ARTBEAT SATURDAY, JULY 17th

In the Somerville Theater: Dance!

Mosaic Dance Body

Mosaic Dance Body is a highly irreverent dance-theatre collective founded in Austin, Texas in 1999. After moving to Cambridge in 2002, Mosaic Dance Body regrouped and has shown work at the Dance Complex and Green Street Studios. Mosaic Dance Body will be performing selections from "DRAWERS" including "The Mattel Trilogy" a hilarious cautionary tale about conformity and body image and a piece called "Self-Indulgent Solo."

EgoArt/Nicole Pierce

Nicole is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. EgoArt, Inc., a dance-theater-neovaudevillian company, has performed widely throughout the Northeast. For ArtBeat, EgoArt will perform a piece called “Internacionale,” which includes a monologue, two dances and focuses on themes of espionage, travel and James Bond. The work was inspired by a René Magritte painting and features a score by Somerville composer Nikola Radan.

Zoe Dance

Created in the summer of 2002, Zoé has performed at Earth Dance, Mass Art’s Tower Auditorium and the Dance Complex. Headed by artistic director, Callie Chapman Korn, Zoé Dance will present at this year’s ArtBeat: Rootless Cypresses, in which three dancers share a sculptural, intimate journey into a world that is reminiscent of the tall poised cypress trees; Duet, a solo which has been described as “striking” by the Boston Herald; and a new work composed to the music of Chopin.

Wendy Jehlen

Dancer/Choreographer Wendy Jehlen, a Somerville native, will be presenting several of her recent works. Jehlen's choreography weaves together elements of South Indian classical dance, Brazilian Capoeira, Japanese Butoh, American and European Contemporary dance and American Sign Language poetry.