Canyon Movement Company

"H2O" choreographed by Barbara Klimowski, 2006

We can be reached at 928-774-3937, 5680 E. Sunset Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86004,

email: cmcgina at aol dot com

Canyon Movement Company has 2008 calendars available for sale. They are now discounted to only $4. If you would like to get one of these beautiful calendars with photos by Brian Klimowski, please email to the address above, or mail a check with $3 postage and handling to the address above. Don't miss out on these beautiful pictures!

Our Mission:
Canyon Movement Company, Inc., is a modern dance ensemble dedicated to sharing our passion and excitement with a growing audience by creating and presenting the art of dance through performance, education, and community and collaborative projects.

"Freedom" to Copland's Outdoor Overture, choreographed by Cynthia Ahlers, performed with FSO, July 3, 2007

Thanks to company dancer/choreographer Amanda Kapp, we are officially on You Tube. Check it out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=L1IbfgYqZqI

Going to see a summer blockbuster movie is sort of like eating white bread. It sustains you. It will do it for a moment. But it doesn't fill the need for something finer, something more delectable, something with a taste that lingers...like live performances.

Canyon Movement Company is funded in part by grants from the following organizations:

2007-08 upcoming events:

First Stop, First Friday events on the first Friday of every month. 5:30 p.m. FREE at CDA, 2812 N. Izabel St., 774-3937. Funded by the Flagstaff Community Foundation. See the events tab for more details.

"Our Hands" choreographed by Gina Darlington, 2005

Dance Concerto XV, “The Quilts of Gees Bend.” Spring 2008 Check the "Events" tab for updated information. Funded by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Film documentary with Uppitty Cavemen Productions, "Women in Prison."

DanCelebration Summer 2008

Recent Achievements:

CMC has choreographed and produced The Nutcracker Suite in Modern Bare Feet for 4 consecutive years.
CMC has completed a trans-national project, "Ruins" with Myriad Dance from Ireland. the company traveled to Ireland in April 2006 to teach, choreograph, and perform, and Myriad Dance came to Flagstaff in June. A film of the project is finished and was shown at DanCelebration 2007!
CMC traveled to Italy to perform in a festival in June 2004.
CMC received a grant from the Flagstaff Community Foundation to bring Myriad Dance from Ireland to our DanCelebration 2005 in June.
CMC received a "Phase I Understanding Participation" Grant and a "Phase II UP" grant through the Arizona Commission on the Arts funded by the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation.
Memberships continue to build and increase.

History and Information:
Canyon Movement Company (CMC) was established in April of 1993, and was incorporated in July of 1995. CMC has produced and performed in numerous venues in the past eight years. We have an annual Spring Concert, we are working in the schools through lecture/demonstrations and residencies, and are travelling throughout the region. Our project, "The Quiltings", a dance interpreting women and quilts of the pioneer migrations" (2000) has been toured throughout the region.

CMC traveled to Cesena, Italy to perform in a festival in June 2004. CMC completed a residency in Wexford, Ireland in October 1996. The company conducted lecture/demonstrations, performances, and community classes during a 16 day tour. They concluded with a fringe event performance at the Wexford Festival Opera. CMC worked again in Wexford Ireland in 2006. Myriad Dance of Ireland were guests at DanCelebration in June 2005, and June 2006, and CMC traveled to perform again in Ireland in April 2006.

CMC is listed as a company on the Arizona Commission on the Arts roster for community and school based residencies through 2008. http://www.azarts.gov/roster_display.asp?namekey=80&Submit=Go

Director Gina Darlington is an instructor of modern dance at Coconino Community College. Jayne Lee is on the ACA Artists Roster and teaches at CCC.

Prior to incorporation, the company traveled to Aspen, Colorado in March of 1994 to participate in a residency and performance. They taught 300 students in public and private schools. They have also performed for residencies and lecture demonstrations in Flagstaff Unified Public Schools, charter schools, Tuba City schools, and Grand Canyon Schools.

The company was commissioned by international conductor Maestro Irwin Hoffman to perform with the Flagstaff Festival of the Arts Orchestra in 1994, and was asked back in 1995 and 1996.

CMC and it's director have received grants from the City of Flagstaff since 1992. CMC also received funding from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.

CMC frequently collaborates with other artists including choreographers, musicians, sculptors, visual artists and writers/poets.

The company has performed in numerous venues including Wheeler Park in Flagstaff, NAU, outdoors at Lowell Observatory, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Coconino Center for the Arts, the Kerr Center at ASU in Scottsdale, The Herberger Theater in Phoenix, Pima Community College in Tucson, and Tuacahn Center for the Arts in St. George, Utah.

The company has performed with Arizona Contemporary Dance Festival from 1996- 2003, 2006.


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