Stacey Printz Dance Project

“Motivates eye, energy and spirit.” – Attitude Magazine

The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts at the Osher Marin JCC in association with the Marin Arts Council presents Printz Dance Project. In a rare Marin performance, the intensely athletic modern dance troupe of eight will bring a vibrant, high velocity performance with combinations of crisp, visual shapes made with the dancers’ bodies. Joyous, playful, sensual and fierce, the Printz Dance Project blends modern dance with elements of jazz, ethnic, ballet and hip-hop. The Printz Dance Company, known for its upbeat attitude and extensive outreach to teens, has performed at Dance Mission, ODC Theater, Brady Street Dance Center, West Wave Dance Festival, Monterey Dance Festival, Solad Dance Center and Forum Theater at Yerba Buena as well as the California Choreographers Dance Festival in Laguna Beach, Dance Celebration in Flagstaff, Sedona Cultural Center’s Dance Concert, Celebrate Dance Festival in San Diego, Open Door Dance Theater in Boulder and the Freud Theater in Los Angeles. Guests from all backgrounds and ages are invited to attend.

WHO:  All are invited. Beer & wine available for 21+ at no-host bar. Tickets are $22 public /$20 members / $11 students at www.marinjcc.org or by calling 415-444-8000.

WHEN: Sunday, April 3, 2011. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. for no-host cocktails. 5:00 p.m. performance begins.

WHERE: The Osher Marin JCC, 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael

About the Printz Dance Company
Printz Dance Project (PDP), founded in 1998, is a vibrant, highly charged company that looks for the link between genres to find a language truly its own. Rooted in modern dance, the work takes a fresh approach to blending movement styles, seamlessly unifying intense athleticism with fluid articulation punctuated by precise ensemble work. Printz utilizes unexpected combinations of shapes and crisp visual dynamics to create aesthetically varied repertory. Hip yet mature, the textured work strives to be uplifting yet thought provoking. Unpretentious subject matter is explored with honesty by the cohesive dance ensemble.

About Stacey Printz, Choreographer and Artistic Director
Stacey Printz/Printz Dance Project (artistic director, choreographer): Bay Area based choreographer, dancer and educator, received her sociology and dance degrees from UC Irvine. In addition to teaching at SF Dance Center she has been on staff at St. Mary’s College, Sonoma State University and RoCo and has taught classes and workshops for Universities and studios across the U.S. (including classes in New York, Memphis, Los Angeles, Utah, Kentucky, Idaho, Colorado and more). Internationally she has taught in Amsterdam, Belgium, Russia, Lithuania and Ireland.

Stacey Printz has also collaborated on multi-genre, full evening performing arts pieces including Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s internationally acclaimed work, Scourge. She also choreographed Bamuthi’s latest highly acclaimed piece, The Break/s which was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Humana Festival in Kentucky, at the Walker center in Minneapolis, the Spoleto Festival in North Carolina, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and more.

Founded in 1998, her company has performed extensively in California with home seasons at the Cowell Theater, and has toured all over the U.S. being presented in such places as New York, Los Angeles, Memphis, Arizona, Colorado, and internationally in Lithuania, Russia and Ireland. Printz has been commissioned to choreograph in California for many companies and has received numerous awards and grants from organizations such as the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W&F Hewlett Foundation, Fort Mason Foundation, and is the recent recipient of the New Work Fellowship from the Marin Arts Arts Council.

About the Osher Marin JCC
The Osher Marin JCC is the community center of Marin County. Epitomizing the essence of Marin, with a range of authentic cultural experiences enjoyed by many generations, the Osher Marin JCC offers award-winning facilities, abundant physical and educational activities and world-class programming relevant to our entire community today. Since the Osher Marin JCC’s founding in 1947, the center has become recognizable for its rich history of Jewish traditions and values with an unparalleled all-inclusive community spirit. For more information about the Osher Marin JCC, please visit http://www.marinjcc.org.