Free dance performance and free lunch at
Several Dancers Core’s “Lunchtime in the Studio”

Atlanta—November 1, 2007— Join “Atlanta’s best known contemporary dance company” (AJC) for lunch! Several Dancers Core is pleased to announce the opening installment of this eighth 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). “Lunchtime in the Studio” continues at its newer time this season; the events will take place on the first Friday of every other month during CORE Performance Company’s season. The second of Several Dancers Core’s “Lunchtime” events for the 2007-08 Season will take place on Friday, December 7, 2007 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 will be provided by Brick Store Pub along with coffee from Starbucks Decatur, 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 December “Lunchtime” topic is “The Commissioning Project.” CORE Performance Company has begun work with international guest choreographers Alicia Sánchez from Mexico and Beppie Blankert from the Netherlands on new commissioned dances that will premiere next season. We will screen “The Found Step,” a short documentary film about the process of creating these new dances made by our Company Manager, D. Patton White. 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 27 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 1st Friday of alternating months throughout the season. The 2 remaining Lunchtime events this season will take place on February 1, 2008 and April 4, 2008. 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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Committed since 1980 to innovation, risk-taking and collaboration, Several Dancers Core, a professional dance organization, creates, performs, and presents contemporary dance. With homes in Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas, the organization promotes dance awareness and education through performances, presentations, workshops, and classes in contemporary approaches to movement. 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 Raging Burrito, Noodle, Brick Store Pub, Johnny’s Pizza and Starbucks Decatur. Several Dancers Core is supported by AirTran Airways, the Pattillo Foundation, the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund 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.