Neuroscience from Syracuse University and an MFA in Dance from Florida State University.
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J Michael Winward (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist: dancer, storyteller, organizer: working at the intersection of movement, memoir, memory, and care. Michael is the director of Steps in Time®: an organization that brings social partner dance programs to assisted living & mind care communities, as well as the lead coordinator of Dancing Queerly: a platform for LGBTQ+ dance & performance artist support. Michael has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Bennington College, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.
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photo credit: Elizabeth Mertz