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Miami Dade College Kendall Dance Program & Jubilation Dance Ensemble present - Artistry In Rhythm (A.I.R.) Dance Conference 2017 Artistry in Rhythm (A.I.R.) Dance Conference is a wonderful opportunity to experience dance and learn from various instructors, choreographers, scholars, and dancers. The Conference will host a wide variety of master dance classes in contemporary ballet & modern dance, Hip-hop, African Diaspora dance movement forms, Somatic movement forms, dance lectures, demonstrations and performances. April 20, 21, & 22, 2017 Miami Dade College Kendall Campus 11011 SW 104 Street Miami, FL 33176-3393 Registration Fee: Community: $25.00 MDCPS: $25.00 Miami Dade College Students: $25.00 Contact Information: Michelle Grant-Murray 305-237-2638 airdanceconference@gmail.com CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A.I.R. DANCE CONFERENCE 2017 FEATURING GUESTS ARTISTS & CHOREOGRAPHERS A.I.R. Dance 2017 Honoree: Mr. Louinès Louinis. A dancer, choreographer, musician, folklorist, and founder and artistic director of The Louines Louinis Haitian Dance Theater. His fast-paced and rigorous class offers an opportunity for participants to study Haitian folkloric dance styles and explore the use of space, rhythm, movement and individual expressions. Loren Davidson is a Performer, Scholar, Choreographer, Educator, Faculty at MDC Kendall. Her contemporary class supports the unique and nuanced qualities that are individual to each dancer using traditional modern dance concepts from Graham, Limon, and Taylor. Her conditioning class provides dancers with knowledge about how to maintain a healthy and active physical body. Jorge Luis Morejón is a Dance Educator, Dance Scholar, Movement Therapist, Performer, Choreographer, and Faculty at MDC Kendall. In his class, you will be able to Formulate a rationale for the application of dance/movement therapy, DMT, to healthcare, facilitates a clearer understanding of its aesthetic, physiological, and psychological impact on individual and group therapies. Bianca Robinson is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor. Her Street-Funk style class will get you moving in no time! This high energy class incorporates grooves, hits, lines and textures. Brittany Williams is an international artist, choreographer, scholar, performer, and social activist. Her work specifically focuses African-derived movement, spirituality, and sustainability practices in relationship to Black Americas & Caribbean Maroonage and fugitivity. Brittany Williams will use her choreographic process to directly address the lack of diversity within the Arts field in Miami Florida. Marisol Blanco, originally from Guanabacoa, Cuba, is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, percussion specialist/vocalist, and the owner and director of Sikan Afro-Cuban Dance Project. Marisol emphasizes the connection between steps, history, song, percussion, body expression, philosophy, psychology, and technical knowledge in her classes. A'keitha Carey, originally from the Bahamas, is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, faculty at MDC Kendall, and the creator of Carib-Funk Technique: A fusion of Afro-Caribbean, ballet, modern, and fitness principles and rooted in Africanist and Euro-American aesthetics. Augusto Soledade, native of Bahia, Brazil, is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, professor, journalist, and the Founder and Artistic Director and resident choreographer for Augusto Soledade Brazzdance in Miami. Soledade's class will explore movement through traditional, folk, and contemporary Afro-Brazilian dance forms. Andrea Jonusas. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, this dancer, choreographer, and teacher will instruct intermediate to advanced ballet technique emphasizing on the development of artistry, body placement, strength, memorization, and musicality. Tara Chadwick is an emerging leader in the preservation and practice of indigenous lifestyle. Tara is an anthropologist, writer, educator, administrator and mentor with 30 years of demonstrated success bridging community and culture. Her classes will orient participants to the history and purpose of practicing indigenous American dance traditions and to engage in the timeless meditation of America’s ancestor warriors. Andrea E. Woods Valdés is an international dancer, choreographer, professor, and writer. Woods uses dance as contemporary folklore with a creative process strongly linked to identity and representation. Her areas of interest include women in the arts, Afro-Cuban dance/music, African Diaspora history/culture and Dance for the Camera. Monique Newton is a dancer, choreographer and teacher.She is a certified Master Teacher of Umfundalai Contemporary African dance technique and Director of Administration for the Organization of Umfundalai Teachers.Monique uses her knowledge of Umfundalai and African Diasporan dances to choreograph for amateur and professional artists and students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Joan Francisco Valdés Santos is equally an artist and a scholar. While his formal education is in sports/recreation, science and psychology, he is also a prolific writer, composer and journalist with a wide range of knowledge and experience in Cuban music, art, literature, and culture. In his class, you can learn how the intellect, motor skills and learned physicality of the dancing body relates to and is reflected in martial arts and self-defense. Denzel Williams is a dancer, choreographer, instructor, and scholar. He will teach Afro Social: A style that fuses Traditional West African rhythms and movements with social dances that range from the United States all the way to Israel to bring a sense of community, and to bring an awareness to the mover that their individuality and movement quality is of high caliber and importance. Barny A. Espinal is a dancer, choreographer, scholar, and rehearsal Director for Olujimi Dance Theater. Her choreographic project allows for women to be at the forefront of conversation. “ROAR” also explores woman’s journey to self-acceptance. This work begins the conversation on the struggle of and what it means to be woman. FOLKS SPEAKING OUT ON THE CURRENT SITUATION (and more) ON PLANS (or non-plan) for THE NEA...4/6/2017 Ballet Tech Foundation:
In 1981, the National Endowment for the Arts was threatened with a budget reduction by then President Ronald Reagan. Last week, President Trump proposed a budget in which the National Endowment for the Arts is eliminated. With that in mind, we share the below. Eliot Feld's Testimony before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee, Chairman Sidney Yates, 3/25/81. Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee - The Reagan Administration's proposed cut of endowment funds by 50%, resulting in a 5 million dollar reduction in support for dance, would be a calamity for dance, both as an art form and as an industry. The public has been assured that cuts in social programs will continue to provide a safety net for those who are truly in need. Yet it is a fact that dance in this country has never enjoyed the safety of a safety net - and the proposed 50% reduction in funding for dance threatens its basic vitality. Perhaps - and I emphasize - perhaps, large dance institutions with influential boards of trustees and access to corporate and private foundations will survive this cutback, but many smaller companies and individual choreographers will not. This drastic and unprecedented reduction in support of the arts is a national policy that will blunt the cutting edge of dance in America. Last week, CBS News covered the launching of the first of 37 atomic submarines. This submarine is 300 feet long and is reported to have cost One Million Dollars a foot. Although I may be in over my head in this area, still, I would like to provide to this committee three modest alternatives: Alternative No. 1: If one submarine was reduced by a mere 5 feet, it would result in a 5 million dollar savings and support for dance could remain at its present level. Alternative No. 2: If 5 submarines were reduced by just one foot - that is, to 299 feet each - support for dance could remain at its present level. Alternative No. 3: If all 37 submarines were reduced by a mere 1.5 inches - that is, to 299 feet, 10.5 inches each - support for dance could remain at its present level. I suggest these as only three of an infinite number of configurations, but I am convinced that a submarine fleet of 133,200 inches, as compared to a submarine fleet of 133,140 inches, would hardly be noticeable, since it is my experience that objects appear larger when submerged in water. Mr. Chairman, the point of this naval whimsy is that what we are asking for on behalf of dance can be measured in inches. APAP: Dear APAP Members and Friends, President Trump's budget calls to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts completely. Now is the time to make our unified voices heard and advocate on behalf of the arts. We know you feel strongly about the power and impact of the arts in our country and in our communities. What you should know:
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. We encourage you to share this message. Sincerely, Mario Garcia Durham President and CEO, APAP TEACHING ASSISTANT (two courses) - Hollins MFA Dance
dates of engagement: Saturday, June 3 - Friday, July 7, 2017 DANC 539 – Dance History, Theory & Criticism Instructor: Noemie Solomon DANC 540 – Contemporary Art Practices I: Writing in the Dance World: Criticism & Journalism Instructor: Elizabeth Zimmer TA / DANC 539 – Dance History, Theory & Criticism responsibilities: TA will assist with grading papers, distributing handouts; writing assistance and support as instructed by Noemie Solomo n TA does NOT lead the class or teach material or have direct teaching contact with the students dates of engagement: Monday, June 5 – Friday, June 23, 2017 compensation: $500.00 per week x 3 = $1,500.00 TA / DANC 540 – Contemporary Art Practices I: Writing in the Dance World: Criticism & Journalism responsibilities TA will assist with grading papers, distributing handouts; writing assistance and support as instructed by Elizabeth Zimmer TA does NOT lead the class or teach material or have direct teaching contact with the students dates of engagement: Sunday, June 2 5– Thursday, July 7, 201 7 compensation: $500.00 per week x 2 = $1,000.00 TOTAL COMPENSATION: $2,500.00 additional details: housing provided by MFA Program travel stipend: $400.00 (includes ground & air travel) arrive: Saturday, June 3, 2017 depart: can depart Thursday, July 8 (after final class) or Friday, July 9, 2017 Hollins.edu Wendy Perron writes about Trisha Brown for Dance Magazine Alastair Macaulay writes about Trisha Brown for New York Times The CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), an unprecedented model for collaboration between the City University of New York (CUNY) and the New York City dance field, announces its 2017–18 resident artists.
2017–18 Resident Artists Baruch College: Baruch Performing Arts Center Caleb Teicher & Company Heidi Latsky Dance BMCC: Tribeca Performing Arts Center Andrew Nemr Brooklyn College: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Jinah Parker Project Odylle Beder The City College of New York: City College Center for the Arts MorDance/Morgan McEwen Urban Bush Women College of Staten Island: Department of Performing and Creative Arts Fana Fraser Hadar Ahuvia Hostos Community College: Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture Sekou McMiller Dance Company RudduRDance John Jay College: Gerald W. Lynch Theater Dusan Tynek Dance Theater Melissa Riker/Kinesis Project dance theatre Kingsborough Community College: On Stage at Kingsborough Ja’Malik/Ballet Boy Productions LaGuardia Community College: LaGuardia Performing Arts Center kris seto + shoey sun |vessels| Rovaco Dance Company/Rohan Bhargava Lehman College: Department of Dance and Theatre House of Ninja Nadine Bommer Dance Company Queensborough Community College: Department of Health, Physical Education, and Dance Jenni Hong Dance Sydney L. Mosley Dances Queens College: Kupferberg Center for the Arts Jiva Dance Svea Schneider/Kinematic Dance Theater York College: Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDprojectNYC Matthew Westerby ABOUT THE CUNY DANCE INITIATIVE The CUNY Dance Initiative was developed in response to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s 2010 report, “We Make Do,” which cited how destabilizing the shortage of affordable rehearsal space in New York City is to the dance community. A successful pilot project underwritten by the New York Community Trust, supporting residencies and performances on four CUNY campuses in 2013, prompted CDI to expand its scope. Since its official launch in 2014, CDI has subsidized and facilitated a total of 82 residencies—from emerging choreographers to established dance companies—at 13 CUNY colleges in all five boroughs. Bebe Miller Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company to launch international residencies in 2018 to Colombia, Peru, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, and South Korea.
The US Department of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) today announced the three American dance companies selected to participate in the seventh season of DanceMotion USASM —the dynamic cultural diplomacy program that supports United States foreign policy goals by connecting Americans with overseas entrepreneurs and social leaders through professional development opportunities, outreach and educational events, and performances. DanceMotion USASM is a people-to-people international exchange initiative of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, administered by BAM. Season seven features the following companies and world regions:
A particular area of focus is working with diverse communities and promoting the empowerment of women, people with disabilities, and at-risk youth. In addition, a week-long capacity-building and professional advancement program will take place at BAM in the summer of 2018. This Brooklyn-based program pairs six foreign artists who participated in workshops and collaborated with the DanceMotion USASMcompanies abroad with six local artists. American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21) announced that it has established the The Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography (formerly The Fred & Adele Astaire Awards)to honor the best of theatrical dance and choreography, both on Broadway and off, as well as film and television. Now carrying the namesake of one of the great dance icons of the American Musical Theater, the Awards will be executive produced by Patricia Watt and produced by Nikki Feirt Atkins, Founder and Producing Artistic Director of ADM21. The Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography will be presented under the auspices of ADM21, a non-profit dance organization dedicated to the preservation of great musical theater choreography. "What a wonderful surprise it was when I heard about this award in my name," said Chita Rivera. "It's so important to encourage young dancers and choreographers...they are our future. And ADM21 is doing just that." The nominations for The Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography will be announced on May 1st at The Friar's Club (57 E. 55th Street) and the awards will be held on September 11th at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311 W. 34th Street). The awards will be given for theater and film productions in the 2016-2017 season. This year's awarding committee includes: Sylviane Gold (freelance dance writer), Judith Jamison (former artistic director of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater), Anna Kisselgoff (dance writer and formerly chief dance critic of The New York Times), Robert La Fosse (former Principal dancer with New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater, Broadway dancer, choreographer, teacher), Donna McKechnie(dance and theater icon), Wendy Perron (dancer, choreographer, and teacher who was the Editor-in-Chief of Dance Magazine from 2004 to 2013) and Lee Roy Reams (Broadway actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director). The mission of the Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography is to celebrate dance excellence and the awards seek to continue that vision by not only celebrating the superb achievement of each nominee but by recognizing the immeasurable talents and passion of every theatrical choreographer and dancer. Join Kwame Shaka Opare, the inaugural recipient of the Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellowship, as he shares the fruits of his collaborative research in Ghana. Opare leads a free afternoon workshop in West African dance, followed by an evening presentation that combines filmed footage with a live performance, featuring musical director Yao Ababio and New York City dancers. View a livestream of the evening event, plus a post-show discussion, on Facebook Live. Chuck Davis Emerging Choreographer Fellowship Showing Sat, Apr 8 at 7pm Chuck Davis Fellowship recipient Kwame Shaka Opare shares the fruits of his travels. Contemporary West African Dance Workshop Sat, Apr 8 at 1:30pm Kwame Shaka Opare leads this free workshop on the West African dance aesthetic. |
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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." |