Category: Articles - Charmaine Warren

To Make Visible Everywhere ~ Guest Edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril

9/29/2023

Carrie Mae Weems. Gabri Christa. 2021. Photograph courtesy of the artist.

The Scholar and Feminist Online
Issue 19.1 | Summer 2023

To Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Aging, Beautiful Bodies

Guest Edited by Gabri Christa and Sheril
AntonioContributors:
Grace Aneiza Ali
Sheril Antonio
Khadija Benn
Sumedha Bhattacharyya
Gabri Christa
LaTasha Diggs
Maura Donohue
Diedra Harris-Kelly
Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram
SriSriVidhiya Kalyanasundaram
Andrea Woods Valdés
Tria Blu Wakpa
Deborah Willis

About this Issue
“To Make Visible Everywhere: Our Bold, Beautiful, Aging Bodies” is a collection of personal reflections, performances, research journeys, and conversations by and about women of color aging. This special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online was guest edited by choreographer, filmmaker, educator, and curator Gabri Christa and media studies scholar Sheril Antonio. Together, these pieces evoke a scene one might find at a community gathering with the voices of many women joined in a room speaking frankly about the physical, intellectual, and emotional shifts that accompany the process of getting older.

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Imagining: A Gibney Journal Issue 13 is live!

2/16/2023

Eva Yaa Asantewaa's Imagining: A Gibney Journal Issue 13 is now available.

PDF and Audio versions are available for download and streaming with writings from:

Benedict Nguyễn
Charmaine Warren
Ivan Talijančić
Marcela Torres

Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Founding Editorial Director, Imagining: A Gibney Journal
Imagining Digital
[email protected]

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FROM IABD's: "Black Thoughts: An Intellectual Laboratory on Black Dance Writing"

9/11/2019

Mother Bernice Photo & Graphics: Tony Turner

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.

“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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Cathering Drury writes: "A Psychococial Approach to Supporting Injured Dancers"

12/12/2018

Read Catherine’s article, “A Psychosocial Approach to Supporting Injured Dancers,” published in the Journal of Social Work with Groups.

You may also use this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DI5F7wTkX7eFgBUxQubH/full.

Carla Peterson leaves New York Live Arts!

3/17/2014

Carla Peterson

Artistic Director of New York Live Arts Leaving for Post in Florida

Roslyn Sulcas of The New York Times writes, "Carla Peterson stayed in the same building when she changed jobs in 2006, from executive director of Movement Research to artistic director of Dance Theater Workshop, now known as New York Live Arts. Now she is going to need some interstate transport. The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University has announced that Ms. Peterson will be its next director, following Jennifer Calienes, who has held the position since the center’s inception in 2004." Read more about Carla's departure from NYLA here

Carla will surely be missed!

My article for JWM Magazine's winter issue

10/2/2013

Royal Ballet of London's Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince (Sarah Lamb & Thiago Soares)

Please read my article written for JW Marriot's luxury hotels - jwm - "Visions of Sugarplums" - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/mcmurry/jwm_2013fall/index.php#/50

Michelle Fleet in Paul Taylor Dance Company 3/5-3/24

3/7/2013

My Amsterdam News interview with Michelle Fleet -

http://www.amsterdamnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/michelle-fleet-a-lifetime-of-dance/article_87a07b4e-876b-11e2-9fd5-0019bb2963f4.html

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY RETURNS TO LINCOLN CENTER
MARCH 5 - 24, 2013 WITH WORLD PREMIERE & NEW YORK PREMIERE

THREE-WEEK ENGAGEMENT FEATURES SEVEN DECADES OF TAYLOR GREATNESS
REPERTOIRE OF 21 DANCES INCLUDES THREE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE SIX TAYLOR/BACH MASTERWORKS, FROM
"JUNCTION' TO "PROMETHEAN FIRE"

REVIVAL OF TAYLOR’S “LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (THE REHEARSAL)” ON 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF LANDMARK STRAVINSKY/NIJINSKY COLLABORATION

For more information visit: www.ptdc.org

DTH Returns! - April 10-14 @ Lincoln Center

3/4/2013

My Dance Magazine article on Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) - "A New Chapter" - http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/February-2013/Dance-Theatre-of-Harlem

The new face of DTH is set to debut in April 10-14 at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater/Jazz @ Lincoln Center -
For more information click here: http://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/company/ny-season

See the YouTube teaser below:

Wendy Perron's "Best of 2012" on her blog:

1/3/2013

Wendy Perron - Editor in Chief - Dance Magazine

Check out Wendy's "Best of 2012" on her blog for
Dance Magazine: http://www.dancemagazine.com/blogs/wendy/4849

My article - Renee Robinson - Dance Magazine Award

12/3/2012

Renee Robinson & Matthew Rushing Photo credit - Andre Eccles

Dance Magazine article - http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/December-2012/The-2012-Dance-Magazine-Awards