Anima Dance

["Rachel Brooker" <brooker.rachel@gmail.com>]

I'm having three events in North Carolina while I'm here this month: the US premiere of Invitation and two Dance for Peace events. Details follow. I look forward to seeing my old friends and supporters who don't usually make it to my shows in Berlin! ;)
For more: www.animadance.org.

Rachel


NC's Own Comes Home!

North Carolina native Rachel Brooker has been casting her choreographic nets in Europe for the past two years, based in Berlin, Germany. This winter she pays a visit home to show what she's experienced. She's holding three events in the Triangle this month:

Thursday, January 24th- 7-10pm- Invitation, the US premiere of Brooker's new audience-interactive group piece, at
The Scrap Exchange Gallery, 548 Foster Street, Durham, NC, 


www.scrapexchange.org
Donations will be collected for the Central Asia Institute, an organization building schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan, http://www.ikat.org
For more on 
Invitation see below.

Friday, January 25th- 4:30 pm- Dance for Peace in Chapel Hill
Corner of Franklin and Elliot Streets (near Whole Foods)

Saturday, January 26th- 12:00 pm- Dance for Peace
 in Durham
Corner of Main and Gregson Streets
Dance for Peace is a led dance event on these dates only at the weekly demonstration against the war in Iraq. If you are interested in participating, wear white. Or, just come support the demonstration and enjoy the dance!

Invitation 
Invitation is an interactive dance work which opens with the words: "This is an invitation to touch anywhere on exposed skin.  You are free to touch, or not to touch. Please enter the space." Dancers arrange and rearrange themselves, offering and withdrawing parts of the body as they compose their invitations to the audience. In the words of reviewer Adam Bliss, "As I moved about the installation, I was struck by the tenderness and intense concentration shared by dancers and touchers alike" (complete article attached). The work reveals, challenges and overcomes personal barriers. Donations collected at the January 24th event will be given to the Central Asia Institute, an organization that crosses national, cultural and religious borders by building schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Dance for Peace
Brooker will lead a small group of dancers and anyone else who is interested in joining in a simple but expressive movement exercise at the two peace demonstrations taking place in the Triangle on January 25th and 26th. No dance experience is necessary to participate! Just come wearing white if you'd like to join in. When asked about her motivations for holding these 
Dance for Peace events, Brooker says:

 "Around the time of the Iraq invasion, hundreds of people were coming to the weekly demonstrations in Durham, and it was a relief to me to be able to gather with others and express my opposition to the war. The demonstrations have continued without interruption since 2003, but the numbers are tiny now. I know opposition to the war is still out there and growing. I've been living overseas for two years and feel like I've been able to recharge my batteries in that time. So, I'd like to give some of my energy to the peace movement here."

For more information visit www.animadance.org or email brooker.rachel@gmail.com.


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