Crows

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Costumes for the next show or relaxing at the end of class?

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Jen our props maker got two of the 'shorter' Crows to have their body shapes drawn. Why? All will be revealed at the next Crows Show!Costume fitting

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A new Crows Feet Dance Collective starts on the Kapiti Coast

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Jan is about to start a new Crows Feet class on the Kapiti coast. There has been a great response. 15 enrolements already and that is without any advertising! 

The classes will be held in Paekakariki at the local school hall on a Tuesday night from 7-8.30pm.

Starting date: May 11th

How wonderful that I will be able to walk across the road to teach the class instead of getting in the car and hitting the main road. 

That means for our concerts in the future we will have 3 separate groups performing - 

Crows Feet 

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2010 classes resume!

Crows are back at work this week.  After a short recess over Christmas and New Year it was back into rehearsals this week for 'Revue de Cuisine' with Jan giving us a sneak preview of some 'Nigella insights'.  Jan assures us that we only have 'a few more things to learn' before we've got the whole show together and we're into it!   It was a warm night and the body sure knew it had been working - but it's great to get back into the routine and see the show coming together..now about those aches and pains the morning after a class.....

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"Still dancing after all these years" DANZ Quarterly article

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The latest issue of DANZ Quarterly (Winter 2009) has an article by Ann Hunt on Crows Feet, marking our 10th anniversary. The article gives a brief history of the group from its first performance in 1999, for the launch of Osteoporosis NZ, through to our latest show, Choros, for the 2009 Fringe Festival.

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Kitchen percussion with Andreas Lepper

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Jan gave us one week off after our season with the Fringe Festival. Now we are working on a new show, still unnamed, all about cooking. For tomorrow's session we're to bring along kitchen instruments to improvise a percussion item.

History of the Crows Feet Dance Collective

Crows Feet: 10 years old in 2009

In 1999 director Jan Bolwell, at the age of 48, was recovering from two bouts of breast cancer. She began dancing again to aid her recovery. A group of women about Jan's age saw Gaylene Preston’s film about breast cancer Titless Wonders in which Jan dances Off My Chest. They approached Jan and said, ‘We want to dance like that. Will you teach us?’ That’s how Crows Feet Dance Collective was born.

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We're away laughing (& furious)

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So glad I'm dancing not triathaloning this weekend.  See the smile on my face, I save that just for the end.  Not to say I'm not pretty ecstatic that it is the end!  On the other hand I find mysely smiling throughout Choros - except when I'm being furious of course.  First performance was last night & I really enjoyed it.  So did my friends in the audience which is a real bonus.  When I tell my friends that I have discovere

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Photos from Past Shows

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These are three photos from previous Crowsfeet Shows.  The photo of the 2 dancers in red is from the dance Quintet.  The 2 dancers in white is from A Motor in my Soul (Isadora Duncan) and the third one is from Going for Baroque.

Rachel McAlpine's picture

Joy of new studio

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We love rehearsing in Vivek Kinra's studios. Here the Crows listen to Jan's directions. Eeek! It's getting urgent: only two weeks before the first performance of Choros! Can we do it? Yes we can.

Vivek Kinra's Mudra Dance Company are the guest artists performing with the Crows in our Fringe Festival show this year. Glorious Indian classical dance. I can't wait to see them

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Having a go

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I've always liked dance and jiggling about and was told about Crows Feet by a friend so just turned up to one of their sessions having no real idea what to expect. For me its a challenge but intensely satisfying and the women are just all treasures...encouraging, supportive, funny, inventive and very occasionally exasperating. A family. 

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