2nd Annual AfriBembé Festival?! AfriBembé is a celebration of the Diaspora’s renown creativity, artistry, musicality, and now more than ever, we have to tap into our spirits and rejoice in this Black joy. On Saturday, September 19th, we will be bringing you artists that have roots in NYC, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Motherland. WHEN: CCCADI’s AfriBembé Festival will be on Saturday, September 19th from 2pm to 8pm. HOW TO WATCH: A LIVE BROADCAST EVENT STREAMING on cccadi.org On September 22nd, The National Arts Club will help Clark Center NYC launch our newest initiative - Expressions: Black Lives Matter. Black lives inspire, Black lives create, Black lives collaborate, Black lives matter – an artistic collaboration. This event will feature some of the artists/dancers and their work, with a panel discussion, highlighting artistic collaboration and Clark Center’s mission, both historical and as it relates to current events and our ongoing commitment to Black lives who create. NAC @ Home An Inspiraton For The Future In partnership with the Clark Center for the Performing Arts Click link below to register for this free event on Eventbrite Join us live on Zoom September 22, 2020 at 6:00 pm ET Find out more here The $7,000 grant is awarded to US-based artists for making cutting-edge dance and movement-based performance work. Queer|Art strongly encourages self-identified women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary artists to apply. Named in honor of visionary dance curator, critic, and educator Eva Yaa Asantewaa, the grant is administered through Queer|Art by a panel of queer women and nonbinary judges and seeks to highlight the important contributions queer women and nonbinary artists have made to dance throughout history. This year’s judges include Torya Beard, Ni’Ja Whitson, and Leah Wilks.
Applications for the Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists are open August 17th – October 4th, 2020. Within the application process, funds can be requested to support work at any stage of development, from concept to presentation. Qualifying work may be dance and/or movement-based performance work of any format. The awardee will be announced in December 2020. Learn more and apply here! For questions, email Yaa Asantewaa Grant Manager Bree Breeden at bbreeden@queer-art.org. In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the artist community, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts is creating a temporary fund to meet the needs of experimental artists who have been impacted by the economic fallout from postponed or canceled performances and exhibitions. For as long as our Board of Directors determines it is necessary and prudent to do so, the Foundation will disburse one-time $2,000 grants to artists who have had performances or exhibitions canceled or postponed because of the pandemic.
Arts On THE ROOF is OFF THE ROOF and now we're ARTS ALIVE Same performances and format, moved off of the rooftop and indoors into a large airy studio, with lots of windows, lots of space, and good ventilation, making for a low risk indoor arts event. ARTS ALIVE upcoming this week... THE BANG GROUP Friday September 11th at 6:30 & 8:30pm Saturday September 12th at 6:30 & 8:30pm THE RAMBLE Sunday September 13th at 6:30 & 8:30pm Purchase tickets at: artsonsite.ticketleap.com/arts-on-the-roof/ Buglisi Dance Theatre and Lincoln Center, in partnership with Dance/NYC present the Table of Silence Project 9/11 performance, a ritual for global unity and peace conceived and choreographed by Jacqulyn Buglisi. Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, 7:55 to 8:46 am streamed live from Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center, NYC In accordance with COVID-19 guidelines for outdoor gatherings, spectators will not be permitted onto the JRP for the live performance. We encourage you to join us in the free livestream to send a vibration of healing, unity and peace around the globe. Table of Silence Project 9/11 is made possible by Jody and John Arnhold, Arnhold Dance Innovation Fund. BDT Leadership Support provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation and Edward and Caroline Hyman. The Shubert Foundation, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. WATCH LIVE Wesleyan University Press announces the publication of The Grand Union Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance, 1970–76by Wendy PerronThe Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, and Douglas Dunn. Together they unleashed a range of improvised forms from peaceful movement explorations to wildly imaginative collective fantasies. This book delves into the “collective genius” of Grand Union and explores their process of deep play—before they became known as pillars of postmodern dance. Drawing on hours of archival videotapes and dozens of interviews, Wendy Perron seeks to understand the ebb and flow of the performances in both physical and emotional terms. What were the elements of their uncanny synergy? To what extent did their performing selves reveal their real, everyday selves? During the period when artists of different disciplines were redefining art, the Grand Union contributed to this experimentation by questioning the conventions of concert dance. The book includes 65 photographs. Wendy Perron is a former dancer/choreographer and current writer and teacher. A former editor-in-chief of Dance magazine, she is also the author of Through the Eyes of a Dancer: Selected Writings. --------------------------------------------------- 384 pp. 65 B & W photos. 6 x 9” $27.95 Trade Paperback, 978-0-8195-7966-9 $85 Unjacketed Cloth, 978-0-8195-7932-4 $22.99 Ebook, 978-0-8195-7933-1 Publication Date: September 8, 2020 |
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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." |