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Playing With Potential: Expanding the Irish Dance Tradition
Seeking Sponsorship for a Dance Performance!
Briana Blair Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist and dance educator in Rochester, NY. Kelly graduated Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Fredonia in 2012 with a BFA in Musical Theatre. She earned her MFA in Choreography and Performance from The College at Brockport in 2017. Kelly is the Director of the Harvester 56 Theater Dance Academy where she teaches Tap, Theater Dance, and Irish dance. She also teaches Irish dance, Tap, Musical Theater, Jazz, and Contemporary at Palmyra-Macedon Conservatory of Dance.
IMPORTANT: If you are able, please purchase a ticket for the show! I have an amazing group of dancers who are volunteering a lot of their time and energy travelling to and participating in many rehearsals. My hope is to pay them for the performance (no matter their age or level or experience). I have a large cast (20 cast members), and won't be able to pay much, but they deserve to paid. This is a professional venue and I aim to treat my performers as professionals. My mentors taught me to treat my performers well and I aim to do just that! The dancers will be paid from what the show make off tickets! So please, click the following link to purchase tickets for this great show!https://rochesterfringe.com/tickets-and-shows/playing-with-potential-expanding-the-irish-dance-tradition
I am so very proud to announce that my show "Playing With Potential: Expanding the Irish Dance Tradition" has been accepted into the 2018 Rochester Fringe Festival. While it is a great honor to be a part of such an incredible festival, it is also very expensive to mount a show of this size.
I am an emerging artist who is very much at the beginning of her choreographic career. While I can cover some expenses of this show, there are many expenses that I will need assistance with. I am seeking sponsorship from members of the community to make this dream a reality. This show is vital for my choregraphic career; it can lead to many more opportunities! All sponsor's names will be included in the program and receive a thank you card, as a way to thank everyone who donated!
"Playing With Potential" will be performed at School of the Arts in Rochester on the Allen Main Stage. The performance is September 22nd @ 1:00pm. Tickets are $10.
“Playing with Potential: Expanding the Irish Dance Tradition” is an investigation of how traditional Irish dance can exist and thrive within a contemporary context. This show is working towards unearthing the unique choreographic potential of Irish dance through fusion and collaboration. “Playing with Potential” is energetic, athletic, intricate, theatrical, detail-oriented, progressive with a “traditional” foundation, and breaking down barriers between dance forms.
The journey will begin with live traditional Irish music, accompanied by Irish step dancing, to fully immerse the audience in Irish culture. Outside influences will then intertwine with Irish dance, in “Reverence for Éire: Expanding the Tradition” and other explorations, to assist the audience in viewing, considering, and reevaluating the established “tradition” of Irish dance through different choreographic lenses.
“Playing with Potential” pays homage to Ireland, and its cultural dance form, while simultaneously working towards creating new avenues for Irish dance within the global arena. This fusion of dance forms creates an abundance of choreographic possibilities but, in the larger social context, it also establishes artistic ties between different cultures. Further innovations and explorations of Irish dance can push the dance form beyond the boundaries of the established global perspective and lead the dance form into a new era, where it can be a major player in the choreographic world.
“Playing with Potential: Expanding the Irish Dance Tradition” is a communal and collaborative effort. Participants, musicians and dancers, hail from all over Rochester and its surrounding communities, cities, and colleges: SUNY Brockport, Nazareth College, Batavia, Syracuse, and even Albany. With ages ranging from fourteen to adult, this is truly a show the entire family can enjoy. Whether you are well-versed in Irish culture, or not, this show will excite, intrigue, and fascinate.
I have already paid for the registration fee, tech fee, and poster design: $290.00
Remaining Expenses:
poster printing - $50.00
Stage Manager - $75.00
Costumes - $125.00
Musician payments - $800.00 ( I have 4 amazing professional Irish musicians who are preparing and will be performing multiple numbers throughout the show!)
Renting rehearsal space - $200.00
Photographer & Videographer - $150.00
Liability Insurance - $100.00
= $1500.00
Seeking Sponsorship for a Dance Performance!
Briana Blair Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist and dance educator in Rochester, NY. Kelly graduated Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Fredonia in 2012 with a BFA in Musical Theatre. She earned her MFA in Choreography and Performance from The College at Brockport in 2017. Kelly is the Director of the Harvester 56 Theater Dance Academy where she teaches Tap, Theater Dance, and Irish dance. She also teaches Irish dance, Tap, Musical Theater, Jazz, and Contemporary at Palmyra-Macedon Conservatory of Dance.
IMPORTANT: If you are able, please purchase a ticket for the show! I have an amazing group of dancers who are volunteering a lot of their time and energy travelling to and participating in many rehearsals. My hope is to pay them for the performance (no matter their age or level or experience). I have a large cast (20 cast members), and won't be able to pay much, but they deserve to paid. This is a professional venue and I aim to treat my performers as professionals. My mentors taught me to treat my performers well and I aim to do just that! The dancers will be paid from what the show make off tickets! So please, click the following link to purchase tickets for this great show!https://rochesterfringe.com/tickets-and-shows/playing-with-potential-expanding-the-irish-dance-tradition
I am so very proud to announce that my show "Playing With Potential: Expanding the Irish Dance Tradition" has been accepted into the 2018 Rochester Fringe Festival. While it is a great honor to be a part of such an incredible festival, it is also very expensive to mount a show of this size.
I am an emerging artist who is very much at the beginning of her choreographic career. While I can cover some expenses of this show, there are many expenses that I will need assistance with. I am seeking sponsorship from members of the community to make this dream a reality. This show is vital for my choregraphic career; it can lead to many more opportunities! All sponsor's names will be included in the program and receive a thank you card, as a way to thank everyone who donated!
"Playing With Potential" will be performed at School of the Arts in Rochester on the Allen Main Stage. The performance is September 22nd @ 1:00pm. Tickets are $10.
“Playing with Potential: Expanding the Irish Dance Tradition” is an investigation of how traditional Irish dance can exist and thrive within a contemporary context. This show is working towards unearthing the unique choreographic potential of Irish dance through fusion and collaboration. “Playing with Potential” is energetic, athletic, intricate, theatrical, detail-oriented, progressive with a “traditional” foundation, and breaking down barriers between dance forms.
The journey will begin with live traditional Irish music, accompanied by Irish step dancing, to fully immerse the audience in Irish culture. Outside influences will then intertwine with Irish dance, in “Reverence for Éire: Expanding the Tradition” and other explorations, to assist the audience in viewing, considering, and reevaluating the established “tradition” of Irish dance through different choreographic lenses.
“Playing with Potential” pays homage to Ireland, and its cultural dance form, while simultaneously working towards creating new avenues for Irish dance within the global arena. This fusion of dance forms creates an abundance of choreographic possibilities but, in the larger social context, it also establishes artistic ties between different cultures. Further innovations and explorations of Irish dance can push the dance form beyond the boundaries of the established global perspective and lead the dance form into a new era, where it can be a major player in the choreographic world.
“Playing with Potential: Expanding the Irish Dance Tradition” is a communal and collaborative effort. Participants, musicians and dancers, hail from all over Rochester and its surrounding communities, cities, and colleges: SUNY Brockport, Nazareth College, Batavia, Syracuse, and even Albany. With ages ranging from fourteen to adult, this is truly a show the entire family can enjoy. Whether you are well-versed in Irish culture, or not, this show will excite, intrigue, and fascinate.
I have already paid for the registration fee, tech fee, and poster design: $290.00
Remaining Expenses:
poster printing - $50.00
Stage Manager - $75.00
Costumes - $125.00
Musician payments - $800.00 ( I have 4 amazing professional Irish musicians who are preparing and will be performing multiple numbers throughout the show!)
Renting rehearsal space - $200.00
Photographer & Videographer - $150.00
Liability Insurance - $100.00
= $1500.00
Organizer
Briana Blair Kelly
Organizer
Rochester, NY