(Queens, NY) On Monday, March 10, 2014, Queens Council on the Arts paired Celebrity Chef Gianna Cerbone-Teoli and Queens Dance artist Emily Berry to take guests on a journey of the five senses!
The event raised close to $10,000, the overall goal of The Moveable Feast Artist Dinner Series is $35,000 so far $29,000 has been raised. The proceeds will support scholarships for students participating in the High School to Art School Portfolio Development Program.
Choreographer Emily Berry and her dance collective, Beyond Third Wave & Chef Gianna Cerbone-Teoli. Photo by Studio 7 NYC
Food is like a dance. The movement portrays the passion. And the passion is what feeds my soul. What feeds yours? – Mamma Gianna
Through experimental and improvisational dance accompanied by a solo violinist, Queens based choreographer Emily Berry and her dance collective, Beyond Third Wave, inspired Manducatis Rustica Chef Gianna Cerbone-Teoli’s culinary menu for the evening. Guests enjoyed an Assemblé pasta course – a trio of pasta sfogiatelle, pappardelle cappuccion with 3 mushrooms and caramelle al verdo. Dancers interpreted the act of cooking the pasta through creative movement. Guests were also delighted by the Échappé course – lamp chops, stuffed shrimp and lobster scampi, truffled veal stuffed with spinach, truffle cheese and mushrooms cooked in a reduced aged marsala. Guests donned blindfolds to awaken their sense of smell while they ate. Overall, guests walked away being part of the show.
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The Moveable Feast Artist Dinner Series continues on Friday, April 11th with The Art of Ghost Dumplings. Find out what happens when the Chinese Hungry Ghost festival and a Rockaway Beach block party falls under the same full moon!
The mission of the Queens Council on Arts is to foster, and develop the arts in Queens County and to support individual artists and arts organizations in presenting their cultural diversity for the benefit of the community. For more information visit: www.queenscouncilarts.org
