Ithaca College

Join the documentary dancemaking project with Brooklyn-based, nationally recognized choreographer Martha Bowers who will be in residence at IC. If you are curious, come to an informational meeting Sunday, February 15, at 10:00 a.m. on the red carpet in Dillingham's lobby.

Martha will create a new dance that you will rehearse and perform with residents of Longview, a senior living community near IC’s campus. Some dance experience is preferred, but not required.

Rehearsals and performances will be March 15-21.

Contact Susie Monagan (Dillingham G11) at 274-3915 or smonagan@ithaca.edu if you’re interested in learning more about this unique project.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Linden Center for Creativity and Aging.

Martha Bowers

Martha is a nationally recognized choreographer/director and producer of large-scale community events and site-specific productions that engage culturally diverse communities in dialogue about sociopolitical issues. She has worked extensively in the field of arts education and community arts since 1981. Currently she is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Gallatin School for Individualized Study and at the Tisch School of the Arts. She is noted for her 15 years of work in Red Hook, Brooklyn, making the arts a vital component of urban renewal efforts.

As a teaching artist and arts education consultant, Martha has designed, implemented, and taught in arts education programs throughout the New York City public school system for Dancing in the Streets, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, the Lincoln Center Institute, and Dance Theatre Etcetera. A frequent guest artist, Martha has taught choreography and community arts at many colleges and universities including Cornell, Trinity College, Queens College, Antioch, and Colorado College among others.

Dance Theatre Etcetera

Premised on the belief that the arts are an effective vehicle for social transformation, Dance Theatre Etcetera unites artists and community members as cocreators in dynamic cultural activities. Through site-specific performances, festivals, parades, and performing arts and media education programs, Dance Theatre Etcetera stimulates the social imagination through acts of informed expression.