Karen Peterson and Dancers

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KDP Presents "Proposals"
The 22nd Season of new work by choreographer, Karen Peterson
in collaboration with video artist, Carlos Ochoa
and the Crosstown Strings Quartet on

Saturday, May 12th at 4 and 8pm
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.

Carlos Ochoa (video artist)

Proposals
Two new works by choreographer Karen Peterson: 2011 - 2012

“Bach Suite 2” – Choreographer, Karen Peterson and video artist, Carlos Ochoa, will integrate 20 year old company dance footage, into a new live dance entitled, “Bach Suite 2”. The video excerpts from “Bach Suite”, first performed at the New World School of the Arts in 1990, will be edited and viewed with live dance and used as reference for the audience. This is Peterson’s third work where projected and real time video is implemented as a tool for choreography. The video will provide reference to the past and honor the 20 year history of integrated dance in Miami in the present. The 25 minute work, performed by 6 KPD dance artists, will use still and moving visuals projected on various screens, hung throughout the performance space. The five Bach Cello Suites will be played live by a cellist from the Crosstown String Quartet.

“Reflections” – challenges the perspective and the expectations of an audience by exchanging roles with dance artists. Dancers will perform near audience seating and in the aisles and audiences will join dancers onstage in performance. The music played live by the 4 member group, the “CrossTown String Quartet” will deliver segments from Mozart, Beethoven, Carter, Bach and Piazolla.
CrossTown Strings Quartet

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...