NEWS: THE DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES THE FIFTH CLASS OF DORIS DUKE ARTISTS5/10/2016 The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) announced the 21 recipients of the fifth annual Doris Duke Artist Awards. Appointed in recognition of their creative vitality and ongoing contributions to the fields of dance, jazz and theater, awardees will each receive $275,000 in flexible, multi-year funding as well as financial and legal counseling, professional development activities and peer-to-peer learning opportunities provided by Creative Capital, DDCF’s primary partner in the awards.
With the 2016 class, DDCF will have awarded approximately $27.7 million to 101 noteworthy artists through the Doris Duke Artist Awards. Since the program’s inception, $9.9 million of these funds have gone to 36 artists in the field of dance. Maurine Knighton, program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, said, “The foundation is pleased to support this new class of Doris Duke Artists. The composers, musicians, theater artists, choreographers and playwrights who comprise this cohort are visionaries who have already made important contributions to their respective fields. We hope these awards enhance their capacities for exploration and experimentation, in keeping with Doris Duke’s adventurous spirit. DDCF looks forward to their continued creativity, as their work is not only important to the creative sector, but vital to the vibrancy of our society, as well.” The seven dance artists to receive the award in 2016 are:
The 2016 Movement Research Artists-in-Residence are:
Laurel Atwell Kim Brandt Parijat Desai Nia Love Angie Pittman Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal Alexandra Tatarsky Kate Watson-Wallace Netta Yerushalmy ARTIST-IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM Movement Research's Artist-in-Residence program is a two-year residency that provides commissions, rehearsal space, performances, professional development opportunities and peer dialogue, all of which are designed to support the individualized creative process of movement-based artists. Each year, six Artists-in-Residence are selected through an open application process by a rotating panel of peer artists. The selected artists receive support from the Jerome Foundation and must fit the Foundation's definition of an emerging artist. Three additional Artists-in-Residence are invited by Movement Research to apply for opportunities through the New York State Council on the Arts and the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. Additional support for the Artist-in-Residence program is provided by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Movement Research 2016 Van Lier Fellows are: Jasmine Hearn Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson VAN LIER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Movement Research's Van Lier Fellowship program provides year-long creative research support, rehearsal space, mentorship, access to classes and workshops, performance and professional development opportunities designed to support the individualized creative process of movement-based artists. Movement Research has received support from Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust for three fellowship cycles, 2016-2018. In 2016, two artists were selected through an invited application process. The Apollo Theater today announced the appointment of Kamilah Forbes as the Theater’s new Executive Producer. A director, producer, and cofounder of HiARTS/Hip Hop Theater Festival, Forbes will join the Apollo in September 2016.
Forbes’ diverse body of work includes leadership roles in the nonprofit and commercial fields, developing presentations engaging artists from around the globe. Notable credits include What’s Going On, a partnership with the Kennedy Center on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s seminal album; One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide, a monthlong festival that brought together more than 75 artists for a range of performances and education programs; serving as associate director of the recent Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun; and as producer for seven seasons of HBO’s DEF Poetry Jam as well as the recent live television event The Wiz. Throughout her career, Forbes has also spearheaded innovative audience engagement initiatives utilizing traditional and digital platforms, engaging a breadth of audiences with creative works across disciplines. Forbes will build upon the programming vision and foundation established by Mikki Shepard, who served as executive producer and also led the institution’s strategic planning, development, and marketing initiatives. Shepard spearheaded the development of the Apollo's artistic vision encompassing the mounting of major new productions and commissions, the setting up of international partnerships, and the creation of programs that support emerging artists across a range of disciplines, all rooted in the Theater's legacy of championing groundbreaking artists. Shepard joined the Apollo a decade ago and worked jointly with Jonelle Procope, the Theater's president, in leading the institution through an unprecedented period of growth of its operations, programming, and resources. Together they have reinvigorated the nonprofit into a major presenting and commissioning institution serving local, national, and international audiences. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) seeks several highly qualified and experienced Teaching Artists to lead in-school pre-show preparatory workshops, residencies, public workshops, and after-school programs for Pre-K-12 participants during the 2016-17 academic year. Find out more here
Ursula Eagly, Patricia Hoffbauer, and Nia Love Gibney Dance Center May 5-8 “Dance Colleagues” Eagly, Hoffbauer and Love were invited by Gibney Dance “…to ponder the past and future of the form, particularly as it relates to women in the field…for three nights of performance-panels that take wildly different approaches to the question of what it takes to make dances as a female-identifying person,” according to the release. Lucy Sexton, Gina Gibney, Elena Rose Light, Melanie Greene, and Alexeya Eyma- Manderson will join Eagly, Malcom Low, Peggy Gould, Charmaine Warren and Yvonne Rainer will join Hoffbauer, and Islah Alexander, Healing Facilitator Coni Lewis-Lopez, and second Veleda Roehl will join Love. Find out more here Happy Hour with Monica Bill Barnes & Company Gibney Dance April 20 - May 25 (Wednesdays) Gibney Dance joins Monica Bill Barnes & Company to co-present an encore run of "Happy Hour" in partnership with The Women's Project and The Joyce Theater. Have a free drink, and enjoy an evening of raucous laughter. Find out more here The Boogie Down Bronx – Various Artists BAAD! April 24 – May 31 BAAD’s annual spring dance festival “…a powerful mix of dance that vibrates with Bronx energy and a diversity of dance from around the city,” continues through May 31 with special evenings and events: “Deliciously Daring Men,” “Dancin’ In The Bronx,” “A Look Inside,” “Bronx Dance Magazine Launch – The Bronx Dance Diaspora Issue,” “Dancing While Black,“ and so much more. Find out more here The La MaMa Moves Festival – Various Artists La MaMa April 29-May 29 There will be nine world premieres and three American premieres provoked by “…contemporary issues of gender, current ideas about the environment, questions about politics and culture are threaded through the works of the 17 artists,” notes the release. The international lineup includes: Suk Soon Jung (Korea); Amanda Loulaki (Greek-born); Yvonne Meier (Swiss-born); Afshin Varjavandi (Italy); Sonia Olla (Spanish-born); Silvana Cardell (Argentinian-born); Jeremy Nelson (British-born); Luis Lara-Malvacias (Venezuelan-born); Poorna Swami (Indian-born); Bruno Isakovic (Croatian); Ori Flomin (Israeli-born) and Helena Franzen (Swedish). Find out more here Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana BAM Fisher May 3 – 5 Celebrating “…the fundamental power and diversity of flamenco…” the company presents Voces De Andalucia, “…a suite of contemporary flamenco dance and music inspired by the cultural richness of Andalucia, the region of Spain known as ‘the cradle of flamenco,’" according to the release. Find out more here Compagnia Finzi Pasca BAM Howard Gilman Opera House May 4-7 Theater and circus artist Daniele Finzi Pasca and his Compagnia Finzi Pasca return to BAM with a homage to artist Salvador Dalí. “Inspired by the artist’s visionary oeuvre, La Verità is a dizzying display of acrobatics, physical theater, music, and dance. The production’s stunning centerpiece is a replica of a long-forgotten, hand-painted backdrop that Dalí created for the Metropolitan Opera’s 1944 ballet Mad Tristan, based on Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde,” according to the release. Find out more here Ni’Ja Whitson Brooklyn Arts Exchange May 6 - 7 Whitson brings A Meditation on Tongues, “…a live interdisciplinary adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs’ iconic documentary film, "Tongues Untied." Part abstract, part performance ritual, part live and historical document, this rigorously layered interdisciplinary project (re)images Black and Queer masculinities,” notes the release. Find out more here Dance and Process – Various Artists The Kitchen May 6 - 7 For this installment of The Kitchen’s “longest ongoing series,” the program of new works features Karen Bernard, Benjamin Van Buren, Niall Jones, and Ander Mikalson. These performances are the culmination of a ten-week group process of sharing work and feedback. Find out more here Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) NJPAC May 6 - 8 AAADT returns to NJPAC for their annual Mother’s Day Weekend celebration world premieres: Robert Battle’s Awakening, Ronald K. Brown’s Open Door and Rennie Harris’ Exodus. Also on the program is Paul Taylor’s Piazzola Caldera (company premiere), Ailey’s signature Revelations and Cry, a new production of Judith Jamison’s A Case of You, plus a great deal of pre-show workshops and performances in the lobby. Find out more here Rosario Toledo 92nd Street Y May 6 Toledo and master singer Ismael Fernández will present contemporary flamenco with traditional forms. Find out more here Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and Kate Watson-Wallace JACK May 7-8 Kosoko and Watson-Wallace, co-directors of the interdisciplinary company anonymous bodies (Philadelphia/Brooklyn),share and evening at JACK. Kosoko will lead off with an excerpt from The Jigaboo King and Watson-Wallace will be joined by Jasmine Hearn and Ann-Marie Gover inside a large pile of fur, part of her performance installation. Find out more here Various Artists Movement Research at Judson Church May 9 Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are: Germaul Barnes, Lily Gold, Renegade Performance Group/André M. Zachery and sound artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. Find out more here My AmNews May 2016 Dance Calendar: Featured: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (May 6-8) @ NJPAC - Mother's Day Weekend Celebration. DanceAfrica (May 27 - 30) @ BAM - Memorial Weekend Celebration Seeing Vicky Shick and Dancers in Another Spell at Danspace Project (April 14 -16) was like watching a compilation of animated conversations between girlfriends cleverly shaped into dance. Jodi Bender, Donna Costello, Lily Gold, Marilyn Maywald Yahel, Heather Olson, Omagbitse Omagbemi and Shick are whoever we want them to be and so are their stories. The introduction to our make-believe ride begins when in the dark—all we hear is the sound of feet as they people the space. When the lights come up, a door is opened (sort of literally), when Barbara Kilpatrick’s moveable screen on wheels slides to one side revealing a dancer. We’re voyeurs. We’re let into their living room; their conversation space, and though we don’t know what they are “saying,” we can surmise, well, sort of. They shift from small to larger groupings, but mostly in intimate duets. The partners gently assist each other, a head may rests in a palm, a soft kiss brushes a cheek, fists rise in an imaginary boxing match, and party girls switch their hips, laugh, harmonize, gesture and lock eyes posing for selfie. Or so this story goes. In one instance, Kilpatrick’s screen divides the vacuous walls of St. Mark’s Church and there were two events happening at once. In another, one by one, a dancer climbed on the screen while another pushed it and the dancer around the space making lines and circles. In one last duet they sat on the floor and hugged…was this the end? Shick did introduce the evening as occupied with characters, fictitious to persons living or dead. She also warned that if there was any resemblance, it was purely coincidental.
Purelements is set to host the 2nd annual East New York in Motion, a celebration of music, dance and cultural diversity in East New York at St. Paul Community Baptist Church. Purelements founders, Lakai Worrell and Kevin Joseph, introduce East New York in Motion as an expression of cultural unification and a platform to create respect, understanding, and appreciation among people of various backgrounds in East New York.
Find out more here |
Categories
All
Archives
April 2024
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." |