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“Sinopoli’s dances are celebrations of pure movement that combine the philosophical and cerebral with raw rhythm and musicality”
~ Taconic Weekend
2016-2017 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
~ denotes free performance
~ Monday, August 1 & Tuesday August 2, 2016
Undercover Playground
ESDC brings its site specific performance to summer camps in 9 Columbia County locations
Rain dates - August 3rd & 4th
~ Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 12 noon
The Egg's Made in the Shade Series, Albany
Outdoor Concert
www.theegg.org
ESDC shares The Egg's outdoor stage with summer residents, the Ajkun Ballet Theatre
~ Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 11 am
Barker Park, Troy
Movement Story Hour
www.troymusichall.org
Ellen Sinopoli leads children in creative movement inspired by books as part of Barker Park Kids' Summer Series
~ Sunday, August 27, 2016 at 2 pm
River Street, Troy
Movement Story Hour
www.theenchantedcitytroy.org
Ellen Sinopoli leads children in creative movement inspired by books, on the Wee Folk Wonderland Stage at The Enchanted City
September 2016 - November 2016
Outreach Residency
Center for Disability Services, Smith Center, Guilderland
*Performance November 18, 2016 at 11 am, at the Albany Academy for Girls
ESDC has been bringing creative movement and aesthetic experiences to adults with special needs for three years. The November performance will highlight this special population's ever-expanding creativity, combining movement with visual art created by participants.
September 2016 - November 2016
Outreach Residency
Center for Disability Services, Langan School, Albany
*Performance November 28, 2016 from 3:15-5:15
Now in its second year, this unique outreach program brings ESDC's creative movement workshops to children and young adults with special needs. The November performance will showcase the students' creative and artistic growth.
September 2016 - May 2017
Outreach Residency
Living Resources, Bethlehem
ESDC conducts monthly creative movement workshops for middle school students with special needs.
September 2016 - June 2017
Arts-in-Education Residency
Abram Lansing Elementary School, Cohoes
ESDC returns for its third year-long residency with Pre-K and 3rd Grade students at Abram Lansing. Pre-K students experience bi-weekly movement story hours relating dance with literacy. For the 3rd Graders, ESDC uses creative movement to explore, reinforce, and extend social studies concepts in relation to four countries they will study throughout the year: Egypt, Norway, Japan, and Brazil.
Friday & Saturday, October 21 & 22, 2016 at 8 pm
SleepWalks: The Body of Dreams
Chapel & Cultural Center, Troy
This multimedia performance presents dance and visual art derived from collective dream experiences shared by ESDC in collaboration with sound/video artist Andrea Williams, composer Lee Pembleton and scientist Todd Anderson
Friday, October 28, 2016 from 6-8 pm
Panel Discussion
Troy Public Library, Troy
Ellen Sinopoli is joined by digital artist david allen and composer Maria Zemantauski for a panel discussion
of the creative process behind their newest collaboration, Pre:SENSE, which will be premiered Friday, February
24, 2017 at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity in Troy.
Friday & Saturday, November 11 & 12, 2016 at 7 pm
Guest Company for Faculty/Student Concert
Russell Sage College Meader Little Theater
tickets.sage.edu
(518) 244-2248
Students and Faculty at Russell Sage College share the stage with ESDC in this annual concert
Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 10 am
ChoreoPhysics Arts-in-Education Performance
UAlbany PAC, Albany
www.albany.edu/pac/
(518) 442-3995
In this presentation formulated for high school science students, ESDC teams up with physicist Dr. Keith Earle to explore the intersection of scientific scholarship and the performing arts
Friday, January 27, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Concert
Massry Center for the Arts, College of St. Rose, Albany
www.strose.edu
(518) 337-4871
ESDC marks its first performance at the Massry Center with an evening of modern dance that features music compositions performed live by student and faculty ensembles
~ Friday, February 24, 2017 at 6, 7 & 8 pm
Pre:SENSE Performance
Tech Valley Center of Gravity, Troy
Pre:SENSE is a dance, music, and digital art performance at the intersection of expressive movement and computational interfaces - a collaboration with ESDC, digital artist david allen and composer Maria Zemantauski that explores the difference between the way technologies and human beings see the body
~ Friday, March 3, 2017 at 6:30 Pre-show gallery tour at 5:30
Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 3:00
Gallery Performance
The Sage Colleges of Albany, Opalka Gallery
www.opalka.sage.edu
ESDC returns to the Opalka Gallery with performances inspired by the stone carvings of Austrian-born sculptor,
Caroline Ramersdorfer. On Friday, March 3, the artist will lead a tour of her exhibit, which is free and open to the public.
Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 8 pm
Showcase
UPAC, Kingston
ulsterballet.org/festival.html
(845) 339-6088
ESDC participates in Ulster Ballet's 34th annual showcase performance, bringing disparate and distinct
genres of dance together to the UPAC stage
Friday, May 5, 2017 at 8 pm
Concert
The Egg, Albany
www.theegg.org
(518) 473-1845
Ellen Sinopoli leads a Prelude Talk at 7:15 pm
ESDC's annual home base concert in The Egg's Hart Theatre is a spectacular celebration of the dance company's 25th season as the resident company of The Egg
Late Spring, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Concert
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli
