Inner Nature movement sessions @ Burlington, VT North Star Community Hall January 21st 2024 (sliding scale $10-25)
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Burlington, VT Oakledge Park June 20th 7:30pm (sliding scale $5-20)
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SPRING 2022 Virtual Class Series April 15th-May 22nd 2022
Fri. Apr. 15, 10:30 a.m. 2022 Noyes Rhythm: “Dance When You’re Broken Open”
In Solidarity with The Ukraine
Historic Dance Comes to the Historic Garden
On Sunday July 25 2021 at 6:30pm, The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum (RJD) will present Dances of Freedom & Nature: Revisiting Florence Fleming Noyes 1871-1928. The performance by the Noyes School of Rhythm will take place in the Museum’s historic garden.
In the 1910s, Florence Fleming Noyes created dances inspired by music, myth, and nature. A visible women’s suffrage performer, she choreographed the 1913 Suffrage Allegory, performed as part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s march on Washington, and the 1914 Dance of Freedom, performed for suffrage leader Anna Howard Shaw at New York’s Biltmore Hotel. Honoring the centennial of the 19th Amendment, dance artist Meg Brooker reconstructs Noyes’s iconic dances inspired by freedom and nature for performance on the RJD grounds by a group of Noyes Rhythm dancers. Founded in New York City in 1912, The Noyes School of Rhythm is dedicated to preserving and passing on Noyes’s work as a dance artist and movement educator. www.noyesrhythm.org
Brooker’s reconstruction of Noyes’s Dance of Freedom recently premiered as part of the Duncan Dance South: Live at the Hunter performance at the Hunter Museum of American Art in response to the exhibit Power, Passion & Pose: Photographs by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory. Brooker’s performances of early modern dance works, including Isadora Duncan repertory, have been produced by institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, the Erata Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), and the American Center of Moscow, among others. Brooker’s reconstruction of Noyes’s choreography for the women’s suffrage movement was featured in Dance Teacher Magazine online. In addition to being a certified Noyes Rhythm teacher, Brooker is an Associate Professor and Director of the Dance Program at Middle Tennessee State University. www.duncandancesouth.org
Tickets for general seating may be purchased through the RJD web site – www.rjdmuseum.org – or on site the day of the event. The cost is $8 for RJD Members, and $12 for non-members. Students with ID are free. In the case of rain, the performance will move under the tent.
About Noyes School of Rhythm Foundation
Seated on one-hundred acres of wooded property in Portland, Connecticut, with an historic, open-air dance studio, farmhouse, and lakefront, the Noyes School of Rhythm, originally founded in New York City in 1912, has held continual summer programming at Shepherd’s Nine in Portland, Connecticut since 1919. In 2019, the Noyes School celebrated the centennial of its summer program, where participants of all ages gather to dance and move together in nature. Noyes Rhythm is a movement practice developed in the early twentieth century by Florence Fleming Noyes. The practice is accessible to all levels of experience and uses imagery from nature and Greek mythology to inspire and support great creativity. Since the 1910s, generations of movers have come to the Noyes work to experience deep relaxation and creative awakening through a practice that also builds strength and community. Participants live in cabins or platform tents, dance and move to live piano accompaniment, and create and share meals together. Most practitioners usually come to Shepherd’s Nine for a one-week stay, during a season that runs annually for about six weeks, from late June through early August. The Noyes School also offers classes and workshops throughout the year, including virtual sessions. For more information about the Noyes School of Rhythm Foundation and its programs, please email info@noyesrhythm.org or contact Westport resident June Brownell Roche at 508-636-6853.
About Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum
The historic house, now the site of the Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum, was built in 1834 for whaling merchant William Rotch Jr. This Greek Revival mansion, located on a full city block of formal gardens, is a National Historic Landmark, one of only 2,500 currently so named in the nation. The period rooms of the house chronicle 150 years of economic and social evolution of the City, as reflected in the residencies of the Rotch, Jones, and Duff families. The Museum is located at 396 County Street, New Bedford. It is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Advance booking is encouraged but not required. Admission is $8 for adults; $6 for AAA members, seniors and students; and $3 for children (age 7 – 17). The museum is free for RJD members and EBT card-holders.