TONIGHT! Black Dance StoriesLIVE ~ Jamar Roberts & Tiffany Rea-Fisher @ Mark Morris Dance Center!3/31/2022  BDSLive is finally here and we are bursting with excitement to share these two evenings of live performance with our BDS audiences, old and new! APRIL 1 @ Jamar Roberts & Tiffany Rae-Fisher APRIL 2 @ Rena Butler & Reggie Wilson GET TICKETS! 
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BAM March 29—April 2 For the US premiere and the BAM debut, choreographer Alice Ripoll and her company Cia Suave brings CRIA. "CRIA is the embodiment of youth. Taking the movement vocabularies of dancinha, a hot mix of funk, samba, and breakdance, and passinho, the life force of favela culture, choreographer Alice Ripoll relocates the wild exuberance of adolescence through dance. Driven by the social injustice in Brazil, the piece alternates between intense states of exultation and celebration, with the highly charged group absorbing and reconstructing the music’s rapid and jerky rhythm. Ripoll and the 10-member group Suave—an all-Black company of cis and trans performers from Rio de Janeiro, each brings their own narrative, dance history, and physicality to the stage—as CRIA makes its US debut," according to the release. Find out more here Various Artists Virtual Through April 30 Revisit the Radical Broadcast: Performa 2021 Commissions with works by Kevin Beasley and many mores. Find out more here Michela Marino Lerman (In-person) Joyce Theater March 29 - April 3 Lerman's new work, Once Upon a Time Called Now is set in the historic context of New Orleans Mardi Gras and brings together Lerman's two passions—hoofing and jazz music. Find out more here Ailey II (In-person)The Ailey Citigroup Theater March 23 - April 3 In three programs, the 12-member ensemble features premieres and returning works: Dichotomous, New Lens, Pulse, plus a special one celebrating Robert Battle’s 10th anniversary program. Find out more here Ogemdi Ude (In-person) Abrons Arts Center March 31-April 2 In Dig/Hear/Sing/--, Ude performs three different solos in three evenings and each work contends with distinct experiences of loss and Ude’s efforts to develop coping rituals in their aftermath. Find out more here & here Fly-by-Night Dance Theater (In-person) John Jay College April 1 The aerial company Fly-By-Night Dance Theater concludes their 2022 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency with the premiere of the evening-length work Where Shall I Send My Joys?. Find out more here Urban Bush Women (UBW) (In-person) NJPAC April 1-2 HairStories (2001) by Founder/Visioning Partner of UBW, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, is the inspiration for Hair & Other Stories directed and choreographed by co-artistic directors Chanon Judson and Samantha Speis. Find out more here Katie Drablos & Maggie Joy Curates (In-person) Studio 3R Performances April 1 - 2 Katie Drablos will present 35: a celebration of being alive (4/1) and Maggie Joy curates an evening with works in various stages by Wesley Ensminger, Joy and Erin Maher, Madeline O'Donnell and Rachel Heinkel, TD Simons, and Grace Tong. Find out more here Ballet Hispánico City Center April 1-3 For the New York premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's evening-length Doña Perón commissioned by the Company, music is by Peter Salem. Find out more here Raja Feather Kelly (In-person) Guggenheim April 3 As part of the Works & Process performing arts series at the Guggenheim join the team of Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop in discussion including choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. Find out more here  The 3rd edition of the Moving Body – Moving-Image, a social justice ScreenDance film festival founded at Barnard College in 2018 by Gabri Christa. This year, the festival focusses on moving bodies with disabilities. The selection contains tons of amazing films – for description and more information - Find out more here
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Call for work for artists for our upcoming Take Root Series (entering into their 14th season!) Find out more below: https://www.greenspacestudio.org/for-artists https://www.greenspacestudio.org/take-root-2021 CALL FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS!
The Boogie Down Dance Festival highlights and celebrates dance in The Bronx. BAAD! is seeking five (6) choreographers to present 5-7 minutes of dance and body-oriented performance works for our upcoming dance compilation concert on Saturday, April 30th , 2022 at 8pm ET. This event will be presented in person at BAAD! (2472 Westchester Ave, Bronx 10461) in front of a live audience. The dance compilation will also be live-streamed. The compensation is $125 per choreographer, plus 5 hours of free rehearsal space. At this time, we are only seeking submissions for solo and duet performances. NOTE: We ask that all choreographers and dancers provide full proof of vaccination (2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines; or 1 dose of Johnson & Johnson). For details, visit: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keytonyc.page. A bare-bones technical rehearsal will be earlier the same day as the performance. For more info and to submit, visit: https://linktr.ee/BAADBronx  From: Dianne McIntyre's web site by: Larry Coleman - ColemanPhotography.org FROM Dianne McIntyre:
March 28th & 29th marked the 50th anniversary of the premiere concert of SOUNDS IN MOTION. This is the company I founded and directed from 1972 through 1988 followed by numerous projects, initiatives, companies and more, by me and the many individuals who were part of the world of SOUNDS IN MOTION. The initial concert took place at the Cubiculo Theatre on 51st between 8th and 9th Avenues in New York City. I was 25. Great support for the concert came from Clark Center director, Louise Roberts. I shared the concert with choreographer, Raymond Clay. The dancers that day who became key to the future development of SOUNDS IN MOTION were William (Bill) Donald, Bernadine Jennings and Dorian Williams-Byrd. Also performing with us were five musicians and dancers Paul Gray, Mercy Hinton, Aramide Scmi, and Yolanda Raven. Thank you to all of the artists, administrators, family members, friends, fellow Harlem arts institutions, scholars, writers, dance/music/theatre circles, presenters, mentors, funding organizations and every one of you who have been and continue to be part of this journey. With love and gratitude, Dianne McIntyre Read more about Dianne McIntyre here Black Dance Stories Live ~ April 1 & April 2 @ Mark Morris Dance Center! GET YOUR TICKETS!3/28/2022  BDSLive is finally here and we are bursting with excitement to share these two evenings of live performance with our BDS audiences, old and new!
APRIL 1 @ Jamar Roberts & Tiffany Rae-Fisher APRIL 2 @ Rena Butler & Reggie Wilson GET TICKETS!  Skeleton Architecture (2016) Photo: Ian Douglas (Courtesy Danspace Project) Members of Skeleton Architecture will move together
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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." |
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