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Laura Schandelmeier |
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Laura Schandelmeier is Co-Artistic Director of Dancenow Productions, Inc. an organization that creates and presents dynamic, finely crafted and engaging public performances; and empowers communities through partnerships, workshops, residencies and arts-based education. She is a choreographer, performer, teacher, and with her husband and Co-Artistic Director, Stephen Clapp creator and performer of original evening-length dance theater works. In 2007 she, in partnership with Joe’s Movement Emporium (JME), received a Commissioning Circle Grant from the Community Foundation to support her third full-evening collaboration with Clapp. Portals/The Open Door Project premiered in at Dance Place June, 2007. This summer they will tour to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to present an excerpt from Haunted, which premiered at Dance Place in 2008, had a two week engagement at JME and was presented in New Orleans at the 2009 State of the Nation Festival. Currently they are working on their 5th evening-length production, The Loving Project: E-Race which will premiere at Dance Place October 24 & 25, 2009.
Schandelmeier began working with children in New York City in 1992 as guest choreographer for Ellen Robins’ concerts in Dance Theater Workshop’s Family Matters series and has taught at numerous schools, universities, theaters and studios throughout the region. She is a Master Teaching Artist and Trainer for the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts and has been with the organization since 2001. She received her certification as a Teaching Artist with the Teaching Artist Institute, administered by Maryland State Arts Council and Young Audiences of Maryland, in 2008 and certification as a Teaching Artist in Washington, DC in 2009. In addition, Schandelmeier conducts residencies and workshops for Dancenow Productions, Inc. and JME and facilitates professional development workshops for Wolf Trap and with the Resources for Social Change program of Alternate ROOTS. She received a B.F.A. in dance and choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University, and studied choreography with Bessie Schönberg in New York City. |
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Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp are renowned for their daring virtuosity, visual elegance and strong sense of social responsibility. An innovative duet company, they create works that reflect their individual and combined experience of contemporary culture. Highly energized choreography includes ruminations on action and re-action, conflict, empathy, and transformation – creating motion narrative with a sensual luster and dynamic variety.
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