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It’s been nine years now since the Wassaic Project began the process of transforming a leaky old barn and a tumbling-down grain elevator into “a mature and vibrant arts center,” as The New York Times put it. The Times reporter went on to say: “The Wassaic Project is a toothsome example of how artists schooled in social practice — that is, art that combines education, community engagement and social activism — can re-energize not just structures but entire towns.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. And it’s all thanks to the dedication of generous supporters like you. With your help, we’re able to support emerging artists and build up our community. Just in the last year alone, you’ve helped us bring over 5,000 people to enjoy new music, dance, film, art, and our beautiful Hamlet. Your support has allowed us to add a brand-new summer program for local middle-school children. This year, Camp Wassaic joined our popular Art Nest and Art Scouts programs as part of our ongoing effort to help kids access their own creativity and experience the contemporary arts. And because of your generosity, we’ve been able to start winterizing some of our studios, galleries, and education center. So much of what we offer is free for everyone to enjoy, and with your help we can keep it that way. That’s why we’re asking for your support. If you love art, music, dance, or cinema – if you agree that art enriches a child’s education – please consider a gift to the Wassaic Project. A very special Wassaic Project supporter has generously offered a challenge grant for up to $20,000 to match gifts from first-time donors, and increased gifts from past donors. Please join us to help sustain our community of artists, art-lovers, and art students today. Donate now! Online or by mail using our return card. You can also download our annual appeal as a PDF. Nominees - The 2015 Clive Barnes Award Nominees Named - Winners to be announced - January 11, 201611/24/2015 The Clive Barnes Foundation announced the nominees for the sixth annual Clive Barnes Awards.
DANCE: Catherine Hurlin of American Ballet Theatre Joseph Gordon of New York City Ballet Jacqueline Green of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Gabe Stone Shayer of American Ballet Theatre. THEATRE: Jack DiFalco for his performance in Mercury Fur Sandra Mae Frank and Katie Boeck for their performance in Spring Awakening Austin McKenzie for his performance in Spring Awakening Dave Thomas Brown for his performance in The Legend of Georgia McBride. One recipient from each category will be chosen and the winners announced on Monday, January 11, 2015 at 3pm at The Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center. All finalists will receive a cash prize, with the winners in each category receiving an award of $5,000. This year's Theatre Award will be presented by 2015 Tony-Award-winner for You Can't Take It With You and current star of Broadway's Sylvia, Annaleigh Ashford. Blakeley White-McGuire, Principal Dancer with Martha Graham Dance Company will present the Dance Award. The New York Post's Michael Riedel, author of bestselling book Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway will oversee the Awards as Master of Ceremonies. In addition, 2014 Clive Barnes Award winners, New York City Ballet soloist Russell Janzen and Tony-Award winner Alex Sharp will be speaking at the event. THE CLIVE BARNES AWARD Throughout his professional life, Clive Barnes was caring and generous to his colleagues and friends; always ready to advise and listen. After his death, many condolence letters spoke of his generosity and practical help, especially to young people. In this spirit, The Clive Barnes Foundation was formed in 2009 to create Annual Awards giving recognition, encouragement, and financial support to two talented young professionals and, thus, honoring the memory of the many years of critical work and the warm personal generosity of Clive Barnes. Find out more here The Department of Dance at University of California, Riverside, dance.ucr.edu, invites applications for a tenure- track Assistant or Associate Professor (tenured) faculty position in Choreography to begin June 30, 2016.
The University of California at Riverside (UCR) is embarking on a major hiring initiative that will add 300 tenured and tenure-track positions in 33 cross-disciplinary areas selected through a peer-reviewed competition. Over the next three years, UCR will hire multiple faculty members in each area and invest in research infrastructure to support their work. This initiative will build critical mass in vital and emerging fields of scholarship, foster truly cross- disciplinary work and further diversify the faculty at one of America’s most diverse research universities. We encourage applications from scholars and artists committed to excellence and seeking to help redefine the research university for the next generation. For more information regarding UCR’s hiring initiative please go to clusterhiring.ucr.edu. As part of UCR’s cluster hire initiative, the Dance Department will be hiring new faculty in both choreography and critical dance studies over the next several years; this year’s hire will be in choreography. The UCR Department of Dance offers a B.A. in Dance, an M.F.A. in Experimental Choreography, and a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies. These innovative programs influence the fields of Dance and Dance Studies internationally, and their coexistence in a single department has established a model for connecting the theorization of dance and the making of dances without blurring the lines between them. Poised at an exciting place of expansion and renewal, the Dance Department seeks to continue its record of leadership by cultivating interdisciplinary and discipline-specific approaches to the study of dance and by productively destabilizing the field of contemporary choreography. Responsibilities of the Choreography hire will include pursuing a professional choreographic agenda; teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in the department’s composition, repertory, practice and performance curricula; directing undergraduate concerts; mentoring and advising undergraduate and graduate choreography students; and participating in departmental activities and administrative service at college and campus levels. Salary and Rank: Commensurate with stage of career. Starting date: June 30, 2016. Fall Quarter Instruction begins September 29, 2016. Qualifications: MFA or MA received by June 30, 2016 preferred, or BA plus extensive professional equivalent; strong track record as a choreographer, performer and movement practitioner; college teaching experience; demonstrated administrative, artistic mentoring and producing experience; and a demonstrated ability to successfully work with and benefit a diverse student body.
To Apply: All applicants apply online via the UCR on-line application system. Assistant Professor candidates will apply at https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00485 and Associate Professor candidates will apply at https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00486 . Required components: two-page cover letter plus CV, three current letters of recommendation uploaded directly by the letter writers, two sample syllabi, and teaching evaluations if available. The applicant must also submit three excerpts from different works, 4-7 minutes each, as well as one full- length piece, all provided via a stable online link and hosted by Vimeo, YouTube or any media player compatible with both Mac and PC computer playback. All video links should also include performance credits and a 50-75 word description of the work. The UCR Department of Dance, one of 20 in our College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, is housed in the AIA award-winning Arts Building, with productions taking place on campus in the Studio Theater, Performance Lab, University Theater, as well as Culver Center of the Arts located in downtown Riverside. Established in 1954, the UC Riverside campus today has a fast-growing population of approximately 20,000 students, the most diverse undergraduate student body in the UC system, and one of the most diverse in the nation. UCR is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification. Advancement through the faculty ranks at the University of California is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring every 2-3 years, each of which includes substantial peer input. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Complexions Contemporary Ballet The Joyce November 17 – 29 Returning for their annual two week season, in three programs, at The Joyce Theater , Complexions brings five premieres: Strum, Ballad Unto, Chronicle, Cryin’ To Cry Out all by co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden. The company also debuts their “Icon Series” with Imprint/Maya which honors Maya Angelou and features a performance by co-artistic director Desmond Richardson and a special guest. Find out more here Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, A Dance Company BRIC November 12 – 22 BRIC presents resident artist Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, A Dance Company in two programs that draw on two decades or repertory work and also celebrate the Company’s 30th anniversary. Find out more here Lizt Alfonso Dance The New Victory November 13- 29 The 24-member company of dancers and musicians in returns to the U.S at the New Victory with Cuba Vibra! Find out more here Jean Butler Danspace Project November 17 – 21 Danspace Project collaborates with New York’s Irish Arts Center and Dublin’s Project Arts Centre to present the world premiere of Butler’s this is an Irish dance performed with composer/cellist Neil Martin. Find out more here [DANCEROULETTE] –Various Artists Roulette November 17 & 18 Kyli Kleven curates two evenings of the “Lec-Dem” series. Each evening consists of one lec and two dems presented by artists working in and around the realm of contemporary dance.Marissa Perel (lec), Ayano Elson and Millie Knapp (dem) on November 17. And The Bureau for the Future of Choreography ( lec), Jessica Cook and Emily Wexler (dem) on November 18. Find out more here and here Celebrating Alvin Ailey 92nd Street Y November 17 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Artistic Director Robert Battle, Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison plus Rehearsal Director and Guest Artist Matthew Rushing and dancer Rachael McLaren join Budd Mishkin to discuss the history of Mr. Ailey and the upcoming season. Find out more here Twyla Tharp David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center November 17 – 22 Tharp concludes her 50th anniversary tour with a double bill of New York premieres: Preludes and Fugues and Yowzie, both works were commissioned in part by The Joyce Theater. In a program note describing the shows, Tharp says: “Simply put, ‘Preludes and Fugues’ is the world as it ought to be, ‘Yowzie’ as it is. The ‘Fanfares’ celebrate both.” Find out more here Nami Yamamoto + Manami Fukuoka Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center November 18-21 Yamamoto and Fukuoka come together in “DoublePlus: A Split-Bill Evening” curated by Yasuko Yokoshi. This Gibney Dance series “…embraces the artist-as-curator format to present split-bill evenings featuring emerging and under-exposed artists,” notes the release. Find out more here Personal Effects Westbeth November 18 - 19 For Performa 15, Will Rawls’ new solo performance, Personal Effects, takes the history of his dancing as its point of departure, considering the body in motion as both material and message. Find out more here U-Theatre BAM/Opera House November 19-21 Taiwan’s U-Theatre comes to BAM with “…traditional Taiwanese drumming and folk music meld with contemporary dance-theater and martial arts, infusing the performance with reverence and ceremony,” in Beyond Time “…a visual and auditory spectacle that reflects on man’s relationship to the universe,” notes the release. Find out more here Rajika Puri Metropolitan Museum of Art November 20 As part of “Grand Tour Asia,” singer/dancer/storyteller, Puri performs Four Danced Stories. Find out more here Murray Louis: A Celebration Of The Legendary Choreographer 92nd Street Y November 20 As part of the “Fridays at Noon” series, a panel discussion includes original dancers in the Murray Louis Dance Company, archival footage and a reading from Louis’s collection of essays, Inside Dance. Find out more here Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet City Center Studio November 20 - 21 Magloire will present a new work, plus repertory. Find out more here Ballet Hispanico The Apollo November 20-21 In the same year that they celebrate 45 years of Latin culture through dance, Ballet Hispanico under artistic director, Eduardo Vilaro, come together with The Apollo Theater in co-commissioning the evening-length, world premiere If walls could speak by Brazilian choreographer Frenando Melo. Find out more here Thomas Adès: Concentric Paths—Movements in Music – Various Choreographers New York City Center November 20 – 22 As part of Lincoln’s Center’s “white light festival” choreographers Wayne McGregor, Karole Armitage, Alexander Whitley and Crystal Pite make works celebrating conductor Thomas Ades. Find out more here Souls Of Our Feet: Blaktino Dance Concert – Various Artists BAAD! November 21 This year, BAAD!’s signature compilation dance concert which features a mix of dance styles and talents from the Bronx and beyond, choreographers are Gierre Godley, Jasmine Hearn, Zavé Martohardjono, Angie Pittman, Christopher Rudd, Acharo Smith, Nelida Tirado and Lorenzo Walker. Find out more here Gamelan Kusuma Laras & Guests Roulette November 21 Under the direction of I. M. Harjito the American and Indonesian group offers renditions of traditional Javanese performances on instruments created for the Indonesian Pavilion at the 1964-5 World’s Fair. Find out 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." |