“Sinopoli tempts [the audience] with her savvy collaborations with sculptors, poets and musicians”
~ Metroland

"For Ellen Sinopoli, founder of one of upstate New York's premiere dance companies, the creative journey through dance has lead her down a path less traveled, away from social commentary and artistic isolation, and into true collaboration with fields as seemingly foreign to movement as to dance itself." ~ The Artful Mind

COMMISSIONS

Metropolis & Counterflow (2005) – commissioned as a part of The Egg’s Leonard Bernstein Living Legacy Celebration, ESDC collaborated with jazz master Don Bryon and his ensemble of brilliant musicians to present an evening memorable music and dance

Telling Tales (2005) – commissioned by The Egg to create a children’s program of words, sound and movement that brings together Sinopoli’s dancers, storyteller Pleasant DeSpain and percussionist Brian Melick Falling; Winged; Tango for Four (2003) - commissioned by The Egg to celebrate its 25 th anniversary. ESDC created a sensory feast of live music and dance featuring the extraordinary talents of musicians Gideon Freudmann, Don Knaack, Carl Landa, Brian Melick, Siobhan Quinn and Maria Zemantauski Vanishing and Glyphein (2002) - commissioned by the Schenectady Museum and performed on the grounds of the museum incorporating thirteen of Bob Blood's massive metal sculptures Vain Endeavors (1999) - commissioned by Saratoga County Arts Council and performed live with musician Ruth Condell Alsop and Bert Phillips

Rico Songs & Interludes (1997) - commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra
and with the Dogs of Desire performing live to original music by Neil Rolnick

A Soldier's Tale (1995) - commissioned by St. Cecilia's Orchestra and performed with St. Cecilia's Orchestra and Shakespeare & Company at Tanglewood, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and SUNY Cobleskill

COLLABORATIONS

“Sinopoli is an example of the growing movement in the arts to intermingle with each other, blurring the lines of established genres” ~ The Record

Spill Out! (2006)
Collaborators: Francis Bronet, architectural designer; Sidney Fleisher, technical designer; William Harper, composer; Ralph Pascucci, video; David Yergan, lighting design

Becoming (2006)
Collaborators: Hilary Tann, composer; Krassimir Ivanov, musician and Martin A. Olstad, sculptor

Dance Granny Dance (2005)
Collaborators: Pleasant DeSpain, storyteller and Brain Melick, composer

Metropolis (2005)
Collaborator: Don Byron, composer

Animal Rhythms (2003)
Collaborators: Brain Melick, composer

Falling (2003)
Collaborators: Brian Melick and Maria Zemantauski, musicians

Winged (2003)
Collaborator: Siobhan Quinn, vocalist

Tango for Four (2003)
Collaborator: Carl Landa, musician

From the mind/of a single, long vine/one hundred opening lives (2002)
Collaborator: Jim Lewis, wood sculptor

Sandungera (2000)
Collaborators: Thomas Gagnon, visual artist and Nina Tucciarelli, media artist

Juggling Gym (2000)
Collaborator: Benigna Chilla, visual artist

Beating a Path (1999)
Collaborator: Frances Bronet, architectural designer

Nearing Convergence (1999) Collaborator: Benigna Chilla, visual artist and William Harper, composer Cliché (1998) Collaborator: Carl Landa, composer Chrysalis (1997) Collaborator: Joris Reintsema, visual artist Pierre 's Words (1997) Collaborators: Joel Chadabe, composer and Pierre Joris, poet

Clusters (1995)
Collaborator: Rob Kitsos, choreographer

Selchie (1995)
Collaborator: Bairbre McCarthy, storyteller

Frozen Shadows (1994)
Collaborators: Pierre Joris, poet and John Maas, sculptor

A Staying Place (1993)
Collaborator: Charles Steckler, set designer

Exile (1991)
Collaborator: Judy Fitzner Atchinson, composer