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Some Dance This Week ~

5/23/2017

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PictureDanceAfrica 2017
DanceAfrica
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
May 26 - 29

DanceAfrica, the country’s largest showcase of African dance, celebrates a bitter-sweet 40th anniversary because the founder, Baba Chuck Davis died just weeks ago on Sunday, May 14, 2017.  Abdel R. Salaam, named artistic director three years ago, will carry on with what Baba Chuck built. This year under the theme of “The Healing Light of Rhythm: Tradition and Beyond,” Salaam, who honors the tradition has created “…a program that celebrates the past and the present with Asase Yaa, Forces of Nature, and Illstyle & Peace Productions, which have all performed in DanceAfrica before, will take the stage in the first half in a diverse style mesh-up. For the second half, Wula Dance and Drum Ensemble, a company of Guinean dance and drum masters led by M’Bemba Bangoura, continues the exploration of the diverse African dance cultures. All will be joined on stage by the BAM/Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble, which celebrates its own 20th anniversary. An integral component of the Festival, the Ensemble symbolizes DanceAfrica’s commitment to education and community outreach,” according to the release. Find out more here 

Michelle Boulé
The Chocolate Factory
May 17 – 27
Boulé’s The Monomyth “…illuminates the emotional and choreographic transformation of the feminine/feminist hero, reimagining Joseph Campbell’s concept of myth-making as a “challengingly persistent suggestion of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told,” notes the release.  Find out more here

La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
LaMaMa Theatres
May 18 -  June 4
Now in its 12th year, curated by Nicky Paraiso with a lineup of “…different generations of choreographic artists dealing with the actual day-to- day contemporary, political, social, and ecological challenges that we face in our world,” says Paraso. This weekend’s lineup includes: Company SBB Stefanie Batten Bland (May 25 – 28), Shared Evening: Beth Graczyk | Mariana Valencia (May 25 – 26), Astad Deboo (May 25 – 26), Malini Srinivasan (May 27 – 28), Shared Evening: Brendan Drake | Jasmine Hearn (May 27 - 28), Shared Evening: Yoshiko Chuma | Rady Nget | Brother(hood) Dance! (May 25 – 26). Find out more here 
  
The Bronx Dance Fest
BAAD!
April 28 – May 27
The Festival continues with Lehman College Dance Program as they take over BAAD!’s stage, and “Meet The Artists: Dance Your Future 2017” (May 25), which offers an opportunity to meet Beatrice Capote & Miguel Aparicio / The Sabrosura Effect, Tatiana Desardouin and Maleek Washington, from the artist-in- residency project with Pepatián and BAAD! Find out more here 
 
Vanessa Anspaugh
Danspace Project
May 25 -27
Anspaugh “…finds a renewed relevance in her continued research and critique of male masculinities in her latest dance-theater work, The End of Men, Again,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Jesse Phillips-Fein
JACK
May 28
Co-curated by Jesse Phillips-Fein and Shanté Paradigm Smalls, and part of JACK's year-long Reparations365 series, The Work of Imagining: Art in the Age of "Apocalypse," is a “…multi-genre performance event that asks us to wonder, witness, and explore what we do and make when the world we imagined we lived in goes away,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Cathy Weis
“Sundays on Broadway”
May 28
Cathy Weis Projects continues the spring 2017 lineup for "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions.  This Sunday will be a shared evening with K.J. Holmes and Kathy Westwater. Find out more here 

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In Memory of Baba Chuck Davis

5/23/2017

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Picture Baba Chuck with Mónica Dueñas Avalos of Peru Negro. DanceAfrica 2006. Photo: Jack Vartoogian
In memory of Baba Chuck for
​Dance Magazine

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NEWS: Services for Baba Chuck Davis @ NC - June 3, 2017

5/22/2017

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FROM DANCEAFRICA'S COUNCIL OF ELDERS:

Dear Council of Elders: 

Below is all the information I have thus far. I had listed several questions
that were posed to me. When I receive responses to those questions, 
I will relay it to the Council of Elders and noted dance lists. 

Time is short, but I do feel that there should be an insert in the
BAM Playbill as a tribute to Baba Chuck Davis. The Council of
Elders should have some input.

I am sharing the below information with you  as it was passed to me by Mama Akua the source
being FACEBOOK

CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICES FOR BABA CHUCK DAVIS

Wake:
Friday, June 2, 1pm - 7pm
Fisher Memorial UHC - 420 E Piedmont Ave, Durham, NC 27707 
The body will lay in state and a time of Community Tributes will begin at 5:00 p.m.

​Funeral Services:
Saturday, June 3, 11:00 a.m.
Union Baptist Church - 904 N Roxboro St, Durham, NC 27701
HOTEL INFROMATION
21C Museum Hotel - 111 North Corcoran St.
Durham, NC 27701
919-956-6700
********
BNB - 914 Vickers Ave. 
919-687-4366
for further information: Dr. B. Angeloe Burch Sr. - 919-672-1058
http://aade-inc.org/index.html
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Ballet Hispanico @ The Joyce 2017

5/22/2017

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PictureBallet Hispanico Photo: Paula Lobo
Some thoughts on Ballet Hispanico for AmNews

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Ailey II @ NYU Skirball 2017

5/22/2017

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PictureAiley II Photo: Nan Melville
Some thoughts on Ailey II for AmNews

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NEWS: Technology Tools for Artists and Organizers- Free Workshop on Wed. 5/24!

5/22/2017

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​Hello Community,

I am writing to let you know about an exciting (and FREE) opportunity happening on Wednesday.  If you are anything like me, then the technologies can be a challenge!!  One of the amazing things about creating STooPS is that it gave me the opportunity to work with folks much more savvy than me, and I wanted the opportunity to share some of what I have learned.

Please join our Director of Operations Nick Sharma for Head In the Cloud: Tech Focused Tools for Artists presented as part of the #ArtistToolkit Series by FAB NYC.  It's happening this Wednesday, May 24 from 6:30-8:30pm at Downtown Art (70 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003)

For more info and to register please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-the-cloud-artisttoolkit-facilitated-by-nick-sharma-stoops-tickets-34522168736


Hope to see you soon!

PS. I realize some of you are already Tech Masters, but please share with your people who need a little help!
With Love and Light,
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NEWS: Trisha Brown Dance Company, Workshop & Informance - June 10 & 11

5/22/2017

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Trisha Brown Dance Company
Workshop & Informance
June 10 & 11 

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Workshop on Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980)


Saturday, June 10 // 2 - 5pm
Sunday, June 11 // 2 - 5pm (showing at 6pm)

$50 for two days
REGISTER HERE
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TBDC Dancer Marc Crousillat will lead a two-day workshop on Trisha Brown's Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980). Twenty participants will learn phrase material from the work and, using this material, the dancers will create their own structures, making new versions of Opal Loop (Looped).
Comprised of a series of slowly unfolding solos – each slightly different from the other – the Opal Loop performers glide in and out of unison with one another performing Brown’s idiosyncratic movement language, itself evanescent, slippery, silky – and difficult to perceive. The dance’s final double-duets explored a similar idea: it is based on an improvisation by Steve Paxton that the dancers learned, remembered, and altered, making Opal Loop a monument to a period in Brown’s work when she was attempting to ‘reign in the esprit’ of improvisation in fixed form choreography.

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NEWS: Save The Date - Camille A. Brown "Every. Body. Move. Celebration." June 8

5/22/2017

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Join Camille A. Brown & Dancers on July 8th, 2017, in Harlem USA, for 
"Every. Body. Move.", a free celebration of the creativity, resilience, and diversity of New York City! We will dance, speak, and affirm how art-making, music, dance, and poetry help strengthen communities. Now is the time...
Every. Body. Move.
 
More details to come. Registration begins on June 1st, 2017. 
 
#EveryBodyMove 

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NEWS: Periapsis Music and Dance' Noesis - June - 3-4

5/22/2017

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Please join us for the world premiere of NOESIS, a new work by choreographer Hannah Weber and composer Jonathan Howard Katz!

Also on this program:

- Twine, from The Portrait Project, by guest choreographer Manuel Vignoulle and composer Jonathan Howard Katz
- The Heaviness of Air, from The Portrait Project, by guest choreographer Helen Simoneau and composer Mary Kouyoumdjian

And guests from the Periapsis Open Series:

- DoubleTake Dance Co with composer Eugene Marlow (6/3 evening, 6/4 evening)
- Samuel Asher Kunzman with composer Steve Kunzman (6/3 evening, 6/4 matinee)
- Maleek Washington with composers Jack Fuller and Paul Wilson (6/4 shows)

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW WITH ADVANCE DISCOUNT

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APPLY: Dance @ Wassaic Project - Deadline - THIS FRIDAY, May 19

5/18/2017

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PictureChien-Ying Wang - Dance @ Wassaic 2016 Photo: Tony Turner
​Calling All Choreographers & Those Who Know Choreographers  to submit works to be considered for ~ Dance @ Wassaic 2017

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 19, AT 11:59PM
APPLICANTS NOTIFIED BY JUNE 12


APPLY HERE 

The August Wassaic Festival runs the evening of August 11th – 12th and is open to the public. As an artist-run program, The Wassaic Project is proud to be in its tenth year of presenting art, music, film and dance as part of its summer programming. Dance performers have included Chien-Ying Wang, Rowan Willigan, Kyle Marshall, The Space We Make Project, Deborah Lohse, Hannah Garner, Michael Cerwinski, Joe Montelone, and Paula Josa-Jones to name only a few. Our dance performances sometimes happen inside, among the art installations, but always outside on the deck of the wonderfully refurbished Maxon Mill built in 1954. The Maxon Mill now stands as the focal point of the town, and the deck is our main performance area.

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    I 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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