CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF LIVE ART IN THE PIEDMONT TRIAD
2012 GSO Fringe Shows
On The Edge: New Dance Works by the John Gamble Dance Theater
A quartet in seven vignettes based on themes of internal and external disconnection and dislocation.
Virginia Freeman Dupont, MFA, is a North Carolina-based performer, choreographer, and teacher. She holds BFA and MFA degrees in Dance Performance and Choreography from UNCG and has performed with the companies of John Gamble and Jan Van Dyke since 1995. Virginia serves as the Ballet Mistress and Ballet Program Director for Burlington Academy of Dance & Arts; Artistic Director of the non-profit youth dance company, KARIZMA; and teaches Ballet & Contemporary courses as an Adjunct at UNCG. She has most recently joined the Fly-By-Night Theatre Company as a choreographer.
"Appurtenance&Confluence" is a duet exploring the qualitative sensation of voyaging through the murky depths in order to commiserate with the gross motor movement of another large entity. The dance focuses on the deliberate slowing of time and on the cultivation of an abstracted underwater movement vocabulary and sensibility, heightened by a slight twinge of narrative.
Jennifer McNure is a veteran performer. Since receiving an MFA in Dance Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1998, she has performed over 200 times, across 5 states, in 3 companies, for 25 different choreographers, averaging around 15 performances per year. Her training includes ballet, contact improvisation, Cunningham-based, Graham, Hawkins, Limon, and Release-based techniques. She particularly enjoys collaboration, editing meditative film collages, and performing in intimate venues.
Amber Starr Peeden is a full time dance instructor and professional dancer from North Carolina. This is currently her fifth season performing as a member of the John Gamble Dance Theater. Amber has performed in the Greensboro Fringe Festival and the North Carolina Dance Festival. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in the area of Dance Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2006. She is employed by the Alamance Burlington School System, where she teaches multiple levels and styles of dance at Graham High School.
Cell, created by Lauren Wilson with choreographic input from Leah Wilks, explores the sensation of being at odds with one's own body and the strangeness of having our experiences filtered through a body that can sometimes turn against us. The dance consists of a trio and duet, performed simultaneously, along with live performance of an original sound score. An exercise in extremes, the work is both a celebration of the strength and resiliency of the human body and a meditation on the frailty and inevitable decay of our physical selves.
Lauren Wilson currently teaches high school dance at Chatham Hall in Chatham, Virginia. She is a 2009 graduate of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she earned a B.S. in Dance Education. Lauren has worked as an intern at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and spent the past two summers as an intern, counselor, and student at Bates Dance Festival. Lauren's recent creative endeavors have been influenced by her interest in improvisation, site-specific dance, and human anatomy.
Admission: Free with a suggested donation to the artists of $10
Welcome to The Tenth Annual Greensboro Fringe Festival, January 26th - February 12th 2012. All tickets are general admission and may be purchased at the door prior to each show unless otherwise stated.
For More Information Contact:
Todd Fisher, 336.549.7431
Todd@greensborofringefestival.org