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 A.I.M's new Executive Director, Sydnie Liggett!
Sydnie comes to A.I.M with more than a decade of experience in arts administration, management, and programming, most recently serving as Director of Programs at Dance/USA, the national service organization for dance. Read more here FROM THE FOLKS AT THE YARD:
As many of you know, our longtime and valued Executive Director and Co-Producer, Alison Manning, has decided to step down from her current position and transition into a new role as a senior development advisor to The Yard at the end of the 2019 Summer Season. This new role will focus her energy on fundraising for The Yard, as we work collectively to realize the exciting vision we have set forth for this organization's future. It will also enable her to better focus on her family in New York and her artistic endeavors. We are pleased that David R. White will continue in his capacity as The Yard’s Artistic Director and Executive Producer, as will the rest of our talented staff. On behalf of The Yard’s Board of Directors, I am writing to inform you that Kim Comart will be joining the staff as Interim Executive Director on September 16th. Kim is the principal of Comart & Associates, a management consulting firm for non-profit organizations, which he founded in 1995. He has a strong background in interim management, strategic planning, organizational development, program evaluation, fundraising, and board development. Over the past 24 years, Kim has served as the interim director for 13 nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts, including community art centers and youth development organizations that work in an arts milieu. He is deeply passionate about the arts and the mission of The Yard.  Rena Butler The 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Winners in DANCE includes:
Jared Brown (Scholarship); Mia Chong, Stanley Glover, Roman Mejia, and Byron Tittle (Fellowship). Rena Butler and Randy Reyes (Choreography Fellowship) Tommie-Waheed Evans (Choreography Honoraria) Kyle Abraham (Special Projects) Raja Feather Kelly (Works In Progress Residency) Camille A. Brown (Choreography Mentorship Co-Comission) Read more about the 2019 Award Winners HERE!  Dance/NYC and its program partner Gibney are pleased to announce the fall recipients of the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Residency Program, made possible by the generous support of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation. The purpose of the residency program is to expand opportunities for dancers with spinal cord injury (SCI) and other disabilities, and to advance accessibility and inclusion within the larger dance, residency, and presenting communities.
The recipients of the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Residency Program, from August 15, 2019 to December 15, 2019, are: • Heidi Latsky Dance • Kinetic Light • Yo-Yo Lin  Louis Mofsie Photo: Jonathan Slaff FROM THE FOLKS AT The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies: The recipients of two special awards. The 2019 Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance will go to Joan Myers Brown, Founder and Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO), in recognition of decades of choreographic influence on the work of black American dance artists. The 2019 Bessie Award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance will be presented to Louis Mofsie, Director of Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, whose work has kept Native American dance forms alive for generations of young people. “We are thrilled to honor Joan and Louis, two legends in our field,” says Lucy Sexton, Executive Director, NY Dance and Performance Awards. “Their work has inspired dancers and educated audiences in ways that have enriched and strengthened dance in our country and we look forward to celebrating their accomplishments.” The two awards will be presented at the 35th annual Bessie Awards ceremony on Monday, October 14, at 7:30pm, at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012). Tickets for the event are available online here  Joan Myers Brown Photo: Deborah Boardman  Marjani Forté-Saunders FALL 19 BAC SPACE RESIDENT ARTISTS
Director Mallory Catlett (NYC) and composer Aaron Siegel (NYC) will collaborate on a music theater work based on Janet Frame’s haunting novel Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room. Musician/composer Amir ElSaffar’s(NYC) Rivers of Sound Orchestra willdraw on ancient microtonal modal practices to develop an ensemble work, Sonoluminescence. Molly Lieber (NYC) and Eleanor Smith (NYC) will develop STAMINA, a public demonstration reflecting ego, desire, and fear, creating episodes of levity, darkness, and discomfort. Choreographer Ella Rothschild (Tel Aviv, Israel) will begin a new creative process stemming from the question of how personal story can reveal broader phenomena about society. Composer Everett Saunders (NYC / Pasadena, CA) and dance artistMarjani Forté-Saunders (NYC / Pasadena, CA) will develop a virtual and augmented reality performance installation and music project. Choreographer/dancer Bobbi Jene Smith (NYC) will draw inspiration from the catastrophic and sublime machinations of geological forces to create an abstract and emotionally visceral movement narrative. Theater artists Peter Mills Weiss(NYC) and Julia Mounsey (NYC) will develop while you were partying, a devised performance about trauma, aggression, entitlement, and impotence. BAC Space Fall 2019 will include a series of public Studio Showings on November 15—the schedule will be announced by November 1. FROM THE FOLKS AT PARSONS DANCE:
Parsons Dance and Artistic Director David Parsons are pleased to announce the appointment of their new Executive Director, Rebecca Josue. No stranger to the company, Ms. Josue transitions to her new post after nine seasons with Parsons Dance—more than a quarter of the company’s life—having served as General Manager for the latter five years of her tenure. “I am excited and proud to announce that Rebecca Josue will be the new Executive Director of the Parsons Dance Foundation,” David Parsons remarks. “Co-founder Howell Binkley and I hired her nine years ago, and we knew even then that she was special.” Rebecca Josue joined Parsons Dance in 2010 as Company Manager and Stage Manager, and toured with the company—known for its energized and athletic ensemble work—both nationally and internationally for her first five seasons. Rebecca became the General Manager for the 2013-2014 season. Visit the Company's web page here MOVEMENT RESEARCH 2019 Artists-in-Residence
Jessica Cook△ Kayla Hamilton△ Benjamin Akio Kimitch△ Athena Kokoronis△ Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Zavé Martohardjono○ Elisabeth Motley△ Lai Yi Ohlsen△ Raymond Pinto△ Will Rawls++ △ With support from the Jerome Foundation ○ With support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation ++ With support from the New York State Council for the Arts Please join us in congratulating and celebrating these artists! Read more about the artists and the AIR program here. NEWS: Masazumi Chaya, Associate Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to retire7/18/2019  Masazumi Chaya Photo: Andrew Eccles Robert Battle, Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, announced today that the Company’s beloved mainstay for nearly five decades, Associate Artistic Director Masazumi Chaya, intends to retire on January 5, 2020, following the conclusion of the Company’s New York City Center season. Having joined the Company in 1972 as a dancer, Mr. Chaya performed under Mr. Ailey’s direction for 15 years, subsequently assumed responsibility for rehearsing the Company—a role for which Mr. Ailey had cultivated him—and for more than 28 years, as Associate Artistic Director, has maintained the repertoire, handled innumerable creative decisions, and guided generations of the Company’s dancers.
A special tribute performance celebrating nearly five decades with Ailey is scheduled on Sunday, December 22nd during teh Company's holiday engagement. Read more here |
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AuthorI am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a faculty member at Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning. I am also a former faculty member of The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, 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." |
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