new beginnings!

Here at Core Performance Company we are gearing up for some really exciting stuff! We have a major residency coming up in Arkansas in order to promote healthy body image. On other fronts, we will be creating a "dance walk," of sorts here in downtown Decatur. We are still in the preliminary stages of actually mapping out the routes of the walk, but it is something that should not be missed!

NTH

Tonight is opening night of Navigating the Hallway with KDNY!! Please come check out this very special performance tonight and tomorrow!!

http://www.coredance.org/atlanta/nov-17-18-navigating-the-hallway/

hammer time

Blake and Claire (CORE engineering team) shown here taking care of some minor studio repairs.

TTI: Round 2

Tomorrow we are joined by the generous and knowledgeable Dance Education Consultant Melissa Dittmar Joy to discuss "multiple intelligences" and arts education.

The session will commence at 9am and run till 4pm and promises to fill us with information and inspiration. Come one, come all!

CORE vs. corps

Wanna know how compelling CORE dancers are? How they just make you wanna get up and dance? Exhibit A: our friendly soldier on the Decatur square. Nice shoulder stand, sir. We salute you.

Room writing

Alex and Claire (seen here) map out the space as we gear up for the remount of Sue Schroeder's Room and the Atlanta premier of Kathleen Dyer's Navigating the Hallway with our guests KDNY. The gals from New York arrive Nov.16th and will be teaching class Wed. Thurs. and Friday 9-10:30 am at CORE studios. Come on out for Lunchtime in the Studio next Thursday and our performances the 17th and 18th at 8pm at CORE studios. You don't want to miss it!

Follow this link for the trailer of Navigating the Hallway! http://youtu.be/E4WcohssFlM

Break on Through to the Other Side

CORE will be performing this Friday for TedX at the Atlanta Zoo. The topic is Breakthrough.

What do you think of when you hear the word "breakthrough?"

Blake's response: Cellophane...

Alex's response: I think of science & technology.

From Halloween Monday

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

Corian & Alisa work on choreography someone warms up their feet

What do Claire and Alisa bring to the Table today?

Perhaps they are 'tabling' their issues?

Do they like to shop at 'Sur le Table'

Maybe they are looking at the 'table of contents'?

Or are they discussing the 'Periodic Table of Elements'?

Actually I think that they are working on 'Navigating the Hallway'!

See what they serve at their Table

November 17th, and 18th, when we perform 'Navigating the Hallway' at CORE Studio

Today is Food Day!

Today is FOOD DAY and it is very appropriate that right now Sue is in Conway, Arkansas as part of The Moving Toward Health Project, CORE’s long-term collaboration with the University of Central Arkansas.  The mission of MTH is to use dance to talk about health and to raise awareness of body image, healthy lifestyle and disordered eating.  For the next few days she is meeting with faculty and staff of UCA and the Conway Public School system and members of the Conway Regional Health and Fitness Center.   With this project we are embodying the arts' ability to engender communication and to facilitate change in the context of social issues.  We are engaging the Conway community through meetings, workshops and forums and by creating and performing a new dance work that will premiere in Conway in February, 2012 during National Eating Disorders Awareness week.  Stay tuned for more details!

http://www.facebook.com/FoodDayEatReal

Nourishing the body!

Salon Tomorrow!

Our Salon tomorrow will be exploring the ideas of shared space, compromise, and the components that are inherent in cohabitation.


Below is a link to a podcast that helped to shape some of the work you will see tomorrow.

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/19/138468870/what-the-word-compromise-really-means

Salon
6:30-8pm
CORE Studios
139 Sycamore St
Decatur, GA
Marta Stop, Decatur
Refreshments generously provided by Cafe Alsace

See you tomorrow!!

Dancers get musical

A little clip of the dancers making music outside the office on Monday.

a haiku to breakthrough

forget the rhythm

don't think about any rhyme

searching for breakthrough

namaste

Spittin' lyrics

bounce
flick
shake
move
groove
...breathe.

feet not lifting
from the paper,
repeat; don't refrain.

bounce
flick
shake
move, groove.

such generic names
in a non-judgmental game.
we all nee labels to list as we:

make and shake
move and groove...
get into a groove like Madonna did.
fearless
angsty
breathe:

breathe through the angst, break through the angst
the bounce
the quake
the shake...
and just dance.

break down and dance
break through and dance...
and I didn't say but, I said and.

bounce
flick
shake
move and groove
break down and through
and
dance.

More photos from BCAF

Thank you to Ken Hudson for sending us some more fun photos from last weekend's Bayou City Art Festival performance of BRINK: BREAK::BROKE:?

Bayou City Art Festival!

Practicing the magic, rehearsal for BCAF

 Here are a few photos from yesterday's rehearsals for  "BRINK: BREAK:: BROKE:?" at the Bayou City Art Festival Downtown. The dancers are down there today from now till 4 pm and again tomorrow, so go out and enjoy the show at the festival!

Our magic

Once again those zany CORE dancers descend upon Bayou City Arts Festival.

Who knows what we have up our sleeves? Check out this picture as an indication of what we have planned for Bayou City Arts Festival.