Category: Workshops - Charmaine Warren

!Adelante, Cuba! FestivalFestival Studio Events - April 22 - 28

4/18/2018

Join jazz giant Arturo O’Farrill, tap artist Ayodele Casel, trumpet player Yasek Manzano, and more, for a lively evening of music and conversation hosted by Susan Fales-Hill as part of her ongoing series in The Greene Space, Icons & Innovators.

Sunday, April 22

This event kicks off the ¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival, presented by New York City Center.

The festival, which runs through April 28, is a celebration of the rich and vibrant artists of Cuba featuring dance, music, talks, and master classes.

MASTER CLASSES with Acosta Danza & Ronald K. Brown - FIND OUT MORE HERE

Master Class: Dance with Carlos Luis Blanco of
Acosta Danza
Thu, Apr 26 at noon
The Barbara and David Zalaznick Studio at New York City Center
All tickets $15

Master Class: Dance with Ronald K. Brown
Sat, Apr 28 at noon
The Barbara and David Zalaznick Studio at New York City Center
All tickets $15

NEWS: April Community Engagements by NJPC ~ various venues in New Jersey

4/11/2018

NEWS: Welcoming Spring with Plants and Ritual @ More from Jill Sigman/thinkdance

4/11/2018

Jill Sigman

FROM JILL SIGMMAN:

Welcoming Spring With Plants and Ritual- 3 class series
I'm honored to be filling in for iele paloumpis in their fascinating weekly movement workshop "Witchcraft: A Corporeal Practice" sponsored by Movement Research. I'll be offering a 3 class mini-series in which we will somatically explore the (long awaited!) coming of spring and the growth, regeneration, and plant energy that it brings.
Thursdays 10AM-12PM
April 12: Plants and Detoxification
April 19: Ritual
April 26: Regeneration and Altars
Gibney Dance 280. Take one class or all 3.

https://movementresearch.org/event/witchcraft-sub-jill

Body Politic, Somatic Selves
"Body Politic, Somatic Selves" continues at Gibney Dance 280 on MONDAYS from 2-4PM! Join us to think with the body about pressing social issues, This ongoing workshop is a kind of public commons, a place to explore issues and concepts (like resistance, solidarity, disruption, privilege, and tokenism) in movement, and a place to find new ways of being in our bodies that we can take into the larger world. Sign up for a single workshop or a whole series.

https://gibneydance.org/series/body-politic/

BIG NEWS-- Body Politic becomes an intensive summer laboratory!
COMING SOON-- the launch of a new program that grows out of the "Body Politic, Somatic Selves" workshops series. This summer program will be an intensive laboratory and learning community for people who want to forge connections between their somatic selves and social change. Starting in July at Gibney Dance, it will combine creative movement exploration with teach-ins about current issues (such as violence against black life, gender justice, climate change, Islamophobia, immigrant rights, etc) and other trainings (such as upstander training, how city government works, how to talk with people of different views, etc). Stay tuned for info and application link on the Gibney website!
Earth Week Book Talk
This Earth Week join me for another reading and discussion of Ten Huts, published in the Fall by Wesleyan University Press. The reading will take place at Poly Prep in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Forum:
Seven Years of Choreographing with Trash
Wednesday, April 25, 2pm
Poly Prep Library
Email jill@thinkdance.org for more info. And remember, you can order a copy of Ten Huts here.

Work in Process!

I am just completing the first rehearsal phase of a new project, tentatively titled To Light Afire, and I am grateful to dancers iele paloumpis, Charmaine Warren, Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez, Krishna Washburn, Marya Wethers, and Lorene Bouboushian for their creativity and openness! I am honored to be working with such a fascinating group of people and artists. We were also honored to incorporate visits from sociologist Anthony Ryan Hatch who writes about racial pharmacology, tree biologist Helen Poulos who studies forest fire, and psychologist Jasmine Ueng-McHale who is interested in attachment relationships and the treatment of trauma, into our rehearsal research. News on eventual performance events coming soon.

Hope to see you this spring!

Stay tuned for more about workshops, events, another weed walk in May, and a Summer MELT Movement Research Reading Group in July. And if you would like to help support our work, please visit: www.thinkdance.org

With warm wishes for spring and beyond,
Jill

Jill Sigman
Artistic Director, jill sigman/thinkdance

NEWS: Good Food + Root Making ~ DELIRIOUS DANCES/Edisa Weeks - Saturday, April 21

4/11/2018

FROM EDISA WEEKS/DELIRIOUS DANCES:

Dear Family, Friends and Creative Souls,

I need your help in making one thousand eight hundred and sixty five roots!

Why 1,865 roots?

For the performance of Three Rites: Liberty, I'm creating an installation of roots that hang from ceiling to floor. 1865 is the last year of legalized chattel slavery in America. The audience will journey through a maze of roots to experience reflections on American Liberty. So far I have eighty roots and need a lot more! Please join me for good food, conversation and root making on:

Saturday, April 21, 12pm-4pm
Restoration ART
Skylight Gallery - 3rd Fl.
1368 Fulton St. | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn 11216

There will be food by Royal Rib House, their BBQ sauce is finger-lickin good, and dessert by Cake Boi. Come and go as you please and engage in whatever capacity you feel comfortable – make a root, participate in and/or listen to the conversation.

DELIRIOUS Dances / Edisa Weeks is a Choreoquest artist-in-residence at Restoration ART.

Directions:

A or C trains to Nostrand Ave. Walk along Fulton street till 1368 Fulton (5 min. walk from the train station).
LIRR to Nostrand Ave.
B25 or B44 bus to the corner of Fulton and New York Ave.
There is a parking garage at Restoration - enter on 1634 Fulton St.

Larry Keigwin's Call for Movers! Dance At the Gym NYC

2/14/2018

FROM Larry Keigwin:

I'm excited to announce our newest project, "Dance at the Gym." Think: Professional Dance Intensive meets Community Engagement.

At KEIGWIN + COMPANY, we have a long history of compelling, joyous and poignant community projects. These experiences are the bedrock of our company (and most companies). I have noticed that dancers don't usually join my company with tools for approaching exchanges with non-dancer population. I also see how powerful outreach can be for community members and artists alike.

And so, we are offering a new type of experience.

Dancers: Join us in creating and implementing a community exchange. We will share our tools, and tailor an approach for the incoming group. The experience includes classes from me and KEIGWIN + COMPANY dancers, an open company rehearsal, and a shared studio performance.

NYC Community: Join us for a week of evenings, to create a piece with New York dancers, and perform it in a friendly studio setting.

Learn More Here
I'm looking forward to sharing this new experience with you.

Contemporary Improvisation for Black Men-CIBM -Sunday, February 11 @ Brooklyn

2/7/2018

Sunday, February 11, 2017

REGISTER HERE

Facilitated by Gee Barnes (Germaul Barnes/Viewsic Dance)

Donation Based -$1 is appreciated

MORE INFO. visit www.ViewsicDance.com

Time: 3 pm - 5 pm

Location:
RestorationArts - Youth Arts Academy
247 Herkimer, 2nd floor
Brooklyn, New York 11216
DIRECTION

Contemporary Improvisation for Black Men-CIBM is a monthly improvisation dance gathering giving an opportunity for Black Men to move together creatively, physically, spiritually and intellectually. DEEPING YOUR INTER-GROOVE & building communities. If you identify as Black and Male, this is a SAFE SPACE for you. We welcome all ages, abilities, and male fluidity.

Curated by Germaul Barnes/Viewsic Dance & The CIMB collective.

NJPAC - Community Engagement " Liturgical Dance Series" - Saturday, February 3 @ Newark

1/31/2018

RSVP - njpac.org/community
Call 973.353.8058 or email emarable@njpac.org
for more information

NEWS: Summer Dance Intensive - Shaina Branfman & Bryan Strimpel BAIRA - July 30 - August 4

1/17/2018

Summer Workshop with Shaina Branfman & Bryan Strimpel- BAIRA

REGISTER HERE

Wayne State University's Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre & Dance is hosting our first Summer Intensive in DETROIT!! SIX DAYS of rigorous training in the movement and performance practices of Shaina Branfman and Bryan Strimpel BAIRA. The Intensive is designed for serious dancers age 12 through professional adult (level I: 12-13, level II: 14-16, level III: 17+). With a focus on contemporary floor work, partnering, technique, physical conditioning, and self-awareness, BSDI offers practices for the personal and professional development of dedicated contemporary dance artists. Participants will receive an in-depth experience with BAIRA’s choreographic process, learning company repertoire and performing at Wayne State University’s Maggie Allesee Studio Theatre. This intensive promotes dance practice as life practice, and offers dancers the opportunity to experience how this artform can transform the way they interact with the way they interact with the world.

NEWS: The Actor's Fund/Career Transitions for Dancers - "Injured Dancer Support Group" begins 1/18

1/10/2018

The Dancers’ Resource social worker, Catherine Drury, is currently accepting dancers who are or have been injured for the Injured Dancers Support Group meeting weekly from 1/18-3/22 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Read more here

Please email Catherine at cdrury@actorsfund.org
for more details

Save the Date: 2016 Summer Leadership Institute

1/26/2016

RE-ENGAGING OUR CORE – UBW RETURNS TO BROOKLYN FOR IT’S 16TH SLI!

July 22- 31, 2016

You, Me, We –
Understanding Internalized Racial Oppression and How it Manifests in Our Artistic Community

Application Opens February 5

After moving our Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) to New Orleans in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, UBW is coming home to Brooklyn! July 22 – 31, 2016. UBW often uses the movement metaphor of Core & Distal to talk about our dance practice as well as our community engagement practice. As we teach in our Entering, Building and Exiting Community (EBX) workshop, engaging our core—our own bodies, identities and communities—is essential for maintaining clarity and stability as we engage the distal—other bodies, identities and communities. This return to Brooklyn signals an opportunity for us at UBW to strengthen and re-engage our core arts community of NYC.

READ MORE HERE

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I 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."