Several Dancers Core’s series “Lunchtime in the Studio”
begins for the 2006-07 Season

Atlanta—August 1, 2006— Join “Atlanta’s best known contemporary dance company” (AJC) for lunch! Several Dancers Core is pleased to announce the opening installment of this seventh season of our popular free lunchtime performances, “Lunchtime in the Studio.” Opening the studio doors and inviting audiences into the creative process, “Lunchtime in the Studio” has been called “a close-up and personal look at how contemporary dance is crafted and performed” (AJC). The first of Several Dancers Core’s “Lunchtime” events for the 2006-07 Season will take place on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. at Several Dancers Core Studios, 139 Sycamore Street, on the Square in Downtown Decatur. Admission is free, and free lunch from a local restaurant and coffee from Starbucks Decatur are provided to the first 40 audience members.

“Lunchtime in the Studio” offers a free “backstage pass” and complimentary lunch to audience members who witness and participate in the internationally acclaimed collaborative process of CORE Performance Company. Visitors have a chance to deepen their experience of watching dance, by learning about the creative process that takes place here in the Decatur studio, where the company creates the shows they take on tour nationally and internationally.

The September “Lunchtime” topic is “Meet CORE Performance Company.” The event gives community members and visitors an opportunity to meet the exceptionally talented artists of CORE Performance Company and to experience behind-the-scenes aspects of the company’s work with “no straining and craning from 20 rows back in a breezy auditorium.”

Founded as a small performance group in 1980 by Sue Schroeder and Kathy Russell, over 26 years Several Dancers Core has grown into a multifaceted dance organization spanning two cities and generating connections throughout the world. Several Dancers Core has built a sustainable arts organization which provides opportunities, programs and support for artists, students and populations at-risk. The philosophy of Several Dancers Core centers on a commitment to fostering creativity and to experiencing the power of dance as a method of deepening the experience of the present and re-envisioning the future.

“Lunchtime in the Studio” occurs the 3rd Wednesday of alternating months throughout the season, beginning with this event on September 20. The other Lunchtime events this season will take place on November 8 (early to preview a premiere that weekend), January 17, March 21 and May 16. For more information about this and other upcoming events, please contact Several Dancers Core at (404) 373-4154 or visit www.severaldancerscore.org.

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CORE Performance Company, the professional touring company of Several Dancers Core, focuses on the ongoing development of the artistic process through the creation of new work. Made up of individual artists, the company performs new choreography that evolves through an intentional collaboration of experimentation and improvisation with artists from different mediums.

Committed for 26 years to innovation, risk and collaboration, Several Dancers Core (SDC), a nonprofit dance organization, creates, performs, and presents contemporary dance. SDC promotes dance awareness and education through performances, presentations, workshops, and classes in contemporary approaches to movement and is dedicated to opening new channels of communication between artists and the community. For more information about Several Dancers Core, please call 404-373-4154 or visit www.severaldancerscore.org.

Several Dancers Core’s “Lunchtime in the Studio” series is supported in part by appropriations from DeKalb County Board of Commissioners and DeKalb County Office of Arts, Culture & Entertainment, and by Starbucks Decatur. Several Dancers Core is supported by AirTran Airways, the Pattillo Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Alternate ROOTS, and by a grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriation of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Note: For interview requests, contact Claire Horn, 404-373-4154 or claireh at severaldancerscore.org.