Core Dance presents 2017-2018 Season

Core Dance, the award-winning contemporary dance organization based in Atlanta and Houston (www.coredance.org), will present its 37th season of original dance works and community-based performances and outreach.

In Atlanta this season, Core Performance Company (CPC) will perform internationally renowned choreographer Germana Civera's Human Landscapes, a work that focuses on the stories, history and memories that shape the migrant experience. The season will also feature the popular Lunchtime in the Studio series, Fieldwork, National Water Dance, and the EnCore: Dance on Film Festival.

In September, the Company will travel to Tel Aviv to perform the Israeli and International Premiere of Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor's American Playground, a work that investigates multiple themes including "body as resistance," personal authenticity and the dialogue between public and private spaces. American Playground had its American premiere as part of the Exposed Festival in Atlanta in 2016.

Also in September, the Core Performance Company will begin its "Civil Twilight" residency in Little Rock, AR. commemorating, in part, the "Little Rock Nine," the nine African-American students who courageously entered Little Rock's Central High School on September 25, 1957, ushering in a continued endeavor for equal education under the law.

In May, the Company will create a performance work, in tandem with the community, in and around a Labyrinth of light on Decatur Square. This popular event, called walk, contemplates the changing nature of the individual within our briskly changing world, with the Labyrinth offers a sacred space for this community experience. Date and time TBD.

Throughout the season, Core Dance continues its transformative community-based initiative, Dynamic X-Change, a healing arts program that uses movement as a catalyst for change. Community partners in Atlanta are Clarkston Community Center and East Atlanta Kids Club. The program receives support from Georgia Council for the Arts.

For more information on these collaborations and performances, please visit www.coredance.org.

Please see below for a complete listing of Atlanta events open to the public:

Lunchtime in the Studio

Lunchtime in the Studio offers "a close-up and personal look at how contemporary dance is crafted and performed" (AJC) and provides a free "backstage pass," including lunch, with the opportunity for the public to actively engage in the innovation, collaboration, investigation and community-building that forms the heart of Core Dance's vision. Guests are warmly greeted as you enter the welcoming studio, get your lunch, take a seat, and observe and respond as art-makers share their work.

When:

September 28, 2017

November 16, 2017

February 8, 2018

April 19, 2018

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Where:

Core Studios

133 Sycamore Street

Decatur, GA 30030

Free and open to the public. Please register at coredance.org.

Fieldwork

Core Dance, in partnership with The Field NYC, will continue to offer Fieldwork, a unique forum for artists of all disciplines to share developing works and exchange feedback, peer to peer. There are three options available for creators to participate (below). The works created in the workshops will be performed in Fieldwork Showcases on December 3, 2017 at Emory University on May 6, 2018 at Core Studios. May 6th is also Field Day, an opportunity for community artists to show works-in-process and receive feedback from the audience and fellow performers. This non-curated performance opportunity is available to artists of all mediums - dance, theater, spoken word, music, visual art, etc. Field Day 2018 will include the Spring Fieldwork Showcase.

Fall Fieldwork Workshops

Mondays from 7:00 - 9:30pm

October 2 - November 27, 2017

Core Studios

139 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030

$75 for the 10-Week Session

Fall Fieldwork Showcase

December 3, 2017

5:00 pm

Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

1700 N. Decatur Rd

Atlanta, GA 30322

Showcase tickets are $7 and available online at coredance.org.

Spring Fieldwork Workshops

Weekly

Wednesdays from 7:00 - 9:30pm

January 31 - March 28, 2018

Bi-weekly

Mondays from 7:00 - 9:30pm

January 29 - March 26, 2018

Core Studios

139 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030

$75 for the 10-Week Session

Field Day and Spring Fieldwork Showcase

May 6, 2018

Field Day: 3:00 - 4:30pm
Fieldwork Showcase: 6:00 - 8:30pm

Core Studios

133 Sycamore Street

Decatur, GA 30030

Showcase tickets are $7 and available online at coredance.org.

Human Landscapes

Core Performance Company will perform internationally renowned choreographer Germana Civera's Human Landscapes, a work that tells the stories, history and memories that shape the migrant experience. Drawing a parallel with the current political climate, and threatening instability facing humanity as a whole, Human Landscapes focuses on what it's like to be displaced, exiled, and constantly in motion.

When:

October 26-29, 2017

8:00 pm

Where:

The B-Complex

1272 Murphy Ave SW

Atlanta, GA 30310

Tickets are $15 and are available at coredance.org.

National Water Dance 2018

Core Dance will join National Water Dance (NWD), an artist driven collective of dancers and educators stretching from coast to coast, to create a site-specific performance that brings attention to the pressing issues of water in the United States. The performances will be live-streamed and the location of the performance is to be determined.

When:

April 14, 2018

4:00 pm/EST

Where:

TBD

Free and open to the public.

EnCore: Dance on Film Festival

Presented by Core Dance, EnCore brings together a collection of original dance works for screen, and is performed, choreographed and directed by local artists, as well as their regional, national and international peers. Filmmakers are invited to submit films for consideration. Guidelines are available in January at coredance.org.

About Core Dance

Celebrating its 37th season in Atlanta beginning fall 2017, Core Dance, an award-winning contemporary dance organization, creates, performs and presents compelling and distinctive original dance works that ignite the creative spirit and foster cultural conversations. ?For nearly four decades, Core Dance has initiated and supported innovation, collaboration, artistic risk-taking and sustainable art-making in dance. ?Core Dance was co-founded in 1980 in Houston, Texas by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister, Kathy Russell. ?Five years later, the organization added Atlanta, Ga. as a second home base, creating a context for dance that is relevant in both cities and around the globe. Core Dance uses dance to educate, question and illuminate. ?Core Performance Company, the professional contemporary dance company of Core Dance, is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, the underlying humanity of the individual Dance Artists, as well as its rigorous physicality. (www.coredance.org)

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