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DansTrax
Initiated in 2008
DansTrax events
provide artists and
audiences with
performance-based projects
that celebrate the rich
stylistic diversity of
concert dance and the
cultural influences that
have inspired its creators
and performers.
DansTrax goals and
objectives:
• Provide opportunities for
Long Island’s dance artists
to work with, and perform
works by, national and
international acclaimed
artists.
• To provide Long Island
choreographers with the
opportunity to choreograph
on intermediate to advanced
dancers ages 14 and up.
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BTDG Alumni,
Photo: Christine Robinson |
• To provide dance audiences
with programs featuring
works by outstanding
national and international
dance artists along with
works by emerging and
established Long Island
artists.
• To promote and increase
awareness of the cultural
contributions of dance as a
performing art.
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DansTrax ’08: Celebrating a
Legacy of Dance
launched the first
Brookhaven Community Dance
Festival August 17-20th.
The festival—comprised of a
series of technique classes,
choreography workshops, a
dance film showcase, and
three culminating
performances—featured guest
artists James Kinney,
Victoria Marks, Erika Pujic
along with Long Island
choreographers Nuala
DeGeorge, Mary Giattino,
Barbara Mordente, Colleen
Murphy, Stephanie Pitocco,
Stephanie Vertichio and
teachers Kathy Kairns-Scholz
and Amy Sybil. A special
appearance was made by North
Babylon Union Free School
District’s students
performing dances from their
Dancing Classrooms residency
with CoDanceCo. |
BTDG Alumni with Forest
Photo: Christine Robinson |
At the 5:00pm performance
DansTrax honored long-time
mentor, dancer,
choreographer, and
Brookhaven Theater Dance
Guild (BTDG) President
Forest Bonshire. Sixteen
BTDG alumni came together to
re-stage Bonshire’s tap work
created as a tribute to
Irving Berlin entitled
“You’re in the Army Now, Mr.
Jones.”
Festival Performance Program
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DansTrax '08:
Celebrating a Legacy of
Dance and The Brookhaven
Community Dance Festival was
supported, in part, by the
New York State DanceForce
with funding from the New
York State Council on the
Arts and Altria Group, Inc.;
with funding from the
Suffolk County Community
Arts Regrant Program under
the auspices of the Suffolk
County Alliance of Arts
Councils, Steve Levy, County
Executive; and with the
generous donation of space
by Stage Door School of
Dance; Brookhaven School of
Dance, Reflections Dance
Academy, and the artistry of
the Long Island
choreographers and teachers. |
