Fifteen years ago, Summer Stages Dance was launched at Concord Academy. Our goal was to create a rigorous training program for students of contemporary dance and a laboratory for choreographers to develop new work. Today, Summer Stages is one of the region’s most acclaimed summer festivals. The program has built an innovative curriculum, a distinguished roster of faculty and performing artists, increasingly accomplished alumni, and a loyal and growing audience.
Welcome to Summer Stages Dance 2012—our 15th Anniversary Season! This July we will bring together an extraordinary group of dance artists to teach, mentor and perform. The intimate nature of our Workshop and our emphasis on participation in the creation of new work makes the Summer Stages experience unique. The incomparable dance artists, Sean Curran, Jack Ferver, Lauren Grant, Jeff Kazin, David Leventhal, Rashaun Mitchell, David Parker, Nic Petry, Silas Reiner, Keith Sabado, Amber Sloan, Risa Steinberg, Dan Wagoner, Teri Weksler, and Andrea Woods will all be in residence to teach and to create new work for our participants.
Summer Stages' Meet the Artist Performance Series offers students and audiences an intimate view of some of the most vital, provocative and rich-with-feeling dancemakers working today! We will celebrate our anniversary milestone with the presentation of a new evening length work, "Two Alike," by dancemaker Jack Ferver and sculptor Marc Swanson. This collaboration marks the sixth iteration of Summer Stages Dance and Institute of Contemporary Art's ongoing partnership exploring the relationship between contemporary dance and other artistic disciplines. And in this series we will celebrate the work of Merce Cunningham and John Cage with their 1965 classic "How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run," in a new staging by Rashaun Mitchell with special guest dancers. Rashaun will present his own new work, "Interface," on this program. And finally, on our closing program, and to continue the Cage 100th birthday celebration, Summer Stages' participants will perform Sean Curran's Left Exit/10 Beginnings to John Cage's beautifully serene Music for Piano2 and three new works by our Choreographic Fellows.
All these artists, from Reiner to Wagoner, from Curran to Woods, make studying at Summer Stages Dance an unparalleled experience. We think you’ll agree that our 2012 Workshop and Performance Series are not to be missed! Please join us and make this our most vital year ever of dance making!
Warm Regards,
Amy Spencer & Richard Colton
Founding Directors
