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The Career Center at The Actors Fund is pleased to announce its collaboration with renowned dance researcher, writer, author and Professor Sally Sommer, Ph.D., entitled Dance(r) Sustainability: Expand Your Vision.  Launching in June 2018, the two-day workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Sommer and Alessandra Larson, M.A. at The Actors Fund Times Square office.

Crafted to open dancers’ minds to new ways of thinking about the job possibilities that surround them, the workshop will focus on the evolving dance ecosystem, dancers’ unique array of skills, and the ever-changing work environment - with the goal of illuminating new ways for dancers to meet their creative and career needs.

 “The magical combination is having the ‘arts gift,’ an all-consuming obsession that gives life meaning and happiness – and also having the courage and imagination to discover how best support yourself and your obsession,” says Sommer. “This is the crucial discussion today, the essential undertaking of a life in the arts in the 21st century.”

The Actors Fund is national human services organization serving everyone in arts and entertainment through social services and career development and management. Sommer believes that, “The Actors Fund cares about dancers’ survival at all stages of their dance careers, offering smart classes and wise guidance that keeps dancers flexible and thinking about what are the best strategic moves to choose to support them and their dancing.”
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To learn more or be a part of the June classes, email careercentereast@actorsfund.org and check out https://actorsfund.org/workshops/dancer-sustainability-expand-your-vision-nyc.

Dream / Research / Move / Create / Build / Delve Deeper / Repeat - UBW Generative Dancer Choreographic & Performance Lab 

This 3-day workshop will be taught by 2017 Bessie Lifetime Achievement in Dance Award recipient and UBW Founder/Visioning Partner, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.
 
The participants will engage in a process-based approach to UBW’s art-making. The process-based investigations are informed by who is in the room and involves iterative cycles of rigorous embodied research informed by radical Black experimentation in the fields of culture, politics, identity and history.
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Each day will be structured with:

• Warm up/class
• Structured improvisation/investigation/solo practice - how we “research” our physicality through prompts and ideas
• Research - Each participant is asked to bring in ideas they are researching or interested in developing. They will use their iPhones, tablets or computers to explore further how to deepen the research and move it into “embodiment”
• Structural Concepts/Finding Form - we will explore different structural approaches to choreographic development 

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SIDRA BELL, VIM VIGOR, GABRIEL FORESTIERI, ELIA MRAK, TROY OGILVIE, ALEXANDRA WELLS, AND MORE

Springboard Danse Montreal is BACK at Gibney this summer for another edition of SpringboardX!

​Don't miss this 10-day immersive workshop with Springboard Master Teachers. Acquire the skill sets needed for the current job market, and engage in the following techniques: Contemporary, Image Tech©, Ballet, Flying Low, Floor work, Contact Improvisation, Introduction to Immersive Work, Improvisation and Process.

JUL 2 - 13
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
NO CLASSES JUL 4 & 8

TUITION: $1,200
LIMITED SPRINGBOARD ALUMNI RATE: $1,000

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Dance(r) Sustainability – Expand Your Vision
Uncover Options for Planning a Creative Life
 
The Actors Fund is launching a new workshop, Dance(r) Sustainability – Expand Your Vision. The workshop will focus on the evolving dance ecosystem, dancers’ unique array of skills, and the ever-changing work environment – to illuminate new ways for dancers to meet their creative and career needs.
 
WHERE: The Actors Fund New York City office, 729 Seventh Avenue, 10th floor
WHEN: Saturday, June 16, 2018, 9:30 am – 2:00 pm
Saturday, June 23, 2018 – 9:30 am -2:00 pm
*Pre-screen and weekly group commitment required
To register and learn more click here 

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
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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