Rochester Fringe 2017 for me began with a massively inspiring performance that felt like a love note to everyone in the audience. FuturPointe Dance’s “Elephant Grass: An Afrofutur-Mystic Tale” is a femme-forward, “She-Ro” quest to shake off all that well-known negative shit and do the hard work of figuring out what you’re here to do. […]
FuturPointe Dance
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Artistry and swagger
During the 2014 Rochester Fringe Festival, FuturPointe, a Rochester-based dance company co-founded by Guy Thorne and N’Jelle Gage, presented “Unbridled” with photographer Carrie Mateosian. While the audience crowded up close at the outside venue downtown, company members Liam Knighten and Melinda Phillips each had a turn at being photographed by Mateosian while they were being […]
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Hochstein announces new festival
Hochstein School of Music & Dance has announced a new 10-day music and dance festival, HOC Loves ROC, which will take place Friday, January 30, through Sunday, February 8. The program will highlight performances — ranging from classical, to jazz, to rock — involving hundreds of Hochstein students and faculty members, and will feature a […]
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Casey reviews Sisters of Murphy and “Unbridled”
Friday on the Fringe was full of free offerings, but fun, not free, is the word that epitomized the night for me. I left feeling happy, energized, and excited about the festival; music, dance and photography cavorting in my brain. Sisters of Murphy, a local band that fuses traditional Celtic drinking songs with rock ‘n’ […]
