Continuum Dance Project

Founded in 2013 by Fernadina Chan, Founding Artistic Dean of Boston Arts Academy (BAA), Continuum Dance Project (CDP) started as a collective of BAA dance alumni. The mission of Continuum Dance Project is to create a choreographic laboratory for Boston Arts Academy dance alumni to work collaboratively and explore new choreography in their post secondary or post college dance making journey. It is a forum for these young artists to develop their own voices. The project grew out of a collaboration between these young dancer’s high school mentor Fernadina Chan, and three dancers Adriane Brayton (2007), Mayra Hernandez (2005) and Mary Ellen Liacos (2007) when they created ‘Shifting Scape” (2013) as a response to climate change, for the Center for Arts Education at Boston Arts Academy. Since its inception, Continuum Dance Project choreographers have created work for three seasons of the Across The Ages Dance Project; performed at Dance For World Community; produced their first concert “EVOLUTION “at The Dance Complex in 2014. They have collaborated with culinary artist Dani Coleman to create two seasons of their site-specific interactive fundraising event “Pairing” – pairing dance and food at a Victorian house in 2015 and 2017. Now, under the Co-Directorship of Adriane Brayton (class of 2007) and Fernadina Chan, CDP received the prestigious Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) Choreographer Residency in 2017 and created its first evening length collaborative and site-specific work.

Its self-produced second concert “EXPERIMENTS IN 3” represented Continuum Dance Project’s continuous interest in presenting work in unconventional spaces. In this concert, the audience travelled through 3 different studios; immersed in different environments and explored new vantage points for viewing dance. In some pieces, depending where the person sat, he/she experienced a different version of the same piece or saw a different performer. Continuum Dance Project continues to challenge the convention of dance viewing.