tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180477932024-03-18T08:59:36.987-04:00CORE Performance CompanyStories from behind the scenes at CORECORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-31081599398398028112015-04-09T14:46:00.000-04:002015-04-09T14:46:12.477-04:00Exploring the Japanese AestheticDiving into the Japanese aesthetic has brought a lot of fun to the studios the last few weeks. We have been exploring the three different facets to the aesthetic: mono no aware, yugen, and wabi sabi. The journey has taken us into some light and shadow play, charcoal drawings, and a little bit of film. Because much of the aesthetic comments on the idea of impermanence, the CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com244tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-60154302332362450172015-03-29T23:42:00.000-04:002015-03-29T23:42:44.160-04:00Studio Spotlight: Phit Chick Experience with D'Rhea Woods<!--?import namespace = g_vml_ urn = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" implementation
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D'Rhea Woods is bringing her Phit Chicks Experience to CORE Studios Wednesday nights at 8:30pm. D'Rhea is the Phit Mom. Her blog - phitmom.blogspot.com - provides an interactive forum for busy mothers where they can get feedback on their experiences in trying to CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com179tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-37199100425701068252015-02-11T19:51:00.001-05:002015-02-11T20:01:47.727-05:00Parallels On LovePerhaps this pays a little tribute to my Czech roots...
I couldn't help seeing how Tom Stoppard's definition of Love from his play The Real Thing serendipitously parallels with our individual explorations of Love in our "On Love" work.
(Below was found from Maria Popova's article "The Greatest Definition of Love")
[In the second act, when the protagonist’s cynical teenage daughter probes CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-16539462865899758082015-01-26T16:11:00.001-05:002015-01-26T16:11:43.370-05:00We are working on LOVE this week and the upcoming weeks until Valentine's weekend at Callanwolde!
Learning phrases as a group brought us all together this afternoon. Then playing further with making Josh into this helpless fool of love... He is just doing everything to please us... From Superhero, to hot gangster, to Yogi and the devil... he is in for it all. Being rewarded with a beautiful red CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com278tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-64623714399582539042014-12-03T21:47:00.002-05:002014-12-03T21:47:44.099-05:00Diagonals, Grids, and 9-points- OH MY!
This week the dancers are back in the studio with Artistic Director Sue Schroeder and Guest Collaborator Amanda K. Miller-Fasshauer to revisit their process of "a world too wide" As per usual with this work, the dancers are whisked away well beyond their comfort zone, abandoning old habits and inhabiting a new type of body intelligence. Although many of us left the workday not knowing whether CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-39093602968614451142014-11-12T20:33:00.001-05:002014-11-12T20:33:27.729-05:00CORE at Cucalorus
Thalian Hall
This week, CORE has traveled to Wilmington, North Carolina to participate in the Cucalorus Film Festival. The dancers have created a piece to accompany a film by Company Manager Patton White. Their work will be shown at Dance-alorus, which is the official opener of the Cucalorus Film Festival; during this event, dancers and choreographers will be presenting work that pairs film CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-9843270964779773872014-11-07T16:47:00.000-05:002014-12-03T21:53:18.032-05:00Finishing up the first week of rehearsal after our break last week...We are getting ready for Willmington, NC to participate in the Cucalorus Film Festival specifically the Dance-A-Lorus. Beautiful, intriguing, moving pictures are going to be paired with live movement on stage. We had a blast just playing and getting silly while finding movement structures and meaning for this piece. Letting go and diving into absolute ridiculousness brought lightness, laughter CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com128tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-44732219456860132072014-11-05T14:27:00.003-05:002014-11-11T20:04:48.912-05:00Houston's Monarch School kicks off its seventh year as part of Dynamic X-Change
At the Monarch School in Houston, the beginning of CORE’s seventh year bringing Dynamic X-Change to their students has been fun and adventurous. Led by CORE's DXC Teaching Artist, local performer and choreographer Leslie Scates, the students at Monarch were thrilled to be having "dance class" with "Miss Leslie" again. The kids have been teaching her Gangnam style and The Wobble, and she's CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-18466732320743366692014-11-05T13:00:00.000-05:002014-11-05T13:00:28.680-05:00And we're back, plus one!And we're back! After a restorative and restful week off, we are back and busy in the studio! We haven't wasted a minute getting back in the swing of things - we started with a great class from Sue this morning (with lots of new faces, which we love!) and got right into remounting 'A World Too Wide' which we have had quite a long break from.
We watched the gorgeous video from the CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-68020978383155864892014-10-27T11:45:00.001-04:002014-10-27T11:45:27.949-04:00Foreign Exchange week: Israel, France, Atlanta, Houston
So last week was full of inspiration! On Monday the company got to take a workshop with the Israeli company Vertigo Dance. After the workshop, we got to visit with them and talk about our experiences on different sides of the world making dances. There are so many similarities in how the work is collaborative between director and dancers and how they explore movement in the studio. There are CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-33497288434734399062014-10-23T22:06:00.000-04:002014-12-03T22:13:34.549-05:00Celebrating Southern/France: a Petanque and Fried Chicken Party
CORE had a big weekend in Atlanta with multiple performances of “Point of View” and “Je Suis” in collaboration with Toulouse, France-based Association Manifeste: at the High Museum, on street corners downtown, and in Historic Fourth Ward Park as part of the closing day of Art on the Atlanta BeltLine. And because that didn’t seem quite enough for one weekend, CORE co-presented Israel-based CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-13724771998580497132014-10-16T20:44:00.000-04:002014-10-16T20:44:10.190-04:00
"Je Suis / I Am"
Finally... the piece is finished!!!! Yes, and it's soooo nice to meet you!
After bringing back all the material we had created with Association Manifest from Toulouse/France last year in October and this year in March during our trip to France has grown into a quite funny piece! All of a sudden it all makes sense.
This week we took it out to our two CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-20839829215363255772014-09-24T18:11:00.004-04:002014-09-24T18:14:41.285-04:00Studio Spotlight: Lyrical Hip-Hop Dance Class Series with Liz West
Elizabeth “Liz” West has been choreographing and teaching
dance classes for 15 years. Her latest dance projects have been Wedding First
Dances and Quiñceanera’s. She currently teaches a Lyrical Hip-Hop Dance Class
Series at Core on Mondays at 8:30pm.
What is Lyrical Hip-Hop Dance? It’s where you dance to the lyrics of R&B,
Neo-Soul, Hip-Hop and/or Pop songs. If you are familiar CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-4363541867906632712014-09-18T20:24:00.002-04:002014-09-18T22:43:56.324-04:00Working Hard and Sore Muscles
We've been kickin' it hard these last two weeks, and it's been feeling great to work and play hard in the studio. I'm super excited about what we'll be showing inside the Mi Casa Your Casa exhibit at the High Museum of Art next week Friday. It's been feeling so satisfying to do this work that now I'm feeling it, and by "it" I mean sore!
I was trying to figure out what I'd blog about and CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-31742837531572805722014-09-07T14:11:00.000-04:002014-09-07T14:16:30.588-04:00And we're backIt feels as if we have started the new season in a place of solid understanding and communication. We are hard at work on the first of two pieces that we will perform in the piazza of the High Museum of Art, a piece centered around the phrase (and the title of the work) "A home is a home is a home". The piece will take place in the new public installation by Hector Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena here CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-13528121200554389342014-08-27T11:13:00.002-04:002014-08-27T11:13:20.847-04:00YAY! Our new season has started!I'm super excited about this upcoming season with CORE. It looks like we have a lot of wonderful projects ahead of us, and I am so ready to get back into the studio and create! I'm also looking forward to being amongst my fellow dancers as it's always invigorating having so many creative energies in one room. I can honestly say I've missed their individual personalities and fun spirits. Here's toCORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-36978410674573661152014-08-25T14:27:00.001-04:002014-08-25T14:27:49.594-04:00CORE hits the road with new programs in West Palm Beach
This past weekend CORE Artistic Director, Sue Schroeder along with Company Manager Patton White traveled to West Palm Beach, FL for two exciting projects bringing CORE into new communities.
Sue and
Kate Klein, the Director of West Palm Beach Atlantic University's dance
program, have developed a project that engages the dance students of WPBAU
in the process of discovering the CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-27261636044148252492014-07-28T21:34:00.002-04:002014-07-28T21:35:48.571-04:00Dynamic X-Change Teaching Artist Lydia Hance
CORE
Collaborator Lydia Hance is a dancer, a choreographer, and a teaching
artist. As part of CORE's Dynamic X-Change, she works with students at the Monarch School.
"My time at the Monarch School as a DX teacher is some of the most rewarding and fruitful time I've spent as a teacher, and that's because it was truly an exchange. It was an exchange of joy, of risk, and of celebration.&CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-59907266007525765392014-07-21T13:59:00.000-04:002014-07-21T13:59:05.910-04:00Thoughts on Fieldwork from Houston Fieldwork Facilitator Neil Ellis OrtsThoughts on Fieldwork from Houston Fieldwork Facilitator Neil Ellis Orts
True confession: I did not like Fieldwork at first. I won't tell the story here, but suffice to say, it was not my cuppa. Or so I thought.
But that experience was in another city. When I moved to Houston in 2003, I needed to meet people, artist people. I knew there was a Fieldwork session here, so I looked it up, CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-75259432741154344322014-07-11T16:00:00.002-04:002014-07-11T16:00:16.100-04:00CORE's Leslie Scates named one of HOUSTON PRESS 100 Creatives
All photos by Catalina Molnari, courtesy of HOUSTON PRESS
Choreographer, dance educator, and CORE collaborator Leslie Scates was recently named one of the Houston's 100 Creatives by Houston Press.
Leslie has created numerous commissions for CORE, including last season's herd, and recently became a Dynamic X-change teacher, working with students at The Monarch School.
"I feel honored to workCORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-24777901377637454022014-05-08T17:08:00.001-04:002014-05-08T17:08:30.929-04:00On Cultural Exchange<!--[if !mso]>
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CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-8384589695435780552014-05-07T15:47:00.000-04:002014-05-07T15:47:44.854-04:00Wonderful Wednesday We had a wonderful final TTI Wednesday here at CORE! We had the pleasure of spending a full day workshoping with incomparable Ann Law. We spent the day expanding our teachers 'tool box' and creating full 5-day lesson plans with partners. Our brains were full and minds were fed with a generous amount new knowledge and insight. One concept that stuck with me was the idea to teach as you. Not to tryCORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-8099233969010512022014-05-05T21:22:00.002-04:002014-05-05T21:22:53.481-04:00Gettin' readyErik is getting' ready to dance...
Anna & Josh gettin' ready for our run through of Heart of the Matter
Patton's feet gettin' ready for our company meeting
Dancers in a meeting, gettin' ready for the week!
CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-57557611410665474362014-04-30T08:58:00.000-04:002014-04-30T08:58:10.597-04:00Monday FundayWe were happy to have Sue back in the studio with us today as we continued work on Vivaldi Dances in the Park!CORE Dancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14449313588200263903noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18047793.post-63792558928378370352014-04-25T18:34:00.000-04:002014-04-25T18:34:26.225-04:00Today was...Today in rehearsal we laughed, we cried, we danced on a journey...
of Baroque
of spirals
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