Columbia Chasing premieres November 8

As promised...just a quick note to ask you to 'save the date' for our latest new work! We'd love to share this final performance with you on the glorious Cowell Theater stage!
This is a rushing, detailed and luscious piece that swirls and pulses to reconstitute and heal even the most challenging of life's personal trials. Come watch this stellar cast speed across the stage in deep physical communication to land in balance and profound resolve.

Sharing the bill with us are 4 other incredible choreographers: Lisa Townsend • Lisa Townsend Company • Lisa Townsend Company's Web Site; Erika Tsimbrovsky • Avy K Productions • Avy K Productions Web Site; Robert Dekkers • Post:Ballet • Post:Ballet Company Web Site; Andrew Skeels • Andrew Skeels' Web Site

As always, thank you for supporting llive performance!
Cheers,
brittany WestWave Dance Festival presents dance ceres' latest new work...

Columbia Chasing (premiere)

Wash out the human in me and let me be like the river...
Choreography: brittany brown ceres
Music: "Voicething" by Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory; "Water Vapor" by Aomeba; "The Nurse Who Loved Me" originally by Ken Andrews of Failure, performed by the Section Quartet
Costumes: Kate Mitchell
Dancers: Yukie Fujimoto, Roel Seeber, Cari Bellinghausen, Max Cauthorn, Miranda Mallard, Becca Rozell With special thanks for significant developmental contributions to Stanford University's Bent Spoon Dance Collective, San Francisco School of the Arts, Joe Landini at the Garage (AIR Residency 2010), Anna Greenberg, Kirstin Damrow, Jenny Ward, Suzanne Beahrs, Rozelle Polido and the many many generous donors. http://www.danceceres.org/support.html

The Details
premieres Monday, Nov. 8 at 8pm

West Wave Dance Festival www.westwavedancefestival.org

The Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center, SF
purchase advance tickets online https://www.fortmason.org/tm/tm.cgi?tmEvent/tmEventDefault.html?P_SEQ=749&
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for more info on the work: http://www.danceceres.org/ColumbiaChasing.html

for some insight into a portion of the creation: http://performingartsclassroom.blogspot.com/2010/07/interview-with-jessica-goldman-gentry.html

The Artists

Yukie Fujimoto is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Irvine. She was a senior member of ODC/San Francisco and retired in 2005 to become the mother of two boys. She is currently on faculty at Mills College.

Roel Seeber started dancing in New York City, at age 10, break dancing with the 560 Breakers. After years as a downhill skier at UofUtah, he graduated cum Laude from Purchase College with a BFA in dance. In 2001, he joined the Limon Dance Company where he danced until joining Project Bandaloop in March of 2008.

Cari Ann Bellinghausen (littlecari.com) is a Chicagoland native who has been dancing for the better part of her lifetime. She majored in dance at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and graduated with honors. She has performed in El Salvador, Costa Rica, San Diego, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. In 2009 her company ×cari's tiny circus× debuted it's first full evening show. When she isn't performing, Cari operates the dog walking/pet care service: Four Legged Fitness.

Maxwell Cauthorn studied and performed with the ODC Dance Jam for 6 years prior to entering the San Francisco School of the Arts. He has studied with many Bay Area dance legends including KT Nelson, Elivia Marta and Gregory Dawson. Currently in his forth year of study on the advanced track at the San Francisco Ballet training program, Max is a junior in high school. He plans to pursue dance as his profession.

Miranda Mallard grew up in Fairfield, Iowa and received her BA in Dance and BM in Voice in '09. Mallard teaches dance at ROCO studios, teaches private voice and piano lessons and is also an assistant band teacher with the San Rafael public elementary schools. When not dancing, singing, or learning a new instrument, she likes to read Sanskrit, practice yoga, and give the Oneness Blessing (or deeksha).

Becca Rozell was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska and her teaching and choreographic career spans both coasts. In New York she taught at Peridance and worked with Andrew Janetti, Vanessa Paige, among others. She currently dances with Weber Dance, teaches at Roco Dance in Marin and is an artist with Performing Arts Workshop. Rozell's choreography has been presented in NYC, Saratoga Springs, D.C., Boston and the Bay Area.

Founded in 2004 by Brittany Brown Ceres, dance ceres, is an ensemble of dancers who devour the performance arena with weighted fluidity, extensions that reach through time, and a dynamically expressive commitment. Described by critics as, "swift and irresistible" (Allan Ulrich, Voiceofdance.com, 7/06) and "lucid and voluptuous" (Rita Felciano, SFBG, 12/07), the core inspiration of the work examines crisis and resilience through intricate and energetic dance. Ceres has produced in the San Francisco Bay Area at West Wave Dance & numerous Bay Area Theater venues and educational facilities, as well as Portland, San Diego, New York, New Zealand & at the American College Dance Festival.

It is the mission of dance ceres is to realize subtlety through action, individuality through community, immediacy through timelessness, and equality through art.

Pictured: Yukie Fujimoto and Roel Seeber, Courtesy of bbceres
www.danceceres.org

"Brittany Brown Ceres's dances are voluptuous and lucid. They are also finely crafted...for those of us who value imagination and brains, Ceres is a choreographer to watch." —Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian (12/07)

“brainy and luscious” –Rita Felciano, July ‘06

“Brittany Brown Ceres may be WestWave Festival producer, but her Simultaneous Solos, premiered at the top of the bill last Saturday earned its place through talent alone. -- swift and irresistible.” —Allan Ulrich, Voice Of Dance (7/06)

“Brittany Brown Ceres’s Simultaneous Solos [was a] stunners."—Ann Murphy, Dance View Times (7/06)

"Brittany Brown's Recollection - suggested we were in the presence of genuine craft and individual sensibility" —Allan Ulrich, Voice Of Dance (8/03)