Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival 2007
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Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival 2007
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About The Festival
The Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival is a celebration of dance that includes choreography competitions for professional and amateur choreographers, master classes, school residencies, educational workshops and performances.
Division I, is designated by professional dancers. Finalists compete for the grand prize award of $5000, the second place award of $3000 and for the Dance Under The Stars Award, a paid engagement for a professional company. All Division I finalists will receive cash awards for performing at the festival. These awards include $1250 for ensemble finalists; $1000 for small group finalists; $750 for duets; and $500 for solos.
Division II includes pre professional dancers and young choreographers. The finalists in this division compete for a $2000 grand prize, a $1000 second place award and a $300 Junior Choreographer Award (18 and under); the finalists' placement awards for this division include $300 for ensemble, $225 for small group, $150 for pas de deux and $75 for solo.
Submission is by video or DVD. All styles of dance are encouraged to apply for participation in the festival.
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
for outstanding contributions to dance include:
Marc Breaux - 1998
Grover Dale - 1999
Lula Washington - 2000
Joe Tremaine - 2001
George Chakiris - 2002
Dee Dee Wood - 2003
Carmen de Lavallade- 2004
Donald McKayle- 2005
Rudy Perez - 2006
Glen Tetley- 2007 posthumously
Palm Desert Dance Under The Stars
Grand Prize winners are:
1998 "Mambo Mania" San Diego Ballet, choreography - Javier Velasco
1998 "Samel Loves Lilith" Hit & Run Productions, choreography - Brian Frett�
1999 "Bulb" Subliminal Movements, choreography - Bubba Carr
2000 "Common Ground" Scottsdale CC, choreography - Carley Conder
2001 "Subway" Kin Dance, choreography - Frit and Frat Fuller
2002 "Le Coeur Illumine" choreography - Marie de la Palme
2003 "Sliding Down" Ballet Memphis, choreography - Garrett Ammon
2004 "Flicker and Shift" Laura Gorenstein Miller's Helios Dance Theatre, choreography - Laura Gorenstein Miller
2005 "Duet" choreography - Viktor Kabaniaev
2006 "Their Song" choreography- Greg Sample
2007 "Falling Petals" choreography-Ting Ting Chang
Dance Under The Stars Award
2002 Kin Dance
2003 Backhausdance
2004 Culture Shock San Diego
2005 Fly Dance Company
2006 Marie de la Palme
2007 Greg Sample
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About The Organization
The Dance Under The Stars Choreography Festival is presented by The McCallum Theatre Institute, the educational division of the McCallum Theatre For The Performing Arts, in assosication with The City of Palm Desert and The College of the Desert. The festival is dedicated to the advancement of dance as an art form specifically through the promotion of quality choreography. Producing venues for new choreography, providing networking opportunities for choreographers, dancers and students and building dance audiences are also objectives of the festival in addition to offering support to emerging choreographers and dance companies through opportunities of recognition and monetary awards. More than $150,000 in the past ten years has been awarded to winning amateur and professional choreographers.
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For More Information
www.mccallumtheatre.com
(click on choreography festival)
or contact:
Shea New, Festival Founder/Artistic Director
44-522 San Juan Ave
Palm Desert, CA 92260
760 779 0875
DanceFest@aol.com
or:
Joanna Fookes, Production Manager
McCallum Theatre Institute
Education Division McCallum Theatre
73-000 Fred Waring Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92260
760 346 6505 ext.142
JFookes@mccallum-theatre.org
www.mccallumtheatre.com
picture: 'The Cage' choreography by Marie de la Palme, 2006 Dance Under The Stars Paid Engagement Award. Photo: Jack Hartin
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