Charmaine Patricia Warren
I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I began the online series "Black Dance Stories" in June 2020. In 2019 I became the Producer of DanceAfrica at BAM. I was the founder/producer and artistic director for "Dance on the Lawn:" Montclair's Dance Festival for 10 years, a co-curator for Harlem Stage's dance series, EMoves for 11 years, and the lead curator for Dance @ Wassaic Project Festival for more than nine years. I currently write on dance for The New York Amsterdam News, sometimes The New York Times, Dance Magazine and other magazines and journals. My most recent article was for The Kennedy Center's CENTER Magazine - "The Nutcracker Remix/es." Other articles can be found on Jazz at Lincoln Center's Playbill for "Spaces." JW Marriot's luxury hotel's magazine - jwm - "Visions of Sugarplums", on BAM's website ("A Brief History of American Modern Dance"), and in BAM's 150th anniversary book - BAM: The Complete Works, Edited by Steven Serafin. I am a 2017 Bessie Award Recipient for "Outstanding Performance" as a member of Skeleton Architecture Collective, and a 2021 "Angel Awardee."
I am a former faculty member at Hunter College, The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University, The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program and Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning. I hold a Ph.D. in History from Howard University, a Masters Degree in Dance Research, Reconstruction and Choreography from CUNY - City College, and two Bachelor’s Degrees: one in Speech & Theatre/Dance, and the other in English from Montclair State College. I lectured on western dance history, the Black tradition in American dance and Jamaican dance.
After performing for many years with major New York dance companies, I joined the internationally known, New York-based, dance/theater company david rousseve/REALITY in 1989 - 2000 and taught movement class based on a melding of modern dance, contemporary styles and Ashtanga-based yoga. I have lectured and taught movement and yoga classes nationally and internationally.
I was a member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards Committee (BESSIES) for more than ten years, and am now a member of the Steering Committee.
Specialties - Teaching, lecturing, writing, advising and consulting on dance.
I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I began the online series "Black Dance Stories" in June 2020. In 2019 I became the Producer of DanceAfrica at BAM. I was the founder/producer and artistic director for "Dance on the Lawn:" Montclair's Dance Festival for 10 years, a co-curator for Harlem Stage's dance series, EMoves for 11 years, and the lead curator for Dance @ Wassaic Project Festival for more than nine years. I currently write on dance for The New York Amsterdam News, sometimes The New York Times, Dance Magazine and other magazines and journals. My most recent article was for The Kennedy Center's CENTER Magazine - "The Nutcracker Remix/es." Other articles can be found on Jazz at Lincoln Center's Playbill for "Spaces." JW Marriot's luxury hotel's magazine - jwm - "Visions of Sugarplums", on BAM's website ("A Brief History of American Modern Dance"), and in BAM's 150th anniversary book - BAM: The Complete Works, Edited by Steven Serafin. I am a 2017 Bessie Award Recipient for "Outstanding Performance" as a member of Skeleton Architecture Collective, and a 2021 "Angel Awardee."
I am a former faculty member at Hunter College, The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University, The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program and Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning. I hold a Ph.D. in History from Howard University, a Masters Degree in Dance Research, Reconstruction and Choreography from CUNY - City College, and two Bachelor’s Degrees: one in Speech & Theatre/Dance, and the other in English from Montclair State College. I lectured on western dance history, the Black tradition in American dance and Jamaican dance.
After performing for many years with major New York dance companies, I joined the internationally known, New York-based, dance/theater company david rousseve/REALITY in 1989 - 2000 and taught movement class based on a melding of modern dance, contemporary styles and Ashtanga-based yoga. I have lectured and taught movement and yoga classes nationally and internationally.
I was a member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards Committee (BESSIES) for more than ten years, and am now a member of the Steering Committee.
Specialties - Teaching, lecturing, writing, advising and consulting on dance.
Some words about Black Dance Stories - July 2020 & June/July 2021
New York Times - Siobhan Burke
DanceMagazine - Sydnie Mosley
New York Times - Siobhan Burke
New York Times - Siobhan Burke
DanceMagazine - Sydnie Mosley
New York Times - Siobhan Burke
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Some words about my practice -
"Don't Forget Your Culture" - "a bi-monthly show exploring issues of culture. and the reparative journey we are all on as members of the global African family" November 2021 "Spirituality of the Body" an interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa- November 2020 for InfiniteBody "Artist Reach Out" - an interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa - June 2020 - for InfiniteBody |
Some words about performing as part of The Skeleton Architecture (originally curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa) - October 2016
Culturebot - Maura Donohue Hyperallergic - Alexis Clements Dance Enthusiast - Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone |
Some words about performing with Souleymane Badolo in "Benon" (counter 6:22) - February 2014
New York Times - Siobhan Burke
Infinite Body - Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Dance Beat - Deborah Jowitt
New York Times - Siobhan Burke
Infinite Body - Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Dance Beat - Deborah Jowitt