:pushing progress
a company / a workshop
The Next Stage Project / Marijke Eliasberg and Jana Hicks, Jason Parsons, BEings dance/Emily Bufferd, Dana Foglia, Synthesis Dance Project/Tracie Stanfield, Treeline Dance Works/Lindsey Vader, Maya Escueta, Calen J. Kurka, Chris Hale, Elisabetta Spuria, Shelly Masenoir, and the :pushing progress contemporary training program.
Guest Appearance by: M. Stuart Dance Theatre
and Cirque-tacular Entertainment
One Showing Sunday May 16th, 8:00 pm
7:00 pm, Pre-Show Food and Wine Reception
with :pushing progress Directors.
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
248 W 60th St, New York, NY 10023
Tickets may be purchased at the door starting at 7:00 pm.
$20.00 - a ticket.
$15.00 - a student ticket.
online ticket sales have been taken offline.
presented by :pushing progress
“The Showcase Series” provides choreographers with a venue to share new movement and ideas at different stages in their process while also allowing them to promote themselves and any upcoming events. The Series is about raw artistry and the process of creation; sharing with others the way in which each individual artist creates and moves differently. Each performance is a unique palette of movement vocabulary and ideas.
This year’s Series is held at the newly developed and state of the art dance facility, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center. The intimate setting of this beautiful black box theatre with stadium seating and simple lighting is a perfect accent to the true purpose of each evening’s performance: Raw Artistry, Individual Creativity, Expression.
Sunday May 16th.
“The Showcase Series” is to be produced annually by :pushing progress.
Keep posted for future Showcase Events.
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center (MMAC) is a brand new 18,000 sq-ft complex dedicated to arts and dance, located on Manhattan's Upper West Side. MMAC offers a state-of-the-art 167-seat black-box theater, an extensive array of dance and fitness open classes, and a children program based on arts, music and movement. MMAC is also the proud home of Manhattan Youth Ballet, formerly Studio Maestro, a not-for-profit pre-professional ballet school founded in 1995 by Rose Caiola. For more information, please contact us at (212) 787-1178.
“...across the board excellence including top notch choreography, star quality dancers and a cornucopia of styles and messages to be shared with other dancers and audience members.”
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center
Sunday May 16, 8:00 pm
7:00 pm pre-show
reception
This year’s Showcase Series will honor the past three years of dedication on the the part of :pushing progress owner/artistic director Calen J. Kurka and Associate Director Chris Hale providing solid dance education through various endeavors, including annual intensives, in studio workshops and the new eight month training program. Guests are invited to join the company directors and the evenings choreographers for a pre-show reception, during which attendees may talk and share their experience of coming together in the name of dance education. To celebrate the inaugural year of the :pushing progress Contemporary Training Program, this year’s graduates will present two works, the first choreographed by Kurka and Hale and the other choreographed by :pushing progress managing director and original company member, Maya Escueta. The evening will include works by BEings dance, Dana Foglia, Next Stage Project, Heather Gehring, Jason Parsons, BODYART, Shelly Masenoir, Elisabetta Spuria, Synthesis Dance Project, Mark Stuart Dance Theatre, Treeline Dance Works, Calen Kurka, Chris Hale, Cirque-tacular Entertainment, and musical guest Zach Berkman.
