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Open Dance Class with Renowned NYC based Dancer/Choreographer/Writer/Actor,
Gus Solomons, jr.
When: August 25-29, 10:00-11:30 amWhere: Melcer Dance Studio, Nazarian Center
 Photo by: Marla Fodor |
Gus Solomons, jr. will in residence at Rhode Island College from August 23-29
instructing master classes and creating an original piece of work on the RIC
Dance Company.
Gus Solomons, jr created the title role in Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker (1996-99); directs PARADIGM, a repertory dance company for veteran performers; is an Arts Professor at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts; writes about dance for Dance Magazine, Gay City News, DanceInsider.com, Metro Daily; has an Architecture degree from M.I.T.; danced in companies of Pearl Lang, Donald McKayle, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, et al. In 2000, Solomons won a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) for Sustained Achievement in Choreography; in 2001, he was awarded the first annual Robert A. Muh Award from M.I.T. as a distinguished artist alumnus; in 2004, he was awarded the Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beineke Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the American Dance Festival, and in 2006-7, he was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, lecturing at several U.S. universities. Solomons extensive resume further includes solo performances in the companies of Donald McKayle, Joyce Trisler, Pearl Lang, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, among others, and training in Laban technique with Jan Veen at the Boston Conservatory of Music and Graham technique with Robert Cohan. Influenced by his background study of architecture at MIT, Solomons describes his approach to creating choreography as "melted architecture." Admission: $8.00 per class |
Rhode Island College Annual Mini-Series for Rhode Island School Children
When: October 22-24, 10:00 am dailyWhere: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center
 Photo by: Nikki Carrara |
Rhode Island school children will be treated to the RIC Dance Company's Annual
Mini-Concert Series in morning concerts October 22-24 in Sapinsley Hall in the
Nazarian Center. Repertory selections will include works by Gus Solomons, jr.
(NYC), Eva Marie Pacheco (RI), and Andrea Woods (NYC), Michael Bolger (RI), and
Katie McNamara (RI). Offered free to all school children in Rhode Island and
nearby Massachusetts since the 1960s, these concerts provide young audiences
with an informative and enjoyable introduction to contemporary dance forms.
Lastly, Rhode Island community dancers are invited to participate in open Dance
Company classes with visiting choreographers in August and September.
Admission: Free to Local Schools |
Rhode Island College Dance Company's October Concert with Providence Ballet
When: October 24, 2008 @ 8:00 pmWhere: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center
Eva Marie has been the owner and Director of Providence Ballet for the past 13
years as well as its satellite school Providence Ballet @ Aim High Academy in
East Greenwich RI; she joined the dance faculty at RI College in 2004, and Brown
University the spring of 2008. She is also the Artistic Director of the
Providence Youth Ballet which made its Performance debut at the Greenwich Odeum
in the spring of 2004. Currently performing with the Island Moving Company of
Newport RI; A RI native she was a founding member of Festival Ballet under the
Direction of Christine Hennesey and Winthrop Cory. She toured with the Everett
Dance Theatre in 'The Science Project', and 'Body of Work'. When not working
with IMC, she can be found working with Colleen Cavanaugh, of Providence, RI and
carolsomersDANCE of Boston, MA. As a choreographer, she has created several
works for Festival Ballet, including 'Los Caminos' and 'In the Mood', for IMC,
most recently 'Je Ne Regrette Rein'. Eva Marie's first full-length Ballet 'Twas
the Night before Christmas,' premiered in December 1995 with IMC. In the winter
of 2002 she was instrumental in mounting "A Newport Nutcracker" at Rosecliff for
the IMC. Visit the Providence Ballet website for more information.
General Admission: $14 |
Rhode Island College Dance Company Winter Concert w. NYC based PARADIGM Dance Company
When: December 5, 2008 @ 8:00 pmWhere: Sapinsley Hall, Nazarian Center
 Photo by: Tom Caravaglia |
PARADIGM is the performance ensemble founded by Carmen deLavallade, Gus Solomons
jr, and Dudley Williams, and now includes Hope Clarke, Valda Setterfield, Keith
Sabado and Michael Blake. Together they have created an exciting new performance
ensemble that vividly illustrates the eloquence that years of experience bring
to dance expression. These seasoned performers infuse each movement phrase and
gesture with emotional resonance and intense focus that continues the modern
dance traditions.
PARADIGM's long-term goals are to promote and celebrate the talents of mature artists on stage, illustrating the eloquence that years of experience bring to the stage, as well as create a dance repertory specifically for seasoned mature, professional dancers. This repertory is being commissioned from a number of choreographers of different ages and styles. Of special interest to the ensemble is to work with young and emerging choreographers. By doing this PARADIGM works to challenge these artists to explore movement in different ways, as well as search for and utilize performance qualities that each dancer may bring to the creative process. PARADIGM started in 1996 with the trio A Thin Frost. PARADIGM has since performed in numerous venues in New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Virginia, California and Canada to critical and audience acclaim. Performances have included: Symphony Space, Cooper Union, Aaron Davis Hall, Hudson Theatre, Vancouver International Dance Festival, Summer Stages, New York City Center's Fall for Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Admission: $14Admission Discounts for Groups, Senior and Students |