THE DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION NAMES THE SECOND CLASS OF DORIS DUKE IMPACT AWARD RECIPIENTS6/16/2015 Six Dance Artists Receive $80,000 Each in 2015 Doris Duke Impact Awards
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) announced today the second group of individuals to receive Doris Duke Impact Awards. The award is part of the larger Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, launched in late 2011 as a special 10-year initiative of the foundation to empower, invest in and celebrate artists by offering flexible, multi-year funding in response to financial challenges that are specific to the performing arts. Each recipient of a Doris Duke Impact Award is receiving $80,000, totaling in $1.6 million to 20 new grantees. Since April 2014, the foundation has awarded a total of $3.2 million in Impact Awards to 40 artists in the fields of jazz, dance and theatre. Ben Cameron, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, said, "The Doris Duke Impact Awards are based on nominations submitted by artists, identifying others (often less widely known) that will have enormous impact on the jazz, dance or theatre fields in the future. This year’s group is a thrilling one: we are honored to support them and look forward, not only to how they will use their funds, but to the ways they will shape and change the performing arts in the future." In 2015, six of the total of 20 Doris Duke Impact Award recipients are dance artists and are:
To see the full list of artists, read their bios and access samples of their work, visit the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Web site. T H A N K Y O U ! to everyone from Gibney Dance, especially Craig Peterson, Margaret Tudor, Julia Vickers, Paul Galando and the entire team to my esteemed panelists--Rose Anne Thom, A Nia Austin-Edwards, Jaime Shearn Coan, Siobhan Burke, Charmaine Warren and Marissa Perel and to all who attended or participated online Dance Criticism in New York was an unqualified success with our six panelists sharing diverse experience and perspectives, each speaker demonstrating professional commitment to honest, responsible work on behalf of this art that we all love. We can all agree that our writing thrives on the dynamic energy of multiple worlds--our immediate, one-to-one encounter with artists and their work; our own histories and inner landscapes; and our life OUT THERE in our communities with readers who value dance now or might recognize its worth through our special insight and passionate example. Moving on, we need to look at the power we invest in dance criticism, who claims access to that power and to what ends, who is denied access and the consequences of that exclusion. We need to create alternative, but adequately supported, venues for dance writing, and we need to value and compensate the dedicated time, skill and labor of that writing. I hope our conversation will continue in many forms, generating new ideas and collaborations. Please reach out to me with your thoughts and suggestions. I am ready to partner with you. If you missed this event or its livestream, you can access the recording here. Vimeo here In the meantime, here is the text of my introductory remarks. ****** In his 2002 essay, “The Perfect Dance Critic,” Miguel Gutierrez wrote, “The perfect dance critic does not exist.” [http://www.miguelgutierrez.org/words/the-perfect-dance-critic/] And then Miguel went on to tell us the many, many qualities, abilities, tendencies and working conditions that would make it possible for that mythical unicorn, The Perfect Dance Critic, to exist. But, perhaps, what we should be looking for in dance criticism is progress, not perfection. Convening tonight’s panel is my way of asking, Can we get a little progress here in New York, a city that remains of great importance in dance’s history, its growth and innovation and, I trust, its future? A little progress, if not perfection? Can we, as critics, be a meaningful part of this community? Or do we stay at the sidelines? Do we, as dance critics, have a meaningful place out in the world beyond dance? A world of beauty and also a world of inequities and injustice? Can we bridge the gap, bringing that world in, bringing dance out to that world? Rather than perfection, can we seek humanity? Rather than cool and lofty distance from the artist, can we respond to art and to artists with empathy? Can we meet the poetry of dance with the poetry of words? Rather than complacency, can we have insurgency? Provocation? Transformation? Shamanism? Can we value the diversity and complexity of a changing world in which we do not fear those changes nor fear how they require us to rigorously examine ourselves, to question our assumptions and to evolve? Can we foster communion, perception, intuition? Can we honor deep and broad experience and knowledge without resisting new questions, new tools, new pathways? Do we truly love dance enough to give it the respectful attention and witness that it deserves? I’m wondering. I’m hoping. And that is why we are here tonight. Eva Yaa Asantewaa (c)2015, InfiniteBody The joyful students from the School of American Ballet’s (SAB) Workshop Performance celebrated 51 years on June 2 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Lincoln Center. The annual Workshop Performances are SAB's only public performances and as in the past, one forgets that they are students. The school boasts more than 800 students who've learned more than 102 ballets. Notable SAB alumni include Merrill Ashley, Peter Boal, Maria Kowroski, Lourdes Lopez, Sara Mearns, Benjamin Millepied, Ethan Stiefel, and Wendy Whelan. This year’s Workshop Performance included Balanchine’s Harlequinade (staged by Dena Abergel and Arch Higgings), August Bournonville's William Tell (Pas de Deux) (staged by Darci Kistler), ABT's artistic director Peter Martins after Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty (Wedding Pas de Deux) (staged by Yvonne Borree adn Jonathan Stafford), Balanchine's Valse Fantaisie (staged by Suki Schorer), Balanchine's Stars and Stripes and Jerome Robbins' Fanfare. Kudos to the entire cast, they are indeed stars on the rise. 2 Programs
6 Premieres 9 Works Live Music Works by: Sean Curran, Doug Elkins, Heidi Latsky, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Manuel Vignoulle, Christopher Williams, and a World Premiere by Randy James with a commissioned score by Michael Wall. Guest Musician: Dorian Wallace Friday, June 12 and Saturday, June 13 at 7:30 pm Sunday, June 14 at 2:00 pm New York Live Arts 219 W. 19th Street Box Office: 212-924-0077 BUY TICKETS NOW Anna Sperber Gibney Dance June 3–13 Brooklyn-based Sperber premieres Ruptured Horizon as part of the Inaugural Making Space Season at Gibney. The evening-length work is an investigation of “…how the performers navigate their directional presence while inhabiting and effecting a landscape both imagistic and concrete. Situated in a lighting environment designed to optimize the natural light in Gibney Dance’s studio theater, the work explores the raw beauty of the laboring figure without drama or ornamentation," according to the release. Find out more here La MaMa Moves! Ellen Stewart Theatre, The Club, The First Floor Theatre at La MaMa, and La Galleria May 21-June 21 La MaMa Moves! celebrates its 10th anniversary season, featuring work by Alexandra Beller, Yoshiko Chuma, Anya Cloud & Eric Geiger, Brandon Collwes, Jane Comfort and Company, Junk Ensemble, Jon Kinzel, Stanley Love Performance Group, John Scott, Ani Taj, Thierry Micouin and Gwen Welliver. Find out more here 10 Hairy Legs (corrected) New York Live Arts June 11-13 Under artistic director, Randy James, the company of men will present works by Sean Curran, Doug Elkins, Heidi Latsky, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Manuel Vignoulle, Christopher Williams, plus a world premiere by James. Find out more here Wildcat! JACK June 11-13 Wildcat!, an interdisciplinary performance collective formed by choreographer/performers Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Eleni Zaharopoulos and André M. Zachery, will hold an “assembly” with two programs featured: I DO MIND DYING: danse précarité and 3 Meaningful Meditations. Find out more here Alvin American Dance Theater (AAADT) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts June 11-18 For two-weeks, under artistic director Robert Battle, AAADT returns with repertory works plus Exodus, the world premiere Rennie Harris, the company premiere of Battle’s No Longer Silent, and new productions of Talley Beatty’s Toccata and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison’s “A Case of You” duet from Reminiscin’. Find out more here ELIOT FELD'S KIDS DANCE Joyce Theater June 11-14 The 40 dancers of Eliot Feld's Kids Dance, ages 9 to 14, returns to the Joyce with the premiere of Feld's A Yankee Doodle, last year's premiere, KYDZNY, and Dotty Polkas. Find out more here Jessica Gaynor Dance Danspace Project June 11-13 Jessica Gaynor Dance presents an expanded and re-imagined Free Fall. Find out more here Yehuda Hyman The Theater June 11-13 THE MAR VISTA (premiere), a dance/theater work written and choreographed by Yehuda Hyman in collaboration with the Mystical Feet Company (Ron Kagan, Dwight Kelly, Amanda Schussel and Hyman), as part of NYTF's KulturfestNYC. Find out more here Various Artists The Yard June 12-13 The Yard opens it’s 2015 Yard Arts season with Chelsea and Magda, Amber Sloan and Raphael Xavier on a shared program. Find out more here The Steps Repertory Ensemble Kumble Theater at LIU Brooklyn June 12-13 Under the direction of Bradley Shelver, the Ensemble will present Shelver’s Count Off, to an original score by contemporary composer Tonia Ko, performed live by the Periapsis trio. The full-evening program of collaborative music/dance works will also see dances by Erin Dillon and Hannah Weber. Find out more here Dance & Process The Kitchen June 12-13 Dance and Process, The Kitchen's longest running ongoing series, this year curated by Sarah Michelson with additional advising by Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen, presents works by Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Benjamin Kimitch, Courtney Krantz, and Elizabeth Ward. Find out more here New Chamber Ballet City Center Studio 5 June 12–13 Miro Magloire presents premieres works for his New Chamber Ballet. Find out more here DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON® Inwood Hill Park June 14 The 13th Annual DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON®: A Native American Festival and Multicultural Celebration, presented by Lotus Music & Dance in collaboration with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, features Manhattan’s only open air pow wow, which is a celebratory gathering of Native American people that will be led by Louis Mofsie and the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers with Host Drums Heyna Second Sons and Silver Cloud. Find out more here Jersey (New) Moves! is a new program that showcases New Jersey's best up-and-coming dancemakers. Accomplished mentors will partner with four young choreographers from the Garden State to develop works that will be premiered at NJPAC on Friday, June 19, 2015! click here for tickets! The evening will feature never-before-seen pieces by artists selected through an open, online submission process. The selected choreographers are: ROBERT MARK BURKE Mentor: RANDY JAMES, Artistic Director of 10 Hairy Legs Robert Mark Burke is a dancer, choreographer and teaching artist. Robert is co-curator and coproducer of the 12 by 12 Dance Initiative, an ongoing choreographic program based in Hoboken, NJ, and has shown his work throughout the United States including the wild project, The Secret Theater, Dixon Place, Paramount Theater (Boston), Hofstra University, Rutgers University, Rider University, and Dance New Amsterdam. Robert is on faculty at the Rutgers High School Musical Theatre Academy and has been Guest Teaching Artist at the Atlantic Theatre School (New York, NY), as well as many high schools throughout the tri-state area. He graduated cum laude with a BFA in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2013, following a year-long tour with the North American production of "Cats." In 2015, Robert was awarded the Emerging Choreographer's Commission for "Dance on the Lawn" (Montclair, NJ). LAUREN CONNOLLY Mentor: CLAIRE PORTER, Choreographer of Claire Porter's Portables Lauren Connolly is a dance educator and freelance choreographer from New Jersey. She graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2010 with a BFA in Dance with academic honors. She is the recipient of the Florence S. Domeshek Award for dedication and creativity in dance and the Dancexpress Award for exceptional achievement as a choreographer. In 2010, she was selected to present her work, Vacillation Revisited, at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC as part of The National College Dance Festival. Her work has been shown throughout the New York, Boston, Philadelphia and New Jersey area including New York Live Arts, Reverbdance: Echo Tours, Dance Teacher Summit, Rutgers University, Your Move, Jersey City's Modern Dance Showcase, Dixon Place, Salvatore Capezio Theatre, Koresh Artist Series, Grounds for Sculpture and George Street Playhouse. Lauren is the former director of dance and creative movement at Children's House Montessori (NJ) and currently serves as the dance educator at The Academy of Fine Arts and Academics Young Dance Program (NJ), The Orchard Academy (NJ) and Co-Director of the Dancexpress Performance Program (NJ). KYLE GEORGINA MARSH Mentor: NAI- NI CHEN, Artistic Director of Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Kyle Georgina Marsh, is a New York/Jersey City based dance artist. Born in Tokyo, and raised throughout Japan, Australia, Hawaii, England, and India Kyle's education as an aspiring artist has been culturally diverse. In the fall of 2013, Kyle was one of four choreographers in residence at Lustig Dance Theater, via their partnership with coLAB Arts. Through this opportunity Kyle's work The Unbidden Occasion was reviewed by The New Jersey Star Ledger as having been, "the evenings most successful premiere." As a choreographer Kyle's work has been presented at: The Triskelion Arts Center, The Debaun Performing Arts Center, The George Street Playhouse, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Dance New Amsterdam, Rutgers University, Hebrew University, and The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. In 2011/2012 Kyle lived abroad in Israel as a student at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and had the privilege of performing at The Susan Dellal Center for Dance and Theater in Tel Aviv. Kyle holds a BFA in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts and a Masters Degree in Dance Education from Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Website:www.KyleGeorginaMarsh.com ARIELLE PETRUZZELLA Mentor: CAROLYN DORFMAN, Artistic Director of Carolyn Dorfman Dance Arielle Petruzzella is the artistic director of her company: Zella Dance and is co-founder of the 12 by 12 Dance Initiative. Arielle graduated with honors with her BFA in Dance and Communications from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, in May of 2013, where she received the Margery J. Turner Award for sustained choreographic excellence. Arielle served as rehearsal assistant to choreographer Brian Brooks for his 2013-2014 Joyce Residency. She has previously presented her work at The Young Choreographers Festival (2011), Dixon Place Under Exposed Series (2013), Boston Contemporary Dance Festival (2014), DUMBO Dance Festival (2014), NYC10 (2013), WAXworks (2014), Breaking Glass Project (2014), Ailey Citigroup Theater (2011), Your Move (2013, 2014), Grounds for Sculpture (2011), Amalgamate Artist Series (2012), and the American College Dance Festival and Gala (2012, 2013), among others. For more information and to purchase tickets to this event click here! Don't Forget... Enjoy a Day of Dance! Dance New Jersey's Annual Festival and Summer Show Up and Dance Saturday, July 11, 2015 Festival 9:30am - 2:30pm Show Up and Dance 3:00pm-4:30pm South Orange Performing Arts Center 1 SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ 07079 For more Festival information click here! Register here to perform at Show Up and Dance! Alonzo King LINES Ballet Seeks Executive Director:
About: Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a celebrated contemporary ballet company that has been guided since 1982 by the unique artistic vision of Alonzo King. Collaborating with noted composers, musicians, and visual artists from around the world, Alonzo King creates works that draw on a diverse set of deeply rooted cultural traditions, imbuing classical ballet with new expressive potential. Alonzo King understands ballet as a science – founded on universal, geometric principles of energy and evolution – and continues to develop a new language of movement from its classical forms and techniques. Alonzo King’s visionary choreography, brought to life by the extraordinary LINES Ballet dancers, is renowned for connecting audiences to a profound sense of shared humanity. “Alonzo King is one of the few bona fide visionaries in the ballet world today, and we are fortunate to have him and his LINES Ballet in San Francisco,” the San Francisco Chronicle proclaims. While the Company’s spring and fall home seasons bring new works of illuminating beauty to Bay Area audiences, LINES Ballet’s global tours allow us to share our vision of transformative, revelatory dance worldwide. LINES Ballet has been featured at venues such as the Venice Biennale, Monaco Dance Forum, Maison de la Dance, the Edinburgh International Festival, Montpellier Danse, the Wolfsburg Festival, the Holland Dance Festival, and most recently Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. Tracing LINES with Alonzo King, a short film by Franck Thibault. Read Detailed Information About Positon: HERE CONTACT: Glenn Peters, Senior Consultant Arts Consulting Group, Inc. 8581 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 406 Los Angeles, CA 90069-4120 Tel (888) 234-4236 x8 Cell (323) 636.2920 Fax (323) 936.1196 www.artsconsulting.com |
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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." |