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Lucy Bowen McCauley
- 53, Female
- Arlington, VA
- United States
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Bowen McCauley Dance
Bowen McCauley Dance is the Washington metro area's premier contemporary dance company. Based in Arlington, and led by artistic director Lucy Bowen McCauley, BMD has been thrilling audiences for 13 years with its gorgeous and creative choreography.
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- What is your interest in the Creative Arlington beta community?
- I run a professional dance company based in Arlington and love all things artistic.
- How do you or would like to use your imagination and original ideas to enrich the economy and culture in Arlington, and beyond?
- I teach children and seniors from free. We put on many. and performances and employ dancers, designers of all kinds, tech people, and have a staff. We collaborate with many groups and attend multiple events each month to connect in to the Arlington Community.
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- Bowen McCauley Dance
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- http://www.bmdc.org
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- Lucy Bowen McCauley is the artistic director, choreographer and creative energy behind Bowen McCauley Dance. McCauley’s enduring love for dance moved her to form the company in 1996. Since founding BMD, McCauley has created over 50 works ranging from lyrical ballets to highly physical contemporary pieces set to muscular rock music. Her repertoire offers an unconventional array of genres; her choreography demonstrates a fluent outpouring of dance blending balletic lines, quirky gestures and modern dance’s earthiness that uniquely explores the interplay between music and dance. In October 2008, Washingtonian named McCauley among those “who have helped transform Washington into one of the nation’s liveliest centers for the performing arts.”
A dancer since childhood, McCauley’s early training at the Jordan School of Music & Dance (Indianapolis, Ind.) and the Interlochen Center for the Arts (Traverse City, Mich.) provided her with a profound appreciation for both music and musicians that is so striking in her critically acclaimed work. At age 18, McCauley was offered a scholarship to the Joffrey School in New York City where she performed with the Joffrey Concert Group. She also danced with the Maryland Ballet, the Virginia State Ballet, DC Contemporary Dance Theatre and Daniel West Dancers. She was a founding member of Eric Hampton Dance.
McCauley has been awarded the Alumni Path of Inspiration award from the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the STAR Award for Artistic Excellence from the Arlington Commission for the Arts. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Campbell Award for the Advancement of the Arts in Arlington from the American Association of University Women and was a 2008 nominee for the Governor’s Award (Va.). McCauley is a 2008 graduate of Leadership Arlington.
Over the years McCauley has taught at The George Washington University, The Washington Ballet and has been a guest teacher at ABT, the Orlando Ballet, The John F. Kennedy Center, Georgetown University and the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza in Monterrey, Mexico. She is currently on the faculty at the Maryland Youth Ballet, The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Washington Ballet@THEARC and Studio Body Logic. McCauley has pioneered a unique stretch technique, Bowen McCauley Stretch, which has been featured in USA Today, Dance Teacher, and The Washington Post.
In a desire to bring the joy and beauty of dance to new audiences, McCauley has created outreach programs that touch underserved communities throughout the Metropolitan area. She enjoys teaching dance and stretch to people of all ages. In partnership with the Parkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area, McCauley is teaching free weekly dance classes to people with Parkinson Disease and their care-partners.
- What is the one thing you think Arlington is missing? (ie place, event, scene)
- A venue that everyone goes to and uses in a great location.
- Who referred you? This is how we give credit!
- Ted Bilich and Monique O'Grady
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