April 3 Meeting: Dance-related careers in Atlanta

DanceATL's Bi-Monthly Meeting Sunday, April 3 3:30-5:30 p.m. The Beam Moving in the Spirit Performance: Refuge Dance Company Discussion Topic: "Dance Careers in Atlanta" This meeting will begin with performance by Refuge Dance Company and then move into discussion of dance-related careers in Atlanta. Our group includes dancer/dancemakers, Helen Hale and Daryl Foster, and Jenna Knight, administrator at the Ferst Center for the Arts. Can you (even partially) support yourself dancing and making dances? Working in a job related to dance? If not, is there anything the community can do to help bolster the landscape for that to become a reality? (sorry, printing money is not an option!) This one is timed for the soon-to-be graduating college dance majors--will you stay in Atlanta to dance? But it is certainly not limited to only this group's participation! Hope to see you there for a lively discussion. Yay dance!

Busy, busy weekend!

So last year, in April there were shows pretty much every weekend, stacked on top of each other 2 or 3 to a weekend. It was a busy month! But apparently this year everyone decided to put everything THIS weekend! Ok, maybe not really everything, there are still lots of things in April...but it's still pretty jam-packed this weekend. So much so that even with some help, I won't be able to get the dance table around to more than 2 or 3 of the shows that are happening. So look for it and if you can't find it at the show you're attending, volunteer next time to help bring it with you, why don't ya?! ;)

And for some previews for the shows: D'air Project "Taking dance into the air" by Andrew Alexander in Creative Loafing.  For the Fusion show, I'm going to send you over to the Atlanta Ballet blog so I don't need to duplicate, though I don't see the link to this ArtsCriticATL.com preview there (it may be in there somewhere). And wow, there's a couple more things that you should find more info about on danceatl.org (the google cal still, I KNOW, I'm trying to find time to really devote to getting this dang site going finally after a year, grrr.)

Y'all enjoy all the dancing this weekend! And don't forget, next weekend is the DanceATL meeting on April 3. I'll stick the info up as another post. 

Some recents

Yep, it's been a very long time since I posted. A very busy month for me (even compared to the normal amount of busy!) And so it goes. Here are some things from the last month or so that I haven't posted yet.

From ArtsCriticATL.com:

• Ballethnic's Flyin' West
• This weekend's Paul Taylor Dance Company performance preview (interview with Annmaria Mazzini, who wouldn't remember me, but many summers ago I did a Taylor workshop at Jacob's Pillow and she was still in Taylor 2 at the time :)
• Jonah Bokaer's FILTER, the product of the first ARTech residency at Georgia Tech's Ferst Center
• and after much brouhaha, the announcement of Atlanta Ballet's next season commission of Twyla Tharp for a new ballet

From Creative Loafing: 

• Twyla Tharp at Atlanta Ballet announcement, and about a new Rite of Spring in the ballet's upcoming show this next weekend on March 25-27 
• Paul Taylor Dance Company preview for this weekend's show
• and an interview with Doug Varone about his company's recent performance at the Ferst

AND, I just sent out the enews to our current list. If you didn't get it and you'd like to in the future, please send me an email at info@danceatl.org and I'll add you!  Yay dance!