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Communications Manager
Dance/NYC seeks a full-time Communications Manager to create, execute, and advance its marketing and communications strategies across its programs and initiatives. Unite your expertise in marketing and communications with your passion for arts and storytelling. Director of Development and Grantmaking DETAILS COMING SOON. Please visit Dance.NYC for updates soon. Producing Assistant Dance/NYC seeks a full-time Producing Assistant to support the programs department with the logistics and execution of all Dance/NYC events, maintain internal administrative structures, and coordinate with the communications department to produce marketing components. Unite your production experience with your passion for arts and advocacy. Research and Advocacy Coordinator Dance/NYC seeks a full-time Research and Advocacy Coordinator to oversee ongoing research and advocacy priorities, execute on planned programs, and identify and manage new opportunities. Unite your passion for research and advocacy with your project management experience. APPLY NOW
 Two events celebrating Juneteenth, that day on June 19, 1865 when Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
(1) With Dance/NYC’s advisor Tiffany Rea-Fisher and The International Association of Blacks in Dance the Juneteenth Million March invites activists across Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Staten Island, & Queens to protest for justice on Friday, June 19, 2020 at 2:00pm at City Hall in Manhattan. Join the march here (2) Summerstage’s “Honoring the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth” invites Creative Outlet Dance Theatre, Hope Boykin and Ruddur Dance as part of an eight-hour day of events. Find out more here For Colored Girls when have considered suicide when then rainbow is enuf.
Dancer-choreographer, director Linda Goodrich, is mounting a Zoom adaptation of For Colored Girls for Celebration Arts (CA) in Sacramento, the main black theater company in Sac, going back 35 years. This historic one-hour adaptation of the play, performed by women over 50 years old, and has been adapted to our current condition of Sheltering-in-Place during the Covid-19 pandemic. Production, Saturday (6/6) at 7:00 p.m., $10
Celebration Arts Live: Adaptation of "for colored girls...” by Ntozake S...Production, Saturday (6/6) at 7:00 p.m., $10. Talk-Back, Sunday (6/7) at 2:00 p.m., $5. Production and Talk-Back...  BAM launches DanceAfrica digitally with a series of public programs celebrating the nation’s largest African dance festival and its community, programs launch May 18
Offerings include conversations with Abdel R. Salaam, Rennie Harris, Ronald K. Brown, Mikki Shepard, DanceAfrica Elders, and more; online dance classes; streams of past performances; FilmAfrica; and other programs that bring the joy of DanceAfrica into audiences’ home Popular Brooklyn bazaar goes digital for the first time in 43 years highlighting 20+ small businesses through an online marketplace, May 14—June 15. Find out more here  Dance Parade New York will host an interactive online dance festival on Saturday, May 16, from 1:00-3:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. Anticipating 1,000 people dancing-in-place simultaneously from around the world, parade organizers will present family-friendly fun and movement joy in DJ-lead virtual dance rooms, free dance classes with top professionals, dance-offs between participants, flashmob, free dance classes, and will announce winners of Dare to Dance challenge, which invited house bound choreographers to submit new work to win cash prizes.
Find out more here FROM THE FOLKS AT "WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM:"
Virtual Commissions Schedule Through May 18, 2020 To financially support artists and nurture their creative process during these challenging times, Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, announces Works & Process Virtual Commissions. With the generosity of our board, Works & Process will grant over $40,000 in commissioning funds to artists who have been featured at Works & Process. Artists from a wide variety of genres have been commissioned to create new works, less than 5 minutes long, while observing social distancing guidelines, that will premiere on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube (@worksandprocess) every Sunday and Monday at 7:30pm. Confirmed Schedule to Date: May 10 - Karma Styles and Omari Wiles; May 11 - Gus Solomons, Jr. May 17 - LaTasha Barnes; May 18 - Evita Arce Commissioned Artists Evita Arce * Ephrat Asherie * Brandon Stirling Baker * LaTasha Barnes * Hope Boykin * Brian Brooks * Rena Butler * Chris Celiz * Anthony Roth Costanzo * Dylan Crossman * Machine Dazzle * Michelle Dorrance * Tom Gold * John Heginbotham * Michael R. Jackson * John Jarboe * Gabrielle Lamb * Pontus Lidberg * Missy Mazzoli * Ryan McNamara * Andrea Miller * Calli Quan * Anthony Rodriguez * Penny Saunders * Claudia Schreier * Gus Solomons Jr. * Conrad Tao Commissioned Collaborations Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung * Joshua Bergasse, Sara Mearns, Zoe Sarnak and Margot Siebert * Nora Brown and Caleb Teicher * Nathan Bugh and Gaby Cook * Tony Buck, Jamar Roberts, and David Watson * Alejandro Cerrudo and Ana Lopez * Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon * Jack Ferver and Jeremy Jacob * Larry Keigwin and Nicole Wolcott * Ashley Laracey and Troy Schumacher * Isaac Mizrahi and Pam Tanowitz * Nico Muhly and Adam Tendler * Carson Murphy and Nicholas Van Young * Michael Novak and Josh Prince * Kamala Sankaram and Preeti Vasudevan * Dan Siegler and Dawn Sinkowski * Karma Styles and Omari WilesFrom the folks at "Works & Process at the Guggenheim" 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." |
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