EDD's Peter Pan and the Pirates in Prospect Park

by karen Krolak

Given Monkeyhouse's current theme of Misplaced/Displaced, we were delighted to discover that our dear friend Eva Dean is adapting Peter Pan for Prospect Park's Zucker Natural Exploration Area in Brooklyn. The performances are FREE so hustle over and get ready to swashbuckle!

Linda Leseman from the Village Voice declared that Eva Dean Dance's Peter Pan and Stardust Dances was "a joy from start to finish."  when it premiered at the 2013 FringeNYC. I am confident that there will be dozens of moments to love this new version too. Peter Pan and the Pirates is an immersive dance theater event that features Peter Pan vanquishing Captain Hook and his Pirates with the help of the brave Princess Tiger Lily, and the fierce crocodile. 

Eva Dean Dance has performed in many of New York City's finest venues including The New York International Fringe Festival, Brooklyn Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The company has also performed nationally in the USA and internationally in Dubai, Amsterdam, Prague, and Berlin.  Eva Dean Dance's body of work has received awards, most notably Best of Fringe New York in the Amsterdam Fringe Festival, and for its site-specific dances in Brooklyn. 

Choreography: Eva Dean, Artistic Director | Music: David Kahne | Performers:  George Hirsch, Katherine Moncebaiz with Guest Artists: Satomi Itohara, Julien Kanor, Graziella Murdocca, Hiram Pines, Christian "Pepe" Serrano, Jeff Shortt, TBA | Stage Manager: Sarah Melot | Sound: Luke Klingensmith

Dates/Times:
August 9th &16th (2pm &3pm)

Duration:
30 minutes

Location:
Prospect Park's Zucker Natural Exploration Area

MAP  

For more information, visit:

Eva Dean Dance Website

Prospect Park | Peter Pan Listing 

About Prospect Park Alliance

Eva @ MOMA

by karen Krolak

Photo by Yi-Chun Wu, Performers George Hirsch, Kristin Hatleberg  Zoe Schieber

Monkeyhouse has truly enjoyed collaborating with Brooklyn based, Eva Dean Dance on oodles of projects over the last few years. Her workshop at the first Against the Odds festival was a huge hit with everyone in the company and sparked ideas for several of the pieces that we developed for the second festival. If you missed that workshop or are looking for another chance to play with Eva, she will be bringing her playful process to MOMA on Friday, April 18 as part of the MOMA Art Lab. Personally, I am tempted to try to finagle a way to get our incoming group of interns down to this workshop. Hmmmm.

At any rate, here are all the details you will need to join EVA DEAN DANCE's BOUNCE SURFING Extravaganza at MoMA! Dress comfortably! Wear clothing to move in.

 Admission: Free with Museum Admission (First Come, First Served)

 Location: Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53rd St New York, NY 10019 

 MOMA Art Lab located at The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Education Classroom B, mezzanine 

 Date/Time: Friday, April 18th. 2014 Workshops at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm 

 DESCRIPTION: BOUNCE SURFING Extravaganza is coming to MoMA to join the MoMA Art Lab: Movement Series! Join us in this ocean inspired workshop led by Eva Dean. Family, friends, and movement lovers of all ages are encouraged to participate in this gentle 45-minute workshop. Participants will learn some of Eva Dean Dance's signature "Dolphin" movements using yoga balls as well as participate in a free spirited improvisational "Beach Party." This extravaganza is appropriate for ages 5 to 105, and anyone who loves motion by the ocean is encouraged to partake!

 For more information about Eva Dean Dance, visit www.evadeandance.org For more information about the workshop, visit http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/20771 

Upcoming Events!

by Aisha Cruise

If you've been fretting about how to spend your precious final summer weekends, rejoice! There's tons of dance happening just outside Boston this August, so if you've been meaning to plan a weekend get-away, feel free to use these events as impetus to get out for the end of summer!

Sun, August 11 & Sun, August 25 @ 2pm

JMBT School Open House
Presented by Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre
LOCAL! Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre (400 Harvard Street Cambridge, MA)
Join the Jose Mateo Ballet Theater for an afternoon of free trial classes for children ages 3-9 and adult beginners, refreshments, and a chance to win tickets to José Mateo Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker! 

August 11, 12, 14, 17 & 21

Eva Dean Dance's Peter Pan & Stardust Dances

NYC FRINGE Festival, 14th Street Y

The impetus for Peter Pan and Stardust Dances comes from an interest in magic, joy and wonderment.  Featuring a variety of dances from the Eva Dean repetoire, they will also be premiering a new piece, Peter Pan (Shadow), set to music from David Khane's Peter Pan Ballet score.  Eva Dean and David Khane plan to work together on a full production of his Peter Pan Ballet, so consider this an advance-preview of magical larger work. If you were looking for an excuse to visit the north east's other major city, this is it!

August 15-18 

Cultivate 

Bethlehem, NH

This incredible dance festival is a grass-roots effort, designed to nourish and support community by 1) creating a space for contemporary dance to take root, develop and flourish, and 2) encouraging a conversation to develop between artist and audience.  Check out the web page for an adorable video and more information, and then plan a day trip to Bethlehem, because these people are awesome.

Thurs, August 15 @ 8:00

Sat, August 17 @ 6:30

Hapless Bizarre, Doug Elkins Choreography

The Yard @ Chillmark, Martha's Vineyard

Doug Elkins (Fräulein Maria) returns to The Yard with a merry band of dancers, actors and clowns to explore the sharp intersections between physical comedy, choreography, flirtation and romance. Expect near misses of physical action and attraction with high flying kicks and turns eliciting a range of emotions. This new work will be paired with "Mo(or)town/Redux," an homage to Jose Limon's "Moor's Pavane" set to a top 40 sound score, first previewed at the Yard in 2011. Do you need a better reason to head to Martha's Vineyard?

Sat, August 17 @ 2:00 & 4:00

24-Hour ChoreoFest 2013
Presented by Luminarium Dance
LOCAL! Dance Complex (536 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA)

Monkeyhouse loves Luminarium!  Our own Nicole Harris will be participating in this year's choreofest, which promises to be every bit as wild and wonderful as last year! Dancers stay up all night building short pieces to perform the next day, and come up with some brilliant pressurized dance!

This year's Jacob's Pillow Festival is coming to a close, and they're going out with a bang!  I could seriously just list everything on the website for August because it all looks wonderful, but the final performances promise to be truly spectacular. 

Don't forget their free outdoor performances are continuing every week in August!

FREE! http://www.jacobspillow.org/festival/insideout-schedule/

Ticketed http://www.jacobspillow.org/festival/events/ticketed-performances/

August 21-25

Martha Graham Dance Company

Jacob's Pillow, MA

"In honor of the 100th anniversary of the original iconoclastic dance The Rite of Spring, created by composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, America's most celebrated modern dance company re-stages Martha Graham's acclaimed interpretation." This is worth every minute of the 3 hour drive.

August 21-25

Abraham.in.Motion in Pavement

Jacob's Pillow, MA

"Kyle Abraham is a dancer, choreographer, Artistic Director of Abraham.in.Motion, and recipient of the 2012 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award.  In his newest work, Pavement, he layers urban and classical dance influences, bold imagery, and gripping, voluptuous movement."  Also totally worth the drive, and probably a good reason to take a long weekend in western Mass.  

August 24

Jacob's Pillow Festival Finale

Jacob's Pillow, MA

The penultimate performances by Martha Graham Dance Co. and Abraham.in.Motion will be followed by a Finale after party with the dancers, drinks and an awesome DJ.  Tickets range from $50-150 and will get you in to either show and the Finale party.  And fits perfectly into an extended weekend away.  (You're welcome)

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Karen Krolak & Eva Dean Dance at The Pearl!

Karen is heading to Brooklyn this weekend to perform with Eva Dean Dance!

Eva Dean Dance is performing DR. PAIN a NYC/Brooklyn Premiere conceived by Eva Dean made in collaboration with Karen Krolak

The Pearl is a mixed media dance concert series, giving choreographers and artists the opportunity to present new work. 

Saturday January 14, 2012 8pm-10pm

The Actors Fund Performance Space aka The Schermerhorn

160 Schermerhorn, Brooklyn, NY 11201

$10

Outside Voices

by Courtney Wagner Eva Dean Dance joins us for Against the Odds! Photo by Jonathan Keith Remember how I mentioned how important musings are and how so many great ideas come out of them?  This has included the chance to work with other artists during guest-led musings like Eva Dean, Risher Reddick, and Lynn Schwab  as part of last year's Against the Odds.  Since it was such a success, Karen decided to make Season 11 about including Outside Voices, citing that it would be good for the company to work with other established artists and broaden our horizons and repertoire.   Nicole performing a piece choreographed for Against the Odds by Lynn Schwab Photo by Jonathan Keith What an exiting opportunity to have new works set on us!  For the upcoming season we already have several works in mind with some Outside Voices.  This includes Mariah Steele, who met with Karen after the January 2010 installment of Movement at the Mills and subsequently performed with us for with her company Quicksilver Dance in Against The Odds.  While she's been secretive with the details of what she has in store for use, she will be setting a new work on the company and it may or may not be based on some of the work she was creating for her thesis project.  Risher Reddick opened our eyes to the world of choreographed combat which proved to be a fun an enlightening study in body language, tone, and communication with the audience.  Who knew that the same simple movement performed in two distinct ways could have such a different read within the audience.  We look forward to delving deeper into this.  Happily cleared for dancing again, Nicole is excited to start working with Josh Hilberman on a new solo.  Meanwhile Karen and Nikki have been working on a piece dedicated to reversibility and a movement palindrome to be set to Master Palindromist Barry Duncan will even be featured in a documentary! Karen's and Monkeyhouse's support for Outside Voices can be seen not only in bringing in guest artists for new work, but also the C2C positions and residencies and mentoring programs.  We are happy to announce we are looking for new interns for the C2C internship for 2012 and Nicole and Karen are excited to continue to develop this program.  As you can see we have lots of exciting things in store for Season 11 and Outside Voices will definitely be playing a key role.  However, all of these extra influences will require some extra support. If you are interested in seeing more collaborations with area choreographers and opportunities for us to develop and expand, then think about supporting Outside Voices as part of our new Yearly Campaign Program.  This program is designed to allow supporters to have their donations funneled toward a certain part of the organization.  This can include infrastructure and keeping us in our beautiful Springstep home, individual company members, special projects like Nicole's work with PD, or fostering creativity and blossoming with musings and visiting artists.   For less than a dollar a day ($25/month to be precise) your donation could help directly support and fund future projects with fabulous people.  Although the Yearly Campaign is designed for recurring monthly donations, the recur option is not required and information about personalizing your donation is available on our website.   Click HERE to be redirected to our website for further information about the Yearly Campaign.  You'll find descriptions about the other facets of Monkeyhouse to sponsor as well as links and instructions.  And keep an eye out for future posts about more facets of Monkeyhouse!

Don't Miss Eva Dean Dance at First Night Boston!

Monkeyhouse LOVES Eva Dean Dance!  They joined us for Against the Odds, Eva performed with us at First Night and TOMORROW Eva Dean Dance is going to be at First Night Boston!  You don't want to miss these amazing performances!

Eva Dean Dance is performing magical excerpts from PETER PAN to original music by David Kahne.   

Other "mesmerizing" dances performed are a nocturnal samba and illuminated Poi Ball dances.  Suited for ages 3 to 93.  

  

Time: Saturday December 31, 2011 3:30pm - 4:00pm and 4:30pm - 5pm
Location: Hynes Convention Center Rm 302, 900 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02115  

Photo by Yi-Chun Wu Dancers: Cristal Albornoz and George Hirsch

Eva Dean Dance @ First Night Boston

As you probably remember, Monkeyhouse is a huge fan of Eva Dean, who appeared with us as a Guest Artist for First Night 2011. We were thrilled when we got her e-today and discovered that she will be bringing her amazing crew of performers up for First Night 2012. Better hop to it and snap up your First Night Button. Is anyone else surprised that we have reached the end of this year already? .

Eva Dean Dance at First Night Boston!    Photo by Yi-Chun Wu, Dancers: Cristal Albornoz and George Hirsch Eva Dean Dance is performing magical excerpts from PETER PAN to original music by David Kahne.  Other "mesmerizing" dances performed are a nocturnal samba and illuminated Poi Ball dances.  Suited for ages 3 to 93.       Time: Saturday December 31, 2011 3:30pm - 4:00pm and 4:30pm - 5pm Location: Hynes Convention Center Rm 302, 900 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02115  for map click here For links to reservations and schedule click below 3:30 pm show  4:30pm show        "...mesmerizing choreography...and energizing in that it all looks so fun and free"    Pia Catton   Wall Street Journal   To learn more about EDD visit www.evadeandance.org

Monkeyhouse @ First Night for the 5th time!

by karen Krolak

 

Mercy me, this weekend is going to be jam packed with creative endeavours. Tomorrow, Monkeyhouse will be at Springstep re-setting Ramfeezled, one of our funniest and best loved pieces, for our fifth appearance at First Night Boston. Then Jason, kwaq7aj', and I will skedaddle down to New York to wish Ralph Farris (genius viola player and the composer for one section of our performance for Dance in the Fells) a fabulous 40th birthday. Sunday afternoon, I will scoot over to Union Street Dance in Brooklyn to start a piece featuring Eva Dean...also for First Night. Then Jason and I will get a sneak preview of Three Pianos, an OBIE winning music-theater event written, arranged and performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy. According to our invite, we should be prepared for "compositional mayhem, shifting rivalries, and some unfortunate butchery of the German language."

Oh yes, so here are the details about Monkeyhouse's First Night performances. Please note that we will be in the Hynes Convention Center this year. To celebrate their 10th Anniversary season, Monkeyhouse is mixing and mashing the old with the new and tossing in a guest artist or two. Humor flows through their slightly surreal dance theater world as they tackle topics from flirting, rhinoceros fantasies, and re-gaining the rhythm of a relationship. Be on the lookout for Anne Howarth on French Horn and New York City's Eva Dean in a sassy smorgasbord of pieces by Karen Krolak, Nicole Harris, and Amelia O'Dowd.

 Friday, Dec 31, 2010 at  8:15PM and 10:00 PM

First night button $18, children under 4 are free

Psst...and I just heard now that Twink has given us permission to use one of their songs for one of our premieres! Thank you Twink.

Bounce Over to See Eva Dean Dance

by karen Krolak

Monkeyhouse is a huge fan of Eva Dean Dance and we encourage everyone in New York to skedaddle on over to bask in the glory of their latest creation, UBA Bounce. Having heard so much about this production while we we USD Lab artists in May, we are frantically scheming to find a way to get down to the big apple in between our performances at the Massachusetts Dance Festival. Please hurry down to Dixon Place and don't forget to fill us in afterwards.

UBA BOUNCE Begins August 15 @4pm for FringeNYC 2010!

UBA BOUNCE features courageous dancers and a large rambunctious circus globe named UBA. UBA acts as 'Ring Master' in a world where brightly colored balls and athletic dancers are equal partners. By balancing, spinning, and gliding they create rollicking dances filled with imagination, beauty and humor. 60 min.

Choreography: Eva Dean

Performers: Cristal Albornoz, Eva Dean, George Hirsch, Zoë Schieber and Sarah Sadie Newett

Dates & Times
*SUN 15 @ 4:00 pm
THUR 19 @ 7:30 pm
THUR 26 @ 2:00 pm
FRI 27 @ 5:30 pm
SAT 28 @ NOON

Tickets: $15-$18
Call: 866.468.7619
Online Tickets: http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=U#UBABOU
For more information: http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=U#UBABOU

Venue #1: Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street (bet. Rivington & Delancey)
New York, NY 10002

Transportation
F to 2nd Avenue
B, D to Grand Street
J, Z to Bowery

*SUN 15 @ 4:00 pm is a FringeHIGH Talk-Back. For limited reduced priced tickets and more information go to: http://www.fringenyc.org/index.php/about-us/fringehigh