About Spank

Repertory

Performances

Video

CCDMA/Classes

Links

If you are visiting this site and are disabled and would like to know if classes and performances can be accessible to you, contact Ellen and we will work with the following organizations to make your experience happen

VSA Arts of Texas

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up next!

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New work

watch on you tube rehearsal

at Tapestry studio.

Reaching Counting Backwards 1-2-6-1, and Thollem McDonas

3 new dances by Ellen Bartel

dancers: Ellen Bartel, Ellen Hauck, Katherine Hodges,

Caroline Sutton Clark , Janine Ploetz, Maggie Wilhite, Dawnerin Wilkinson

Caroline group

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photos Matthew Young

Performed one night only in a shared evening with

Pianist Thollem McDonas (from San Francisco and all over)

Thollem on You Tube

thollem

at St. David's Episcopal Church on 8th and San Jacinto

Monday, Nov 10 @ 8:00pm- Bethell Hall

Cost: $12- $20

On sale at the door 7:00pm

(Sorry, no credit cards.)

St David's

 

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On going monthy performance

Butoh: danse macabre

8:00pm Free shows

@ Austin Figurative Gallery

next show: Friday, November 28

Watch a video of our September 26, 2008 show: you tube

chron March 30th review of "Alter Ego" Butoh performance

performers: Mari Akita, Ellen Bartel & Caroline Sutton Clark

Butoh is the dance of transformation.

 

Butoh is a contemporary avant-garde dance form which originated in Japan and which was first performed there in 1959. It combines dance, theater, improvisation and influences of Japanese traditional performing arts with German Expressionist dance (Neue Tanz) and performance art to create a unique performing art form that is both controversial and universal in its expression. It has evolved to become an international art form with artists and groups devoted to teaching and performing it all over the world

This is a Spank Dance production in collaboration with the Austin Figurative Gallery

 

CE1

Feb. 29

fusebox

 

April 25, Ellen, Mari and Caroline photo's by Scott Ewen

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May 30, Horse Barn Caroline, David, Ellen

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June 27 Mari at: a. Office Space hallway

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ON DECK!

Spank Dance at First Night Austin

Big Range applications

Dance Carousel

 

 

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All SDC projects are funded and supported in part by the Austin Community Foundation, the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

 

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