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Carolyn Dorfman Dance
Auction
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Access to Art, Inc.
417 E. Pacific Ave.
Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210
Press Release/for immediate release
From: Barbara J. Beitel
Telephone: (609) 465-3963
ACCESS DANCE AUCTION TO BE HELD AT SAND BARRENS
SWAINTON. Access to Art is holding a dance auction May 4th from 6 to 9
p.m. to support the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company performance on May
l9th. The auction will be held at the Sand Barrens, Rte. 9, Swainton .
Auction items have been donated by many area businesses and individuals
including a car detailing by Kindle Ford, a park bench from Swain’s
Hardware Store, an associate golf membership at the Sand Barrens, 4
radial tires from John’s Tire & Auto, hair cuts and styling from Hair
Mechanix , C. Melini, and Salon 41, tickets to East Lynne Theatre,
dinner at the Washington Inn, Cape May, dinner at the Doctor’s Inn in
Cape May Court House and lots more. Stan Sperlak is offering art lessons
at one of his seminars worth $250.
Access to Art, a 15 year old not for profit, is on its l0th dance
weekend, offering Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company in performance on May
l9th at the Middle Township PAC at 7:30 p.m. They will include a
premiered piece honoring Maitin, bringing in 14 young dancers, since Sam
always liked to bring in the community. The dancers will work with live
musicians, and with the dance company of Dorfman, and have work
choreographed on them.
Access to Art will also offer two films, developed over the last year,
as part of the program of dance, beginning with a film by local
filmmaker Craig Rinkerman (with assistance from Northfield’s Will Kahane)
of a documentary on Sam Maitin, Philadelphia artist. A 12 minute dance
short, by Susannah Newman, will open the dance event at 8 p.m. with
Maitin’s color saturated images through which the dancers dance and
cavort.. Three dancers are South Jerseyans. Newman, who currently
resides in Cape May, headed the dance department at SUNY, choreographed
for 50 companies including companies in Sweden and Paris, and taught
there for 40 years. She is both choreographer, and film maker. Music, by
Ibert, is played by Sue Ann Kahn and friends. Kahn was the daughter of
famous architect, Louis I. Kahn, a close friend of Maitin’s. The
documentary film features the music of the Mondrian Ensemble, formed by
Sam Maitin, to begin Access to Art’s chamber music festival in l998.
Maitin was Access to Art’s mentor and collaborator in bringing world
class art here. “Sam was so casual, and so unaffected. He just wanted
people to get together and to share their work with an audience and with
each other. He loved beauty, hated elitism in art, and wanted to bring
all people into the experience of art which enriches life.” she said.
“He thought that art was just part of life, not the possession of some
estranged elite. It was for, by and about people. He was for art for
everyman.” she said.
He was, as his wife said, “anti-elite, and anti-drab.” Maitin loved
color and drenched his work with it. He thought in color. His works are
in major museums here and abroad.” Beitel said.
Choreographer/film maker Newman began a group in New York of film makers
from the Institute of Technology in Rochester, choreographers from SUNY
and musicians/composers from Eastman. They began a film festival. Her
work has already been shown in Rochester to rave reviews at the festival
she began with cohorts. It was also shown in Philadelphia, and people
are requesting it for performances there and for appearances in
venerable Philadelphia institutions.
“We work very hard to pay for these events, which are expensive, since
you have to pay for dancers, their housing, the technicians who do the
lighting, the live musicians, the renting of the Performing Arts Center,
tickets, marketing, etc. We have a wonderful committee who is working on
the auction, and if anyone would like to join us, we could always use a
few more helpers.” said Barbara Beitel, Access to Art, Inc. Director.
“Call me at 465-3963 to sign up.” she said.
Admission to the auction is $20. and includes hors d’oeuvres. There will
be a cash bar.
“Our committee has just begun to gather things. The Atlas Motel, Cape
May, will give us an overnight, and we are out begging dutifully for
other items. If you wish to donate, to help defray the cost of the dance
event, call Access to Art, Inc. at (609) 465-3963.
You may also call to reserve your spot at the auction. “We have done
auctions for a long time, now, and they are lots of fun, and an
incredible amount of work. We are very grateful for the community
support that we always receive, and for the people who faithfully attend
and work the event.” Beitel said.
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