Friday August 20, 2010 – TAKE Dance offered a two-week summer intensive this year and eighteen young dancers participated, taking daily class from either Take or Jill Echo and then working on pieces from the TAKE Dance repertoire with members of the Company.
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This afternoon there was a well-attended showcase performance; the participating dancers danced an excerpt from a new piece by Take, somewhat comic in tone, reminding me at times of Snow White’s dwarf-pals, or of the goons in PRODIGAL SON. The students stomped, wobbled and swayed…
…and sometimes they took to the floor…
…only to be “revived” by their colleagues.
Emily Chapo, Sylvana Tapia
The dancers then split into two groups to perform an excerpt from Take’s recent success, FLIGHT.
The segment being performed today uses music of Philip Glass and I especially like one stretch of the work where the music’s going very fast and the dancers are moving very slowly. Take is one of the few choreographers who could pull this off convincingly.
Here are a few more of Kokyat’s images from the afternoon:
Sophie Bromberg
Jasmine Saunders, Iwalani Martin
Grace Sanford, Corinna Phillips, Alex Rodabaugh
Grace Sanford
Susan Ponomarenko, Natalie Walters, Sylvana Tapia
Kelsey Berry, Lauren Calzolaio, Sophie Bromberg
Kelsey Berry, Emily Chapo, Andrea Dispenziere
Ensemble in FLIGHT
A big round of applause for all the Intensive participants.
TAKE Dance will appear at the DanceNOW Festival on September 11th, and they will collaborate with the composers of PULSE for performances at Judson Memorial Church on October 14th and 15th; further details of this collaboration will follow.
Photos by Kokyat.
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