Saturday, April 17, 8pm

Little Somethings from Cora Dance

Rocky Sullivans
34 Van Dyke Street @ Dwight St. Red Hook, Brooklyn
Suggested admission $10
Join Cora in our home space for a showing of small but mighty works created by the dancers, teachers and collaborating artists that work with Cora Dance and Cora School for Dance. Also, see a sneak peek of Cora Dance Choreographer/Artistic Director, Shannon Hummel’s new community based work for the company, “Bring it to the Table” which will premiere at the Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival in June.

Saturday, May 22, 7pm

13th Annual Cora Dance Gala Benefit and Silent Auction

The Poly Prep Lower School
50 Prospect Park West @ 1st Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Suggested Admission: $50 or pay-what-you-can ($15 minimum)
Cora Dance’s annual gala benefit held at the Poly Prep Lower School in Park Slope. The event will include a silent auction, live music, open bar, and a performance by Cora Dance with all the proceeds to support Cora Dance and Cora School for Dance.

Saturday, June 5, Noon-7pm (Rain Date Sunday, June 6)

Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival

Valentino Pier Park, Coffey Street at the East River
FREE
Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance will perform excerpts from their most recent evening length work in development, “Prey” as well as a new work for Cora's professional dancers, students and local youth, entitled “Bring it to the Table.”

“Bring it to the Table”: What if you could be a super hero? What would be your super powers? Thinking of our unique abilities as super powers this series of solos for dancers ages 6 through,.. well,.. older celebrates what we see as good about ourselves while keeping a sense of humor about what we think is not so super.

“Prey”: When trauma happens, we are often propelled into a psychological zone of extremes in order to survive. Some desperately seek tenderness and connection, some exude brutality and rage. All seek resolution and peace. It is in those small moments where such peace is found that living and healing occurs. Eerie and elegant, Prey exposes those raw those moments of pain that often bring the peace and clarity that allow life to continue. An exciting, disturbing, emotionally and spatially sweeping work for 10 dancers, Prey is being developed to be set as a site-specific work for Red Hook's Coffey Park at twilight (excerpts appearing Fall 2010, premiere in Fall 2011.)

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.

Sunday, June 13, Time TBA

Cora School for Dance Student Concert

PS15/The Patrick F. Daly School Auditorium
71 Sullivan Street between Richards and Van Brunt, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Suggested donation $5 per person
The Cora School for Dance year-end student concert will celebrate the end of our first year of the Cora School for Dance! Students ages 3 and up that participate in all of the school’s modern, ballet, creative movement and tap classes will perform in PS15’s Auditorium, and will be open to all family and friends of the students of the Cora School for Dance.

July 5-August 13

Summer DanceWeeks at Cora School for Dance

See the summer dance page for details.

The Education Programs of Cora School for Dance/Cora Dance have been supported, in part, by generous funding from the Copper-Beech Foundation and the Brooklyn Community Foundation.

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, 11am-1pm

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

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.