[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] Fwd: touring company needs housing in July

[nicole bindler]

Hello Philly dancers, can anyone house these folks the weekend on July
13th? You can reply directly to Malcom at: ma1co1m at hldance.org.

Thanks!

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From: Malcolm Shute <ma1co1m at hldance.org>
Date: Jun 16, 2008 11:08 AM
Subject: coming for a visit
To: nicolebindler at gmail.com


 Nicole,


This is Malcolm Shute. I'm a contact dancer from Washington DC and I'm
bringing a group, Human Landscape Dance, to Philadelphia for a concert
in July. We perform free modern dance concerts in parks and are
looking for places to stay, as well as hoping to spread the word about
our show. Our group includes three performers (two women and a man),
plus myself, my wife Jen, and our baby daughter Maya. We will be
performing our show Rituals of the First Year, contact-generated
modern dance, at Clark Park from 12-2pm on Saturday July 12 and at
Liberty Lands from 1-3pm on Sunday July 13. All six of us will need
showers and floorspace to sleep on for the night of July 13.

Human Landscape Dance examines the relationship of body with
environment. By setting our work in public spaces--against a wall, in
the grass, on a sidewalk--we reveal the hidden beauty of those places
we pass every day. We bring dance out of the theater to reach people
who would never come across it otherwise. Check out our work at
http://www.hldance.org .

Rituals of the First Year is a set of four dances about my experience
as a new father. It is Maya's first year on Earth and my first year
trying to balance my own needs with the urgent demands of a human so
small that she can't even get herself up out of bed in the morning.
One ritual that we explore is talking through touch, the primary means
of communication with a newborn. We go on to practice bonding and
separating, and carrying and falling. We hope that, watching, you will
be struck by something you remember as a parent or as a child.
Admission is free.

I hope that you or someone you know will be able to help us out. We
operate on a tiny budget and can't afford hotels. If you're ever in
DC, you have a couch at our place.

Please pass this around to as many people you know who may be
interested in seeing some contact-inspired dance.

Thanks!
Malcolm Shute
inquiries at hldance.org




Malcolm Shute is a dance artist.  His performing career began in
Washington DC with Nancy Havlik's Dance Performance Group and Jane
Franklin Dance. In 2006, he completed his Master of Fine Arts in Dance
with a concentration in choreography from the University of Maryland.
He went on to found Human Landscape Dance, http://www.hldance.org, to
showcase his own artistic vision. Shute is fascinated by relationships
between people and the environments we inhabit. The performers of
Human Landscape Dance appear on a variety of alternative spaces,
lawns, stairwells, and walls, as well as the stage. Shute extends his
understanding of movement craft by teaching. He gives classes at
schools and studios across the Baltimore-Washington region, including
the Towson University BFA Dance Program. Shute is a Certified Movement
Analyst through the Laban/Bartenieff Insitutute of Movement Studies.
This work has expanded his awareness of movement as a healing path.
He conducts one-on-one movement therapy sessions.  In addition, Shute
writes articles in dance education and theory.