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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
Tens 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),
Sisters Trousers (D.C.), Avery Ballet (D.C.), ACFDance (NYC),
Dance Council Movement Theater (NYC), Orquidea Dance (NYC), and
Anandance (NYC).
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