Outreach
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AGNIESZKA LASKA DANCERS is a PUBLIC BENEFIT 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation, functioning as a modern dance company. In this era we inhabit rare territory, shared by few others, in that we are dedicated to offering public performances (as often as possible) with live concert hall music in the classical tradition, and in the most artistically polished contexts achievable. Our mission is to educate and offer to the public cultural enrichment through modern dance performed with live concert hall music in the classical tradition and to educate individual choreographers, dancers and musicians toward the realization of such collaborations at the highest artistic level. To maintain the development of a vibrant company and network of collaborative artists, we have developed several ongoing programs: |
 Alison Camp in Hellenic Triptych PSU Lincoln Hall, May 2004 costumes by Ela Kwasek photo © Chris Leck |
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Choreographic Development - focus: develop skill and vision in aspiring choreographic artists while working with performers and composers of music in the classical tradition - in studio and on stage. Educational Workshops - focus: improve technical skills and raise the level of execution in dancers and collaborating musicians and provide teaching workshops with professional dance teachers in disciplines rare in the local dance scene; and thereby build and develop relationships with the region's dance community at large. Repertory Group - focus: develop aspiring dancers while learning the ALD repertory, with the possibility of becoming regular ALD company members, while sharing (in performance) their progress in outreach and audience development contexts to communities both under-served and uninitiated to fine art modern dance and music. |