Wednesday,October 5th, 2011
Calling ALL Poets (and Poetry Lovers)
Silas Bronson Library (downstairs)
267 Grand Street
Waterbury, CT
6:30-8pm

Open mike sign up 6:20

Hosted by Victoria Munoz


Joan Kunsch, featured poet
Award-winning choreographer and poet Joan Kunsch is in her 24th year on the classical ballet faculty of Connecticut's Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, where sheis also Associate Director Emerita. Besides further projects in London (The Royal Ballet School, White Lodge and the R.A.D.), Stockholm (The Swedish Ballet School), Reykjavik (Iceland's National Ballet School), Oslo (Den NorskeBalletthoyskole & Kirkenaer Balletskolen), The Hague, Canadian cities, D.C. and 32 of the United States, she has served as Ballet Mistress to MOMIX and Ballet Mississippi. She has given teacher training, master classes and courses in university dance departments (Butler, SMU, Univ. of Utah, SUNY-Binghamton). Students she has trained or co-trained have joined over sixty dance companies. Her choreography includes works for concert stage, sacred space, television and outdoor sites. She has written for Pointe Magazine, and her poetry book "Playing With Gravity," published by Antrim House in 2007, has been followed by a poetry CD in 2011. With her sister Kathi Byam, she performs in the duo "Flute Meets Poem."