Applications are due July 12, 2017
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Are you a small dance maker in the New York City metropolitan area? If so, you might be eligible to receive support from Dance/NYC's Dance Advancement Fund. Dance groups with budgets of less than $1 million are encouraged to submit proposals for two-year general support awards of $5,000–$15,000 annually, from October 1, 2017, through September 30, 2019. To learn more about the Fund, please join our free webinars on June 13 and 15. Applications are due July 12, 2017 Apply Now: Dance Advancement Fund
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THE 9th ANNUAL TEER SPIRIT AWARDS ANNOUNCES HONOREES: In the spirit of Black Excellence, National Black Theatre invites you to join us as we honor seven amazing people and organizations at the TEER Spirit Awards Gala on Wednesday, June 14, 2017! "The TEER Spirit Awards is always a fun and festive evening that celebrates the groundbreaking work of Black artists, who like my mother Dr. Teer are trailblazers in their work and representation of authentic Black lifestyle," said Sade Lythcott, CEO of NBT. "With great risk, resolve and resilience the revolutionary work of the eight honorees this year dares to assert the power and presence of our humanity while offering us images that help to heal the pain of this country's long chokehold on our culture." MISTRESS OF CEREMONY: SANDRA BOOKMAN SPECIAL FEATURED PERFORMER: IMANI UZURI GET YOUR TICKET TODAY! Movement Research announces the 2017 Artists-in-Residence Lorene M. Bouboushian mayfield brooks Justin Cabrillos Leslie Cuyjet Julie Mayo Tatyana Tenenbaum with support from the Jerome Foundation and Lisa Parra with support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation Read more about the artists here STooPS announced the 2017 lineup of outstanding and innovative artists selected to participate in the 5th annual STooPS Art Crawl.
This year's applications featured a wide array of submissions, including visual artists, singers, puppeteers, musicians, choreographers, and more — all committed to storytelling by, for and with Bed-Stuy's communal legacy in mind. After much deliberation, we are proud to announce our lineup of nearly 20 artists, including Clarivel Ruiz`, Fulton Art Fair Inc., Babay L. Angles, Najee Omar and students from The Brooklyn Music School's Summer Vocal Arts Program. We are also thrilled to have artists like Aleijuan Afuraka, the Fulton Arts Foundation, and Lisa Sikorski returning this year. Read more here To celebrate their fifth year, the annual STooPS event will span two days: Saturday, August 5th from 1-6pm & Sunday, August 6th from 2:30pm-7:30pm As part of Tap City's New York Tap Festival - July 8 - 15 Tap City 2017 Award Recipients are Announced! 2017 HOOFER AWARDEES are Sam Weber & Ayodele Casel Othe awards are: 2017 INTERNATIONAL TAP DANCE HALL OF FAME - Duke Ellington 2017 INTERNATIONAL TAP DANCE HALL OF FAME - The Cotton Club Boys & Girls 2017 TAP PRESERVATION AWARD - New York Public Library GET TICKETS HERE! NEWS: Arthur Mitchell to be honored @ Valentina Kozlov International Ballet Competition - June 106/6/2017 Arthur Mitchell, principal dancer with New York City Ballet and founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, to be honored (June 10) as part of the the 7th Annual Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition, June 6-10 at Symphony Space. Valentina Kozlova, former Principal Dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and New York City Ballet, founded the Kozlova International Ballet Competition in 2010. Find out more here Madame Gauthier passed away Thursday, June 1st at 99 years old. Read more here The documentary below was made 3 years ago when Madame Gauthier was 96 (and still teaching). Above: Megan Williams' 2016 Commission "Quadrivium."
10 Hairy Legs 2017 New York Season World Premieres by Al Blackstone and Raja Feather Kelly 2016 Commissions by Doug Varone and Megan Williams BAM Fisher/Fishman Space 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn June 8 - 11 TICKETS Kyle Marshall Choreography The Actors Fund June 2 – 3 Kyle Marshall with dancers Oluwadamilare Ayorinde and Myssi Robinson have been in deep research in the making of Marshall’s first full evening work, Colored. Marshall notes, Colored “…honors the dark twisted beauty of blackness while demonstrating the inherent struggle in abstracting the black dancing form.” To that end, the work traverses many terrains to find answers asked of each dancer. Colored is commissioned in part by "Dance on the Lawn: Montclair’s Dance Festival, EMoves Harlem Stage, and Jersey (New) Moves Dance Festival at New Jersey Performing Arts Center and features original music and decor by Matt Clegg. Colored runs June 2 - 3 at the Actors Fund Arts Center. There will be a brief Q & A with the artists after Friday’s performance. Find out more here La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival LaMaMa Theatres Now - 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 final weekend’s lineup includes: Maura Nguyen Donohue (May 25-26 and June 1-3); Patricia Hoffbauer (June 2 – 4); Patricia Noworol (June 1 – 3); and “Shared Evenings” curated by Alexis Convento with Fana Fraser, Mersiha Mesihovic and Veraalba Santa (June 3 ) Leslie Cuyjet, Maree Remalia and Jessica Pretty (June 4). Find out more here Movement Research Festival Spring 2017 Various Venues May 31 – June 6 Curated by Laurie Bert, Monstah Black and Amy Khoshbin, the Festival includes performances, screenings, workshops and dance parties. Find out more here David Gordon’s Pick Up Performance Co(s) The Kitchen June 1-3 Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) begins its second annual Lumberyard in the City festival with the New York premiere of Gordon’s Live Archiveography a combination of “…movement, scripted storytelling, conversation and video to look back at his five decades in dance and theater,” according to the release. Find out more here Janis Brenner & Dancers Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center June 1 – 3 The company will premiere Once You Are Not A Stranger, an “… interdisciplinary work [that] looks at the idea of empathy in a multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious world and uses the dance company as a microcosm of this world.,” according to the release. This work is made in collaboration with Bosnian-born composer Svjetlana Bukvich. Also on the program is Brenner’s Soul River/Blues, originally created in collaboration with Maya Dance Theatre in Singapore. Find out more here Graham 2 Martha Graham Studio Theater June 1- 4 For their 2017 New York season, the Company’s program will feature a series of solos from modern pioneers, including Ted Shawn’s Serenata Morisca (1916), Ethel Winter’s En Dolor (1944), Stuart Hodes’ Flak (1951), and more. Find out more here Ivy Baldwin Abrons Arts Center June 1 - 11 Baldwin’s latest work, Keen [No. 2], “…is a meditation on loss and ritual [that]builds upon Baldwin’s recent Keen (Part 1) for the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and is co-presented by the Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory Theater, and The Joyce Theater as part of Joyce “Unleashed,” the Joyce Theater’s off-site series for experimental dance. Find out more here Marie-Christine Giordano Dance & BalaSole Dance Company BAM/Fisher June 2 – 3 As part of the 15th Anniversary season the Company will premiere Et Maintenant and Robert Villanueva’s BabaSole Dance Company will be joined by Miki Orihara. Find out more here Legacy 36 Miller Theater at Columbia University June 3 This special event will feature The Legacy Dancers, a line of former Rockettes, directed and choreographed by Mary Six Rupert with guest appearances by Maurice Hines, Sandy Duncan, Don Correia and Rosemary Novellino-Mearns. Find out more here “Dancers For Good” Ross School (East Hampton) June 3 Hosted by Bebe Neuwirth, the “Dancers For Good” event, created in 2016 to raise funds in support of the arts and the local community will feature performances by Eryc Taylor Dance, Paul Taylor Dance, American Ballet Theater & Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Find out more here Cathy Weis “Sundays on Broadway” June 4 Cathy Weis Projects continues the spring 2017 lineup for "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions. This Sunday there will be an evening with Simone Forti, K.J. Holmes, and Daniel Lepkoff. The evening will include a conversation with the artists moderated by Wendy Perron. Find out more here Nimbus Dance Works presents Source of Strength, featuring Charles Moulton's renowned masterwork 18-Person All-Star Ball Passing Redux, Darshan Singh Bhuller's acclaimed Mapping, and Samuel Pott's Patch of Turf, plus: preview of new sections from Pott's Esther, in collaboration with Brooklyn indie-rock band Sky Pony, followed by artist talkback. Purchase tickets 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." |