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http://www.juliegayeravodah.blogspot.com/
Please visit the blog to read about current events, classes and residencies!

AVODAH RECEIVES GRANTS FOR 2007:

SPACE GRANT: A one year lease at Dance New Amsterdam as a part of DNA's Subsidized Administrative space program (SAS). Avodah is among 11 dance companies who will be supported by this program. Here is our new phone: 212-625-8369 ext. 286!!!!

GRANTS TO SUPPORT OUR PROGRAM IN WOMEN'S CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES:
J Walton Bissell Foundation in the amount of $10,000 for York Correctional Institution;
Marshall Reynolds Foundation in the amount of $15,000 for Baylor Correctional Facility in New Castle, DE.; Chester W. Kitchings Foundation in the amount of $5,000 for York
Correctional Insitution. Funding has also continued from the George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation.

We are very grateful for all of this support!!

JULIE GAYER IN FIT YOGA MAGAZINE

Avodah’s Artistic Director, Julie Gayer, model in Fit Yoga Magazine’s December 2007 issue. Julie was photographed for the “Back on Track” article (p.58). www.fityoga.com Robin Rothenberg is interviewed for the article. Julie and Robin will lead a Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica, March 15 -22, 2008. Read more about it at www.yogabarn.com/retreats.html

AVODAH FEATURED IN URJ:

Julie Gayer and Avodah are featured in The Jewish Parent Page of URJ, in the Passover Issue Dance and Movement.

EVENTS:

FALL 2007 HIGHLIGHTS

PERFORMANCES

On September 20th, Avodah performed at the JCC in West Orange, NJ as part of a Global Dance Series for the Wellness, Arts and Enrichment (WAE) Center of the Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled (JSDD). After participating in a workshop with Artistic Director Julie Gayer and dancer Sarah Zitnay, students from the WAE Center of the JSDD performed alongside Avodah dancers.

On November 18th, Avodah presented its New York Premiere of "What Comes to Light" as part of Waxworks at the Triskelion Arts Theater in Brooklyn! As a part of the Waxworks program, we received audience feedback that was very insightful and positive. Furthermore, Board Member Linda Kent attended rehearsals and generously offered her feedback! Thank you so much Linda for your mentoring!

On December 9th,  Avodah performed a “Hanukah Blessing Dance” on the Lower East Side as a part of The Shul Band of New York's Hanukah Concert at the Angel Orensanz  Foundation (a unique and magnificent venue)! Avodah looks forward to collaborating with the Shul Band of New York in the future.

TEACHING

From Nov 1st  - 4th, Julie Gayer was a one-woman show in Ann Arbor, Michigan, presenting a weekend of workshops for all ages of the Jewish community there. She taught teachers, students, and congregants different ways to incorporate movement into their services and classes. The workshops shared movement ideas based on the theme of Shabbat as well as a Dance Midrash session based on Founding Director, JoAnne Tucker’s work detailed in the book she co-authored, Torah in Motion. There was so much positive feedback from the teachers and the community in Ann Arbor! Special thanks so much to JoAnne Tucker and Board Member Kezia Gleckman Hayman for their mentoring and input that was incredibly helpful in Julie’s workshops and teaching!

SPRING 2008: 

RESIDENCIES AT WOMEN’S CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS - Plans are being finalized for Avodah’s seventh annual weeklong residency at York Correctional Institution (York CI) in Niantic, CT and fifth annual weeklong residency at Baylor Correctional Institution for Women in New Castle, DE.  In the spring of 2008, Avodah Dance Ensemble will visit these institutions to lead dance residencies for women in both education departments. New to this year’s program will be special extended workshops for women in the Mental Health Unit and Youth Offenders at York CI.