Dance Gallery and Friends presents....
A Cancer Benefit Concert for Tina Klix
Join us for a night of Food, Performances, Music and a Silent Auction to benefit Tina!
Sunday, Nov. 8, 7-9pm
Firehouse Performing Arts Center 1314 Harris Ave.
Please join us for a special dedication to a founding member of Dance Gallery for her life long commitment to dance and the arts community. As Tina undergoes cancer treatment we want to take this moment to support her through the process and give her strength and courage. All proceeds will help with her medical expenses and also benefit the St. Joseph Cancer Center.
Mor info at (360) 676-4113
A Cancer Benefit Concert for Tina Klix
Join us for a night of Food, Performances, Music and a Silent Auction to benefit Tina!
Sunday, Nov. 8, 7-9pm
Firehouse Performing Arts Center 1314 Harris Ave.
Please join us for a special dedication to a founding member of Dance Gallery for her life long commitment to dance and the arts community. As Tina undergoes cancer treatment we want to take this moment to support her through the process and give her strength and courage. All proceeds will help with her medical expenses and also benefit the St. Joseph Cancer Center.
Mor info at (360) 676-4113
Solo
Viola Bach and Hindemith
Renowned Violist Leslie Johnson is performing a solo recital featuring unaccompanied Bach and Hindemith in the warm acoustics of the Firehouse PAC in Fairhaven
Friday, November 13th at 7:00PM.
$5 for individuals or $10 for the family and free for students. Tickets at the door
Violinist and violist Leslie Faye Johnson received much of her performance training at the Juilliard School, where she studied with William Lincer, completing both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees; her Doctorate is from the University of Washington, where she studied with Steven Staryk and Eric Shumsky. Other teachers include Georg Janzer at Indiana University, Kim Kashkashian in New York City, Stephen Shingles in London, and Daniel Benjamini in master classes at the Aldeburgh Festival at the Britten-Pears School in England. Her dissertation on the Shostakovich Viola Sonata has been published by Barenreiter. Leslie performed as Principal Violist/Solo Violist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra in Seattle from 1990-2000. She has been a guest artist on many prominent Northwest chamber music series, including the Olympic Music Festival, Chamber Music San Juans and the Second City Chamber Music Series. She is also a champion of contemporary music and has premiered many new solo and chamber works.
For more info go to www.lavastrings.com, or email info@lavastrings.com
Renowned Violist Leslie Johnson is performing a solo recital featuring unaccompanied Bach and Hindemith in the warm acoustics of the Firehouse PAC in Fairhaven
Friday, November 13th at 7:00PM.
$5 for individuals or $10 for the family and free for students. Tickets at the door
Violinist and violist Leslie Faye Johnson received much of her performance training at the Juilliard School, where she studied with William Lincer, completing both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees; her Doctorate is from the University of Washington, where she studied with Steven Staryk and Eric Shumsky. Other teachers include Georg Janzer at Indiana University, Kim Kashkashian in New York City, Stephen Shingles in London, and Daniel Benjamini in master classes at the Aldeburgh Festival at the Britten-Pears School in England. Her dissertation on the Shostakovich Viola Sonata has been published by Barenreiter. Leslie performed as Principal Violist/Solo Violist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra in Seattle from 1990-2000. She has been a guest artist on many prominent Northwest chamber music series, including the Olympic Music Festival, Chamber Music San Juans and the Second City Chamber Music Series. She is also a champion of contemporary music and has premiered many new solo and chamber works.
For more info go to www.lavastrings.com, or email info@lavastrings.com
Modern Dance Master Class
With Michele Miller
Sun. Nov. 15th 10am to 12pm
$14 General $12 Student (with ID)
At the Firehouse PAC 1314 Harris Ave.
Michele's modern class contains elements of Pilates, Lewitzky technique, Simonson technique, gymnastics and martial arts. The class emphasizes proper alignment, core support, breath, upside down work, and phrases that challenge ideas of verticality and momentum in movement.
Michele Miller moved to Seattle in 1992 to join the Pat Graney Company. With KT Niehoff she began Velocity Dance Center in 1996. She is currently an Associate Professor at Cornish College of the Arts where she teaches Modern Dance Technique, Modern Partnering Technique, Pilates Mat, Martial Arts for Dancers and Tai Chi. She spent a year as the Artist In Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts and has taught at Bates Dance Festival in Maine, the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival in China and several universities in the Pacific Northwest. Michele holds a fourth degree black belt in Kajukenbo Kung Fu and is an approved instructor of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu. At the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago, Michele won two gold medals for forms, and in 2005 was the Women's Junior Division Grand Champion in Tai Chi at the Hong Kong Martial Arts Association competition. She was a founding member of the d9 Dance Collective and performed with LeGendre Performance Group from 1999 to 2004.
More info at www.bhamrep.org
With Michele Miller
Sun. Nov. 15th 10am to 12pm
$14 General $12 Student (with ID)
At the Firehouse PAC 1314 Harris Ave.
Michele's modern class contains elements of Pilates, Lewitzky technique, Simonson technique, gymnastics and martial arts. The class emphasizes proper alignment, core support, breath, upside down work, and phrases that challenge ideas of verticality and momentum in movement.
Michele Miller moved to Seattle in 1992 to join the Pat Graney Company. With KT Niehoff she began Velocity Dance Center in 1996. She is currently an Associate Professor at Cornish College of the Arts where she teaches Modern Dance Technique, Modern Partnering Technique, Pilates Mat, Martial Arts for Dancers and Tai Chi. She spent a year as the Artist In Residence at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts and has taught at Bates Dance Festival in Maine, the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival in China and several universities in the Pacific Northwest. Michele holds a fourth degree black belt in Kajukenbo Kung Fu and is an approved instructor of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu. At the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago, Michele won two gold medals for forms, and in 2005 was the Women's Junior Division Grand Champion in Tai Chi at the Hong Kong Martial Arts Association competition. She was a founding member of the d9 Dance Collective and performed with LeGendre Performance Group from 1999 to 2004.
More info at www.bhamrep.org