2009 PERFORMERS
Note Two Performance Areas:
1. Performance Tent
2. Acoustics Under The Tree
Performance Tent
90 Miles Off Broadway is a community theatre company who has been entertaining our local area for 45 years. Their youngest actors will perform a couple of numbers from "Sanctuary," their 2009 summer children's theatre production written by Judy Elliot and Janet Salt.
In addition, several of their favorite adult actors will be performing some of their favorite Broadway tunes.
11:45 - Sahana Natesan - Kuchipudi - classical Indian dance-
Sahana Natesan is a sixth grader at VanWyck Middle School, Hopewell Junction. She learns classical dance form from South India called Kuchipudi, named after the village it originated from.
Sahana Natesan began learning Kuchipudi at the tender age of 4. She was trained at Kuchipudi Arts Academy, Chennai, India. She continued to learn Kuchipudi from Smt. Indira Sreeram, a senior disciple of Padmabhushan Vempati Chinna Satyam, NJ. Sahana has performed in India and in the USA. She has won several dance competitions in both solo and group categories. She has participated in several inaugural events organized by prestigious institutions in USA.
She has toured US with many eminent dance troupes and has won several accolades for her performance from both Western and Indian audiences. She has performed at Dutchess Interfaith Festival, Dutchess Arts Council, Spirit of Beacon Day, Veterans Hospital and many other events across USA. She entered the "Guinness Book of World Record" in July 2008 for performing Kuchipudi dance with other performers across the globe under one platform. She performed at the "Kuchipudi Nrityotsav 2009" event in Bangalore, India in the summer of 2009.
Minor Constellations is eighteen year old Dean Engle from Poughkeepsie, New York. He writes songs that tell stories, usually about girls, and then plays them super fast on his ukulele. Minor Constellations was born when Dean bought a ukulele on his seventeenth birthday. The ladies have been swooning ever since. The entire Minor Constellations catalogue (four awesome albums) is available for free download at Myspace.com/MinorConstellations
All That Is Jazz is an informal division of The Artists Alliance Against Violence Inc. a 50(c)(3) corporation dedicated to providing solutions to interpersonal violence through the arts. Music and dance are subjective expressions of self. When we speak our truth through any means, and others listen, we feel fulfilled, joyful, and at peace.
RED MASQUERADE by Jack Wade, directed by Stephen Kitsakos. A preview from the World Premiere of a new play about Communism in America. In 1942 Angie Calomiris is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a communist cell and spy for the U.S. On the inside she meets and falls in love with Leona Saron, the woman, an "apparatchik" who runs the local branch. Leading a double life these women, hiding in the shadows of political and sexual betrayal, become the basis for a play that explores our rights of privacy and political freedom. Produced by SUNY New Paltz Dept. of Theatre Arts in Parker Theatre from Oct. 8th-18th.
2:15 -Mid-Hudson Mexican Folkloric Dancers-
The Mid-Hudson Mexican Folkloric Dance Group, (MHMFG), directed by Elsa Gracian, was formed in March 2000 with people in the Newburgh community. Mrs. Gracian originally from Chihuahua, Mexico started dancing at age eight. In New York, Elsa participated with the “Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Nueva York”, and with the “Mexico Images and Traditions” before forming the MHMFG. In October 2006, Elsa started working with new members in the Town of Poughkeepsie. The group has performed in numerous community events in schools, parks, fairs, and church events in Newburgh, Beacon, Saugerties, Dover Plains, Monticello, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn, and in association with the Dutchess County Arts Council, Vanaver Caravan, and Centro Civico of Amsterdam, NY.
More than a muse, more than creatively constructed vocals, glorious chords, and hypnotic rhymes...its the siren sound and fiery freshness that is Kat Spina!
Her musical journey begin at the age 8 where she studied a local music school idolizing pop divas of the 1990s. Later, she expanded her repertoire and jazz vocabulary at SUNY New Paltz studying with jazz vocalist extraordinaire, Teri Roiger. Kat's style is a unique blend of jazz, folk, R&B, and rock, and consistently defies explanation. Her music is intimate, heartfelt, and relevant to everyday life. It is important to let the creative process develop intrinsically and honestly, and as a result she is proud to announce the release of her first album "Engaging the Muse." Kat will be performing today as a trio.
Paul Carroll is a percussionist and educator living in New Paltz, NY. He has performed with such prestigious groups from the New York area as the Group for Contempoary Music, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Pulse Percussion Ensemble, and the Princeton Composer’s Ensemble. Through a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Foundation, Paul studied in Copenhagen, Denmark with the late percussionist, Bent Lylloff where he performed with the Athelas Ensemble and the Ensemble Figura.
Paul Carroll has worked closely with many composers and has had compositions dedicated to him including, Sit Down Stand Up by Robert Pollock and Ritual by Peter Zaparinuk. During this past summer, Paul performed a series of solo percussion recitals and workshops in Maui and the “Big Island” of Hawaii. Paul can be heard on many recordings including the 2008 release of Charles Wuorinen’s, The Dante Triology on Naxos. In addition to his experience in the contemporary music arena, Paul also performs world percussion, jazz, and popular music. Dr. Carroll was honored to have studied with percussion pioneers, Raymond DesRoches and Bent Lylloff as well as the legendary jazz drummer, Joe Morello.
He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Masters degree from the State University at Stony Brook and a Bachelor of Music degree from William Paterson University.
Barefoot Dance Company performs pieces created by professional choreographers, as well as student work. Every student at Barefoot dances, collaborates and choreographs. Located in West Park, NY, they offer classes in Modern Dance Technique, Improvisation and Choreography, Creative Movement, Ballet and Boys' Dance. Classes are offered for toddlers and up. As children grow older, they learn specific dance skills as they continue to build their own movement vocabularies. Older kids and teens are challenged with a more rigorous technical training, while continuing their personal explorations through improvisation and composition.
Los Doggies plays songs & music in many different keys. We'd like to use all 24,576 available keys before we die. If for one day, all the creatures on Earth compiled their selfish songs into one pantonal supersong, the 24,576 keys could be used. Los has written such a supersong. Its kick drums are thunderclaps, and every continent takes a chorus. There is also a god solo. Every key.
Acoustics Under The Tree
12:00 New Paltz Reformed Church Youth Choir
2:00 D'Antony D.
D'Antony D. is a singer and songwriter from Dublin, Ireland living in NY for almost ten years, singing original songs of great passion and truth including a select set of covers from the past 50 or so years that mean something to him.
He is currently recording his new composition called "Shine A Light " with Joe Johnson who has worked with Joan Jett, Wilson Pickett and Mannheim Steamroller, along with some of Manhattan's top session musicians and Soundtrack Composers which is due for release on itunes before the end of 2009.
D'Antony also plays a residency in Cold Spring at Whistling Willies on Tuesdays, and can be seen participating in the open mike there on Wednesdays.
D'Antony Says "The plan for me is just to keep moving forward, I was banging my head against a wall in Ireland as far a making success so I came to this amazing country that I adore and love. I was meant for this country, I am not only accepted but loved for my art and passion and self-belief...what more could an artist want aside from a hit song???"
3:15 The Shoe String Band
Old time Southern/Appalacian and American Folk music.
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Musicians and Performers Table:
A COTA staffed Musicians and Performers Table will be available for CD and DVD sales of performers. All proceeds go to the individual artist. A donation of a DVD or CD to the silent auction is gratefully accepted. For more information on this and other Networking Tent Activities please contact Sara Street at: dancedance@prodigy.net.
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