For the first time in Cleveland,
The 27th Annual Blacks in Dance Conference & Festival
Jan. 21- 25, 2015
Hosted by Cleveland Dance Movement
Four days of over 64 master classes, networking, information sharing, professional development, discussion on important issues facing the Black Dance field, and performances!
LATE REGISTRATION
NOW AVAILABLE
The 27th Annual Blacks in Dance Conference & Festival
Jan. 21- 25, 2015
Hosted by Cleveland Dance Movement
Four days of over 64 master classes, networking, information sharing, professional development, discussion on important issues facing the Black Dance field, and performances!
LATE REGISTRATION
NOW AVAILABLE
The conference offers four nights of remarkable performances!
Wednesday, January 21 at 6:30 PM
at the Cleveland Museum of Art
FREE PERFORMANCE!
Six Cleveland-connected companies will open the Dance Conference & Festival. Performances by Dancing Wheels, Verb Ballets, Djapo Cultural Arts, The Greene Works Project, Hidden Truths, Stivers School for the Arts, Duke Ellington School of the Arts and more!
Thursday, January 22 at 8:00 PM
at The Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Tickets: $25.00. Click here to purchase or read more.
IABD Emerging Artist Youth Showcase will feature some of the very best and brightest dancers from the nation's top performing art schools and youth dance ensembles. If you love dance, you will not want to miss this opportunity to experience these young, talented, emerging artists.
Friday, January 23 at 7:30 PM
at the Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Tickets: $30.00. Click here to purchase or read more.
IABD Members Artists & Company Showcase. Experience established artists and dance companies throughout the United States and abroad!
Saturday, January 24at 8:00 PM
at the Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Tickets: $35.00. - $50.00
Click here to purchase tickets or get more info.
Northeast Ohio will have the unique opportunity to experience, on one stage, established, professional historically African American Dance companies from throughout the United States. Performances by The Philadelphia Dance Company, Philadanco! (Philadelphia, PA), Dallas Black Dance Theatre (Dallas, TX), Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (Denver, Co), Lula Washington Dance Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), Dance Theatre of Harlem (New York, NY), Forces of Nature Dance Theatre (New York, NY), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (New York, NY), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (Dayton, OH).
Wednesday, January 21 at 6:30 PM
at the Cleveland Museum of Art
FREE PERFORMANCE!
Six Cleveland-connected companies will open the Dance Conference & Festival. Performances by Dancing Wheels, Verb Ballets, Djapo Cultural Arts, The Greene Works Project, Hidden Truths, Stivers School for the Arts, Duke Ellington School of the Arts and more!
Thursday, January 22 at 8:00 PM
at The Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Tickets: $25.00. Click here to purchase or read more.
IABD Emerging Artist Youth Showcase will feature some of the very best and brightest dancers from the nation's top performing art schools and youth dance ensembles. If you love dance, you will not want to miss this opportunity to experience these young, talented, emerging artists.
Friday, January 23 at 7:30 PM
at the Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Tickets: $30.00. Click here to purchase or read more.
IABD Members Artists & Company Showcase. Experience established artists and dance companies throughout the United States and abroad!
Saturday, January 24at 8:00 PM
at the Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Tickets: $35.00. - $50.00
Click here to purchase tickets or get more info.
Northeast Ohio will have the unique opportunity to experience, on one stage, established, professional historically African American Dance companies from throughout the United States. Performances by The Philadelphia Dance Company, Philadanco! (Philadelphia, PA), Dallas Black Dance Theatre (Dallas, TX), Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (Denver, Co), Lula Washington Dance Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), Dance Theatre of Harlem (New York, NY), Forces of Nature Dance Theatre (New York, NY), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (New York, NY), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (Dayton, OH).
PANELS AND WORKSHOPS
Tools for Professional Development
Wellness4Dancers: Mind Body and Nutrition
A Dancer's body is their tool. This panel focuses on Dance Wellness, which is a practice that is concerned with the being and health of the dancer, to improve career longevity, reduce the risks of injury, and enhance performance. Panel members are not only health professionals, but are also dancers!
Cleveland Clinic
Dance Medicine Clinic
Dr. Kim Gladden,
Orthopedic Surgeon
Sally Donaubauer,
Physical Therapist
Shannon Sterne,
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Degree? or Not to Degree?
Should aspiring dancers go to college or jump straight into the professional arena? What are your options?
Errin Berry
Dr. Margaret Carlson
Torens Johnson
Michael Medcalf
Keith Saunders
Strengthen the Roots: Understanding Your Legacy
A participatory session exploring the intrinsic value of historical materials retained within personal and organizational documents relating to the Black Dance Experience. This workshop requires its participants bring two or three documents (i.e. programs, photograph, news article, journal etc.). This is really a HANDS ON workshop!
Lela Sewell-Williams
Through Our Eyes: A Sydney (Australia) Story of Black Contemporary Dance
Carole Johnson, former soloist with NYC's Eleo Pomare Dance Company, is responsible for establishing contemporary dance among Australia's Indigenous peoples and beginning processes that fuse contemporary dance with Aboriginal traditional dance.
Carole Johnson
Man to Man
Overcoming the stereotype of male dancers by dancing with power and confidence.
Terence Greene, Allyne Gartrell, Torens Johnson, Michael Medcalf, Derrick Minter
How to Achieve Tenure: Black Dancers in the World of Academia
Valuable strategies for Dance Department faculty in navigating the waters of the tenure-track. Panel will offer examples of portfolio preparation, narrative summary of work, utilization of student evaluations, and most importantly deciphering the campus culture for faculty performance evaluations.
Vikki Baltimore-Dale
Rita Page
Linda Simmons
Funding for the Arts
In this session the National Center for Arts Research will share benchmarks on the dance sector relative to other arts and cultural sectors, and explore how organizations that primarily serve African-Americans have distinct characteristics. Areas covered include marketing impact, funding, earned revenue, investment in program, staffing, bottom line, capital structure and community engagement.
Dr. Zannie Voss,
Executive Director
National Center for Arts Research
Zenetta Drew,
Executive Director
Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Cecil Lipscomb, Director The United Black Fund
Round Table Discussion:
Collective Strategies for Women of Color in Dance
Continuing in the tradition of the Urban Bush Women annual convening, cultural leaders from various regions will gather to discuss empowerment strategies they have gathered and implemented over multiple years in the performance field as researchers, scholars, educators, and practitioners.
Dr. Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Cultural Scholar/ Researcher; Shay Wafer, Executive Director,
651 Arts; Camille A. Brown, Choreographer, Dancer; Onye Ozuzu, Columbia College Chicago; Christal Brown, Middlebury College; Jo Anna Norris, Founder/ Director, Choreographic Sketches; Dr. E. Gaynell Sherrod, Virginia Commonwealth University
From the Argentine Tango to Graystone: Dance Demonstration
Come and learn a new style of an old dance!
Graystone Ballroom is a dance named for Detroit's Graystone Ballroom. The Graystone Ballroom in Detroit was open from the 1920's until the 1950's, a time when African Americans and people of color were prohibited from attending schools, hospitals, churches, ballrooms, etc. with white people. On Monday nights the Graystone Ballroom had "Colored Nights" when people of color could attend, listen, and dance to the music of Cab Calloway and other orchestras.
Those who remembered the dance style of their elders reintroduced the Graystone Ballroom dance to wider communities. Some say it had roots in the Foxtrot. Its style of walking in an embrace looks, at first glance, similar to Argentine Tango but is in many ways very different from Argentine Tango.
Lewis Fletcher,
One More Step Dance Studio
Bobby Green,
Detroit, Michigan
Tamara Patterson
Not So Black & White
As a SPEAKER, Alexis Wilson fully captivates an audience by bringing her own life journey and life lessons to the stage. Raised by same sex parents, abandoned by her mother, years of Broadway and ballet experiences, being bi-racial, and caretaker to both her father and his life partner before she lost them both to AIDS, lends an intense density and power to her diverse speaking topics.
Alexis Wilson
Written by the Griot
The 1976 article, written by Joe V. Nash, "Dancing Many Drums," moved quickly through the community of African American dancers, artists and historians. This presentation will share how this seminal article came to be written and published and its ultimate impact on the research and publication of books and articles on the artistic contributions of African Americans in the United States and beyond as told by Nash.
Struggles of the Black Swan: Addressing Racial Barriers in Dance
An exploration of the importance of resilience as seen in the stresses on Black Artists, communities and institutions. This moderated discussion will examine how resilience is played out in social and historical terms for small and large institutions as well as for independent artists, educators, or administrators.
Trudy Cobb Dennard
Iquail Shaheed
Career Transitions: Teaching the Academics of our ART...the Next Generation of Dance Education
The purpose of this panel discussion is to educate professional dancers/choreographers and those aspiring, to embrace a possible transition into education and to understand current requirements and trends of teaching dance in a (K-12) setting.
Gina Ellis
Stephanie Powell
DeShona Pepper Robertson
Amanda Standard
Arthur Taylor
Click Here for more Information and to Register
Tools for Professional Development
Wellness4Dancers: Mind Body and Nutrition
A Dancer's body is their tool. This panel focuses on Dance Wellness, which is a practice that is concerned with the being and health of the dancer, to improve career longevity, reduce the risks of injury, and enhance performance. Panel members are not only health professionals, but are also dancers!
Cleveland Clinic
Dance Medicine Clinic
Dr. Kim Gladden,
Orthopedic Surgeon
Sally Donaubauer,
Physical Therapist
Shannon Sterne,
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist
Degree? or Not to Degree?
Should aspiring dancers go to college or jump straight into the professional arena? What are your options?
Errin Berry
Dr. Margaret Carlson
Torens Johnson
Michael Medcalf
Keith Saunders
Strengthen the Roots: Understanding Your Legacy
A participatory session exploring the intrinsic value of historical materials retained within personal and organizational documents relating to the Black Dance Experience. This workshop requires its participants bring two or three documents (i.e. programs, photograph, news article, journal etc.). This is really a HANDS ON workshop!
Lela Sewell-Williams
Through Our Eyes: A Sydney (Australia) Story of Black Contemporary Dance
Carole Johnson, former soloist with NYC's Eleo Pomare Dance Company, is responsible for establishing contemporary dance among Australia's Indigenous peoples and beginning processes that fuse contemporary dance with Aboriginal traditional dance.
Carole Johnson
Man to Man
Overcoming the stereotype of male dancers by dancing with power and confidence.
Terence Greene, Allyne Gartrell, Torens Johnson, Michael Medcalf, Derrick Minter
How to Achieve Tenure: Black Dancers in the World of Academia
Valuable strategies for Dance Department faculty in navigating the waters of the tenure-track. Panel will offer examples of portfolio preparation, narrative summary of work, utilization of student evaluations, and most importantly deciphering the campus culture for faculty performance evaluations.
Vikki Baltimore-Dale
Rita Page
Linda Simmons
Funding for the Arts
In this session the National Center for Arts Research will share benchmarks on the dance sector relative to other arts and cultural sectors, and explore how organizations that primarily serve African-Americans have distinct characteristics. Areas covered include marketing impact, funding, earned revenue, investment in program, staffing, bottom line, capital structure and community engagement.
Dr. Zannie Voss,
Executive Director
National Center for Arts Research
Zenetta Drew,
Executive Director
Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Cecil Lipscomb, Director The United Black Fund
Round Table Discussion:
Collective Strategies for Women of Color in Dance
Continuing in the tradition of the Urban Bush Women annual convening, cultural leaders from various regions will gather to discuss empowerment strategies they have gathered and implemented over multiple years in the performance field as researchers, scholars, educators, and practitioners.
Dr. Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Cultural Scholar/ Researcher; Shay Wafer, Executive Director,
651 Arts; Camille A. Brown, Choreographer, Dancer; Onye Ozuzu, Columbia College Chicago; Christal Brown, Middlebury College; Jo Anna Norris, Founder/ Director, Choreographic Sketches; Dr. E. Gaynell Sherrod, Virginia Commonwealth University
From the Argentine Tango to Graystone: Dance Demonstration
Come and learn a new style of an old dance!
Graystone Ballroom is a dance named for Detroit's Graystone Ballroom. The Graystone Ballroom in Detroit was open from the 1920's until the 1950's, a time when African Americans and people of color were prohibited from attending schools, hospitals, churches, ballrooms, etc. with white people. On Monday nights the Graystone Ballroom had "Colored Nights" when people of color could attend, listen, and dance to the music of Cab Calloway and other orchestras.
Those who remembered the dance style of their elders reintroduced the Graystone Ballroom dance to wider communities. Some say it had roots in the Foxtrot. Its style of walking in an embrace looks, at first glance, similar to Argentine Tango but is in many ways very different from Argentine Tango.
Lewis Fletcher,
One More Step Dance Studio
Bobby Green,
Detroit, Michigan
Tamara Patterson
Not So Black & White
As a SPEAKER, Alexis Wilson fully captivates an audience by bringing her own life journey and life lessons to the stage. Raised by same sex parents, abandoned by her mother, years of Broadway and ballet experiences, being bi-racial, and caretaker to both her father and his life partner before she lost them both to AIDS, lends an intense density and power to her diverse speaking topics.
Alexis Wilson
Written by the Griot
The 1976 article, written by Joe V. Nash, "Dancing Many Drums," moved quickly through the community of African American dancers, artists and historians. This presentation will share how this seminal article came to be written and published and its ultimate impact on the research and publication of books and articles on the artistic contributions of African Americans in the United States and beyond as told by Nash.
Struggles of the Black Swan: Addressing Racial Barriers in Dance
An exploration of the importance of resilience as seen in the stresses on Black Artists, communities and institutions. This moderated discussion will examine how resilience is played out in social and historical terms for small and large institutions as well as for independent artists, educators, or administrators.
Trudy Cobb Dennard
Iquail Shaheed
Career Transitions: Teaching the Academics of our ART...the Next Generation of Dance Education
The purpose of this panel discussion is to educate professional dancers/choreographers and those aspiring, to embrace a possible transition into education and to understand current requirements and trends of teaching dance in a (K-12) setting.
Gina Ellis
Stephanie Powell
DeShona Pepper Robertson
Amanda Standard
Arthur Taylor
Click Here for more Information and to Register
AUDITIONS
Summer Intensive Programs and
Multi-Dance Companies
The International Association of Blacks in Dance announces auditions for Institutions, Festivals, Scholarships, Summer Intensives and Programs, and Professional Dance Companies at the 27th Annual IABD Conference in Cleveland, OH for the IABD membership and the General Public.
Auditioning Summer Intensives/Programs include (for IABD Members only):
Saturday, January 24, 2015
1:00 - 4:00pm
PlayhouseSquare
State Theatre, Red Studio, Cleveland, Ohio
Atlanta Dance Connection, Atlanta, GA
Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME
Belhaven University, Jackson, MS
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Denver, CO
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas, TX
Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York, NY
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Chicago, IL
Joffrey Ballet School, New York, NY
Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Philadanco!, The Philadelphia Dance Company, Philadelphia, PA
Auditioning Dance Companies include (Open Audition):
Sunday, January 25, 2015
12:00 - 3:00pm
PlayhouseSquare
State Theatre, Red Studio, Cleveland, Ohio
Atlanta Dance Connection, Atlanta, GA
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Denver, CO
Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas, TX
Groundworks Dancetheater, Cleveland, OH
Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Philadanco!, The Philadelphia Dance Company, Philadelphia, PA
Click Here for more Information and to Register on-line for Auditions
Summer Intensive Programs and
Multi-Dance Companies
The International Association of Blacks in Dance announces auditions for Institutions, Festivals, Scholarships, Summer Intensives and Programs, and Professional Dance Companies at the 27th Annual IABD Conference in Cleveland, OH for the IABD membership and the General Public.
Auditioning Summer Intensives/Programs include (for IABD Members only):
Saturday, January 24, 2015
1:00 - 4:00pm
PlayhouseSquare
State Theatre, Red Studio, Cleveland, Ohio
Atlanta Dance Connection, Atlanta, GA
Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME
Belhaven University, Jackson, MS
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Denver, CO
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas, TX
Dance Theatre of Harlem, New York, NY
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Chicago, IL
Joffrey Ballet School, New York, NY
Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Philadanco!, The Philadelphia Dance Company, Philadelphia, PA
Auditioning Dance Companies include (Open Audition):
Sunday, January 25, 2015
12:00 - 3:00pm
PlayhouseSquare
State Theatre, Red Studio, Cleveland, Ohio
Atlanta Dance Connection, Atlanta, GA
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Denver, CO
Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Dallas, TX
Groundworks Dancetheater, Cleveland, OH
Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Philadanco!, The Philadelphia Dance Company, Philadelphia, PA
Click Here for more Information and to Register on-line for Auditions
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