What We Offer

FLOCK offers full-length workshops, Sightings (drop-in performances) and performances.

NEW & EXCITNG!
Exploringyour community's place in history and now . . .

We now offer a participatory version of our show "Go! Move! Shift!" for schools or community groups. During a residency, Flock director/choreographer Carol Langstaff will guide participants through a process of discovering and expressing the heritage of individuals and the cultures they came from. This can be a self-contained experience or include the stages of creating a unique production right in place.

For example, this past year at the Sharon Elementary School, we gathered fourth grade students with grandparents and other elders from town, and together we explored who their ancestors were and why they left their original homelands. This led to questions about what’s here in the town now, and are there aspects of our cultural past that we want to preserve in our present lives?

Perhaps your community or school would like to explore these aspects of ongoing history, using a multigenerational approach involving exciting, accessible choreography and expressive movement?  There is grant money available form the Vermont Arts Council for this American Masterpiece’s project.

Eligible for fee support through the Vermont Arts Council Grant Programs. Carol Langstaff's Flock Dance Troupe is listed as a "Juried Artist" in the Vermont Arts Council Arts Directory.
Visit www.vermontartscouncil.org for more information."

• Teachers
• Mutigenerational Sessions
• Schools and Recreation Centers
• People with Disabilities
• Dancers and Performers
• ”A Sense of Place” NEW!

The Dance Troupe offers workshops to teach FLOCK's naturalistic movement and choreographic concepts to community members of all ages and to special groups such as at-risk youth, seniors and those with exceptional needs. Our aim is to invite people of all ages to become open to a sense of place and the elements around us (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) through increasing the use of our senses. We teach FLOCK choreographed pieces to stunning music.

The interdisciplinary combining of Dance, Theater and Music allows our mind to grasp information in more detail and more exactly. When feelings and tensions are released through artistic expression and movement, we partake of our everyday life experience better attuned to our senses, and more receptive. The process of imagining and creating a vision offers a basis for striding forward and leadership.

Sightings
FLOCK offers a series of "sightings", choreographed sections from our shows and other pieces designed specifically to be preformed outside our usual setting. Sightings are a way to see glimpses of our work and also as a means of providing briefer, self-contained performances for special groups at schools, assisted living facilities, pedestrians on the sidewalk, or shoppers at a farmers' market. In content and form, the Sightings address the same kinds of issues of human relations with society and the natural world explored in our full-length shows.

FLOCK can be hired to brings a set of Sightings to gatherings of various sizes, including conferences, parties, and educational venues. We especially like to perform at free-to-the-public events. Sightings can last from 10 to 20 minutes and be repeated as a cycle or varied. These performances are also entirely mobile and can move around in a given area.

Performances
FLOCK's corps group of professional dancers work with amateurs from the local community to present evening-length dance theater pieces. FLOCK Dance Troupe presents performances annually at the troupe's home, a
multi-acre outdoor amphitheater where the work is created specifically for the site, and toured their show for the first time in 2004. Accompanied by diverse music and enhanced by vibrant costumes, sets and
props designed by collaborating visual artists Langstaff's work celebrates the artistic contributions of her diverse performers, who range in age from infants to seniors. Click here to see a schedule of FLOCK performances.

Photograph by Kathleen O'Donnell

O human, learn to dance, or else the angels will have no idea what to do with you.
- Saint Augustine