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Fridays at Noon
January 18 at 12:00PM
New York, NYAlaska DanceTheatre Residency/Performance
March 23-30, 2008
Anchorage, Alaska
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Alaska DanceTheatre18th Anniversary Season at Joyce SoHo New York Season
Joyce SoHo
June 13-15, 2008 at 8pm
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August 8, 2008 8PM FREE
Postproduction News
The Rio de Janeiro Choreographic Center
This spring some of the company went to Rio by invitation by Regina Miranda the director of The Rio de Janiero Center. We went for two weeks to colloborate with Brazillian dancers on a new piece. We were overwhelmed by the beauty of the culture both music and dance. The dancers were fantastic and all had extensive backrounds in folkloric dance, one was a musician who turned us on to some very unique brazillian music. The project began what we hope is a new and long relationship with The Rio de Janiero Choreographic Center, we hope to bring the dancers here for a more extensive colloboration. The project we created is titled "Back to Tijuca" named after the area of the center, it was presented in New York as part of a season in May 2007.Tongues & Limbs
Presented by The Puffin Room, May 11-12, 2007
In May the company presented two new works in progress, "Back to Tijuca" and "You go, I go" at The Puffin Room, an art gallery and seasonal dance venue. It was an excellent opportunity to show new work with the support of the director and The Puffin Foundation. The work will be finished in early January 2008 and tour to Alaska for a residency/performance at Alaska DanceTheatre.Jacob's Pillow INSIDE/OUT
July 20, 2006
On a beautiful summer day the company presented a full-program on the outdoor stage at Jacob's Pillow. Featuring a new duet created in residency at The yard last summer, the show was a smash sucess! Miguel Frasconi performed live to Falling from Stillness, and the fabulous trio, Wen-Shuan Yang, Akiko Furukawa and Erin Hunter performed Fractured Tango. Finishing the program was Stop Motion featuring high-flying lifts and non-stop dancing. The company had a great time and we hope to return again to the legendary Pillow to dance in the footsteps of our elders.Alaska Dance Theatre, March 27-29, 2008
The company had a great time performing in Anchorage for Alaska Dance Theatre, the facility was fantastic and the staff was wonderful. I was commissioned to create a dance on the company and the dancers were great and came up with very interesting movement. I was impressed with their technical abilities at the ages of 15-24 they were quite advanced. The work we made was titled "Dreams of a great land" and was performed on a double bill with the company. The dance was based on the dancers impressions of Alaska and the native people and their experiences growing up in Alaska.
"Erica Essner's dances have a stiff-limbed elegance that makes them awkard and graceful at the same time . The choreographer also has a good eye for detailed complementarities, so when seemingly disparate movements fall into unison, these movements seem natural and logical."
—San Francisco Bay Guardian
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