Musings

Rachel was recently asked to write a response to the rather vague question 'What is dance?' for online arts magazine Burgeon.

Her piece is here.

Rollercoaster rides

The great news:

At the beginning of May, 'Making Change' was accepted by Dublin Fringe Festival 2009. This is an honour: expandance are big fans of DFF. However...

The sad news:

After months of deliberation, we had to concede that without funding, it is not possible to put this show on as part of DFF. It's the first time I (Rachel) have turned down a performance opportunity because of finances in over a decade of making dance. It was a tough decision, but one which we, as a company, came to mutually. We hope that 'Making Change' will have it's chance in the near future, and we thank those of you who made the first couple of performances in New York so magical, especially Christina, Carlos Cruz, and those at BAX.

In other news, Alicia has a busy summer of expandance workshops coming up in Ireland, and we'll be posting those dates soon.

Making Change at DNA

Coming up - NEXT PERFORMANCE

Missed the premiere of Making Change?

Here's your second chance:

As part of DNA's VISA VOICES

A studio showing of Making Change, the newest piece from expandance

Saturday April 25th 6pm At Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers)
New York, NY 10007

212.625.8369 for more info

THIS WEEK! Next two NYC performances

'Making Change'

A new piece by Rachel Wynne about change and making it, involving lots of coins. Performed by the incredibly talented Christina Noel Reaves

Saturday April 4th 2009 8pm
Brooklyn Arts Exchange 421 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn NY As part of BAX Upstart Festival.

For tickets go here: http://www.bax.org/tickets.php

60X60 Dance
at Galapagos Arts Space, Brooklyn

Come see Rachel & Christina do their 60 seconds of heaven! With video footage by Rachel Wynne.

Tuesday April 7th at 8pm
For tickets go here: http://www.galapagosartspace.com/events.html

Making Change in rehearsal

We are currently working on 'Making Change' for BAX Upstart Festival NYC. A couple of photos of Alicia and Christina in rehearsal at Keystone Studio.

'Making Change' at BAX, 4th April 2009

We're delighted that guest artist Christina Reaves will be performing Rachel Wynne's 'Making Change' at BAX Upstart Festival on April 4th.

expandance met Christina through a recent piece by Krista Racho-Jansen that Rachel and Alicia danced in, and we felt she was perfect to take Alicia's place in 'Making Change', which was originally choreographed on her.

About Christina: After a BFA in Music: Voice Performance from Georgia State University, and an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Christina Noel Reaves pursues dance and voice performance, instruction, and composition. In addition to singing in operas and musicals, she has had the privilege of dancing for Doug Elkins, Ellis Wood, David Dorfman, Ivy Baldwin, Curt Haworth, Gary Abbott, Christopher Williams, Gus Solomons Jr., Kay Cummings, Candess Giyan, Melanie Lynch-Blanchard, Kelly Hayes, Patrycja Noworol, Yue Yin, and Carlos Cruz.

BAX Upstart Festival

We are delighted to post that our newest work in progress has been accepted to Brooklyn Arts Exchange's 'Upstart Festival' - a festival showcasing work by choreographers who are new to showing their work in New York City.

'Making Change' is choreographed by Rachel Wynne and will be performed on

Saturday 4th April at 8pm at BAX.

More details to follow.

www.bax.org
421 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn

Trio - the second installment

The second installment of our highly successful Trio With Invisible Third is this week!


In DUBLIN:

Thursday 8th January 2009 1am

Laurie Schneider dances
Cois Ceim Dance studio
2nd Floor, 14 Sackville Place, Dublin 1 (just off O Connell St)
www.coisceim.com

Free / donations accepted

For more info please e-mail mrslschneider@gmail.com

And simultaneously, in NEW YORK CITY:

Wednesday 7th January 2009 8pm

Alicia Christofi-Walshe and Rachel Wynne dance
Dance Theater Workshop, Robbins studio
219 West 19th Street
(Subway: 1/9 to 18th Street or F/L/A/C/E to 14th Street)

www.movementresearch.org - Open Performance Series

Free / donations accepted

For more info please e-mail rachelwynne@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you at one of these performances. Trio with Invisible Third is a piece about friendship and connection, even when those we are close to are thousands of miles away. It is a piece that will open your heart, and remind you that distance is only physical.

Photo by Viktor / www.viktorsphotography.com

'Pina Bausch' -esque smile

Thought you might like to see the smile that the New York Times felt was worth a mention!