UPDATE: THANK YOU, THANK YOU ... AND WOOOOHOOOO!! You've been so generous and so timely! We've reached our $9,500 goal BEFORE the last day of the campaign. We're so grateful and thrilled to be able to cover our season costs and 100% pay all our artists! We cannot thank you enough for recognizing the importance of the arts right now and for supporting our dancers, musicians, and creatives!
We've decided to make a STRRRRRRRETCH GOAL of $11,000 as our contributions continue through our live performance before the fundraiser closes on Oct 3rd. A stretch goal will allow the company to create a small cushion for our 2021 projects or the possibility of taking or installation 2020 performance to some other CO locations outside the Denver Metro.... finding ways to do outreach safely during this time.
If you'd like to see us in-person in Aurora, CO, Oct 1-3 (OR see us via live-stream or virtually on those dates), you can get tickets, here: https://bit.ly/2EqVWHg
Whether you've already donated or or visiting our page for the first time, consider contributing toward our STRRRRRRETCH GOAL! (Get it? Dancers? Strrrrrretching? Flexible?) This is also a really great time to share our fundraiser with friends and fellow arts lovers in your community because it is low pressure! If extra folks donate, we just build to our stretch goal! So feel free to share the URL to our campaign.
And THANK YOU AGAIN! Sorry... don't mean to shout.... just really excited!
Sincerely, Angie Simmons Artistic Director, Evolving Doors Dance & the Whole EDD Company (Amy, Gretchen, Hanna, Alfred, Victoria, Erika, Kat, Sam, Kevin, Carmen, and Juli)
We'd like to start this Friday AM by WHOLE-HEARTEDLY thanking you all for getting EDD so far in our fundraiser! We crossed the $8000 mark yesterday!! We are getting SUPER close to reaching our goal and also super close to our in-person, live show. It's a very exciting week!
A few folks have made comments on our new website about the film! If you've watched it and would like to comment, you can add your voice! If you haven't watched it yet, you still can!
Check out some of the comments, here: http://evolvingdoorsdance.org/2020/09/08/coil-web-an-evolving-doors-dance-for-camera-sept-22/
We've Released Our Dance-for-Camera Film!
EDD supporters and friends, We released our dance-for-camera yesterday, Sept 22nd and we couldn't be more pleased with the work of the company, Gretchen La Borwit, and High Fiction... and the outcome of the film! It is beautiful! You can peek at the trailer here. And if you'd like to watch the full 8-minute film, you can find it here: https://bit.ly/360Cgpi
We open our live / live-streamed show in Aurora, Colorado in ONE WEEK, on Oct 1st. It will run through Oct 3rd. If you're local and would like to see the show in-person OR if you're not local and would like to see the live-stream or virtual version of the show, tickets for both are available here: http://evolvingdoorsdance.org/2020/08/30/evolving-doors-dance-new-work-premier-oct-123/
Note for in-person attendees: Due to COVID, there are limited number of tickets per evening (a total of 40, 8 tickets per time slot) and there is no ticket sales at the door. All tickets must be purchased in advance. We look forward to sharing this show with you! Join us for Moving Through next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Oct 1-3, 2020!
UPDATE: We're thrilled and grateful to our donors to have helped us successfully reach our goal for this fundraiser! This means we can 100% ensure payment to our artists and cover all our overhead costs. We've decided to make a STRRRRRRRETCH GOAL of $11,000 as our contributions continue through our live performance before the fundraiser closes on Oct 3rd. A stretch goal will allow the company to create a small cushion for our 2021 projects or the possibility of taking or installation 2020 performance to some other CO locations outside the Denver Metro.... finding ways to do outreach safely during this time.
Whether you've already donated or or visiting our page for the first time, consider contributing toward our STRRRRRRETCH GOAL! (Get it? Dancers? Strrrrrretching? Flexible?)
We live in a changing world. Day to day and moment to moment, the world around us shifts, turns, changes, breaks, reforms, and adapts. The moving body and the arts are no different. In fact, we are designed to flux. After all, the only constant IS change, yes?
Evolving Doors Dance faces our current state of flux head on with our 2020 season of two interconnected project works: an original dance-for-camera work and a live, walk-through, experiential performance installation.
Dancer Samantha Lewis, Film Still by Gretchen LaBorwit.jpg258 KB Coil & Web is a collaboratively created dance-for camera work and is in progress from July to September, 2020. Conception, filming, and editing of the work is being done by company member and dance-for-camera artist, Gretchen LaBorwit. Gretchen is a recent MFA graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a focus in dance-for-camera. The sound score for this work is being composed and recorded by High Fiction, the NY/CO collaborating musical duo of Gary Grundei and Amy Shelley, who is also EDD's Sound Designer and Co-Director. The movement material created for dancers for this film work is crafted by EDD's Artistic Director and Choreographer, Angie Simmons. Finally, the dancers also lend their essence to the film footage with some captivating improvisations during the filming process. This work is now in the editing process with a release in September.
Hanna, Alfred, Angie, Still by Gretchen LaBorwit.png206.09 KB Moving Through: Bodies, Music, Images, Experience is brave and brainy approach to live performance during the time of Covid-19. At the start of October, the company will perform live for audiences at The People's Building in Aurora, Colorado. The facility is a large and flexible space, allowing the creation of open, airy rooms full of music and movement. The space will be configured and creatively divided... turning large, open floor plans into mazes with guiding arrows that lead small groups of masked audience through a discovery of sound, dance, film, and environments. There will be no seating. Audiences will instead be encouraged to slowly move through the real-time moving-art installation. The sounds of solo musicians in the building will serve as individual instruments for solo dancers while also bleeding over into other aspects of the experience, creating an overall sound scape that evolves as the evening progresses. Dancers will be visible from various angles and levels in a way they are not in traditional performance spaces. The film created in September will be incorporated into this live experience. This live work examines connections despite barriers, distance, and divides by finding ways to integrate, express, receive, give, support, hold space for, and BE, without pretense or judgement while also touching on the sensations and experiences of our current events as a world-community. The performance will also be live-streamed for those that cannot or do not wish to attend in person. And, as with all things at this time, we remain flexible and changeable--meaning, should we be prevented from welcoming live experience-goers, we will live stream the event in real time.
EDD is very lucky to have received a small grant from the Aurora Arts Council of Aurora, Colorado to pursue completion of this work. However, this grant will not cover our full costs for the dance-for-camera and the live experience. As with many artists around the country, all our artists lost both arts work and day-time gig work due to Covid-19 and the closure of many organizations, businesses, venues, etc. We believe strongly that they should be paid for the work they are creating with EDD. Your contribution ensures that we can pay all our artists, cover our space rental for the performance, obtain installation materials, and ensure safety precautions at the venue (masks, hand sanitizer, temp checks, etc.).
This is a time, if you're able, to be generous..... but not JUST to be generous. It is a time to recognize that many arts organizations are hit doubly hard and are putting forth a great deal of commitment, creativity, community work, and courage to continue with our work and to recognize that you can do something very simple to support that and to show that you value our country's arts and culture and those that enrich it. You are our community and you are our co-creators in both the present and the future. You will help keep us alive as an organization and ensure that we can make art through and beyond all this change.
Your contribution is important to us. We are deeply grateful. Please check out our upcoming dance-for-camera film and join us in-person or on our live-stream for our October experience!
Dancers: Erika Curry-Elrod, Hanna Ghadessi, Gretchen LaBorwit, Samantha Lewis, Kat Kalamaras, Angie Simmons, Alfred Smith, and Victoria Stone Musicians: Amy Shelley, Carmen Sandim, Julie Royster and Kevin Lee Dance-for-Camera (concept, filming, editing): Gretchen LaBorwit Artistic Direction and Choreography: Angie Simmons Music Direction and Company Co-Direction: Amy Shelley Music and Composition: High Fiction (Gary Grundei, Amy Shelley) and Amy Shelley
As a thank you, we'll also email you a digital still from the dance-for-camera! (To receive this, please be sure your email address is one you use!) We'll also add your name to our list of supporters in our program, in our film credits, and on our website.
We would need 190 donations at this level to reach our goal!
We want to tell everyone about your generosity! We'll post a personalized photo of one (or several) of the dancers to Instagram and Facebook, thanking you by name as a donor to the company's 2020 season! We'll invite you to join us via live-stream for our dress rehearsal run of the live performance experience. We'll, of course, add your name to our list of supporters in our program, in our film credits, and on our website. We'll also email you a digital still from our dance-for-camera film. (Be sure the email you use when making your donation is one you use to receive this.)
We would need 95 donations at this level to reach out goal!
As a thanks, We'll ship you an "Evolving Doors Dance Patron - Think. Move. Feel. Evolve." keychain... because everyone has keys and they need organizing! We'll invite you to join us via live-stream for our dress rehearsal run of the live performance experience. You'll also receive a ticket to our live performance experience, Oct 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. You'll be listed as an EDD patron in our program, our film credits, and on our website. We'll send you a digital still from our dance-for-camera film. We'll post a video with one or several of the EDD dancers to Insta and Facebook, personally thanking you by name for being and EDD patron and supporting our 2020 season.
We would need 38 donations at this level to reach our goal!
Perpetual Motion
Donate $500.00 or more
Amount over $40.00 is tax-deductible.
Dancer Erika Curry-Elrod, Film Still by Gretchen LaBorwit As a special thank-you, you'll be invited to join the EDD cast in a dress-rehearsal-day-Zoom where we'll tell you a bit about the process of working on this project during a global pandemic. We'll invite you to join us via live-stream for our dress rehearsal run of the live performance experience. You'll also receive a ticket to our live performance experience, Oct 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. You'll be listed as an EDD patron in our program, our film credits, and on our website. We'll send you a digital still from our dance-for-camera film. We'll post a video with one or several of the EDD dancers to Insta and Facebook, personally thanking you by name for being and EDD patron and supporting our 2020 season. We'll ship you an "Evolving Doors Dance Patron - Think. Move. Feel. Evolve." keychain... because SWAG!
We would need 19 donations at this level to reach out goal!
Moving Mountains
Donate $1,000.00 or more
Amount over $70.00 is tax-deductible.
Dancer Samantha Lewis, Film Still by Gretchen LaBorwit.jpg258 KBTo show our appreciation, you'll receive two VIP tickets to the live performance experience AND digital access to our dance-for-camera film before it is released. You'll also be invited to join the EDD cast in a dress-rehearsal-day-Zoom to chat with us about the process of creating a multi-disciplinary arts project during a global pandemic. We'll invite you to join us via live-stream for our dress rehearsal run of the live performance experience. You'll also receive two tickets to our live performance experience, Oct 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. You'll be listed as an EDD patron in our program, our film credits, and on our website. We'll send you a digital still from our dance-for-camera film. We'll post a video with one or several of the EDD dancers to Insta and Facebook, personally thanking you by name for being and EDD patron and supporting our 2020 season. We'll ship you two "Evolving Doors Dance Patron - Think. Move. Feel. Evolve." keychains... because your spare keys should get some love, too!
We would need 9.5 donations at this level to reach our goal!!!
Holy cow! This is amazing! ... so amazing we want to give you a piece of EDD serious swag! To show our gratitude, you'll receive a specially designed Evolving Doors Dance hooded sweatshirt in your size! You'll be invited to join the EDD cast in a dress-rehearsal-day-Zoom to chat with us about the process of creating a multi-disciplinary arts project during a global pandemic. We'll invite you to join us via live-stream for our dress rehearsal run of the live performance experience. You'll receive four VIP tickets to the live performance experience AND digital access to our dance-for-camera film before it is released. You'll be listed as an EDD patron in our program, our film credits, and on our website. We'll send you a digital still from our dance-for-camera film. We'll post a video with one or several of the EDD dancers to Insta and Facebook, personally thanking you by name for being and EDD patron and supporting our 2020 season. We'll ship you four "Evolving Doors Dance Patron - Think. Move. Feel. Evolve." keychains... because if we can't show our appreciation for your incredible generosity by giving you an abundance of keychains, what can we do?!
We would need just over 2 donations at this level to reach our goal!!!!!!!!
