Company
Retreat With Showing
Friday, May 28, 5:30
Kathryn Posin has made works for
companies as diverse as Netherlands Dance Theater 1 and 2
and The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Most of her works
use new music, pairing the technical vocabulary of ballet
with rigorous musical structures. The music for this new work
is set to the writings of Rabbi Nachman, who believed in speaking
to God directly with clapping, pleading, movement and sound.
This work is for three outstanding ballet dancers all of whom
were also chosen by Suzanne Farrell, in her company, to execute
the works of Balanchine.
Kathryn Posin received a Jewish Studies
Award from the Gallatin School of NYU, where she teaches classes
in the Arts Program. The grant will enable her to make a new
dance work based on Jewish themes.
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Company
Retreat With Showing
Thursday, June 10, 5:30
In partnership with Summer
Stages Dance at Concord Academy, The Yard hosts choreographer
Ana Isabel Keilson and company. “The details of Keilson’s
[work]… read like Firebird played au naturel," writes
Debra Cash in the Boston Phoenix. Keilson is former film and
video archivist for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
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Company
Retreat With Showing
Wednesday, June 23, 5:30
Fresh from a successful run
at New York's Symphony Space, contemporary ballet choreographer
Cherylyn Lavagnino returns to The Yard with seven fantastic
dancers. Lavagnino will show recent repertory and a new work
to Hip Hop music, in which she explores that idiom's rhythmic
and partnering possibilities... in pointe shoes.
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New Works from the Yard 2010 Dance
Company Residency
Friday, June 25, 8:00
Saturday, June 26, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday, June 26, 8:00
Sunday, June 27, 6:00
Mark Dendy and Patricia Hoffbauer,
two artists whose work pushes the boundaries of dance, theater
and performance, create new work for The Yard's 2010 company
residency. The New York Times calls Obie and Bessie
award winner Mark Dendy's work "relentless" and
"striking." Among his many credits, Dendy choreographed
Julie Taymor's production of The Magic Flute at the
Metropolitan Opera. Patricia Hoffbauer and collaborator George
Emilio Sanchez are "fearless and incredibly precise,"
according to the Times's Gia Kourlas.
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 An Evening with The Yard’s Finest,
Honoring Claudia Miller
Friday, July 2, 6:00
Dinner, Show, Dessert Celebration
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAI
Claudia Miller says artists are “visionary without even knowing
it.” We think that’s true of her. Join us for supper
followed by an eclectic show featuring excerpts from YardArts! Opera,
a special appearance by Amy Brenneman, Martha Graham’s iconic
solo Lamentation, and Ella, a virtuosic tour-de force by new Alvin
Ailey artistic director, Robert Battle. It’s all in honor
of Claudia Miller, founder of Artists Pointing the Way. The Yard
thanks Claudia for creating connections, bringing people together,
and helping arts and ideas to thrive on Martha’s Vineyard.
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This event is included in Yard Patron Season Passes
A family friendly mix of dance, theater
and opera with Yard artists
Saturday, July 3, 4:00
A kid-friendly hour including Ella, a high energy virtuosic
solo by new Alvin Ailey artistic director Robert Battle, excerpts
from the ever-beloved Whale Nation performed by Donavon Dietz,
and a few fun arias.
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A Multi-media dance party & visual explosion
brought to you by bombshell sound agents
Saturday, July 3, 5:30
(Also August 22)
YardArts! & the bombshell
sound agents invite you to a one of a kind dance party to celebrate
your indepenDANCE. Visual installations, great sound,
treats from the Scottish Bakehouse, an eclectic performance
by Yard artists... and a happening dance floor.
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A Journey Through Hollywood, Hospitals and Holy
Hotspots Performed by Amy Brenneman
Friday, July 9, 8:00
followed by dessert & champagne
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAISaturday,
July 10, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday, July 10, 8:00
Sunday, July 11, 6:00
Amy Brenneman (Private
Practice, Judging Amy, Heat) returns to her theatrical
roots with Mouth Wide Open, an original performance
that explores the ecstatic, excruciating, humorous dance between
the sacred and profane in her own life. Her spiritual curiosity
has taken her from Buddhist monks in Nepal to an evangelical
church in the Mississippi Delta to the red carpet in Hollywood.
But it was in a recent hospital room that her beliefs were most
powerfully tested.
Brenneman wrote and co-created Mouth Wide Open with
longtime collaborator director Sabrina Peck (Lincoln Center
Theater, Yale Rep, Dance Theater Workshop). With their witty
and soulful style, Brenneman and Peck have created a piece that
celebrates the sorrows and the joys of being human, finding
divinity in surprising places and ways.
Mouth Wide Open was developed at the Yard during a
two-week residency. .
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photo: PRIVATE PRACTICE - "War" - After Violet files
for joint custody of Lucas, an embittered Pete voraciously fights
back by hiring a tough attorney for the trial, forcing their
fellow friends and co-workers to choose sides and have their
personal lives dragged onto the stand and into the public eye,
on "Private Practice," THURSDAY, APRIL 29 (10:01-11:00
p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/MICHAEL DESMOND)
Bridgman/Packer Dance (Friday & Sunday)
& Lois Greenfield Photography (Saturday)
Friday, July 16, 8:00 (Bridgman/Packer)
followed by dessert & champagne
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAI
Saturday, July 17, 5:30 (Lois Greenfield)
Sunday, July 18, 6:00 (Bridgman/Packer)
Bridgman/Packer
Dance (Fri & Sun) Legendary
lifters and Guggenheim recipients Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer
make image and reality collide, interweaving projection with dance
that borders on the acrobatic. The result, says Roslyn Sulcas of
the New York Times, is “"ingenious...magical and fascinating."
Lois
Greenfield, Photographer (Sat) The
world's most famous dance photographer brings her breathtaking images
to The Yard, giving our audience a rare chance to see her stunning
photos larger than life. Greenfield, who's shot everything from
Alvin Ailey to American Ballet Theater, transforms all her subjects
with her own unique point of view. Lois will speak about the art
of capturing the ephemeral.
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Photography in Motion
Audience & Performers Collaborate
Saturday, July 17, 4:00
Join the Yard Kids' Creative Theater ensemble and Yard staff as
they explore choreography inspired by photography in a participatory,
family-friendly event.
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An Epic Journey from Church to Chorus
Line, written and performed by Joanna Rush
CO-PRODUCED BY MONINA VON
OPEL
Friday, July 23, 6:30
dinner following the show
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAI
Saturday, July 24, 4:00 (family
matinee)
Saturday, July 24, 8:00
Young Bernadette O’Connell, former “outstanding
Catholic of the year,” heeds her fierce libido…
but her sexual mis-education leaves her vulnerable to the
twisted testosterone-filled world of her new life in the Big
Apple. In a one woman show directed by Tony nominee Lynne
Taylor-Corbett, Broadway actor Joanna Rush portrays a colorful
cast of characters ranging from uptight clerics to sexy chorines,
to growing boys…of all ages.
Note: The evening performances are not appropriate for young
children.
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A documentary of a ballet odyssey Presented in partnership with
the Martha's Vineyard Film Society
Sunday, July 25, 4:00 At The
Capawock Theater, Vineyard Haven
Join filmmaker Anne Bass at
a showing of her new documentary, which the Village Voice
calls “dazzling to behold.” From the serene countryside
of Southeast Asia to the halls of New York's School of American
Ballet to the stage of the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle,
Dancing Across Borders peeks behind the scenes into
the world of dance and chronicles the intimate and triumphant
story of a boy who was discovered, and who only much later discovered
all that he had in himself.
'Ballet
goes boyband with… eight young, talented and, frankly, rather
handsome young men.'' -Time Out, Dance
Co-produced by Francesca Kelly
Friday,
July 30, 8:00
followed by dessert & champagne
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAISaturday,
July 31, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday, July 31, 8:00
Sunday, August 1, 6:00
Founded in 2001 by Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt, both formerly
of the Royal Ballet, Balletboyz has made a dramatic mark on
the British dance scene, thrilling audiences and dance critics
alike with its exhilarating mix of award winning repertoire,
performance style and high artistic standards. Judith Mackrell
of The Guardian writes, “Still raw, with their spikiness
and vulnerabilities visible, part of their impact comes from
the fact that you can sense the journey they have travelled
to be on stage together, and to be dancing so enthrallingly
well.”
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Special guest Claudia Weill directs a
one-act, and Wendy Taucher corrals Mozart's rollicking Impresario
Friday, August
6, 8:00
followed by dessert & champagne
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAISaturday,
August 7, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday, August 7, 8:00
Sunday, August 8, 6:00
Friday,
August 13, 8:00
followed by dessert & champagne
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAISaturday,
August 14, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday, August 14, 8:00
Sunday, August 15, 6:00
The Yard presents The Impresario
-- Mozart’s 18th century version of The Producers,
Lend Me a Tenor and The Odd Couple all in one
-- in a new translation created by David Richmond and Wendy
Taucher, with Yard favorite Donavon Dietz in the original
non-singing role. Preceded by a one-act opera directed by
Claudia Weill with music direction by Glen Roven.
In honor of WCAI, our local NPR station, please join the station
hosts and staff as well as the Yard cast for a party following
the performance on Friday, August 6th.
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Starring the designs of Stina Sayre
Co-produced by Susan Guerin of The Sweet Life Café
Thursday, August 12, 5:30At
the Big Hangar at the MV Airport
On the heels of last year's garden
party fashion show at The Sweet Life Café, Stina Sayre
and Wendy Taucher partner to create a once in a lifetime opera-dance-fashion
experience to benefit The Yard and The
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
Sponsored byCape
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Elders, Dance Company in Residence
Company
Retreat With Showing
Saturday, August 21, 5:30
The Prometheus Dance Elders Ensemble was founded in 2004 by Tommy
Neblett and Diane Arvenites Noya. Many of the senior dancers studied
with the early pioneers of modern dance (Martha Graham, Hanya Holm,
Anna Sokolow, Jose Limon) throughout the 1930’s, ‘40’s
and ‘50’s and are a living link to the origins of modern
dance. The Ensemble recently received a Gold Star Award from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council for outstanding arts programming in the state.
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A Multi-media dance party & visual explosion
brought to you by bombshell sound agents
Sunday, August 22, 5:30
(also July 3)
YardArts! & the bombshell
sound agents invite you to a one of a kind dance party to celebrate
your indepenDANCE. Visual installations, great sound,
treats from the Scottish Bakehouse, an eclectic performance
by Yard artists... and a happening dance floor.
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The New Rude Mechanicals present
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Wednesday, Aug 25, 4:00
Thursday, August 26, 4:00
Friday, August 27, 4:00
Saturday, August 28, 4:00
An interfering father, a boyfriend-stealing best friend, love
potions, swordfights, dancing, fairies, and magic... The course
of true love never did run smooth! Join this young company
(ages 6 to 16) for a 90-minute, family-friendly performance
of the Bard's classic summer comedy. Will true love prevail?!!
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Kay Matschullat directs a music-theater
work-in-progress
Saturday, August 28, 6:30
Sunday, August 29, 6:30
Kay Matschullat directs
singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega in a new music-theater piece
based on the writings of Carson McCullers. Vega conjures
the hearts that McCullers painted in the prose of her work
and acted out through her passionate life. As she speaks and
sings her way through a labyrinth of love, we experience the
comedic Carson, the pained Carson and the provocateur she
became. In trying to explain, she strives to conquer the demons
that intrude on the course of love, which for her and her
characters never runs smoothly. Seamlessly moving from spoken
word to song and back again, Vega channels McCullers in a
way that reveals the meeting of two souls through a work of
art. The summer of 2010 will bring the artists to the Weston
Playhouse, Steve Stettler Artistic Director, where they
will develop the piece, which will be performed at The YardArts!
Festival and then premiere at Rattlestick
Theater, David Van Asselt Artistic Director, in New York
in May 2011.
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in Yard Patron Season Passes & Saturday/Sunday at The
Yard Season Passes.
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Walking with Pearl...
Southern Diaries, Body Talk, and Naked City
Friday,
September 3, 8:00
followed by dessert & champagne
Festival Friday Nights Brought to you by WCAISaturday,
Sept 4, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday, Sept 4, 8:00
Sunday, Sept 5, 6:00,
Monday, Sept 6, 6:00
In 1949 Pearl Primus – dancer,
anthropologist, and Black woman -- received a grant to study
dance in Africa. She continued her research throughout the
Caribbean and the Jim Crow South. The second part of award
winning choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s two-part
masterpiece traces her footsteps through the American south,
exploring the blending and sustaining of culture in all its
complexity, and capturing the depths of both pain and joy
that Primus observed and recorded in her diaries.
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Providence’s most inspired young
dancers
Saturday, Sept 11, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday Sept 11, 8:00
Performance artist/choreographer
and lead teacher in Yard Kids' Creative Theater program Mary
Paula Hunter and JUMP!, her company of youthful collaborators
from Providence, will present a mixed bag of solos by Hunter
and subversively funny group works. Sarahbot, created in response
to the historic rise of the politico from Alaska, seems even
more relevant as Sarah Palin resurfaces in the form of a TV
host! Also on the bill is A Hot Cup of Coffee is a Dangerous
Thing -- a dance combining rhythmic tap, movement of all kinds,
and the crazy neurotic text Hunter is known for.
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Hot Words
Island poets and the music of Jemima James
and Dan Waters
Sunday Sept 19, 6:00
Samantha Barrow, Justen
Ahren, Ben Williams, Linda Black, Michael West, Richard Skidmore
perform poems that entertain and engage their audiences. Jemima
James and Dan Waters perform American roots music on guitar.
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The Yard 2010 Bessie Schönberg Choreographers' Residency
Concert
New works by Gregory Dolbashian, Ximena
Garnica, Marta Renzi and Yara Travieso
Friday, Sept 24, 8:00
Saturday, Sept 25, 4:00 (family matinee)
Saturday, Sept 25, 8:00
Sunday, Sept 26, 6:00
The Yard's Bessie Schönberg
Residency showcases the work of some of the most exciting
emerging and established artists, selected fom an international
pool of applicants. This year, two of New York's hottest youngsters,
Greg
Dolbashian and Yara Travieso, share the program with Colombian
choreographer and installation artist Ximena
Garnica, and veteran
Marta
Renzi. The program will include a new community-based
piece by Renzi, recipient of the first Dancing in the Streets
award as "a fearless explorer of all manner of unconventional
sites, integrating art into everyday life."
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Cherylyn
Lavagnino
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Rush in 
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Runways Merge: a Fashion Opera Extravaganza
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