For more than 25 years, ESDC has provided programming designed to offer ALES’ 3rd graders the opportunity to experience the bravery of creativity and invention as they step into the realm of how one might learn differently and see themselves in the most positive way possible. By incorporating the art form of dance and creative movement
We are delighted to invite you to join us for The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company’s Fall Gala on Sunday, November 12th in a celebration of modern dance in the Capital Region. This year’s gala event, entitled A Sunday Soirée, will take place at the Opalka Gallery on the Albany Campus of Russell Sage College. In
The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company is pleased to join the student dancers and choreographers of the Russell Sage dance division in this concert featuring solo and ensemble works by students, faculty, and ESDC! This year’s concert is produced by ESDC dancer and Sage professor Sara Senecal. The Russell Sage dancers will perform ensemble pieces created
The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will perform new work inspired by the Opalka Gallery's exhibition "Séance: Photographs by Shannon Taggart." For the past twenty years American artist Shannon Taggart (born 1975) has documented Spiritualist practices and communities in the United States, England and Europe. The resulting body of work, Séance, examines Spiritualism’s relationship with human
Pianist Duncan Cumming, violinist Hilary Cumming and cellist Şölen Dikener team up with the revered regional modern dance company in a program of live music and dynamic dance. The evening will feature a new ESDC premiere with the music of David Walther from his CD, Distance. In 2018, the artists collaborated in honor of the 25th
For the 4th year, ESDC offers creative movement workshops to students in the Troy NY School District for its 21st Century After School Program.
ESDC performs in The Egg’s Hart Theater! The ever creative, collaborative choreography of ESDC, resident dance company of The Egg, returns to the stage to perform its annual showcase of imaginative and inspiring works. The company will be joined on stage by musicians Brian Melick and Maria Zemantauski who will play live for Falling (2003).
Through its four-year partnership with UAlbany’s Physics Department for Girl’s Inc.’s Eureka Summer Program, ESDC examines science through dance workshops drawing from the company’s collaboration with an UAlbany Physics professor to develop Choreophysics, an examination of the communion of the arts/dance and sciences/physics.
ESDC will perform with percussionist Brian Melick as part of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall's Barker Park Kids' Summer Series! This interactive performance of ESDC's popular family-friendly production Undercover Playground brings site-specific dance to the public, and encourages kids to think a little more creatively about the playgrounds they visit! Free to the public. Barker
Pre-K – 3rd grades ESDC returns to the Troy Public Library for a Movement Story Hour. The Artistic Director introduces literacy through movement. Reading from the ESDC’s extensive library of children’s books, she incorporates creative movement to enhance the reading experience. Children become a part of the story and find a love of reading.