The 7th Annual FAB Dance Showcase Comes to the Franco Center Friday 3.2.12

The 7th Annual FAB Dance Showcase Comes to the Franco Center Friday 3.2.12

F.A.B. Dance Showcase

Friday, March 2, 2012 at 7:30pm

Tickets: $10.00 Student/Senior – $14.00 Adult Advance / $12.00 – $16.00 Day of Show

Click here to purchase tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/219564

Tickets also available by calling 207.689.2000 or visiting the Franco Center

A Franco-American Heritage Center Production in Association with Bates College

Sponsored by the Harward Center.

About FAB:

The FAB Dance Showcase is an annual event presented by Bates College and the Franco Center, and sponsored by the Harward Center at Bates. The event aims to be a meeting point and showcase for dancers and choreographers from all over the State of Maine and the region as a whole. Representative artists are selected from local independent dance schools and companies, as well as the dance programs of notable colleges and universities.

The performers for this year’s FAB Dance Showcase are as follows:

Annie Kloppenberg and Todd Coulter (Faculty – Colby College, Waterville, ME )

Art Moves (Sasha Campbell – Norway, ME)

Sonar (Emma Arenstam and Sasha Randall – Portland, ME)

Kate Speer (Lewiston, ME/Colorado)

Collective Motion – Jennifer Bourgault (Portland, ME)

indiedancework (Susan Thompson Brown – Portland, ME)

2ROMA – Patrisha Harms and Christine Simes (Dover New Hamshire)

Androscoggin Dance (Elizabeth Hansen)

Ashley Booker (Student, Bates College – Lewiston, ME)

Shawn Hove (Connecticut College Staff)

Carol Dilley and Rachel Boggia (Faculty – Bates College, Lewiston, ME)

Vicki Perreault (Portland, ME)

Local Talent:

As a highlight, Androscoggin Dance is excited to be presenting two new works in the upcoming FAB performance. The pieces were created for nine young local dancers that participate in the AD intensive program. Amelia Pullen’s modern piece choreographed to “Ohhs and Ahhs” by Need To Breathe, is an intense dance that explores mans attempt at self justification. Elizabeth Hansen has choreographed a fast paced, lighthearted ballet to a jazzy rendition of “Squatty Roo” by Kenny Barron and Regina Carter.

Elizabeth Hansen is currently enjoying her twentieth year as owner and director of The Dance Center in Auburn, Maine, and fourth year as artistic director for the newly founded company and training intensive known as Androscoggin Dance. Elizabeth received her formal training at Skidmore College with Melissa Hayden, Juan Anduze, Elizabeth Carroll, Paul Meija, with many others, and feels very blessed to be able to teach, choreograph, and dance with the Southern Maine community.

Amelia has been teaching for The Dance Center and Androscoggin Dance for six years. She teaches and choreographs ballet, modern, jazz, pointe, and creative movement. She graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Belhaven University. Amelia has also enjoyed many years of training under her mother, Elizabeth Hansen at The Dance Center. She recently choreographed and innovated a contemporary short ballet, “The Magic Painting” with Androscoggin Dance, as well as choreographing CLT’s production of “Jekyll and Hyde.” Amelia looks forward to many more years of enjoying the art, beauty, and expression of dance.

Friends From Afar:

In addition to the local representation, The FAB Dance Showcase is thrilled to engage dance talent from around the region and across the country. Currently an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Kate Speer has studied with such artists as David Dorfman, Doug Varone, Michael Foley, Odile Duboc, Leah Stein, Gesel Mason, and Lisa Kraus. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in dance and biology and frequently attends Bates Dance Festival to get her dance fix. Speer began her dancing at the Dance Center in Lewiston under the direction of Elizabeth Hansen way back in the ’90s. Auburn native and past student of the locale Dance Center, Kate Speer presents her recent solo Fidelity. The material for Fidelity was inspired by creating a short dance-for-camera in which Speer explored the tense emotions of isolation and domesticity. “I had a vision of breaking plates to symbolize a broken relationship and to represent what sometimes happens when in a fight with a partner,” says Speer. In the staged version, the same broken plates line the stage as Speer moves through gestures that both remember tender caresses and affirm the necessity for separation.

Shawn Hove, artistic director of shove gently dance/theatre, received his MFA in Choreography and Dance Technology from the Ohio State (OSU) in 2005 and his BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in 1997. He is a multidisciplinary dance artist investigating and working in dance as a choreographer, dancer, collaborator, educator, lighting designer and media artist. As co-video director, he is going into his tenth year at the Bates Dance Festival where he helps document the festival’s events. Hove currently is a staff/lecturer at Connecticut College where he works as production coordinator, teaches dance production and media in performance courses.

About the Franco Center:

We are Le Centre D’Heritage Franco-Americain. The Franco American Heritage Center in Lewiston, ME, USA.

We believe history and heritage are action verbs, just like community and neighbor. We practice these by engaging members of our community young and old to share their experiences and traditions, so we might all benefit from them.

We’re a performing arts organization that celebrates our Franco-American Heritage; a legacy handed to us by generations of our brave ancestors who relocated here from France, from Quebec, and from all across the globe. We also strive to welcome new visitors and residents to our region, engaging members of our community young and old to share their experiences and traditions, so we might all benefit from them.

We present the best in symphonic music, solo instrumentalists, chorales and choirs, and contemporary music. We have a wildly successful theme night series, as well as more informal nightclub performances.

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