Featured: Elisa Monte Dance @ City College Center for the Arts - March 2- 5
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Featured: Elisa Monte Dance @ City College Center for the Arts - March 2- 5
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Please mark your calendar and plan to join us APRIL 4, 2016. Please be sure to share with your networks. Dancers/Choreographers/Companies, Dance Lovers, Dance Enthusiast are all welcome! FREE RSVP HERE The evening is titled “Contemporary Innovators” and true to form, there was a lot of skin shown (bare legs, chest and even feet), doing away with traditional ballet in one of two evenings during Pacific Northwest Ballet’s run at New York City Center (February 24 – 27). In David Dawson’s classically seasoned A Million Kisses to my Skin (NY Premiere) partners offered up daring lifts, frolicked with deeply arched backs, hip thrusts, and possible nods to Balanchine-esque motifs. Besides the very stern Batkhurel Bold, the rest of the cast (Sarah Pasch, Miles Pertl, Jerome TIsserand, Sarah Ricard Orza, Emma Love Suddarth and Kylee Kitchens) especially, Angelica Generosa was really lovely. William Forsythe’s brightly colored, funky and angular tutus in The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (1996) originally done by Frankfurt Ballet, was a pretty cool nod to the Bauhaus ballet and Oskar Schlemmer. It was short (lots of entrance and exits, leaps, and quick feet), and sweet (picturesque formations and such). The evening closed with Crystal Pite’s dramatic Emergence (NY Premiere). Taking equal attention was the set and the large cast (around 40). Painted with large sweeping swirls, the backdrop with a large hole in the center gives off a piercingly bright light aimed directly at the audience, served as a gateway. Pite maneuvers these gyrating army of bodies low to the ground, in large and small groups, as they count, clap and punctuate the air with gestures and repeating phrases. Kudos to the entire cast and to Artistic Director Peter Boal.
Boasting attendance of over 500 participants, Dance/NYC 2016 Symposium was a success. Bustling through the halls of Gibney Dance Center (280 Broadway) were curious dance folks, plus old and new friends eagerly sharing in the scheduled events, but also in the many passes through the halls. To a completely rapt audience, keynote speakers Misty Copeland and Virginia Johnson had an informal conversation where both asked and answered questions of each other. Partly because of the direction of the Symposium, discussions on diversity, at one point, Copeland said, “We’re here to help each other,” and Johnson, “We do something because we believe in it…there’s nothing more important than that.” Sitting in the front row was Arthur Mitchell, to whom they included in their many points on diversity in the ballet world. Johnson insisted that her charge is to “…pass on what Mr. Mitchell entrusted in me.” In short, they thanked him for helping to make a change.
For this jam-packed Sunday (February 28), there was a great deal to see and of course not enough time to see it all. Besides the very informative workshops on legal issues (“Independent Contractors” and “Planned Giving”) I also sat in briefly on Susan Chin’s panel on public spaces for dance, and Camille A. Brown’s panel on “Diversity & Inclusion in Dance Education.” All were very lively and, as expected, could go on and on because there was more to share. In their follow up, the folks at dance/NYC writes: We value your feedback. As we work to improve our leadership training and professional development efforts, please consider taking a few minutes to complete a short online survey by Wednesday, March 16th. Click here for the survey. Select video and images will be made available at Dance.nyc and we hope you will continue the conversations online using @DanceNYC #dancesymp. We thank all of our supporters, partners, speakers, volunteers, and friends, who made the 2016 event possible. Thank you for all you do for dance. Onward, The team at Dance/NYC Apply now for 2016-17 Dance in Process Residencies Gibney Dance is pleased to announce a call for applications for 2016-17 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 Resident Artists receive three weeks of exclusive, continuous access to Studio 3 at Gibney Dance 890 Broadway, a $7,500 stipend, 40 hours of discounted studio space, and administrative support from the Gibney Dance staff. Submit your application by 6:00 pm on March 23The application and full guidelines are available online now. Please review the guidelines and eligibility requirements carefully before submitting. All applications must be submitted through the online form by 6:00 pm on Wednesday, March 23. Dayton Contemporary Dance Company The Kumble Theater March 5 After nearly a decade away from New York City, and to open 651 ARTS’ Classically Black Spring season at The Kumble Theater, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company brings the New York City premiere of Donald Byrd’s The Geography of the Cotton Field plus a selection of works under the title Tapestries. Read my 651ARTS Blog post here. Find out more about the performance here Juliana F. May The Chocolate Factory March 1-12 In May’s Adult Documentary, “…five performers share their real and imagined histories. The distortion of text and body is about looking at the form of trauma or conversely the trauma of form,” notes the release. Find out more here Elisa Monte Dance City College Center for the Arts’ Aaron Davis Hall March 2 – 5 Elisa Monte Dance celebrate 35 years and welcome new Artistic Director, Tiffany Rea-Fisher. Rea-Fisher will premiere Newton’s Cradle and Current, and in a return to the stage after 16 years will dance Monte’s signature work, Run to the Rock (1998). Among the many varied programs scheduled, included is the twenty-member alumni reunion in a special reprise of Monte’s Shattered (2000). Find out more here The Flamenco Festival Various venues March 2 – 19 For a bit more than two full weeks, The Flamenco Festival returns to New York with performances at BAM, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City Center and Joe’s Pub featuring Farruquito, Compañía Manuel Liñán, Compañía Rocío Molina, Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía and Nélida Tirado, to name only a few. Find out more here Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo The Joyce Theater March 2 – 6 The dancers, Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo join forces with pianist Bruce Levingston for TRIO ConcertDance and will present works by Russell Maliphant, Demis Volpi, Fang-Yi Sheu and Angelin Preljocaj. Find out more here Fana Fraser TADA! Theater March 3 Fraser will introduce Rosie a work-in-process as part of the Emerging Artists Theatre's "Best of the New Works Series" curated by Paul Adams, Derek Jamison, Scott Klavan, Scott Raker and Vanessa Shealy Younger at the TADA! Theater. Find out more here Aakash Odedra Company NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts March 4 For one-night-only, Odedra brings the New York premiere of Rising, four solo dance works created by Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Odera. Find out more here The Moving Architects The Muriel Schulman Theater at Triskelion Arts March 5-6 Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton's The Moving Architects brings Americana, to Triskelion Arts continuing her “…focus of embodying past and distant spaces in the heightened present of live performance,” notes the release. Find out more here Various Artists Movement Research at the Judson Church March 7 Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are: AmeriSHOWZ, Amanda Hunt, Elena Rose Light and Ana Miranda. Find out more here OPEN CLASSES Wednesdays & Thursdays $FREE (with the generous support of ChoreoQuest Project) Bedford Stuyvesant Center Restoration Center for Arts and Culture map 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY (inside plaza at 247 Herkimer Between Brooklyn Avenue & New York Avenue) NEXT CLASS Wednesday March 2, 10-11:30AM Thursday March 3, 11:30-1PM Wednesday March 9, 10-11:30AM Thursday March 10, 11:30AM-1PM Germaul Barnes' contemporary class are designed for intergenerational participants with a wide range to minimum dance experience. Class is based on the rediscovery of movement through the natural science of the body in motion. The three-part structure (sitting floor, standing/center, and traveling) focuses on the strengthening of the core column (pelvis, spine, head), the coordination of the extremities, and overall integration. RSVP in advance Please RSVP at ViewsicDance@gmail.com, include First/Last Name Dance Workshop Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Presented in association with Jubilation* with Susan Pope Saturday, March 5 • 11am - 12:30pm St. Luke Baptist Church 139 Carroll Street, Paterson, NJ REGISTER Calling Artists - connected to BedStuy to perform at a SToopA event this year. Find out more here
Administrative position @ STooPS. This would be an ideal position for someone looking to deepen their experience in a community arts organizing and ideally someone living in or near BedStuy. Find out more here |
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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." |