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WestWave Dance Festival
This annual choreography festival celebrating its 18th season in 2009 (formerly known as Summerfest/dance) is the cornerstone of DanceArt’s presenting programs. WestWave Dance Festival’s mission is to provide veteran and newly-established choreographers of all cultures and disciplines, in and beyond the Bay Area, with an opportunity to present their work in a professional venue in order to experiment, develop, and refine their repertories, and to build audiences without the financial burden of self-producing.
Allan Ulrich, online at VoiceofDance.com says,
“Summerfest serves as a generally accurate bellweather of what’s happening in the local dance scene, a place where discoveries are occasionally made.” And, “One of the abiding pleasures of the WestWaveDanceFestival is the chance of meeting a good choreographer whom you never knew existed.”
Online, Rachel Howard says,
“WestWave is the anchor of the Bay Area’s summer dance schedule . . . I can’t think of a better way to jump back into the San Francisco dance scene than to rush right over to the WestWaveDanceFestival . . . With 22 choreographers and 15 premieres crammed into two weeks, it’s truly a crash course in Bay Area dance. One of the festival’s better innovations in recent years has been to divide the programs between the black box ODC Theater and the much larger proscenium Cowell Theater, scheduling the bigger names at the bigger venue. Saturday’s program at ODC had an in-your-face spirit that the proximity between performers and audience only enhanced.”
Joyce Nishioka in the SF Bay Guardian says,
“Summerfest’s WestWaveDanceFestival occasionally unveils gems and introduces local audiences to emerging choreographers. It also enables small and midsize troupes to rework pieces and try out new works without facing the cost of producing a show on their own.”
Janice Berman wrote this for the San Francisco Chronicle:
The fourth and final program of Summerfest’s WestWaveDanceFestival . . . deserves another showing. The five works – two ballet-based, two modern, one performance piece – were all fresh, all well-performed, all mind-expanding. And all were presented by the festival. When artists get a break from worrying about money, great things can happen.”
And finally, Mary Ellen Hunt wrote for ballet~dance magazine at critical dance.com:
“With the funding pot for small dance troupes shrinking yearly, it’s a feat that every year Summerfest puts together a season of this scope. Hit or miss, it’s a relief to know that the WestWaveDanceFestival offers such a well-curated proving ground for new choreography.”
All Dance/No Tech
Fee-based, shared-program performance opportunity for younger choreographers who are looking for a place to mount their first works.
OneNightOnly!
Part of WestWave Dance Festival programming, ONO! concerts present younger artists who may not draw audiences over a multiple night run. This is the “discovery series” of WestWave.
New & Nearly New Dances
Shared program format that invites two or three artists who are working together to show works in progress. It is informal, low-tech, and requires that some sort of artistic relationship anchor the evening. For example, one choreographer may set a work on the other company, or the companies may perform together in one piece.
Choreographers & Composers Consortium
This program acts as “matchmaker” for choreographers and composers to work collaboratively in the creation of new work. Application-based.
Partial list of choreographers presented over 20 years (an average of 36 per season):
• Michael Smuin
• Alonzo King
• Brenda Way
• Joanna Haigood
• KT Nelson
• Al Wong
• Laura Elaine Ellis
• Frank Shawl
• Robert Moses
• Janice Garrett
• Nancy Karp
• Amy Seiwert
• Liss Fain
• Ben Levy
• Annie Rosenthal Parr
• Viktor Kabaniaev
• Lisa Townsend
• Deborah Slater
• Brittany Brown Ceres
• Sara Shelton Mann
• Scott Wells
• Manuelito Biag
• Sue Li-jue
• Debby Kajiyama
• Heidi Schweiker
• Ken James
• Kate Mitchell
• Nina Haft
• RAWdance
• Christie Funsch
• John Kloss
• Lori Bryhni
• Della Davidson
• Karl Andersen
• Anne Bluethenthal
• Austin Forbord
• New Style Motherlode
• Sonya Delwaide
• Hope Mohr
• Faye Driscoll
• Leyya Tawil
• Cathy Davalos
• Joan Lazarus
• Randee Paufve
• Alma Esperanza Cunningham
• Jennifer Wright Cook
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• Monica Bill Barnes
• Dana Lawton
• Jane Schnorreberg
• Kegan Marling
• Michael Lowe
• Kendra Kimbrough
• Cathleen McCarthy
• Sean Dorsey
• Kyoungil Ong
• April Renee Hayes
• Claudine Naganuma
• Anna Dal Pino
• John LeFan
• Susan Donham
• Amy Lewis
• Alena Odrene Cawthorne
• Cheryl Chaddick
• Kerry Mehling
• Martt Lawrence
• Patricia Banchik-Bell
• Carmen Carnes
• Aura Fischbeck
• Linda Bair
• Katie Faulkner
• Rebecca Pappas
• Claudia Hubiak
• Brittany Brown Ceres
• Monica Marks
• Mark Foehringher
• Alex Ketley
• AXIS Dance Company
• Emily Keeler
• Ellen Bromberg
• Kate Weare
• José Navarrete
• Erika Shuck
• Christopher Morgan
• Les Stuck
• Christian Burns
• Kerry Parker
• Christina Braun
• Samantha Giron
• Paco Gomes
• Chimene Pollard
• Catherine Galasso
• Patrick Makuakane
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The performing arts are simply the most expensive kind of art to produce, and DanceArt Inc. is committed to supporting choreographers with seamless, professional, technical and administrative support. For more information on how to support DanceArt Inc. with a donation, please click on the donate button.
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