We've had some excellent recent press (and a collective audience review) for our off site Spring Season at CPR - Center for Performance Research, in Williamsburg Brooklyn and for our upcoming summer festival at MTA...
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Finally, it’s the ArtSpace. Today we introduce you to a dancer with a difference. Aynsley Vandenbroucke, dancer, choreographer and founder of the Mount Tremper Arts in New York’s Catskills…was told by her teachers that she thinks too much to be a dancer. She’s rebelled against the rules that make dancers obedient robots with perfect technique. Her work combines thought with everyday motion.
Aynsley Vandenbroucke is a dancer and head of the Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group. You can find out more about her and Mount Tremper Arts, as well as the center’s summer festival, at mttremperarts. com.
Dance Listings
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
Published: July 18, 2008
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★MOUNT TREMPER ARTS FESTIVAL (Saturday) What, I have to hang out in the Catskills in the summer to see dance performances and visual art exhibitions when I could be inhaling exhaust fumes in the city?! Fine, twist my arm. On Saturday the Mount Tremper Arts Festival celebrates its inaugural opening night with a new photography exhibition, an installation by jill sigman/thinkdance with D.J. Joro Boro and the Klezmer punk band Golem. Performances include Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group (July 26); the choreographer Jonah Bokaer and the poet Anne Carson (Aug. 2); Dusan Tynek Dance Theater (Aug. 16) and others. Did I mention it’s in the Catskills? (Through Aug. 31.) At 8 p.m., Mount Tremper, N.Y., (877) 238-5596, mttremperarts.com; $20.
Contemporary Arts in Mt. Tremper!
Woodstock Times
Mt. Tremper Arts Fest
by Paul Smart
July 17, 2008
Dancer and choreographer Aynsley Vandenbroucke, co-founder and director of the ambitious Mt. Tremper Arts Festival inaugurating Saturday, July 19 at their new arts center just west of Zen Mountain Monastery on the way to Phoenicia, says the idea for the mix of photographic exhibitions and lectures, dance recitals, musical performances and good old fun running through Labor Day started germinating for her and her husband Mathew Pokoik when both were still kids.
It gestated as each built their art, step by step, and established creative careers in New York City- this idea of getting friends new and old together in a bucolic setting for workshopping and performance, for pushing art to new limits with lots of room for feedback.
“Matt grew up coming to the area a lot when he was little,” Vandenbroucke says of the couple’s decision to move to Mt. Tremper a couple of years ago and build a post and beam barn as an arts center and get hopping on their festival dreams. “He also new a lot of people in the area from having gone to Bard.”
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The Mount Tremper Arts Summer Festival opens its first year Saturday with an evening party that includes a klezmer band whose unlikely namesake is the legendary Jewish Frankenstein of Prague
Best of the Season
Summer Festival Preview
by Jay Blotcher, May 28, 2008
Connoisseurs of art photography and dance will find nirvana at the first summer season at Mount Tremper Arts, a 100-seat performance and exhibition space dedicated to classic and contemporary expressions of these artistic forms. Nestled among the Catskills in northwestern Ulster County, this fledgling project, cofounded by Mathew Pokoik and Aynsley Vandenbroucke, promises to be a summer arts colony for bohemians. In addition to exhibitions, there will be artist talks, workshops, and post-performance gatherings. Evidence of the eclectic range of Mount Tremper Arts: The summer calendar offers dance music by ethno-fusion musicians and DJs, as well as a photography exhibition of work by 20th-century American stalwart Walker Evans.