Agency Details:

Jane Franklin Dance celebrates movement and makes dance accessible to a wide range of audiences through community engagement, dance education, and collaborations with artists from other disciplines.

Description:
Jane Franklin Dance combines dance with digital and visual arts, neighborhood participation, and original music. Jane Franklin Dance was named The Best Dance Company in The Washington City Paper Best of DC 2008 and has earned recognition in the Washington DC metro area by promoting active participation in dance by people of all ages. The company has been presented at numerous state and regional venues including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Booth Playhouse in Charlotte NC, and the International Dance Festival in NYC. Jane Franklin Dance made its international debut in 2008 at Foro Performatica a conference/festival at the Universidad Las Americas Puebla Mexico with Temporal Interference, a media and dance collaboration, which was consequently performed at the College of Arts and Media at University of Colorado Denver. Dance education includes performances and workshops for Montgomery County Public Schools and for Arlington's Humanities Project. A STAR Award recipient for "Outstanding Community Outreach," Ongoing projects include work with the Senior Adult community and after school projects for youth. Jane Franklin Dance tours for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Paul Mellon Arts in Education Program and the Virginia Commission's Tour Directory.

Jane Franklin Dance is supported in part by Arlington County through the Cultural Affairs Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources and the Arlington Commission for the Arts; by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts; Arlington Community Foundation; by Alexandria Commission for the Arts, Washington Forrest Foundation, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Paul Mellon Arts in Education Program and by individual contributors.

Workshops for Senior Adults welcome participants into the healthful and vital benefits of active participation.

After School Workshops take children on a creative journey to the understanding of basic dance elements.

Forty + plus is a performing group of older adults committed to the joy of movement past the age of 40.

School Performances delve into curriculum objectives in an interactive, fun, and educational way.
Jazz on Foot traces jazz music from its African roots in 19th century New Orleans, through the northward migration to New York's Harlem Renaissance, to the Bebop era of the 1950’s.

Very Physical Science dances through Science SOL's potential and kinetic energy, simple machines, gravity-equilibrium-inertia, and the states of matter.

Woods and Wilds explores science and environment using a life size kinetic sculpture that the dancers manipulate on stage.
Young Dancers Project for ages 7-14 develops creative and critical skills along with physical and kinetic abilities

Adult Dance Technique is a delicious practice that assimilates and refines movement.

Adult Repertory welcomes anyone of any age to join in with company members to create new repertory for the stage.


Jane Franklin’s choreography is full of arresting visual pictures….gentle tugging at the fabric of space and time.
Washington City Paper
Recent repertory:
"Breaking Ground" a dance and video project inspired by round wall skateboarding and is made possible in part by a grant from the Creative Communities Fund of the The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, a grantmaking program of the Creative Communities Initiative.

• In Hiding uses fabric panels, shadow, and the human form. Animated projections alternately reveal and conceal the performers, becoming both a barrier and a passageway to presence.

In "Incidence" the music and dance meet by coincidence and are dependent upon the turn of the installation to explore the non-linear trajectory of chance. "Incidence" was selected by the Cultural Development Corporation for the 08-09 Season at the Mead Theater Lab Program at Flashpoint, 916 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C

History:
"deeply attuned not just to the bodies onstage but the space they move in, the sounds they move to." The Washington Post Express
The Arlington Va - based dance company is known for its lively mix of dance, theater and humor and for the ability to engage and inspire community populations of all ages. Jane Franklin Dance brings their friendly mix to the development of educational programs and performances that combine specific populations with professional dancers.

Contact people:

Jane Franklin, Artistic Director, (703) 298-3235, (email) Fiona Green, Marketing Director, (703) 933-1111, (email)

Address:

3700 S Four Mile Run Drive Arlington, VA 22206 (See a map)

Directions:

From Washington DC or Maryland: * Take 395 South * Take Exit 7 - Shirlington / Glebe Road and remain in the left lane of the exit - overhead sign is marked "Shirlington". * After passing below overpass, bear to the right to. . . (more)   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Crystal City, Pentagon City Mall,   Walk distance (in minutes): 45 minutes   Nearest Bus Stop: Shirlington and S Four Mile Run Drive, 5 minute walk