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To Our Dear Friends and Supporters,

The Company recently traveled to California to premiere its fifth new commission by Jodi Melnick. It was an experience that has had a significant impact on the development of the Company and its dancers and to a community in Northern California who had yet to see a live modern dance performance.

This journey began in 2008 when renowned theater director, Peter Sellars, recommended OtherShore to be the first dance company to be invited to perform at the newly built University of California, in Merced, California. Perhaps he saw a kinship between our two organizations, not in size or history, but in spirit. After a year of planning, OtherShore performed Bird, Bear, Grey Blue-Violet to faculty, students and the community on Friday, May 1, 2010 at the Lakireddy Auditorium. The piece included Brandi Norton, Sonja Kostich, Elizabeth DeMent and Aaron Mattocks. The passion that the students of UC Merced unveiled to entice the First Lady Michelle Obama to present the 2009 commencement speech was ever-present at OtherShore’s performance and the moderated discussion held afterwards. The students shared their thoughts about our performance and asked insightful questions about OtherShore’s work and objectives. It seemed that everything we had brought with us to the campus was questioned in a way that served to unify the group and clarify the company’s mission. While we thought we were simply traveling to premiere a new work, we actually found a new source of commitment to OtherShore. The experience was incredibly inspiring for each of us individually and as a company.

With this momentum we are embarking on our most ambitious project to date. To compliment Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar’s new work The Goats, we are preparing to begin rehearsals on an exciting new project with choreographer Stephen Petronio with original music by Son Lux. These two works will both premiere at the Historic Asolo Theater in Sarasota, Florida on February 9th, 2011. We are thrilled at the diversity of this program. The dance/theater work of The Goats juxtaposed with the sheer virtuosic athleticism of Stephen's choreography promises to be a fulfilling challenge for us as performers and also a feast for our audience. To see dancers demonstrate such a full spectrum of technique in one night is a rarity, and we are confident that it will be OtherShore’s finest performance to date.

Your contribution is pivotal and we hope that you will join us and support this project. No amount is too small! Even the smallest amounts add up and are greatly appreciated. We are honored by those of you who have previously supported us and we welcome all new supporters.

Thank you so much,
Sonja and Brandi