Photo: Naomie Kremer		 SAVE THE DATE!
MJDC to perform one night only at the
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM

This year, we celebrate our 37th anniversary with the MJDC’s first featured performance at the JCCSF. Please join us as we preview Margaret Jenkins’ latest work, Light Moves, a collaboration with multi-media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher and poet Michael Palmer. The evening’s program will also include an encore performance of the critically acclaimed Other Suns I. Ticketing information will be available soon on our website (www.mjdc.org).


Photos: Bonnie Kamin

  OTHER SUNS TRILOGY TO TOUR CHINA!

Other Suns is a trilogy of dances created by Margaret Jenkins and her Company in a cross-cultural collaboration with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) of Guangzhou, China. We are excited to take the completed trilogy to China at the end of this year, performing with the GMDC in Guangzhou, Shantou and Beijing in December and January.

Developed over two years, from 2007 – 2009, in both China and the U.S., Other Suns investigates symmetry and asymmetry in both cultures, revealing many balances and imbalances in our world. Other Suns held its world premiere last spring at the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco, followed by a critically acclaimed tour of the eastern United States. The trilogy features music by composer Paul Dresher, with additional music by Bun Ching-Lam, and a visual design by Alexander Nichols.

Photo: Gene Pittman		 LEADERS ON THE MOVE:
A Conversation with Choreographer Ralph Lemon
Sunday, November 14, 2010 in Los Angeles

Margaret Jenkins brings the popular Bay Area speaker series “Leaders at the Lab” to Los Angeles. Jenkins will be in conversation with Ralph Lemon, Artistic Director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation. Venue and scheduling information will be updated soon on our website (www.mjdc.org)

CHIME LIVE!
Free public events in San Francisco and Los Angeles

Please join the 2010 artists of all three Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME) programs as they share their experiences with the public, discuss their insights into mentorship and choreography, and present showings of work developed during their grant year. CHIME is a mentorship program for professional choreographers. Grants and cost-free studio time are given to support an exploration between artists interested in learning from each other.

Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab, San Francisco, CA
BORDERS LIVE! with CHIME Across Borders Chair David Gordon and local choreographers Katie Faulkner, Stephen Pelton and Deborah Slater

Sunday, December 5, 2010
Venue TBA, Los Angeles, CA
CHIME LIVE! in Southern California wtih artists Lynn Dally, Mythili Prakash, Doran George, Julie Tolentino-Wood, Victoria Marks and Mira Kingsley

Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab, San Francisco, CA
CHIME LIVE! in San Francisco Bay Area with artists Christian Burns, Wendy Rein & Ryan T. Smith (RAWdance), Cathleen McCarthy, Raissa Simpson, Charya Burt and Tara C. Pandeya

TECHNIQUE CLASSES WITH MARGARET JENKINS
Modern Technique starting August 10th

Ms. Jenkins, with demonstrators from the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, will teach a Cunningham-based technique class. The class is recommended for intermediate and advanced modern or ballet dancers.

Tuesdays and Thursdays
10:00 - 11:30 am

$12 Drop in; 4 classes for $44; 8 classes for $80
At the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
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ONLINE-DONATIONS NOW AVAILABLE!

MJDC joins the digital age, and can now accept donations online through a secure website. Your tax-deductible donation helps us fulfill our mission to create new work, and interface with the national and international communities of working artists through initiatives that support creative process and mentorship. To help send MJDC to China, and support the continued development of Other Suns, as well as the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab and Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME).

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