{"id":3990,"date":"2014-04-17T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2014-06-24T05:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T05:03:05","slug":"alex-ketley-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/2014\/alex-ketley-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in Snow: Alex Ketley in Steamboat Springs, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For dance anywhere\u00ae 2014 Alex Ketley and his company, The Foundry danced in the snowy peaks of western Colorado. &#8220;It was a beautiful afternoon. Cold though!&#8221;<i> <\/i>The Foundry was in residence at Perry Mansfield, a creative oasis in Steamboat Springs. As the clock struck 1PM, snow was falling steadily and the dancers bundled up to perform outside. Said Ketley, &#8220;Being in the cold and snow engenders very different responses than being in a designated dance space!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90590965\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The movement was choreographed by Ketley and reinterpreted by the dancers to accommodate the snow. Ketley&#8217;s creativity was sparked by the surroundings and the creative process. &#8220;Being outside and dancing, or creating dance feels like hunting. My senses feel really open and wide and I feel like I am wondering about the world around me, and curious about capturing something elusive and resonant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AK4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4021\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AK4.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AK4.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AK4-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AK4-120x71.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AK4-480x286.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Mansfield<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ketley decided to dance anywhere\u00ae because of his passion for choreographing outside. &#8220;It came to me really early that dance studios are wonderful, but just a specific type of environment, and usually fairly stark. Changing circumstance and environment changes how we feel, which in turn changes how we generate and create&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ketley2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4019 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ketley2.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ketley2.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ketley2-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ketley2-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ketley2-502x500.jpg 502w, https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ketley2-480x477.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dance anywhere\u00ae should happen every day, year round!&#8221; Ketley perceives that it is private studios and performance halls that separate dance from the public, limiting dance literacy amongst the general population. &#8220;Since many dances are built in private studios, and performed in private theaters, these mechanisms lend dance a continuing sense of drifting away from the everyday life of people&#8230;If every rehearsal in the US happened in full view of the public, my suspicion is dance literacy and interest would be much deeper and more enthusiastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Alex Ketley and the Foundry visit his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/participant\/alexketley\">dance anywhere\u00ae page<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexketley.com\/Site\/Home.html\">alexketley.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Being outside and dancing, or creating dance feels like hunting. My senses feel really open and wide and I feel like I am wondering about the world around me, and curious about capturing something elusive and resonant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":3991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,752,79,575,750,65,751,462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceanywhere.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}