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Giving Tuesday! BodyStories Winter Intensive, Upcoming IHRAF performance, Thank You for Dancing with Horses Workshop + Pentacle Performance, and Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center Updates.


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#GivingTuesday

Today is #GivingTuesday, a worldwide movement for people to support the causes they care about! 


As we bounce back from our Thanksgiving Holiday, we look to continue the spirit of generosity and thanks. Today is GivingTuesday, a worldwide movement for people to support the causes they care about!


BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance is raising funds to support our company as we continue our return to live dance and create our new work for a premiere in April, 2022. These funds will also allow us to continue our educational offerings to dancers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. As we all continue to build back from the effects of the pandemic, we continue to provide dance education to underserved communities and offer scholarships to all students with financial need.


As we look forward to reflecting back on everything we have accomplished this year, we hope that you will consider making a donation to kick off

our End of the Year campaign! Donations can be made at

BodyStories Fractured Atlas Non-Profit Donation Link.


As a company, some pivots we have made before and since the pandemic, from leading a conservatory dance department in Dubai, strengthening our BodyStories educational programs virtual and in-person, being involved in activism and performing nationally virtually, and in-person, opening our company's Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center (MAR + RC) in Upstate, NY, and many more changes this year, please keep an eye out for our EOY campaign to learn more about our company's changes, challenges, and resilience throughout, With these initiatives, we continually look for ways to serve our dancers, artists, and wider communities.


We can’t thank you enough for the kindness and support that you show us year-round. With your help, we look forward to continuing

to perform and making a difference in our communities through dance education!

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Photo by Stephen Ronaghan

BodyStories Winter Intensive


We are thrilled to be hosting our second winter intensive on January 17-21, 2022!


We will be having our annual Winter Intensive from January 17-21, 2022!

A chance for movers in all forms, professional and pre-professional dancers to gain inventive dance and technique experience. This year we will be hybrid, virtual through Zoom with in-person participation available at Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center (MAR + RC)! The BodyStories Winter Intensive continues our mission to unleash creativity and empowerment in dancers, in the virtual world and in-person! Dancers will rediscover joy in movement through inspiring and challenging technical, composition, and improvisational classes each day. They will develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between art and activism.


Daily Schedule:

Technique: 11:30am - 1pm

Improvisation + Composition: 1:30pm -3:30pm

Additional events such as discussions, guest teachers, feedback

sessions, outings, and more!

 

Rates:

$375 - in-person for the week

$300 - virtual for the week

$17 - Drop-in

$40 - housing per day/night if needed


Location:

Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center (MAR + RC)

Upstate, NY

 

*Participants can sign up for the full intensive, one class for the full week, select days, or a single drop-in session.



Please do not hesitate to reach out for any financial assistance or scholarship needed. We are open to meeting all participants where they

are financially during this time.


Due to the ever changing nature of the Delta variant, we require in-person overnight participants to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination and negative PCR test 48 hours in advance. In-person drop-ins proof of vaccination and mask required at all times.


Follow us on social media and website for later updates @bodystories_teresafelliondance @middlebrookarts bodystoriesfellion.org


For more information or inquiries email us at:

education@bodystoriesfellion.org


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Photo by Yi-Chun Wu

International Human Rights Art Festival Opening Night Performance!


Come out and join us on December 10!




IHRAF has invited BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance to perform at their opening night in December! The IHRAF aims to use its platforms to give voice to artists and issues around the world and protect freedom of expression by highlighting those who might be suppressed or oppressed in their home countries. We can't wait to share our work reeling healing with you at Wild Project Theater!


When: December 10, 7 pm EST

Where: Wild Project Theater, NY

195 E. 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009


Save the date and stay tuned for ticket information!

Follow us on Social Media to see behind the scenes for the performance.

For more information contact us at info@bodystoriesfellion.org.


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Photo by Jaqlin Medlock 

Thank You Dancing with Horses Workshop!


Thank you for your participation!


We are so grateful that we spent an unforgettable weekend with the Dancing With Horses Workshop at Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center! Thank you to all participants, your participation and everything you brought to it made this event shine as such a transformative and full experience. Thank you to our friends at Fairsing Farm, The Equus Projects, JoAnna Mendl Shaw (https://www.equus-onsite.org/), and Dan McCarthy (https://www.saddlerock.info/) for being such wonderful facilitators and collaborators. It was a joy to collaborate with you. We have so many wonderful memories because of you all. Can’t wait to make it happen again in the future! Enjoy some of these special moments from the weekend.


Check our website https://bodystoriesfellion.org and Instagram @BodyStories_TeresaFellionDance to see more photos and videos from this workshop!



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Photos by Teresa Fellion, JoAnna Mendl Shaw, Emily Chamberlin



Thank You Pentacle Performance!


Fall Further X Performance at Dixon Place on Nov 14



Thank you so much to everyone at Dixon Place on Nov 14! We are so honored to have presented our work Continually Healing (work in progress). It was such a fantastic live performance with you in a large

and gorgeous theater since early 2020! A Huge Thank You to everyone

who came to watch the performance. Thank you Kate Bishop, Nicole Kadar, and Emma Iredale, we appreciate your enthusiasm and amazing contributions. Thank you Pentacle and Dixon Place for making this performance happen!


Follow us on Social Media to see photos from the performance.

For more information contact us at info@bodystoriesfellion.org.



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Image courtesy of Pentacle



Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center Updates

We are thrilled to announce a new sonic update to Middlebrook Arts Research + Residency Center (MAR + RC). We have added acoustic panels to our walls and hanging them up has been so much fun!! I love geeking out with measuring maps, a practice renewed in the company of the amazing Rebecca Jones, back in the spring when she helped us with some kitchen updates. For extra special sound quality in the upstairs dance studio, we are adding these acoustic panels, which look amazing and hug the space with high-quality sound. As we have had some inspiring groups and individual artists visit us, while continuing renovations, we become more and more excited about what this property is capable of

with bringing all people together to create and learn together!



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Photo by Teresa Fellion



THANK YOU for your Support!



Thank YOU for actively participating in our community! We are in the midst of a productive and prosperous November, and we hope you will come along for the journey. To read more of our Early Fall Blog Post, please click here. We hope everyone continues to stay healthy and safe both

mentally and physically!


We are fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a not-for-profit, tax exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the NYC performing arts community.

Contributions made to Fractured Atlas and earmarked for BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance are 100% tax-deductible

to the extent allowed by law.


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