Come join us! We invite you to use this calendar page to find out when and where you can see SYREN perform as well as stay up to date on other company events including master classes and residencies.

SYREN NINTH SEASON
PERFORMANCE & TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS
MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW FOR EVENTS NEAR YOU THROUGH 2012!

JULY 2012

Master Classes at danEnlight Summer Intensive
July 2 & 3, 2012
Manchester, CT
Lynn Peterson and Kate St. Amand will be Guest Teachers offering modern dance classes and repertory workshops. The intensive is for teen-agers, adults, and professionals.  Visit their website for more information!

MAY 2012

Master Classes at Dancing Arts Center
May 15 & 17, 2012
Holliston, Massachusetts
Lynn Peterson and Kate St. Amand will be Guest Teachers for modern dance students ages 12-17 at Dancing Arts Center.

MARCH 2012

Upstairs at Ailey – A Studio Showing!
Join SYREN for a showing of its newest work “Wayside Sacrament” followed by a discussion and refreshments with the company.

March 10, 2012 ~ 6:30PM
March 11, 2012 ~ 2PM
Suggested Donation ~ $10
To guarantee you will have a seat, please RSVP to info@syrendance.org

The Ailey Studios, Studio 6B
405 West 55th Street, New York, NY

“Wayside Sacrament” is a dance that explores the meaning, perception, and search for beauty and intimacy.  Inspiration came from the simple, yet profound Emerson quote: “Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful.  It is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.”

Choreographer: Kate St. Amand
Composer: J.S. Bach, “Die Kunst der Fuge” (The Art of Fugue)
Dancers: Sonja Dale, Jean-René Homehr, Xuexin (Nico) Li,
Brigitte Mitchell, Lynn Peterson

DECEMBER 2011

Fertile Ground Showing
December 11, 2011 ~ 7PM
Green Space
37-24 24th Street, 301 &302
Long Island City, NY

Fertile Ground is a new works showcase featuring six choreographers each evening, and includes a post-performance discussion with wine and cheese- moderated by the Artistic Director of Green Space herself, Valerie Green. SYREN has enjoyed rehearsing at Green Space for years, and the company is looking forward performing excerpts of its new work at this showcase.

NOVEMBER 2011

Making Sense Colloquium on Beauty
November 5, 2011
Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
New Haven, CT

SYREN is incredibly excited to be performing as part of this gathering.
From its creators:
“Making Sense is a loose and expanding collective of artists and thinkers engaged in ‘making sense,’ which, as we conceive it, denotes an act of reflection that is at once theoretical and practical, accessible and inclusive. While diverse in our practices and our disciplines, we have a common striving to cross between modes of doing and thinking art and philosophy, especially within the contemporary context.
We not only propose to organise non-hierarchical, transdisciplinary meetings on an annual basis, but to forge a community that, over time, shares a common language, builds on a dynamic thought process, and integrates diverse disciplines.
We held our first colloquium in 2009, in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy at the University of Cambridge, and in 2010 we were at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, with Bernard Stiegler. The location for the 2011 colloquium, which will take place on November 5, is Yale University. Our theme this year will explore how we can use art to build a nourishing sense of beauty, in a way that is transformative and healing. This event will draw together artists and theoreticians and their interventions in the form of oral presentations, video, performance, theater, and dance. We hope that you will join us.”

Participation is FREE and open to the public! For more information contact: makingsensecolloquium@googlemail.com

SYREN Fall Workshop
November 12, 2011 ~ 1PM-5PM
Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Register with a dancer friend and you each get $5 off!
Workshop Fee: $45

Contact us at info@syrendance.org to register today!

This workshop will include class work involving movement exercises and explorations in expansiveness, weight, musicality, focus, and transitions. The time will develop into learning and manipulating technically challenging excerpts from SYREN repertory.

OCTOBER 2011

Choreographers’ Showcase
October 27 & 28, 2011
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts (GHAA)
Hartford, CT

For a fifth year, SYREN is honored to be working with and performing in a shared concert with the students of GHAA. This fall Kate and Lynn will be setting excerpts of “Dolce” on these talented high school students, and SYREN will also be performing excerpts from the company’s new work in the concert at the end of October.

SEPTEMBER 2011

SYREN is starting a new work!
This month SYREN will return to the studio where Kate St. Amand along with the dancers will begin work on a new dance. The beginning of a creative process is a unique and incredible time full of discovery and learning.
The company looks forward to sharing updates with you about this work, and if you are interested in attending a rehearsal or in being part of bringing this dance to the stage we would love to hear from you!

SYREN’s 9th Season is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.