WINTER | MODULE20 APPLICATIONS ARE LIVE
Award winning biannual research laboratory with internationally recognized Sidra Bell Dance New York in New York City. 
2020 Project dates: December 30, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Apply by November 1, 2019 at
www.sidrabelldanceny.org/module.
Host Partner: CPR-Center for Performance Research.

Three Positions: Development and Fundraising Manager (FTE), Bookkeeper (PTE) & Fellos and Interns (paid positions/PTE)
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The Kathryn Posin Dance Company
92nd St. Y
September 13- 14
The Kathryn Posin Dance Company opens the 2019-20 “Dig Dance Season” with three premieres: Evolution: The Letters of Charles Darwin, Triple Sextet and Memoir.   The seven-member Kathryn Posin Dance Company, founded in 1972, is returning to the 92nd Street Y''s series for the third time.  Find out more here
 


​Solo Works/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers
Gibney
September 12 - 14
In a return to New York, at Gibney, Souloworks/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers brings The Amazing Adventures of Grace May B. Brown “…a soulful, spirit-filled, dancing, musical folk performance in several acts written, choreographed and directed by Andrea E. Woods to celebrate 25 years,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Wilma Casal/Wolf & Swan
La Mama
September 12 - 14
German dancer and choreographer Casal and her company Wolf & Swan will premiere the evening-length program, Shadow of a Dragon Wing, as part of Summer Shares at La MaMa. Shadow of a Dragon Wing comprises three works--Dust in My Wings, Ancestral Shadows, and Dragon Blood. Find out more here
 
Mari Meade Dance Collective/MMDC
John Jay College
September 13
The CUNY Dance Initiative and John Jay College, in collaboration with MMDC presents the world premiere of immigration stories, a series of dances based on true experiences about relocating to the United States.  Find out more here
 
Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio 5
September 13–14
Magloire opens the 15th anniversary season of the New Chamber Ballet with a full-evening world premiere to music by contemporary German composer Wolfgang Rihm.  Find out more here
 
Deeply Rooted
BAM Fisher
September 13-14
In a shared evening titled “Legacy,” Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT), under founder/artistic director Kevin Iega Jeff, and Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (JCGO) come together. “Legacy” is inspired by JUBILATION! Dance Company’s mission, established during the 1980s and 90s in Brooklyn, NY.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists – Erasing Borders Dance Festival
Various Venues
September 14–16
In association with the Indo-American Arts Council, the annual “Erasing Borders Dance Festival,” at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup, boasts a lineup that includes Parijat Desai, Radhe Jaggi, IndianRaga and more. Find out more here
 
Various Artists - Works & Process
Guggenheim
September 15
For the “Works & Process” performing arts series at the Guggenheim, The National Ballet of Canada will present Orpheus Alive by Robert Binet and Missy Mazzoli, moderated by Wendy Whelan.  Find out more here 

APPLY FOR POP: PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY PROJECT​
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PERFORMANCE DATES AVAILABLE JAN-FEB 2020
POP: Performance Opportunity Project serves the dance community by providing space, support, and subsidized theater rental rates for performances to non-profit companies and individual dance artists. Apply now for available weekends this winter!

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My AmNews September 2019 Dance Calendar

Featured:
Ayodele Casel + Arturo O'Farrill
The Joyce Theater
September 24 - 29

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A RESIDENCY, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, & PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY THAT SUPPORTS EARLY-CAREER ARTISTS.

​Emphasizing the articulation of a choreographer’s ideas in both movement and language, Work Up artists are selected through a two-tiered application process including a written submission and a live audition.

Nine works will be selected for presentation on three shared programs in March 2020. Selected artists receive a $1,000 performance fee, 30 hours of granted rehearsal space, and professional development opportunities at Gibney throughout the season.

HOW TO APPLY

​This year’s application process will function differently than past years. An application lottery will open at 10:00 am on Thursday, September 12, and remain open for 24 hours. Artists who would like to apply may use the lottery form to submit their contact information during this time. Artists who are selected through this lottery will then be invited to submit a full application.
The application questions and program guidelines are available now, and we will host two free info sessions prior to the lottery to help you prepare.

Excerpt from: “DANCE COME MEET MI:
Nation-Building As Cultural Continuance Through Religion And Dance
In Jamaica, Up To The Twenty-First Century"
by  Charmaine Patricia Warren  

Since the beginning of slavery, Africans in Jamaica were brought together under duress. Many stayed together, creating creolized communities encompassing a variety of ethnic African communities, and generation after generation, nation-building was imperative for Africans in Jamaica who sought to preserve their connection to Africa. Accordingly, Maroons fought against slavery and formed communities of their own, and Kumina groups grew as the Kongo/Bongo Nation banded together. Both Rastafari, which began in the 1930s, and dancehall beginning in the 1980s, have become ever-challenging factions of Jamaican society. Nonetheless, each group grows and stands as testament to the vestiges of African cultural forms. Kumina, Rastafari and dancehall, for example, represent their own forms of cultural marronage, but Maroons are included as part of this lineage because they set the pace for marronage as a successful form of rebellion in Jamaica. 
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“The facts of history—and therefore of the culture created by the [Jamaican] people themselves—have served to reaffirm the staying power of dance as part of a society’s ancestral and existential reality.”1 This study aims to identify at least one cultural lineage in Jamaican dance from West and Central Africa to Jamaica. The author proposes here that the Koromantee Dance and Kumina were transplanted to Jamaica along with enslaved Africans as part of their culture. The specific African cultural retentions recognized here are religion, music and dance. Above all, the late Jamaican educator/choreographer/writer Rex Nettleford adds: “… the dance in Jamaica continues to be one of the most effective means of communication, revealing many profound truths about complex social forces operative in a society grouping toward both material and spiritual betterment.” 2 This abstract from the larger work, will introduce “K”ongo or “C”ongo, the Bakongo people, the Jamaican Bongo/Kongo Nation, and offer a glimpse into further research. 
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1 Rex Nettleford, Dance Jamaica: Cultural Definition and Artistic Discovery – The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica 1962 – 1983 (New York: Grove Press, 1985), pp. 18-19.
2 Ibid, p. 19

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Charmaine Patricia Warren (Ph.D.) is a performer, curator, historian, writer and the founder/artistic director of "Dance on the Lawn: Montclair's Dance Festival." She is a former faculty member at Hunter College, The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University Dance Major program, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University, and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program. She recently became the Producer of DanceAfrica at BAM and is a 2017 Bessie Award Recipient for "Outstanding Performance" as a member of Skeleton Architecture Collective. 

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DANCE ADVANCEMENT FUND

Call for Proposals
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Dance/NYC invites metropolitan New York City area dance makers with operating budgets between $25,000 and $1 million to submit proposals for two-year general support awards of $5,000–$15,000 annually, from January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2021.

Amounts will be determined on a sliding scale based on grantees’ total expense budget range for 2018: $25,000-$99,999; $100,000-$249,999; $250,000-$499,999; and $500,000-$1,000,000.

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