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Wendy Jehlen | ANIKAYA

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Location
Somerville, MA
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Project Title
Listen
Fiscal Year Awarded
2017
Grant or Program
Creative City Boston - Artist Grant
Grant Amount
$10,000
  • July-August 2017 | Outdoor pop-up performances around Boston

ANIKAYA Dance Theater will be working with students at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing to develop a new movement-based performance work, Listen, to be performed in public spaces throughout Boston. Listen will employ a series of improvisational and choreographic strategies that develop and utilize physical listening and collective rhythm. The project will include workshops during the summer at the Horace Mann School, followed by performances in public spaces throughout the city of Boston.

For more information visit: www.anikaya.org

For details about pop-up performances, follow ANIKAYA on Facebook: www.facebook.com/anikayadance

 

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