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LEAP Labs are for kids and families!
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Join dance educator Lonnie Stanton for an engaging, site-specific movement workshop for kids and families. Activate the senses and connect with scale and texture in outdoor space. This program is designed with ages 3-12 in mind, but all are welcome to breathe and play together!
Presented in collaboration with The Click, as part of the ongoing project Emotive Land.
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The Click is an experiment in organization, connection, and collaboration among a group of like-minded creative spirits living, making, teaching, studying, and/or existing in the Greater Boston area. We are a group of contemporary dancers operating within a lateral power structure to create and present meaningful and accessible arts experiences. The Click contributes to the cultural vitality of our communities via education, performance, and engagement. Learn more: theclickboston.com / @the.click.boston
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Emotive Land is an ongoing project that centers nature's resilience and considers our relationship to land as rooted in stewardship rather than hierarchical ownership. Created as a site responsive installation captured on film and translated through technology, this project invites harmony between nature, society and innovation. As people walk the Charles with whatever perceptions and feelings they have at that moment, moments of movement displayed through our interactive augmented reality app will interrupt their internal dialogue and bring them to an alternate vision of what they normally see. Through this interruption, they can perceive the dynamic dance that constantly exists between themselves and their environment. The project is set to premier in its first iteration in Fall 2022 in the Canal District of Cambridge's Kendall Square.
Emotive Land is made possible in part by grants and residencies received from: Boston Moving Arts Productions, The Dance Complex BLOOM Residency Program, ArtAssembled and the Somerville Arts Council through the AIR Residency Program, the New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation, and the Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation.
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Lonnie Stanton is a proud native Hawaiian raised in rural Northern California and based in Boston. For the last decade Lonnie has been committed to dance education with a strong somatic focus as well as a professional contemporary performance career. She graduated from the Boston Conservatory with a BFA in Dance (2009) and has completed her 200 hour yoga certification through Yogaworks (2011). For 10 years she worked with Prometheus Dance performing and teaching with the company. Lonnie is a freelance dancer performing with Jean Appolon Expressions, Peter DiMuro/ Public Displays of Motion, Callie Chapman, Lynn Model, and BeHeard.World. During her time dancing in NYC, she worked with Kinesis Project Dance Theatre focusing solely on site specific performance. Stanton is passionate about sharing dance in unconventional, often outdoor spaces where a broad audience can be reached. She has produced and structured dance for film or public space for the Somerville Arts Council, Neoscape (advertisement), Tamara Al- Mashouk, Silvi Naci, Moe Pope, Linda Tegg, and Toni Lester (all visual or sound artists). Stanton is on faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, The Harvard Dance Center, Boston Ballet, and Deborah Mason School of Dance. Bringing dance education into public schools through Notes in Motion, New York City Ballet, and Boston Ballet has been especially rewarding to Lonnie.
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