My AmNews December 2016 Dance Calendar Featured: Reggie Wilson's Fist & Heel Performance Group @ BAM - December 14 - 17 Philadelphia: Eleone Dance Theatre Presents the 25th Anniversary of Carols in Color-12/17-1812/1/2016 Collaborate and dance with Larry Keigwin + Nicole Wolcott! TUITION: $500 (Includes a $50 Registration Fee) REGISTRATION & FINAL PAYMENT DUE: December 15, 2016 KEIGWIN + COMPANY invites you to explore the creative process as a collaboration between choreographer and dancer during our 2017 Winter Intensive. You will learn to develop your unique voice and hone your skills as a creator and dancing artist, using improvisation and compositional tools in a playful environment with Larry Keigwin. QUALIFICATIONS This workshop is designed for pre-professional and professional dancers who have comprehensive training in classical, modern, and contemporary dance. To maintain an initmate learning environment, workshop capacity is 30 students. You must be 18 years of age. Find out more here PASADENA, CA
DECEMBER 27-31, 2016 Whether you're a Los Angeles native or a dancer looking to enjoy Southern California's amazing culture, ADF California has something for you to dig into! ADF faculty will lead a week of classes designed to reinvigorate your dance practice. Classes in technique, dance making, performance practices, and somatics will be complemented by conversations with ADF faculty and California-based artists. Come to ADF California for an intimate, intense week of dancing. Click here to see the latest schedule. Apply now! NEW YORK CITY DECEMBER 28, 2016-JANUARY 5, 2017 Experience the energy of New York City's dance scene with ADF! Spend nine days taking classes in modern, ballet, composition, improvisation, and yoga with ADF's New York City-based faculty, learn repertory from Abby Zbikowski and and other New York City-based choreographers, talk with NYC dance artists about being a working artist in the Big Apple, and see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform an amazing program of works by contemporary choreographers. Apply here. Register today for the Winter Intensive! December 27 - January 13 at the Martha Graham School marthagraham.org/intensives Full-Time Program Auditions January 14 MOPDC's Winter Intensive: Dance, Choreograph, Envision January 14 – January 16, 2017 @ Barnard College, NYC Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend This weekend Winter Intensive will offer intermediate/advanced dancers the opportunity to explore and connect with various dances of the African Diaspora, tools for creating socially conscious choreography, and experiential insight as to ways in which Dances of the African Diaspora can be incorporated in Dance Theater. 2017 Guest Artists: Urban Bush Women, Arcell Cabuag/EVIDENCE A Dance Company, Legacy Women & Adia Whitaker 3 days of rotating Master Technique Classes in: Contemporary, Afro-House, Samba, Cuban Contemporary Dance, Bomba, Afro-Haitian and Danza Azteca. Workshops led by Guest Artists + MOPDC company members. Plus 10hours of Socially Conscious Choreography Lab/MOPDC Company Rep + a Studio Showing. Founded in 2005 by Joya Powell, Movement of the People Dance Company is dedicated to unearthing historic and present sociocultural issues and addressing them through the healing elements of dance. Primarily a Dance Theater company, their choreography blends dynamic Contemporary Dance with traditional world folk dances, and develops a sensitive balance of pedestrian gestural phrases with grounded visceral movements that use breath and musicality at its core. MOPDC has performed nationally and internationally including: BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House, Lincoln Center Meet the Artist Saturdays, The Bronx Museum of Art, FLICfest, The Performance Project @ University Settlement (AIR2013), Amnesty International's Human Rights Art Festival (Maryland), SummerStage, York University (Toronto, ON), Casita Maria (AIR2015), Riverside Theatre, The Southern Vermont Dance Festival, BAAD!, and Dance on the Greenway (commission). MOPDC is dedicated to connecting cultures through dance, composing socially conscious choreography, and community engagement. To register and pay visit: www.movementofthepeopledance.com For questions or more information, please contact: contact@movementofthepeopledance.com This summer’s Institute will examine Internalized Racial Oppression as it manifests both for People of Color and White people and how these manifestations show up in our organizing, creations and collaborations.
Workshops will take place at the NYU Tisch Scool of the Arts. Apply for the 2017 Summer Leadership Institute!APPLICATION HERE ADF's Movies By Movers is now accepting submissions for their 2017 festival! Submissions accepted until February 12th. For more information and to submit your film, visit our FilmFreeway page 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." |