The Dance Complex Online Schedule 6/29-7/2
All available on Facebook Live (@DanceComplex) and Instagram Live (@thedancecomplex)
MONDAY 6/29
Coffee Hour with Kledia: featuring Kirsta Sendziak from the School of Classical Ballet
11-12PM EST
Join The Dance Complex’s Communications Director Kledia Spiro as she interviews Dance Complex community members. Kirsta Sendziak began her dance training and education in Buffalo, NY with Clare Fetto of The Festival School of Ballet and Elaine Gardner of Pick of the Crop Dance. She attended Hampshire College, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Psychology. Dancing for over 25 years, and in Boston since 2003, she has taken instruction from Anna Myer, Margot Parsons, Rebecca Rice, Marcus Schulkind, and Wanda Strukus. Kirsta has performed works by Elaine Gardner, Marcus Schulkind, Kelley Donovan and Dancers, Josie Bray and Wanda Strukus.
In 2009, Kirsta became Co-Director of The School of Classical Ballet, incorporating modern and jazz dance techniques into the curriculum. She became Director in 2011, and her incorporation of tradition and innovation into SOCB classes has been featured in articles in Harvard Magazine (January-February 2016, “Raising the Barre”: SOCB’s philosophy of educating children to focus on dance as a component of whole-child development), and Dance Studio Life (December 2016, “The Power of the Page”: SOCB Summer Intensive writing component).
TUESDAY 6/30
DC Live: Modern Jazz with Andy Taylor
3:30-4:30PM EST
Come move and stretch gently. The class focus is balance and gentle strengthening through the Limon and other dance techniques. We begin with a gentle floor warm up and work our way to standing and flowing through basic technique and phrases that are appropriate yet challenging.
WEDNESDAY 7/1
Fireside Chats with Peter: rerun featuring Christal Brown & Amirah Sackett
11-12PM EST
Joined by guests, The Dance Complex’s Executive Artistic Director Peter DiMuro, will be chatting all things dance in Boston and beyond. This week Peter will be joined by Christal Brown & Amirah Sackett
Christal Brown is a choreographer, educator, performer, writer and activist. As a dancer she has toured inter/nationally in her own work and within the companies and works of Bill T. Jones, Liz Lerman, with Chuck Davis African-American Dance Ensemble, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar/Urban Bush Women. For her own company, INSPIRIT, Christal has created and toured to major venues in NYC and around the country, including The Dance Complex. She is a certified Life Mastery Consultant and the Chief Visioning Officer of Steps and Stages Coaching, LLC.
An internationally recognized hip-hop dancer, choreographer, and teacher, Amirah Sackett explores and embodies her Muslim American identity through combining hip-hop movement and Islamic themes. She is widely known for her creation of the choreography and performance group known as, “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic”, which reached viral video fame after being featured on POPSUGAR Celebrity, The Huffington Post, AJ+, and Upworthy. Sackett was honored to be a TEDx speaker, guest lecturer at Harvard University, and a cultural diplomat with the U.S. State Department in Bangladesh and Malaysia.
THURSDAY 7/2
DC Live: #KitchenClass with Jenny Oliver
3:30-4:30PM EST
Description of class: Using the Horton technique and methodology as a guide, #KitchenClasses is designed to condition our bodies and maintain strength.
FRIDAY 7/3
A Night at The Dance Complex: Supper, People on the Move
7PM EST
Silvana Cardell’s Supper, People on the Move! has been greeted with rave reviews and packed houses since its 2015 premiere in Philadelphia. This work brims with the emotional power embedded in the examination of the immigrant journey. From this rich and fertile history Cardell creates evocative forms of movement— abstract, personal, universal—performed with unrelenting physicality and striking moments of beauty. During this journey the audience becomes part of the experience, most notably at the conclusion of the work, when it is invited to join the dancers for a humble meal at the dinner table, which has been transformed into various scenic devices throughout the 55-minute performance. A photo exhibition, “People on the Move,” by Jennifer Baker, featuring personal stories of Philadelphia-area immigrants, will be on display in the lobby before the show.
Directed and Choreographed by Silvana Cardell, an award-winning choreographer, dancer, and educator, and created to the highly regarded original music of Nick Zammuto, Supper, People on the Move! features dancers of supreme ability and daring physicality: William Robinson, Ama Gora, Maria Urrutia, Zach Svoboda, Mackenzie Morris and special guest performance by Merian Soto.
