What's happening at Jeanne Ruddy Dance?
January 9, 2009
Free showing of APAP work (see below)
6:00-7:15 pm, Performance GarageYou are invited to a FREE dress rehearsal of the presentation JRD will perform Sunday, at the Association of Professional Arts Presenters (APAP) in NY.
Featuring Jane Comfort's, Short Term Memory, Jeanne Ruddy's, Breathless, and Susanne Linke's, Quasi Normal, this twenty-minute work is designed to showcase JRD to presenters from around the country so they will consider us for future bookings.
The rehearsal will be in full costume under regular studio lights.
Please call or email for reservations.
(Seating Limited)
phone: 215 - 569-4060
email: Judy Williams at rentals@ruddydance.org.
January 11, 2009
JRD will perform at the Association of Professional Arts Presenters on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 5 pm at City Center Studio Five.(Enter on 56th Street and go up the elevator to the fifth floor.)
We will be showcasing our two newest works: Excerpts from Short Term memory by our 2007 guest artist, Jane Comfort, Breathless by Jeanne Ruddy and Quasi Normal by our 2008 guest artist, Susanne Linke.
January 15, 2009
Open ShowingThursday evening, 6:00-7:30, Performance Garage
JRD 2009 guest choreographer, Martha Clarke and Jeanne Ruddy will conduct an Open Showing of their choreographic process, including, some film clips of Martha's work, a demonstration of their techniques class and a sneak preview of the first section of Jeanne's new work.
Wine and nibbles will be served.
Price: $10.00Please call or email for reservations.
(Seating Limited)
phone: 215 - 569-4060
email: Judy Williams at rentals@ruddydance.org.
JRD 2009 guest choreographer, Martha Clarke, is included in
Charles Isherwood's Top Ten of 2008 in the
December 21, 2008 issue of the New York Times Art and Leasure section
All you Dance Patrons and Party People who attended our 2008 Opening Night Gala at Rembrandt's Restaurant—pictures of the Gala are finally up. View Here
Our Guest Choreographer this year, Martha Clarke, will open her Garden of Earthly Delights at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York in mid-November.
Holly Colino, former Apprentice Company Member of JRD in 2001 at the Painted Bride Season, featured as the "Young Marie" in Ruddy's Marie's Diary, was recently invited to join the Martha Graham Company on their upcoming tour to Greece performing in Martha's Graham's full-evening work, Clytemnestra.
This past August 2008, Ms. Ruddy was selected to represent Philadelphia artists in the American delegation that attended the Tanzmesse conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by Dance/USA.
The Internationale Tanzmesse NRW was created in the early '90s to facilitate international exchange and understanding among dance people worldwide. Begun as a regional gathering, the International Tanzmesse NRW has grown into an international meeting point of dance drawing professionals from over 40 countries.
The project was supported with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with matching funds from Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Heinz Endowments, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the U.S. Consul Generale in Duesseldorf. The intent of the grant is to support artists showcasing at the Tanzmesse and to assist managers and presenters to attend the Tanzmesse.
2008 Award
Jeanne Ruddy Dance has been selected for the 2008 Best of Philadelphia Award in the Dance Companies category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA). read more
June 4- 11, 2008
This summer, we will begin an eight day workshop with next year’s Guest Choreographer, Martha Clarke.
June 5, 2008 - 6pm
A lecture and video presentation by Martha Clarke was held at the Performance Garage Thursday, June 5th at 6 pm.
Martha Clarke's guest visit with Jeanne Ruddy Dance was made possible, in part, by a grant from Dance Advance, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the PEW Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts.
May 19, 2008
End of semester showing of our Outreach Hip Hop Class by instructor Chloé Davis and students from Franklin Learning Center.
View Images.We are pleased to introduce our new Managing Director, Nicole Cavaliere. Nicole is a former dancer with a graduate degree in Arts Management from NYU, with experience in NY at Primary Stages, Career Transition for Dancers, and in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center and at People’s Light. We look forward to her leadership and her innate understanding of what it means to dance and what it takes to create new choreography.
Other staff and collaborator developments include:
Buffy Miller, who had been our Administrative Assistant, has been named School Director as well as Rental Coordinator; Nicole Russ, has joined us as Development and Marketing Assistant, and Leigh Mumford as our Tech Director.Jeanne Ruddy Dance is very excited to be included in WHYY's Arts & Culture "Experience" series. This collections of "video postcards" introduces the Delaware Valley viewers to the rich culture of our area.
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