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![]() Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation March 5 Ase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation "...whose core tenets are to Enrich, Educate, Entertain African history art forms and history through its programs for children to adults," brings its It Was All A Dream, 20th Anniversary, kicking off their year-long celebration. Find out more here Maria Valencia March 1 The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) continues its 2021 digital spring season with the premiere of choreographer and performer Valencia’s brownout, a solo created, directed, and filmed at locations in upstate New York. brownout will be available to view until March 15. Find out more here Rovaco Dance & Kayla Farrish March 4 Rovaco Dance and Kayla Farrish shares and evening as part of this series following current COVID-19 restrictions, and welcoming live and virtual audiences Find out more here Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Festival March 5 - April 4 This month-long digital festival features four New Adventures productions filmed live at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. Bourne’s: Swan Lake, The Car Man, Cinderella, and Romeo and Juliet will be available on demand in rotation. Find out more here Dara Fain March 6 The Chocolate Factory celebrates the occasion of Faïn’s 25th anniversary as an NYC based artist with a preview of the patch the sky with 5 colored stones interactive digital platform – inviting the spectator to join in the effort to conjure an experience of human intimacy using tools of disconnection. Find out more and register here Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance March 6 + 7 Founder and director Fredrick Earl Mosley's Unconquered, initially in response to COVID-19 and racial injustice, happens this weekend. Register and find out more here Martha Graham Company March 6 - 24 The Company’s all-digital 95th season continues and offers and inside look the work of the Company and iconic works by Martha Graham, and the dances commissioned from some of today’s choreographers. Find out more here Various Artists March 6 In the program "DANCING ACROSS BORDERS," Pepatián and BAAD presents dance makers Stéphanie Cyr, Jessica McMann, Simran Sachar, Zahra Shahab who will share a program moderated by Alicia Bauman-Morales and curated Jane Gabriels, Ph.D. in collaboration with Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative. Find out more and RSVP here ![]() Tickets by Donation: Entrada por Donación: Online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140448963631 Paypal: paypal.me/markdegarmodance Venmo: Mark-DeGarmo-2 "Black Dance Stories" Thursdays @ 6pm - Earl Mosley, Dr. Halifu Osumare & Coco Killingsworth (2/25)2/24/2021 ![]() 7NMS|Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders Virtual Work-In-Process Showing February 27 Watch h a mix of live and pre-recorded footage from 7NMS|Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders' residency collaborating music and dance. Self titled students and descendants of black liberation movements who radically engage music and dance forms as alchemic mediums of elevation, healing, and futurity, for The Yard, through their #SatelliteResidency, 7NMS continues developing PROPHET from their home studio in Pasadena. Find out more here Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) February 24 – 27 DTH continues their month of virtual screenings – this last week includes talks and an investigation of Firebird, John Taras’ choreography to Stravinsky’s familiar score and sets and costumes by Geoffrey Holder. The DTH production was created in 1982. Find out more here DANCE NOW February 25 This live event will feature one-time-only performances from host, TruDee and recreate the atmosphere of Joe's Pub while celebrating Chapter 4 and Claire Porter. Find out more here New York City Ballet February 25 See George Balanchine's Prodigal Son filmed in 2013 at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center and danced by Teresa Reichlen and Daniel Ulbricht with Jonathan Stafford, Marika Anderson, Likolani Brown, Devin Alberda, and Austin Laurent. Music is by Sergei Prokofiev and conducted by Marc Taddei, Guest Conductor. Find out more here Moko Fukuyama February 26 + 27 "Fukuyama has been in residence at Queenslab producing two new pieces as part of her project American Recordings, an ongoing series that reflects on the state of public discourse within the United States today. In the final days of her residency, Fukuyama invites visitors to view installations and videos that she created in the space last week," notes the release. Find out more and RSVP here. Danspace Project February 26 The Fall 2020 Artist Research Fellows, devynn emory and Angie Pittman come together in the digital Conversations Without Wall series, pre-recorded, streamed on YouTube and archived on Danspace Project's online Journal. Find out more here ARTS ALIVE February 26 + 27 BODYSTORIES: TERESA FELLION & ROYA CARRERAS shares and evening as part of this series following current COVID-19 restrictions, and welcoming live and virtual audiences. Find out more here Miguel Gutierrez and Ishmael Houston-Jones February 27 Gutierrez writes, "I’m reading this Saturday on a shared bill with my spiritual “abuelo” Ishmael Houston-Jones, as part of Artists’ Space Segue Reading Series, curated by the luminous pair - imogen xtian smith and Kay Gabriel." Join the reading here TRIBE’s BLACK HOLE 360° Video Art February 27 The 92Y will premiere TRIBE’s BLACK HOLE 360° Video Art a multidisciplinary, interactive piece merging choreography, photography, video and lighting and featuring the photography series by Alex Apt, 3D imaginary by Lucca Del Carlo, original music by Sivan Jacobovitz, with performers Shamel Pitts, Mirelle Martins, and Tushrik Fredericks. The event is free with registration. Find out more here Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC) Through February 28 KMC releases the performance recording of COLORED a work that “…navigates the beautifully twisted spectrum of blackness that dance artists Oluwadamilare Ayorinde, Marshall, and Myssi Robinson,” from BAM’s 2019 Next Wave Festival, notes the release. To get tickets for the virtual watch party email kmchoreostaff@gmail.com New York Theatre Ballet February 28 Between the Acts: Antony Tudor a look at the life and works of Antony Tudor, and the curator of dance for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Jane Pritchard, the sole Trustee of the Antony Tudor Ballet Trust Amanda McKerrow, and more. RSVP to ezahlmann@nytb.org to receive a Zoom link prior to Sunday. ![]() Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE The Joyce Theater Stage Livestreamed Thursday, February 18 at 8pm EST Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE continues its 35th Anniversary celebration with a program that includes excerpts from some of the Company's large body of work. Slated for this one-night-only livestreamed event are excerpts from Grace, For You, She is Here,Palo y Machete, One Shot, March and Mercy. The evening will stream until Thursday, March 4 at 11:59pm ET. Find out more here Thunderbird American Dancers Pow Wow and Dance Concert February 20 - 8:30pm Theater for the New City There will be dances, stories and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions. The event, emceed by Bessie-winner Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago), has become a treasured New York tradition for celebrating our diversity by honoring the culture of our first Americans. The concert will be livestreamed from the theater and available on demand until March 7, 2021. Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and ArteEast February 18 Sign up to see the world premiere of 3 x 13, where "...in 12 short films with original music by Lou Tides, 12 artists from around the globe share a journey of transformation that deeply marked their lives," according to the release. Get Your Tickets Before 11am on Thursday. RSVP Dance Theatre of Harlem February 19 - 8pm Hear from Lighting Designer Roma Flowers and Costume Designer Pamela Allen-Cummings and learn more about their long-term collaboration with choreographer, Robert Garland. Watch on YouTube and Facebook. February 20 - 8pm Join principal couples of New Bach after the stream of the ballet as they talk about their experiences working with Robert Garland and performing the ballet. Watch on YouTube and Facebook. Renegade Performance Group February 20 & 21 at 7PM Witness the screening of the Afrofuturist dance film Ephemera shot on location at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2019, stay for the post-screening artist talkback with collaborators and performers of the project and get access to other films by RPG. RPG Virtual Season - Ticket Registration "Black Dance Stories" Thursdays @ 6pm - Torya Beard, Vincent Thomas & Diedre Dawkins (2/11)2/10/2021 ![]() January 19–20 & January 26–27 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival Curated and hosted by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will feature digital premieres by five artists: Kevin Augustine (US); Kari Hoaas (Norway); Tamar Rogoff (US) with Mei Yamanaka (Japan). Tickets are pay-what-you-can starting at $5. Find out more here February 1 – February 15 Bijayini Satpathy BAC Satpathy's Vibhanga "...a non-narrative dance set to a reimagined score of traditional South Indian music, and draws from the curvilinear tendencies of the Odissi dance forms..." is presented as part of BAC's New Works Commissioned series. Find out more here January 27, and February 3, 10, and 17 Various Artists Isolation to Creation Docuseries/Works & Process at the Guggenheim Airing on WNET's ALL ARTS "This past Summer and Fall amidst widespread cancellations, Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, itself facing a shuttered theater, forged a path for artists to safely gather, create and perform together again. Pioneering and producing bubble residencies that have since been widely duplicated, over fifty artists entered eight Works & Process bubble residencies in rural Hudson Valley after an unprecedented period of isolation," from the release. Find out more here January 30 Kinesis Project dance theatre In an evening of an experiment in bi-coastal live performances titled Search(light), dancers on each coast will perform simultaneously, live from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York and the Kay White Hall at Vashon Center for the Arts on Vashon Island, Washington. Find out more here January 31 Johnnie Cruise Mercer "Process memoir 6: thenowlater (SOUL) is a multi-layered ‘movement’ choreography charted as four journeys: (Body - Mind - Soul - Heart).." notes the release. Planned for the day of the Film Premiere is also a Watch Party & Fundraiser. Find out more here. ![]() My AmNews January 2021 Virtual Dance Calendar Featured: Maria Bauman-Morales’ Desire: A Sankofa Dream January 22 and 23 |
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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." |