The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance joins the Dance Studies Association to co-host a program series exploring the politics, aesthetics, and alchemy of African diasporic dance.
CADD+DSA collaborative programming includes lectures, cross-generational discussions, and creative explorations into Black dance (studies). Events consider the ways that Black dance affirms, confers, cleaves, or potentially binds Black lives. Rooted in our diverse histories, discussions are also invested in the possibility of mobilizing experience/technique/technology into a possible 'right now' and future of/for Black people themselves. November 7 11 AM EST | Marcea Daiter shows excerpts from her interviews with Talley B eatty about the political imagery in his choreography; Dr. John Perpener contextualizes the work of Beatty and other contemporary Black Dance artists as he charts throughlines of Black dance as political action across the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women's, and, Black Lives Matter Movements. Woodshed Dance guides an embodied invocation. Registration for November - Registration will close 11/3 at 12pm CST Prices begin at $10 per event. Feel free to reach out with any questions. _________________Shireen Dickson, C.E. Collegium for African Diaspora Dance/Slippage@Duke The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced 41 grants today in support of the Philadelphia region’s artists and cultural organizations for exceptional programs, events, and artistic work. The 2020 awards total more than $10.5 million, $1.6 million of which is provided as unrestricted general operating support for the 29 project grant recipients, and $900,000 of which goes to 12 individual artists as Pew Fellowships. Performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is one of the 41 grantees, he says: “I am especially interested in presenting narratives that disrupt conventional performance to recast the historical positionality of the Black body, confront trauma, and offer creative processes for healing.” Read more about all 41 grantees here From the folks at The Lab:
In a critical time for social justice, we need our spirits lifted more than ever. And for people of color living in this country, we need to see ourselves in every seat possible. theLAB by Artists of Color presents “It’s BIGGER Than Me", an experimental short film on the black experience during the pandemic. This self-produced, collaborative work involves all artists of color including actors, dancers, and vocalists. View the trailer here! "It's BIGGER Than Me" explores the complexities of our present moment and will present virtually October 15th, 18th, 21st, 22nd, and 25th. Click here to RSVP to our FREE presentation! RSVP Link: https://rb.gy/r3keza Read the news about Urban Bush Women.
UBW, along with only 19 other cultural organizations, has been designated one of “America’s Cultural Treasures” by the Ford Foundation. Or read here. MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST EXPANDS BOARD TO BROADEN THE DIRECTION AND REACH OF CUNNINGHAM’S LEGACY10/14/2020 FROM THE FOLKS AT THE CUNNINGHAM TRUST:
Dancer/educator Shayla-Vie Jenkins and arts administrator/consultant Georgiana Pickett have joined the Merce Cunningham Trust, bringing the number of Trustees to nine. The expansion adds new voices and expertise to leading the pioneering choreographer’s legacy into the future. Jenkins, who performed in Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event at BAM, danced professionally with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, for which she also stages work. She has also performed with artists including Susan Marshall and Yara Travieso and has presented her own work in numerous New York venues. Jenkins is an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at the University of the Arts and regularly teaches at the American Dance Festival and NYU’s Summer Dance intensive. She is a graduate of the Fordham Ailey Dance program. Jenkins said of her appointment to the Board of Trustees, I was fortunate to be asked to perform in the Merce Cunningham Night of 100 Solos, which gave me the opportunity to inhabit and witness up-close the remarkable movement. As a new trust member, I am excited to bring an outside perspective and Black female voice to an ongoing conversation of how to imagine the Cunningham legacy into the future.” The arts consultant Georgiana Pickett was Executive Director of Baryshnikov Arts Center for eight years (2011-2019), during which time she oversaw major initiatives at including the establishment of the Cage-Cunningham Award and the Cage-Cunningham Studio. Pickett has extensive leadership experience, having previously served as Artistic Director of Miami-Dade College’s Cultural Affairs Department and Executive Director of 651 Arts in Brooklyn. She has been a panelist and/or consultant for many organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford and Doris Duke Charitable Foundations, and the New York State Council for the Arts. Pickett said, “I am looking forward to digging into this dynamic phase of the Cunningham Trust’s work that will continue its already impeccable record of carrying the Cunningham legacy forward, while now broadening its programs to include new students, scholars, dancers and communities.” The Trust also announces today that Trevor Carlson, a Trustee since 2011 and, previously, the final executive director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has stepped down. While at the helm of the company, Carlson was the driving force behind the design and implementation of its groundbreaking legacy plan. Over the past decade, he played an active role in building the Trust’s activities, culminating in his pivotal role as producer of last year’s Cunningham Centennial and as creative producer of its centerpiece, Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event. With that production, staged in London, New York, and Los Angeles on Cunningham’s 100th birthday (April 16, 2019), the Trust set out to broaden the performance of Cunningham choreography to include dancers from a wide range of backgrounds, practices, and companies. Read more 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." |