The singing bowls recording.

Happy (only slightly belated) Solstice everyone! Here is a wee video of Guy Yair Beider in Frank Spitznagel's New York studio while we recorded the singing bowls for Rock Om this week. It was a new and exceptionally beautiful experience for all three of us.

And your donations helped make it happen. 

Thank you all for helping us in this campaign. The IndieGoGo bit is officially over, and yet your generous donations keep arriving through the mail and through The Field website. Your faith in this work, your enthusiasm in Rock Om and in what we’re creating is heart warming, and we are all so immensely grateful.

Over the last 31 days, through IndieGoGo and The Field, we’ve raised $3,020. It's almost half our goal, and is a huge help.

Thank you!

We look forward to keeping you updated through our expandance mail-outs, with postcards / videos / mp3s for those of you who chose the perks, and we look forward to seeing you at a performance sometime soon.

- Rachel 

55 Hours left...

Update on the Rock Om fundraising...

We've done well so far, thanks to your help. As well as the $1,840 raised through IndieGoGo, we've raised $550 directly through tax deductible donations made possible through our fiscal sponsor, The Field.

However, we still need to pay our costume designer, lighting designer and dancers! If you have yet to make a donation to help us cover the production costs for our great new show Rock Om, please do so today! 

To get great perks directly from the dancers, donate through our IndieGoGo page within the next 55 hours and choose your perk! Or to make a tax deductible donation (it is that time of year!) click here anytime before midnight Dec 31st (for a 2011 deduction), and choose 'expandance' in the drop-down menu. 

The donor gratitude wall goes live on our website on Dec 20th. 

Again, thank you for everything you're doing to help us spread the word. We promise to use every dollar wisely and effectively.

12 DAYS LEFT TO RAISE $5,440

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. We appreciate every dollar.

 

If you love our work, please consider telling 10 of your friends about our campaign to bring Rock Om to Oberon in MA in January. Help us get this piece, that we've been working on for over 12 months, out of the studio to the public! We're using every dollar wisely and effectively.

A note from Rachel: 

It's time to get personal, and let you all know what this means to us.

I've been personally funding the development of Rock Om for over a year. I've sourced and paid for hundreds of hours of studio rental, black and white clothes that could pass as costumes, and poured well over a thousand hours (yes) into developing this work for the company - all this while continuing to run the company, and all this outside my 'day job'. The dancers have given up paid work time and again in order to come into the studio and rehearse, because they believe in this piece and it's ability to enlighten and inspire. 

If we don't reach this goal, our lighting designer, our costume designer, I and the dancers don't receive our fee of $500 while we're in Boston. What this means for the dancers is, each of us will give up money we'd usually receive through our day jobs in New York in order to come to Boston and perform this piece. It's incredibly important that we reach our fundraising goal. Please help us by spreading the word. Thank you. 

http://www.indiegogo.com/Rock-Om

Help Matt bring Rock Om to Boston!

Here is one of the Rock Om dancers, Matt Chicon, talking this week about the piece, our rehearsal process and what it means to him. We have 18 days left on our campaign - please spread the word and donate today!

http://www.indiegogo.com/rock-om

 

If you'd like to make a tax deductible contribution, click here and select 'expandance' from the drop-down menu.  

 

The Field is our fiscal sponsor.

The Field is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions made to The Field and earmarked for expandance are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field contact: The Field, 161 6th Avenue, New York NY 10013, (212)691-6969, fax: (212)255-2053, www.thefield.org. A copy of The Field's latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

COMFORT DANCE!

December is nearly here and we have a lovely event, Comfort Dance, coming up to start off the holiday season! This will be a shared evening of contemporary dance work with Folded Productions at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge, Thursday, December 8th.

 

Photo credit:  Mary Hutton 

It's going to be a delicious evening of candlelight, mulled wine, and hot chocolate in the Riverbank's cosy theatre café. We'll be performing new work, company repertoire, premiering a dance film, and there will be some delightful surprises.

Here's the link to Riverbank's website for further information and bookings: http://www.riverbank.ie/shows/comfort-dance

Hope to see you there!

-Alicia

We are up to $1,230! Help us raise $5,770 in the next 22 days!

Performance today!

Laurie and I will be performing our new duet tomorrow in Birr, County Offaly as part  of Mamuska at I.F.O.N.L.Y. (International Festival of a Necessarily Lonely You). 

 Photo Credit:  Maria Nilsson Waller

This is a work we've been developing over the last two months and we'd love to have your support  and to hear your feedback.  The event is free of charge and is comprised of a programme of short diverse work by various artists. You can find out further information about the festival here.

When:  Saturday, November 26th (Tomorrow!)
Time:  8pm
Cost:  Free of charge

Hope to see you then or at a performance soon!

- Alicia

Rehearsal shots from today

Clare, Matt and I worked on one of their duets today, and on Matt's solo. We were at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. A great rehearsal, we definitely worked off tomorrow's Thanksgiving turkey :)

In related news: THANK YOU to everyone who has supported our Rock Om campaign so far - we are over the $1k mark in our fundraising! Keep telling everyone you know - we still have 6k to go before December 19th! Thank you! Rachel.

 

 

We are LIVE!

Great news everyone :D

Our 30 days of fundraising for Rock Om has officially begun - we're now live at 

http://www.indiegogo.com/Rock-Om

Please pass this on to anyone you know today, thank you!

- Rachel, Erica, Krista, Matt, Clare, Hunt, Alicia and Laurie.