Chamber Dance Is The Ultimate Artistic Summer Job
metroweekly.comNutcracker break, or in the summer, when all of the companies shut down and there’s this whole industry’s worth of ballet-trained, high-performing dancers who are just out of work.
And everybody has to scatter to the winds to find projects.”Palkens has been dancing with Chamber Dance Project for the past few years.
In that time he’s learned a lot more than simply new dance moves. He’s helped to fine-tune new work through interaction with fledgling choreographers as commissioned by the company. “[Chamber Dance] so committed to new work, to creating dance, [that] instead of just showing up and being told, ‘Here are your steps, this is what you do,’ you show up and you are a part of the process, and you create new ballets and you work with choreographers.”Bruning has gravitated toward the new when pursuing artistic collaborators.
This has led to new works, pointing the way to new genres beyond the typical work of dance theater.“At this point in my career — and I don’t mean this offhandedly — I don’t have anything to lose,” says Bruning. “So why play it safe?
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