“I am thrilled to welcome back Tania--a Cuban-American woman with tremendous experience in arts management--to the dynamic and diverse culture of our Florida home,” said Lopez. “Borrowing from Maya Angelou ‘in diversity there is beauty and there is strength,’ Tania’s South Florida and Cuban roots reflect the community in which we perform, but these are additional benefits we gain with Tania, because quite simply, she is the best person for the position. She will be a vital force in helping Miami City Ballet advocate our national position and provide the leadership that will allow us to continue to do bold things in dance.”
NEWS: Miami City Ballet Appoints Tania Castroverde Moskalenko as its New Executive Director6/26/2018 Miami City Ballet today announced the appointment of Tania Castroverde Moskalenko as the ballet company’s new Executive Director. The appointment was made after an extensive, six-month international search. Castroverde Moskalenko, who returns to the city where she immigrated with her family 30 years ago as a political refugee from Cuba, will assume the leadership role alongside Miami City Ballet Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez on August 7, 2018. As Executive Director, she will lead the company’s institutional strategy, fundraising, and operations, building upon Miami City Ballet’s achievements as it advances its vision for the future.
“I am thrilled to welcome back Tania--a Cuban-American woman with tremendous experience in arts management--to the dynamic and diverse culture of our Florida home,” said Lopez. “Borrowing from Maya Angelou ‘in diversity there is beauty and there is strength,’ Tania’s South Florida and Cuban roots reflect the community in which we perform, but these are additional benefits we gain with Tania, because quite simply, she is the best person for the position. She will be a vital force in helping Miami City Ballet advocate our national position and provide the leadership that will allow us to continue to do bold things in dance.”
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Various Artists Bryant Park Stage June 22 – July 29 As part of the "Bryant Park Picnics" program, the “Contemporary Dance Series” curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, will offer four Friday evenings of modern dance. The lineup includes: Graham 2, Eryc Taylor Dance, AThomasProject, and Harlem School of the Arts (June 22 ), Mindy Jackson, NOW Dance Project, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (June 29), Tiffany Mills Company, Monteleone Dance, and Steps Summer (July 6), Tina Croll + Company, Kate Weare Company, KineticArchitecture Dance, Bryn Cohn + Artists, and Diva Dance (July 13), and Hope Boykin Dance, Julia Ehrstrand, Gabrielle Lamb, and Earl Mosely Institute of the Arts (July 20). Find out more here Various Artists Various Venues June 15 – 24 The always-free “River To River Festival” continues with It’s Showtime NYC (6/18 – 22) on the steps of the Federal Hall, an evening of salsa with Los Hacheros (6/23), and Naomi Goldberg Haas and visual artist Laura Nova (June 22 & 24). Find out more here Various Artists The Joyce Theater June 19 – 23 As an official partner with Pride Week, the Joyce joins New York City’s annual LGBTQ Pride festivities by presenting two queer contemporary dance companies, MADBOOTS DANCE and Sean Dorsey Dance. Find out more here Leimay Ensemble New York City College of Technology June 20 – 21 Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya and the LEIMAY Ensemble will present LEIMAY Unplugged, a companion to an earlier work, BECOMING Pentology. Find out more here Vencl Dance Graham Center of Contemporary Dance June 21-23 Vencl will offer Critical Junctures, an evening of contemporary dance with music by Arlene Sierra. Find out more here Molissa Fenley and Company Danspace Project June 21 – 23 In collaboration with percussionist Frank Cassara and violist Ralph Farris, Fenley will present an evening of dance and live music, with scores by four contemporary composers. The program features four dances from Fenley’s Water Table, three of which are New York premieres. The program also includes a new configuration of Fenley’s 1979 work Mix. Find out more here Choreoquest Afro Pas De Deux Festival RestorationART June 22 – 23 The Festival returns with works by Davalois Fearon, Germaul Barnes, Angel Chinn, Rosamund S. King, Sekou McMiller, Johnnie Mercer, Edisa Weeks and Nathan Trice to again “…explore the complex and artificial binaries of gender, sexuality, nationality and more,” according to the release. Find out more here Lawrence Goldhuber | Erick Montes BAAD! June 22 As part of BAAD!’s “Out Like That” series, Goldhuber and Montes, alums of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, brings Goldhuber’s Apple v. Oranges Montes’ Otherwise to BAAD! Find out more here Catherine Cabeen and Kristina Berger Pangea June 22 -23 Glitter in the Gutter, is the title given to Cabeen and Berger’s “…intimate evening of bawdy dance-theater...” according to the release. Find out more here Various Artists - Angela’s Pulse The Bronx River June 23 The annual one-day-only event, created through collaboration with artists and community members, Paloma McGregor’s iterative Fishtrap project; rooted in the reclamation of her 92-year-old father’s vanishing fishing tradition titled “Building a Better Fish trap” returns. Made in collaboration with Angela’s Pulse and New York Live Arts, audiences will again be taken “…by boat on a 1.5-mile stretch of the once embattled waterway.” Tickets must be purchased in advance. Find out more here NIC Kay BAM/Fisher June 23 "EVERYBOOTY 2018" descends on BAM this Pride weekend for “…a four-floor, more-is-more art party with the glitteriest critters of the queer art and nightlife worlds,” notes the release. Find out more here Various Artists New York Live Arts June 24 The HOUSE PARTY “…a building wide and sidewalk celebration in the historic gayborhood, Chelsea, just blocks from the pride march," notes the release, happens for one-day-only. Find out more here Various Artists – “A Day of Healing and Movement” JACK June 24 JACK partners with healing practitioners from MINKA Brooklyn, plus dance artists RAKIA! and Marguerite Hemmings for a day of healing and movement as part of their Reparations365 series, exploring distributive justice for Black Americans. Find out more here Various Artists Dixon Place June 24 - 25 WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company presents the 3rd Annual “SoloDuo Dance Festival” featuring 28 dancemakers from the New York Metro area, across the U.S., Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico, Japan and Korea. Find out more here KEIGWIN + COMPANY co-founder NICOLE WOLCOTT - invites you to come play This class in an opportunity to play, practice and experiment with our passion for movement in performance and creation. Learn to quickly excavate movement ideas with simple considerations of space, design, embodiment and narrative within a collaborative format. In a playful environment that has you alternating between performer and collaborator, you will employ curiosity and a sense of humor to discover and deepen your unique interests, your process and your dancing. Register here Gibney Dance Company is thrilled to announce a new initiative to support emerging choreographers, in partnership with Springboard Danse Montréal: the GDC/Springboard EMERGE Choreographic Award.
The EMERGE Choreographic Award will be presented to one of the Emerging Choreographers from Springboard Danse Montréal’s roster each summer. The selected artist will receive:
Find out more here Executive Director Lane Harwell will transition from Dance/NYC this summer to join the Ford Foundation as Program Officer, Creativity and Free Expression, where he will support the foundation’s explorations of how the arts can contribute to fairer and more just societies. “Dance/NYC has flourished during Lane Harwell’s tenure. We look forward to continuing our upward trajectory of growth and impact,” says Dance/NYC Board Chair Elissa D. Hecker. “The Board of Directors thanks Lane for his tremendous years of service and the legacy that he leaves. We congratulate him on his significant new role.” Harwell led Dance/NYC’s transition from a program of Dance/USA, the national service organization, to an independent nonprofit and has served as founding Executive Director since 2013. Under his leadership, Dance/NYC established its core capabilities of advocacy, research, leadership training, technology, and grantmaking to strengthen dance makers and educators and shape field policy, resource delivery, and management practices. Committed to social justice, the organization launched major ongoing initiatives focused on racial justice, disability equity, and immigrant rights. Read more here We are thrilled to introduce Jenny Thompson, new Director of Development! Please join us in welcoming Jenny as a part of the team that will lead Gibney through its Next Phase.Jenny joins Gibney from Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, where she recently served as Director of Campaign & Major Gifts. Her career as a nonprofit fundraising professional began at RIOULT Dance New York, where she quickly rose the ranks from Operations & Special Events Manager, to Manager of Institutional Giving, and ultimately Director of Development. She then joined management and consulting firm, DUNCH: Cultural Leadership for a Creative World, and worked under the mentorship of President Emma Dunch on a broad range of fundraising and strategy projects for a variety of arts organizations. Jenny shares our passion for the arts and continues to take dance class and volunteer as a dance teacher at Groove With Me. For over a decade, she has added her voice to the industry as a contributor to multiple performance publications. Jenny holds a M.A. in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. in Dance Studies, Choreography, and Writing about Performance from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. |
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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." |