Celebrated Emblems: A Conversation with Ellen Sinopoli
Posted: 30 Nov, 2024
We sat down with Artistic Director Ellen Sinopoli of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company for a conversation on her work with Musicians of Ma’alwyck’s Celebrated Emblems. Tell us about how the ESDC came to be where it is today? ESDC’s first concert was at Skidmore College in 1990 and we were very fortunate ...
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Hudson Mohawk Magazine’s Andrea Cunliffe Interviews Ellen Sinopoli
Posted: 01 May, 2024
Ellen Sinopoli is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company (ESDC). She came to Hudson Mohawk Magazine to speak with Andrea Cunliffe. Full Review
The Tremendous Teeter Takes Final Curtain Call
Posted: 14 May, 2023
Article by Wendy Liberatore; To The Pointe Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company’s annual spring concert at The Egg in Albany was a special one – not just because this well-respected local ensemble premiered it latest, a collaboration with artist Calvin Grimm, but because one of Sinopoli’s most beloved dancers, Laura Teeter, took her final bow. ...
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Sinopoli Dance is back live and with new works
Posted: 10 May, 2022
Article by Tresca Weinstien for the Times Union After a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company is back at the Egg on Saturday for their annual May performance. And they’re back with a bang, bringing two new works to the stage along...
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Sinopoli Company Transcends Distance Through Dance
Posted: 20 Jun, 2020
Albany Times Union by Tresca Weinstein Over three decades of dance-making, choreographer Ellen Sinopoli has collaborated with sculptors, painters, poets, architects and physicists. So it’s no surprise that she’s found fresh ways to interact with the medium of the moment: ...
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To the pointe by Wendy Liberatore
Posted: 13 Apr, 2019
'FROM THE MIND:' A JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company’s “From the mind / of a single long vine / one hundred opening lives” is a journey – one into a world that feels ancient, primal and one that tickles the imagination of those watching it unfold. Presented on Friday night at The Egg, the dance based on a haiku poem ...
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Movement in Response to Immovable Objects
Posted: 02 May, 2017
By Tresca Weinstein, 3/2/2017 How do you choreograph a dance performance in an art gallery? Very, very carefully. In creating site-specific work for three shows at the Opalka Gallery over the last four years, Ellen Sinopoli has learned exactly how to protect both the moving and the inanimate elements of the performance. So viewers might notic...
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