DANCE+ Series

Luminarium Dance Company is proud to announce its brand new DANCE+
Series, offering an engaging, family-friendly class each Saturday morning in
April, that explores weekly themes of dance intersecting other fields:
technology, science, music and light. 
Each class will be strongly movement based, while led by an expert
teacher from outside the world of dance. 

To kick off the series on April 5, Ed Bokhour, engineer and
musician, will share interactive technology
in the form of his Dance Machine. 
The Machine creates an invisible field for bodies to move about, while infrared
light and several sensors capture movements and produce sound triggered by the
movement input.  Rose Abramoff, PhD
candidate, will lead an April 12 workshop merging dance and science by teaching the principles of the scientific
method and using those principles to experiment with making dances; come
formulate and test a dance hypothesis! Jenn
Allen and Christos Zevos, graduate students at New England Conservatory, will
bring music to the series on April
19.  The trumpet and string bass
duo will share rhythms to accompany movement and also encourage participants to
make up their own musical soundscapes. 
As a DANCE+ Series finale, Luminarium’s Artistic Directors Merli V.
Guerra and Kimberleigh A. Holman will present a workshop on April 26 that
combines dance with light.  Through the use of light-making devices
(projectors, lamps, handheld lighting) and shadows, participants will dance
through light and dark and control how a body in motion is perceived.

Luminarium Dance is a Boston-based modern dance company,
incorporated in 2010, that was recently hailed as one of Boston’s ten “unsung
heroes” by the Improper Bostonian.
The company strives to produce high-quality art that blends choreography with
atypical lighting design, film and video projection for a multidimensional viewing experience.  Luminarium Dance Company also believes in the importance of community,
produces Boston’s only annual 24-Hour
ChoreoFest, and completes community outreach projects yearly. 

Admission
to the weekly classes is free to local youth; preregistration is appreciated as
there is a 30 student limit.  Classes
will take place at the Center for Arts at the Armory, 10am-11:30am, April 5, 12, 19 and 26.  A parent or guardian
must accompany each youth participant. 
Questions about the series or requests for preregistration can be sent
to info@luminariumdance.org or 617-477-4494.