Community Residency
with Arcell Cabuag

Community Residency with Arcell Cabuag, Associate Director of
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE

July 16-20, 2018

Join Jacob’s Pillow, in partnership with The Funk Box Dance Studio (Pittsfield), Olga Dunn School of Dance (Great Barrington), the Williams College Department of Theatre & Dance (Williamstown), Youth Alive! (Pittsfield), and Lift Ev’ry Voice (North Adams) for a series of FREE community dance workshops and activities taking place across Berkshire County.

These workshops and events strive to bring dancers of all ages and backgrounds together to participate in fun and engaging movement and community conversation. All workshops will be led by EVIDENCE Associate Artistic Director Arcell Cabuag, who is celebrating his 20th year with the company as a dancer and director.

Featuring movements from Ronald K. Brown’s blended style of contemporary, African, and Caribbean dance styles classes begin with a warm-up and continue with movements that teach, rhythm, and using the body to express ideas. Themes of strength, prayer, celebration and other gestures from the Evidence repertory are incorporated into the movement that is taught.

Participants should dress in loose fitting clothing.

All participants require a liability waiver. Participants younger than 18 require a parent/guardian signature.

Residency Schedule

Community Workshop & Conversation with Arcell Cabuag and Ronald K. Brown celebrating their 20 years of working together

July 16, 6-8PM | Conte Community School’s Gymnasium | FREE
Open to the public; no prior dance experience is needed.

Community Master Class with Arcell Cabuag

July 17, 5:30-7PM | Olga Dunn School of Dance | FREE
Open to the public, ages 12+; no prior dance experience is needed.

Youth Master Class with Ronald K. Brown & Arcell Cabuag

July 18, 6-8PM | The Funk Box Dance Studio| FREE
Open to dancers ages 6+.

Community Master Class with Ronald K. Brown & Arcell Cabuag

July 19, 6:30-8PM | ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance at Williams College | FREE
Open to the public, ages 12+; no prior dance experience is needed.

Text & Movement Workshop with Ronald K. Brown & Arcell Cabuag

July 20, 6:30-8PM | ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance at Williams College | FREE
Open to the public, ages 12+; no prior dance experience is needed. Actors, performing artists, teachers, movers of all levels are invited.

Talk about body language while creating and performing work. This Text & Movement workshop guides participants through a series of exercises to ultimately tell other’s stories by “acting” without words, using descriptors to share “what they see”, and applying music to a deepen understanding.

ABOUT ARCELL CABUAG

Arcell Cabuag is a Filipino American native of San Jose, California. In 1995, he moved to New York City and attended the Alvin Ailey School where he was first introduced to Ronald K. Brown. His professional experience prior includes dancing in: Rock the House for Paramount Pictures, The Shoji Tabuchi Show in Branson, Missouri, and the Richard Rodgers Centennial Production of The King and I. Cabuag can be seen on the episode “Choreographed” on Law and Order SVU, and a “Codorinu” commercial with Pilobolus shot and aired in Barcelona. Cabuag serves his community as a dance professor at Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), as the Co-Artistic Director of the Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble at Restoration ART, and a master class instructor locally and abroad. Cabuag has set EVIDENCE repertory at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Arts Academy, the Peridance Certificate Program, The Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program, the University of the Arts, and Boston Conservatory. Cabuag has assisted Brown in creating repertory on PHILADANCO!, MUNTU, Ballet Hispanico, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Malpaso of Havana Cuba, and is the associate choreographer for the Tony Award-winning Broadway and National touring production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Cabuag joined EVIDENCE in 1997 and won a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award in 2004.