Artichoke Dance Company’s Human Mapping Project
August 29, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
It’s site-specific, environmentally conscious, historically reflective, and interactive! Artichoke Dance Company combines performance with ecological activism and volunteerism in a new project on New York shorelines, Your Planet: The Human Mapping Project. Director and choreographer Lynn Neuman collaborates with scientists and architects from the Urban Design Lab’s Plastic Trash Patch Project, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, to focus on one of New York’s greatest assets, its shoreline (there are over 600 miles of shoreline across the five boroughs). Performances, which are aligned with beach clean up days, sponsored by the American Littoral Society, bring awareness to the impact of human consumption ...
Columbia Ballet Collaborative at Miller
April 11, 2010 · Posted by Dancing Perfectly Free ·
Dancers in Emery LeCrone’s Five Songs for Piano, photo by Matthew Murphy
In 2007, a group of former professional dancers studying at Columbia University were frustrated by the lack of ballet opportunities on campus. They took matters into their own hands and founded the Columbia Ballet Collaborative (CBC). Each semester the student-run, student-directed group offers free weekly classes to the Columbia community and rehearses for an end-of-semester performance, which was initially held in a studio at Barnard College or City Center. Last year the group made the leap to Columbia’s Miller Theater, where they once again presented their spring performances on ...
