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| About Immersion Dance Company |
| Since 2004, Immersion Dance Company has been committed to creating dances that impact a wide range of audiences. This highly moving female group displays an emotional and powerful interpretation of dance. Collaboratively, they create art with an energy that brings something unique and innovative to the stage. Immersion presents an annual concert in the Hillwood Recital Hall of Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. This is where they held their concert debut Inventing Dimensions (2004), followed by Extra ORDINARY People (2005), Skimming the Surface (2006), and Conversations (2008). In March 2006, Immersion successfully turned a dance studio into a theater, complete with curtains and lighting, presenting Movement Frenzy: A Night for Merging Styles with guest dancers from The Dance Depot. Since July 2006, their annual summer performance is presented in the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport's Summer Concert Series. In December 2006, Immersion held two full program performances hosted by The Tank in New York City. In September 2007, Immersion premiered Conversations in the 1st Annual New England Fringe Festival and received the Producer's Award in recognition of their performance. Immersion's New York premiere of Conversations was held at the Jericho Public Library in December 2007. In September 2008, they were featured as dancers and choreographers in the multi-media collaborative production of ARTmosphere presented by The Artist's Group and held in the Concert Hall of Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. Following ARTmosphere, Immersion traveled to Boston, Massachusetts to perform Conversations in the 2nd Annual New England Fringe Festival. Immersion closed out their 2008 season by performing in the Faculty Benefit Dance Concert supporting the Dance Department of Long Island University, C.W. Post. Most recently, Immersion has premiered their season of Transcending Roads at the Jericho Public Library in March 2009. Immersion made their international debut in the International Choreographers' Showcase presented by Dance-Forms Productions at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2006. Immersion featured three pieces in six consecutive shows at the Roxy Art House. In July 2008, Immersion performed for enthusiastic audiences at the 22nd Annual World Dance Conference in Athens, Greece and the 41st International Choreographers' Showcase in Giovinazzo di Bari, Italy. Immersion has taken part in Tilles Center Performance PLUS! events with a special outdoor performance before Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a lecture/demonstration prior to Pilobolus Dance Theater, and a collaboration with Troika Ranch Digital Dance Theater as a pre-show to Savion Glover. Every year, Immersion auditions their work to be showcased throughout New York City. They have been featured in Dance New Amsterdam's Works in Progress Performance Series, Oasis Festival hosted by Chashama, Hatch Presenting Series with Jennifer Muller/The Works, Rhythms Showcase and Stripped Boundaries hosted by eyeBLINK. Members of Immersion were also invited to perform with Deborah Maudlin, President of the American Dance Guild, in her piece Pillars of Creation presented in the American Dance Guild 2008 Performance Festival held at the Mary Anthony Dance Theatre. Immersion gives back to their supporting community by teaching workshops and participating in charitable events. They have educated students in different styles of dance throughout Long Island and Queens. They have given a three day lecture on the history of Martha Graham for the Hutton House Lectures at Lorber Hall on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. They have also participated in The Big Read Finale Performance (an initiative of the NEA designed to bring reading to the center of American culture), Support a Dream fundraiser, Dance Relief (Hurricane Katrina benefit), Making Strides (breast cancer research fundraiser), and the Making Strides against Breast Cancer Walk of Brooklyn, New York. |