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Happy Mid Autumn Festival!! 中秋節快樂！祝大家一切圓滿美好！
Today is Chinese Mid Autumn Festival! Seeing so many fun photos on Facebook that family and friends from back home in Taiwan are gathering together celebrating with BBQ and delicious moon cakes. Wish everyone a happy day and may all wonderful things come on your way.
Photo by Ruth Judson
Have you heard about liquid nitrogen ice cream? Join us for our Sweet Tooth Social and try it first hand. It’s truly the best premium ice cream made fresh right before your eyes! We are so excited and thrilled to be hosting this fun event at the Nicecream Factory. They use fresh ingredients from local farms and a unique freezing agent, liquid nitrogen, to handcraft a gourmet cup of ice cream on the spot. Not only do you get to enjoy unlimited Nicecream Factory ice cream tastings during the Social, we’ll also have other yummy desserts for you to savor. While there, you’ll also get to meet the GDC dancers… What a great way to support the arts! Let’s have some fun!!
When: Tuesday, June 17 at 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Where: Nicecream Factory, 2831 Clarendon Blvd., Arlington, VA 22201
RSVP by Donating at https://gindance.com/support_gdc/ You’ll automatically be added to our VIP Guest list ($25 suggested donation per guest)
May 24, 2014, Saturday, we arrived at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center at 4 pm and were anxious to get on the stage to start our tech rehearsal. We hung the Chinese lantern, set up the benches and other got the other props into position. We worked with technicians to get the projector video set while the dancers were in the dressing room getting into costumes and warming up. We got things rolling quickly! We proceeded to set all the lighting cues and complete the sound checks. Then moved straight into a dress rehearsal. By 6 pm we had finished tech and the dress rehearsal and were ready! Other performers were starting to arrive and began taking turns to get on stage for their rehearsals & sound checks. We headed back to the dressing room where there were sushi dinner boxes waiting for us. What a treat!
At 6:30 pm the House opened… and it’s a Full House!! Soon, it was curtain time (7 pm)! We were the opening act for the evening. Before the curtain opened, the Chairman/President of Taiwan Culture Center of Greater Washington (TCC), Tai L Huang made his opening remarks. He thanked the event sponsors and gave a warm welcome to all the guests. Then the curtain opened and it was show time!! GDC performed ‘The Teller’, it was well received by an enthusiastic audience. Following ‘The Teller’ (Act I), there was a 15 minute intermission. Before the 2nd Act started, TCC presented the Taiwanese American Community Scholarship Awards (TACSA) to 11 award recipients (note, these awards are open to high school Seniors from all ethnic groups). Big congrats to all the winners!! Then the curtain opened for Act II. The 2nd Act was filled with incredibly talented musicians including world renowned leading violist Hsin-Yun Huang, violinist Shu-Ting Yao, Soprano solo Lucy Lu-Hsuan Chen, pianist Yi-Fang Huang, and The Greater Washington Taiwanese American Chorus. It was an exquisite musical performance, one after the other.
After the show, we joined many of the performers for a post performance snack at Clyde’s Tower Oaks Lodge (Hot Fudge Brownie Sundae for me!). We celebrated the success of this special evening and shared our life long journey of pursuing our dreams as artists. We talked about our busy lives, we even talked about some of our funny performance experiences. We chatted the remainder of the evening away! Well after midnight, the party finally came to an end. What a memorable evening! Gary and I truly cherished this moment and are so grateful for Tai, Huai-En, and everyone at TCC for brining us together. Big congrats to TCC and all the performers for this spectacular performance and a great success! Bravo!!
Taiwan Night 2014 Concert Program
Shu-Chen Working with Lighting Designer for The Teller
Sushi for Dinner
GDC Dancers Getter Ready
Tai Huang, Chairman/President of Taiwan Culture Center of Greater Washington
The 2014 Taiwanese American Community Scholarship Award Recipients
Violist Hsin-Yun Huang
Violist Hsin-Yun Huang and Pianist Yi-Fang Huang
Violist Hsin-Yun Huang and Violinist Shu-Ting Yao
Performers with Composer Sarana Chou on the far left
Post Performance Celebration at Clyde’s Tower Oaks Lodge
We’re so thrilled to have been invited to perform at the Taiwan Night 2014 Concert. This very special event is hosted by the Taiwan Culture Center (TCC) of the Greater Washington, DC area. TCC is a non-profit organization that promotes international cultural exchange and cultural, educational, and charitable affairs involving Taiwanese Americans and others. GDC will be performing with many outstanding singers and musicians from around the nation. The event will also present the Taiwanese American Community Scholarship Award (TACSA) which is open to high school Seniors from all ethnic groups. Join us for this fun and cultural evening!
Date and Time
Saturday, May 24, 2014 7:00 pm
Location
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College, Rockville Campus
51 Mannakee St, Rockville, MD 20850
Admission
$20, call (301) 332-5908 for tickets
The cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin teemed with visitors as the National Park Service declared Washington’s famous Japanese cherry trees at peak bloom. It breathtakingly beautiful! Go check it out!!
GDC’s ‘An Afternoon with Gin’ was a full program including ‘Unchain’, ‘Dear Mr. Cooper’, ‘The Core’, and our newest work ‘The Teller’ at the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center – Lang Theater. Here are some incredible photos taken by our super talented photographer Ruth Judson.
March 8, 2014, a very special day for all of us at Gin Dance Company… We presented ‘An Afternoon With Gin’ at the 2014 Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival at the Atlas Performing Arts Center – Lang Theater. We performed a full program including ‘Unchain’, ‘Dear Mr. Cooper’, ‘The Core’, and our newest work ‘The Teller’. During the performance, we gave away two door prizes. Big congrats to our winners Jack Grant and Amanda Blythe.
The event was a great success! There are so many people to recognize & thank for their help in making it all possible… First, we’d like to express our great appreciation to the event Artistic Director Mary Hall and her team for making the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival such a wonderful experience for us and bringing together artists from around the Metro DC Area. We’d also like to send a big thank you to our beautiful dancers for their stunning performances, our GDC Board of Directors for their dedication and support, and mostly to our amazing Executive Director Gary Cuff. Of course, we never forget our awesome fans/audience… We truly are so thankful for those who came out and shared the afternoon with us!! You made us feel so special. Thank you!!! You’re why we do what we do!
Our tech rehearsal was done this past Tuesday… We started at 6 pm and finished at 10:00 pm. Just a few final touches and we are good. We are now back to the studio and continuously polishing our works. We are so excited and ready for our ‘An Afternoon with Gin’ production at the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. It’s Finally Here!! Join us this Saturday (March 8, 1pm)!!
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Wondering what Gin Dance moves I was teaching Fox 5 DC News’ Annie Yu? Come see our ‘An Afternoon with Gin’ performance at Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center at 1 pm on March 8 and you will find out!
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February 25, 2014… This morning we arrived at the Atlas Performing Arts Center – Lang Theater at 7:15 am. We got such a warm welcome from both Mary Hall Surface, Artistic Director of the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival and Renée M. Littleton, Director of Marketing and Public Relations of the Atlas Performing Arts Center. We were treated to a grand tour of the theater and backstage from Renée. At 7:45 am, while we were warming up and getting ready in the dark in the audience, we watched Fox 5’s Annie Yu interviewing Furia Flamenca Dance Company on the stage. They did a fantastic job with their beautiful dancing and great interviewing. Around 8:00 am, we were anxious to get start for our segment with Annie. Annie came down to the audience and gave us a cheerful greeting… She chatted with us and we went over the agenda for our segment. At 8:20, we shot our first teaser for the audience. Jane, Michelle, and I showed a part from ‘The Core’. Then, we went and changed into ‘The Teller’ costumes for the 2nd teaser at 8:40 a.m. Therese and I did a short hand moves on the benches. Then, at 8:50, Annie called us to our places and put our music on stand by. She then started to count down from a minute to 30 seconds. Then our interview started… It was a great chat with Annie. She was so fun and upbeat and made the interview so comfortable. I even taught her some Gin Dance moves from ‘The Teller’. She is one fast learner! Really impressive! We finished up with a sneak peek of ‘The Teller’. It truly was such a special experience. Great thanks to Fox 5’s Annie Yu for spending the morning with us and Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival for your endless support. We were already so excited for our An Afternoon with Gin performance on March 8 … and now we are even more pump up for the show. We can’t wait!!Here is the link of our interview: http://www.myfoxdc.com/video?clipId=9880238&autostart=true#axzz2uMtovwHhWe hope you enjoyed the video and are feeling inspired. Please come join us at 1 pm on March 8 at Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center.
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