Performances


Jane Franklin Dance creative process involves artistic partnerships with visual, media, and music artists or community participants. The goal to connect performer and audience has led to community participation as an outgrowth of work that acknowledges ordinary experience. The performance site may be outside of theatrical settings or include the outdoors as subject.

3.1.2010 Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue – Jane Franklin profile

Outside/In
–Minds Wide Open – Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts
April 10 at 8 pm

April 11 at 2 pm

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company,
641 D Street NW, Washington DC

Jane Franklin Dance performs at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D Street NW, WDC on Saturday April 10 at 8 pm and Sunday April 11 at 2 pm in Outside/IN. Tickets are available in advance online at www.janefranklin.com or by phone at 703.933.1111.  Reduced price tickets are on sale for the Sunday matinee performance.

Outside/IN – gathers together dynamic female performers and distinctive female music, media and visual artists for “Minds Wide Open” Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts .

Indistinct Boundaries, media by Bryan Leister. The sound is created electronically and the visual elements exist only in the 3-dimensional space of computer assisted design.  The piece is inspired by both ancient and contemporary culture, drawing from the Sufi mystic traditions of repetitive sound and motion.
News from our collaborator, Bryan Leister — “Indistinct Boundaries Movement 4 and Indistinct Boundaries Movement 2 were both selected for the 34th Atlanta Film Festival. This piece was a collaborative piece created for the Jane Franklin Dance performance Indistinct Boundaries.  The Atlanta Film Festival typically receives over 1700 entries from more than 75 countries, I am very pleased that these two films were selected for screening.”

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The Floor is Sticky, by Washington DC poet Kim Roberts translates that same phrase (The Floor is Sticky) into German, French, Alsatian, etc. or ‘every language in which its countrymen (its women) drink beer in bars.

Of Bones & Bridges – Four Mile Run is a stream that serves a 20 mile square area in Northern Virginia.  No longer a natural stream, eight of the 20 square miles is paved or covered with buildings.  Novie Trump, a Northern Virginia sculptor whose work is in public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, has created a bridge and porcelain bones.  The bridge is symbol of the urbanization of Four Mile Run and is transformed to represent the communities that can be connected by the lingering natural beauty and the inherent attraction of water.

Remnants of houses and sheds are discernible at Zenda, a settlement formed after the Civil War by newly freed slaves.  Long’s Chapel served as both a school and church for the community and stands as a reminder of the transition of African slaves to American citizens.  Zenda features art by James Madison University’s Susan Zurbrigg and was recently premiered at Court Square Theatre in Harrisonburg.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
641 D Street, NW, Washington DC, Metro: Gallery Place, Archives-Navy Memorial
April 10 at 8 pm and April 11 at 2 pm
Info and Tickets by phone 703-933-1111

$28 General Admission
$25 students/seniors
$16 under 17
$22 Sunday matinee -Reduced price ticket by phone or online

Paul Gillis Photography art by Novie Trump


General Admission – $28
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Senior Adult age 65 & Student under 20 – $25
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Child under 17 years – $16
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Sunday Matinee – $22 Reduced price ticket available online or by phone

PLEASE BRING YOUR PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE BOX OFFICE.
The ’shipping’ fee attached to your purchase is a service fee.  All tickets can be picked up at the box office.
There are no refunds on ticket purchases.

**A Washington Post Magazine Going Out Guide Best Bet! -

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Zip Through a Tight Space
May 16 at 7 pm

silent auction, food, fun – a fundraiser for Jane Franklin Dance
Arlington Arts Center

3550 Wilson Blvd, Arlington

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March 17 at 12 noon: Happenings at Harman, Harman Center for the Arts, Washington DC FREE

April 25 at 3 pm: of Bones & Bridges, Holmes Run Greenway – at Holmes Run Parkway & N Ripley Street, Alexandria – a FREE outdoor event.

April 28 at 7 pm: Torpedo Factory Art Center FREE

May 8 at 2 pm: Central Library, Arlington FREE – a performance/workshop by Forty +

“Jane Franklin Dance has a wealth of experience exploring the intersection between dance and performance art. Last year’s Temporal Interference featured three dancers stepping gracefully around a hulking sculpture, triggering changes to the soundtrack in real time. With Incidence, the area’s most forward-thinking troupe revisits the same questions” – Washington City Paper 11.4.08