CityDance 2013/14 Brochure

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CityDance Onstage

…presenting today’s best dance …training tomorrow’s professionals …teaching in our communities

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school & conservatory

presenting and producing professional dance at venues across the D.C. metropolitan area

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community programs

training young dancers for professional careers

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CityDance’s mission is to advance the art of professional dance performance and education in the Washington metropolitan area by reaching out to the community, into the studio and onto the professional stage.

Michaela DePrince of Dutch National Ballet, Joseph Phillips of American Ballet Theatre, Rasta Thomas, Artistic Director of Bad Boys of Dance, lead the 2013 Gala cast in bows.

providing free dance education programs for thousands of students each year

Executive Director Alexe Nowakowski photos from left to right: xmb photography, courtesy of kdc, theo kossenas media 4 artists, and maggie picard photography

CityDance Onstage, an annual performance series, brings outstanding dance to D.C. Metropolitan area stages. With OnStage, CityDance presents national and international companies at the region’s most prestigious performance venues; supports emerging choreographers, local and beyond; and provides unparalleled opportunities for our students to work and perform with professional artists.

2013-14 SEASON SCHEDULE CityDance and WPAS present

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Featuring students from CityDance School & Conservatory

October 17 (8pm*) • October 18 (8pm) • October 19 (2pm* & 8pm) Sidney Harman Hall • Tickets: $30-65. Students: $20 wpas.org

CityDance presents

robert j . priore ’ s emergence

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Featuring Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

January 18 (8pm) • January 19 (4pm) CityDance Studio Theater at Strathmore • Tickets: $25 citydance.net

CityDance presents

alex neoral ’ s focus cia de dan ç a

March 15 (8pm) CityDance Studio Theater at Strathmore • Tickets: $20 citydance.net

CityDance and WPAS present koresh dance company

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Featuring CityDance Conservatory Students

March 21 (8pm) • March 22 (8pm) Lansburgh Theatre • Tickets: $30 wpas.org

CityDance and CulturalDC present

s . j . ewing and dancers in trapped happiness

April 16 (8pm) • April 17 (8pm) CityDance Studio Theater at Strathmore • Tickets $20 citydance.net

CityDance, WPAS, and GW Lisner present momix

April 25 (8pm) • April 26 (8pm) The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium • Tickets: $28-48 wpas.org citydance annual gala co - produced by rasta thomas

May 10 (7pm) Lincoln Theatre • Tickets: $20, $35, VIP: $150 citydance.net

CityDance Onstage

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school

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conservatory

Bringing together leading modern and contemporary techniques with a ballet program rooted in Vaganova principles, CityDance’s curriculum is designed to develop the next generation of dance performers and innovators. Located at the Music Center at Strathmore, and now with a fourth studio at the nearby The Academy of the Holy Cross, close to 100 classes are taught each week in beautiful, large, light-filled studios.

CityDance’s faculty consists of highly trained teachers, choreographers and coaches.

Through the Guest Artist Program, CityDance brings professional dance artists and companies from around the world to the school each year. They lead master classes, teach professional-level choreography, create new repertory and perform with and for conservatory students in a wide range of genres, including contemporary, ballet, jazz, hip hop, Bollywood, Sri Lankan and Afro-Fusion.

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ConservatorystudentsperformfrequentlyinCityDance’sStudioTheateratStrathmore as well as at larger area venues. Students have been accepted into prestigious summer dance programs such as Bolshoi, ABT, Jacobs Pillow, and universities including Alvin Ailey/Fordham, SUNY/Purchase, Point Park, Alonzo King/LINES BFA, NYU-Tisch School of the Arts and Juilliard.

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per formances

holiday performance : the snow queen

December 21 (1pm /6pm) CityDance Studio Theater at Strathmore • Tickets: $20 citydance.net citydance at the phillips collection

February 13 (7pm) Phillips Collection • Tickets: $20 citydance.net spring performance : creating the magic

March 1 (7:30 pm) • March 2 (2pm / 6:30 pm) CityDance Studio Theater at Strathmore • Tickets: $25 / Students: $20 citydance.net koresh dance company - Co-Presented by WPAS Featuring CityDance Conservatory Students

March 21 (8pm) • March 22 (8pm) Lansburg Theatre wpas.org children

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youth concert

June 15, 2014 (1 pm) Music Center at Strathmore Concert Hall • Tickets: $20 citydance.net conservatory dancers in concert

June 16, 2014 (7:30 pm) Music Center at Strathmore Concert Hall • Tickets: $20 citydance.net

school & conservatory

CityDance School & Conservatory provides over 600 students, ages 4 to 19, with high-level dance training including the CityDance Conservatory, an intensive pre-professional training program that prepares young dancers for professional careers.

community programs CityDance Community Programs are offered at over 30 community-based sites in the region’s most under-resourced neighborhoods providing free performances, in-school and after-school programs, and summer camps to over 5,000 students each year.

DREAM As the arts become less accessible in our schools, DREAM reaches into our neighborhoods, giving back to our students what is fundamental to any child’s future- experience and participation in the arts.

The DREAM Alumni program provides graduates of the DREAM program opportunities to mentor younger students; scholarships for continued dance study; and additional performance opportunities.

ReachDC Through partnerships with organizations across the metropolitan area, ReachDC expands CityDance’s connection to the larger community. ReachDC’s programming ranges from performances in a vast array of genres to arts-integration residencies, summer camps, after-school programs, and field-trips.

ReachDC partners include: Boys And Girls Club, DC Department of Parks & Recreation, DC Public Schools, DEA Youth Dance Program, KIPP DC Charter Schools, Montgomery County Department of recreation, the sitar arts center, springboard after-school, washington performing arts society 2013 finalist for the President’s National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award 2010 winner DC Mayor’s Arts Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Arts

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community programs per formances

dream performs at washington wizards halftime

February 22 Over 100 DREAM students take to the court to perform a hip hop dance routine Verizon Center • 601 F Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20004 dream year end celebration

May 11 Dream Students are joined by professional guest artists from the CityDance Annual Gala as they showcase what they’ve learned during the year Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009

community programs

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Now in its tenth year, the four-hour a week after-school program is offered to 120 students in grades third to eighth at six DC public schools. DREAM employs the principles of Advancing Youth Development a nationally recognized model for instilling youth with the skills necessary for success in life. Students take field trips to professional performances; receive over 100 hours of dance instruction in multiple genres; perform at a Washington Wizards half-time; and produce and choreograph their own end of year performance highlighting their community service projects.

b oard o f directors karen thomas , chairman emily lenzner , vice chair kay kendall , secretary margaret

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butler , treasurer

abrielle anderson

we’d like to thank our major sponsors • • • • • • •

The Bender Foundation Susan Burt The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Clark Charitable Trust Clark-Winchcole Foundation The Commonweal Foundation Dallas Coors Morse Foundation

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Kay Kendall and Jack Davies The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Fund The Barbara Epstein Foundation The Harman Family Foundation Jason’s Deli The Trawick Foundation

barbara liotta

scott logan

linda potter

Presenting Partner WPAS:

National Endowment for the Arts

lauren talbott

nancy tartt alexandra nowakowski , ex - officio

“The Brazil Project,” a two-week summer intensive, gives Conservatory dancers the exclusive opportunity to experience a cultural exchange in Rio de Janeiro.

Join our mailing list by emailing info@citydance.net with your name and address to learn more about participating in programs like this.

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In the Fall of 2011, CityDance completed Phases I and II of a three-phase project to transform its largest dance studio (Studio 405) at the Music Center at Strathmore into a dual-purpose space: professional dance studioby-day and state-of-the-art “BlackBox” theater-by-night. In concept, design, and operation, Studio 405 represents the most current technology and best practices of sustainable theatrical elements. The studio is now fully functioning, intimate, affordable and visually stunning – a rare combination. Building this theater is helping CityDance to accomplish its mission of providing the highest quality contemporary dance performance and education programs in the region, while simultaneously creating a space that will benefit generations of Montgomery County students, artists and audience members alike.

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