Wofabe 2014 
Jeffrey Page
Kinetic Afrique
Harambee Sandella Malloy
Sabar Dance

And so much more....

Saturday, November 15, 2014
12:00pm-1:00pm
Karen Love
Children Class

12:00pm-1:30pm     
LaMora
Afro Cuban

1:45pm-3:15pm         
Sis. Zul Latifatu Zahiratu
West African Dance

3:30pm-5:00pm
Sandella Malloy
West African Dance

5:15 pm-6:45 pm
Mouminatou Camara
Guinea Dance

7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Jeffrey Page
Mali Dance

Sunday, November 15
12:00 pm-1:30 pm     
Nima Camara
Guinea Dance

1:45pm-3:15pm
Mama Yaa
Ghanaian Dance

3:30pm-5:00pm
Babacar M'Baye
Sabar Dance   

5:15pm-6:45pm
Damon Foster
West African Dance 



The mission of Wofabe: African Dance and Drum Festival is to preserve and share the finest traditions of African dance and drumming to encourage cross-cultural understanding. This mission relates to our overall mission to celebrate traditional African culture, aesthetics and values as resources for all people.   As we look forward to your support for our ninth year, we have begun the planning for our 10 year anniversary November 2015--YES! Wofabe turns 10!

Your generous donation will support our mission of continuing the legacy of African Dance and Drumming in New Jersey.  Visit our GOFUNDME page and join the network of donors supporting us so that everyone can continue to come, learn, and DANCE! 

Sincerely,

The Wofabe Festival Committee

It is with great sadness that I report the news of the passing of Valerie Gladstone, writer/editor/curator/author/teacher, who died of cancer, October 21st in New York City.   

Born in New York in 1939, Valerie grew up on Long Island and attended Connecticut College.   She worked as an editor at Harper's Magazine, Channels Magazine, and Americana Magazine, and was published regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post. LA Times, Boston Globe, Travel and Leisure, Town and Country, and ArtNews, among others.    A major writer on dance, she authored Balanchine's Mozartiana: The Making of a Ballet and A Young Dancer: The Life of an Ailey Student.   She also worked on a documentary on The Juilliard School's  jazz workshop at the Vitoria Festival in Spain.  Also active as a curator, Valerie curated the programs Dance Under the Influence at the Museum of Art and Design, as well as dance series at the West End Theater in New York City and Long Island's Emelin Theater.  

Valerie is survived by two children, Nicholas Brooks and Sara Rouviere; three brothers; five grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and sisters-in-law.   She will be missed by her family, friends, and the dance world.   A memorial is being planned and details will be announced soon. 

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
New York Live Arts
November 11-15
For this final week, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, New York Live Arts’ Resident Dance Company, continues with the New York premiere of Story/Time #37, 38 & 39.  Inspired by John Cage’s influential mid-20th Century work, Indeterminacy, in which Cage read 90 randomly sequenced one-minute stories interrupted by a chance musical score, Story/Time is performed in 70 minutes by 9 dancers, performing choreography from the Company’s 32-year history. Bill T. Jones has written 170 plus stories and collected others. Before every sequence, the stories, lights, sound and choreography are randomly selected through chance procedure.

Nov 11 & 12 - Story/Time #37 Lois Welk – A History features Lois Welk, who founded the American Dance Asylum Inc. (ADA) in 1972 and co-directed it with Jones and Arnie Zane, co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, from 1973–1979. Welk joins the Company on stage to share personal stories of her own that center on memories from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Welk’s stories provide a special window into the history of Jones’ and Zane’s early years in Binghamton, NY.

Nov 13 & 14 - Story/Time #38 features Jones and the Company

Nov 15 - Story/Time #39 Theaster Gates – Workin’ and Wailing is a one night only performance with the Chicago-based conceptual artist known for his practice of socially-minded space development, object management, performance and critical engagement. Gates will be accompanied by three members of The Black Monks of Mississippi, an experimental musical ensemble comprised of Gates’ close collaborators who temporarily follow semi-strict adherence to the blues form, one that Gates believes to be the most important root in American music. Following the common thread of chance-procedures, story-telling, and a firm focus on time, Gates and the Monks will join Jones and the Company in an energetic evening of live music, art, stories and dance.  Find out more here  

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company
BRIC
November 6-15
BRIC resident artist Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company runs for two weekends in two programs featuring One Shot, Order My Steps and Come Ye. Find out more here

J CHEN PROJECT
Gibney Dance Center
November 15
J Chen Project is hosting a series of dance & career workshops at Gibney Dance Center in November!
#3  SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 from 1-4pm
Know Your BRAND: designed for dancers of all levels to envision and create the dance career that they desire.  NOTE: facilitated by a Harvard MBA who has invaluable insight on how to build a career with intention. Find out more here

Batsheva Dance Company
BAM
November 12-15
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Batsheva Dance Company returns to BAM with the US premiere of Sadeh21 by artistic director Ohad Naharin. In Sadeh21, Naharin sculpts the space and sound to produce a work bounding with originality and passion. The piece features 18 dancers in a journey that explores new ground, set to music by Autechre, Brian Eno, Angelo Badalamenti, and others.  Find out more here

Ivy Baldwin
BAM - Fisher
November 13-15
Brooklyn-based choreographer Ivy Baldwin celebrates her company’s 15th anniversary season, making her BAM debut with the premiere of the evening-length piece, Oxbow, created in collaboration with performers, and features a score composed and mixed live by Justin Jones and additional music composed and performed by Tracy.  Find out more here 

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
November 14
Celebrating its 30th anniversary,Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santa will perform The Soul of Flamenco, a passionate new production that embodies the purity of traditional flamenco and classical Spanish dance.  Find out more here 

Jessica Gaynor Dance
TRISKELION ARTS
November 14-16
Triskelion Arts presents the world premiere of Gaynor's Free Fall.  Find out more here 

Hattie Mae Williams
Miami Marine Stadium in Virginia Key
November 15
Williams’ The Tattooed Ballerinas presents Miami Sites Project a site specific dance film captured at the historic Miami Marine Stadium in Virginia Key. Find out more here

Espiritu Gitano Flamenco
Roulette
November 15
Directed by guitarist-composer Arturo Martinez, a noted figure in the New York flamenco scene, the 10-member Espiritu Gitano ensemble of musicians, singers and dancers presents Felah-Menguz (Fugitive Peasant).   The show takes its title from the origin of the word “flamenco” - felah menguz - which translates as “fugitive peasant.”  Find out more here 

BALLET INC.
Ailey Citigroup Theater
November 16
The choreographer, Aaron Atkins presents his company Ballet Inc. in a program of new and repertory works with music that ranges from Arvo Part to Handel and Bach.  Find out more here