With support from The New York Community Trust (NYCT) Van Lier Fellowship program, Urban Bush Women (UBW) is thrilled to continue to provide one-year dance apprenticeships to Black women+. UBW Apprenticeship Program includes a wide range of activities, benefits, and rigorous evaluation to support each artist’s development.

Pictured (l-r): Keola Jones, Kashia Kancey, Makeda-Lily Love-Roney and J’nae Simmons

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The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) is proud to receive the National Medal of Arts. Through teaching, training, and performance, The International Association of Blacks in Dance promotes dance by people of African ancestry and origin, explores and exchanges art, spans cultures and generations, and enriches the dance culture of America.

“Receiving this National Medal of Arts award is a significant milestone in the history of this organization. It acknowledges the work, years of dedication by so many and endless contributions of Black people in Dance. We are so honored!” said Denise Saunders Thompson, President and CEO of The International Association of Blacks in Dance. “The current climate in our country has us more closely examining access and opportunity, body image, cultural integration vs. cultural appropriation, policymaking, mental health and well-being, philanthropy, and a host of other issues. There is no discipline that nurtures and sparks the ability to imagine, unleashes creativity and innovation, and offers promise as a powerful catalyst for change, more than arts, culture and humanities. They challenge dominant narratives in ways that other media cannot, yet connect us to each other, move us to action, and unify our collective voices. Art engages the soul.”

On Tuesday, March 21 at 4:30pm ET, President Biden will host an East Room ceremony at the White House to present the 2021 National Humanities Medals and the 2021 National Medals of Arts. Dr. Biden will attend the ceremony as well, which will be available to view via live stream at www.whitehouse.gov/live.
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Deadline extended to March 29!

Are you a local producer of music, comedy, dance, theater or visual art in Newark, Asbury Park or Atlantic City interested in self-producing an event for the North to Shore Festival? Apply to have your great idea for an event considered for funding! 12 – 15 applicants with the best ideas in each city will be added to the festival line-up, included in the statewide festival marketing, and will be awarded a stipend between $1,000 – $5,000 to help make their event a reality.
apply hereNorth to Shore Festival will bring together 50+ venues for an over-the-top showcase of Jersey-wide excellence, aligned with Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy’s vision for a celebration worthy of the Garden State’s legacy in the arts and innovation.

The deadline to apply is extended to Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Awardee notification begins on Monday, April 17, 2023

Pioneers Go East Collective
Mar. 19
Center for Performance Research (CPR)
For CPR's "Sunday Salon" Pioneers Go East Collective will present My name'sound
an original three-part work merging live performance, installation design, and film.  The work is "...inspired by James Baldwin's 'The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity. A meditation on creative agency and Queer identity.' which supports and amplifies contemporary stories of resilience and otherness amidst censorship, and investigates the nexus of Queer intimacy, physical embodiment, and media to reflect on the legacy of LGBTQ icons," notes the release. CPR 2022 Artist-in-Residence Pioneers Go East Collective will work on developing the third part of the triptych, a radio play incorporating music, sound, and spoken text.  Find out more here 

Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake
Mar. 14-Apr. 1
Danspace Project
Jonas and Otake come together in the collaborative project, Drawing in Circles, an exhibition and accompanying live performances.  Find out more here

Jacotayl Dance
Mar. 17
​Arts On Site
The contemporary dance company will present new works by Taylor.  Find our more here 

Various Artists
Mar. 18 - Apr. 2
Various Venues
For the 2023 EstroGenius Festival: BAN(NED) TOGETHER, a festival celebrating femme artists including Cory “Nova” Villegas / Soul Dance Co., Donna Costello, Eve Jacobs, Francesca Dominguez, Infinite Variety Production/Ashley Adelman, Joya Powell/Movement of the People Dance Company, Kim Savarino, Marina Celander, Pele Bauch, Petra Zanki, Portia Wells, slowdanger | anna thompson/taylor knight, sj swilley, Sheree V Campbell, Vanessa Goodman/Action at a Distance, and Zhen Heinemann, and more.  Find out more here 

This 8-week group aims to create a safe and affirming space for performing arts and entertainment professionals whose gender identity exists outside of the male/female binary and/or are of the Trans experience, as well as those who are questioning their gender identity. Through dialog and inquiry, the group will address the impact of outdated gender roles and expectations placed on individuals and communities, as well as celebrate the contributions of the trans community in the performing arts and entertainment industry.

Please note that this is not a psychotherapy group and does not provide mental health treatment. If participants are in need of mental health support, please reach out to The Actors Fund: entertainmentcommunity.org/MentalHealth. 

This support group is available to anyone living in the United States, Puerto Rico and US territories. 

RSVP: 
Sign Up and Questions via Email
Prerequisite: 
Pre-group interview is required. 
Must be able to attend all 8 sessions.
Please contact us to schedule a Zoom meeting.

Contact Email: 
mespinoza@entertainmentcommunity.org
Contact Phone: 
917.281.5966
Recurrence: 
Meets weekly for 8 weeks.

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Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Mar. 9-11
Danspace Project
Lloyd’s new evening-length work, Blackbare in the Basement, promises to “…transform Danspace’s sanctuary inside St. Mark’s Church into a site of fantasy and textural collage. Lloyd returns to presenting work in a theater for the first time since the pandemic, organizing his desires around choreographic and visual design, storytelling, philosophy, and various contemporary performance aesthetics.”  For Blackbare in the Basement, “Lloyd divides an eight person ensemble into an amalgamation of solos, duets, and trios that are threaded together to produce experiences of calculated entropy and disorientation via an intuitive shifting of language and logic,” according to the release.  Lloyd further explains, “Within the nuances of the movement vocabulary, there is an intuitive shifting of language and logic between the groupings which allows for experiences of otherworldliness.” Find out more here 
 
Batsheva Dance Company
Feb. 28-Mar.12
The Joyce
Batsheva Dance Company comes to The Joyce Theater with house choreographer, Ohad Naharin’s Hora “A green, disquieting, and hauntingly beautiful world… simultaneously primordial and futuristic. Moving bodies create an emergent folklore and embody the beauty of the struggle to distinguish oneself amongst a collective,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Battery Dance NOW
Mar. 8–11
NYLA
Battery Dance NOW, presented by Battery Dance, makes their NYLA debut with works by Robin Cantrell, Ana Maria Lucaicu and Tsai Hsi Hung.  Find out more here

Keely Garfield
Mar. 10-12
NYU Skirball
Garfield's world premiere of The Invisible Project, "...a ritualized performance inspired by Garfield’s work as an enduring dance artist, and her covert calling as a hospital chaplain," is made with collaborators Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Angie Pittman, and Opal Ingle.  Find out more here

Riverdance
Mar. 10-12
NJPAC
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the legendary Irish work, Riverdance.  Find out more here

Francesca Harper
Mar. 11
The Guggenheim
For one-night-only, and as part of the Works & Process programs at The Guggenheim, choreographer, and director Harper’s The Reckoning, will share a film and a live performance.  Made in collaboration with composer Nona Hendryx, The Reckoning is Harper’s response to the 2010 killing of seven-year-old Aiyana Mo’Nay Stanley-Jones at the hands of Detroit law enforcement. Find out more here

New York Theatre Ballet
Mar. 11-12
Florence Gould Hall
The Company will  present Sleeping Beauty set to the classic Tchaikovsky score and choreographed by James Sutton.  Find out more here

Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake
Mar. 14-Apr. 1
Danspace Project
Jonas and Otake come together in the collaborative project, Drawing in Circles, an exhibition and accompanying live performances.  Find out more here