#GivingTuesday

ECDC is excited to be participating in #GivingTuesday again this year!

#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration.

Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.

One of the best ways to get involved is in your own community. Visit the #GivingTuesday page HERE

Interested in supporting ECDC this holiday season?

Your gift will help us with the following 2018 programs:

Boys/Girls in Motion

If You Knew You Then/Boston

National Water Dance Project

Amazon Adventure

Adult Classes

DONATE HERE

The Great Give 2017

#7in17
ECDC is trying to raise $7,000 during this year's 2017 Great Give (#7in17)

Matching Gift Incentives and Competitive Prizes will help ECDC raise more money during the 36 hours. Participating in one of the few ways below helps us achieve our goal sooner.
 

AND IT'S A FUN WAY TO DONATE!

1) NextGen Power Hour Match – All donations by donors born between 1974 and 1989 during the 5:00 – 6:00 pm hour on May 2 will receive a prorated portion of the $5,000 NextGen match pool, in addition to the overall matching pool prorated share.

2) Most Money Raised by an all-volunteer organization - 1st Place = $5,000

3) Seize the Day | May 3, 2017 6:00AM-8:00AM  $500 awarded to the organization with the greatest number of gifts from individual donors between 6:00am and 8:00am on May 3

ECDC's Great Give link below
 thegreatgive.org/npo/elm-city-dance-collective

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Your gift will help support the following programs:

Boys/Girls in Motion
Northeast touring of If You Knew You Then
Weekly Adult Community Classes
Capoeira Amazonia at the Eli Whitney Museum | Summer Youth Workshop

Featured Dancers | Lindsey, Kellie, Tara

Lindsey Bauer

Lindsey Bauer (Dancer, Programming Director, Co-founder, Graphic Designer) is a dance artist, teacher and choreographer. As Programming Director, Lindsey has been able to implement partnerships with community organizations providing after school movement experiences for children in the public schools and at the Eli Whitney Museum’s summer program. Her dance work has been presented in CT, MD and AZ. In addition to ECDC artists, Lindsey has worked with Olushola Cole, Adejoke Tubiyele, Rachel Bernsen, A. Beck and Nicole Manus. Lindsey teaches dance full time at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, mentors the seniors in their capstone projects and advises the National Honor Society for the Dance Arts Chapter.  She has a B.F.A from Towson University and an M.F.A. from Arizona State University.  Lindsey loves experiencing dance in new ways and witnessing that experience in others. She is grateful for each day that she spends moving with ECDC and thanks everyone that makes this possible.
 

"The making of If You Knew You Then has been an incredible experience filled with rich story telling, playful movement research and curiosity. Though the work is not narrative, IYKYT has a very clear dialect that grew out of the unfolding of each of our stories. It feels like we (the dancers) are not only revealing ourselves but our company’s language for the first time. In rehearsal I often think, “we are suppose to be making work like this” – work that weaves together all of our experiences to make a complicated and enchanting dance quilt."

Kellie Ann Lynch

Kellie Ann Lynch (choreographer) is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Elm City Dance Collective. Since 2008, she has been making dances, performing and teaching for ECDC. In addition to her work with ECDC, she has also been performing and creating with Adele Myers and Dancers since 2008. She has had the great privilege of working with Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc for a number of years; and is currently working with Kate Weare Company in NYC. Other recent artists Kellie has worked with include Saar Harari and Lee Sher, Annie Kloppenberg, and Nicole Stanton. Kellie’s choreography has been commissioned, produced and performed throughout the Northeast including at Bates Dance Festival as an Emerging Choreographer. As a Guest Artist, she has taught at several colleges and universities in New England. Kellie holds a BA in Dance from Rhode Island College and a MFA in Dance from Smith College. When she isn’t dancing, Kellie can be found teaching Pilates at the movement oasis, Aldrich Pilates, in downtown New Haven.
 

"Focused, warm, eye-contact, memory. These words describe a few sensations when I'm dancing inside this work. It wasn't always this way. I came into this process to cover someone's role, so the movements were not my own. It was like being in someone else's shoes and having to wear them a little while before they begin to form to your feet."

Tara Lee Burns

Tara Lee Burns (dancer) moved to New Haven, CT after living and dancing in NYC for seven years. She is honored to have recently started working with Elm City Dance Collective’s generous and exquisite performers and creators. Tara also has been performing, teaching and creating with Adele Myers and Dancers since 2006 and has performed throughout the US and Europe with various choreographers including Alexandra Beller, Kelly Drummond Cawthon and Marjani Forté. Mrs. Burns has taught at Jacob’s Pillow, Connecticut College and the formerly known Dance New Amsterdam in NYC to name a few and she currently teaches at Educational Center for the Arts in downtown New Haven. Her own work has been performed throughout Florida, Connecticut, NYC and in the UK. Tara received a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Florida (Summa Cum Laude) and an MA in Digital Performance from The University of Hull, UK.

FALL CLASSES BEGIN ON SEPTEMBER 8th

Click HERE for ECDC'S FALL CLASS schedule 2015 and descriptions