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Colleen Hooper writes:  I’m showing new work May 16-17. This performance is part of a program produced by Danspace Project that explores what it means to be home or how it feels to be a stranger. I am presenting Solved, Part Two, a new quartet that I choreographed at BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn in Brooklyn.  On February 28th  Flight: Duet was performed at the Choreography Research Center's first showcase directed by Silvana Cardell.  Flight: Duet is a dance that I premiered in 2004 and it explores tension and affection in adolescent friendships. It focuses on the combustible, violent, and tender aspects of female relationships and it is set to rock songs by Le Tigre and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I choreographed this piece in collaboration with Joelle Worm and I will be performing it with Erika Hansen. Mt. Vernon Dance Space, 1720 Mt Vernon St (between 17th and 18th St.)  Fairmount- Philadelphia, PA 19130

Reena Bahadur writes:  Things are going well here in New York. I'm still with The Acting Company, which has been fantastic!  I've learned a lot and have been able to narrow down my area of interest from Theatre Administration in general, to Development and Marketing. Although I'm a general intern and work with all departments I've really enjoyed learning about development and working with our development staff. I've gotten to help out with our Salon readings and work with some really great actors from the area as well as helping with our Tour (our Cast is currently on Tour with Henry V and The Spy - adapted from the James Fenimore Cooper Novel).. The most exciting project so far has been working on our upcoming benefit, “Come to the Cabaret: A Celebration of Kander and Ebb”.   I'm very excited, its really shaping up to be a fantastic evening! In May my internship is ending but I've managed to get a paid internship with Dodger Theatricals (the Producing office that handles 'Jersey Boys' in NY, London and the various other companies). I have about a week off in between leaving The Acting Company and starting Dodger during which I'll be going to London to visit my sister. I'm really excited about that because I haven't been to London since I was 7.

Adam Linet writes:   I have been cast in my first “professional” show in NYC! The show is basically written around the band that will be performing (Gelber & Manning), so it's mostly showcasing the rag/vaudeville
style music that they play. I play a supporting role as a 1920s  gangster/bootlegger in a 5-person cast who is, I suppose, the antagonist. The show goes up Friday March 13th.

Antonietta Vicario  wrote:  I am writing to let you know about and give you the details for my show at Danspace Project. March 12-14, 2009,  St. Marks Church in the Bowery which is 131 2nd Avenue at 10th Street.  It’s called “Our Togetherness”  “In her premiere evening-length performance at Danspace Project, Antonietta Vicario exalts collective group experiences and sensual performance environments, creating a work that straddles commonplace and sublime. Our togetherness places four women inside the inspired space of performance, simultaneously defining and deconstructing what it means to be “embodied” and to “perform presence.”

Cynthia Berkshire sent us this:
IRIS  
has stepped into the dark, she is trying to figure it out; her bras are there, her chair and high heels are too.
Come see what IRIS is up to,

the Tank*
Wed., Feb. 11, 9:30pm
354 W. 45th St., bet. 8th + 9th Ave. and 9th
$5 suggested donation; www.thetanknyc.org/dance
and
Joyce Soho**
Fri., Feb. 27, 8pm
155 Mercer St., bet. Houston + Prince
$18; newdancealliance.org/performance-mix-festival/

performed by Cynthia Berkshire & Victoria Murphy;
original music/soundscape by Scott Killian