Immediate opening for an Administrative Assistant to manage the office and complete administrative duties with a focus on finance. Duties range from answering phones, collecting and sorting mail, to managing regular communications with The Yard’s Bookkeeper and supporting basic financial processes, like artist payments, vendor & customer accounts, receipts and reimbursements, and data management to working at the box office and warmly greeting and checking in patrons and donors. Must have 3-5 years administrative experience preferably for a non-profit or cultural organization. This is a non-exempt, part-time hourly position, 24 hours/week paying $20-$22/hour. The job is in-person, requiring time spent at The Yard's office in Chilmark, MA. Email your resume, a brief cover letter, and contact information for 2 professional references to jobs@dancetheyard.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If you need assistance or accommodations in applying for this job, please email Yvonne Mendez at yvonnemendez@dancetheyard.org. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago The Joyce Mar. 12-24 For their return season under the artistic leadership of Linda Denise Fisher-Harrell, week two will include works byLar Lubovitch, Rena Butler and Aszure Barton. Find out more here Various Artists BAAD! Mar. 14–Mar. 30 Experience BAAD!'s annual BAAD! Ass Women Festival at BAAD! Find out more here Various Artists La Mama Mar. 18-29 The festival launches dance evenings with new, thought provoking work by RACHEL: Dancers, Enya Kalia Creative and Mar Talavera-Tejeda at La Mama Shares, then the following week offers site specific performances throughout La Mama’s spaces, culminating in a weekend of fierce and boundary breaking dance artists at the cell that are not to be missed! Kayla Farrish, Jasmine Hearn, Portia Wells, Duel Rivet, tidbit collective - plus Vancouver, BC based Vanessa Goodman and Seattle artists Maia Melene D’urfé and Carolina Marin. Find out more here Mark Morris Dance Grup BAM Mar. 19-23 Morris teams up again with musical collaborator Ethan Iverson for The Look of Love, a homage to the chart-topping songs of Burt Bacharach The BAM engagement marks The Look of Love’s New York premiere. Find out more here Stacy Grossfield The Chocolate Factory Mar. 20-30 Continuing its Spring 2024 season Grossfield will premiere metamorphosis 2, "...a blunt, graphic, macabre and vulnerable dissection of female pain, both physical and spiritual; centering the female body as a site for personal and artistic rebirth, notes the release. Find out more here Stacey Spence Danspace Project Mar. 21-23 Spence will present a new dance in triptych form, “I am, here” (a solo), “Here with us” (a duet), and “Where we find ourselves” (a quartet). Find out more here Harmony Holiday The Kitchen at Westbeth Mar. 21-25 The writer, dancer, and experimental filmmaker, Harmony Holiday brings “BLACK BACKSTAGE” which builds upon the artist’s latest book MAAFA, a work that deals with the archetypes and sounds that form in and of the ruins after genocide and displacement, to . Find out more here Doug Varone and Dancers NYU Skirball Mar. 22-23 The Company will present the NYC premiere of Varone’s To My Arms/Restore, a two-part work featuring eight dancers, accompanied by live music by the 100-member MasterVoices and the New York Baroque Incorporated (NYBI). Find out more here Various Artists Danspace Project Feb. 28.-Mar. 9 The 2024 Movement Research Festival, curated by Marýa Wethers, Director of the GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program presents contemporary dance artists from the MENA/SWANA region. Featured artists include Salma AbdelSalam & Noura Seif Hassanein (Egypt), Sahar Damoni (Palestine), Lori Kharpoutlian (Lebanon), Charlie Prince (Lebanon), and F.M. Sayna (Iran), with a focus on the artists and partnerships that have been developed through MR’s GPS MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Exchange Program. Find out more here Ursula Eagly The Chocolate Factory Mar. 5-9 Eagly premieres the evening-length dance + social experiment: Dream Body Body Building. Find out more here Pontus Lidberg The Joyce Theater Mar. 6-10 Lidberg's latest evening-length work, On the Nature of Rabbits, inspired by true events occurring shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall and during the peak of the AIDS epidemic, marks Lidberg’s return to the Joyce after six years with his company, Pontus Lidberg Dance. Find out more here Rinde Eckert, Risa Jaroslow, Margaret Jenkis, Jon Kinzel and Vicky Schick Arts On Site Mar. 7-10 The artists, in different mediums – dance, music, theater, visual art – are collaborating for the first time to create Unstill Life, an evening-length work. Find out more here Various Artists New York City Center Mar. 8-17 New York City Center and Flamenco Festival happens throughout New York City for a total of 22 performances in 13 venues and includes over 100 of Spain’s Flamenco dancers and musicians including the National Ballet of Spain and Olga Pericet to name just a few. Find out more here Various Artists Five Angels Theatet Mar. 8-9 Fly-by-Night Dance Theater presents their 9th NYC Aerial Dance Festival featuring aerial dancers performing with a range of apparatus. Multi-faceted performance artist Akim Funk Buddha thtrads the evening together. Find out more here Hubbard Street Dance Chicago The Joyce Theater Mar. 12-24 On this returns to The Joyce, slated for their two-week season are works by Darrell Grand Moultrie, Thang Dao, Rennie Harris, Lar Lubovitch, Rena Butler and Aszure Barton. Find out more here Audition for STAGE DOOR with KEIGWIN + COMPANY PEAK Performances, Montclair State University, NJ Saturday, April 6th, 10am-11:30am OR Saturday, April 13th, 10am-11:30am Whether you’re a dancer or you just love to dance around your living room, we want you! Join KEIGWIN + COMPANY's Stage Door -- a new community dance at Montclair State University’s PEAK Performances. No previous dance experience required -- just enthusiasm and energy. At the audition, you'll be guided through a playful choreographic process with Larry Keigwin and K+C dancers using games and guided improvisation to allow you to uncover your creativity and physicality. Find new ways of moving, dance alongside your neighbors, and have fun! Click the link below to register for the audition on Saturday, April 6th, 10am-11:30am OR Saturday, April 13th, 10am-11:30am. Learn more about participating in K+C's newest community work, Stage Door HERE A commissioning program for NYC-based, early-career artists ABOUT OPEN CALL: Born out of The Shed’s commitment to act as a platform for NYC-based, early-career artists* working in a range of artistic disciplines, Open Call selects, fosters, and presents new work. The program showcases a wide, multiborough range of voices, lived experiences, and perspectives, demonstrating the multitude of ways in which artists are working today. It embraces proposals for new works in disciplines including the visual arts, theater, dance, music, performance, spoken word, literary arts, film, fashion, art and technology, new media, social practice, and public art and architecture, as well as across multiple and new disciplines. As with all Shed civic programs, we center Black, POC, people with disabilities, and other communities that have been historically excluded and most impacted by structural racism and other forms of oppression. For a list of past Open Call artists and more information about their commissions, please visit the main Open Call page. Take your work to the next level by applying to Open Call’s fourth edition. APPLY HERE Battery Dance is now accepting applications for Young Voices in Dance. Applications must be submitted online by April 21, 2024. Young Voices in Dance celebrates the next generation of choreographers. The program highlights the intellectual curiosity, innovation, and artistic excellence of youth (AGES 15-22) from around the world. Young Voices in Dance will feature live performances with original works made and danced by youth. APPLY HERE PASS Open Call! for Performing artists: Apply by April 18 This residency supports the creation and development of new works in dance, music, theater, and multi-disciplinary performance. Apply HERE Kinetic Light Founder & Artistic Director Alice Sheppard is among this group of architects, composers, interdisciplinary artists, filmmakers, visual artists, theater artists, poets, and writers. In total, 155 artists from 14 countries and 30 U.S. states.
MacDowell has awarded the equivalent of more than $2.3 million in fellowships to 155 artists from 30 U.S. states and 14 countries, arriving from as far afield as Chile and India, Pakistan and Australia, and from Alaska to Texas. The incoming artists-in-residence work in all disciplines, and were awarded Fellowships from a pool of 2,417 applicants for an acceptance rate of 6.4 percent. The Fellowships are for upcoming spring and summer residencies at one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations. Read more here The American Dance Guild (ADG) Ailey Citigroup Theater Feb. 22-25 The ADG Performance Festival returns with “Leaps Beyond Bounds,” a four-night program celebrating the Guild’s 68th anniversary. Thirty new and historical dance works will be shown, with this year’s honors celebrating the late choreographer Joan Miller (Lifetime Achievement Award), Ron K. Brown/Evidence (Lifetime Achievement Award), and Celia Ipiotis/Eye on Dance (Distinguished Service in Dance – Lifetime Achievement Award). Find out more here New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Jan. 23-Mar. 3 NYCB's winter season continues their year-long 75th Anniversary Celebration with 23 works created by choreographers including Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Justin Peck, NYCB Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky and more. Find out more here Twyla Tharp Dance The Joyce Feb. 13-25 Tharp offers two world premieres: "Ballet Master," "Brel," and a revival of "Ocean’s Motion" (1975). Find out more here Jean Butler Irish Arts Center Feb. 15-Mar. 3 What We Hold, Butler’s contemporary exploration of traditional Irish dance will have its North American premiere in a restaged and re-designed, site-specific work for Irish Arts Center after it premiered in 2022 Dublin Theatre Festival. "What We Hold takes the audience on a physical journey through the performance space, encountering an intergenerational cast of renowned dancers, and experiencing what the body holds and what happens when we collectively let go," notes the release. The New York cast includes, in addition to Butler, performers Tom Cashin, Marion Cronin, Colin Dunne, Kristyn Fontanella, James Greenan, Kaitlyn Sardin, Maren Shanks and Ryan C Seaton. Find out more here Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker NYU Skirball Feb. 22-24 In this dance solo, De Keersmaeker continues her journey with Bach, this time together with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. She stays true to her main principle of using the musical score as the blueprint for choreography. The Goldberg Variations belong to Bach’s late period, in which the composer pushes the boundaries of musical themes in a play of variations, canons, and fugues. Spanning one aria and thirty variations, the music challenges the choreographer to find a form of dance capable of adaptation and flexibility while retaining an immutable core. Find out more here Alonzo King LINES Ballet Lincoln Center Feb. 22-24 The Company will make their Lincoln Center debut with Deep River, "...a collaboration featuring vocalist Lisa Fischer and jazz musician Jason Moran, melding dance with spiritual music from the Black, Jewish, and Indian traditions, and invites audiences to consider the physical beauty and majesty of humanity as the pinnacle of creation," notes the release. Find out more here Halifu Osumare Various Venues Feb. 22-28 Osumare’s NYC book tour of “Dancing The Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and The Dunham Legacy” will include a shared discussion with Camille A. Brown at one venue. Find out more here Various Artists Central Baptist Church Feb. 24 In honor of Black History Month, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center and Central Baptist Church present a dance-narrative piece that tells the story of the Black experience in America. Find out more here Ayano Elson + Iris McCloughan Danspace Project Feb 24 Danspace Project’s DraftWork series hosts free, informal showings of new works in varying stages of development. This afternoon features performances by two NYC-based artists: choreographer, dancer, and teacher, Elson, and performance maker and writer McCloughan. Admission: Free with RSVP. Find out more here Camilo Godoy New Museum Feb. 24 & 29 Godoy presents a new performance work, renacemos a cada instante, exploring mourning practices and the resilience found in bodily joy and pleasure. This performance is the culmination of Godoy’s residency at the New Museum during which he used the Museum’s theater as a space for rehearsal, dialogue, and colla. RSVP required and tickets here The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Flushing Town Hall Theater Feb. 25 The Company will present Red Firecrackers, the story of Nian and the origin of Chinese Lunar New Year customs. Find out more here Sankofa Danzafro The Joyce Feb. 27-Mar. 3 Led by Artistic Director Rafael Palacios and based in Colombia, on their program is “Behind the South: Dances for Manuel” (Detrás del Sur: Danzas para Manuel) which pays tribute to Colombian writer Manuel Zapata Olivella’s “Changó, el Gran Putas.” Find out more here Sha Creative Outlet TRISK Feb.29-Mar. 2 The Company will present Wild Future, “…the unknown yet powerful future that is rooted in the current moment…” a performance consists of two pieces, \\\ (reads as Three Slashes) and Dis-placement 誤置. Find out more here |
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AuthorI am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning. I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program. I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications. Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me." |