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DANCE INITIATIVE PRESENTS MOLISSA FENLEY & COMPANY – Critically Acclaimed Choreographer To Create A Dance in Carbondale

August 25th, 2015

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DANCE INITIATIVE PRESENTS MOLISSA FENLEY & COMPANY

Critically Acclaimed Choreographer To Create A Dance in Carbondale

Carbondale, CO Aug. 11— Molissa Fenley, internationally known dancer and choreographer, joins Dance Initiative at The Launchpad for a week long Artist In Residence, Sept. 7 through 12. Fenley will be accompanied by two members of her company and will be creating a dance that will be performed in New York City late fall 2015. Over the course of Fenley’s 38 year long career, she has produced over 80 original works that have been performed at the Joyce Theater, City Center, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Jacob’s Pillow and American Dance Festival. She is also faculty at Mills College. Fenley’s week long residency will include open rehearsals for the public to view on Sept, 9, 10, & 11 from 1 to 4pm, a Choreographer’s Talk at the Carbondale Library on Wednesday, Sept. 9 from 6:30 to 7:30p.m., a free Open Company Class on Friday, Sept. 11 from 10a.m. to 12p.m., a Master Class on Saturday, Sept. 12 from 10:30a.m. to 12p.m. and a performance of Fenley’s work Saturday, Sept. 12 at 6:30pm.

Molissa Fenley formed Molissa Fenley and Company in 1977 and she has choreographed over 80 works. With Molissa Fenley and Company and as a soloist working in collaboration with visual artists and composers, she has performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Her work has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the Dia Art Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow, the Joyce Theater, the New National Theater of Tokyo, The National Institute of Performing Arts in Seoul, The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, and many others. Cenotaph received a Bessie for choreography in 1985 and her performance in State of Darkness garnered her a second Bessie in 1989. Molissa has also created many works on ballet and contemporary dance companies, most recently for the Oakland Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Robert Moses’ Kin and the Seattle Dance Project. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a Fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation, a recipient of two Asian Cultural Council residencies in Japan and a Master Artist of the Atlantic Center of the Arts. She is currently the Danforth Professor of Dance at Mills College, in residence only in the spring semesters, and often teaches choreographic and repertory workshops at other universities, most recently at Bennington College.

Fenley and the two members of her company, Christiana Axelsen and Rebecca Chaleff, join Dance Initiative for this Artist in Residence to complete a Fenley’s newest work titled Water Table. This piece is an artistic response to the very significant decrease in the amount of accumulated fresh water available in our world. Fenley has a long history of creating choreographic works inspired by environmental issues reaching back to The Floor Dances created in 1989 in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. She is also known for creating dances that use complex patterning and demand a remarkable stamina from performers. Fenley and Company will be performing this work in progress in addition to Dance An Impossible Space and Entrance, both created in 2104.

Dance Initiative warmly invites the public to participate in Fenley’s week long residency and watch a critically acclaimed choreographer create. For a full schedule of events or to reserve space in the master class or performance, visit www.danceinitiative.org. More information on Molissa Fenley is available on her web site:http://www.molissafenley.com

Dance Initiative is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, based in Carbondale, Colorado, dedicated to promoting the art of dance of all different styles and serving the needs of experienced students of dance, choreographers and teachers of dance.

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