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Some Dance This Week ~

7/24/2019

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Picture“Made in NYC 2.0: Next Generation Traditions” performers
Various Artists
Lincoln Center
Out of Doors
/Hearst Plaza

July 28

The “Made in NYC 2.0: Next Generation Traditions” will feature Redobles de Cultura, Sri Lankan Dance Academy of New York, Michael Winograd & the Honorable Mentshn, and Inkarayku.  Find out more here






“Freddie Falls in Love”
The Joyce Theater
July 23 – August 4
This “…Broadway-style dance play…brings audiences along on a young man’s journey of self-discovery told solely through movement,” notes the release. Find out more here

Reggie ‘Roc’ Gray & Kaneza Schaal
The Shed
July 24 – August 17
Maze, an “…immersive dance-theater piece co-directed by choreographer Gray (The D.R.E.A.M. Ring) and theater artist Schaal (Go Forth, Jack &), premieres with performances by masters of flexn, a form of street dance created in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in Jamaican bruk up,” notes the release.  Find out more here

dance-mobile/ Various Artists
Brooklyn Bridge & Union Square
July 25
Gibney Dance Company's annual series of free, outdoor performances offers a platform by “…‘making space for dance’ in outdoor public spaces…[and] hopes to make the power of movement accessible to all members of [their] community.  The 2019 series features Gibney Dance Company performing Micaela Taylor's EYESOW (July 20 & 25); and Soles of Duende (July 27).  Find out more here
 
Dance Visions NY
Various Venues
July 25 & 27
Under the direction of Beth Jucovy, see the company in works by Isadora Duncan, site specific works, repertory and works by Jucovy over three-weekends.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Vital Joint
July 26
Lorene Bouboushian curates an evening of interdisciplinary performance with Samantha CC, Geraldo Mercado, Jamondria Harris (PDX), Cherrie Yu (CHI), Sam White, and Amelia Marzec/Abe Morrison.  Find out more here
 
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
July 27
For one-evening-only, at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell, the French-Algerian choreographer Hervé brings his What the Day Owes to the Night, a work made in part from Hervé “…learning about [his Algerian heritage] at age 25 from his father on his deathbed [sending] him on a personal and artistic journey,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA)
July 27
Throughout the summer and until on October 26, MTA will support more than 25 artists working in a variety of disciplines for the 2019 Watershed Lab including Stephanie Acosta, Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum, Ballez, Lorene Bouboushian, mayfield brooks, Megan Byrne and Jennifer Kjos, Leslie Cuyjet, Lisa Fagan, Ellie Ga, Charlotte Gibbons, Madison Krekel, Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki, iele paloumpis, Jillian Peña, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal and Raha Behnam, Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, Tara Sheena, David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi. Featured on July 27 is Gelsey Bell, Becca Blackwell, and Edisa Weeks. Find out more here

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Something to Watch ~ This Week

7/24/2019

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MY DIARY: SECRET JOURNEY 

TO TIPPING UTOPIA

YOSHIKO CHUMA AND THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
Friday July 26 
(final performance after a month residency) 
7PM

Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other pre-determined category. She is an artist on her own journey, a path that has taken her to over 40 "out of the way" countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing her company in New York City in 1980. The School of Hard Knocks was founded as a company of diverse backgrounds. Its purpose is to create, perform, encourage and sponsor experimental and multi-disciplinary and multi-media work. The School of Hard Knocks is an ongoing phenomenon-its shape as diverse as the situations the company performs in-from street performances to formal theatre/dance concerts to large scale spectacles. Company activities include an annual New York season, ongoing development and rehearsal of new works, and performances/residencies and collaborations with local artists on tour throughout the United States, East and Central Europe, Asia, Middle East, and South America. Over the course of the company's history, more than 2,000 people have performed under Chuma's direction. Notable international performers have been involved in the School of Hard Knocks over its 40 year history, including Stephen Petronio, Vicky Schick, Jodi Melnick, David Zambrano, Sasha Waltz, Sarah Michelson, DD Dorvillier, Allyson Green, Miraim Parker, Simon Courchel, John Jasperse, David Dorfman, and many others.

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2019 Movement Research Artists-in-Residence Announced

7/24/2019

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MOVEMENT RESEARCH 2019 Artists-in-Residence
 
Jessica Cook△ 
Kayla Hamilton△ 
Benjamin Akio Kimitch△ 
Athena Kokoronis△ 
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Zavé Martohardjono○ 
Elisabeth Motley△ 
Lai Yi Ohlsen△ 
Raymond Pinto△ 
Will Rawls++

△ With support from the Jerome Foundation
○ With support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation 
++ With support from the New York State Council for the Arts

Please join us in congratulating and celebrating these artists!

Read more about the artists and the AIR program here.

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2020 IABD CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL - CALL FOR PERFORMANCES & PROPOSALS

7/24/2019

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CALL FOR PERFORMANCES
Have you been a paid member of IABD for two (2) or more consecutive years and have an interest in performing on the IABD Main Stage? We are seeking submissions relevant to the Conference and Festival theme, THEN NOW NEXT, for one of the five (5) performance opportunities inside the 2020 Conference and Festival: Philly & Friends, Youth, Established, Founders & Invited Guests, and Gospel.
 
DEADLINE: Friday, October 11
For additional submission details and to submit, click here.


CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Additional opportunities exist for a sharing of research with the Conference and Festival attendees. We are seeking proposals centered around the Conference and Festival theme, THEN NOW NEXT, for digital presentations/films, individual papers, lectures, lecture-demonstrations, mixed-media presentations, movement workshops, panels, roundtable discussions, and additional presentation forms.
 
DEADLINE: Sunday, September 15 
For additional submission details and to submit, click here.
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Danspace Project is hiring - House Manager October 2019 - Application Deadline ~ August 2

7/24/2019

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Some Dance This Week(end)~

7/19/2019

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PictureYaniro Castro I a canary torsi
Yaniro Castro I a canary torsi
The Yard
July 18-July 20

Castro and her company, a canary torsi, continues her investigative work with performances of CAST, “…part of a trilogy of works that draw from a collection of audio and video recordings generated between 15 accomplished NYC performing artists, concerning the process of casting and the complexities of representation. A computer-generated script is created each night from transcripts of over 100 hours of conversation with the full ensemble about the performance of representation. Four performers negotiate a new score of movement and text in front of the audience each night, not knowing whose words they will have to speak or whose actions they may embody," according to the release.  Find out more here

dance-mobile/ Various Artists
Brooklyn Bridge & Union Square
July 20
Gibney Dance Company's annual series of free, outdoor performances offers a platform by “…‘making space for dance’ in outdoor public spaces…[and] hopes to make the power of movement accessible to all members of [their] community.  The 2019 series features Gibney Dance Company performing Micaela Taylor's EYESOW (July 20 & 25); and Soles of Duende (July 27).  Find out more here
 
600 Highwaymen
Lumberyard
July 20 – 21

In Manmade Earth, the company's latest work-in-process, “Created with 8 teenagers…[they] examine the evolution of our society; how we come together to create what we could not on our own…all in the hands of young people, in all their glory,” notes the release.  Find out more here

Dance Visions NY
Various Venues

July 21 – 25 & 27
Under the direction of Beth Jucovy, see the company in works by Isadora Duncan, site specific works, repertory and works by Jucovy over three-weekends.  Find our more here

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AUDITION: Mark Morris Dance Group - Men's Audition - August 10 - 12

7/18/2019

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Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
August 10 - 12, 2019
The Mark Morris Dance Group is looking for dancers who identify as male for full-time company positions. Auditions are by appointment only. 

Register for a timeslot.


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NEWS: Masazumi Chaya, Associate Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to retire

7/18/2019

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PictureMasazumi Chaya Photo: Andrew Eccles
Robert Battle, Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, announced today that the Company’s beloved mainstay for nearly five decades, Associate Artistic Director Masazumi Chaya, intends to retire on January 5, 2020, following the conclusion of the Company’s New York City Center season. Having joined the Company in 1972 as a dancer, Mr. Chaya performed under Mr. Ailey’s direction for 15 years, subsequently assumed responsibility for rehearsing the Company—a role for which Mr. Ailey had cultivated him—and for more than 28 years, as Associate Artistic Director, has maintained the repertoire, handled innumerable creative decisions, and guided generations of the Company’s dancers.

A special tribute performance celebrating nearly five decades with Ailey
is scheduled on Sunday, December 22nd during teh Company's holiday engagement.

Read more here

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NEWS: UBW Announces New Company Co-Artistic Directors

7/18/2019

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PictureChanon Judson-Johnson and Samantha Speis
FROM THE FOLKS AT UBW: Chanon Judson-Johnson and Samantha Speis, longtime Co-Associate Artistic Directors and Company Members, are promoted to Co-Artistic Directors of the UBW Company. UBW Founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar remains on board as Chief Visioning Partner and Artistic Director of the Organization.
 
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, June 30, 2019 — Urban Bush Women (UBW), the world-renowned dance company, announced that Chanon Judson-Johnson and Samantha Speis are the new Co-Artistic Directors of the UBW Company. In this capacity, they will lead the company’s touring arm while maintaining their roles as Performers and Directors of the UBW BOLD (Builders, Organizers and Leaders through Dance) program. UBW Founder, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, will continue in her role as Chief Visioning Partner, providing overall direction for the organization and its programs including the Summer Leadership Institute and the Choreographic Center Initiative.
The announcement was made at UBW Homecoming 2019, a two-day, event-filled celebration for UBW’s 35th Anniversary. Zollar, who founded the company on June 30, 1984, stated “The 35th anniversary season is looking at past, present and future with the theme Legacy, Lineage and Liberation. Moving toward intentional leadership development, it is my pleasure to announce—as we move to the future—that Chanon Judson-Johnson and Samantha Speis will assume the roles of Co-Artistic Directors of the UBW Company and I will continue as Chief Visioning Officer and Artistic Director of the organization.”

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The Bessies announce the 2019 Nominees!

7/18/2019

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The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, celebrates a landmark 35th anniversary this year, announced the  nominees for the 2019 Bessie Awards, along with the recipients of the 2019 Juried Bessie Award and 2019 Outstanding Breakout Choreographer Award.

The 2019 Bessie Awards Nominations
Read more here
Outstanding Production:
 
600 HIGHWAYMEN
The Fever
Co-presented by La MaMa, The Public Theater, and Onassis USA
 
Kyle Abraham
The Runaway
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
 
Nick Cave
The Let Go
Park Avenue Armory
 
Nora Chipaumire
#Punk 100% POP* N!GGA
The Kitchen
 
Merce Cunningham with stager Patricia Lent
Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event
BAM Opera House
 
Tania El Khoury
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Under the Radar/The Public Theater
 
Juliana F. May
Folk Incest
Abrons Arts Center and American Realness
 
Alexei Ratmansky
The Seasons 
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
 
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE)
The Art of Luv (Part 6): Awesome Grotto!
Abrons Arts Center
 
Caleb Teicher
More Forever
Guggenheim Works & Process
 
Noa Wertheim
One. One & One
Vertigo Dance Company
Baryshnikov Arts Center
 
Ni'ja Whitson
Oba Qween Baba King Baba
Co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center

Outstanding Performer:
 
Xianix Barrera
in Latido by Xianix Barrera
Emerging Choreographers Series at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
 
Warren Craft
in Harlequin and Pantalone by Bill Irwin
Dorrance Dance
New York City Center
 
Leslie Cuyjet
Sustained Achievement with Jane Comfort, Niall Jones, Juliana F. May, Cynthia Oliver, and Will Rawls
 
Kirsten Davis
in Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni’Ja Whitson
Co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center
 
Gabrielle Hamilton
in Oklahoma! choreographed by John Heginbotham
St. Ann’s Warehouse

Samantha Hines
in Attractor by Dancenorth Australia, Lucy Guerin Inc., Gideon Obarzanek, and Senyawa
The Joyce Theater
 
Tiler Peck
Sustained Achievement with New York City Ballet

Outstanding Performer (cont'd):

Molly Poerstal

Sustained Achievement with Hilary Clark, David Dorfman, Jeanine Durning, Alex Escalante,
Juliana F. May, Susan Rethorst, Roseanne Spradlin, and Larissa Velez-Jackson
 
Nola Sporn Smith
in metamorphosis by Stacy Grossfield
The Kitchen, Dance and Process
 
Taylor Stanley
in The Runaway by Kyle Abraham
New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
 
Shamar Watt
Sustained Achievement in the work of Nora Chipaumire
 
Takaomi Yoshino (aka Varvara Laptopova)
in ChopEniana by Alexandre Minz
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
The Joyce TheaterOutstanding Revival:
 
Deuce Coupe
By Twyla Tharp
American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
 
Hex
By Eleo Pomare, performed by Dyane Harvey
American Dance Guild Performance Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater
 
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
By Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti
Museum of Modern Art
 
 
Outstanding Sound Design/Musical Composition:
 
Joseph Kubera and Adam Tendler for interpretation of music of Julius Eastman, and
M. Lamar for original composition inspired by Eastman
for Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part by Kathy Westwater
New York Live Arts
 
Leyya Mona Tawil 
for Future Faith by Lime Rickey International
Abrons Arts Center
  
Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher
for More Forever by Caleb Teicher
Guggenheim Works & Process

Outstanding Visual Design:
 
Design Team: Tei Blow, Sean McElroy, Eben Hoffer, and Hyung Seok Jeon
for The Art of Luv (Part 6): Awesome Grotto! by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE)
Abrons Arts Center
 
Design Team: Jeanne Medina and Ni’ja Whitson (Costumes), Gil Sperling, featuring art works by Wangech Mutu and Galvin Jantejes (Video), and Tuçe Yasak (Lighting)
for Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni’Ja Whitson
Co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center
 
Mirella Weingarten (Set Design)
for Xenos by Akram Khan
Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival at Rose Theater
 
 
Outstanding Breakout Choreographer (* indicates award recipient):
 
Daina Ashbee *
 
Jonathan González
 
Stacy Grossfield
 
Caleb Teicher
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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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