Dance in the Somerville Theater

ArtBeat: Sat., July 21st

12:30PM — Emily Beattie
Emily Beattie has been a Somerville based dancer and choreographer for four years, and is a 2007 Somerville Arts Council Artist Grant Recipient. The urgency of Blissterra, is created by the flickering secondary lighting the dancers activate during the work. The subsequent solowork is an exploration of the light/dark regions of the human mind. Performers: Ruth Bronwen, Catherine Mureck, Sarah Turner-Ackley and Emily Beattie.

1:30PM — Indian Dance Showcase
Displaying the diversity of the surrounding community, this showcase features three different styles of Indian dance. The Triveni School of Dance will be performing two traditional Indian dances, Das Avatar and Ganesha Dance, in the Odissi style. A disciple of the Triveni School, Wendy Jehlen’s contemporary choreography is a wide array of world dance and movevent styles. This Spring, Jehlen was commissioned to create “The Moth,” a dance symbolizing the inevitable attraction of the lover towards the beloved, and the annihilation that occurs at their union, for the acclaimed Jahan-e-Khusrau festival in Delhi, India. Aparna Sindhoor has choreographed a contemporary Indian dance interpretation of the story of Beauty and the Beast. The dance will be performed by Sindhoor, Anil Kumar Sukumara Pillai, and Pratheesh Shivandan, who are among the best contemporary dancers from India.

3:00PM — Mosaic Dance Body
Fresh from a commissioned performance at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden in Austin, Mosaic Dance Body is delighted to perform Bodies of Water at ArtBeat 2007. Choreographed by Dawn Davis Loring, the trio is a shimmering meditation on the dynamic movement of water and water creatures within a three-dimensional system littered with the activities of human beings. Bodies of Water was created during a Space Grant Artist Program residency, sponsored by Green Street Studios, premiering October 2006. Performers are: Jessie Boudreau, Lauren Lenihan and ToRena Webb.

4:00PM — Monkeyhouse
Whether writhing on one stilt, or dancing in a shirt of nails, Monkeyhouse’s dance theater creations are “innovative and intelligent” (offoffoff.com) and “anything but conventional” (Boston Herald). Monkeyhouse, voted Best Dance Company in Boston 2006 and 2007 by the Boston Phoenix Readers’ Poll, is a nonprofit organization that stimulates interest in choreography. They will be presenting Excerpts from Anablep, featuring some of their best loved, critically acclaimed dances.



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