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Dance Theatre of Harlem
New York City Center
April 10 - 13
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My AmNews 2019 April Calendar Featured: Dance Theatre of Harlem New York City Center April 10 - 13 Find out more here
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FROM HALIFU OSUMARE: Friends, Family, and Colleagues What a joy it is to share a new Podcast with you: "It's a Commitment." Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild and I came together in a studio in 2016 at UC Davis to talk about our careers as dancers and dance scholars, and this is what came out. The conversation is now a podcast on Contemporary Black Canvas at: http://www.contemporaryblackcanvas.com/bam-ep-5-scholars-d…/. It's definitely worth checking out for two dancers' perspectives on the Black Arts Movement on the East and West Coasts. My Best, Halifu Movement Research is hiring an Operations Manager. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Position start date is as early as May 1, 2019 with training to begin as early as April 15, 2019.
Position Information:
The Operations Manager oversees administrative, finance and facilities operations for Movement Research. The position is responsible for oversight of accounts receivable and payable and meeting deadlines related to supporting monthly, quarterly and project/program-based finance reports for internal budgeting and grant reporting purposes. The position supports preparation of the annual audit and the completion of the Data Arts profile. The Operations Manager is responsible for oversight of MR’s IT needs, managing overall functionality of point-of-sale systems, database, computer hardware and software systems, and liaising with IT consultants and vendors. The Operations Manager manages all of Movement Research’s spaces including the administrative office, three studio spaces, and a co-working office. The Operations Manager reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for the management of the Finance Associate and the Operations Associate personnel. To apply, please email the following materials to work@movementresearch.org with “Operations Manager” in the subject line:
Movement Research continuously seeks to engage a more diverse and inclusive participant body and strives to create equal opportunities for its community of participants across race, class, gender, disability status, ethnicity, sexuality and age. MR is committed to maintaining a strong connection to an existing diverse community of experimental artists and audiences, while at the same time expanding its definition of experimentation to more broadly include working within and pushing the boundaries of all movement-based forms. Movement Research recognizes the incredible need to diversify the range of aesthetics, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds represented on NYC stages and strongly encourages applications from individuals aligned with this vision. Find out more here Two positions are being offered:
Assistant Production Manager & Technical Director Provide sound design and engineering, and work with the Production Manager to plan and execute all technical aspects of a multi-artist summer dance festival. Development and Marketing Associate Support The Yard's Development and Marketing departments through assisting, developing, and managing sponsorship programs and donor databases; drafting press releases and other marketing materials; and writing and maintaining The Yard’s social media presence. Read more here FROM THE FOLKS AT GIRL BE HEARD: Dear Friends: We are excited to announce that the search for the next Executive Director of Girl Be Heard has officially launched! As our loyal community of artists, activists, and supporters, we wanted you to be the first to receive this job posting. The Board of Directors is leading this process, so please direct all inquiries to Koya search firm. Thank you for spreading the word, far and wide, and for your partnership in identifying outstanding leaders. I sincerely hope to see you at Girl Be Heard’s mainstage performance, 2030: The Future is Ours, running April 10-20. Please let me know which day you are going so I can make sure to be there to thank you in person for all you have done to support the work. Jessica Greer Morris Co-Founder, Executive Director Pacific Northwest Ballet is currently accepting applications for the following positions:
Director of Development Director of Company Operations (Company Manager) School Admin Assistant - Seattle & Bellevue For further information or to apply for one of these positions, interested candidates should send a cover letter and a current resume via e-mail to apply@pnb.org or to Pacific Northwest Ballet, 301 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109 Attn: Human Resources. Read more here NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Probationary, Tenure-Track Position - Theatre Teacher/Director/Movement Specialist, Assistant Professor - Minnesota State University
This position will serve as a member of the Performance Faculty, teaching classes in Dance, Movement, Theatre Speech, Acting. This position will also serve the Department of Theatre and Dance as its Choreographer and direct at least one main stage production per year.
Find out more here Ayodele Casel Various NYC Venues April 3 - 14 As part of their 75th Anniversary Season, New York City Center expands its mission making the performing arts even more accessible to all with the launch of “City Center On the Move,” featuring dance in five New York City boroughs, and lead by Bronx-born choreographer, teacher, and tap artist Ayodele Casel in a performance entitled Rooted. “City Center partnered with the NYC Parks Arts, Culture & Fun to select five tour stops (in addition to City Center's own studios) from among their citywide recreation centers—sharing the arts with the broadest possible cross-section of New Yorkers. Beginning Wednesday, April 3, at the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn, this inaugural tour of all five boroughs will engage communities with world-class dance through a series of free interactive performances featuring Bronx-born choreographer, teacher, and tap artist Ayodele Casel in a performance entitled Rooted. A frequent City Center collaborator (¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival, Fall for Dance Festival, Encores! Off-Center) and 2017 recipient of the “Hoofer Award,” Casel will be joined by special guest Grammy Award winner Arturo O’ Farrill (¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival), dancers Luke Hickey (Fall for Dance Festival) and Andre Imanishi, bass player Amanda Ruzza, and O’Farrill’s son Zack O’Farrill on drums. Each performance will include live music and dancing with audience participation throughout. The two-week tour will culminate at City Center’s own Studio 5 (130 W 56th Street) on Sunday, April 14," notes the release. All performances are free and open to the public. Find out more here Nicky Paraiso La Mama March 22 – April 7 In the world premiere of Paraiso’s now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories, he dives into a “…deep exploration of [his] life, investigating aging, identity, sexuality, class and race,” according to the release. Paraiso is joined by choreographer/dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio in performance and as collaborators. The work is directed by John Jesurun. Find out more here Martha Graham Dance Company The Joyce Theater April 2–14 The "EVE Project," the Company’s season theme, celebrates female empowerment, the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and focuses on both historical and contemporary ideas of the feminine. Featured are the world premiere of Deo by Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith, the New York premiere of Untitled (Souvenir) by Pam Tanowitz, drawing on some of Graham’s dances, including The Legend of Judith (1967) and Dark Meadow (1946). Also on the program is Annie-B Parson’s I used to love you, based on Graham’s 1941 comic ballet Punch and the Judy, Lucinda Childs’s Histoire, (1999). Works by Graham on the program are: Chronicle (1936), Herodiade (1944), Secular Games (1962), not been seen in decades, Errand into the Maze (1947), and El Penitente (1941), plus repertory favorites on special nights. Find out more here Kota Yamazaki New York Live Arts April 3 – 6 Yamazaki/Fluid Hug-Hug premieres Darkness Odyssey Part 3: Non-Opera, Becoming, the final installment of his “…dance celebrating the bridge between "this self" and "the other self,” according to the release. Find out more here Natalia Osipova & David Hallberg New York City Center April 3 – 6 In this program of classic and contemporary works, Osipova reunites with Hallberg in the US premiere of Valse Triste by Alexei Ratmansky, and will also dance Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading. Contemporary dancer Jonathan Goddard will join Osipova in the US premiere of Flutter by Ivan Péréz, and Jason Kittelberger joins her Roy Assaf’s Six Years Later. Find out more here Lauren Bakst The Chocolate Factory April 3 – 6 In More Problems with Form, Bakst oscillates “…between the live and the pre-recorded…[and] moves her voice and her “I” around. The work includes many multiples of Lauren, sometimes played by herself and sometimes by others in a series of videos featuring her fellow group therapy members, her lover, and her mother,” notes the release. Find out more here Mark DeGarmo Dance – Salon Performance Series – Various Artists April 4 Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center For this 9th season of DeGarmo’s Salon Performance Series, where works-in-progress and original songs-in-progress are presented. The Series continues with Kiran Rajagopalan & Antonio Ramos with Mark DeGarmo. Find out more here Heidi Latsky Dance Spitzer School of Architecture Gallery April 4 – 5 This free event invites audiences to experience a “…connection with the living sculptures and performance,” accordign to the release. Find out more here Kyle Abraham/A.I.M NYU Skirball April 4 – 6 Abraham, in collaboration with his company, A.I.M returns to New York with the acclaimed evening-length, 2011 work, Live! The Realest MC, after a year and a half of international touring. Inspired by both the story of Pinocchio and an early solo titled, Inventing Pookie Jenkins, Live!... “…takes a darkly humorous approach to gender roles and masculinity in the black community and the quest for acceptance in the world of hip-hop celebrity,” according to the release. Find out more here Omari Mizrahi Gibney April 4 – 6 Senegalese-born dancer, Mizrahi will perform his new work-in-progress, Crossroads as part of Gibney’s “New Voices Spotlight” series. Find out more here Various Artists The Kitchen April 5 – 6 This edition of “Dance and Process” will again feature new works after a ten-week group process of sharing work and receiving feedback. Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen are the facilitators. Featured artists are mayfield brooks, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Stacy Grossfield, and Christopher Unpezverde Núñez. Find out more here Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Flushing Town Hall April 7 For their sixth installment of “CrossCurrent,” the Company will feature excerpts of works-in-progress: Bamboo Rap, a collaboration between Nai-Ni and several hip-hop artists including Kwikstep, Rockafella, and DJ Cool-V from New York and Newark, NJ; and Chinese rap artists Xing Ye Ma and Yuchen Jin from Beijing. Nai-Ni Chen plans to use this newly mixed vocabulary to tell the story of the Chinese American immigration. 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." |