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"I think my dancers may have gotten the most out of it. . .being immersed in dance all day long with four different artists. They rarely get to do that because company life is a lot of rehearsing and performing. When we resumed our tour, they were actually better equipped from the experience."
-Joan Myers Brown, Artistic Director, Philanco
The two week 2006 Free to Rep residency included Philadanco Dance Company with choreographers Uri Sands, Take Ueyama, Bridget Moore, and Anouk van Dijk. During their residency, Philadanco completed the following entrypoints: a lecture demonstration at Florida A&M University discussing the company's history and offering a sampling of their repertory; Philadanco dancers took class with FSU students as Joan Myers Brown observed; worked with the Tallahassee Boys and Girls Club; and presented their process (movement and discussion) with all 4 choreographers in a FSU student, faculty, and staff forum.
biography | collaborators | photos | website
BIOGRAPHY
The Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco), founded by Joan Myers Brown in 1970, is a modern contemporary dance company that tours nationally and internationally to an average of 50 concerts and 40 residencies per year. For 35 years, the company has traveled the country and the world, performing before sold-out audiences of diverse people of all ages, creed, ethnicity and cultural traditions. The company’s continued success can be directly attributed to its professional quality programs, which are comprised of four major components: The Professional Performing Company; the 40 week Instruction and Training Program; 6 week Summer Training program and D/2 (Danco2), our apprentice group. Each program is run at peak efficiency and includes classes in ballet, modern, jazz and African dance. The programs are taught by internationally known guest choreographers and dance teachers.
COLLABORATORS
Uri Sands
Take Ueyama
Bridget Moore
Anouk van Dijk
Uri Sands, Minnesota
Prior to co-founding TU Dance, Uri Sands has been a principal dancer and choreographer with North Carolina Dance Theatre. His choreography has received national recognition for work that fuses classical elegance with edgy contemporary action, pulsating intensity with poetic lyricism. A principal dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre for five years, he was featured in works by Alvin Ailey, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Ulysses Dove, John Butler, George Faison, and Judith Jamison, among others. He has also been a principal dancer with Minnesota Dance Theatre, as well as a dancer with James Sewell Ballet, and continues to choreograph and appear as a guest artist with Complexions under the direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. In addition to several film and television credits, Uri has taught dance extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Uri was awarded a 2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship, a 2005 Princess Grace Award in choreography and the 2005 Sage Cowles Best Performance Award. He and Toni were recently named 2005 Artists of the Year by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. http://www.tudance.org
Take Ueyama, NY
Takehiro Ueyama was born and grew up in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Ueyama began his dance training with Tatsuo Mochizuki. In 1991 he moved to the United States to study at The Juilliard School in New York and graduated in 1995. A former member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company (1995 - 2003), he has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. His television and film credits include appearances on PBS for Acts of Ardor - Dance in America and Dancemaker, a film by Matthew Diamond. He has worked with the Martha Graham Ensemble under the direction of Kazuko Hirabayashi. In 2003 Mr. Ueyama started TAKE Dance Company with four other Paul Taylor dancers, and his own work has been performed in New York and abroad. In addition to working with his own company, he has been performing with Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theatre since 2003.
http://www.takedanceny.com
Bridget Moore, New York City
Bridget Moore is a choreographer and dancer, and was one of two choreographers selected to participate in the 1997 Bates Dance Festival. She began her dance training at Arts Magnet High School, and received her BFA in Dance from Ohio State University. She was a member of the University Dance Company, and received the Helen P. Alkire Scholarship and an award for Excellence in the Arts. She was the recipient of a 1996 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Choreography as well as being named a 1996 guest artist at Wittenberg University. Moore has performed works by Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller, Mark Morris, Pat Graney, Ann Carlson, and Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer. She has presented 29 Ronald K. Brown / Evidence work in Ohio, Texas, and New York City. Ms. Moore, born in Dallas, Texas, currently resides in New York.
Anouk van Dijk, Netherlands
Anouk van Dijk has been working as an independent choreographer since 1992. Her work is characterized by a combination of surprising, virtuous dance and humoristic, every-day situations. As a dancer Anouk van Dijk started out in the eighties with the Rotterdam Dance Group. She then joined Amanda Miller’s Pretty Ugly Dance Company, being one of the original cast members of this notorious group. With her production Nothing Hurts (a co production with German theatre director Falk Richter) Anouk van Dijk got international acclaim as a choreographer, her work being selected for the prestigious Theatertreffen in Berlin. After this her choreographies were in demand all throughout Europe, Russia and the US. In 1998 she founded her own company anoukvandijk dc to further develop her work, for which she was two years later awarded the Lucas Hoving Prize during the yearly Dutch Dance Days (of which Johan Inger - now directing the Cullberg Ballet - was next year’s winner). Next to her work as a choreographer Anouk van Dijk is a dedicated teacher of the movement-technique she developed during her career, the Countertechnique. http://www.anoukvandijk.com
PHOTOS
WEBSITE
http://www.philadanco.org
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