"Where structure is concerned, the complex physicality of Brittany Brown Ceres' "Columbia Chasing" made it the ideal program closer. A sextet for four women and two men, set to sundry techno and minimalist scores, the work etches shifting balances of power, often in successive phrases. A man lifts a woman and somehow he ends up, vulnerable, on her back. Maybe continuity slips occasionally, but the dancers led by Yukie Fujimoto (once of ODC Dance) and Roel Seeber were palpably convincing. The piece looked as if it was assembled with a watchmaker's eye for detail."
-- Allan Ulrich, SF Chronicle 11/9/10

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi...

thank you very much for your connectedness and contributions towards making this a fantastic work! Check back soon for more dance ceres performance opportunities! www.danceceres.org

xox sincerely,
brittany and the dancers
(Roel, Yukie, Max, Cari, Miranda and Becca)

just a quick note to ask you to 'save the date' for our latest new work! We'd love to share this final performance with you on the glorious Cowell Theater stage!
This work has grown into a rushing, detailed and luscious piece that swirls and pulses to reconstitute and heal even the most challenging of life's personal trials. Come watch this stellar cast speed across the stage in deep physical communication to land in balance and profound resolve.

Sharing the bill with us are 4 other incredible choreographers: Lisa Townsend • Lisa Townsend Company • Lisa Townsend Company's Web Site; Erika Tsimbrovsky • Avy K Productions • Avy K Productions Web Site; Robert Dekkers • Post:Ballet • Post:Ballet Company Web Site; Andrew Skeels • Andrew Skeels' Web Site

As always, thank you for supporting live performance!
Cheers,
brittany

WestWave Dance Festival presents dance ceres' latest new work...

Columbia Chasing (premiere)
Wash out the human in me and let me be like the river...

Choreography: brittany brown ceres
Music: "Voicething" by Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory; "Water Vapor" by Aomeba; "The Nurse Who Loved Me" originally by Ken Andrews of Failure, performed by the Section Quartet
Costumes: Kate Mitchell
Dancers: Yukie Fujimoto, Roel Seeber, Cari Bellinghausen, Max Cauthorn, Miranda Mallard, Becca Rozell

With special thanks for significant developmental contributions to Stanford University's Bent Spoon Dance Collective, San Francisco School of the Arts, Joe Landini at the Garage (AIR Residency 2010), Anna Greenberg, Kirstin Damrow, Jenny Ward, Suzanne Beahrs, Rozelle Polido and the many many generous donors. http://www.danceceres.org/support.html

The Details

premieres Monday, Nov. 8 at 8pm

West Wave Dance Festival www.westwavedancefestival.org

The Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center, SF
purchase advance tickets online https://www.fortmason.org/tm/tm.cgi...
this event will sell out
or purchase by phone: 415/ 345-7575
If you reach voice mail please leave a message and your call will be returned promptly during business hours.

for more info on the work: http://www.danceceres.org/ColumbiaChasing.html

for some insight into a portion of the creation: http://performingartsclassroom.blogspot.com/2010/07/interview-with-jessica-goldman-gentry.html

The Artists

Yukie Fujimoto is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Irvine. She was a senior member of ODC/San Francisco and retired in 2005 to become the mother of two boys. She is currently on faculty at Mills College.

Roel Seeber started dancing in New York City, at age 10, break dancing with the 560 Breakers. After years as a downhill skier at UofUtah, he graduated cum Laude from Purchase College with a BFA in dance. In 2001, he joined the Limon Dance Company where he danced until joining Project Bandaloop in March of 2008.

Cari Ann Bellinghausen (littlecari.com) is a Chicagoland native who has been dancing for the better part of her lifetime. She majored in dance at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and graduated with honors. She has performed in El Salvador, Costa Rica, San Diego, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. In 2009 her company ×cari's tiny circus× debuted it's first full evening show. When she isn't performing, Cari operates the dog walking/pet care service: Four Legged Fitness.

Maxwell Cauthorn studied and performed with the ODC Dance Jam for 6 years prior to entering the San Francisco School of the Arts. He has studied with many Bay Area dance legends including KT Nelson, Elivia Marta and Gregory Dawson. Currently in his forth year of study on the advanced track at the San Francisco Ballet training program, Max is a junior in high school. He plans to pursue dance as his profession.

Miranda Mallard grew up in Fairfield, Iowa and received her BA in Dance and BM in Voice in '09. Mallard teaches dance at ROCO studios, teaches private voice and piano lessons and is also an assistant band teacher with the San Rafael public elementary schools. When not dancing, singing, or learning a new instrument, she likes to read Sanskrit, practice yoga, and give the Oneness Blessing (or deeksha).

Becca Rozell was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska and her teaching and choreographic career spans both coasts. In New York she taught at Peridance and worked with Andrew Janetti, Vanessa Paige, among others. She currently dances with Weber Dance, teaches at Roco Dance in Marin and is an artist with Performing Arts Workshop. Rozell's choreography has been presented in NYC, Saratoga Springs, D.C., Boston and the Bay Area.

Founded in 2004 by Brittany Brown Ceres, dance ceres, is an ensemble of dancers who devour the performance arena with weighted fluidity, extensions that reach through time, and a dynamically expressive commitment. Described by critics as, "swift and irresistible" (Allan Ulrich, Voiceofdance.com, 7/06) and "lucid and voluptuous" (Rita Felciano, SFBG, 12/07), the core inspiration of the work examines crisis and resilience through intricate and energetic dance. Ceres has produced in the San Francisco Bay Area at West Wave Dance & numerous Bay Area Theater venues and educational facilities, as well as Portland, San Diego, New York, New Zealand & at the American College Dance Festival.

It is the mission of dance ceres is to realize subtlety through action, individuality through community, immediacy through timelessness, and equality through art.

www.danceceres.org

"Brittany Brown Ceres's dances are voluptuous and lucid. They are also finely crafted...for those of us who value imagination and brains, Ceres is a choreographer to watch." —Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian (12/07)

“brainy and luscious” –Rita Felciano, July ‘06

“Brittany Brown Ceres may be WestWave Festival producer, but her Simultaneous Solos, premiered at the top of the bill last Saturday earned its place through talent alone. -- swift and irresistible.” —Allan Ulrich, Voice Of Dance (7/06)

“Brittany Brown Ceres’s Simultaneous Solos [was a] stunners."—Ann Murphy, Dance View Times (7/06)

"Brittany Brown's Recollection - suggested we were in the presence of genuine craft and individual sensibility" —Allan Ulrich, Voice Of Dance (8/03)

Dear wonderful Kickstarter Group -
We're in the final stages now, thanks to all your support!
We've got a final cast of 6 dancers, the final music and beautiful costumes designed by Kate Mitchell (pictured)! We put it all together this weekend and then we'll have one final showing on 9/26 to get feedback to infuse our last month of rehearsals.

If you or someone you know has a particularly good eye for dance, please feel free to invite them.
Sun, 9/26 - 3-4pm
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
301 – 8th Street #200 (on the corner of Folsom)
San Francisco, CA 94103

For more info and final casting:
http://www.danceceres.org/Company.html
http://www.danceceres.org/ColumbiaChasing.html

For tickets to Nov 8th performance at the Cowell:
https://www.fortmason.org/tm/tm.cgi...
http://www.westwavedancefestival.org/

Thank you again for all of your support!
Cheers,
brittany
(Pictured: Yukie Fujimoto and Roel Seeber)

Dear Kickstarter Family!

We did it! It is with sincere gratitude that I thank you for your donation to dance ceres.

We’re looking forward to our final rehearsal process to rework the material to include Yukie and Roel and weave everyone back together in the late summer. I look forward to challenging my choreographic vision and further the artistry of my work through this collaborative opportunity. Thank you very much for your generosity in helping to make this happen!

For your records, our fiscal sponsor, Dance Art, Inc.’s TAX ID is 27-0025008. No goods or services were exchanged for this donation as it was applied directly to the creation of the following project: Columbia Chasing (premiere, November 8th 2010 at the West Wave Dance Festival) Please print this letter for your files.

Please enjoy the updates below and always feel free to be in touch with me if you have any questions! This project continues to challenge us. But as I mentioned during our open rehearsal for Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week - sometimes art facilitates and sometimes it rides along side trying to keep up. Either way, a comfortable companion, even in all its challenges. On behalf of myself, my fiscal sponsor, DanceArt, Inc and Executive Director, Joan Lazarus and I want to say thank you for your contribution.

Sincerely,

Brittany Brown Ceres

CC: Joan Lazarus, Dance Art, Inc.

Thanks to your support, we have made it this far!
Digging into phase two: new material, new music, new dancers.
here's our final update for the Kickstarter Challenge --
Artistically, everything is going so well! and unfortauntely, we were turned down from the Theater Bay Area/Dancers' Group CA$H grant last week. We are still awaiting one more award annoucement, so this is our last call to help us fundraise toward the November Premiere. Your generosity helps keep live performance on the stage! Thank you for all your support.