Ashley Horn’s Woolgathering Closes 2013-2014 HopeWerks

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HopeWerks Director
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Ashley Horn’s Woolgathering closes 2013-2014 HopeWerks season with an evening of dance and daydreams

HOUSTON, TEXAS – May 6, 2014 – In Woolgathering, a makeshift blanket fort encloses dancers and audience in a surreal world of introspective musings. Dancers negotiate complex and, at times, awkward relationships with one another through the lens of introversion.

The cast re-imagine themselves as gypsies, children, deities, and more as they struggle to find the balance between a deeply satisfying imaginative life and the solitude that comes with being unable to connect with one another in traditional methods. In the end, both audience and dancers discover that there are infinite ways to connect once the boundaries of social norms are broken.

Performers include Shanon Adams, Rebekah Chappell, Laura Gutierrez, Lydia Hance, Leo Munoz, and Tina Shariffskul. Choreography for Woolgathering is a collaborative effort among the cast and director, HopeWerks artist Ashley Horn.

Horn has shown choreography and films at ACDF, The University of Houston, Big Range Dance Festival, The Texas Weekend of Contemporary Dance, Third Coast Dance on Film Festival, The Houston Fringe Festival, and Dance Month at the ERJCC among other venues and events. She is the co-founder and curator of Motion Captured: An Evening of Dance on Film at the ERJCC as a part of Dance Month. In 2012, she was a recipient of an individual artist grant from the Houston Arts Alliance to create an evening-length dance film,Wanderland.

Woolgathering will be presented Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24 at 8 PM at Hope Stone Studio, 1210 W. Clay St. #26, Houston TX, 77019.   Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door (cash only). Please note the Hope Stone Studio entrance is located on Van Buren Street, across from 1111 Van Buren. ###

ABOUT HOPEWERKS 
Why is the HopeWerks program important? With the reduction of and competitiveness in artistic funding, a newcomer to the arts scene struggles with the expenses of starting a new company and/or presenting work. Without these funds, young companies and artists are often unable to have the time and space to explore their creativity and present it to the public. HopeWerks empowers these artists and allows them to unleash their creativity in the city of Houston, and hopefully beyond. HopeWerks was formed not only to be a creative residency, but as an opportunity for artists to learn all aspects of presenting an evening of artistic work. There are many details in presenting work – scheduling, marketing, promotion, press releases, print materials – and HopeWerks serves as a mini classroom for the artists during their three-month residency. Supporting these young artists as they tackle the three dimensionality of creating and presenting work is HopeWerks’ major goal, and aligns with Hope Stone’s mission to create art for all.

ABOUT HOPE STONE, INC. 

Hope Stone, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization consisting of (1) the choreographic endeavors of Artistic Director Jane Weiner; (2) Hope Stone Dance Company, a professional modern dance company; (3) Hope Stone Kids, an arts outreach program that reaches underserved children with free arts education annually in Houston and Katy, TX and New Orleans; (4) Hope Stone Studio, accommodating adult and children’s movement classes taught by the finest Houston artists and master teachers; and (5) HopeWerks, a space residency offered to emerging choreographers and performance artists to assist them in the early stages of their artistic journey.  Founded in 1997, Hope Stone strives to unlock the innate creativity of children and adults through the performing arts.

Hope Stone is grateful to the following sponsors and foundations:  Axiom Design Group, Brown Foundation, Children’s Fund, ConocoPhillips, Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts, The Fant Foundation, Aubrey and Sylvia Farb Community Service Fund, Favrot Fund, Gainer, Donnelly & Desroches, LLP, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Endowment, Houston Jewish Community Foundation, Kaplan Family Foundation, Kinder Morgan Foundation, Lilly Foundation, Mark and Twilight Freedman Foundation, McCrea Foundation, Momentum Southwest Land Rover, The Nugent Foundation, The John M. O’Quinn Foundation, Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundation, Posoli Family Foundation, Powell Foundation, Karen Pulaski Philanthropic Fund, Sequoia Foundation, Simmons Foundation, Strake Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, Kittsie & Charlie Thomas Family Foundation, Wells Fargo, The Wortham Foundation.

Hope Stone is located at 1210 W Clay #26, Houston, TX, 77019. For more information, visitwww.HopeStoneInc.org or call 713-526-1907.

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