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Footworks!

May 25, 2010

Welcome to Footworks!, a publication of the Alabama Dance Council. Please stay tuned each week as we keep you informed of news, performances and special events from the Alabama dance community.
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Are you a current ADC member and have an announcement that you would like to share? Performances, masterclasses, special events, scholarship, educational, or audition opportunities - if it's going on, we want to know; and more importantly, we want to share it!

ADC members are eligible to have information published weekly in Footworks! by posting news, performances and special events on the Alabama Dance Exchange.

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The Alabama Dance Council

In this issue:

ADC Receives $75,000 NEA American Masterpieces Grant

Rhythm World Early Bird Registration Deadline Today!

Connect with the ADC

Today's National Tap Dance Day

Annual Summer Concert

Prudence in Pepperland

Summer Ballet Intensives

AYB Ballet Intensive

Huntsville Ballet School Summer Intensive

National Dance Education Organization

South Arts PAE Travel Subsidies

Are you Ready?

ALABAMA DANCE COUNCIL RECEIVES $75,000 NEA AMERICAN
MASTERPIECES GRANT TO PRESENT MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE
COMPANY AT THE ALABAMA DANCE FESTIVAL
Birmingham Added to Final Legacy Tour for 2011

The Alabama Dance Council will make dance history by presenting the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) with performances of XOVER, Crises, and BIPED at the 2011 Alabama Dance Festival scheduled January 27 - 30 in Birmingham. The residency will be part of the company's final Legacy Tour and their first and only performance in Alabama. In support of this historic event, the Alabama Dance Council is receiving $75,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts' American Masterpieces program just announced April 22. Read More.
Early Bird Discounts End Today! Register Now!

RHYTHM WORLD is the oldest and most comprehensive festival of American tap and contemporary percussive arts in the world. RHYTHM WORLD features an extraordinary master faculty of 24 teachers and two weeks of performance, education and community outreach programs including free public performances at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park,  tap jams at the Chicago Cultural Center's Claudia Cassidy Theater, student showcases, panel discussions and extraordinary faculty concerts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

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Today's National Tap Dance Day!
Annual Summer Concert
Prudence in Pepperland
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Falling on May 25 every year, National Tap Dance Day is a celebration of tap dance as an American and worldwide art form. National Tap Dance Day can be celebrated with an event which may be organized by a studio, festival, professional company or tap dance interest group.

Check the
ITA Calendar for events near you and send us your information if not listed as well as reviews and reports.  The submission link is on the ITA Calendar Page.

Acia Gray
ITA Board President
J. Lockhart Performing Arts Institute presents the Annual Summer Concert

Remember the Time...a dance & music tribute to the legendary, Michael Jackson

Saturday, June 5 - 6:00PM

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Join the Downtown Dance Conservatory on June 5th, 2010 for its 6th annual classical and contemporary dance production with the originally written "Prudence in Pepperland." Written and inspired from the entire span of music from The Beatles, the show is a winding road full of whimsical costumes, characters, classical choreography.

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Summer Ballet Intensives

AYB Ballet Intensive
Huntsville Ballet School Summer Intensive
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June 7th - July 9th 

Grebel Dance summer ballet intensives offer exciting insights into the Vaganova method of classical ballet that is fun and energizing! Summer Intensives are for intermediate to advanced ballet students, ages 12 & up on pointe.

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June 7th - June 19th 

AYB in Huntsville will host a Ballet Intensive by former Kirov Ballet soloist Luba Gulyaeva. Ms. Gulyaeva graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy and was brought to America by Baryshnikov to teach at ABT.

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June 7th - June 18th

Huntsville Ballet School proud to welcome guest teacher Keith Cross, Dede Barfield and Stephanie Brawley.
Registration is limited.

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National Dance Education Organization
South Arts Performing Arts Exchange Travel Subsidies Available

Are You Ready?

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Early Bird Deadline for the 2010 Conference Discounted Rate is 5/28/10

Theme: Focus on Dance Education: Creativity, Innovation & 21st Century Skills

Date:  October 20-24, 2010
Location:
  Tempe, Arizona

Job Opportunities: Check out details for recent job openings.

South Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts will offer a limited number of professional development travel subsidies for non-profit presenting arts organizations in our nine-state region to attend the 2010 Performing Arts Exchange (PAE), September 29 - October 2, 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This program will provide financial support for conference expenses. Applications must be RECEIVED by Tuesday, June 1, 2010.

Review the Guidelines.

A key component of arts sustainability is readiness-being poised to respond to unexpected events and emergencies, and having the resiliency to get your events, studio, exhibitions or tour back up and running as quickly as possible.

South Arts has assembled resources, tools and templates at www.artsready.org to help you begin. We challenge each of you to Be ArtsReady and to spread the word. Join the Be ArtsReady campaign and help lead our field toward greater sustainability.

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