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Wofabe 2014
Jeffrey Page Kinetic Afrique Harambee Sandella Malloy Sabar Dance And so much more.... Saturday, November 15, 2014 12:00pm-1:00pm Karen Love Children Class 12:00pm-1:30pm LaMora Afro Cuban 1:45pm-3:15pm Sis. Zul Latifatu Zahiratu West African Dance 3:30pm-5:00pm Sandella Malloy West African Dance 5:15 pm-6:45 pm Mouminatou Camara Guinea Dance 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Jeffrey Page Mali Dance Sunday, November 15 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Nima Camara Guinea Dance 1:45pm-3:15pm Mama Yaa Ghanaian Dance 3:30pm-5:00pm Babacar M'Baye Sabar Dance 5:15pm-6:45pm Damon Foster West African Dance The mission of Wofabe: African Dance and Drum Festival is to preserve and share the finest traditions of African dance and drumming to encourage cross-cultural understanding. This mission relates to our overall mission to celebrate traditional African culture, aesthetics and values as resources for all people. As we look forward to your support for our ninth year, we have begun the planning for our 10 year anniversary November 2015--YES! Wofabe turns 10! Your generous donation will support our mission of continuing the legacy of African Dance and Drumming in New Jersey. Visit our GOFUNDME page and join the network of donors supporting us so that everyone can continue to come, learn, and DANCE! Sincerely, The Wofabe Festival Committee Find out more here
It is with great sadness that I report the news of the passing of Valerie Gladstone, writer/editor/curator/author/teacher, who died of cancer, October 21st in New York City. Born in New York in 1939, Valerie grew up on Long Island and attended Connecticut College. She worked as an editor at Harper's Magazine, Channels Magazine, and Americana Magazine, and was published regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post. LA Times, Boston Globe, Travel and Leisure, Town and Country, and ArtNews, among others. A major writer on dance, she authored Balanchine's Mozartiana: The Making of a Ballet and A Young Dancer: The Life of an Ailey Student. She also worked on a documentary on The Juilliard School's jazz workshop at the Vitoria Festival in Spain. Also active as a curator, Valerie curated the programs Dance Under the Influence at the Museum of Art and Design, as well as dance series at the West End Theater in New York City and Long Island's Emelin Theater. Valerie is survived by two children, Nicholas Brooks and Sara Rouviere; three brothers; five grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and sisters-in-law. She will be missed by her family, friends, and the dance world. A memorial is being planned and details will be announced soon. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company New York Live Arts November 11-15 For this final week, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, New York Live Arts’ Resident Dance Company, continues with the New York premiere of Story/Time #37, 38 & 39. Inspired by John Cage’s influential mid-20th Century work, Indeterminacy, in which Cage read 90 randomly sequenced one-minute stories interrupted by a chance musical score, Story/Time is performed in 70 minutes by 9 dancers, performing choreography from the Company’s 32-year history. Bill T. Jones has written 170 plus stories and collected others. Before every sequence, the stories, lights, sound and choreography are randomly selected through chance procedure. Nov 11 & 12 - Story/Time #37 Lois Welk – A History features Lois Welk, who founded the American Dance Asylum Inc. (ADA) in 1972 and co-directed it with Jones and Arnie Zane, co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, from 1973–1979. Welk joins the Company on stage to share personal stories of her own that center on memories from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Welk’s stories provide a special window into the history of Jones’ and Zane’s early years in Binghamton, NY. Nov 13 & 14 - Story/Time #38 features Jones and the Company Nov 15 - Story/Time #39 Theaster Gates – Workin’ and Wailing is a one night only performance with the Chicago-based conceptual artist known for his practice of socially-minded space development, object management, performance and critical engagement. Gates will be accompanied by three members of The Black Monks of Mississippi, an experimental musical ensemble comprised of Gates’ close collaborators who temporarily follow semi-strict adherence to the blues form, one that Gates believes to be the most important root in American music. Following the common thread of chance-procedures, story-telling, and a firm focus on time, Gates and the Monks will join Jones and the Company in an energetic evening of live music, art, stories and dance. Find out more here Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company BRIC November 6-15 BRIC resident artist Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company runs for two weekends in two programs featuring One Shot, Order My Steps and Come Ye. Find out more here J CHEN PROJECT Gibney Dance Center November 15 J Chen Project is hosting a series of dance & career workshops at Gibney Dance Center in November! #3 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 from 1-4pm Know Your BRAND: designed for dancers of all levels to envision and create the dance career that they desire. NOTE: facilitated by a Harvard MBA who has invaluable insight on how to build a career with intention. Find out more here Batsheva Dance Company BAM November 12-15 Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Batsheva Dance Company returns to BAM with the US premiere of Sadeh21 by artistic director Ohad Naharin. In Sadeh21, Naharin sculpts the space and sound to produce a work bounding with originality and passion. The piece features 18 dancers in a journey that explores new ground, set to music by Autechre, Brian Eno, Angelo Badalamenti, and others. Find out more here Ivy Baldwin BAM - Fisher November 13-15 Brooklyn-based choreographer Ivy Baldwin celebrates her company’s 15th anniversary season, making her BAM debut with the premiere of the evening-length piece, Oxbow, created in collaboration with performers, and features a score composed and mixed live by Justin Jones and additional music composed and performed by Tracy. Find out more here Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts November 14 Celebrating its 30th anniversary,Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santa will perform The Soul of Flamenco, a passionate new production that embodies the purity of traditional flamenco and classical Spanish dance. Find out more here Jessica Gaynor Dance TRISKELION ARTS November 14-16 Triskelion Arts presents the world premiere of Gaynor's Free Fall. Find out more here Hattie Mae Williams Miami Marine Stadium in Virginia Key November 15 Williams’ The Tattooed Ballerinas presents Miami Sites Project a site specific dance film captured at the historic Miami Marine Stadium in Virginia Key. Find out more here Espiritu Gitano Flamenco Roulette November 15 Directed by guitarist-composer Arturo Martinez, a noted figure in the New York flamenco scene, the 10-member Espiritu Gitano ensemble of musicians, singers and dancers presents Felah-Menguz (Fugitive Peasant). The show takes its title from the origin of the word “flamenco” - felah menguz - which translates as “fugitive peasant.” Find out more here BALLET INC. Ailey Citigroup Theater November 16 The choreographer, Aaron Atkins presents his company Ballet Inc. in a program of new and repertory works with music that ranges from Arvo Part to Handel and Bach. Find out more here Alvin Ailey has been posthumously named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom!11/11/2014 On November 10, The White House announced that President Obama selected Mr. Alvin Ailey to be a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year. This honor is being given posthumously to acknowledge Mr. Ailey’s contributions and commitment to Civil Rights and dance in America.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Artistic Director Robert Battle will accept the Medal on behalf of Ailey at the Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony at the White House on Monday, November 24. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's annual New York City Center Season will run for five weeks December 3 - January 4 and will be followed by an 18-city National tour running February through May. This is the 25th season since founder Alvin Ailey's passing. |
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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." |