Come get into the studio with us before we head to Detroit!!! SIX WEEK ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY WORKSHOP We are kicking off Mark Morris Dance Center's new 6 Week Advanced Contemporary Workshop Series. This workshop will focus on floor work, partnering, physical conditioning and self-awareness techniques as key in-process components, offering consistency and community, around our training process for building work as a company. Participants will receive an in-depth experience with BAIRA | MVMNT PHLSPHY's movement language, learning company repertoire and survival techniques for becoming stronger and more sensitive performers and human beings. 2 hour class / $15 PER CLASS when you sign-up for the Workshop!! #COMETRAIN MARK MORRIS DANCE CENTER Mondays 12p - 2p | April 23 - June 4 REGISTER HERE WEEKLY OPEN CLASS [16 MORE CLASSES] PERIDANCE CAPEZIO CENTER Wednesday 6p - 7:30p & Friday 1p - 2:30p FULL SCHEDULE [6 MORE CLASSES] G I B N E Y 2 8 0 4/20, 5/3, 5/17, 5/18, 5/24, 5/31 CLASS TIMES Don't forget to sign-up early for our first annual BAIRA SUMMER DANCE INTENSIVE - Hosted by Wayne State University in DETROIT! click for registration & schedule info --> SIX WEEK ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY WORKSHOP We are kicking off Mark Morris Dance Center's new 6 Week Advanced Contemporary Workshop Series. This workshop will focus on floor work, partnering, physical conditioning and self-awareness techniques as key in-process components, offering consistency and community, around our training process for building work as a company. Participants will receive an in-depth experience with BAIRA | MVMNT PHLSPHY's movement language, learning company repertoire and survival techniques for becoming stronger and more sensitive performers and human beings. Register today for the Martha Graham School 2018 Summer Intensive! The Martha Graham School Summer Intensive offers dancers a rigorous program in Martha Graham Technique™, Martha Graham Repertory, Dance Composition, Ballet, and Contemporary. For more information and to enroll, visit marthagraham.org/intensives June 25 - August 3, 2018 ENROLL NOW
Join us for our Summer Dance Camp! Limited Space So Register Early! 3 Weeks Ages: 5 – 16 Camp is in session Monday - Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm Campers will be exposed to various forms of dance, arts and crafts and field trips - Swimming, Roller-skating, Pump It Up, Rebounderez, Doing Dishes Art Place, Turtle Back Zoo, Movies, Library and more. Dance: Modern, Ballet, Jazz, African, Zumba, Capoeira, Yoga, Hip-Hop, Arts & Crafts and more! Fees: Camp: $400 Registration: $25 Payment Plans are available. Daily and weekly rates available. Campers must bring lunch. Snacks and beverages provided. Campers receive a t-shirt. * After care available upon request for additional fee. For More Information: 908-258-0839 / 973-280-2294 umojadancestudio@gmail.com CLICK HERE FOR CAMP REGISTRATION FORM For the fourth season of “Bloodlines” (March 20–25), Stephen Petronio Company again honored the legacy of modern dance icons by presenting some of their works. This year, Merce Cunningham’s Signals (1970) took center stage. And though at the four year marker Petronio admits, “Bloodlines has been a gift and an unusually emotional experience…” he adds, “With Signals we deepen our commitment to Merce Cunningham as the essential game changer in the evolution of modern dance and the Judson movement that followed.” The “Bloodlines” series concludes next year. Up to now, chronologically, the Company has presented Cunningham’s Rain Forest (1968), Trisha Brown’s Glacial Decoy (1979) and last year, Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A with Flags (1966/1970), Chair-Pillow (1969) and Diagonal (1963), an excerpt from Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations (1986), plus Anna Halprin’s The Courtesan and the Crone (1999).
In Cunningham’s spectral Signals, their homage is awash with signature balances and complex lines that ran alongside a live and changing score by John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein (composers/musicians from Composers Inside Electronics, a contemporary ensemble). Then, contrary to Signals, the dancers surrender in true Petronio style, and arms and leg fly sculpting the air in Wild Wild World, an excerpt from his Underland (2003). Jaqlin Medlock finished Wild Wild World with a driving solo filled with angles and punches that stop and go, claiming her space. The evening closed with Petronio’s world premiere, Hardness 10, and the psychedelic unitards that spell out words or short sentences (“Story,” “Read,” “Ouch!,” “She’s The Boss,” etc.) in large letters, grabs the eye. But equally eye-catching is how the words/sentences are beautifully manipulated with each movement. The dancers mark the space with squared walking and repeating patterns, bringing to life Petronio’s deep look into the mutation of diamonds and how they too are manipulated. The dancers are: Bria Bacon, Ernesto Breton, Elijah Laurant, Jaqlin Medlock, Tess Montoya, Nicholas Sciscione, Megan Wright, and apprentices Ryan Pliss and Mac Twining. Hardness 10, the third collaboration between Petronio and composer Nico Muhly. Set to a previously unreleased score by Muhly titled Long Phrases for the Wilton Diptych, the new work features costumes by Patricia Field ARTFASHION, curated by one of fashion's greatest visionaries, in her first collaboration with the Company. Lighting design for Signals is by Richard Nelson, and for Petronio’s works are by Ken Tabachnick FROM THE FOLKS AT THE CHITA RIVERA AWARDS:
Carmen De Lavallade, John Kander, and Harold Prince will be honored at the 2nd Annual Chita Rivera Awards (www.ChitaRiveraAwards.com), taking place at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place, off Washington Square Park) on Sunday, May 20 at 7:30pm, it was announced today by Nikki Feirt Atkins, founder and producing artistic director of American Dance Machine of the 21st Century (www.ADM21.org) and Joe Lanteri, Founder and Executive Director of the New York City Dance Alliance Foundation (www.NYCDAFoundation.net). Atkins, Lanteri along with Patricia Watt are the Executive Producers of the Chita Rivera Awards. Actress, dancer, and choreographer Carmen De Lavallade will receive the second annual Lifetime Achievement Award, iconic composer John Kander will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theater Award and legendary theater director and producer Harold Prince will be presented with the SDC Director Award for Exemplary Collaboration with Choreographers. All three have been Kennedy Center Honorees. Tickets for the Chita Rivera Awards are currently on sale and can be purchased at www.ChitaRiveraAwards.com or by calling 1-855-NYC-5678. Ticket prices are as follows: $100 for a balcony ticket to the Awards ceremony, $300 for a par-terre ticket to the Awards ceremony and admission to the red carpet pre-show cocktail party, $500 for an orchestra ticket to the Awards ceremony and admission to the pre-show red carpet cocktail party and VIP reception, and $5000 for 10 Orchestra tickets to the Awards ceremony, admission for 10 to the pre-show red carpet cocktail party & 1 table at the VIP reception. The nominations for the Chita Rivera Awards will be announced on Friday, April 27 and the nominee reception will be on Monday, April 30. Carrying the namesake of one of the great dance icons of the American musical theater, the mission of the Chita Rivera Awards is to celebrate dance and choreographic excellence - past, present and future. The awards will honor the superb achievement of each nominee, while recognizing the immeasurable talents and passion of every theatrical choreographer and dancer. Additionally, through education and scholarships, the awards are committed to nurturing future generations, as well as preserving notable dance history. Nominators will consider outstanding choreography, featured dancers and ensemble in shows on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as, outstanding choreography in film, that opened in the 2017-2018 season. Nominations for the productions under consideration this season will be determined by the designated Nominating Committees. There are separate Nominating Committees for Broadway, Off Broadway and Film. There is an Awarding Committee for Broadway, which determines the final nominations that are received from the Broadway Nominations Committee. * * * Tickets to the Chita Rivera Awards are available to the general public at www.ChitaRiveraAwards.com POP provides the dance community with increased support for showings and performances at Gibney. Don't miss these upcoming POP: Performances in the Theater at 280 Broadway! 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." |