Gravity Dance Collective

The submissions for the Ignite Festival of Emerging Artists are open and the deadline is soon approaching! Get those submissions in!

http://sagetheatre.com/index.php/2017-2018-season/ignite-2018-call-for-artists/

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Looking to catch some performances and have some spare time? There are volunteer opportunities available for the next two weeks!

HPR: Volunteer - The High Performance Rodeo: Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts The High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts, is the largest festival of its kind in Western Canada, featuring theatre, music, comedy, dance, film, visual art and more. It is fertile ground for all things vital, surprising, progressive and wild.

Gravity Dance Collective is holding auditions THIS Sunday from 1-3pm. This opportunity will allow you to work with up to 5 emerging to mid-career choreographers, to take technique class once a month, and to perform in our showcase in April 2018 at the Pumphouse Theatre.

Please check the website (www.gravitydance.ca) for audition location and information. Please email us to book your spot.

Meet our final Choreographer for the 2018 season!

Hailing from Toronto, Chenise Mitchell has been dancing and performing since the age of five. She continued to develop her passion and skills at Cawthra Park Secondary School’s performing arts program. Here, she was met with many incredible opportunities including training from well choreographers such as: Nicholas Villeneuve, directors and interpreters at Dancemakers, Sharon Wong and Belinda McGuire. These artists helped her gain courage and insight for dance as a career and she was able to perform on stages in Miami and New York City. While at Ryerson University’s dance program she was able to hone her passion for theatrical and collaborative performing arts. She took hold of opportunities to dance at music concerts, WE Day, Dance Ontario, weddings and special events. Ryerson is where her love of jazz was ignited. That love of jazz was further fueled at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, which was her reason for moving to Calgary. During her 2 years in the Professional Training Program at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks she was and remains grateful to further develop her artistry with the gentle pushes from the DJD artistic faculty. The DJD PTP is where she found a performance partner in crime, Alicia Ward. Together as Yapping Ladies they delight audiences with their theatrical, tap comedy performances. Chenise’s evolution and passion for collaboration has connected her with performers of different disciplines. In Calgary she has performed in: Annual Alberta Dance Festival, Ignite! Festivals, Theatre Junction Lab, Fluid Fest, Spirit Fire’s A Streetcar Named Desire, 15 Minutes of Fame Rosebud Festival and Handsome Alice’s inVISIBLE to name a few. Chenise is pleasantly surprised that Calgary has been a place where her voice, artistry and passion can flourish.

Meet a choreographer!

Kara is a Vancouver born dance artist graduated from the Arts Umbrella Professional Dance Program and is an alumnus of their Senior Dance Company. Her training took her to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Summer Program, L’Ecole Superieure de Ballet du Quebec, the Banff Summer Training Program and Springboard Dance Montreal. As a performer, Kara apprenticed with Josh Beamish’s MOVE: the Company and Amber Funk Barton's the Response, toured Western Canada with Judith Marcuse's interdisciplinary show Earth=home and John Kaplan's Fundraising Magic show. Kara received mentorship on her choreographic practice from Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg through the pilot project Art Police in 2013. Her work has been shown throughout Canada and she has been growing her choreographic practice in Calgary through residencies with W&M Physical Theatre, Theatre Junction’s TJ Labs and Springboard Performance’s containR. Kara has been teaching since the age of 15 and seeks to cultivate a love and respect for the work of dance in her students. She has taught all ages and skill levels across British Columbia and Alberta, setting choreography on advanced students and young professionals. She is a much sought after instructor and choreographer having worked with students at the Alberta Dance Academy, FreeHouse Dance Plus, Decidedly Jazz Dance Centre, Springbank Dancers, Counterpoint Dance Academy, Trip the Light Youth Company, Caulfield School of Dance, and Danza.

Auditions are coming up November 5th! -

Auditions are coming up November 5th! GRAVITY DANCE COLLECTIVE invites pre-professional dancers, ages 17+ to audition for our 2018 season.  Please call or email to book a spot.  CV and head shot will be required. Video Auditions will be accepted up until November 5th.  Please include a brief introduction, warm up and a combination and/o...

Introducing another choreographer for our 2018 show! You can catch Meghann in Fluid Festival's Triple Bill, performing in 'It began with watching', choreographed by Melanie Kloetzel/kloetzel&co. Oct. 27th and 28th @ 8PM. Link for event: https://www.facebook.com/events/115480862503062/

Meghann Michalsky completed her BA in Contemporary Dance at the University of Calgary, with a concentration in Choreography and Performance. Since graduating, her drive and passion have led her to explore and expand her contemporary dance knowledge through studies in Montreal, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Berlin. As a performer she has worked with an array of individual artists and companies, including: Pam Tzeng, Cloudsway Dance Theatre, kloetzel&co, Dance Action Lab, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, and Jason Owin F. Galeos. Michalsky’s choreographies have been showcased in festivals such as Dance Montage, Annual Alberta Dance Festival, TJ Labs, Dancefest , Mpact’s Motion Affair and abroad in Helsinki, Finland. She is excited to present her new work Residue at Project InTandem and Convergence in Edmonton this November.

Meet another one of our choreographers for our 2018 show!

Born in Calgary, Christahh became captivated by the art of dance at a young age. She has studied a variety of dance styles and is the recipient of scholarships from the Edmonton School of Ballet. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Dance Program at the University of Calgary with a focus on choreography and performance in the spring of 2016. Christahh has had the privilege of working with a number of artists including Sabrina Naz at the Obsidian Awards (2016), Deanne Walsh in Ciclo De La Vida (2016), as well as dancing in Suite of Dreams (2014) originally choreographed by Hannah Stillwell. In 2014-2015 Christahh was a member of the pre-professional training company, SURGE, directed by Melissa Monteros and Wojciech Mochniej. In the summer of 2015, she was an intern with OYO (Ombetja Yehinga Organisation) dance troupe in Windhoek, Namibia where she contributed in the creation of Ania, a piece that tackles the issue of teen pregnancy. She has completed two years of the professional training program at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks and dances with a local hip-hop crew, The Tomorrows, under the direction of Lenny Len. Christahh is also the creator of Dance YYC, a website dedicated to providing an organized platform to help encourage others to engage in a variety of dance events, workshops and shows in Calgary.

We thoroughly enjoyed our time at Fluid Fest: Double Bill - YES & Sara does a Solo watching two fantastic Canadian soloists explore the comedic (and incredibly honest) side of contemporary dance! Be sure to check out this or the many other performances and workshops hosted by Fluid Festival this October!

Springboard Performance Springboard Performance's 2017 Fluid Fest

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Gravity Dance Collective is holding auditions on Sunday November 5th from 1-3pm. Please email or call to book a spot! Check out our website for more info. Link in bio!