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![]() Want to win tickets to the 2024 Gala? Black Dance Stories is giving away two $75 tickets to Black dance artists if you can answer this question: When did Kyle's BDS episode air, and who was he in conversation with? Submit your answer to: [email protected] by May 5th at 10AM. Winners will be announced via our social media platforms! Black Southern Stories - Wideman Davis Dance + Aimee Meredith Cox @ CBA Studio 4/18 & 4/194/12/2024 The workshop will be held from 12 - 1:30 PM on Thursday April 18th.
REGISTER HERE On Friday April 19th - they will be in conversation with National Book Award Winner, Imani Perry, about Black contemporary art practices in the rural South. I hope you can make it to this event, as well. REGISTER HERE Both events will be held in the CBA Studio at 16 Cooper Square, NYC. ![]() TOP FLOOR: Thurs-Sun April 25-28 | 7 PM PROGRAM A: Thurs & Sat | PROGRAM B: Fri & Sun Martha Graham Studio Theater | 55 Bethune St Sliding Scale General Admission Starting at $20 ALL OVER: Sat & Sun April 27-28 | 1-3:30 PM Site-specific tours run every 30 minutes starting at 1 PM. Westbeth | 155 Bank St FREE! Read more here Kinetic Light Founder & Artistic Director Alice Sheppard is among this group of architects, composers, interdisciplinary artists, filmmakers, visual artists, theater artists, poets, and writers. In total, 155 artists from 14 countries and 30 U.S. states.
MacDowell has awarded the equivalent of more than $2.3 million in fellowships to 155 artists from 30 U.S. states and 14 countries, arriving from as far afield as Chile and India, Pakistan and Australia, and from Alaska to Texas. The incoming artists-in-residence work in all disciplines, and were awarded Fellowships from a pool of 2,417 applicants for an acceptance rate of 6.4 percent. The Fellowships are for upcoming spring and summer residencies at one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations. Read more here Baryshnikov Arts Residencies provide space for creative investigation in all performing arts disciplines: dance, music, theater, multimedia, performance art, or any combination thereof. Each year, we host up to 20 artists in residence, with support that can include the use of Baryshnikov Arts’ studios and theaters, work-in-progress showings, artist honoraria, and technical and administrative services. Pictured (L-R) Kyle Marshall, Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Netta Yerushalmy. Find out more here
ANNOUNCING: Recipients of Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program2/2/2024 ![]() Dance/NYC is pleased to announce the 29 recipients of the third iteration of the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Dance and Social Justice Fellowship Program (DDA Fellowship), made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation. The purpose of the DDA Fellowship is to recognize the critical role that disabled dance workers and arts practitioners play in social justice movements and to ensure that these workers are supported while continuing to place disability front and center as a positive artistic and generative force. The recipients of the DDA Fellowship Program are: • Alice Klugherz • Kiera Bono • Anh Vo • Krishna Washburn • Antonio Ramos • Leslie Taub • Branden Wallace • moira williams • Brandy Heyward • morgaine ann de leonardis • Buffy • Nzingha Hazelton • C. Meranda Flachs-Surmanek • Ogemdi Ude • Donald Lee • Rachel DeForrest Repinz • Fatima Logan-Alston • Sekou Walton • Issac Iskra • Shizu Homma • Jerron Herman • Sidiki Conde • Justina Kamiel Grayman • Zazel-Chavah O’Garra • Kiah Amara • Anonymous (4) Grantees were awarded one-time grants of $2,620 in recognition of, and reimbursement for, dance and/or social justice activities undertaken during the Fellowship period, July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The 29 grantees include representatives from five (5) counties in the New York City metropolitan area: Hudson, Kings, New York, Queens, and Suffolk. Grantees are majority ALAANA (55%), include majority women-identifying and gender nonconforming/nonbinary/genderqueer and transgender (83%), majority LGBTQIA+ (62%) and include immigrant dance makers (21%). Additional information on grant requirements and eligibility can be found on Dance/NYC’s website. |
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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." |