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Running time: 4 minutes
Diane Coburn Bruning
Music:
Benjamin Britten
Camera:
Sheila Smith and Nate Clapp
Editing:
Virginia Quesada and Bob Korn
Wardrobe:
Monica Leland
Dancers:
Andile Ndlovu and Luis Torres
Filmed at BalletNova Center for Dance in Falls Church, Virginia in October 2015.
Running times: 8 minutes
Choreography:
Cooper Verona
Music:
Psalom by Arvo Pärt
Camera and Editing:
Jennifer Zmuda
Wardrobe:
Bekah Nettekoven Tello
Dancers:
Grace-Anne Powers and Austin Powers
Filmed in a park near Columbus, Ohio in July 2020.
Running time: 6 minutes
Concept, Choreography, and Direction:
Diane Coburn Bruning
Music:
James Bigbee Garver (commissioned)
Video Direction:
David Hamlin
Editing:
Salvatore Vecchio
Dancers:
Davit Hovhannisyan, Christian Denice, Julia Erickson, Austin Powers, Grace-Anne Powers, Luz San Miguel, Cooper Verona
Filmed by the dancers in their homes in July 2020 with additional camera work by Leiland Charles, Aaron Ingley, and Rachel Malehorn.
Running time: 13 minutes
Choreography:
Diane Coburn Bruning
Music:
Benjamin Britten
Camera and Editing:
Aaron Cota
Wardrobe:
Bekah Nettekoven Tello
Dancers:
Christian Denice
Filmed at the Sepulveda Dam in Los Angeles in July 2020.
Running time: 7 minutes
In 2000, choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning founded Chamber Dance Project, dancers & musicians in New York City guided by a conviction that dance should be performed with live music, that smaller venues afford a more intense experience for viewers and performers alike, and that sharing the creative process engages audiences on a deeper level. In 2013 she moved the company to Washington, D.C.
Diane is an award-winning choreographer who has worked with dance, theatre, and opera companies throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowships New York Foundation for the Arts, the McKnight National Fellowship, a Dewar’s Young Artist Award, fellowships from Sundance Film Institute, Yale University School of Drama, Leopold Schepp Foundation and Virginia Commission on the Arts, and a Strauss Fellowship. She has also received support from Meet the Composer, the Harkness Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, Heathcote Foundation, David Howard Foundation, and The Carlisle Project.
Diane has worked with Atlanta Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Boston Ballet, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, American Repertory Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Joffrey II, Nashville Ballet, Aspen Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Ballet Memphis, Daghdha Dance (Ireland), Minnesota Ballet, Chautauqua Ballet, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Studio Theatre among others. Her popular Ramblin’ Suite, her collaboration with the Red Clay Ramblers, was commissioned by Atlanta Ballet and performed by Milwaukee Ballet. She has worked on productions with Pittsburgh Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, and four with Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center. Vogue Television did a feature on her, and Dance magazine named her as one of “25 to Watch.” Diane’s works appeared in the International Ballet Festival in Colombia, South America, and her major work Boots was premiered near Berlin with Ballett Magdeburg.
She has done commercial work for top brands and clients including Nickelodeon, People magazine, Lord and Taylor, and Lladro. She has done theatrical work for Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Shakespeare Theatre Company. At Shakespeare Theatre Company she worked alongside director Michael Kahn, receiving a Helen Hayes Award nomination for her choreography of the musical Improbable Frequencies. She has been a guest artist at more than 25 conservatory and university dance departments, including several times for Juilliard and Tisch/NYU. She has been a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Institute and New York City Ballet and has served on many grant panels. Diane directed the Craft of Choreography Conference, helped found Pacifica Choreography Project, and has led choreographic workshops throughout the country
Graduating with honors from Butler University’s Jordan College of Arts, she later received their Alumni Achievement Award. She holds a master’s in choreography from NYU and studied composition privately with Bessie Schoenberg and music with Juli Nunlist. Diane studied for a year with renowned designers Jennifer Tipton and Ming Cho Lee on a post-graduate fellowship from Yale University School of Drama.
Chamber Dance Project is a Resident Company at BalletNova.
Our administrative offices are located at Metro Offices.
Nan Moring and Jason Jarrell, Co-Presidents
Joy Treutel, Treasurer
Tanya Green, Secretary
Diane Coburn Bruning, ex-officio
Debbi Iwig
Alix McDonough
Kalley McMullen Terry
Lindsay Neinast
Troy Reimer
Susan Vallon
Guy Williams
Deborah and Bruce Downey
and
Emily Thoresen
Gert and Diane Coburn Bruning
Kate Costlow and John D’Amore
Kate and Phil Crane
Terry Hazel and Daniel Rose
Lisa and David Hooper
Sari Hornstein
Luibov and David Keeton
Kay Kendall and Jack Davies
Alix McDonough and Tom Heiple
Jill Nevius and Frederic Schwartz
Elizabeth and Tom Patton
Fanchon Silberstein
Linda and Robert Stillman
Emmanuel Vaughn and Drew Lent
Deborah and Bruce Downey
and
Emily Thoresen
Donna and Jon Gerstenfeld
Linda and Robert Stillman
Alix McDonough
Kate Costlow and John D’Amore
Terry Hazel and Dan Rose
Amy and Paul Creamer
Lisa and David Hooper
Sari Hornstein
Bonnie and Jim Keightley
Diane Coburn Bruning and Gert W. Bruning
Katherine and Philippe Crane
Kay Kendall and Jack Davies
Elizabeth and Tom Patton
Jackie Eghrari-Sabet and Sina Sabet
Jill Nevius and Frederic Schwartz
Fanchon Silberstein
George Stauffer
Drew Lent and Emmanuel Vaughn
Sally McLain | Jerome Andersen, Charlotte Cameron Marshall
Christian Denice | Alix McDonough, Tom Heiple
Francesca Dugarte | Marilyn Millstone, Bill Apter, Deborah White, Deborah Downey
Julia Erickson | Kate Costlow, John D’Amore, Deborah Downey
Davit Hovhannisyan | Deborah Downey
Bekah Nettekoven Tello | Anonymous
Grace-Anne Powers | Mary and Kevin English, Laura and Randy Moorhead, Guy Williams, Deborah Downey
Austin Powers | Guy Williams, Deborah Downey
Luz San Miguel | Katie and Wally Cooney, June Hajjar, Gail Lione
Alexander Sargent | Donna and Jon Gerstenfeld, Doborah Downey
Jerome Gordon | Gert Bruning, Liubov and David Keeton, Deborah Downey
Todd Thiel | Judith Zink, Deborah Downey
Karin Kelleher | Deborah Downey
Sally McLain | Jerome Andersen, Charlotte Cameron Marshall, Gert Bruning, Deborah Downey
Copyright © 2024 Chamber Dance Project. All rights reserved. Chamber Dance Project is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law and most appreciated. Federal Tax ID 13-4109515. Chamber Dance Project is a Resident Company at BalletNova. Diane Coburn Bruning, Artistic Director. Sally McLain, Principal Musician.
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