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UNCW Establishes Residency With alban elved Dance Company

Wilmington, N.C.--The Office of Cultural Arts at the University of North Carolina Wilmington announced today the creation of an ongoing residency affiliation with the renowned alban elved dance company, one of the most innovative and dynamic of contemporary dance ensembles. Based in Berlin, New York City and now North Carolina, alban elved has achieved critical acclaim internationally for the energy, dramatic variety and visceral vitality of its choreography.

As part of the residency affiliation, the company will produce three to four major performances each year in UNC Wilmington's Kenan Auditorium, and will provide master class opportunities for UNCW dance students and other dancers and ensembles in the community and region.

"We are so very pleased to have created this affiliation with UNCW through its Office of Cultural Arts," said Karola Luttringhaus, alban elved founder and artistic director. "To be associated with and working with a university that is so serious in its involvement with the arts is a fantastic opportunity. The Wilmington community is already excited about dance, and there are so many talented dancers already here. It is stimulating for the alban elved company to be a part of this creative energy."

"I've been aware of the strikingly innovative and visionary work of alban elved for some time," said Norman Bemelmans, UNCW Director of Cultural Arts. "Karola Luttringhaus' enthusiastic commitment to working with the students in our dance program as well as other dancers and ensembles in the community, not to mention the extraordinary performances she and her dancers will bring to our campus, represent precisely what we want to accomplish in the arts here at the university."

UNCW recently established a nationally-recognized summer residency partnership with the Carolina Ballet. "Now with this affiliation with alban elved," Bemelmans added, "we will be working in partnership with an innovative contemporary dance ensemble as well one of the nation's finest ballet companies. We couldn't be more pleased."

For more information about alban elved, visit www.albanelved.com.

Media contacts:
Courtney Reilly, assistant director, UNCW Office of Cultural Arts, 910.962.2082 or reillyce@uncw.edu
Dana Fischetti, manager of news and media relations, 910.962.7259 or fischettid@uncw.edu

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 29, 2007
CONTACT: Anne Willson
336-908-3242, awillson@bricolageartsfestival.org


New Arts Festival Comes From Within the Piedmont Triad

Greensboro, NC—This November, the Piedmont Triad will host the inaugural Bricolage Arts Festival, a four-day, multi-disciplinary arts festival developed to showcase the skills and talents of the region’s artists and artisans. The festival, featuring 12 separate events and new works created by regional musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and visual artists, will be held November 1 – 4, 2007, at various locations in seven different counties across the Piedmont Triad. The festival will be held biennially.

The concept for the Bricolage Arts Festival was developed by Anne Willson, during her tenure as Executive Director of UNCG ArtsLink, at the request of then UNCG Provost Uprichard for the benefit of the community at large. Following the incubation stage at UNCG, Willson and Don Kirkman, President and CEO of the Piedmont Triad Partnership, recognized a greater benefit in aligning the festival’s cultural development goals with existing regional economic and community development efforts and expanded the concept to embrace the entire Piedmont Triad. Of the festival, Kirkman said, “Bricolage is important to the Piedmont Triad in many ways.  It raises awareness of the region's creative talent, creates new works of art, builds relationships across jurisdictional boundaries, helps brand the Piedmont Triad as a center of creativity, and catalyzes economic activity across the footprint of the entire region.”

In June 2006, the Piedmont Triad Partnership’s Board of Directors voted to restructure an existing, but inactive, subsidiary nonprofit so that the festival would operate from within its own organizational framework. Now the region’s first cultural development organization, the Piedmont Triad Cultural Development Coalition, Inc. (PTCDC), exists to advance appreciation of the arts across the region by bringing visibility and value to our region’s artists and arts & cultural resources.

The festival’s events will be ticketed at a modest price that will help over the costs of producing the festival. Tickets will be available through the festival’s website, www.bricolageartsfestival.org, September 1 – October 28, then at the door one hour prior to each event. In addition, the PTCDC is planning a gala and fundraising event at Rockingham County’s Chinqua Penn Plantation on Friday, October 5, 2007. Community members from Rockingham County are coming together to help host the event and several hundred guests are expected to attend. Tickets for the gala will be $35.

More information about Bricolage Arts Festival can be found at the festival’s website, www.bricolageartsfestival.org

The Bricolage Arts Festival is a biennial, inter-disciplinary arts festival highlighting new works by Piedmont Triad artists and artisans. Bricolage is produced by the Piedmont Triad Cultural Development Coalition, a 501(c)3 organization founded to advance appreciation of the arts across the Piedmont Triad. PTCDC’s primary goal is to integrate the arts into the broader community-at-large by fostering meaningful collaborative projects between our region’s artists and the communities in which we live.
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PRESS RELEASE: alban elved dance company featured on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine, February 2005.

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NEWSLETTER JULY 2007: view this month's newsletter

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www.albanelved.com is listed in the online encyclopaedia britannica under the web's best sites!!
Their jury decided to add our site a few years ago. We're very excited about it!!



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