READING CONTEMPORARY DANCE:

SEE! DISCUSS! LEARN!

Winter Session

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A club for increasing literacy and appreciation for contemporary dance

Spectrum Dance Theater is excited to announce two new sessions of "Reading Contemporary Dance" This informal dance club seeks to enhance audience experience and understanding of dance through a series of performances and discussions. Each season members are invited to attend four to five dance performances around the Greater Seattle Area. After each performance members get together to discuss their impressions, opinions and insights about the performance. At the end of all the performances, Spectrum hosts an afternoon round table discussion with a special guest speaker and participants.

Joining Reading Contemporary Dance in 3 Easy Steps

1) Contact Spectrum Dance Theater and let us know you are interested in joining. Either email us at

club@spectrumdance.org

or call 206.325.4161.
2) Purchase your tickets to the performances you will be attending. Links to the box office for each participating venue can be found above.
3) Show up to the performances and discussions.

Round Table Discussion

Sunday March 21st, 2010 - 2:00pm
Spectrum Dance Theater

Join us as we delve deeper into understanding contemporary dance with a discussion about perspective and interpretation. Guest participants include:

Donald Byrd, Artistic Director of Spectrum Dance Theater
Eva Stone, Artistic Director of The Stone Dance Collective
Jeremy Barker, Arts Editor of The SunBreak.com
Sandi Kurtz, Dance Critic for Seattle Weekly

Winter Session Performances

January 16th through March 21st

Whim W'him

Saturday January 16th, 2010 - 8:00pm
On the Boards
- Three Seasons (Wevers)

ONLINE TICKETS

Bruno BeltrÃo | Grupo De Rua

Saturday January 30th, 2010 - 8:00pm
On the Boards
- H3 (Beltrão)

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CHop Chop

Saturday February 13th, 2010
Meydenbauer Center
- Spectrum Dance Theater
- Stone Dance Collective
- Quark Contemporary Dance Theatre
- SD Prism Dance Theatre
- TheSho (Michael Rioux)
- Penninsula Dance Theater
- Seattle Dance Project
- Mark Haim
- acornDance

ONLINE TICKETS

Spectrum Dance Theater

Saturday February 20th, 2010 - 8:00pm
The Moore Theatre
- Farewell (Byrd)

ONLINE TICKETS

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