Remember Dance Video for EarthDances

http://vimeo.com/40382465

Flyer idea for thesis and facebook

Taking the material from the colored sheets and writing on it with information about performances of Earth Dances .  I also need to make a web page of the EarthDances.  I'm going to add it to my Inner Sun Page.  I also need to make a facebook page for EarthDances.

About judging art and encouraging viewers to leave comments

Below is what i wrote first when i read about People's choice.

Umm, People's choice makes me sad.

I didn't know this was a contest.

I think leaving comments is great, but changing it into a contest feels weird and disclusive, not inclusive.  Just my opinion.

Lisa told me ya'll discussed it at the first gathering which i couldn't attend.  I feel that when folks get in the mood of judging, picking first place, there bodies and mind become rigid.  Art that might take longer to absorb gets losts or art that might not feel so strong gets thrown to the way side in the shadow of the choosen one.  Sort of like the middle child.

Lisa told me ya'll were interested in feedback from the viewers.  Here are a few ideas to encourage this to happen without them picking a winner.

1st- Place notebooks and pens by each art work with a message "Please leave your comments, your opinion matters to me."

2^nd- the pay for the raffle ticket is for each of the viewers to make comments on two notebooks.

3^rd- each of us take the time to comment on each of the notebooks.

4^th-Have a question answer session (Lisa would prefer to do this at the closing of the gallery in May)

I will bring a hummus and carrots and celery tray.  My sculpture is hung.  I feel like I just had a baby.

Cheers,

Jen

Gathering of singers and songs February 18 Disco Dance Party

Singer Anna Billman-
Peaceable Kingdom by Adrian Blue
Her Pebbles song
This land is your land by

Singer Cynthia Morris- Harvest by Neil Young
Singer Amy Barley-Fragile by Sting
Singer guitarist Alex Pettit-What I Love by Black Keys

Mar 24, 25, 2012 Richmond Choreography Showcase "Thrashed"

“Thrashed”

What happens when one is caught in the turmoil of life?  Whether an internal, personal struggle that can’t find a resolution or a global disturbance yearning for attention, these conflicts pervade our world. “Thrashed” bears witness to those caught in the storm.

Performed by Jen Stone, Megan Thompson, and Dale Lazar, “Thrashed” intertwines movement, music, and song to create a vital statement about relationships and communication. It begins with Stone’s singing and evolves into a duet between Thompson and Stone based on an improvisational score. Inspired by images of nature and gravitational forces and drawing from the observation of animals, this work calls attention to moments of falling, of flailing, and of weightlessness. The improvisational score that serves as its catalyst is called “contacting with the air.”

With Lazar providing a percussive score played live, “Thrashed” creates a sensorial landscape of rhythms, words, music, and motion. Different parts of the dancers’ bodies become initiation points as the dancers roll and tumble. A sense of wild abandonment is evoked by their incessant falling through the air, catching oneself, or the other, before falling again. When Thompson ultimately finds stillness, Stone, still singing, finds her way into the grooves of her body: the singer is clay that forms a mold of the dancer. Their interactions evolve and repeat. Like a mother putting on a warm blanket over a child, Stone as the singer is a blanket for Thompson, but at other times Stone’s molding actions become suffocating for Thompson. “Thrashed” is inspired by the questions: what happens when our interactions harm others? Can such conflict be translated into performance in such a way that art can activate greater self-awareness and a holistic sense of community?

Together Stone, Thompson, and Lazar have over 40 years of experience in performing, composing, and teaching. They have toured nationally and internationally. Their work is committed to social change, personal interaction, and innovative artistry. “Thrashed” has never been performed. A preliminary draft (a solo version by Stone) was performed during a graduate course during the summer of 2011.

TITLE:  Thrashed

CHOREOGRAPHER(S):  Jen Stone

DANCERS (in the order you wish it to appear): Megan Thompson, Jen Stone

MUSIC COMPOSITION (choreographers are responsible to retaining rights to their music): Dale Lazar

MUSIC PERFORMED BY:  Dale Lazar

COSTUMES:  Jen Stone and Megan Thompson

PROGRAM NOTE (if applicable)

CHOREOGRAPHERS BIOGRAPHY (250 words or less please)

Over the last two decades, Jennifer Clark Stone has danced with the most exciting and inspiring choreographers and improvisers at work today. They include Steve Paxton, David Dorfman, Maida Withers, Amy Pivar, David Zambrano, Daniel Burkholder, Joy Kellman, and Phffft Dance Theatre Co. Her own improvisationally charged choreography has been presented at Joy of Motion in Washington DC (2001, 2002, 2005), The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2004) and Dance Place New Releases (2000, 2004).  After her birth of her second child Stone joined forces with Megan Thompson and formed the 5^th Adventure Dance Project co-creating works (2010-present) in Antigua Guatemala, Puebla Mexico and in Norfolk, VA at Old Dominion University.

 Stone began her training at the North Carolina School of the Arts and completed her BFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has worked extensively with the Charlottesville-based Zen Monkey Project and continues to share her unique ideas about dance and improvisation with the next generation of artists. She is currently working on her MFA in dance at George Washington University, and teaches Yoga and Pilates in foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where she lives with her husband and two children on a small farm.  She is currently interested in exploring the alignment of art and environmental activism.