The Big Meow…..

 

After the performance: It’s Dance Time Workshops
Express yourself and find your passion in the performing arts.  This one-time fun filled workshop with the dancers from the Big Meow cast incorporates creative problem solving and physical story-telling.

Sunday, October 16
@ The Athenaeum – 201 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA

1:30 pm performance/2 pm – 2:45 pm workshop

Tickets
Children: $7 performance
Performance & workshop for $15

Adults: $12 performance
both performance & workshop for $20

www.janefranklin.com/dance-education/performances-for-children

October 16 - 23

Jane Franklin Dance

The Big Meow (a performance for children) where Little Cat, who desperately wants to belong to the group, is taunted by the neighborhood felines because his meow is too loud. Adapted from the book by Elizabeth Spires. October 16 – The Athenaeum, 201 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA Sunday, October 16 1:30 pm performance; 2 pm – 2:45 pm workshop tickets: www.janefranklin.com/performances Discount: www.janefranklin.com/discount Drop Premiere of Drop, performed to live music composed by Jonathan Kolm "Terra Secundum" Wednesday, Oct 19 at 7:30 pm Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall & Art Center, Alexandria 3001 N Beauregard Street, Alexandria FREE A Vivid Sense of Place A Vivid Sense of Place connects landscape paintings by Freya Grand with music by local composer Steven Rogers to underline the emotional pull of earth and environment. Distant places in Ireland, Iceland, the Andes of Peru, and the Kalahari Desert resonant whether the location has been visited or only imagined. Oct 20, 21 at 8 pm and Oct 23 at 2 pm - Velocity DC at Sidney Harman Hall presented by WPAS and Dance/MetroDC

703-933-1111 | http://www.janefranklin.com

Top 10 Fundraising Tips

Top 10 Fundraising Tips

click on the link above for some good info and ideas. Right now we are working on a series of thank yous to various arts commissions and grants panels. These will be sent via postal mail, but it would be great to take some time to place some calls.
Perhaps we could try this idea at our next Board Meeting?

Take A Deep Breath - Art That Moves

Take a Deep Breath - Art That Moves

Torpedo Factory Arts Center
105 North Union Street
Alexandria VA
April 27th at 7pm
Free.
“Take a Deep Breath” explores the emotional connection to place. There are remote landscapes only known through photographs or through the imagination. Close to home, there are places experienced so frequently that a second look is warranted. Jane Franklin Dance brings both perspectives to life.
A Vivid Sense of Place engages the possibilities of wide open space. This dynamic work, with music by Washington DC composer Steven Rogers, transforms verbal descriptions of untouched landscapes in Iceland, Scotland, Kalahari Desert and the Andes into raw and untamed movement.
Double Take is a dance that compares two experiences of ’seeing.’ Each viewer determines a preferred meaning..the live performance in connection to video or in connection to the interior architecture itself.

Help Jane Franklin Dance? -
We've been approved for
Take a Deep Breath -- Art That Moves @ Torpedo Factory with Kickstarter and have less than 30 days left to reach our $1,000 goal to help fund dancer's stipends and performance expenses. If we don't reach the goal by May 6th at 2:45 we don't receive any of the money. To become a Backer, simply make your pledge at Kickstarter safely and easily for any amount from $1.
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SUPPORT JANE FRANKLIN DANCE

Jane Franklin Dance is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3)organization. Your tax deductible contribution helps us to continue community projects, grow artistically and expand dance education. The company has been recognized as an integral part of the area's cultural life with work that crosses artistic disciplines, and with dance education and community projects for seniors and youth. We are grateful for your support which helps us to make dance visible and available to the community. Contribute

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MAY BENEFIT

Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Blvd
May 15 at 7:00 pm
Tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door.

Zip Through a Tight Space - Performances, light supper, wine tasting and a silent auction. Items from: Atlas Performing Arts Center, Ballet NOVa, Capitol Fringe Festival, Cultural Development Corp, Dance Place, Fast Snail Creative Greetings & Design, Potomac Riverboat Company, Serenity Day Spa, Tempo Restaurant, Washington Suites Alexandria, and Wolf Trap Center for the Arts to name a few!

Do you have a conflict which prevents you from attending our May 15th event?
You can still place a bid on any Silent Auction item through May 13th by email info at janefranklin.com or phone at 703-933-1111.

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SUMMER CAMP
The Mouse of Amherst - Session 3 July 11 - 15
It's Show Time - Session 4 July 18 - 22

Express yourself and find your passion in the performing arts in two engaging full-day dance camps during July. Explore basic dance concepts, creative problem solving, physical story telling and poetry in a fun and interactive way. Click the links above for more information or to enroll online.


THE MOUSE OF AMHERST, adapted from the book by Elizabeth Spires

"this was a wonderful, imaginative show. I took 4 year old and 7 year old girls. They sat with rapt attention for the entire show! Excellent, imaginative choreography and very clever visual presentation and music. We look forward to the next show." R. Interdonato, Goldstar patron

See performances of The Mouse of Amherst at
Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Blvd, Arlington May 7 at 11:30 am & 2:00 pm
$8 Adults/$6 Children
http://www.tickets.artisphere.com/ or by phone: 888.841.2787
Free parking with validation all weekend. Use N. Kent Street garage entrance. Rosslyn Metro (blue/orange) is two blocks away.
Henrico Theatre, Henrico VA May 15 at 2:00 pm

Adapted from the book by Elizabeth Spires, this engaging dance/theatre performance will spark imagination and delight children and adults. The show features Bryan Leister’s video projections created using gaming technology and original music by local composers Steven Rogers and Mark Sylvester.

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Awards:

Jane Franklin Dance has been selected to receive the American Association of University Women Elizabeth Campbell Award for Advancement of the Arts in Arlington on May 7th!
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Forty +

Benefit for Fistula Foundation
UUC of Fairfax
2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton VA
April 30 at 7pm
Free


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Incidence has been selected for Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, May 22
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Jane Franklin Dance,
3700 South Four Mile Run Drive,
Arlington, VA 22206


Our telephone:
703.933.1111

Dance Sampler

Other news first, Jane Franklin Dance was selected to perform Incidence as part of the Reston Arts Festival on May 22. Please catch our free, outdoor performance at 12:30 and 3:00 pm.

We performed last Sunday March 6 as part of INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. The overall feeling is mixed...I was completely wrapped up in the artistic process but once again fell way short on the business end. The marketing, marketing, marketing. With 17 performers we performed for an audience of 52 people in a theatre that seats 168. Embarrassing? yes, what else would it be? You can blame the rain but mostly I blame short comings regarding convincing people to come out and see us. The concert consisted of works for Forty+ , the older dancers, and for the company. Too mixed to market? Not clear enough about just exactly we were presenting? Nobody interested. Maybe a little of each.

On another note, VCA found a bookkeeping error and we received an additional GOS amount this month (I wish that would happen every month).

Dance Sampler is moving ahead and here's the news! (photo above Ari-Den Dance Company, photo by Maggie Pickard)

Performance April 2nd at 5pm and 8pm

Dance Sampler celebrates the Washington DC dance community with a showcase of works by six distinctive choreographers. The performances take place in the intimate Melton Rehearsal Hall at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D Street NW, Washington DC. Including works from: Wayles Haynes, an articulate and limber male solo Nancy Havlik (Dance Performance Group), urban isolation explored through text and pedestrian movement Diana Movius, a balletic vocabulary for 5 women breaking out of hurried routines Meghan Pilling, a group work that explores aspects of grief Orit Sherman (Ari-Den Dance Company), the dynamics of the inner world of life inside a cell Jane Franklin Dance rounds out the program with humorous compromise in a male/female duet Tickets: $25; or $20 with advance purchase. call 703-933-1111 or order online at www.janefranklin.com Photo Credits: Maggie Picard, Paul Gillis Photography, Rachel Pearl, and Tony Powell

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Dance Sampler Update

We are accepting applications through February 18 so it is not too late to apply. The deadline was extended. Please get in touch if you have any questions: http://www.janefranklin.com/performances/dance-sampler or call 703-933-1111.

thanks so much.

Jane

Dance Sampler: Call for Choreography

Hi all - This is a new development; and one I had been thinking of for a while. A few years ago I ran a "Dance Sampler" at Gunston Theatre One. We did it as a day of classes with performances in the evening. I've decided to try this idea again, but this time in a Washington DC venue, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. I know that sometimes choreographers don't have enough opportunities to show work. The first showing is almost "Day 1" of developing a work; other times it might be that a good work has been performed only once or twice but merits another showing. That is where Dance Sampler comes from. A secondary purpose is to get someone to come and see the work....it's the tree falling in the forest thing with nobody there to see or hear it did it really take place? This is the announcement and application you will see posted on our web site and at other listings. Happy new year and please consider this opportunity.

We would like to tell you about Dance Sampler, a festival coordinated by Jane Franklin Dance. Dance Sampler celebrates the great variety of dance that the DC community offers, all in a fabulous showcase of distinctive DC dance artists. We are looking for all styles of dance for the festival and hope that you will submit your excellent work to be a part of it. Since you are a DC Area arts organization or artist, even more the reason to get involved in this endeavor!

Choreography by Vincent Thomas; Paul Gillis Photography

Dance Sampler is a two evening festival on April 1 & 2, 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Melton Rehearsal Hall, presented by Jane Franklin Dance. We are looking for choreography of various topics in a variety of styles and with original takes on individual viewpoints. Subtitled “Your Brain in Real Life” we would like to know your opinion; how you operate, or think. Please include the following information along with a DVD copy of the piece you intend to perform. You may supply a YouTube link in place of a DVD.

Choreographer ________________________________

Title________________________________________

Date performed________________

Number of dancers _______________

Content Description or concept

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Submission deadline is February 11, 2011.
Selected choreographers receive performance space, publicity and marketing, technical support, and a $100 stipend.
Choreographers and dancers must be available for a cue to cue technical rehearsal on April 1 and for both performances.
The performances take place at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Melton Rehearsal Hall, 641 D Street NW, Washington DC.
For additional information call 703-933-1111 or go online www.janefranklin.com.

Submission fee $25. Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for return of materials along with this submission form to:

Jane Franklin Dance, 3700 S Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington VA 22206.

All applications will be reviewed by a panel of three dance specialists. All submissions will receive panelist feedback. Please let us know if you prefer no panelist comments.

Thank you for submitting your work.