Community Arts
Community Arts
Funding for Love Stories, an evening of dance that includes a variety of performances focusing on the many facets of love. This mixed repertory dance concert will feature a collaboration with the deaf and hard of hearing community; a partnership with Avenues for Homeless Youth; and guest choreographer Tierra Foxworth, as well as other original works by Artistic Director Danielle Ricci. The performance will take place at the Cowles Center Tek Box in May 2017.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Denise Prosek: Artistic, administration; Jeanne Morales: Finance, artistic, fundraising; Edie Abnet: Artistic; Jessie Roelofs: Education; Liz Lassiter: Youth programming, artistic, community education; Brittany Lynch: Artistic, organizational development, community service; Maja Wheeler: Artistic, general administration; Mike Alberti: Artistic, education, finance; Tom Loftus: General administration, audience development, artistic.
ACHF Arts Access
Outreach programs will be offered to two schools for the deaf, with workshops being offered that educate the students about the creative process, while also giving them an opportunity to engage in this process first-hand serving up to an estimated 500 children. At the Tek Box, Love Stories will serve approximately 60 adults and 20 youth each performance (May 12 and 13), averaging 160-180 in total attendance and allows company members express themselves creatively, challenged by the content and research as we broaden our reach in the area with partnerships, social justice, and guest choreographers giving the artists opportunity to hone their craft and challenge their technical capabilities. The project will be evaluated through participant counts, written and verbal feedback from surveys that collect demographics and artistic evaluation from audience members, and partnerships. Thursday May 11th, invited members of the community may attend and participate in a talk-back session with the artistic director and artists to spur discussion on any of the pieces in the show to help clarify the intent as well as the motivation behind the dance pieces. Artist surveys will be conducted with dancers and collaborators to gather information about how this project challenged them as well as provide a platform for constructive feedback.
The venue holds 102 seats. Borealis Dance filled 182 seats for both performances. Audience post-performance surveys indicated 60 of the 182 audience members were deaf or hard-of-hearing. Out of those, 46 out of the 60 were experiencing live dance for the first time. Audience members came from the metro area, first and second ring suburbs, as well as Buffalo, Ham Lake, Elk River and Farmington.
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