Two-Night Dance Invasion
April 22 - Jane Franklin Dance
April 23 - BosmaDance
FREE Admission

Two amazing dance groups go toe-to-toe with free performances on consecutive nights!

Jane Franklin Dance
Friends of the Torpedo Factory Performance Art and Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 22
7pm

Returning one year after their triumphant debut at the building, noted local dance company Jane Franklin Dance will perform at the Torpedo Factory Art Center as part of the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center Performance Art and Lecture Series. The evening will incorporate excerpts from recent collaborations, and will preview upcoming premier work.

Incidence features a life-size kinetic sculpture that is manipulated to change the environment on stage. The installation works on the principal of a Roulette wheel. In Roulette, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, and then spins a ball in the opposite direction. In Incidence components meet by coincidence following the non-linear trajectory of chance.

In Passing danced to music performed by the Washington Saxophone Quartet touches on the experience of memory with Michael Nyman's "Song for Tony." The dancers negotiate relationships to the group and to one another. Recognizable fragments provide a reference for recall to denote the passage of time.

Same Place Same Time reveals tongue-in-cheek romantic couplings danced to the singing of "Some Enchanted Evening" by a men's barbershop quartet.

BosmaDance
Eternal Return Preview and Art-Inspired Vignettes
Thursday, April 23
7:30pm

BosmaDance and Torpedo Factory artist Rosemary Feit Covey present a preview performance of Eternal Return and additional repertory pieces inspired by the work of Torpedo Factory artists Jamaliah Morais and Diana Chamberlain. With projected images, music, dance, and visual art, this event explores themes including human loss, the cultural and social significance of the white dress, and the beauty found in the movement of cranes.

Presented in its entirety at the Source theatre in May, Eternal Return explores the recurring nature of loss throughout human life. This work is the result of the collaborative effort between Torpedo Factory artist Rosemary Feit Covey, dancers from BosmaDance, and M. Khair ElZarrad, a scientist at the National Cancer Institute. Partnering with Smith Farm Cancer Center for Healing and the Arts and funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the evening long event will explore the interaction of fear and hope while dealing with serious illness.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jane Franklin Dance crosses disciplines in partnership with music, media, visual artists and community participants. Named The Best Dance Company in The Washington City Paper "Best of DC 2008," Jane Franklin Dance has earned recognition in the Washington DC metro area by promoting active participation in dance by people of all ages and by creating unique collaborations that are performed in a variety of locations.

BosmaDance is committed to the creation and presentation of high-quality dance performances, educational experiences, and artistic collaborations for adult and youth audiences. Meisha Bosma is the founder and artistic director of BosmaDance, a contemporary dance company based in Northern Virginia. Dance Magazine recognized Meisha Bosma as "One to Watch For" in 2007, and The Washingtonian named Bosma "One of DC's Most Powerful Women under 40" for her artistic contributions made to the metropolitan DC community. Under her direction, BosmaDance has won five Metro-DC Dance Awards.

Rosemary Feit Covey is the recipient of both a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation National Fine Art Award. Ms. Covey's work is in many major museum and library collections worldwide. Solo museum exhibitions include the Butler Museum of American Art and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts. In 2007 a large retrospective of Ms. Covey's science-related work was displayed at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago. Also in 2007 the 0 Project, a large scale sculptural piece, 15ft feet high and 300 feet long, premiered wrapping the outside perimeter of the Arlington Arts Center. Since then the 0 Project has been displayed world wide. It was recently featured in Art in America.

The work that inspired the dance program with Bosma came partly through three years artistic involvement with David Craig Welch a young man who recently died of a brain tumor. This work and David's story where chronicled on Studio 360, New York Public Radio and will be a feature article in the Washington Post Magazine this Spring.