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Connecticut Dance Alliance!


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· Performance opportunities  · Statewide marketing and visibility

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· Professional development support

· Networking and creative partnerships  · Resource sharing
 

August 2009

Dear Member of Connecticut’s Dance Community,

This is a friendly reminder to join or renew your membership to CONNECTICUT DANCE ALLIANCE for 2009-2010. 

Thanks to many of you, CDA has enjoyed another successful year organizing and strengthening the Connecticut dance community and increasing the awareness and presence of dance in our state. The addition of our e-newsletter “cda newslinks” and an updated website allows us to better serve the dance community. And you may now find us on Facebook to gain more information about all that we do. We have also enhanced a number of our most popular events and increased our membership to the highest level it has been in years. We are thrilled to announce our events for the next six months. 

Our annual CDA Distinguished Achievement Awards Ceremony will honor Kathy Borteck Gersten, Associate Artistic Director of Judy Dworin Performance Project and Coordinator of Moving Matters! Residencies; Catherine J. Fellows, Professor of Dance, Dance Program Director, Central CT State University; and Olivia Sabulao Ilano-Davis, Artistic Director of Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble and Stretching for Life Dance Program, Hartford. The Awards Event with reception, ceremony and performance will take place on Saturday, September 19, 2009, 5:30-7:30pm at the Handel Performing Arts Center, University of Hartford.

The Educators’ Forum: American Modern Dance Heritage will be held at Naugatuck Valley Community College on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 and will include workshops with former Limon Company dancer Paul Dennis (TBD); former director of the Graham School, Marnie Wood; a Sokolow repertory class with Suellen Haag and a discussion of Merce Cunningham’s choreographic process with Susan Matheke. The event also includes lunch, viewing archival dance material and informal networking

And, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Dance will return to the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven on January 18, 2010. “All that Jazz – historical development of Jazz Dance” will include master classes in West African, vintage jazz, modern jazz and much more.

As you can see we have an exciting six months ahead of us (with more to come) and we very much hope you will be a part of it. Send in your dues today and renew your commitment to supporting dance in Connecticut.

Please remember we have a new membership schedule. Your yearly membership will be valid for one year from the date that your subscription is received.

Thank you again for your membership and your support!

Alexa Melonopoulos, VP/Membership
 


The following is a list of Connecticut Dance Alliance members (as of 11/08):
 

Barbara Ally,Wesleyan University Center for the Arts

Elizabeth Barisser, Brass City Ballet

Noble Barker,New Haven Ballet

Mary Barnett

Lindsey Bauer,Waterbury Arts Magnet School

Cindy Bernier,Bernier Dance c/o Performance Dance

Alison Bogatay, Allongé Dance Variations

Kathy Borteck Gersten

Jennifer Brubacher, Elm City Dance Collective

Linda Burns,Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

L’Ana Burton,Creative Dance Continuum

Mary Cadorette-Harris

Alyce Carella, Alyce Carella Dance Centre

Chloe Susan Carlson, Dance Connect,Hartt School Community Division

Lorelei Chang

M. Virginia Chapman

Jill Chase, Jill Chase Dance Studio

Katherine Chowanec

Judie Clark,Clark Dance Theatre

Patience Coleman,Miss Beth’s School of Dance

Debra Collins Ryder, Univ. of Hartford/Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

Mariama Congo,Capitol Theatre Dance Academy

Michele Conklin,Westport-Weston Family Y

Jilianne D’Iorio, Ballet Petite

Olivia Davis,Spectrum in Motion Dance Theater Ensemble

Sue Davison,Hartford Stage Company

Andrew DiCambio, Andrew DiCambio Photography

Joyce DiLauro,Starship Dance Theater

Judy Dworin,Judy Dworin Performance Project/Trinity College

Katherine Eberhardt, Hartford Conservatory

Tracy Flater

Deborah Fried, MD, In Good Company/Yale University

Mark George,Hartt School Community Division, University of Hartford

Laura Glenn,Works, Inc. – Ted Hershey Dance & Music Marathon

Jill Henderson,Hartt School Dance Division, University of Hartford

Phyllis Krechevsky

Kimberly Larson,Backstage Academy of Dance

Paulette Lehrer

Julie Lindquist

Kate Loretz,CT Dance Force

Katharine Loughlin, Choate Rosemary Hall

Meredith Lyons,The Taft School

Sarah Martin

Susan Matheke,ACES/Educational Center for the Arts

Lisa Matias, Lisa Matias Dance Centre/JDPP

Linda Meisenheimer, Jitterbugs Dancewear

Alexa Melonopoulos, Miss Porter’s School

Susan Murphy,Hartford Conservatory

Dr. Cynthia Nazzaro, Springfield College Dept. of Visual & Performing Arts

Clare O’Donnell,O’D’n’Tap

Judith Phelps,Judith Phelps Tango

Ann Quinn,University of Hartford

Michele Rabushka Lysik, Daughters of Heniel Middle Eastern Dance Troupe

Dennis Price,Hartt School Dance Division, University of Hartford

Brett Raphael,Connecticut Ballet

Robert Reader,Hartford Stage Company

Lise Reardan,Eastern CT Ballet, Inc.

James Robey,Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance

Rodeny Rock,Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

Elena Rusnak,Naugatuck Valley Community College

Meaghan C. Sawyer

Ann Schwenzer & Shelley Forker, A Dancer’s Palette LLC Dance Studio

Daya Soudan

Heather Stambo

Pamela L. Tatge, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts

Carol Terry,Greater Hartford’s Dance Umbrella

Jill Vasbinder, SUNY Purchase College

Cathy Weiss,Starship Dance Theater/NVCC

Suzanne Winoski, Lorraine Judd Dance Center LLC

Elaine Young, New Canaan Dance Academy

Darlene A. Zoller, Hartt School Community Division,stop/time dance theater


THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT OF CONNECTICUT DANCE ALLIANCE!
 

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