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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 26, 2010.
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You'll be on our special mailing list, and will receive project updates, rehearsal pics and clips, and news from the project.
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Pics and clips and updates PLUS 1 ticket to a make-your-own-sundae ice cream party with the company.
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Pledge $35 dollars or more on the last day of the project and you'll get a snappy Quis project t-shirt in addition to any other benefits you qualify for.
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Pics and clips, a ticket to a make-your-own-sundae ice cream party with the company PLUS the artistic director's family recipe for Hot Fudge.
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Invitation to private reception with cast and supporters at the premiere in Washington, D.C.
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Coffee with the Artistic Director, and a signed copy of his book: Somatic Ecology.
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Private dance class with up to 10 participants taught by the Artistic Director.
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We invite you to attend a private rehearsal. A once-in-a-lifetime creative thrill! : )
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Name a section of the dance, and be credited with your artistic contribution in the program. At this level the Artistic Staff will share video from rehearsal and let you pick the name for one of the three sections of the performance piece.
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Be cooked a gourmet vegan dinner by the Artistic Director, in your home, with a dancer as sous chef.
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I am a dancer, choreographer, writer, and teacher.
I started dancing at Oberlin College, but graduated with my BA in Environmental Studies. After graduation I spent a year on scholarship at the Alvin Ailey School in New York City, and then dropped out of dance and went to work for W.W. Norton as an Editorial Assistant for Science books. I returned to dance and got my MA (in Dance) from American University in 2004 (on Fellowship.) My thesis connecting environmentalism and dance, "Somatic Ecology", was published as a book in May 2009 by VDG: Verlag.
From 2001-2003 I had a company called the Blackbird Dance Ensemble. We created two evening-length shows of my choreography over two years, performing in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, and North Carolina. I received Young Emerging Artist grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2002 and 2004 for my choreographic work. For a few years after I got my Masters I focused on dancing for other people (including Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Alexandria Ballet, and Jane Franklin.)
In 2005 we founded the not-for-profit Day Eight, and the Arts magazine Bourgeon, and in 2009 the dance company Bettmann Dances. Our first project - All Good Men - was a dance theater adaptation of a Dylan Thomas filmscript. To learn more about Bourgeon and Bettmann Dances visit http://www.dayeight.org.
