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See NJN Public Television's coverage of the
2009 Garden State Dance Festival
Friday, April 17th, 2009 @ 8:30 pm!

The 2009 Garden State Dance Festival presents

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          “A melting pot of cultural dance, contemporary ballet,
                        modern, jazz, tap, and hip-hop”

 

           Critics rave – “An exciting dance event – not to be missed.”

 

Read what The Star Ledger writes:

South Jersey festival has glossy new digs

by Robert Johnson/The Star-Ledger

Suzy Zucker didn't know how long she had been holding her breath, but she knew the time had come to exhale.

Zucker, 55, directs the annual Garden State Dance Festival, which commissions work from emerging choreographers and imports dance companies from Philadelphia and New York to South Jersey.

The festival has acquired a prestigious new venue. For its ninth edition, performances are moving out of the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood into the sleek premises of the Walter K. Gordon Theatre at Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts.

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Philadelphia Inquirer reviews the
                          2009 Dance Festival:

Emerging dancers, proven choreographers

By Merilyn Jackson for The Inquirer

 

The 16 dance numbers in the 2009 Garden State Dance Festival's two-weekend run at Rutgers-Camden's Walter K. Gordon Theater offer a kaleidoscopic glimpse of what emerging dancers can do when matched with established choreographers. Several of the works in last weekend's opener were highly polished, mobile - and as colorful as stained glass.

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The GSDF dancers and these exciting guest artists:

M. Stuart Dance Theatre                   www.mstuartdancetheatre.com   
    a cutting-edge blend of dynamic partnering, theater, and
    contemporary technique.

Ballet Noir   
    A culturally diverse contemporary dance company with

    breath taking skills of virtuosity.

Freespace Dance                                      www.freespacedance.com
    Modern Dance works that can be gentle or physically aggressive,

    but are always profoundly sexy

Brian Sanders JUNK'                                  www.briansandersjunk.com
    Always electrifying, brilliant in his scope and imagination,

    you never know what to expect!

Alchemy Dance Company                           www.alchemydance.org
    An emerging modern dance company, which can be fun

    playful and serious all at the same time.

Moe-tion Dance Theater                           www.motiondancetheater.org
    Hillarious, intense and satisfying physicality

Camille A. Brown                                       www.camilleabrown.org
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Funding has been made possible in part by the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/ Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Click to watch a short video of the 2008 Performance

       

 

 

The Garden State Dance Festival's goal...

 

    To give emerging and established choreographers and dancers a venue in which to share their visions and talent in an artistic atmosphere.
  
    Our vision is to expand and encompass a variety of artists and art     forms

             Suzy Zucker,
             Garden State Dance Festival Founder/Artistic Director

 

 

  
 
The Garden State Dance Festival,  a non-profit organization