BRD Master Class Series: CATHERINE CABEEN
Saturday, January 28, 2012· 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Firehouse Performing Arts Center
1314 Harris Ave
Bellingham, WA

Please join us for a contemporary class with Catherine Cabeen! We are so excited to welcome her to Bellingham and thrilled to dance with her! Hope you can make it!

$12 students / $14 General
($7 for the first hour)

Class Description:
Cabeen teaches a technique class that focuses on intelligent body mechanics, and expressive versatility. By incorporating exercises from yoga, the Graham technique, and Contact Improvisation, the class stresses alignment, strength and openness of the body. By incorporating improvisation into the students understanding of classical techniques, Cabeen's class pushes dancers to reevaluate both the level at which they are dancing and why. Through a blending of everyday gestures and ecstatic lines, the class will explore dance as a language of movement that speaks to all. This class is designed to train dancers to be versatile, honest, virtuosic and intelligent.

Artist Bio:
Catherine Cabeen, MFA, (Artistic Director of Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC), Dancer, Choreographer), has received choreographic commissions from On the Boards, Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater, the American College Dance Festival NW, the Visa2Dance Festival in Dar Es Salaam, Moving People Dance Theater, Pig Iron Theater Company, Arc Dance Company, among others. The New York Times recently called CCC’s Hyphen, “highly kinetic, complex... visually exquisite,” and “beautifully performed.” The New York Times, May 13, 2011. She currently dances in her own work, and with Richard Move. Cabeen was a former member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Pearl Lang Dance Theater, among others.

For more info, contact (360) 734-2776 or bellinghamrepertorydance@gmail.com

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BRD performs in Chop Shop: Bodies of Work
February 11-12, 2012
Meydenbauer Theater, Bellevue, WA

Tickets on sale now!

BRD is thrilled to be invited for a second year to take part in this exciting performance. We'll be performing an excerpt of Daniel Stark's Politics, Religion, Sex from our Fall show.

Now celebrating its FIFTH YEAR, Chop Shop: Bodies of Work is the only annual contemporary dance festival held specifically for the Eastside. Recognized as one of the most important dance events of the year, Chop Shop serves up a unique and prolific sampling of contemporary dance from leading national and international award-winning dance makers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The Festival features master classes and lectures by the Artistic Directors and Choreographers from the Festival as well as FREE community outreach programs (the Experience Dance Project in partnership with The City of Bellevue) geared to enhance the viewer's experience. The Chop Shop Contemporary Dance Festival is dedicated to bringing great dance work to both new and seasoned audiences through experience, education and performance.

Though each company presented possesses their own individual voice, they are all united in the contemporary language of dance and its power to stir the senses through the visceral moving image.

Visit the Chop Shop web site for a listing of all performers and more info.