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I ask for your support during this time of giving for Makeda-Lily Love-Roney. Makeda means so much to me and maybe you met her as a Producer on our online series Black Dance Stories. I've known Makeda for many years, her mother (Nia Love) and I are longtime dance sisters and I'm reaching out hoping that each of you will support them on this journey. Please watch the video ~ Please read on ~ Please support ~ Thank you so much! From Nia: Makeda is embarking on a challenging two-year journey of multiple hip surgeries and recovery. We want to fortify our community to stand by her side throughout this process. To provide her with the help she needs, we've set up a GoFundMe campaign. You can learn more about her journey, donate, and share HERE Makeda's determination, resilience, and positive spirit have always inspired those around her. She's facing a difficult road ahead, and we believe that together, we can make this journey easier for her. Every donation, no matter how big or small, will make a meaningful impact on Makeda's life. Whether it's contributing to her medical and living expenses, offering a word of encouragement, or simply sharing the campaign with your network, your support will be deeply appreciated. Thank you for being a part of Makeda's support network. Your generosity and compassion can make a real difference in Makeda's life, for we are stronger together. Edisa Weeks' Delirious Dance Weeksville Heritage Center Nov. 16-18 3 Rites: Happiness is the third and final installment of 3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness, a three-part performance series by Weeks and collaborators. Happiness is “a celebratory investigation of how laughter and pleasure reside in the body. The rite is about self-care, and making time to relax, laugh and recharge for the labor to uphold the values of life, liberty and happiness,” according to the release. The performances will feature four dancers and commissioned music by Nathaniel Braddock, played live by the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International. The series is presented in partnership with 651 ARTS. Find out more here Complexions Contemporary Ballet The Joyce Nov. 14-26 The Company will celebrate its 29th season under the direction of co-founding artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson in a two-week season. On the three programs will be world premieres by Rhoden, Abdul Latif and Jenn Freeman, and company premieres by Ricardo Amarante and Justin Peck. Find out more here Akram Khan Lincoln Center Nov. 16-18 Khan will offer the New York premiere of Jungle Book reimagined, “…a rethinking of the Rudyard Kipling classic The Jungle Book, which updates the original's colonizer-centric perspective to tell the story of the young girl Mowgli as a refugee child stranded by the cruel realities of climate change,” notes the release. Find out more here Various Artists NYLA Nov. 16-18 Juni One Set, a collaboration of Senga Nengudi, eddy kwon, and Haruko Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl of Degenerate Art Ensemble come together to present Boy mother / faceless bloom, a blend of mythology and autobiography, drawing from the diverse lineages of queer, anti-colonial, and care-based artistic practices. Find out more here Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance Ensemble The New York Society for Ethical Culture Nov. 17 The Company will present the world premiere of Arbor, ecologically themed works by Sperling, the Eco-Artist-in-Residence at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. Find out more here and RSVP Various Artists Dixon Place Nov. 17 For the 12th year, a diverse lineup of companies and choreographers will be presented by Pentacle at Dixon Place's "Fall Further" series featuring Claire Porter / PORTABLES, Freespace Dance milkleaf, The Moving Architects, and Sonia Plumb Dance Company. Find out more here VISIONS Contemporary Ballet The Riverside Theater Nov. 17-19 Under the evening's theme: Humility and Faith, the company with perform Backbone, Tainted Bla’k and Roots by founder/artistic director Ranardo-Domeico Grays. Find out more here Dimitri Chamblas and Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) NYU Skirball Nov. 17-18 Chamblas and Gordon will present the new piece, TAKEMEHOME created and performed by nine dancers, five electric guitars and five amplifiers, which takes shape under a zeppelin where silhouettes emerge and disappear. Find out more here Deborah Hay, Scott Heron, Paul Botelho & Cherrie Yu WeisArts Nov. 19 The "Sundays on Broadway" series, an evening of sharing by co-curators Jade Manns and Cathy Weis returns with performances by Hay, Heron Botelho and Yu. Find out more here The 2023-24 Black Artists Space to Create (BASC) recipients are Mickey Davidson, Jordan Deal, and Aya Shabu. Each artist will receive a one-week residency with unlimited access to a dance studio, full living space, and a $2,000 stipend. The residency is designed as both a retreat and a space to create without the pressure of developing a new project. Additionally, artists have access to complimentary studio space at New Dance Alliance’s loft in Tribeca throughout the season, and are invited to show work at NDA’s annual Performance Mix Festival. Artists were selected by the 2023-24 BASC Curatorial Committee: Davalois Fearon, Ayan Felix, Djassi daCosta Johnson, Miriam Parker, and Majesty Royale-Jackson.
The BASC residency project was created in 2020 in response to current movements within the dance community and the movements they are building upon, and was initially led by NDA advisory board member Angie Pittman. As an artist services organization and presenter, NDA has been guided by the core question: What does it mean to center and support Black artists in this field? NDA is working to radically reimagine what it means to serve Black artists right and to do so in the specific spirit of reparations. As part of NDA’s mission, it is committed to continuing to listen, learn, and to push boundaries of what it means to create a more equitable dance field. New Dance Alliance’s 12th round of LiftOff residencies takes place at NDA’s studio in Tribeca and provides six movement-based performance artists with a minimum of 36 hours of rehearsal space, a $500 stipend, and two Work Sessions designed for artists to share their creative process and participate in a community exchange. The 2023-24 LiftOff recipients are Justin Cabrillos, Tal Halevi, Kashia Kancey, Joy Norton, Kimiko Tanabe, and Yolette Yellow-Duke. T Robert Moses’ Kin (RMK) is seeking choreographers, playwrights, librettists and composers to apply for a paid commission for the creation of an Anthology of original works as a part of its upcoming project NEW LEGACIES: ONE ACT DANCES! In Spring 2024. Artists will create, in collaboration, across disciplines a work that is complete in its own right, and will serve as a part of a triptych. Working in tandem with artists of different disciplines will create a work that stands alone but can be paired with the works of a playwright and a composer to create a multidisciplinary work that is a part of a larger work. Pieces should explore the theme of challenging conversations, our approach to them and how they are enacted. Many challenging conversations are avoided - sometimes, people choose to be in other conflicts than face a difficult topic. What are we avoiding, and why? How can we approach challenging conversations differently? We are looking for: Choreographers that have a background of using dense physical movement as a storytelling mechanism. Playwrights/ Libretiists with experience in both traditional and non-traditional modes, in ways that are comprehensible, meaningful, and relatable to an audience. Composers that approach music as evocative, technical and elevating. Their music should tell us both what we feel, and what we might feel. Deadline - December 15th, 2023 @ this form: Find out more here Email info@robertmoseskin.org with the subject line “INQUIRY: CALL FOR ARTISTS” for any application questions. WHITE WAVE Dance is pleased to invite companies/choreographers to submit applications for the 23rd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival, to be presented from June 27-30, 2024 at Mark Morris Dance Center, James and Martha Duffy Performance Space (TBD)! APPLICATION DEADLINE(S): ▪ Early Bird Special Application by December 11 at 11:30pm ▪ Regular Application by December 27 at 11:30pm Click HERE for the online Application Form! Each choreographer/company may submit up to two applications for 2024 DUMBO Dance Festival (each application requires a separate application form, and application fee). The fee is non-refundable. All applications will be reviewed by a panel of impartial adjudicators. If your work is selected, you will be notified by e-mail by mid-February 2024. All inquiries regarding the 2024 DDF, please contact: Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director at 718-855-8822 or email at ww2024ddf@gmail.com. THANK YOU! Gibney Company seeks experienced dancers with strong technical, artistic, and creative abilities for its 2024-25 season with the possibility of starting Summer 2024. Gibney supports its dancers, called Artistic Associates, with full-time 52-week contracts, health insurance, and paid vacations. ANNUAL SALARY: $45,000 – $66,000 APPLICATION OPEN: NOV 9-DEC 2, 2023 SELECTED APPLICANTS NOTIFIED: JAN 3, 2024 AUDITION DATE & LOCATION: JAN 20, 2024 GIBNEY: 280 BROADWAY | NEW YORK, NY Find out more information and link to the application form. Questions? Email audition@gibneydance.org Mabou Mines' Resident Artist Program (RAP) offers NYC-based, early-career artists the opportunity to work in residence at Mabou Mines over four months to strengthen their practice and experiment with performance ideas. Resident artists receive mentorship, a stipend, rehearsal/performance space, and administrative and technical assistance. The program includes monthly meetings with artists and mentors, which generate an artistic community through shared ideas in a forum-like setting. At the program’s culmination, Resident Artists present their works in progress at showings at Mabou Mines that are free and open to the public. Learn More & Apply HERE! Take Advantage!
JoycePass is a program offering dance community members access to $10 tickets to The Joyce's 2023-2024 season. This program is specifically designed to serve the dance community, and to support the synergy that occurs when dance artists and professionals encounter each other. These are $10 tickets that you can purchase in advance online or in person. Read more here Kyle Marshall Choreography The Joyce November 8-12 Marshall and Company, in their Joyce Theater debut, will offer three New York premieres by founder/artistic director Kyle Marshall, as they celebrate their 10th anniversary. Included on the program is Ruin which investigates humans’ physical relationship to sound and uses dynamic listening devices designed and monitored live by sound collaborator Cal Fish. Plus, the solo, Alice, dedicated to those on the verge of transformation, guided by the music of Alice Coltrane and inspired by KMC's Creative Director, Edo Tastic, and Onyx commemorating the Black and Brown artists who spearheaded the revolutionary genre of Rock and Roll, and will feature a soundscape collage by Kwami Winfield, sampling from Little Richard, Betty Davis, Death, James Brown, LaVern Baker, Tina Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Ann Peebles and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Find out more here Paul Taylor Dance Company Lincoln Center Season Oct. 31-Nov. 12 The Taylor dancers can be seen nine works by Taylor, plus world premieres by resident choreographer Lauren Lovette and Taylor commissioned choreographer Larry Keigwin, along with the return of Amy Hall Garner's Somewhere in the Middle and Ulysses Dove's Vespers. All accompanied by live music from the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Find out more here Bill T. Jones & Marc Barmuthi Joseph PAC NYC Nov. 8-18 At the Perelman Center, choreographer, dancer, director and writer Bill T. Jones and poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph will present the world premiere of Watch Night which fuses melodies rooted in spirituals, percussive breath and opera with slam poetry. Jones and Joseph are joined by collaborators, composer Tamar-kali and dramaturg Lauren Whitehead. Find out more here Various Artists The Guggenheim Nov. 9 Under artistic director Cal Hunt and the street dancers of It’s Showtime NYC!, with a commission by “Works & Process,” the artists will share an in-process performance of Pyramid with composer and cellist Johnathan “Akuma” Moore. Find out more here Jamal Jackson Dance Company Trisk Nov. 9-11 & 16-18 The Company will present TEETH a dance and theater work that takes a classroom of young students on a journey to explore their identities, experiences, and roles in shaping the United States of America during its quest for independence at the end of the 18th century. Find out more here Various Artists National Stardust & Onyx Studio Nov. 9-11 The MAXlive 2023 series continues featuring works from Lisa Jamhoury, Modesto “Flako” Jimenez, Musicians from The Knights and Paula Matthusen, Kate Ladenheim, Paul Pinto and Kameron Neal, Matt Romein with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey, Sister Sylvester, Mike Tyus and Luca Renzi. Find out more here Pam Tanowitz New York City Center Nov. 9-11 The NYC premiere of Tanowitz's Song of Songs fuses choreography mined and abstracted from Jewish folk dance with David Lang’s choral settings of the Biblical love poem and is performed live by six musicians. Find out more here Samita Sinha Danspace Project Nov. 9-11 Artist and composer Samita Sinha brings Tremor where voices in relationship to a live, sonic environment are conjured by composer Ash Fure, within a space designed by architect Sunil Bald. Sinha is joined by performer Okwui Okpokwasili. Find out more here Various Artists BAAD! Nov. 11 With local choreographers in the Bronx, BAAD! presents “Simply the Best: Tina Turner Dance Tribute” featuring works by Malinda Ray Allen & Michelle Smith, Ian Fernandez, Darius Gregory, Rush Johnston, Nuludanza and more for the signature “Dance Compilation” series. Find out more here Lydia Johnson Dance Graham Studio Theater Nov. 11 The season will feature a premiere for ten dancers, including guest artist MaliQ Williams, plus the return of 2022’s For Eli, set to five Chopin pieces. Find out more here Various Artists The Guggenheim Nov. 12 Hip-Hop artists Kwikstep and Rokafella will present the culmination of their residency in a one-night-only show-and-tell in Wus Poppin, as part of the “Works and Process” series. Find out more here Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins, Cathy Weis and Isa Spector WeisAcres Nov. 12 The "Sundays on Broadway" series, an evening of sharing by co-curators Jade Manns and Cathy Weis returns with a performance video by Monson, plus performances by Parkins, Spector, and Weis with Monson. Find out more here Complexions Contemporary Ballet The Joyce Nov. 14-26 The Company will celebrate its 29th season under the direction of co-founding artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson in a two-week season. In three programs there will be world premieres by Rhoden, Abdul Latif and Jenn Freeman, and company premieres by Ricardo Amarante and Justin Peck. Find out more here EMERGE125 The Center for Ballet Arts Nov. 15 The Company will kick off their 2023-24 season with a selection of classic and new works by artistic director, Tiffany Rea-Fisher. Find out more and RSVP here Akram Khan Lincoln Center Nov. 16-18 Khan will offer the New York premiere of Jungle Book reimagined, “…a rethinking of the Rudyard Kipling classic The Jungle Book, which updates the original's colonizer-centric perspective to tell the story of the young girl Mowgli as a refugee child stranded by the cruel realities of climate change,” notes the release. Find out more here Various Artists NYLA Nov. 16-18 Juni One Set, a collaboration of Senga Nengudi, eddy kwon, and Haruko Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl of Degenerate Art Ensemble come together to present Boy mother / faceless bloom, a blend of mythology and autobiography, drawing from the diverse lineages of queer, anti-colonial, and care-based artistic practices. Find out more here |
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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." |