Dance Crawl

Ali is a former dancer with Menlowe Ballet in Menlo Park, CA and an independent choreographer currently residing in Maui, HI. She is the founding director and choreographer for CRAFT Dance Series (est. 2015).Her formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Dance from Stanford University (2011) and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of California, Irvine (2014). She has studied with master teachers such as Kristine Elliott, Diane Frank, Muriel Maffre, Tong Wang, Diane Diefenderfer, and Loretta Livingston and has danced works by Donald McKayle, Robert Moses, Greg Dawson, Amy Seiwert, Jodie Gates, Garen Scribner, Quinn Wharton, and Lisa Naugle. She has received awards in the academic and dance field including the Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts, the UC Institute for Research in the Arts Grant, Stanford Award of Excellence, and the UC Irvine Graduate Fellowship.In 2015, she founded the Ali McKeon Dance Project and its annual project CRAFT Dance Series. The project is an intensive, two-week experimental choreographic lab led by artistic director Ali McKeon. The project's mission is to cultivate a collaborative, high-stakes, time-sensitive environment in order to produce works that are instinctive and raw; and at the same time cohesive, imaginative, grand. For more information about this project, please visitwww.craftseries.org.Along with her direction of CRAFT dance series and other professional contracts, she is an active member of the larger Bay Area community participating in various independent projects with filmmakers, fashion designers, and other choreographers. She has been invited as a guest lecturer and senior mentor at Stanford University and West Valley College and has set original works on the students at both institutions.

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Small Town Big Art presents Adaptations Dance Theater Dance Crawl

<h2>Summary:</h2><p>The Wailuku Dance Crawl is a live, outdoor performance event in which socially distanced, pre-registered participants are led through five distinct Wailuku Town locations to experience the work of Adaptations Dance Theater.</p><h2>Mission:</h2><p>Adaptations Dance Theater hopes to facilitate community engagement  with Wailuku through the evocative art of dance, to set up the potential for tangible connections through a unique experience, and to give both dance and Wailuku Town the chance to be redefined in the eyes of the general public: to be seen as accessible, approachable, and engaging.</p><h2>Performance Date and Times</h2><p>This is an outdoor, all-ages event that will take place on Saturday, August 28th from 4:00-6:00p. Three rounds of the same show will be performed that evening, accommodating three groups of 15 audience members, totaling 45 viewers for the evening.</p><h3>Show times:</h3><ul><li>4:00-4:25 PM </li><li>4:45-5:10 PM</li><li>5:30-5:55 PM</li></ul><h3>Check-in:</h3><p>Please check in at the front of  33 Market Street in Wailuku. </p><h2>COVID-19 Protocols</h2><p>In order to best support our community and individuals&#x27; choices in their healthcare decisions, all attendees and participants are required to provide a physical copy of: </p><ol><li>Proof of vaccination upon checkin OR</li><li>Proof of a negative COVID-19 test upon checkin taken within 72 hrs of the start of the performance for which they are registered. A valid COVID-19 test is a SARS-CoV-2 viral test: either nucleic acid amplification (NAATs), including PCR, or antigen test. The test must show a negative or &quot;not found&quot; result.</li></ol><p>Upon confirmation of the above physical documentation at checkin, audience members will be given wristbands to signal to business owners and dancers that they are Wailuku Dance Crawl participants. </p><h2>Learn More</h2><p>Check out <a href="https://www.smalltownbig.org/adt.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.smalltownbig.org/adt.html</a> to access developing conversations, press, photos, and the final documentary on this performance.</p>

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