KAATSBAAN 2010 CALENDAR Performances , Residencies, Arts In Education, and the Academy of Dance

Kaatsbaan Academy of Dance for Children 4-12 yrs and Adults

Summer Session - June 28-August 17, 2010 Call 845-757-5106 x10 for Info and Registration

Pre-Ballet, Ballet I & II, Ballet I, and Beginning Adult Flamenco

DANCE HISTORY PUBLIC LECTURES ~ FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ALL LECTURES ARE AT 6:15-7:45 PM 

Wednesday June 30  - “Passion and Angst: Postwar Identity in Two Dances by Anna Sokolow ”  A performance of Sokolow’s “Kaddish” by Deborah Zoll, selections from “Rooms” with the Jose Limon Dance Company and lecture by historian Hannah Kosstrin

Monday July 5 - "Arts Funding and the Creation of the Balanchine Ballerina"  by Lauren Erin Brown           

Thursday, July 15    – "Hip Hop Party Dances: From BK to the Screen" with Emilio "Buddha Stretch" Austin and dancers.

Tuesday, July 20 -  "Staging the Spanish Other in 19th Century European Dance: Lola-Montez Between Romanticism and Modernism" with Dr. Claudia Jesche

Wednesday July 21 - “From Martha Graham’s Revivalist to the Avant-Garde and Lincoln Kirstein: Merce Cunnigham. 1944-1949” The Preacher solo from Martha Graham’s “Appalachian Spring” with Oliver Tobin and selections from early Cunningham works with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and historian Victoria Geduld               

Monday, July 26 - "From Ballet to Broadway" with Oliver Tobin 

Tuesday, August 3 – José Limón: An Artist of His Time An exploration by Lynn Garafola, with dancers performing, of Limón's art, which honored the human spirit, while wrestling with issues of identity and political repression.

Monday, Aug 9 – “Katherine Dunham: Bringing the African Diaspora to the Stage “ with Nicole Thomas, former dancer with the Katherine Dunham Dance Ensemble, will perform selections with historian Joanna Dee’s lecture.  

Wednesday Aug 11 –  “Entertaining the King - Dance at the Court of Louis XIV” with Lecture and performance by Tom Baird and Paige WhitneyMonday August 16 – “Dance History: Is it Dreary, Does it Matter?”  Elizabeth Aldrich, Library of  Congress. Lectures on history often have the capacity to make an audience cringe-sometimes  they are interesting but, many times, lectures can be dry; frequently they are utterly boring. Dance is often described as an ephemeral art-one that lives only in the present moment.  Audiences and dancers alike are frequently unaware of the rich history of dance performance,  ranging from social dancers in sixteenth-century Italian courts who regularly executed double  tours en l'air to the origins of George Balanchine's masterful choreographic works.  This  illustrated lecture will focus on the roots and development of ballet and will raise the question "Does history matter?" 

Monday August 16 – “Dance History: Is it Dreary, Does it Matter?”  Elizabeth Aldrich, Library of   Congress. Lectures on history often have the capacity to make an audience cringe-sometimes             they are interesting but, many times, lectures can be dry; frequently they are utterly boring.              Dance is often described as an ephemeral art-one that lives only in the present moment.             Audiences and dancers alike are frequently unaware of the rich history of dance performance,             ranging from social dancers in sixteenth-century Italian courts who regularly executed double             tours en l'air to the origins of George Balanchine's masterful choreographic works.  This             illustrated lecture will focus on the roots and development of ballet and will raise the question "Does history matter?"

EXTREME BALLET SUMMER SHOWCASE Free & Open to the Public
Session I Saturday, July 10 12Noon
Session II Saturday, July 31 12Noon
Session III Saturday, August 21 12Noon