Category Archives: the dance

Oct8

after the dance

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photo:  Pam White

I spent Sunday, the day after our performance feeling a sense of relief.  Right next to that was a lovely blank slate feeling – as if there was infinite creative possibility.  Monday however, when I awoke, I felt list mania sneaking in from the edges, and that feeling of available creative space shrinking.

I want to hang out in the open field and just gaze and breathe for a bit.  I am also reviewing the “management” part of my life – the house, the gardens, the kids, the animals, the career, the relationship, the body, etc.  My wish going forward is to manage less and appreciate more.

All day Saturday before, during and after the performance, I had a huge sense of appreciation.  For the dancers, the farm, the riders, the horses, the people who came, for myself.  It came in lovely big swells, like the waves on the south shore of Barbados.  Lifting and carrying.  More of that please.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oct5

here we come!

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Saturday October 6 at 3:30 pm

Little Brook Farm, 548 County RT 13, Old Chatham, NY 12136

Tickets $30 at the gate

All proceeds to benefit Little Brook Farm

about All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses is a performance art presentation that blends a troupe of Little Brook Farm’s horses, mostly rescued, with riders from the farm and professional dancers and dance students from Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works. The event features choreographed performances of dancers on the ground interacting with ridden horses, incorporating vaulting, modern dance and dressage including quadrille movements (four horses moving as one!).

All the Pretty Horses is the first-time rescued horses, who were previously designated as too old, too lame, too dangerous, too wild, demonstrate their partnership with humans. “It is the time and proper intervention with these formerly cast-off horses that enables them to perform with such beauty, grace and dignity,” says Lynn Cross executive director of Balanced Innovative teaching Strategies, Inc. (BITS), and owner of Little Brook Farm. Paula Josa-Jones and her dancers have been bringing together the elements of All the Pretty Horses over the past year — choreographing the horse’s, rider’s and dancer’s movements to a broad spectrum of music selections.

All the Pretty Horses is an ongoing project, part of Josa-Jones’ Horses Helping Horses program where performance and education are used to raise awareness about equine rescue and humane practices.

The Cast

Dancers from Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works

Danielle DeVito, DeAnna Pellecchia, Ingrid Schatz

All the Pretty Horses Dancers

                     Shannon Campbell, Chandrika Carl-Jones, Sandy Gautier,

Erin McNulty. Amanda Michienzi, Katie Von Wald, Nicole DeWolfe

Vocalist – Ryder Cooley

The Youngest Dancers (Procession & Lullaby)

Giana Henderson, age 7, Emily Poulter, age 4, Laura Warner, age 8

Riders from Little Brook Farm

Summer Brennan – riding Amado and Sonata, Julia Henderson – leading Miranda and riding Charlie

Christina Hinkle – riding Portia, Elisabeth Spoto  – vaulting on Devlan and riding Angel

The Horses

Procession & Lullaby– Miranda Jane, Reg. Pinto, age 29

Mustang Tango – Amado, Mustang, captured from High Rock Complex, CA, age 5

The Vault – Devlan, Reg. Hanoverian, age 14

Quadrille– Sonata, TB, age 8, Angel, TB, age 23, Portia, Reg. Oldenburg, age 18,

Forest Edge (Charlie) Reg. Morgan, age 16