Karen Peterson and Dancers

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KDP Presents "Classical Music Meets
Contemporary Dance"
With The CrossTown String Quartet and
Karen Peterson and Dancers

Saturday, May 12th at 4 and 8pm
Sunday, May 13th at 4pm
at the New World School of the Arts Theatre
25 NE 2nd Street

Karen Peterson and Dancers, founded in 1990 as a non for profit dance organization, presents excellence in dance through its quality based programs, community performances and educational workshops. The organization commissions and produces the work of dance artists with and without disabilities, promotes and supports international cultural exchange and provides rehearsal rentals and performance opportunities at their home Excello, established in 2002.

Karen Peterson and Dancers' program features adult dancers with and without disabilities who create and perform "mixed-ability" dance as an inclusive art form on a year round basis. The dancers collaborate, research and integrate their personal movement styles and discover an innovative dance language for choreography. The troupe provides a positive role model for the disability community and offers new visual inspiration for traditional dance audiences.

Classical Music Meets Contemporary Dance

The performances will take place on Friday, May 12th at 4 and 8pm and Sunday, May 13th at 4pm at the New World School of the Arts Theatre, 25 NE 2nd Avenue, 8th floor downtown Miami.

Excerpts from classical sections will be played by Miami favorites Orlando Forte, Miriam Stern (violins), Viera Borisova (violist) and Ashley Garritson (cellist). Sections from Tchaikovsky, Edvard Grieg, Astor Piazzola, JS Bach and Benjamin Britten will be played live as a backdrop for the KPD Dancers in action.

Two new works will be presented by choreographer Karen Peterson;
In “Empty Rooms, Open Window” six dancers manipulate four panels of fabric that move in perpetual motion from line that is strung six feet off the stage floor. The work is a memoriam to Ms Peterson’s father; the fabric; the delicacy of life and the rope the ultimate and difficult journey to death. Dance Artists Include: Jennifer Smallwood, Jenny Larsson, Lina Ferrera, Marianna Olivieros, Katrina Weaver, John Beauregard and Shawn Buller.

“Potpourri” features the musicians and dance artists together on stage where they exchange roles and mix up expectation. Audience members are asked to waltze at the end of each performance with a company member.

Tickets Available at the Door!
$20.00 (general), $15.00 (seniors) $5.00 MDCC, NWSA, MDCPS Students with ID
Saturday, May 12th at 4 and 8pm
Sunday, May 13th at 4pm
All Mothers ½ price ticket on Mothers Day!

Also please click the link below to see what WLRN (Miami PBS) is saying about the company by reporter, Joey Daoud,
tagged as dance / documentary / PBS www.joeydaoud.com/2010/01/27/pbs-piece-karen-peterson...

“Karen Peterson and Dancers is funded in part by: “the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight Arts Challenge, helping bring South Florida together through the arts” by The Children's Trust. The Trust a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County, by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, the Miami Dade County Board of County Commissioners, by the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts." Supported in part by: Coldwell Bankers, The Mildred Pallas Levenson Dance Foundation, Miami Salon Group. Citizens Interested in the Arts, the Whitten Foundation, CEP APAP Travel Award and Power2Give