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Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation March 5 Ase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation "...whose core tenets are to Enrich, Educate, Entertain African history art forms and history through its programs for children to adults," brings its It Was All A Dream, 20th Anniversary, kicking off their year-long celebration. Find out more here Maria Valencia March 1 The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) continues its 2021 digital spring season with the premiere of choreographer and performer Valencia’s brownout, a solo created, directed, and filmed at locations in upstate New York. brownout will be available to view until March 15. Find out more here Rovaco Dance & Kayla Farrish March 4 Rovaco Dance and Kayla Farrish shares and evening as part of this series following current COVID-19 restrictions, and welcoming live and virtual audiences Find out more here Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Festival March 5 - April 4 This month-long digital festival features four New Adventures productions filmed live at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. Bourne’s: Swan Lake, The Car Man, Cinderella, and Romeo and Juliet will be available on demand in rotation. Find out more here Dara Fain March 6 The Chocolate Factory celebrates the occasion of Faïn’s 25th anniversary as an NYC based artist with a preview of the patch the sky with 5 colored stones interactive digital platform – inviting the spectator to join in the effort to conjure an experience of human intimacy using tools of disconnection. Find out more and register here Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance March 6 + 7 Founder and director Fredrick Earl Mosley's Unconquered, initially in response to COVID-19 and racial injustice, happens this weekend. Register and find out more here Martha Graham Company March 6 - 24 The Company’s all-digital 95th season continues and offers and inside look the work of the Company and iconic works by Martha Graham, and the dances commissioned from some of today’s choreographers. Find out more here Various Artists March 6 In the program "DANCING ACROSS BORDERS," Pepatián and BAAD presents dance makers Stéphanie Cyr, Jessica McMann, Simran Sachar, Zahra Shahab who will share a program moderated by Alicia Bauman-Morales and curated Jane Gabriels, Ph.D. in collaboration with Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative. Find out more and RSVP here Tickets by Donation: Entrada por Donación: Online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/140448963631 Paypal: paypal.me/markdegarmodance Venmo: Mark-DeGarmo-2 The Cultural Solidarity Fund (CSF) will provide emergency relief for NYC individual Artists and Cultural Workers with $500 micro-grants to assist those who are unemployed as a result of the city's Covid-19 lockdown. Applications are open for one week only as of Friday, February 26th and close on Friday, March 5th at 9:00 PM. This fund is only open to current residents 21 years or older in New York City’s five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Support is for Individual Artists and Cultural Workers in the live arts as well as in the visual arts, including, but not limited to: Actors, Administrators, Choreographers, Custodians, Curators, Dancers, Designers, Directors, Drivers, Dramaturgs, Front of House, Guards, Janitors, Installers, Musicians, Playwrights, Production Managers, Receptionists, Technical Crew and Art Handlers, Stage Managers, Teaching Artists, Technicians, Ushers, Visual Artists. APPLY HERE FROM THE FOLKS AT LINCOLN CENTER: We’re excited to announce Restart Stages—an outdoor performing arts center with 10 outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces—to help kickstart the performing arts sector and New York City’s revival. Restart Stages is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation-Lincoln Center Agora Initiative, a collaboration that reimagines and reactivates public space for a new era. Fostering a dynamic environment for artists, community organizations, and audiences, Restart Stages is a welcoming and safe place for live performances, family activities, and civic engagement. Read more here PHILADANCO! Welcome Danni Gee - New Artistic Consultant Danni Gee has over 35 years of experience in the Arts and Entertainment industry, including as a principal dancer with PHILADANCO! and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She is a highly-respected, multi-talented dancer, singer, musician, and educator. She became the Dance Curator for CityParks Foundation SummerStage in 2006, New York’s largest, free outdoor festival. In April 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Danni pivoted her curation to all virtual, successfully creating an online dance season. She also is the host of her own weekly virtual interview show. Please join us in welcoming Danni back to her PHILADANCO! family as our new Artistic Consultant! Visit our Facebook post to send her a message. Rena Butler has been named Choreographic Associate for its resident dance troupe, Gibney Company. This new position was created to allow Butler, who joined Gibney Company as an Artistic Associate in 2020, to continue her career as a professional dancer while further developing her talent and experience as a choreographer and leader in the dance field. Read 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." |