Troy School District 21st Century After School Program 2025
For the 5th year, ESDC offers creative movement workshops to students in the Troy NY School District for its 21st Century After School Program.
For the 5th year, ESDC offers creative movement workshops to students in the Troy NY School District for its 21st Century After School Program.
Prelude Talk at 7:15 pm The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company concert will feature a reprise of Celebrated Emblems, a highly anticipated first-time collaboration with the Musicians of Ma’alwyck with Brett Wery on clarinet. Also on the program, ESDC will premiere Sometimes I Cascade to music by jazz violinist Leroy Jenkins, a performance of Fade to music by Henryk Gorecki and a return of ESDC’s The
ESDC’s multi-year partnership with the SPAC, Classical Kids, features interactive performances for 10 middle schools annually that introduce students to different dance genres and teaches them about upcoming New York City Ballet summer performances at SPAC. February 26 | Galway CSD March 3 | Gloversville CSD March 5 | Greenwich CSD March 24 | Queensbury
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 Park is
ESDC has a long-standing relationship with museums, including The Hyde, where they previously performed during the 2022 exhibition Transformations: The Art of John Van Alstine. This year, ESDC returns to The Hyde with a brand-new performance inspired by the exhibition George Rickey Across Time. George Rickey (1907–2002) was a trailblazer in kinetic sculpture, crafting stainless steel
Through its five-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 UAlbany Physics professor Keith Earle to develop Choreophysics, an examination of the communion of the arts/dance and sciences/physics.
From September 19, 2025 to July 1, 2026, this project engaged ESDC in thirty-five free performances in locations mostly beyond traditional performance venues such as libraries, community centers, campuses, parks, playgrounds, markets, museums, etc. where people were already gathered. The project served to increase dance activity in the region, celebrate a local resource, expose dance
For more than 25 years, ESDC has provided programming designed to offer ALES’ 2nd and 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
"This year, we celebrate not only the artistry of dance, but also the remarkable anniversary of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, a milestone that honors the creative brilliance of Ellen Sinopoli’s choreography." -Hollis Dorman, President of ESDC Board of Directors Delight in 433 Loft’s exquisite and unique setting in Troy NY Be entertained by
For the 6th year, ESDC offers creative movement workshops to students in the Troy NY School District for its 21st Century After School Program.