CORE Performance Company premieres site-based dance
at the Bayou City Art Festival Downtown
March 24-26, 2007

Houston—January 23, 2007—The Art Colony Association, Inc. and Several Dancers Core present the premiere of a new site-specific dance work by CORE Performance Company at the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park, Friday, March 24th through Sunday, March 26th, 2006, beginning at 2 p.m. each day. The original piece, created especially for this festival, will appear within, around and through the festival, on the grounds of Memorial Park located at 6501 Memorial Drive. CORE Performance Company will unleash its dynamic and unique movement sense using the natural environment of Memorial Park as its stage, allowing the audience to re-envision the space around them through dance.
CORE Performance Company’s performance marks the eleventh commission by the Art Colony Association Inc. of CORE’s original, zany, whimsical and sometimes poignant site-specific performance work. More than 230,000 Bayou City Art Festival attendees have been surprised, humored, thrilled and moved to participate in CORE Performance Company’s creations in recent years.
Held every March, the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park welcomes the arrival of the spring season and, together with the fall festival Downtown, have created a Houston Fine Art tradition. The performances are free with festival admission. Tickets to the festival: Adults$10/Children under 12 Free. For more information call 713-521-0133 or visit www.bayoucityartfestival.com

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Several Dancers Core is home to the internationally acclaimed CORE Performance Company known for its riveting, passionate and unique work. Made up of individual artists, the company performs new choreography that evolves through experimentation, improvisation, and collaborations with artists from different mediums. For more information about CORE Performance Company and Several Dancers Core, please call 713-862-5530 or visit www.severaldancerscore.org. Several Dancers Core is proud to be a Charity Partner of the 2006 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park.

Several Dancers Core’s 26th Season is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the Pattillo Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Endowment Inc., and AirTran Airways.

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