For the past four years, Caribbean-born choreographer Paloma McGregor has been developing BUILDING A BETTER FISHTRAP, a performance project rooted in the vanishing fishing tradition of her 89-year-old father. The project examines what happens when you leave your ancestral home: What do you take with you? Leave behind? Return to reclaim? Building A Better Fishtrap/Part 1 is the NY evening-length premiere of this work presented with the support of long-time partner, BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. Find out more here
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Join me @DanceNYC #newyorkersfordance From the folks at NBC:
Nick Cannon's 24-hour danceathon will stream live on NBC.com from May 20th at 8pm until May 21st at 8pm. We are looking for dancers to participate in the danceathon during that 24 hour period. I am trying to find out whether your dance group is interested in participating, how many dancers would be performing and what the length of the performance(s) would be as well as time availability. http://www.nbcumv.com/news/%E2%80%98red-nose-day-danceathon-nick-cannon%E2%80%99-set-stream-live-24-hours-leading-nbc%E2%80%99s-may-21-telecast- I look forward to talking with you further.Thanks so much.. Best, Jennifer Sherwood NBC 917-319-1515 You are invited to a Free Screening of I Am New York: Juan Rodriguez an origin story by Armando Batista and Maija Garcia with music by Daniel Roumain, set design by Roberto Visani & costumes by Carlton Jones Film Society of Lincoln Center 144 West 65th St. Friday May 22, 7pm 6pm OM cocktail hour If you missed I Am New York: Juan Rodriguez at El Museo del Barrio last May, here's your chance to experience, on film, a theatrical rendering of Rodriguez' journey from his Afro-Taino origins in Spanish colonial Santo Domingo to the Lenape island of Mannahatta aboard a Dutch ship in 1613. "A child of chance born of cultural collision, one hundred years after Columbus." RSVP ChEckiT!Dance is accepting applications from female choreographers to the Fifth Annual ChEck Us OuT Dance Festival, an eco-friendly evening of dance celebrating female choreographers,on Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 5pm at Solar One on the East River, NYC. Pieces from any genre of dance that can be adapted to an outdoor space are encouraged to submit. The deadline to apply has been extended to Friday, May 22, 2015 and the application form is available at www.checkitdance.com.
The festival seeks to showcase the talents of strong, female choreographers in a welcoming and fun environment. ChEck Us OuT Dance Festival is a carefully curated event that has featured the works of choreographers from across the globe, including California, upstate New York and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Last year's featured artists included: Cathy Allen/Red Desert Dance Ensemble Allison Berger Allison Brzezinski/ChEckiT!Dance Meredith Cabaniss/Selah Dance Collective Alyssa Derling/Derling Dance Arts Melissa Jackson/Innovate Dance Company Alia Kache Lauren Lasorda and Tali Custer AlexJo Natale/Gestalt Dance Joya Powell/Movement of the People Dance Company Jessie Sector Sophie Sotsky/TYKE Dance Jessica Taylor/DAMAGEDANCE Meredith Testa Under the leadership of Allison Brzezinski, ChEckiT!Dance utilizes improvisational and collaborative movement techniques. Company members are given phrase material or written material to work with, from which they create, adapt, and devise their own movement. Each dancer has their voice heard in the company, and their individuality and creativity is vital for the company as a whole. This collaboration forms a community of female artists, working together without competition or stress. We are women working together to make change happen, inside the studio and out.www.checkitdance.com. Gibney Dance Company Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center May 13-16 For Gibney Dance Company’s season, works by Hilary Easton and Amy Miller will be performed, a first for the company after twenty-three years of performing works by founder and Artistic Director Gina Gibney. Easton’s The Short-Cut from 2005 “…is loosely based on the work of turn-of-the-century efficiency expert and factory manager Fredrick Winslow Taylor, examining the daily struggle to maximize productivity despite limited time. Miller’s premiere of Still and Still Moving uses Peter Swendsen’s electroacoustic score to ask: if the composite of two musical notes can create a third overtone, then what happens when two bodies converge?,” according to the release. Find out more here Hubbard Street Dance Company The Joyce Theater May 13-24 For a two-week long season, in two programs, Hubbard Street Dance Company will present works by Alejandro Cerrudo, Crystal Pite, Robyn Mineko Williams, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Jiří Kylián and Nacho Duato. Find out more here Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Danspace May 14-16 Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance will present the world premiere of Naděje (Hope) and more. Leoš Janáček’s Violin Sonáta for violin and piano will be performed live by Egyptian pianist Mohamed Shams and composer, violinist Jane Chung. Find out more here Yve Laris Cohen The Kitchen MAY 14-16 Fine, a world premiere created and performed by visual and dance artist Cohen, “…is the continuation of a body of work addressing the ontology of theatrical and exhibition spaces,” according to the release. Find out more here FOOTPRINTS: A Modern Dance Festival (Various Artists) Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater May 14-16 The West Side YMCA Community Arts Department and Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre began a new dance festival to “…celebrate innovative works of contemporary dance from diverse new and established voices in NYC dance,” according to the release. Some featured artists are: Laura Henry and Impact Movement Collective; Elizabeth Shea and Elizabeth Shea Dance; Alana Marie Urda and Amalgamate Dance Company; Tina Croll and Tina Croll + Company; Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre and more. Find out more here Marjani Forté-Saunders New York Live Arts May 15-16 As part of the Studio Series showing, Forté-Saunders will present What else (working title), her newest solo, evening-length work which “…takes inspiration from [her] father, an animated being of great contradiction, whim and majesty,” notes the release. Find out more here The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance proudly announces that its co-founder, the award-winning dancer/choreographer Arthur Aviles will receive an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from his alma mater, Bard College, on Saturday, May 23, 2015 as part of the college’s 155th Commencement Ceremony. At the ceremony, Bard President Leon Botstein will confer 420 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2015 and honorary doctoral degrees to NAACP President Sherrilyn Ifill (Doctor of Laws), Neurobiologist Cori Bargmann (Doctor of Science), Historian Anthony Grafton (Doctor of Humane Letters) and Artist Kiki Smith (Doctor of Fine Arts) in addition to Mr. Aviles. The ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m. in the commencement tent on the Seth Goldfine Memorial Rugby Field at Bard College at Annandale-On-Hudson, NY. Arthur Aviles received his B.A. in dance and theater from Bard College in 1987. In 1995, he received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters Award from Bard. His other honors include a New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for his outstanding creative achievement during the Jones/Zane seasons in 1988 and 1989, a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellowship, a Tanne Foundation award, a Mayor’s Award for Art and Culture and a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Master’s Grant from Pregones Theatre. Aviles danced with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and toured internationally with the company for eight years before forming his own dance company, Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre (AATT) in 1996. He has choreographed over two dozen dance works and his company has performed at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Jacob’s Pillow, Central Park Summerstage, Symphony Space, Harlem Stage, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Celebrate Brooklyn, Hostos Center for the Performing Arts and several other venues in NY, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Connecticut. He’s been awarded dance residencies at dozens of universities in the US and Italy. In December 1998, he co-founded BAAD! - The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, a performance space that blazed a path for professional art and dance in the Bronx and has garnered local and national attention for its work. The New York Times crowned BAAD! “a funky and welcoming performance space” and Theater Journal has said, “they have created a space for art in an environment that seems antithetical to that act.” BAAD! is located at 2474 Westchester Square in the Westchester Square section of the Bronx. For further information contact BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance at 718-918-2110 or www.BAADBronx.org Choreographers Kyle Abraham, Jessica Lang and Reggie Wilson have been awarded New York City Center’s 2015 Choreography Fellowships. The Fellowship supports choreographers at critical stages in their careers and reflects City Center’s long history of nurturing dance makers, from George Balanchine to Christopher Wheeldon.
“We’re thrilled to be giving Kyle, Jessica and Reggie these opportunities for creative exploration at City Center,” said Arlene Shuler, President & CEO of New York City Center. “They will be among a growing list of important dance artists who call City Center their artistic home—from Wendy Whelan, our first Artistic Associate, to David Hallberg, who recently joined our Board of Directors. Part of what makes this year’s Fellowship announcement so exciting is that all three Fellows have had their work shown at Fall for Dance in the past. Our belief in their artistry has therefore been ongoing. We’ve loved watching them grow and evolve as choreographers, and are happy to welcome them back to the building.” Shuler added, “City Center is proud to serve as a vital resource for the artistic community.” Visit www.nycitycenter.org/2015Fellows to read interviews with the 2015 Fellows and watch excerpts from their work. Since 2011, the Choreography Fellowship has provided choreographers with a creative home at City Center for one year. The Fellows receive a generous stipend in addition to rehearsal space in the City Center studios and consideration for a performance opportunity at City Center. Technical and administrative assistance is also available to the recipients, who have full access to the City Center staff’s expertise in fundraising, finance, technology and marketing. The past recipients of City Center’s Choreography Fellowship have been Brian Brooks, Camille A. Brown, Beth Gill, Gabrielle Lamb, Emery LeCrone, Pontus Lidberg, Andrea Miller, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener and Shen Wei. New York City Center gratefully acknowledges support for the Choreography Fellowship program from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kyle Abraham was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2009; the next year, Abraham received a Princess Grace Award in Choreography and his breakout work The Radio Show won a Bessie Award. Abraham performs and develops new works for his company Abraham.In.Motion, whose goal is to delve into identity in relation to personal histories, grounded in his artistic upbringing in 1970s hip-hop, classical cello, piano, and the visual arts. In 2011, OUT magazine labeled Abraham as the “best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama.” He has created commissioned works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and most recently Wendy Whelan as part of her Restless Creature production. Abraham received a 2012 USA Fellowship from United States Artists and the 2012 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; he served as New York Live Arts Resident Commissioned Artist from 2012-2014 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2013. http://abrahaminmotion.com Jessica Lang is a choreographer and the artistic director of Jessica Lang Dance. Hailed as “a master of visual composition” by Dance Magazine, Lang has created more than 85 works on numerous companies including Birmingham Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Japan and Joffrey Ballet. American Ballet Theatre has presented her work on multiple occasions at the Metropolitan Opera House. She has received commissions from the Dallas Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum for its Works and Process series and made her directorial debut in Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the 2013 Glimmerglass Opera Festival. In 2011 she launched her own company, Jessica Lang Dance, which has been presented at venues including BAM, Jacob's Pillow, the Kennedy Center and the Joyce Theater. She recently developed her own methodology called LANGuage, a unique curriculum that cultivates the habit of creative thinking. Lang, the recipient of a 2014 Bessie Award, is a graduate of The Juilliard School and former member of Twyla Tharp's company, THARP! www.jessicalangdance.com Reggie Wilson is choreographer, performer and artistic director of Fist & Heel Performance Group, which he founded in 1989. He draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances.” His work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues such as BAM, New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, the Walker Art Center, UCLA Live and Redcat. A graduate of NYU-Tisch, Wilson performed and toured with Ohad Naharin before forming Fist & Heel. He has served as visiting faculty at several universities, including Yale, Princeton and Wesleyan. He has received a Bessie Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Herb Alpert Award in Dance, and was named a 2009 United States Artists Prudential Fellow and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In 2013 his work Moses(es) had its New York premiere at BAM’s Next Wave Festival and is currently touring. www.fistandheelperformancegroup.org Creative Outlet: An Artist Grows in Brooklyn Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts at LIU Brooklyn Friday | May 15, 2015 | 7:30PM Saturday | May 16, 2015 | 7:30PM Sunday | May 17, 2015 | 3PM Creative Outlet celebrates 20 years of artistic excellence with a retrospective of their most acclaimed work. Director and founder, Jamel Gaines, has spent a lifetime cultivating students into dynamic artists who perform on stages around the world. Joining the program is his family of artists who represent some of the most lauded dancers of this generation. The performance includes five dance works with music by Roberta Flack, an all-male quartet, and movement inspired by the natural elements of Hurricane Katrina. Each performance begins with a special showing by current Creative Outlet students taking the stage. Tickets: $20; $15 (students and seniors with ID) Purchase tickets HERE Join Jamel Gaines' Creative Outlet in celebrating 20 years of excellent dance. Enjoy hor d'oeuvres and toast Brooklyn's premiere dance theatre company. Reception begins at 6 PM. Friday, 5/15 reception and performance ticket: $120 www.kumbletheater.org |
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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." |