Tobacco Road Dance Productions
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Modern dance contemporary dance postmodern dance |
| Founded 📆 | 2013 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | Durham, North Carolina United States |
Area served 🗺️ | Research Triangle |
Key people | Jess Shell Lindsay Winthrop |
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| 🌐 Website | tobaccoroaddance.org |
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Tobacco Road Dance Productions, or TRDP, is a dance organization and production company based in Durham, North Carolina. The organization provides a mentorship program, workshop and rehearsal space, and production and performance opportunities for local dancers and choreographers in the Research Triangle.
History[edit]
Tobacco Road Dance Productions was founded in 2013 by Stephanie Blackmon Woodbeck, a dance graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and William Commander, a dance graduate from Elon University.[1] The organization was founded as a means to provide an opportunity for local contemporary dance artists to create work and present it to the community.[2][3] Tobacco Road began with a six-month season hosting workshops and panel meetings with choreographers who had been offered residency to provide feedback on their work.[4] At the end of the season, Tobacco Road would produce a dance concert to showcase the choreographers' works.[2][5]
In 2018 Jess Shell and Lindsay Winthrop, both MFA dance graduates from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, took over leadership as co-directors and co-owners of Tobacco Road after Woodbeck and Commander announced the possibility of ending the project.[6] Under their leadership, Tobacco Road changed it's season from six months to nine months.[7]
In January 2019, Indy Week listed the Tobacco Road dance concert in its Top 15 Theater and Dance Shows of 2018.[8]
Mission[edit]
Tobacco Road hosts an artistic panel, consisting of new panelists each season, that provides feedback to choreographers who are producing work through the organization. Choreographers who are selected via an application process and are given residency for a nine-month season.[3] Tobacco Road partners with the American Dance Festival, the North Carolina Dance Alliance, and Ninth Street Dance to provide subsidized rehearsal and workshop space for the choreographers. The organization also provides free advertising, marketing, and production as well as artistic coaching for local artists. At the end of each season, the works are presented at Tobacco Road Dance Productions: In Concert, a dance concert produced at the Durham Art's Council's PSI Theatre.[2] The concert provides a free venue, theatrical designers, technicians, and stage crew for choreographers in residence.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ "TRDP Founders". Tobacco Road Dance Productions.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "What is TRDP?". Tobacco Road Dance Productions.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.heraldsun.com/entertainment/article143995579.html
- ↑ Woods, Byron (April 18, 2018). "Kristin Clotfelter's Pensive Dance with Cardboard Boxes and Other Highlights of Tobacco Road's Annual Showcase". INDY Week.
- ↑ Woods, Byron (August 27, 2014). "New organizations support the Triangle's indie dance community this fall". INDY Week.
- ↑ "New Page". Tobacco Road Dance Productions.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Woods, Byron (May 1, 2019). "Tobacco Road Dance Productions Turns Over a New Leaf". INDY Week.
- ↑ Deans, Brian Howe, Byron Woods, Khayla (January 2, 2019). "Our Top 15 Theater and Dance Shows of 2018". INDY Week.
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