November 2012
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Reflections on an Interview with Dina Soloman,...
Dina Solomon works as a fundraiser for Cal Performances and has experience with institutional fundraising for other non-profits including Carnegie Hall.
Dina Solomon has worked as a fundraiser for various organizations and non-profits to raise money through institutional giving from private and government organizations. She explains that setting up or being involved with a non-profit is...
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Reflections on an Interview with Natalie Marsh of...
Natalie Marsh is a student of the UC Berkeley department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies as well as a Student Dance Rep to the department. She has served as an intern for Dancers’ Group San Francisco.
Natalie explained that Dancers’ Group San Francisco is a fiscal sponsor for smaller modern dance groups who can’t become non-profits on their own. She suggested becoming an intern,...
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Reflections on an Interview with Joe Goode,...
Joe Goode is the founder and director of the Joe Goode Performance Group. He also a professor in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Department at the University of California at Berkeley.
Joe was inspired to start a dance company because he had already been dancing professionally for ten or twelve years. He was already touring and being invited to festivals as an independent artist. He...
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Reflections on an Interview with Katie Faulkner,...
Katie Faulkner is a renowned Bay Area choreographer and artistic director of Little Seismic Dance Company. This interview was conducted on September 23rd, 2012.
Katie Faulkner studied dance growing up and pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Theater and Playwriting at Hampshire College. There she was able to design her own thesis and major which allowed her to feed her own curiosity. Throughout her...
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[New Work Proposal]- "Israel Works" and Birthright...
In the context of my upcoming Birthright trip, I am interested in facilitating an intentionally creative experience to document, process, and respond to my time spent in Israel. My goal in this project is to explore the idea of “dance” as movement, moving, and being moved. I believe one can move with the body, mind, words, heart, history, soul, and spirit. I also wish to explore the idea of a...
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Call for Collaborators!
The Defiance Project is interested in connecting with other dance and arts collaborators. If you would like to join our network of artists be in contact by email as soon as possible: thedefianceproject@gmail.com. We are building a community of artistic collaborators who dance with their bodies, minds, souls, hearts, and spirits! Looking forward to defying with you.
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Presence, Connection, and Change: Reflection on...
Presence comes from sensations of the body and the perceptions of the mind those sensations provoke. This allows us to connect to space being changed by it. This perspective is from the inside out, sensing the body from the inside out- an internal embodiment of the world around us. Seeing the world- and yourself- through your own eyes and senses.
Telepresence and external...
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The Defiance Project with UC Berkeley's Dept. of...
The Defiance Project reps UC Berkeley at the Bay Area Dance Exchange!
Bay Area University & College Dance Programs join together for a full day of peer exchange. Dance Faculty & students focus on sharing current studio practices, creative processes, and informal performances/discussion.
Participating schools: UC-Berkeley, San Francisco State University, University of San...
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Virtual Venues Symposium: Bi-located Performance...
Virtual Venues Symposium
Virtual Venues Symposium: Exploring Materiality and Gesture Within Live Streaming Events
Symposium, Workshops, and Performances
November 9 and 10, 2012
Z-Lab, UC Berkeley and Embodied Media and Technology Lab, UC Irvine
Synopsis:
The Virtual Venues Symposium involves a series of dance performances, talks, and demonstrations connecting UC Irvine and UC...
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Voiceover Thoughts- inspired by filmmaker Jason...
During a recent recording session with The Defiance Project’s resident filmmaker Jason Segal, director Sophie Needelman reflected on the concept of defiance and the way it inspires the dance work she does within the scope of this company. Defiance is not just the product she strives for- it is the process through which she hopes to evoke change.
“Our dance is an expression of the relationships we...
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[New Work]- "This is What Space Sounds Like" and...
“This is What Space Sounds Like” (December 2012)—In conjunction with the Advanced Choreography class in UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Defiance Project has been exploring and creating a piece called The Whole of What Turns about sacredness, ritual, reincarnation, and legacy. In contrast to Sophie Needelman’s typical choreographic process, the emotional...
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[New Work]- Collaboration with UC Berkeley Art...
Title TBD: Collaboration with Erin Johnson (December 2012)— The Defiance Project director Sophie Needelman is in collaboration with UC Berkeley Art Practice Graduate Student Erin Johnson on a piece that explores the politics of San Francisco’s LGBT Archive through the metaphor of water. The constructs of the piece involve black trash bags filled with water that are then poked with pins to begin a...
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[New Work]- "Einstein on the Beach" Flasbmob
“Einstein on the Beach” Flashmob (October 2012)— In honor of the legendary opera Einstein on the Beach, The Defiance Project facilitated a flashmob that took place on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza. Various participants in the flashmob gathered for rehearsals and learned the choreography inspired by Lucinda Childs’ work in Einstein. This piece explored postmodern concepts of dance, musical...
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[New Work]- The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's "Game...
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s “Game of Life” (September 2012)—The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of San Diego holds an annual gala to raise money for vital research and treatment of Cystic FIbrosis affecting thousands of people a year. This year’s gala was themed “The Game of Life” and honored various scientists and advocates of preventative treatment of Cystic Fibrosis. The Defiance Project was...
October 2012
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Website Under Construction!
The Defiance Project website is under a bit of construction, so be sure to stay tuned for new content and materials coming soon!!
July 2012
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Infinite thanks for our successful summer!
The Defiance Project has had a beyond-successful summer of performances so far, and the fun has just begun! Our first annual Fundraiser and Performance went better than we could have ever imagined- a HUGE thank you to everyone who made the evening possible! Our performance, silent auction, and dessert feast were full of love and support from family, friends and fans. We are beyond grateful for...
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Fundraiser Event and Performance
Friday July 13th, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Studio Shu in Solana Beach
742 Genevieve St., Suite A, Solana Beach 92075
You are invited to The Defiance Project’s Fundraiser Performance and Silent Auction! This event will feature performances, superb silent auction items, delicious desserts, and more! It is with great pride that we debut our dance company, The Defiance Project, to our community of...
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Donate to The Defiance Project online →
Funds we raise will be put toward offsetting the cost of future performances, rental of rehearsal space, publicity and marketing materials, and more. Any donation makes a difference, and we are honored and grateful for the time you have spent taking to heart our cause of bringing dance to the level of defiance. Thank you for your continued support- financial and otherwise. Looking forward to the...
April 2012
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The Defiance Project Spring Preview: Little Italy...
The Defiance Project is pleased to announce that it will be performing in the Little Italy ArtWalk’s Dance on the Edge! This “event within an event” celebrates the dance community in San Diego by offering a full weekend of dance to the already thriving Little Italy ArtWalk community. This is a weekend-long event happening the last weekend in April, but The Defiance Project will...
March 2012
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January 2012
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philosophy behind the Project
Change
Movement is change; by moving we are changing. Even in a state of rest, our bodies move with pulse and breath; these movements are the foundation of life. Change is innate to our humanity and to our lived existence. Defiance is embracing oneself as a changing being- by changing oneself. Change, without judging change as progressive or regressive; it is merely a process and a product that...
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about the Project
The Defiance Project uses the creation, expression, practice, and performance of dance to explore what it means to defy. The company behind this project manifests defiance in both the form and function, and process and product of the work it does. This work examines Defiance as:
-Presence within and because of one’s physical being, as occupation of self through sought...
