For the Love of Dance
Funraiser with
SIMON BULL
Carmel Dance Festival is honored and elated to collaborate with esteemed painter SIMON BULL. We created this event together to provide joy, LOVE, beauty, connection, thought-provoking entertainment, and inspiration for our community through extraordinary art.
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Our resident company (Ballare Carmel) will dance, Simon Bull will paint, and then the dancers and Simon will interconnect; fusing dancing and painting.
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Enjoy beautiful contemporary dance, learning about Simon's creative process, wine, charcuterie, and perhaps most noteworthy, an opportunity to collect Simon Bull's original artwork while supporting a great cause. Proceeds will provide scholarships for promising dancers and fellowships for emerging choreographers; helping foster the future of dance.
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Saturday, May 6th @ 2:00 pm
ART INSPIRING ART
Simon Bull attended our resident dance company's debut at Folktale Winery & Vineyards last summer and was moved to tears. He witnessed 6 passionate dancers perform in choreographer Noelle Kayser's immersive "The Outer Gate," inspired by the pioneering women of Carmel. After the performance, CDF founders Grant & Lillian Barbeito conversed with Simon about dance and painting converging.
Less than a year later, they are embarking on their first collaboration.
See images from Ballare Carmel at Folktale below.