Year: 2022-2023
DanceForce Member: Jacquie Davis
DanceForce Partnering Members: D. Chase Angier, Elaine Gardner
Artists: Chanon Judson; Urban Bush Women
Community Partners: Alfred University; SUNY at Brockport; SUNY Research Foundation; University of Rochester
Audience: 600
Counties: Alleghany; Erie; Monroe
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Year: 2020-2021
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artists: Naila Ansari, Megan Evans-Rakeepile, Nancy Hughes, Gaitrie Subryan
Community Partners: Buffalo City Ballet; Buffalo State College; Center Dance, Buffalo; Elmwood Festival of the Arts; Miss Barbara’s School of Dance, Buffalo
Audience: 435
County: Erie
Continue reading Supporting Buffalo Choreographers and Dancers
Year: 2019-2020
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artists: Elaine Gardner, Claire Porter
Community Partners: Bill Evans Teachers Institute; Burchfield Penney Art Center; Center Dance, Buffalo; Playwrights Group, NYC
Audience: 265
Counties: Chautauqua, Erie Ontario
Continue reading Collaboration with Claire Porter
Year: 2018-2019
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artists: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
Community Partners: Buffalo Parkinsons Dance;Â Buffalo State College;Â Burchfield Penney Art Center;Â Nichols School, Buffalo;Â Pick of the Crop Dance; SUNY Fredonia Dept of Theatre & Dance;Â Tapestry Charter School, Buffalo
Audience: 1,222
Counties: Chautauqua, Erie
Continue reading Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana in Western New York
Year: 2016-2017
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artists: Nancy Hughes, Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent
Community Partners: Lisa Taylor Academy of Ballet, Nichols School, Pick of the Crop Dance, University at Buffalo
Audience: 1,033
County: Erie
Year: 2015-2016
DanceForce Members: Margaret Kaiser, Elaine Gardner
Artists: Elaine Gardner, Nancy Hughes, Leanne Rinelli
Community Partners: Buffalo Academy of the Visual & Performing Arts; Buffalo City Ballet; Friends of the Buffalo Story; Hilda Ramos
Audience: 1,120
County: Erie
Continue reading Ferry Street Corridor Wall Project
Year: 2013-2014
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artists: Nancy Hughes, Brandin Steffensen
Community Partners: Buffalo Contact Improvisation Performance Group, Dance WNY, Nichols School
Audience: 322
County: Erie
Continue reading Now Practices: Contact Improvisation in Buffalo
Year: 2013-2014
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artists: Katie Dorn, Matt Pardo, Aaron Piepszny, Ashley Vita-Verde
Community Partners: Elmwood Festival of the Arts, Friends of the Buffalo Story, Nichols School
Audience: 900
County: Erie
Continue reading Supplemental Canalside Planning/Dance Intensive/Elmwood Arts Festival
Year: 2012-2013
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artist: Terry Beck
Community Partners: Fredonia Opera House;Â SUNY Fredonia Dept of Theatre & Dance
Audience: 1,134
County: Chautauqua
Year: 2011-2012
DanceForce Member: Elaine Gardner
Artist: Kun-Yang Lin
Community Partner: Nichols School, Buffalo
Audience: 1,150
County: Erie