Thursday, March 16, 2006

New Website!

Check out our new website at www.wideeyeddance.com

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

Upcoming Performance


Wide-Eyed Dance Theatre presents the 2nd

Ithaca Choreographer Showcase

...featuring Jeanne Goddard, Margaret Irving, Sarah Foster, Jean McGregor, and Audrey Steele

Saturday, October 29th at 7pm

Community School of Music and Arts

3rd Floor Studio Space

330 E. State Street, Ithaca, NY

Tickets $7 at the door

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Monday, October 10, 2005

Syracuse Performance

Artistically Speaking -
a melange of performance art ranging from Film, Theatre, Music, to Dance
Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005- 5:00pm

Location at Carrier Theatre at Mulroy Civic Center Oncenter
421 Montgomery Street, Syracuse, NY
FYI-(315) 449-1313
Tickets - $15

Wide-Eyed Dance Theatre will present a ten minute portion of their repertoire including the newest version of Stale (as a duet) by Sarah Foster and a premier of Margaret Irving's MisComunication.

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Monday, August 29, 2005

Past Performances

Corning Artwalk

Saturday October 8, 2005 at 4pm at Fat Cats

Solo Performace by Wide-Eyed Dance Theatre's very own Sarah Foster. Though much of the work was based off from pieces already existing in the WE Dance repertoire (Stale and an untitled work in progress), the solo versions involved spur-of-the-moment improvisations. In addition, she performed an improv titled Portrait, set to an Amelia Harnas painting, as well as an audience participation improvisation where the audience, combined with chance, inspired the" dance." Thanks to Amelia Harnas for organizing the event!

Dance Showcase - works by faculty, alumni and guests
September 30 & October 1, 2005, 8 p.m.

Boston University Dance Theater
This annual production showcases works from a wide cross section of dance genres.
Dance Showcase features work by alumni, faculty, and guests of Boston University. Several fromer students, Sarah Foster, Heather Harrington, and Liz Roncka, have been invited back to join faculty members Stephanie Creary, David Connolly, Margot Parsons, Anne Marie and John Paul, DeAnna Pellecchia and Micki Taylor-Pinney. There are several premieres.

Information - 617-353-1597

Wide-Eyed Dance Theatre will present the quirky creation - Reversible Spontaneous Combustion, a.k.a. Mad Science.

Click here for directions to the theatre.

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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Past Performances

At the CRS Barn

This was the closing event of the CRS Barn Studio Summerdance season. "Paper or plastic?" There was an abundance of both, tossed with dance and seasoned with music, as the CRS Barn Studio presented
Re:Cycling, A Performance "Happening" on
Saturday, August 20 at 8:00pm.
This one-night-only event featured improvisational dance with live music, as well as choreographed work by dancers from the Finger Lakes region. The grounds and interior of the CRS Barn Studio were festooned with bubble wrap, newsprint, boxes and bottles for thisdiverseeclecticwhimsicalinventiveengagingenergeticentertainingprogram. Participants were invited to "recycle a beloved repertory piece, cycle in something new, create work based on cycles or seasons, ride your bike, burn your old dance clothes, or simply dance in circles."
Dancers and choreographers include: Donna Davenport, Jeanne Goddard, Sarah Foster, Margaret Irving, Risa Lieberwitz, Christi Sobel and Cadence Whittier, with musicians Peter Chwazik (string bass), Steven Stull (voice) and Denes Van Parys (keyboard).
Donation at the door.

Wide-eyed Dance Theatre presented two pieces - Stale (with dancers: Dansingtree Wilson, Kristen Tauer, and Molly McGown, Chor: Sarah Foster) and The Adventure of Marg and Sar: Episode 187a (with dancers Sarah Foster and Margaret Irving. Chor: Sarah Foster and Mandy Howlett, April 2004) - as well as joining in on the recycled improv.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Dance in the Works

Check out the dances we have in the works:

Reversible Spontaneous Combustion: a.k.a., Mad Science
A quirky look into the minds of scientists who spontaneously stumble onto the discovery of their lives, only to uncover the seemingly irreversible consequences.
- premiered National Dance Week 04/2005, performed at Ithacafest 6/2005, to be performed Boston Univeristy Dance Showcase 10/2005
Chor: Sarah Foster
Dancers: Ryan Harkrider, Margaret Irving, Sarah Foster, Bernadette Schremph

The Trap
Did Eve tempt Adam, or did Adam tempt Eve? And what's the difference between La Mort and L'amour. Check out this sultry, yet somewhat shocking duet.
- premiered National Dance Week 04/2005, performed at Ithacafest 6/2005
Chor: Sarah Foster
Dancers: Sarah Foster, Margaret Irving

Iron Maidens
Have you ever had Iron Envy? No we're not talking hard steel and welding vices, we mean domesticity and the disillusionment material objects can have on our daily existence.
- premiered at Ithacafest 6/2005
Chor: Margaret Irving
Dancers: Margaret Irving, Sarah Foster, Sophia, Bernadette Schremph

Stale: memories
Follow the course of three women cloaked in red, as they overcome fears of the past and journey forth as best they can under the rather "stale" circumstances. Don't be surprised if you see a metaphor or two in the use of these everyday props ...
Chor: Sarah Foster
Not yet cast: to be premiered at the CRS Barn Studio August 20, 8pm.

The Shootout
At it again, the banana gang is out to get the apple gang. Or is it the apple out to get the banana? A fast paced play on dancers criss-crossing, turning their backs and winding up in a different places- this dance is bound go somewhere.
Chor: Sarah Foster
Not yet cast

Boomberry Wine
Rhythm, happy fun. Grapes galore.
Chor: Sarah
Not yet cast, in the works...

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First Company Audition

First Open Company Audition
We held our first audition on Saturday, July 30th - and it went fabulously! Between the dancers who couldn't make it and those who just walked through the doors, we've assembled a cast of 12 dancers!

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Wide-eyed Beginnings

A few weeks ago, Margaret Irving and I sat down together in her hot, muggy apartment and drafted our ideas on to paper. Next, those ideas made it into the computer, then to print, then into the hands of our fellow dancer, Ryan Harkrider. We talked, we thought, we wiggled our toes, we furrowed our eyebrows, and even delicately placed our index fingers just under our lower lips. Something was going to happen... and it did.

Here's the first draft of our new dance company's mission statement.


WIDE-EYED DANCE THEATRE

Mission:
To introduce a NEW theatrical medium – a fusion of dance and theatre - to the Ithaca community, local colleges and universities, and surrounding areas.
To collaborate with local artists on costumes, music, art, scene design, and theatrical content.
To offer affordable (if not free) performances to the Ithaca community.
To compensate those performers/artists involved with the company for their time and services.

Company:
§ Sarah Foster: co-founder, artistic director, choreographer, dancer
§ Margaret Irving: co-founder, executive director, choreographer, dancer
§ Ryan Harkrider: co-founder, business manager, dancer
§ Dancers - TBD


Characteristics
§ Quirky
§ thought-provoking
§ fast-paced/energetic
§ comedic
§ theatrical
§ fusion of various dance/theatre techniques


Rehearsal Space
§ Third floor productions – FREE but small
§ Southside Gym – I think is $10/hour, large space, I would imagine a hard floor
§ CSMA - $20/hour, large space
§ City Health Club - $5/person, if not a member, beautiful studio space
§ To look into – Yoga studio by Wegmans, anywhere that is big and danceable
§ intensive weekends at 171 Cedar Arts Center (just a thought)

Money
§ grants
o Community Partnership
o Cornell something or other
o NFA grants
§ personal donations
§ corporate sponsors


Production
§ depending on the venue, would be advantageous to have sound system
§ lights ( find out where to rent and for how much)


Venues
§ KTC – great lights, sound system, and support staff
§ Third floor productions – smaller, more informal space, simple lights, sound?
§ CSMA - ~200 to rent the space
§ Ithaca High School
§ Local School shows around the area
§ Outside on the commons

Advertising
§ Flyers
§ Word of mouth
§ Arts list serves

Action Plan
Step 1: General flyer to the community introducing ourselves and our mission, who we are and what we want to do. General search for dancers or interested parties.
Step 2: Once we establish a group of interested dancers, find a rehearsal space and set rehearsal schedule.
Step 3: Set performance date, place, time for the end of summer debut. Create timeline for advertising, etc.
Step 4: Rehearse, add new pieces onto our repertory. We have: Mad Science, The Trap, Iron Maidens. Teach old choreography: The Adventures of . . . Anticipating new choreography: Banana Shootout, STALE, and Boomberry Wine.

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Sunday, July 24, 2005

Sarah's Bio

Sarah Foster (Choreographer, Dancer), a Corning native, graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in French Language and Literature (2004). She has studied dance at the Ithaca College, New England Ballet, 171 Cedar Arts, in Niger, West Africa and at Boston University where she performed and choreographed regularly with the Dance Theatre Group. Her choreography was selected to represent BU at the ACDF 2001 at Boston U. and ACDF 2004 at Smith College, as well as BU's annual production on the Huntington Mainstage in Boston. While in Boston, she interned with Boston Dance Collective's Summer Outreach Program, and also performed with Medusa Dance. Her Ithaca theatre credits include the Kitchen Theatre’s productions of Science Fair (Ms. Mundani), A December Suite (Celia), A Christmas Carol (Margaret) and the 48-hour Playwrighting Marathon hosted by the KTC. In addition to representing the real-life Angelina Ballerina for National Dance Week (tail included), she’s shown her work at various venues in the Ithaca area and has most recently performed in Jeannie Goddard’s The Handel Project.

Past Choreography includes: Misbehaving (2000), 29.5 grams of fat (2001), Desertification (2003), Pluckin' and Strummin' (2004), The Adventures of Mandy and Sarah: Episode 184 (2004), in addition to the dances listed on the "Dance in the Works" page.

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