“SMALL STREAMS-2”

We are the "dance organization of professional choreographers in the area." We bring you innovative, provocative, and entertaining contemporary dance concerts and concepts by exceptional choreographers and performed by brilliant area dance artists.

This year we are featuring Cincinnati’s first crossover program with works in several genres: Contemporary, Classical and a Tap/Spoken Word memoir.

“SMALL STREAMS-2” is the 2nd annual dance concert featuring “small gems” (solos, duets, trios) by mostly area choreographers. These intimate concerts present a mix of new work, prior work that merits re-staging, or a stand-alone excerpt from a larger group work. The works presented in a Small Streams concert can represent a piece of a larger (unseen) whole or the choreographers’ way of seeing or thinking at that specific moment in time.

 

 photos by John Burgess

* Co-Directors of Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective **Smuin Ballet resident choreographer ***former Cincinnati Ballet Soloists   

For More Information on Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective, “Small Streams Master Class Madness,” the choreographers and their works, or the featured dancers contact:
Diane Germaine, Co-Director at (513) 731-8847-5819 Kinoll Avenue, Cincinnati, OH  45213
CinciChoreo@fuse.net        http://cdt-dance.org        http://ballettechohio.org       

 
DIANE GERMAINE, a Co-Director of Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective, was named one of The Enquirer’s “8 to watch in 2008,” and is is the Founder of the Collective.  Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective.  She was an honors graduate of NYC’s Performing Arts High School and went on to earn critical acclaim for many roles during her 13 years as Principal Soloist of the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company (NYC).  She’s received choreography fellowships and grants from the NEA, City of Cincinnati and the OAC for such works as “Playground,” “Nighthawks,” “Didi, a Life,” and “Fated Tango,”  and has been a Master Teacher abroad in Israel, London, Norway, and in the USA for Skidmore College, American University, and NCSA.  Her proposed work for “Small Streams-2” is a new solo for Heather Britt for the new Bailongo – third in the tango trilogy honoring Astor Piazzolla’s music.


KA-RON BROWN LEHMAN, a Co-Director of Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective, earned a rich legacy of credits and awards on concert stages, TV variety series and award specials, on Broadway, and in films and commercials.  A dedicated dance educator for 43 years in the US, Finland, Canada and Australia - including 21 years at LA County HS for the Arts and 6 as Artistic Director for LACHSA Dance Department - Ka-Ron earned the Distinguished Teacher Award by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, the Alumni Association's Outstanding Arts Educator Award, and the American Choreography Educator Award. She is currently teaching for CCM Dance Division and Cincinnati Ballet, and serving on the board of Blue Ash Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.  Her premiere this season for “Small Streams-2’ will be The Bus Stop.


CLAUDIA RUDOLF BARRETT, recipient of the Post-Corbett 2001 Award for Individual Achievement, received her MA from the University of Cincinnati after studying on scholarship at the School of American Ballet, official school of New York City Ballet.  As soloist and later ballet mistress of the Cincinnati Ballet Company, 1963 - 1990, Claudia worked under 5 artistic directors and with internationally recognized artists and choreographers.  She opened her school, ballet tech ohio (bto) in 1993, then founded ballet tech performing arts association in 1997, choreographing full length ballets such as Happily Ever After, Green Legs and Ham and Shall We Dance.  Her list of shorter works - many to the music of composer husband, Ian Barrett - includes The Conductors, A Stones Throw, Appalachian Spring, and The Mask.


DANAH BELLA received her MFA in Performance from the Ohio State University and her BA in Dance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has been presented in festivals throughout the country including the Dumbo Dance Festival in New York, the United States of Asian America Festival in San Francisco, as well as in Mexico.  She is the Artistic Director of  d a n a h b e l l a  DanceWorks, a company member of Dancing Earth, and is on faculty at Radford University.  Her intriguing, provocative solo …and still, we must… is her gift on the “Small Streams-2” program.


GLORIA ESENWEIN is a Cincinnati dancer/teacher/choreographer and licensed massage therapist .  She has appeared in works by choreographers Fanchon Shur, Diane Germaine and Liz Lerman and has studied tap with Gregory Hines, Diane Walker, and Savion Glover.  Esenwein has taught modern, jazz, tap, and improvisation as a 25+ year member of the Cincinnati dance community.  In 2008 she produced “Dance, Music, Story! An Evening with Gloria Esenwein and Friends.”  Her solo for “Small Streams-2,” entitled What I Kept, weaves story-telling, singing and tap dancing, and delivers a sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant remembrance of childhood longing.


TRICIA GELMINI is an independent dancer, choreographer and teacher living in Yellow Springs, Ohio.  Tricia is well known here for her innovative and philosophic works and solos that can be called pure poetry. Her trio for “Small Streams-2,” entitled My Love is Alive, is about recognizing the spirit and beauty in ourselves and in others as being one and the same - and that the power of this spirit creates alchemy for good. The piece is accompanied by three classic songs of Richie Havens.  Tricia earned her BA from Antioch College, her MFA from Five College Dance Dept at Smith College, was an adjunct professor in dance at Antioch College, and is currently visiting adjunct professor of dance at Earlham College. 


LISA K. LOCK was honored in 2002 with a Lester Horton Award for outstanding achievement in choreography, and she was also voted best female dancer in 2004 by the Beverly Hills Outlook.  She holds a Ballet Diploma from Grande Ecole de Danse, Bern, Switzerland and a BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Relocating in 2006 from L.A. to Cleveland, Lisa continues to perform as a solo artist locally, nationally, and internationally all over Europe, in L. A., S.F., Chicago, NYC, Honolulu, Guatemala City and Antigua. She has created work for Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theater, Cleveland Dancing Wheels, and Kent State Dance Ensemble.  Her unique solo crossing over Classic and Contemporary idioms will be the new Silent Prayers for Drowning Fish.


AMY SEIWERT, a native of Cincinnati and SCPA graduate, moved to San Francisco in 1999, the same year she won the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur Choreography Competition in Quebec.  Currently Choreographer in Residence at Smuin Ballet, where she danced for nine years, her work is also in the repertory of Ballet Austin, Sacramento, Carolina and American Repertory Ballets as well as Robert Moses KIN.   Named one of "25 to Watch" by Dance Magazine in 2005, she was also awarded the Gerbode Emerging Choreographers Grant in 2006.  She directs im'ij-re, her contemporary ballet company that collaborates with artists of other disciplines and is committed to experimental work from a classical base. Amy will choose either the critically acclaimed Air or Push (both duos) for the “Small Streams-2” program.

Purchasers of our “Master Class Madness” on the weekend of March 14 & 15 ($110) earn one ticket to the “Small Streams-2” concert!  Teaching are: Danah Bella & Ka-Ron Brown Lehman (Modern); Amy Seiwert & Tricia Sundbeck (Ballet), Lisa K. Lock (Choreography Workshop), and Gloria Esenwein (Rhythm Tap Workshop.)

For Master-Class schedule and brochure or more information call 513-731-8847, email  CinciChoreo@fuse.net
Check Cincinnati Choreographers’ Collective tab at  http://www.ballettechohio