Presented by the Vermont Dance Alliance and Next Stage Arts in collaboration with the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, with support from the Vermont Arts Council, Open Door Integrative Wellness and the Vermont Creative Network/Chittenden County Zone!
These New England arts organizations are working together to create an interactive Mixed Medium Dance Symposium, open to all, online on November 14th & 15th. Join us for a weekend of events dedicated to Interaction, Adaptation, Engagement, Collaboration & Innovation.
The symposium lives on as one of four signature annual events presented by the Vermont Dance Alliance. VDA is a nonprofit that supports dance artists of all genres, educates the public, and brings high-quality events to the local community. It has been so exciting to expand our capacity and develop a greater vision alongside the teams at the HOP and Next Stage Arts. Collaboration is at the heart of this creatively programmed weekend for artists of all kinds, especially for dance fans interested in our new dance with camera reality.
Participants will share in each other’s work, learn from other dance professionals in the fields of dance/choreography, dance film, and dance studies, and find new inspiration. These sessions offer approaches and creative solutions for how dance can continue to thrive in a time of social upheaval and limited in-person engagement.
Register through the Next Stage ticketing platform here: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/event_step2/OTkyNTU=/92821
VDA members 10% off Day Rate and Weekend Package, plus $5 entry to the film festivals and $5 entry to the Sunday Dance Composition Workshop!
VDA members- email info@vermontdance.org for the Promo Codes!
We ask for two weeks notice for all accessibility requests. Info@vermontdance.org
SYMPOSIUM EVENTS
Saturday November 14th:
11:00 - 11:45am: Artist-Scholar Talk: Finding Ground in an Unstable World with Ann Cooper Albright
Guggenheim Fellow and leading dance scholar Ann Cooper Albright joins us for a timely conversation on cultivating resilience and resistance through dance. She discusses her latest book How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World along with interactive examples from other dance-activist practitioners to explore how to cultivate a responsive, civically-engaged body amidst instability. Choreographer, dance scholar and Hop Director of External Affairs Michael Bodel and dancer, choreographer and Vermont Dance Alliance Founder Hanna Satterlee guide the discussion with an audience Q&A through the live chat. Via Streamyard/Youtube.
Free; no tickets required.
Please register for the link via the HOP website: https://hop.dartmouth.edu/events/ann-cooper-albright
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Every Dancer Can Be A Filmmaker, interactive workshop with Nel Shelby
Join dance filmmaker & video producer Nel Shelby for this 90 minute experiential filmmaking workshop! Learn the basics of creating content for the camera, as well as the basics of at-home editing. Nel will share examples of her work, and instruct participants through both filming a short segment of material as well as a step-by-step tutorial of how to edit dance footage. Open your mind to new possibilities and build your filmmaker's toolbelt! Via zoom.
$18
4:00 - 5:30 p.m. “Chameleon Conversation”
A forum and conversation featuring VDA artists Hannah Dennison, Pauline Jennings and Toby Macnutt who have stayed viable and relevant in shifting their practices and process in this time of upheaval. Facilitated by Next Stage Arts Executive Director Keith Marks.
$18
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Vermont + New Hampshire Filmmakers Festival!
Featuring a diverse array of work from Vermont and New Hampshire dance artists and filmmakers! Sponsored by Open Door Integrative Wellness. Via Vimeo, password protected link will be available for one week for ticket holders.
$8 for general public
$5 for VDA members and Dart students/employees with Promo code
Sunday November 15th:
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Vision with VDA: A Workshop in Dream Building with Christal Brown
Dive deeper into the creative process and set effective goals. It is important for artists to develop and create a vision for their life and their work, create an established value for the work they do and create, and have systems of support that they understand in order to support the work they’re creating. Have a comfortable seat, something to keep you hydrated, something to track your takeaways, and your dreams. Designed for artists in all fields. Via zoom.
$18
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Dance Composition Workshop: "I Am From, We Are From"
In this online choreographic workshop, dancers investigate the concept of identity through both text and movement, navigating their own personal and physical geographies. Dancers have an opportunity to meet and devise together in breakout groups and explore ways of working and dancing with others online. The session culminates in an informal shared performance of participants' work. This workshop is facilitated by NYC-based choreographers and co-leaders of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble John Heginbotham and Rebecca Stenn and is welcome to all dancers with an interest in choreographing. Via zoom.
$18 for general public
$5 for Dartmouth students & VDA members with promo code
4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Networking Social for all Symposium participants
Let us spend this time getting to know new people! Together we will informally share how who we are, where we are located, resources we can share or give to others, and any requests for support or collaborations within the group. Via zoom.
Free for anyone attending any symposium event.
7:00 p.m. Dance Camera West Film Tour
The Dance Camera West (DCW) 2020 touring program features award-winning dance films from the 2020 DCW festival, which showcases the best examples of the expanded possibilities of dance beyond what is presented on stage. Films from Asia, Europe, and the Americas represent dancers young and old and show new visions of the body as the moving image. Runtime approx. 70min , via Youtube.
$8 for general public
$5 for VDA members and Dartmouth employees with Promo code
Free for Dartmouth students
Bringing Dance to Life!
VDA proudly serves its members, cheering on their art and creating opportunities to feature their forms. Vda sends a free weekly e-newsletter to announce events throughout the state of Vermont, as events are always open to the public. Sign up at the bottom of this page to be included, and look for our emails! Dance Alliance members are featured here on our website, with tabs to view their upcoming events and drop-in friendly classes and workshops.
More dance in more places, more of the time!
We hope you will join us!
Bringing Dance to Life!
VDA proudly serves its members, cheering on their art and creating opportunities to feature their forms. Vda sends a free weekly e-newsletter to announce events throughout the state of Vermont, as events are always open to the public. Sign up at the bottom of this page to be included, and look for our emails! Dance Alliance members are featured here on our website, with tabs to view their upcoming events and drop-in friendly classes and workshops.
More dance in more places, more of the time!
We hope you will join us!
Andreas is an artist exploring the creation of conscious media that reflect the stunning animistic web of connection within and all around us, inspiring movements of reverence, beauty, embodied truth and love. His passion is large format black and white photography. Andreas offers his creative services to individuals, artists, and organizations in a collaborative process to express the highest essence of what is wanting to be shared.
CHRISTAL BROWN (performer, choreographer, educator, activist, mother, disciple of Christ)
is the Founder of INSPIRIT, Project: BECOMING, the creator of the Liquid Strength training module for dance and the Chair of Dance and Faculty Director of MiddCORE at Middlebury College. Brown is a native of Kinston, North Carolina, where she remembers accompanying her mother to NAACP meetings and performing at Black Caucus rallies. This early exposure to social responsibility innately produced a strong desire in Brown to put her gifts to work for the good of the communities she inhabits. Brown earned her BFA in Dance and minor in Business from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA in New Media Art and technology from Long Island University. Browns professional journey has been shaped through working with and learning from icons such as Chuck Davis, Bill T. Jones, Andrea E. Woods, Liz Lerman, Blondell Cummings, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Bebe Miller.
Pauline Jennings is a contemporary choreographer compelled to create works for stage, video and interactive installation that attempt to viscerally capture the excitement, confusion and fear accompanying our rapidly changing society. In her often collaborative work, it is important that both the performers and audience partake in a journey together – neither party quite knowing all of the details at the start of a performance, but discovering them together along the way. Developing emergent forms, responsive systems, and modes of audience interactivity has enabled her to choreograph in this manner. Emergent work further demonstrates and attempts to viscerally capture the excitement, confusion and fear that accompany our rapidly changing society. Through her work, Pauline hopes that viewers will have an opportunity to reflect upon and take a more active role in determining their own evolution.
Alexis received a BA in Dance and Biology from Oberlin College, an MAT from The University of Vermont, and is currently finishing an MFA in Dance at MSU. She is a licensed dance teacher, a Vermont Teaching Artist, and has continued her dance training for the past 15 years focusing on multi-cultural dance forms and modern dance, and improvisation.
Alexis is the fine arts dance director and dance coach at Bellows Free Academy St. Albans where she has been teaching jazz, modern and hip hop since 2010. In addition to her work with the BFA dance and drama department, her choreography has also been performed at UVM, the Flynn Theatre, Spielpalast Cabaret, Burlington Quadra-centennial Celebration, Jeh Kulu Drum and Dance Festival, and Bates Dance Festival.
I'm interested in: what defines a body? How do our bodies relate us - to each other, the world?
My training and experience includes a wide breadth of contemporary, improvisational, and adaptive styles, with a childhood foundation in ballet, jazz, and modern dance. I have studied with integrated companies such as AXIS Dance, Stopgap, Candoco, as well as individual teachers, choreographers, and experienced performance mentors. My performance history ranges from yoga studios in small Vermont towns to Danspace St Mark's in New York City to festivals in the UK and Germany.
I am available to teach - dance topics, adaptive strategies, and more; to perform; or to engage in the creation of new work.
Hanna Satterlee creates performance experiences and conceptual artworks for stage, site and film. Hanna holds degrees and certifications in dance therapy, psychology, performance, choreography, vinyassa/yin/restorative yoga, non-profit management and arts integration. Hanna shares these passions as an intergenerational educator, interdisciplinary performer + collaborator, experimental curator and event producer.
Hanna holds a double BA in Dance/Psychology with a concentration in Dance Therapy from Goucher College and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. From 2010-15 Hanna served as the Director of Professional Programming & Director of Teen Jazz at the Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier Vermont, and has been a guest lecturer at Johnson State College and Middlebury College, and adjunct faculty at Vermont Law School, the University of Vermont and currently at Northern Vermont University and Saint Michael's College.
The Hopkins Center's mission is to ignite and sustain a passion for the arts within Dartmouth and its greater community and to provide the core educational environment for the study, creation and presentation of the arts.
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