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Recommended: Elementary level
Supplemental Materials/Activities:
Teacher study guide provided
Question and answer period follows each performance
Workshop programs available both pre- and post-show
Fee: $1,350 for September thru October and $1,500 from April thru June
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Playground is the newest project of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance
Company and is a site specific piece that is performed on playgrounds.
It is being developed over the spring and summer months and will premiere
in public performances in the late summer/early fall of 2011. It will
then be available to be a part of the company's Arts-in-Education programs.
The work will be approximately 15 minutes in length and it is anticipated
that it will be performed with live musical accompaniment. Since playgrounds
are all different, the work will have a strong improvisational quality
and will vary with every location. For schools, the entire program will
be approximately 30 minutes in length - a five minute introduction, the
performance work and a ten minute Q&A period with the performers. When
visiting schools with the program, the company can present the full 30
minute program 3 to 4 times over the course of the day with several classes
attending each showing. The size and setting of each individual playground
will determine the number of audience members who can attend at any one
time. Since the weather is a factor, we will want to work out a secondary
date in case Mother Nature isn't cooperating. In addition to the performance
programs, the company can come to school in advance of the performances
or return to the school after the performances to work with individual
classes in movement workshops. Two of the company's dancers will conduct
these workshops which will explore basic movement vocabulary, the nature
of improvisation and the use of structure in movement work.
For more information, contact
Kim Engel
Education Coordinator
(518) 442-5738
kengel@albany.edu
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