Find out more here
Dance Parade New York will host an interactive online dance festival on Saturday, May 16, from 1:00-3:30 pm Eastern Standard Time. Anticipating 1,000 people dancing-in-place simultaneously from around the world, parade organizers will present family-friendly fun and movement joy in DJ-lead virtual dance rooms, free dance classes with top professionals, dance-offs between participants, flashmob, free dance classes, and will announce winners of Dare to Dance challenge, which invited house bound choreographers to submit new work to win cash prizes.
Find out more here
0 Comments
Pepatián is currently accepting applications for its 8th annual Dancing Futures: Artist & Mentor Collaborative Residency (June 2020 to November 2021). EXTENDED Deadline: May 19, 2020 Find out more here Download Residency Guidelines HERE. Download Application HERE. For questions, email pepatian@gmail.com 651 ARTS seeks emerging Brooklyn-based artists for The Neighborhood Project, a new program, part of 651’s Artist As Resident Initiative. Under the mentorship of curator Najee Omar, 651 ARTS staff, and special guests, selected artists will create a live performance at a public space or small business near the artist's homes. Find out more here Dance/NYC announces the launch of #ArtistsAreNecessaryWorkers, a new online and social media campaign dedicated to the acknowledgement, representation and integration of dance and arts workers into the decision-making processes that will envision the future for New York City post-pandemic. Dance/NYC is in conversation with the Office of the Mayor, City of New York, to advocate for a dance representative on the City's Arts, Culture, and Tourism Sector Advisory Council, as well as the city's marketing and partnership organization, NYC & Company, to request dance field representation on The Coalition for NYC Hospitality & Tourism Recovery. "As advocates for the dance field and the many diverse folks represented therein, Dance/NYC demands a place for our constituency in the conversations about the future of our community, and the arts as a whole as plans for re-emergence from the effects of COVID-19 are put into place," said Alejandra Duque Cifuentes, executive director of Dance/NYC. "We are working to effect meetings to ensure that our voices are heard in the planning process. To that end, we are in conversations with the Office of the Mayor, as well as our vast array of constituents, to act as thought leaders in the field. Our video shares the remarkable cross-section of our population, and our new Facebook Live Series will help to shed light on the issues facing not just dancers and dance-makers, but artists as a whole." Read more here FROM ALICE SHEPPARD - "While in person activities are cancelled, we’ve been able to create and play a little, remotely, with what we’ve been calling #QuarantineShorts. We’ve seen creations in kitchens, in bathrooms, and outside. You have sent responses from New York City, California, the U.K., Vancouver, France, and beyond. We love them all." This project is open to all artists and creatives. Watch #QuarantineShorts contributions via Facebook or Instagram. Respond to a prompt or create your own. Tag your creation #QuarantineShorts #CreateConnectKL #KineticLight and we will share! https://www.facebook.com/KineticLight/videos/139655684140771/ https://www.facebook.com/KineticLight/videos/1059714441075935/ FROM THE FOLKS AT "WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM:"
Virtual Commissions Schedule Through May 18, 2020 To financially support artists and nurture their creative process during these challenging times, Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, announces Works & Process Virtual Commissions. With the generosity of our board, Works & Process will grant over $40,000 in commissioning funds to artists who have been featured at Works & Process. Artists from a wide variety of genres have been commissioned to create new works, less than 5 minutes long, while observing social distancing guidelines, that will premiere on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube (@worksandprocess) every Sunday and Monday at 7:30pm. Confirmed Schedule to Date: May 10 - Karma Styles and Omari Wiles; May 11 - Gus Solomons, Jr. May 17 - LaTasha Barnes; May 18 - Evita Arce Commissioned Artists Evita Arce * Ephrat Asherie * Brandon Stirling Baker * LaTasha Barnes * Hope Boykin * Brian Brooks * Rena Butler * Chris Celiz * Anthony Roth Costanzo * Dylan Crossman * Machine Dazzle * Michelle Dorrance * Tom Gold * John Heginbotham * Michael R. Jackson * John Jarboe * Gabrielle Lamb * Pontus Lidberg * Missy Mazzoli * Ryan McNamara * Andrea Miller * Calli Quan * Anthony Rodriguez * Penny Saunders * Claudia Schreier * Gus Solomons Jr. * Conrad Tao Commissioned Collaborations Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung * Joshua Bergasse, Sara Mearns, Zoe Sarnak and Margot Siebert * Nora Brown and Caleb Teicher * Nathan Bugh and Gaby Cook * Tony Buck, Jamar Roberts, and David Watson * Alejandro Cerrudo and Ana Lopez * Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon * Jack Ferver and Jeremy Jacob * Larry Keigwin and Nicole Wolcott * Ashley Laracey and Troy Schumacher * Isaac Mizrahi and Pam Tanowitz * Nico Muhly and Adam Tendler * Carson Murphy and Nicholas Van Young * Michael Novak and Josh Prince * Kamala Sankaram and Preeti Vasudevan * Dan Siegler and Dawn Sinkowski * Karma Styles and Omari WilesFrom the folks at "Works & Process at the Guggenheim" Find out more here VIRTUALLY BAAD!’s Dance Compilation Concert
Boogie Down Dance Series 2020 – BAAD! CALL FOR ARTISTS!Virtually BAAD!’s Dance Compilation Concert Saturday, May 23, 2020 | 8PM BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance is seeking choreographers inspired to VIRTUALLY present their dance work for a shared dance concert. This concert will present 8 choreographers' 5 to 7 minutes of work for Virtually BAAD! on ZOOM. Your performance can be influenced by the space you are quarantined in and/or what’s been keeping your Boogie Down shoes moving & grooving during these times. Strongly encouraged that you utilize your functioning devices with camera/microphone. Thinking outside of the box is always encouraged. Let us know which track(s) you will be using and what you envision on presenting. Our goal is to program the evening so that each performance is right after the other with continuous music playing like a gapless album, experienced virtually. The artist fee is $125 per choreographer. Interested? Email Programming Associate, Gerard Minaya, at gerard@baadbronx.org, please also Cc Deputy Director, Marcus Gualberto, at marcus@baadbronx.org by Friday, May 15. FROM THE FOLKS AT IABD: January 10, 1995, Joan Myers Brown, Founder/Executive Artistic Director of PHILADANCO! published the Directory of Choreographers for Black Dance Companies. At the time, this one-of-a-kind publication was in response to the frequent question for information about “Black choreographers who work with Black dancers or predominantly Black dance companies." In the same spirit of this publication, IABD wants to hear from you and know who you are. As the Association continues to grow and expand, part of IABD's vision is to bring visibility to its community. We can't think of a better way to maintain this awareness than to begin the enhancement of our existing dance directory. Help us to shift the narrative about the lack of Black choreographers, dance schools and studios. We know you exist. WE ARE SEEKING BLACK CHOREOGRAPHERS AND BLACK DANCE SCHOOLS/ STUDIOS FOR INCLUSION IN OUR DIRECTORY. Don't worry this is only the beginning, we will be conducting calls in other areas as well. Find out more and submit here FROM THE FOLKS AT DANSPACE: It is with great excitement that Danspace Project welcomes Benjamin Akio Kimitch to Danspace Project as our next Program Director & Associate Curator. We also express our deep gratitude to our departing Program Director & Associate Curator, Lydia Bell, who held the position for five years. “Lydia had planned to leave Danspace this spring to develop independent projects before the COVID-19 Pandemic hit,” explains Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project Executive Director & Chief Curator. “Lydia and I have worked with Benjamin over the past decade both as a culture worker and artist. His years of experience as a producer, his perspective as a choreographer, his knowledge of the New York, national, and international performing arts, as well as his longtime connection to Danspace Project made him the perfect person to be the next Program Director & Associate Curator. I am excited to see what his contributions to Danspace will be in the coming years.” Benjamin Kimitch has held positions at New York City performance institutions the Park Avenue Armory, New York Live Arts and Dance Theater Workshop, and most recently served as Senior Producer at Performance Space New York from 2015-2020. In his work as a producer and curator of performances, exhibitions, residencies, and festivals, Kimitch is committed to advancing artists’ visions and facilitating exchange across discipline and cultural sectors. Read more here How Thao & The Get Down Stay Down made a music video on Zoom
Read about this on The Verge |
Categories
All
Archives
April 2024
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." |