Help us raise $10,000 for our new projects in Israel with PuppetCinema’s Zvi Sahar and in Germany with Pina Bausch’s FTS dance company
Welcome to our 30th Anniversary Season!
As Merce Cunningham would say, “And we begin… again.”
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, January 2017: We begin our newest collaboration with Zvi Sahar, the brilliant Israeli artistic director of PuppetCinema. His performance of “Salt of the Earth” last spring blew us away with his artistry, sublime imagery and lighting Orson Welles would savor. Stay tuned for this remarkable journey that will take us deeper into where we long to be….
ESSEN, GERMANY, June 2017: Deep in the heart of Pina Bausch land, we have been invited to create a site-specific dance with PWDT and Folkwang Tanz Studio, the resident professional dance company of Folkwang University that used to be directed by Pina herself. Over three weeks, we will be rehearsing in the stunningly cool SANAA building and on the grounds of one of the region’s most significant and beautiful coal and iron foundries.
BATES DANCE FESTIVAL, August 2017: In July we will return to the Bates Dance Festival for a performance and classes, celebrating the legacy of the one and only director Laura Faure. Not only has Laura supported our work for over twenty years, but has nurtured a utopian dance community for thousands of people throughout the world.
And since our last Kickstarter:
CUBA, February 2016: Thanks to your support, we began 2016 with a PWDT tour to Cuba, where we performed, taught workshops, and began collaborating on a site-specific performance installation in a gorgeous 16th century fort in Old Havana. We are hoping to return in 2018 to premiere the work in celebration of its designation as a UNESCO world heritage site.
SENEGAL, June 2016: In June we spent a week at the iconic Ecole des Sables, created by the visionary mother of African contemporary dance, Germaine Acogny. A dream come true for Patrik – this was the school he had hoped to attend at the very beginning of his dance career. Throughout the week, we were immersed in classes, performances, and discussions with emerging dance artists from 14 African countries, and started a beautiful friendship with Germaine.
JOE’S PUB, NYC, September 2016: We previewed our new solos this past fall at the Dance Now Festival – Patrik’s “…and still doing”, inspired by a dream he had of Yoko Ono, and Sara’s “The Beginning of Forgiveness.” Deborah Jowitt wrote: …”the effect is one of both confinement and wildness… rueful, witty, heart-twisting.”
WASHINGTON, DC, October 2016: We premiered a new site dance for the Dance Place Gala honoring directors Carla Perlo and Deborah Riley who will be retiring this year – what an honor to be invited to celebrate these remarkable women!
Throughout these 30 years – thanks to you – we have been able to tour with our company throughout Europe, Latin Armerica, and Asia, from NYC to Beijing to Kyoto, from Lincoln Center to the Kennedy Center, from the London Dance Umbrella to the International Dance Festival in New Delhi, from working with at risk girls and Somali immigrants in Lewiston, Maine to collaborating with martial artists, bakers, musicians, planners and remarkable dance artists thought the world.
Please support our newest collaborations in Israel and Germany!
We need your help to raise $10,000 to make these invitations a reality. We have already secured $30,000 from grants and commissions, and now look to you.
We are so grateful for your belief in our work, and for your generous help throughout these years.
With kansha, that untranslatable Japanese word that is a mixture of appreciation and awe.
Sara & Patrik
With 3/4 of our budget already secured, these projects will definitely happen. If we can’t raise the full amount, we may need to bring fewer dancers or shorten our residencies, as we are committed to our dance artists being paid a living wage!