American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2007
Wednesday – Saturday, September 5 - 8, 2007 @ 8pm
Hudson Guild Theater
441 W. 26th St. (bet. 9th & 10th Avenues) NYC
Tel (212) 760-9800
Admission at the door: $20, $15/ADG Members, students, seniors
Master classes: $12, $10/ADG members
The ADG Performance Festival 2007 kicks off on September 5th. Thirty-four dance companies from across the United States, Europe and Canada will be presented during four evenings of performances with dances ranging from modern to ballet to performance art to contemporary cultural hybrids including influences from Iran, Japan, France, Africa and China. Together they reveal the remarkable diversity of contemporary dance styles.
Featured in this year’s festival is Mary Anthony’s stunning 1948 masterpiece, Lady Macbeth, performed by Mary Ford, on Wednesday and Friday, September 5 and 7. Then, on Thursday and Saturday, September 6 and 8, the Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group will perform an abridged version of Cunningham’s groundbreaking 1970 work, Signals. Special guest artist from Marseille, Claude Aymon, with his company, c2a 7ème trimestre, will join this festival. Claude recently choreographed a procession through the streets of Marseille with 800 children. Each evening in the lobby of the theater, there will be a showing of the documentary Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance, a tribute to this inspiring choreographer, still active in her 90’s.
In addition to the public performances, three master classes are planned for Thursday through Saturday mornings from 10-11:30 AM, onstage at Hudson Guild. Claude Aymon, special guest artist from France, will teach class on Thursday, Sept. 6; Mary Anthony will teach on Friday, Sept. 7; and a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will teach on Saturday, Sept. 8.
The American Dance Guild has served the dance field in many capacities over the past 51 years. With this festival, we continue the Guild tradition of bringing together artists from across the nation and internationally for performances and master classes. Come celebrate our accomplishments, join the dancers of the present, and look into the future!
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE: *
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
8 pm Performance
Mary Anthony, Claude Aymon, Anne Burnidge, Adrienne Celeste Fadjo, Mare Hieronimus, Christine Jowers, Judith Moss, Tracie Stanfield, Mariah Steele
Thursday, September 6, 2007
10-11:30 am Master Class – Claude Aymon – Guest Artist
8 pm Performance
Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, Melanie Aceto, Daniel Charon, Frederick Curry, Christopher Hutchings , Sahar Javedani, Deborah Mauldin, Mariko Tanabe, Kenneth Walker
Friday, September 7, 2007
10-11:30 am Master Class – Mary Anthony
8 pm Performance
Mary Anthony, Ariane Anthony, Janet Charleston, ShaLeigh Comerford, Jim Hansen, Doris Hudson-Trujillo, Heather Roffe, Jeff Shade, Laura Shapiro
Saturday, September 8, 2007
10-11:30 am Master Class – Cunningham technique - company member
8 pm Performance
Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, Tina Croll, Joan Gavaler,
Naomi Goldberg Hass, Kaoru Ikeda, Kun Yang Lin, Gloria McLean, Rebecca Rice, Catherine Tharin
* Please Note: Schedule is subject to change
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The American Dance Guild was founded in 1956 and currently conducts workshops, seminars, master classes, film festivals and annual conferences. It offers performance opportunities that range from gala productions to bare-bones and on-site events. In addition to an annual festival of workshops and performances, the Guild bestows an annual award to honor a major contributor to dance, and offers the Fannie Weiss Student Scholarship for summer study at Jacob’s Pillow. ADG serves members through performance opportunities and exposure, scholarly resources such as the New Dance Group Gala Video and publications such as Branching Out: Oral Histories of Six National Dance Organizations. ADG has an interactive website www.americandanceguild.org.
