FREE Contemporary Class on January 22!

Neoteric Dance Collaborative in collaboration with The Dance Hall presents

FREE
Contemporary Dance
CLASS

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Who:

Intermediate/Advanced Dancers

What:
FREE Contemporary Class with NDC Artistic Director, Sarah Duclos

Where:

The Dance Hall
7 Walker Street
Kittery, Maine 03904

When:

Sunday, January 22, 2012
10:00-11:30AM

*Please arrive a few minutes early to
register.

About Sarah: Sarah was born and raised in the seacoast region, and trained extensively in ballet, modern and jazz under Mihailo Djuric, Susan Duffy, Christine Simes and Ralph Hamilton at Ballet New England and later Ballet Theatre Workshop. In 2005, she received a BA in Theatre and Dance from the University of New Hampshire. While at UNH, Sarah founded Neoteric Dance Collaborative. The company has performed Sarah’s choreography on stages in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and at Lincoln Center in New York City, New York. Currently, Sarah is the master teaching artist for Boston Ballet’s Taking Steps program.

About the class: Pulling from her diverse background in ballet, modern and jazz, Sarah’s contemporary class is a unique dance experience. Class will begin with a center warm-up primarily using Giordano jazz and Horton modern vocabulary. Progressions across the floor will include turns, extensions and large jumps, and class will conclude with a study of choreography from NDC’s repertoire.

Hope to see you there!

Trey McIntyre's 10+1 Project

Yesterday I was checking up on one of my favorite dance companies, Trey McIntyre Project and I came across the announcement for the 10+1 project. The premise, is that the company gives visual artists access to dancers in the studio during class and rehearsal, the artists in turn create pieces inspired by the ten dancers and Trey (10+1), and as an end result they put on a collaborative gallery show.

Watch a brief video about 10+1

10+1 Pt. 3 from TMP Video on Vimeo.

To borrow Trey's words, his goal was to engage with a large group of people in a quick and meaningful way. I think this idea is so beyond brilliant. Kudos to 10+1!

Shifting Gears

Dear neofans,

*Yells into the void*

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's been a long time since there have been updates here on the neoblog, but I am hoping to change all of that. Things are slowly cooking for us behind the scenes, and I hope to report back with company news soon.

Until then, I have decided that I would like to use this space to keep up with my observations on the dance/art world at large. I am constantly coming across interesting articles and projects by other companies. Usually I share these bits and bobs via Facebook or Twitter, but I decided that I would like a more permanent place to catalogue said cool stuff.

If anyone out there is still reading, I hope you enjoy the new content.

Cheers,

Sarah Duclos, Artistic Director
Neoteric Dance Collaborative

Come and See PUSH!

Bosoma Dance Company's Spring Season Performance with guests Contrapose Dance and Neoteric Dance Collaborative

April 23-24, 2010 8:00pm

Boston University Dance Theatre 915 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, Massachusetts

Box Office 617.358.2500

Opening Act 2010 - Neoteric Dance Collaborative

In 2009, BoSoma launched their Opening Act Series at their spring season performance Through this endeavor, BoSoma aim's to support young companies and choreographers by inviting them to be the Opening Act for their annual spring season performance. The power of collaborating with dance companies of all genres, in hopes of inspiring and educating our audiences, is a vital part of dance in Boston and beyond.

Neoteric Dance Collaborative was founded in 2004 by Sarah Cost as a side project to accompany her dance studies at the University of New Hampshire. At that time, the project's initial goal was to encourage the artistic development of new choreographers and young, pre-professional dancers by providing a laboratory environment that was conducive to collaboration and creativity. In 2009, NDC relocated from New Hampshire to the Boston area. This transitional period marked a time of creative growth and NDC's busiest performance season yet.

CRDF Recap and New Beginnings

Thank you to all of our family and friends who came to our two performances at the Charles River Dance Festival! Here are a few behind the scenes photos:

The cast of Ghosts from the Little Black Book from left to right: Kim Robinson, Meghan Whitten, Jess Soucy, Allison Duke and Amberlee Timm.



Artistic Director, Sarah Cost, ponders future costuming possibilities, between performances, at Forever 21. (((Not so much.)))




Directly after CRDF, we returned to the studio to delve into new work, no rest for the wicked!

Assistant Director, Jess Soucy, led us in some group partnering efforts. Here she is demonstrating beautiful rolls!




Artist Director, Sarah Cost, is at the beginning stages of choreographing a dance adaptation of Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology. Here, Neo dancers are using improvisation to generate new material for the work:



And here, dancers rehearse the first choreographed phrases from Spoon River

NDC dancer, Allison Duke



Neoteric Dance Collaborative



We hope you have enjoyed the behind the scenes photos! Visit us again, there is more to come!

Website Makeover!

Hello all,

I write this now, a bit bleary-eyed after staring at my computer screen for nearly 48 hours solid! However, I am happy to unveil an updated, functional version of NDC's website! This has been a long time coming...enjoy!

Neoteric Dance Collaborative

Audition for Neoteric Dance Collaborative's Spring 2010 Season

Neoteric Dance Collaborative is a North Shore based contemporary jazz company. We will be holding open auditions on Sunday, October 11th, 2009.

About the audition:

Please bring:

* A current resume
* A current headshot: Your head shot does not have to be professional, as long as we can clearly tell what you look like!

The audition will take place at Boston Ballet's Marblehead studios located at 40 Leggs Hill Road, Marblehead, MA, (this is also where NDC rehearses), at 10:00 AM on Sunday, October 11th. Studio will be open to you at 9:30 AM. You are responsible for warming yourself up. Be ready to dance at 10:00 AM.

During the audition you will learn two phrases of work that are in our repertory, and one phrase of new choreography.

About Neoteric Dance Collaborative:

Neoteric Dance Collaborative was founded in 2004 by Sarah Cost as a side project to accompany her dance studies at the University of New Hampshire. At that time, the project’s the initial goal was to encourage the artistic development of new choreographers and young, pre-professional dancers by providing a laboratory environment
that was conducive to collaboration and creativity.

The inaugural company included a mix of fourteen dancers and choreographers. Their debut show Neo-Pop! was a sellout.

After a five year hiatus, NDC was resurrected in early 2009 with great success. Last season NDC performed in New Hampshire, Portland, Maine, Boston, MA and at City Center Studios in New York City.

See photos of our dancers, past and present


View a reel of past projects. Please note: There are some students incorporated into the clips on the reel. Not all of the dancers were NDC company members, hence the young-folk!

Important Facts

* We rehearse on Sunday mornings at the Boston Ballet Studios in Marblehead.

* We do not pay: Sadly, we do not currently pay. It is something that we are working towards as an organizatio, but we suspect that dancer compensation is a few seasons off.

* However, we do tour, and touring provides excellent networking opportunities for dancers trying to make it full-time in the dance field.

What are we looking for?


We are looking for versatile, athletic dancers for a spring repertory show in Boston. In the summer we will definitely tour to Portland, ME and New York City again. There is a possibility of a Connecticut tour date as well. You do not have to be available for all dates to work with us, we are comfortable with double casting if need be.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Sarah Cost at sduclos at neodance dot org. If you intend to attend the call back PLEASE RSVP. We must know who is coming, since you will have to be escorted up to the studios.

We hope to see you on October 11th!