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Misty in Montclair - Thursday, April 2 @ Mount Hebron School

3/31/2015

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MISTY COPELAND 
in conversation with author Charisse Jones and
SMAPA dance academy director and founder Sharron Miller

LIFE IN MOTION: An Unlikely Ballerina

Mt. Hebron Middle School - 173 Bellevue Avenue - Montclair, NJ 

RSVP required at Watchung Booksellers - 973-744-7177 or info@watchungbooksellers.com

Life in Motion is an insider's look at the cutthroat world of professional ballet, as well as a moving story of passion and grace for anyone who has dared to dream of a different life. This touching memoir reveals Copeland’s journey to becoming a history-making soloist candidly: from being asked to lighten her features to better blend in with her fellow dancers onstage, to a highly-publicized court case that nearly took her away from ballet for good—a haunting topic that Copeland discussed here for the first time. But Copeland also takes readers backstage at America’s national ballet company, and gives readers a front row seat to her triumphs, her passionate artistic process, and collaborations with luminaries from Prince to Twyla Tharp.

Misty Copeland is a recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts, an inductee into the Boys and Girls Club Alumni Hall of Fame, and the National Youth of the Year Ambassador of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Copeland was honored at BET’s 2013 Black Girls Rock! with the Young, Gifted and Black Award, and her many appearances as a spokeswoman for Under Armour and Coach, as a judge on Dancing With The Stars and as the face of ABT’s Project Plie have helped to bring ballet to the masses. Copeland lives in New York City.  Charisse Jones is an award-winning journalist with USA Today. A former staff writer for the New York Times and theLos Angeles Times, she has been a commentator for National Public Radio and has appeared on several television shows including CBS This Morning and The Today Show. Jones also co-authored the American Book Award winning Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America.

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Some Dance This Week ~

3/30/2015

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Photo Robert M. Cooper
Earl Mosley
BAM Fisher
April 4

As part of the 4th annual Brooklyn Dance Festival, Mosley’s “Hearts of Men Ensemble,” made up of fifteen Montclair State University dance majors and alumni will present Mosley’s Wild and Free.  About this all-male cast Mosley offers, “I am interested in using the movements to create a sense of brotherhood and spirit that is both calculated and chaotic at the same time. I want the audience to be on the edge of their seats and enjoy multi layers of dynamics and energy exploding on the stage!”  Wild and Free is an excerpt from the full-evening work Journey.  The program also includes performances by Paul Taylor 2, Martha Graham 2, The Bang Group and the Brooklyn Dance Festival Company and more. Find out more here

Rashaun Mitchell
New York Live Arts
April 1-4
Mitchell will present his newest evening-length work, Light Years featuring performers Silas Riener, Cori Kresge, Hiroki Ichinose and Melissa Toogood.  Find out more here

Katie Schetlick, Rachel Devorah Trapp, and Jennifer Lauren Smith
Phaon-Brooklyn
April 4
See these choreographers in For Now: a new, cross-disciplinary site-specific work with movement and sound, “…which attempts to find determined ways of being within an evolving environment,” notes the release.   Find out more here 

Liz Gerring Dance Company & Dorrance Dance
The Joyce Theater
March 31 – April 5
Liz Gerring Dance Company (March 31-April 2) and Dorrance Dance (April 4-5) shares a week of performances, a Joyce debut and offers New York premieres.  Gerring brings the evening–length work glacier; and Dorrance Dance, with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely will present The Blues Project.  Find out more here  and here

CoreDance Contemporary
The Actors Fund Arts Center
April 3-4
This Australian Company presents their inaugural spring season with the New York city premiere of FORCE plus From Without And Within in collaboration with Australian composer Andrea Breen.  Find out more here http://fromwithoutandwithin.bpt.me/

Molly Poerstel
New York Live Arts
April 3-4
For the always eventful “Studio Series,” Poerstel will present an in-progress showing of her latest work.  Find out more here

Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler
JACK
April 3-5
Continuing their connection with the Philadelphia performance scene, JACK brings Revlock and Bindler’s  The Dance Apocalypse/Solos, “…a radical challenge to the paltry circumstances in which artists seek funding and a heart wrenching end-of-the-world love story with pizazz,” according to the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
April 6
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are:  Ni'Ja Whitson Adebanjo**, InTW, Shayla-Vie Jenkins and Carlo Antonio Villanueva. Find out more here

 

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RAVEN WILKINSON TO RECEIVE DANCE/USA TRUSTEES AWARD

3/30/2015

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Long before African-American ballerina Misty Copeland danced her way into American Ballet Theatre, Anne Raven Wilkinson (1935 - present) was already a living legend as the first African-American woman to be signed by a major ballet company. 

In August 1955 at the age of 20, Raven Wilkinson became the first African American woman to receive a contract to dance full time with a major ballet company, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo of New York City. She was promoted to soloist during her second season with the troupe, and remained with the company for six years.  
Anne Raven Wilkinson was born in New York City on February 2, 1935 to Anne James Wilkinson and Dr. Frost Bernie Wilkinson, a dentist. Her family, which also included younger brother Frost Bernie Wilkinson Jr., lived in a middle-class neighborhood in Harlem.

From New York City, her mother was influential by pursuing ballet training for her. Wilkinson had been a fan of ballet since the age of five. On her ninth birthday an uncle gave her the gift of ballet lessons to the Swoboda School (later known as the Ballet Russe School), where she studied under the direction of well-known dancers from Russia's Bolshoi Theatre, Vecheslav and Maria Swoboda, both Moscow-trained dancers.

She later transferred to the Professional Children's School in the Bronx where she continued her training, remaining there through her last two years of high school.  Madame Ludmilla Shollar, formerly associated with the St. Petersburg Imperial Russian Ballet, also gave Wilkinson private classes in technique. After being inspired by seeing Janet Collins on stage in the early 1950s, she left school in her teens to pursue ballet full time.



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Opportunity: Registration open for Wassaic Project's Summer Education Programs

3/30/2015

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ART NEST
June 14 - September 21st

Open Fridays 3 - 7 pm, Saturdays and Sundays 12 - 5pm

Get creative in our FREE drop-in studio space in Maxon Mills! For kids of all ages.


CAMP WASSAIC
August 17-21
9am-3pm (BYO Lunch), Extended Afternoon Option: 9am-5pm





Explore contemporary art and creative collaboration at Camp Wassaic! For students entering grades 6-9.

$150 Full-time residents of the Webutuck School District***
$300 Non-Webutuck
$10 per day to participate in the Extended Afternoon Option

***Special subsidized rates available. Please contact Education Director if you are interested in applying for the subsidized rate.

ART SCOUTS
Saturdays July 5, 12, 19, 26
10:30 am-12:30 pm
A 4-session artist-led program where kids make art inspired by the Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition.  For children entering into grades K-6.
FREE for children in the Webutuck Consolidated School District. $25 material fee for children outside of the Webutuck Consolidated School District.

Teen Printmaking Workshop
Tuesday - Friday, August 4 - 7
1-5 pm
This hands-on workshop teaches teens the practical and artistic applications of the silkscreen printing process through t-shirt and poster making. For teens ages 13-18.
$75 for teens in the Webutuck School District.
$100 for teens outside of the Webutuck School District.  

Adult Printmaking Workshop
Saturday + Sunday, August 8-9, 12-6 pm
This hands-on workshop demonstrates the practical and artistic applications of the silkscreen printing process while illustrating how to create a functional print studio in your own home.
$75 for Saturday.
$125 for Saturday and Sunday.
Fee includes materials and refreshments. Free camping available for Saturday night.
Register by July 31st. 


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Join The Dance Enthusiast to Celebrate Dance as Empowerment on Tuesday April 7th, 2015.

3/30/2015

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Location and Schedule:
Gibney Dance Center - Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center 280 Broadway (entrance at 53a Chambers Street)

6:15 PM Doors open for light bites, drinks and socializing
7:00 PM Performance and conversation with the artists and special guests
8:00 PM Second course of bites and mingling 

 Ticketing levels:
  • $30- Gala Admission
  • $95 - Silver VIP Admission
  • $150 - Gold VIP Admission
PURCHASE TICKETS

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BAAD! & PEPATIAN Open Call 2015

3/30/2015

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Delirious Dance @ 92nd Street Y - Friday, March 27

3/26/2015

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PicturePhoto: Liza Voll
92nd St. Y  | Fridays at noon


Points of Reference Friday March 27 at 12pm










Delirious Dances invites you to a performance of Manufacturing Consent by Edisa Weeks,  followed by a discussion with Blondell Cummings and a panel of experts from the fields of history, journalism, law and entertainment. Manufacturing Consent is inspired by the writing of linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky, the dance Three Seascapes by Yvonne Rainer, and the 'King of Musac' - Mantovani and his orchestra of cascading strings. It is a physical exploration of propaganda, pleasure and the creation of illusions.

For tickets and additional information click here.

Performers: Angel Chinn, Orlando Hunter, Devin Oshiro, Maxx Passion, Ricarrdo Valentine

Panelists:
Tracy Austin (Lawyer)
Vanessa McKnight (Producer)
Dr. Victoria Phillips (Historian)
Eyal Press (Journalist)


Points of Reference is curated by Blondell Cummings, and is a performance and roundtable discussion that explores the silent dialogue between the choreographer and their audience. The panelist/audience will give responses to the work based on their specific point of view. Audiences bring their cultural backgrounds, religious beliefs, professional and personal experiences to any work of art. We will examine how our perceptions reflect on this common communal experience.

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News from Dances for A Variable Cause

3/26/2015

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UPCOMING EVENTS 


















Movement Speaks® Intergenerational Program with Bronx NORC Senior Services at Amalgamated-Park Reservoir culminating celebration of our ten-week project will take place Monday, March 30 at 1:45pm at 74 Van Cortlandt Park South.

Look out for news on culminating celebrations for Movement Speaks®! 
- Movement Speaks®/Upper West Side program at Goddard Riverside Senior Center will be on Wednesday, May 6, 2015
- Movement Speaks®/Chinatown SPARC program at Mott Street Senior Center will be on Thursday, May 14th, 2015 
 

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E-MOVES 16: Celebrating James Baldwin and Billie Holiday

3/24/2015

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E-MOVES:
Celebrating James Baldwin and Billie Holiday
 
Baldwin & Billie Program:
Fri-Sat | Apr 10-17 | 7:30pm



The Takeover:
Sat | Apr 18 | 7:30pm
$20 / $16 MyHarlemStage Members 


The Year of James Baldwin
Celebrating Billie Holiday's 100th Birthday  


"The bold, the funky, the essential E-Moves is one of the best demonstrations that dance is still cookin' in New York and will continue." Bill T. Jones, Choreographer, Director, New York Live Arts


Now in its 16th year, the acclaimed dance series E-Moves commissions four exceptional choreographers to create works inspired by the words and ideas of Baldwin and the soulful songs of Holiday. Be sure to join us on Saturday, April 18 for the return of the Harlem Stage Takeover, featuring site-specific works by nine emerging choreographers.

E-Moves Baldwin and Billie Choreographers includemodern ballet choreographer Andre Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, tap artist Brinae Ali and contemporary choreographers Malcolm Low/Formal Structure and Love/Forte (Nia Love and Marjani Forté).
 
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and save 25%


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APPLY - Gibney "Dance in Process - Residency Program (DiP)

3/24/2015

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Gibney Dance is pleased to announce a call for applications for 2015-16 Dance in Process Residencies!

Dance in Process (DiP) is an immersive choreographic residency program for mid-career, New York City based dance makers. With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, DiP provides nuanced creative residency support by offering continuous, concentrated access to studio rehearsal space, a significant stipend, and technical and administrative resources.

Application available online now.
Proposals due by Friday, April 10 at 5:00 pm.
 
LEARN MORE & APPLY
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    I 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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