Arthur Shafman International Ltd.
163 Amsterdam Ave. #121
New York, NY 10023-5001
Tel: (212) 799-4814
Fax: (212) 874-3613
E-Mail: ASHAFMAN@aol.com
ABOUT
THE COMPANY
Snappy
Dance Theater is a collaborative ensemble that combines the
diverse backgrounds of its members to create movement-based works
of art having universal significance and appeal. Incorporated in
1997, Snappy has been touring nationally to standing ovations in
theaters such as the Egg, in Albany; Bowker Auditorium at Umass,
Amherst; The Brooks Centre at Clemson University, South Carolina;
St. Luke’s in the Fields, NYC; First Night Boston and First
Night Mobile, Alabama. Snappy takes the bitter and the sweet of
our everyday lives, mixes it with beauty and risk, humor and a soupcon
of sadness, and then spins it out to the audience where it raises
spirits, raises consciousness, and raises eyebrows!
Pastcommissions for the company have been for Harvard University’s
production of Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play, "The
Vagina Monologues"; The Rialto Ensemble in an evening performance
of "Rialto Snaps Into Bach"; The Philadelphia Fringe Festival,
and Dancers at the Robsham in Boston.
Martha
Mason (Artistic Director, dancer) graduated Phi Beta Kappa,
Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College. She has been choreographing
and teaching internationally for the past 16 years as well as in
New York City and in Boston. As an independent choreographer she
has created works for companies in Paris, France; Pingdong, Taiwan;
the Lancaster Opera Company, PA; and The New Experimental Theatre
in Magnitogorsk, Russia. Martha is on the dance faculty of the Boston
Conservatory.
Snappy
Dance Theater is a collaborative ensemble that combines the
diverse backgrounds of its members to create movement-based works
of art having universal significance and appeal. Incorporated in
1997, Snappy has been touring nationally to standing ovations in
theaters such as the Egg, in Albany; Bowker Auditorium at Umass,
Amherst; The Brooks Centre at Clemson University, South Carolina;
St. Luke’s in the Fields, NYC; First Night Boston and First
Night Mobile, Alabama. Snappy takes the bitter and the sweet of
our everyday lives, mixes it with beauty and risk, humor and a soupcon
of sadness, and then spins it out to the audience where it raises
spirits, raises consciousness, and raises eyebrows!
Martha
Mason (Artistic Director, dancer) graduated Phi Beta Kappa,
Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College. She has been choreographing
and teaching internationally for the past 16 years as well as in
New York City and in Boston. As an independent choreographer she
has created works for companies in Paris, France; Pingdong, Taiwan;
the Lancaster Opera Company, PA; and The New Experimental Theatre
in Magnitogorsk, Russia. Martha is on the dance faculty of the Boston
Conservatory.
