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FALL SEASON ALL DANCE KICK OFF PARTY
September 15th, Wednesday, at SkyBar/Beacon Hotel
(17th and Rhode Island NW)
5:30- 8:00 pm
Share your upcoming season while rubbing elbows with the dance savvy and dance curious at our first ever Dance Season Kick-Off...invite your supporters and those you've been dieing to get to know to join us.
There'll be drink specials, a place to display your season brochures and a sneak peak at the
SHOULD I QUIT MY DAY JOB? DANCE-OFF contestants,
info on the Awards and Velocity, too.
Let us know you are coming: info@dancemetrodc.org
Should I Quit My Day Job? Dance-Off:
:Do you work with a bunch of bakers, a crowd of cops, a swarm of psychologists? Or know folks who get animated by a cause that really moves them to move? We want them!
Help connect us with REAL people- who don't dance for a living or a vocation - who wanna dance for a cause...
In the "Should I Quit My Day Job? Dance-Off", real people team up with a choreographer to create short dances that will be compete for a chance to be performed on the 10th Annual MetroDC Dance Awards. Along the way, there will be chances to raise money for each team's favorite charity- including your dance company? - raise awareness for dance and raise a heartbeat or two!
Let us know who these folks are at info@dancemerodc.org
For some summer reading....
Developing
MegaNew
Definitive
Catalyzing
Info
for 2010/11
Calendar Highlights below ....scroll down!
LIVE! SEE! DO! Dance
www.dancemetrodc.org:
: the new website will debut as soon as we get the new dress we bought for its coming out party altered! Look new and improved ways to list your dance events and more user friendly portals for the general public to get to know you and your work better.
Dance Is The Answer 2011:
: still opens on tax day, April 15th, and this installment reaches out with a theme of Art That Moves! Reach out to your visually stimulated friends as we team up with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, area studios/galleries- and any empty wall or lobby space you have in your studios or venues- to perform or just promenade through art that takes a literal-to-abstract view to moving, movement, momentum...
Speaking of Moving!
We are traveling to a location near you soon! Look for us to be in residence in Virginia and Maryland- both virtually AND physically, as we unveil some new partnerships in the next few months...
We’re bundling and so can you!
DancePassPRO now does more than get you a seat in the theater!! It will now be available for purchase (to those who qualify) at individual and organization rates beginning later this summer, with an effective start date of September 1.
You’ll still be able to list performances on the website without it, but your upgrade through purchasing DancePassPRO will allow you a bundle of other one-stop shopping perks: special placement for listings and photos, banner ads, multiple listings, as well as discounts to performances as before. More info to come asap!
Should I Keep My Day Job? Dance Off:
: brings REAL people who wanna move together with local choreographers! Interested in directing a bunch of bakers, a crowd of cops, a swarm of psychologists? Look for details on the website under opportunities soon for more info!
The 10th MetroDC Dance Awards:
: moves to October, and to the Harman! REAL people winners of the Should I Keep My Day Job Dance Off will join!
VelocityDC Dance Festival:
: once again at the Harman, with performances preceded by the Awards earlier that week. MRP and Velocity team up again for Late Night!!! too.
Dance Town Hall Meetings, Roundtables and Summits:
: are you tip-toeing through the dancing tulips and don’t feel like you have a clue? The Advisory Committee and Staff of Dance/ MetroDC will hold two Dance Town Halls (one each, fall and spring!) so you can be more a part of the process.
Forward 5/Professional Capacity Building Workshops:
: this current crop of F5’s has been experimenting and evaluating processes and products all year. This pilot has taught us a lot, and we will share with you in our Nov and Dec sessions in open sessions for capacity building for all. In the meantime, look to the last weekend of Sept, when we celebrate the beginning of the season.
: the NEXT group of F5’s? Look for application materials to appear early in 2011 for a start time beginning in June!
2010/11 Season Highlights
Dates subject to improvisation and/or choreographic changes: check the website!
September
15th FALL SEASON ALL DANCE KICK OFF PARTY
at SkyBar/Beacon Hotel (17th and Rhode Island NW)
5:30- 8:00 pm
Share your upcoming season while rubbing elbows with the dance savvy and dance curious at our first ever Dance Season Kick-Off...invite your supporters and those you've been dieing to get to know to join us.
There'll be drink specials, a place to display your season brochures and a sneak peak at the SHOULD I QUIT MY DAY JOB? DANCE-OFF contestants,info on the Awards and Velocity, too.
Let us know you are coming: info@dancemetrodc.org
25th, 26th
Forward 5: Portions Open for Workshop and Public Showing with special guest Liz Lerman
October
3rd
Prelude Honors for the 10th MetroDC Dance Awards/Millennium Stage
6th
FINALS: SHOULD I QUIT MY DAY JOB? DANCE OFF!!!
Ceremony and Honors for the 10th MetroDC Dance Awards/Harman Center
7th,8th, 9th
VelocityDC Dance Festival/Harman Center
9th
VelocityDC Dance Festival/Late Night!!!
November
14th
Town Hall Meeting #1 for Community w/ Advisory Comm 5:30 – 7:30pm
December
3rd 4th
Forward 5: Portions Open for Workshop and Public Showing
AWARDS: NOMINATE EARLY AND OFTEN...Why not nominate Fall performances now, before the Spring gets away from you???
April
15th
Dance Is the Answer: ART THAT MOVES Begins!!!!
May
2nd
Dance Is the Answer: ART THAT MOVES Ends
June
12th
Town Hall Meeting #2 for Community w/Advisory Comm 5:30 – 7:30pm
15th
Awards Nominations DUE
29th
SOLSTICE: Looking Back, Looking Forward PARTY
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