{"id":77,"date":"2018-05-29T18:14:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:45:09","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/?page_id=77","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Summer, Fall, 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><strong>September 5 &amp; 6<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong>Music and Dance Performance by Locomotors, and Public Workshop<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>Locomotors ensemble: Dawn Pratson and Michael Joviala, with special guests Sarah Slifer Swift, dance, and Derick Merlander, visual artist. <strong>Windhover Center for the Performing Arts<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>257 R. Granite Street, Rockport, MA<\/li>\n<li>Friday, September 5, 2025, 8pm<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Windhover-Locomotors-PR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click Here<\/strong><\/a> for Details in the Press Release<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Windhover-Poster-3-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong> for Poster<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The following day, Saturday, September 6<sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, the artists lead a public workshop on improvised movement and music from 1-4 pm<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<p><strong>MAGMA\u2014Movement Arts Gloucester, MA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<p>The workshop is open to participants of all levels, and will be followed by an informal, free performance at MAGMA at 7:00 in the evening.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/magma-loco-workshop-sept2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click Here<\/strong><\/a> for Workshop Details<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<h3>&#8230;<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6 class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">July 28\u201331<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>7th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">University of Luxembourg, Germany<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dawn chaired a roundtable on DEI in Dalcroze training and practice and performed a well-received dancing-speaking-singing duet with colleague Loretta Fois<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalcroze-studies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click Here<\/strong><\/a> for the Conference Website<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Summer, Fall, 2024<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dawn attended, taught and performed at the Dalcroze Society of America conference at Oberlin College in June.<\/li>\n<li>Dawn taught adults movement technique and created choreography to the music of Aaron Copland at the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement in Dallas, TX in July.<\/li>\n<li>Dawn taught a dance class on \u201ccomplex meter\u201d through Philly Dance Class Share, August and September<\/li>\n<li>Dawn\u2019s choreography that she directed in February, 2024, called \u201cAn Ever-Changing Smile,\u201d to the music of Bobby McFerrin, will be shown at the MAGMA showcase, on September 12, in Gloucester, MA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Tint and Texture: Dances Made for the Moment<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Saturday, February 24, 2024,<\/strong> 7:00 pm, MAGMA, 11 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, Admission: $15<br \/><strong>For event information, <a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tint-and-Texture.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.<\/a> For our Press Release, <a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2024-PRESS-RELEASE-tint-and-texture.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-618 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-26-at-3.34.20-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-26-at-3.34.20-PM.png 752w, https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-26-at-3.34.20-PM-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>Locomotors in Brooklyn<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>October 27, 2023, <\/strong>7:00 pm, at The Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217<\/p>\n<p>Michael Joviala, Marty Ehrlich, music and Dawn Pratson, dance<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Loft Concert<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>October 14, 2023, 7:30 pm, <\/strong>in Old City, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>An evening of dance and music with dancer-musician duos Christina Gesualdi and Jesse Kudler and <em>Locomotors<\/em> (Dawn Pratson and Michael Joviala)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reservations required as space is limited. For more event information,<a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/loft-concert-flyer.pdf\"> click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For our Press Release, <a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Press-Release-Philly.pdf\">click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Becoming More Yourself<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>May 2023, Dawn Pratson, Michael Joviala and Michele Herman in Conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><i>&#8220;For about 2 years, Dawn Pratson (dance and choreography) and I (piano and composition) have been meeting every week through Zoom to improvise together. Dawn usually leads us both in a physical warm-up. Eventually I wander over to the piano and start to play\u2026&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Becoming-More-Yourself_QA-Discussion.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8230;<\/div>\n<h3><strong>The Philadelphia Matter<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>September 2020, <\/strong><em><a class=\"tribe-event-url\" title=\"Sprout! A Full Length Not-A-Ballet\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/455558842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\">The Philadelphia Matter<\/a><\/em>\u2014Dawn danced in this production which was a featured part of the 2020 Philadelphia Live Arts festival and made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/01\/arts\/dance\/best-dance.html\">New York Times&#8217; Best Dance of 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-332 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chair-combo-copy-1024x549.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chair-combo-copy-1024x549.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chair-combo-copy-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chair-combo-copy-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dawnpratson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/chair-combo-copy.jpg 1357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>&#8230;<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dawn\u2019s main instruments are flute and recorder, but she has been studying classical and jazz piano for many years. She also plays a bit of percussion, guitar, melodica and really loves to sing in choirs and small ensembles.<\/p>\n<p>One of her most rewarding musical experiences was founding a women\u2019s <em>a cappella<\/em> group, called <strong>\u2018leven<\/strong>, which she directed for its first twelve years, in Gloucester, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>In Philadelphia, Dawn has sung with Choral Arts Society, the Anna Crusis Women\u2019s Choir, and the Temple University \u201cSinging Owls\u201d community choir, under the direction of Dr. Rollo Dilworth.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, since retiring from full-time teaching at a K-8 charter school in Philadelphia (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.factschool.org\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FACTS<\/a>\u201c), Dawn has embarked on playing chamber music with pianist Barbara Golden and violist Soo Kyong Kim, and has returned to taking flute lessons with Elivi Varga. In recent years she studied jazz piano with Peter Simpkins and classical piano (Taubman) with Jeff Nations.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8230;<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Dance<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the late &#8217;70s, Dawn co-founded and performed with an improvisational dance troupe called \u201cThe All Star Moving Company,\u201d in Hartford, Conn., which was based at Real Art Ways. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After moving to Cape Ann, Mass., Dawn studied and danced with Ina Hahn, a former dancer who worked with modern dance pioneer Doris Humphrey.\u00a0 <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the early &#8217;90s Dawn co-founded &#8220;Dancers Courageous&#8221; Studio, in Gloucester, Mass., and began teaching modern dance, choreographing and performing with a local group of dancers, including Carl Thomsen, Janet Taisey-Craft, Kristen Ledson. She collaborated with Celeste Miller on several projects including &#8220;The Nurses Project.&#8221; Between the years 2000 and 2019 Dawn choreographed five evenings of her own works in collaboration with musicians and dancers.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She was a member of the children\u2019s theater troupe <em>\u201cMusic Alive\u201d<\/em> from 1998-2002\u00a0<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since moving to Philadelphia in 2003 she has performed with Workshop for Potential Movement, Nicole Bindler, Leah Stein, Tara Rynders, Pamela Heatherington and Megan Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In March, 2018 Dawn became an artist-in-residence at <b>Mascher Space Cooperative,<\/b> in Philadelphia, and that June took a week-long workshop with <b>Deborah Hay<\/b>, entitled <i>\u201ca continuity of discontinuity or a way to practice dance\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also that year Dawn was invited to join &#8220;Dance Reading Online&#8221; \u2014 a group of nine dancers from around the continent of North America who meet online using videoconferencing to research material from dance books and articles. The group presented a project at the National Dance Education Organization annual conference held in San Diego, in October 2018, <\/span>and had their first online performance in Philadelphia, in May 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Summer, Fall, 2025 \u00a0 September 5 &amp; 6 Music and Dance Performance by Locomotors, and Public Workshop Locomotors ensemble: Dawn Pratson and Michael Joviala, with special guests Sarah Slifer Swift, dance, and Derick Merlander, visual artist. 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