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 My AmNews January 2021 Virtual Dance Calendar
Featured: Maria Bauman-Morales’ Desire: A Sankofa Dream January 22 and 23  Maria Bauman-Morales’ Desire: A Sankofa Dream
January 22 and 23 Co-commissioned with the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) and 651 ARTS, Bauman-Morales created Desire… as a “…site responsive and interactive work designed as a healing performance-ritual built around Black queer survival techniques and tailored specifically for Zoom incorporating dance, original text and installation - pushing the boundaries of live, online artwork.” Bauman-Morales says the piece is part scored improvisation, part choreography, part visual design and part choose-your-own-adventure. Find out more here January 20 Roulette Coverture with Tess Dworman in collaboration with Angie Pittman, a series of conversations and improvised performances, in three nights. Dworman will perform a duet with a different guest artist: John Maria Gutierrez, Miguel Gutierrez, and Martita Abril. Find out more here more here January 21 IABD's - Black Dance Canon The masterworks series that where legendary works are revered for their narrative, movement language, intentionality and continued relevance to audiences and societal conversations. Featuring Dance Theatre of Harlem in Geoffrey Holder's DOUGLA performed by the Dance Theatre of Harlem Company with guest artists, Paunika Jones, Malik Berry and Collage Dance Collective. Find out more here January 22 Gibney mayfield brooks and Dohee Lee share an evening in “HANG TIME.” Dohee and mayfield will share aspects of their work that relates to the land and the role of ancestors in their work. This event is a meeting with the artists and an open-ended digital hangout–audience drop-in hosted by mayfield and Dohee. RSVP is required. January 19–20 & January 26–27 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival Curated and hosted by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will feature digital premieres by five artists: Kevin Augustine (US); Kari Hoaas (Norway); Tamar Rogoff (US) with Mei Yamanaka (Japan). Tickets are pay-what-you-can starting at $5. Find out more here Battery Dance Accepting Applications for 40th Annual Battery Dance Festival - Deadline 3/11/20/2021  Battery Dance Festival, New York City's longest-running free public dance festival, was established by Battery Dance as the Downtown Dance Festival in 1982. It draws audiences of approximately 2,000 people each night from the large downtown population of workers, residents, families, tourists, senior citizens and dance fans from the greater NYC metropolitan area and beyond. The Festival went virtual last summer and is planned to run as a hybrid model with live and streamed performances in August 2021.*
Battery Dance Festival provides a unique opportunity for professional dancers and choreographers in any genre to present original works of high artistic merit in a free public forum against the backdrop of New York Harbor, Statue of Liberty and the sunset. Past participants have included Dorrance Dance, New York Theatre Ballet, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Vanaver Caravan, Dancing Earth Indigenous Dance Company, Music from the Sole, and Jamal Jackson Dance Company alongside pre-eminent companies from Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Europe, South America and the Caribbean. For more information, visit https://batterydance.org/apply/. * If staged performances are not possible due to COVID restrictions, the festival would shift to online-only.  IABD'S 30th Anniversary Celebration Continues with: Company Performances Company Performances explore the many forms, styles and techniques within dance as each company work that encapsulates the expression and voice from a diverse group of choreographers. Saturday, January 16, 2021 | TICKETS 9:00 - 10:30 PM ET With Performances by: Duke Ellington School of the Arts Lula Washington Dance Theatre Philadanco! University of Nevada, Las Vegas  In Process with Bobbi Jene Smith
January 15 - January 17, 2021 BUY TICKETS Friday and Saturday at 7PM (EST); Sunday at 12 noon (EST) Pay What You Can $5 - $25  |
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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." |
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