ACCUMULATION DANCE

 

Choreographers and dancers Laura Chevalier, Meghan McLyman, and Kristen Duffy Young began rehearsing together in 2006 and officially formed Accumulation Dance in 2008. They hosted their premier performance, Accumulation, on November 7th and 8th, 2008 at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA. As proponents of collaboration, they reached out to talented artists Julie Pike Edmond/Turnpike Project, Callie Chapman Korn/Zoe Dance, and Bess Whitesel and Carrie Foster to share in this performance.

Since their premiere, Accumulation Dance has performed at the 2009 Volvo Ocean Race at Fan Pier, Boston, the Salem Arts Festival in Salem, MA, Dance for World Community Day at Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre, Cambridge, MA, and the Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA.

Prior to the formation of Accumulation Dance, the choreographers presented their work throughout the Boston area, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, in such venues as Ten’s the Limit, Green Street Studios Emerging Artist and Performance Works Projects, Art Beat and Somerville Struts at the Somerville Theater, Salem State College, College of the Holy Cross, Roxbury Community College, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, James Madison University, The Joy of Motion (D.C.), and more. As performers, their credits include: The Caitlin Corbitt Dance Company, Weber Dance, Bosoma Dance Company, Digby Dance, The Falling Flight Project, Influx Dance, Turnpike Project, The Moving Laboratory, Granite State Ballet Company (NH), Mad Shak (Chicago), Melissa Thodos and Dancers (Chicago), Motivity (Chicago), Sister’s Trousers (D.C.), Avery Ballet (D.C.), ACFDance (NYC), Dance Council Movement Theater (NYC), Orquidea Dance (NYC), and Anandance (NYC).