Annual Winter Newsletter
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Annual Winter Newsletter
The Danse Lumière Newsletter KATHRYN ROSZAK, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 6334 Kensington Avenue, Richmond, California 94805, U.S.A. (510) 233-5550 WINTER 2015/2016 www.dlkdance.com [email protected] Women Ballet Choreographers Residency at Djerassi in 2016: “Where are all the women choreographers?” asks Dance Magazine, as well as numerous other news and arts publications, dance companies and schools. Among choreographers in the ballet world, women are a minority group. Now Kathryn Roszak’s Danse Lumière presents the first step in developing the inaugural Women Ballet Choreographers Residency, to be held at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program on May 15, 2016. Women choreographers will screen their works and present ballets in open rehearsal. Invited participants include Amy Seiwert of Smuin Ballet; Dalia Rawson, director of Silicon Valley Ballet School; and Dana Genshaft, formerly of S.F. Ballet. Collaborating artists, composers and designers will join the choreographers for a panel discussion. Dance companies and directors who program women will be honored, including Celia Fushille-Burke of Smuin Ballet. Kathryn Roszak says, “This residency program highlights contemporary ballets by women. We plan to help women artists to further develop their choreography while giving them greater opportunity and visibility.” A residency preview took place at Djerassi in September 2015, with choreographer Lissa Resnick joining Ms. Rawson and Ms. Roszak. Following class with Ms. Rawson, dances were created in a beautiful dance studio and in the surrounding landscape. After a wonderful lunch, Djerassi Director Margot Knight took everyone on a sculpture walk. Danse Lumière Highlights in 2015: Our Dance on Center series continued in April 2015 at the Osher Studio in downtown Berkeley, with a well-attended celebration of women ballet choreographers, featuring new works by Dalia Rawson, Lissa Resnick, and Kathryn Roszak, plus special guest Shahrzad Khorsandi. Danse Lumière’s production of Secrets on the Way, a Dance Noir inspired by the poetry of Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer, was screened in May 2015 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Sadly, Tomas Tranströmer passed away in March 2015. Choreographer Kathryn Roszak has received a grant from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation to produce a new dance film in tribute to Tranströmer. We are currently seeking additional funds, and plan to complete the film in 2016. Also in May 2015, Danse Lumière was invited to perform in the East Bay DANCES festival, as part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of Oakland Ballet. In September 2015, Danse Lumière performed at the Art in Nature festival, held at Redwood Regional Park in Oakland; the festival was attended by over 4,000 people. Ms. Roszak continues her association with U.C. Berkeley: Kathryn Roszak enters her eighth year as an instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at U.C. Berkeley. Her dance-oriented courses include the popular Moving Images: Dance and Film. The Fall 2015 session featured the S.F. Dance Film Festival; guests included Smuin Ballet's Amy Seiwert, and former Royal Swedish Ballet ballerina Katja Björner, star of the film The Dancer. Ms. Roszak also taught Feminism in the Bay Area Arts, a groundbreaking course focusing on artistic explorations of women's issues. Guests included author Sandra Gilbert, and conductors Joana Carneiro of the Berkeley Symphony and Mary Chun of Earplay. As an enrichment lecturer for Cal Discoveries travel, Ms. Roszak lectures on arts and culture, and the influence and inspiration of the tour destination. In April 2016 she will lead a Paris Immersion tour, with an Arts Emphasis that includes select performances at historic venues of La Ville Lumière. Roszak (L) and Björner Hannah Varga at Djerassi preview (Photo by Bari Lee) Education and Outreach: Kathryn Roszak directs the “Dance on Center” program for Children and Teens, offering classes in Creative Movement and Ballet to girls and boys. Located in Berkeley, and now in its 15th year, the program was listed in 2012 as one of the “Best Dance Studios” in the Bay Area by CBS5 “Eye on the Bay”. Our popular Summer Dance Camp took place in June 2015 at the beautiful Studio Haba Na Haba in the Berkeley hills; this was our seventh annual camp. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In January 2015, in downtown Berkeley, Kathryn Roszak launched her new program, The Next Step: Movement to Music, an ongoing series of fun and accessible dance workshops specially designed and taught by Ms. Roszak for Adults and Seniors to move at their own pace. Danse Lumière is very grateful to the following for their support: Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Oakland/Berkeley Association of Realtors, Kirsten Falke-Boyd, Berkeley Arts Connect, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Friends of Danse Lumière. Friends of Danse Lumière This is a time of limited resources for the arts. A small non-profit like ours counts on individual donors more than ever to support our cutting-edge work. Please be as generous as you can and know that you join with us in making important contributions of peace, visionary art, and culture to our world. In dark times let the light of DANSE LUMIÈRE illuminate. $40 Friend: Receives Newsletter. Listed as Friend in DANSE LUMIÈRE programs. $60 Supporter: Receives Newsletter, priority seating at regular DANSE LUMIÈRE performances. Hannah Varga, Keryn Breiterman-Loader and Shanise Dews at Djerassi preview, September 2015 (Photo by Bari Lee; “Ouroborus” sculpture by Sebastian Mendes) $125 Patron: All of the above, special recognition in programs plus you are invited to attend a special patrons’ performance. * $250 Sponsor: All of the above plus two guests are invited to attend a special patrons’ performance. * $500-$999 Co-Producer’s Circle: All of the above plus four guests are invited to attend a special patrons’ performance. * $1,000-$5,000 Producer’s Circle: All of the above plus eight guests, or a party to be arranged, are invited to attend a special patrons’ performance. * * Special patrons’ performance to be announced Contributions of $40 and over are tax deductible through our fiscal sponsor, Poetry Flash. Please make your checks payable to “Poetry Flash/Danse Lumière” and send contributions to: 6334 Kensington Avenue Richmond, CA 94805 U.S.A. You may also make a contribution by credit card by calling us at (510) 233-5550. Our thanks to Foundation and Institutional supporters, past & present: Berkeley Chamber Performances; California Institute of Integral Studies; C.O.A.T./Taliesin West; Djerassi Resident Artists Program; Fleishhacker Foundation; Foundation for Deep Ecology; Flow Fund; Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation; Goethe-Institut; Guzik Foundation; Humanities West; Roy A. Hunt Foundation; Friends of San Francisco Public Library; Institute for the Environment at George Washington University; La MaMa E.T.C.; Lawrence Hall of Science; Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation; Puffin Foundation; Laurance S. Rockefeller; LEF Foundation; LEK Consulting; Royal Norwegian Consulate; The San Francisco Foundation/Koshland Grant; Santa Sabina Center; The University of San Francisco; Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation; Zellerbach Family Fund. Individual Friends and Supporters: Jean Shinoda Bolen, Pamella Cavonna, Arlene Elster, Susan Felix, John Felstiner, Laura Harris, Sue Li Jue, Krissy Keefer, Paul Kleyman, Linda Lazzeretti, Christine Leefeldt, Ingrid Kepler May, Malcolm Margolin, Luce Sandoval, David Shaddock, Eleanor Wong Telemaque, Carol Thompson, Joan Wager, Marilyn and Irv Yalom. Patrons/Sponsors/Producer’s Circle: Janine Canan, Joy Carlin, Vera Carpeneti, Helena Foster, Evelyn Greenwald, John Gustavson, James and Donna Hale, Lana Husser, Ingeborg Hutzel, Linda Kolsky, John and Joan Lavorgna, Drew Lenthe, Lois Lorentzen, Steven and Nikko Meyer, Jill Norgaard, Amy Resner, Pamela Riggs, Betty Roszak, Helen Schulak, Ilene Serlin, Carole Shattil, Roxanne Sherif, Russell Sherif, Dan Sullivan. Business Donors: The Asian Art Museum, Aveda/4th Street Berkeley, Berkeley Association of Realtors, Eureka Restaurant, Ruth Frassetto/Grubb Company, Salle Pianos, San Francisco Dancewear, Star Grocery, Turtle Island Fine Books and Prints, The Wooden Duck, Yoshi’s. Special thanks to the following individuals and organizations for their recent help and/or in-kind support: Yoshi & Gengo Akiba, Anna Avellar, Margaret Barbee, Blythe Berg, Robert Bly, Sue Brand, Louise Burton, Ted Burton, Lucy Castle, Danse Lumière volunteers, Lisa Delan/Rork Music, Sabine Erlenwein, Kirsten Falke-Boyd, Matt Fillingim, Jim Fisher, G. Chris Griffin, Lizbeth Hasse, Heather Hensley, Carol Hurwitz, Lorri Holt, Joyce Jenkins/Poetry Flash, Earll Kingston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Margot Knight/Djerassi RAP, Vesna Ljunggren, Tom Luddy & Monique Montgomery, Bob Morris, Stephen Motika/Poets House, Jinny Pearce, Shirley Poy, Lingjie Qiao, Virginia Reed, Ulla Reilly, Kyle Reinhart and Lynn Carter/Scandinavia House, Lissa & Eric Resnick, Linda Rugg/UC Berkeley Scandinavian Dept., Eileen Savel, Francine Sosa-Lewis, Margaret Swarthout, May Swenson, Catherine Tharin/92Y/FAN, Tomas and Monica Tranströmer, Jale Yoldas/Goethe-Institut.
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