See an excerpt of Roach teaching students Erika and Jessica Black.
The award recipients were, as most years, very impressive: Brenda Bufalino and Tony Waag, Larissa Saveliev, Wayne McGregor, Luigi and Misty Copeland. Longtime performers and supporters from the tap community, Bufalino and Waag are known for beginning and sustaining the American Tap Dance Orchestra/Foundation; Saveliev is the co-founder of Youth American Grand prix; McGregor is the mastermind choreographer and director for his company Wayne McGregor I Random Dance; Luigi is the father of his namesake classic jazz technique; and Copeland is the first African-American soloist at American Ballet Theatre. Fittingly, Wendy Perron, now the Editor in Large at Dance Magazine opened the evening and was greeted with a huge round of applause. Constance Valis Hill presented to Bufalino and Waag; Susan Jaffe to Saveliev; Jedediah Wheeler to Wayne McGregor; Liza Minnelli to Luigi and Raven Wilkinson to Copeland. Sadly, an ailing Luigi was not able to attend, nor could Minnelli because she too was not well. McGregor could not attend either, both he and Minnelli sent tape recordings noting how much they wanted to be present. Nonetheless other performances and lovely tributes sandwiched each presentation, some nicely timed, others a bit too long. The evening was highlighted with works by Marcelo Gomes: La Mort d’Ophelie danced by Sarah Lane and Sterling Baca for Saveliev, Toccare danced by Copeland and Alexandre Hammoudi for Copeland, and for McGregor, Akua Noni Parker and Jeroboam Bozeman from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater danced in McGregor’s Chroma. Nothing topped Francis Roach accepting the award for Luigi by coaxing the audience to stand up and do/learn the Luigi warmup. And a …. 5-6-7-8…..
See an excerpt of Roach teaching students Erika and Jessica Black.
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The Merce Cunningham Trust (MCT), founded to preserve and extend the artistic legacy of the choreographer Merce Cunningham, announces major gifts to two significant arts organizations. The Trust has awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) $375,000 to establish and endow the Merce Cunningham Award, and the Baryshnikov Art Center (BAC) $250,000 to support the establishment of The John Cage and Merce Cunningham Studio, as well as the creation of a Cage Cunningham Fellowship.
About the Awards: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Founded in 1963 by John Cage and Jasper Johns, FCA’s mission is to encourage, sponsor, and promote innovative work in the arts created and presented by individuals, groups, and organizations. FCA will establish and endow the Merce Cunningham Award, a biennial grant given in recognition of outstanding achievement in the arts that reflects the creativity and spirit of Merce Cunningham. This unrestricted, by-nomination award will be made to an individual artist through FCA’s signature Grants to Artists program. The Merce Cunningham Award will be supported by the Trust’s endowment gift beginning in 2017; FCA will fund the inaugural 2015 award. It will join two permanently endowed awards at FCA: the biennial John Cage Award and the annual Robert Rauschenberg Award. Baryshnikov Arts Center Founded in 2005 by Mikhail Baryshnikov, BAC’s vision is to serve as a gathering place for artists from all disciplines, establishing a creative laboratory and performance space for artists from around the world. MCT’s gift will be added to the newly created Cage Cunningham Fund that BAC is establishing to honor Merce Cunningham and John Cage and their lifelong groundbreaking collaborations. Starting in 2015, the Fund will award one $50,000 Cage Cunningham Fellowship annually and will allow BAC to rename its Studio 6A The John Cage and Merce Cunningham Studio. Fellows will receive support to develop new works and collaborations in BAC’s newly named studio. One “Emerging New Jersey Choreographer” will be selected and awarded $1,000 to create a New Work for final presentation at "Dance on the Lawn 2015" Deadline for applications - Wednesday, January 14, 2015* Choreographer will be named February 16, 2015* Panelists: Randy James (10 Hairy Legs) Paul McRae (New Jersey Ballet) Donna Scro (Freespace Dance) Marlies Yearby (Director/choreographer) RESPONSIBILITIES of chosen choreographer: 1) Open Rehearsal - Saturday, May 9, 2015 @ St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Assembly Hall) 6:00-9:00pm. Present a work-in-progress in an informal setting. A question and answer (Q & A) will follow the presentation for an invited audience. 2) Present the final work during "Dance on the Lawn 2015" - Saturday, September 12, 2015 @ on the lawn of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 4:30-6:30pm. Apply here *subject to change To Order Tickets in Advance Click Below:
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Attn: Barbara Wolfe, Chair, Department of Theatre Binghamton University Applications must be received by January 22, 2015. Salary commensurate with experience. Finalists may be asked, at a later date, to furnish further information including course syllabi, graduate transcripts, and additional samples of scholarly work. About the Department of Theatre About BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY It is the policy of Binghamton University to provide for and promote equal opportunity employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, disability, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran or military service member status, marital status, domestic violence victim status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or arrest and/or criminal conviction record unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification or other exception. Cynthia Oliver and David Thomson in Tere O’Connor’s Bleed at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)/Fisher Space Matthew Rushing’s special night during Ailey’s 2013/14 season at New York City Center - Company member since 1992/ Rehearsal Director/Guest Artist in 2010. Artistic Director Robert Battle of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for including even more forms and styles to the Ailey repertoire including works by Ohad Naharin, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Wayne McGregor and many more Okwui Okpokwasaili in her solo work Bronx Gothic at Danspace Project Camille A. Brown’s “The Gathering” during APAP at New York City Center Urban Bush Women and Yvonne Rainer & Group paired in an evening under FOCUS Dance at The Joyce Theater New York City Ballet in George Balanchine’s suite - Jewels (1967): Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Douglass Dunn and Dancers in Dunn’s Aubade at Peak Performances Rennie Harris Puremovement after a 10 year absence - at The Joyce Theater LeeSaar The Company in Lee Sher and Saar Harari’s Grass and Jackals at The Joyce Theater david rousseve/REALITY in Rousseve’s Stardust at Peak Performances Clifton Brown in Jessica Lang’s The Calling (an excerpt from Splendid Isolation II) at The Joyce Theater Nora Chipaumire’s rite riot (a dance in two parts) as part of the "Stripped/Dressed" series curated by Doug Varone at the 92nd Street Ys' Harkness Dance Festival The Joyce Theatre’s three-week-long “Brazil Festival” including Mimulus Companhia de Dança, Companhia Urbana de Dança, Focus Cia de Dança and DanceBrazil Eva Yerbabuena/Ballet Flamenco’s Lluvia (Rain) at New York City Center The dancers of Wayne McGregor's Random Dance in McGregor’s Atomos at Peak Performances The dancers of Ailey II for their season at their home – Ailey CitiGroup Theater Rocio Molina and Rosario Guerrero, aka “La Tremendita,” in Afectos at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) Trisha Brown Dance Company during their come back season at New York Live Arts (NYLA) under newly appointed associate artistic director Diane Madden Stephen Petronio Company during their 30th anniversary season at the Joyce Theater Carolina Chocolate Drops (CCD) a traditional African-American string band at BAM San Francisco’s Alonzo King LINES Ballet in King’s Constellations at the Joyce Theater The promise of a new Dance Theatre of Harlem during their second season Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater The growing repertory at Ballet Hispanico and the lovely dancing by Min-Tzu Li and Christopher Bloom during the season at the Joyce Theater The Limón Dance Company during their 68th season at the Joyce Theater, especially Roxane D’Orleans Juste and Elise Drew Nrityagram Dance Ensemble’s Surupa Sen + Bijayini Satpathy in Songs of Love and Longing at BAC The dancers of ABT in Don Quixote: Ballet in Three Acts (1871) by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky at the MET Kyle Abraham’s “Counterculture” at Harlem Stage with dance fiends Wendell Cooper and Javier Ninja John Jasperse Company (newly renamed John Jasperse Projects) in Within between at NYLA Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company is Gwirtzman’s The Oracle at BAM/Fisher The students of School of American Ballet’s (SAB) Workshop Performance at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Lincoln Center Misty Copeland in her debut as Swanilda in American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Coppelia at the Metropolitan Opera House (MET) Cuba’s MalPaso Dance Company during their first U.S. appearance outside of Cuba at the Joyce Theater Dean Moss and company in Moss’ johnbrown at The Kitchen Artistic Director Réka Szabó of Hungary’s The Symptoms in her solo I will be all of these things one at Peak Performances Jodi Melnick’s dancing in her Moment Marigold at BAM/Fisher Kyle Abraham's Abraham.in.Motion in Abraham's The Watershed, Hallowed and The Getting at NYLA Wendy Whelan in one of her final performances (George Balanchine’s La Sonnambula - 1946) at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Liz Lerman’s company in Healing Wars at Peak Performances Fall For Dance Festival - free and outdoors at Central Park's Delacorte Theater The 11th year of Fall for Dance at New York City Center Robert Battle for bringing Awassa Astrige/Ostrich, choreographed in 1932 by Asadata Dafora back to the stage at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal in Bausch’s Kontakthof (1978) at BAM Cynthia Oliver with Leslie Cuyjet in Oliver’s BOOM! at NYLA Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Jones’ “Story/Time #35, 36, 37, 38 & 39” at New York Live Arts (NYLA) Ohad Naharin’s Batsheva Dance Company in Naharin’s Sadeh21 at BAM The men of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Jeroboam Bozeman, Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Yannick Lebrun, Jamar Roberts, Jermaine Terry and Marcus Jarrell Willis) in Hofesh Shetcher’s Uprising during their 2014/15 New York City Center season |
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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." |