Posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 11:19am
It’s been an exciting year! We couldn’t have done it without you: our audience members, donors, supporters and friends.
In August, Canuso was awarded a fellowship and a residency at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), in Tallahassee, FL, where she and her collaborators spent two focused weeks investigating NCDC’s next big project – TAKES (more on this project below). An excerpt of our showing and photos from MANCC are available on our Facebook page (make this a clickable link?: . Check it out!
We were very excited about NCDC’s most recent collaboration with The Mural and The Mint in the OFF the GRID festival at this year’s Live Arts Festival. This fully solar powered venue motivated our lighting designer Mark O’Maley to use hundreds of candles as our light source, creating a flickering installation that evolved along with the performance. If you missed it, don’t worry. Another NCDC/TM&TM project is in the works!
We remounted Parallel You – a duet for Nichole Canuso and David Brick - for a performance in Harrisburg last winter and again in September for The AWARD show: Philadelphia 2009. Through this performance NCDC was the recipient of the Joyce Foundation/Boeing Corporation award for $10,000, which will be used to fund the creation of a new dance in the 2010 season. Also in 2009, NCDC was the recipient of a Rocky Award. Each September, 10 Rocky Awards are presented at an event dedicated to celebrating dance in Philadelphia. This year Matthew Neenan of Ballet X presented this award to NCDC for the creation and performance of Wandering Alice.
NCDC has a new company manager! Through a grant from the William Penn Foundation we were able to hire Cristina Vasilis. We are thrilled to have Cristina working with us. She is looking forward to meeting you at upcoming events! This fall we also welcomed three new board members: Meital Waibsnaider, Robin Barnes and Marc Miller. We are so excited to welcome these new voices to company planning.
Canuso and VanReigersberg during a work-in-progress showing of TAKES
