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THE BOSTON CONSERVATORY DANCE ENSEMBLEPRESENTS “SPRING WORKS,” FREE PERFORMANCES APRIL 13 AND 14

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(BOSTON—April 5, 2012) The Boston Conservatory Dance Ensemble presents Spring Works, a varied program featuring original choreography by students of the Dance Division and new works by Lorraine Chapman and Anna Myer. Performances take place Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. at The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway Street, in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Admission is FREE . For more information, call The Boston Conservatory event line at (617) 912-9240 or visit www.bostonconservatory.edu /perform.

PROGRAM

Breakdown of the Over-Educated (premiere) Choreography by Marlie Couto.Original composition by Max Judelson.

Do You Have Any Space for My Valuables? (premiere) Choreography by Shannon McColl. Original composition by Kenny Rosenberg.

Excerpts from All at Once (2004) Choreography by Anna Myer. Music by Jakov Jakoulov.

Preventing Scurvy (premiere) Choreography by David Glista. Original composition by Will Piquette and Aaron Freid.

I Think I Want a Divorce (premiere) Choreography by Elizabeth Cappabianca. Original composition by Forrest Gray.

Within the Palm (premiere) Choreography by Coree McKee. Original composition by Joffrey Gaetz III.

Flirting with Subtext (premiere) Choreography by Margot Gelber. Original composition by Evan Racynski.

How ‘bout Now? (premiere) Choreography by Gina dePool. Original composition by Edgar dePool Jr.

Sleeping on the Ceiling (premiere) Choreography by Margaret Foster. Original composition by Ethan Parcell.

The Changing Room (premiere) Choreography by Lorraine Chapman. Music by Ella Fitzgerald, George Frideric Handel and Max Richter.

Program produced by Cathy Young and Mary Wolff. Lorraine Chapman, choreographer, is a Dance Magazine "25 To Watch" (2008). She has danced with Ballets/NY and Ballet British Columbia, as well as for several Boston-based choreographers, including Amy Spencer, Richard Colton, Diane Arvanites, Jose Mateo and Marcus Schulkind. She received her training at The School and L'Ecole Superieure De Danse Du Quebec, as well as from Boston veterans Francis Kotelly and Samuel Kurkjian. As an independent choreographer, Chapman has created works for the Northwest New Works Festival in Seattle at On The Boards-Behnke Center and The Bessie Schonberg Residency at The Yard. Her company, LCTC ( www.lorrainechapman.org ), is currently entering its 10th season.

Since its founding in 1992, Anna Myer and Dancers (AMD) have performed Myer’s innovative choreography to a steadily growing audience throughout the Northeast and the acclaim of some of the country’s most prominent dance critics. Myer’s unique language of movement is a fusion of her classical, modern and postmodern background. Her dances are emotionally charged and infused with a keen formal intelligence. Myer began her dance training in 1962 with Esther Brooks at the Cambridge School of Ballet on a Ford Foundation Scholarship. After receiving scholarships from the , The School of American Ballet and , Myer joined the and later studied and performed with Ane Roje. Myer also performed in works by contemporary choreographers such as Zeve Cohen, Caitlin Corbett, Marguerite Mathews and Pauline Koner.

Mary Wolff holds masters degrees in dance from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and folklore from Indiana University. She has choreographed for ballet, modern and folk companies, including Arizona Dance Theater, Southwest Chamber Ballet, Westwind International Folk ensemble and Mandala Folk Dance ensemble, and for Universal Pictures and Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center. She has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) for the Arts and Humanities and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. A former faculty member of the University of Arizona dance program, Wolff currently teaches choreography and dance history at The Boston Conservatory.

Cathy Young received her B.A. in sociology and women’s studies from Harvard and her M.F.A. in dance from the University of Illinois. She is nationally recognized as a master teacher and has taught classes at more than 30 colleges around the country, as well as at the Bates Dance Festival, Florida Dance Festival and the International Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. While she is perhaps best known as a teacher and choreographer of jazz dance, her 30 years of experience have been wide-ranging and diverse. Throughout her career, she has been immersed as a performer and choreographer in the areas of modern and post-modern dance, improvisation, contact improvisation and ballet, which was central to her training and development. Her depth of experience has inspired her to seek the connections between different dance forms and genres and to develop herself as a versatile, open-minded artist. As a performer, Young has danced with a number of companies, including Zenon Dance Company and Danny Buraczeski’s Jazzdance! She has also toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, and she has performed in prestigious venues such as the in New York and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. For the past 20 years, Young has focused on creating her own work, a dynamic mix of styles and dance forms that intermingles jazz, modern, contact improvisation, social dance and gymnastics. She creates choreography for her own company, Cathy Young Dance, and has been commissioned by numerous companies in the U.S and abroad. Young is also the recipient of awards and grants from various arts foundations including the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Target Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She was previously department chair and an associate professor of dance at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania.

About The Boston Conservatory The Boston Conservatory trains exceptional young performing artists for careers that enrich and transform the human experience. Known for its intimate and supportive multi-disciplinary environment, The Boston Conservatory offers fully accredited graduate and undergraduate programs in music, dance and theater, and presents more than 200 performances each year by students, faculty and guest artists. Since its founding in 1867, The Boston Conservatory has shared its talent and creativity with the city of Boston, the region and the nation, and continues to grow today as a vibrant community of artists and educators. For more information, visit www.bostonconservatory.edu .

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