July/August 2010

The Footwork Project

Parks and basketball courts around the neighborhood....keep your eyes out!
Shannon Hummel and the professional dancers of Cora Dance will be working in collaboration with the Red Hook Jumpers – Red Hook’s all girl youth double-dutch team - and Red Hook Rise’s Basketball Teams – offering dance workshops to youth in these organizations designed to improve their footwork in each of their disciplines throughout the summer. In August, under Hummel’s direction, Cora will then create a site specific piece to be performed on basketball courts throughout Red Hook which includes the professional company members as well as young athletes from both teams.

The Footwork Project (a collaboration between Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance and Red Hook Rise) is made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered in Kings County by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).

Saturday, September 11, 12-2:30pm

Cora School for Dance Fall Open House

The Cora Studio
201 Richards Street, Buzzer #5, Space 205 Red Hook Brooklyn
Come to The Cora Studio to register for fall dance classes for ages 18 months to adult, take a sample class, meet the artists, and get to know Cora!

Sunday, October 3-9th, nightly at twilight - (exact dates and times TBA)

Work in progress excerpts of “Prey”

Coffey Park, Red Hook, Brooklyn
FREE
Cora Dance presents workshop performances of “Prey” in Coffey Park as the company takes Red Hook’s own urban forest as the setting for a re-staging of their eerie and elegant work Prey.

Prey is being developed through the support of a generous gift from Robert and Mary Beth Aberlin; through the 2007-2008 Artist-in-Residence program of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange; through the artist residency program of Vermont Performance Lab, with assistance from Marlboro College; and through the support of the 92nd Street Y.

Prey photography © 2008 R. Finkelstein.