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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Read the Dance Workforce Census report

Read the Dance/NYC Junior Committee report that everyone's talking about!

Dance Workforce Census: Earnings Among Individuals, Ages 21-35

The value of this study is its presentation of the first concrete research relating to the untenable economic plight of young dancers, choreographers and administrators working within the dance field in New York City. While no answers are posed, the need to find answers is made evident. If the passion, discipline and creativity of these individuals is not to be wasted, it must be allowed to flourish in a way that confirms that dance is, indeed, a respected profession — a place where achievement is recognized by the ability to earn a living wage, with appropriate health insurance benefits and a modicum of financial stability.
         –Beverly D’Anne

To download a pdf of the highlights or the full report, click here.

Gibney Dance Center develops residency program

Center Line: Choreographic Residences II

at Gibney Dance Center

Wednesday, March 14, 6:30pm 

Free admission

Based on previous feedback from our first Center Line: Choreographic Residencies town hall and extended research, Gibney Dance has created a plan for Dance in Process (DIP). As we lay the groundwork for this new residency program, we want feedback from the dance field on the elements that contribute to a great creative experience. Those present at Center Line will have an opportunity to learn about the program plans and offer suggestions. New and returning attendees are welcome to share their perspectives. This edition of Center Line will be moderated by Dana Whitco.

Gibney Dance Center (Studio 3)
890 Broadway, 5th Floor (between 19th and 20th Streets), Manhattan
(map/directions)

RSVP at rsvp@gibneydance.org or 212-677-8560.

Gregory Hines Youth Scholarship Fund [video]



Gregory Hines Youth Scholarship Fund (2:56)
A project of the American Tap Dance Foundation


Scholarships are given all year to kids ages 3.5-19 for various youth tap dance training programs. For all information, including application details and deadlines, click here.

DNA goes bananas!

Banana Gakuen Theater Company, which says it hails from "dangerous Japan," will mark the one-year anniversary of the Japanese tsunami with a special free event at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), including a performance, screening and discussion.

Sunday, March 11, 7pm

Free admission. Cash bar proceeds will be donated to disaster relief.

For more information, click here.

And, while you're at it, why not help DNA fix the longstanding problems with its bathrooms? Click here and find out how you can do a good deed for dance!

Dixon Place presents Diana Crum and Katy Pyle

The Don't Miss of The Week

Kim Brandt--curating Dixon Place's Brink program--has the winning entry in this week's just-made-up-out-of-thin-air Don't Miss contest!

With everything popping on the dance scene lately, it's easy to overlook some interesting work getting a little less publicity--like Katy Pyle's gender-blurring, species-blurring take on The Firebird with its cool, lyrical ballet and hot romance. Word-of-mouth should help, though, since this is a natural for THE Dyke Date of The Week (another contest I should launch, maybe?). The considerable charms of this queer fairy tale--with Pyle as the Lesbian Princess and Jules Skloot as the Firebird--will lift your spirits.

if I tell myself I have enough time, then I can be with youDiana Crum's duet for Erin Cairns Cella and Kathy Wasik, opens the evening. The brightly-costumed dancers move like Crayola calligraphy across DP's white wall and gray floor to the textured drone of Peter Kerlin's guitar. Even with eyes closed, even stumbling, they appear to be lucid and in confident control. The work plays with ideas of parallel but rarely synchronous times sliding past one another and sometimes intersecting. Its concept might be a touch too subtle--"the layering of experiences presents viewers with opportunities to both witness and exist inside of different time scales, perhaps even simultaneously," Crum's publicity tells us--but the clean, clear performances are a pleasure.

Brink featuring Katy Pyle and Diana Crum closes tonight with a performance at 7:30pm. For information, cick here, and for ticket reservations, click here.

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey Streets), Manhattan

Tough economic realities for dancers

Dancers on poverty line
by Miriam Kreinin Souccar, Crain's New York Business.com, February 27, 2012

Tiffany Mills: Berries, bulls and BAC

Opening this week at Baryshnikov Arts Center 
and recommended

Top: Petra van Noort with Jeffrey Duval
Bottom: Emily Pope-Blackman with Kevin Ho
Photos: Julie Lemberger (c)2012
 

Tiffany Mills Company presents the world premiere of Berries and Bulls, a dance that relentlessly digs below the surface of long-term relationships. With her title--which sounds to me like a folk song in the making--the crafty Mills plays with duality of the masculine/feminine kind. The hour-long quartet features some serious rough-and-tumble and wit of the physical as well as verbal variety. Mills' terrific and durable dancers journey through a raw, precarious emotional landscape. If you follow them, you'll wind up feeling as if you've just been spun around in a blender, but how can you not follow Jeffrey DuvalKevin Ho, and especially Emily Pope-Blackman and Petra van Noort?

It takes serious teamwork to pull off a work this rich and complex, and that team includes organizations and programs that gave Mills a string of residencies and space grants to develop her piece--Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dance New Amsterdam, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, BAC and Joyce Theater/Mellon Anchor Tenant Program. Getting it done!

See Berries and Bulls, Thursday-Saturday, March 1-3, 7:30pm. Opening Night will be followed by a gala. For more information and ticketing, click here.

Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues), Manhattan
(map/directions)

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Getting "Out There" with iLAND

iLAND
presents


Moving Into the Out There
Indeterminacy & Improvisation
in Performance & Environmental Practice

at The New School

A symposium on movement, science, and the environment 
in New York City

March 23, Noon to 8pm and March 24, 10am to 7pm
Moving Into the Out There is iLAND’s fourth annual symposium on dance, movement, and the environment. The two-day event in the heart of New York City brings together dancers, choreographers, designers, ecologists, advocates, and scientists for interactive panel discussions, field workshops, and networking opportunities. This year’s symposium features an in-depth review of PARK, an environmental performance project at Fresh Kills Landfill supported by the 2011 iLAB Residency. Moving Into the Out There will also highlight iLAND’s recent efforts to synthesize insights and discoveries from the past seven years of iLAB collaborative residencies. Detailed event descriptions are attached.
Moving Into the Out There is an open forum for exploring new methods of understanding urban ecosystems through innovative collaborations between practitioners of movement, dance, science, and environmental management. iLAND cultivates a deeper engagement with urban environmental issues through its cross-disciplinary approach, and the annual symposium invites the general public to experience and explore recent works emerging from the iLAND community.
Moving Into the Out There features the work of iLAND’s 2011 iLAB Residency, opening up the results of that collaborative experience to a wider audience for discussion.
Throughout the Symposium, participants share in the process of searching for shared language and collaborative processes that cut across the arts and sciences, focusing on dance and the body as primary mediators of experience, imagination, and knowing. Through Moving Into the Out There, iLAND aims to generate conversation about collaborative practice throughout communities of art and science, instigating new ways of understanding and intervening in contemporary environmental problems – particularly those related to over-development and climate change.
Admission is $5-25 sliding scale. For complete programming and schedule information--and to reserve your ticket--click here, call (347) 573-5547 or email info@ilandart.org.

The New School (Wollman Hall)
65 West 11th Street, Manhattan

Making art your business

Artists and the Business of Art
moderated by WNYC's Leonard Lopate

at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space

Wednesday, March 21, 7pm

WNYC's Leonard Lopate will convene two panels of gallery owners and artists to discuss the ecosystem of the New York art world in 2012.
Lopate will explore a wide range of topics in the first panel, including the state of the industry and how it has fared in the economic downturn, the exponential growth of art fairs and their impact on the way art is being marketed these days.  His guests include Sean Kelly, owner of Sean Kelly Gallery in Chelsea, and artists Pat Steir (Cheim and Read Gallery) and Richard Phillips (Gagosian Gallery).
The second panel will welcome four artists at various stages of their careers – MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning abstract expressionist Joan Snyder, interactive video artist Peter Campus, nature photographer Ryan McGinnis, and installation artist Jean Shin – to swap stories and compare notes on surviving as artists in New York.  Topics will include taking a non-art job to pay the bills, the stresses of securing and managing studio space, and the politics of sustaining an art career in a city as expensive as New York.
Tickets are $15. Click here to order.

Live Video Webcast will be available to stream. Click here.

The Greene Space
44 Charlton Street (at Varick Street), Manhattan
(directions)

Ephland on criticism: What still matters

Why We Still Need Professional Art Critics
by John Ephland, Art Works, August 15, 2011

Monday, February 27, 2012

This luminous dance film won a 1984 Oscar!

Click to watch now: Flamenco at 5:15 (1983; 29 min.)

short documentary film directed by Cynthia Scott

Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject, 1984

featuring dancer Susana Robledo, composer Antonio Robledo, and students of the Canada's National Ballet School

Erland Josephson, 88

Erland Josephson, Actor With Ingmar Bergman, Dies at 88
by Dennis Lim, The New York Times, February 27, 2012

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Yoko, so true!

@yokoono tweeted: "Dance is a bodily mantra. It was once the way people reached godliness. And we still do.”

Act as if...you remember

What Actors Can Teach Us About Memory and Learning

The most effective memorization techniques draw on physical and emotional engagement as much as they do pure brain power

by Annie Murphy Paul, Time.com, February 22, 2012
When it comes to memorization, professional actors can claim bragging rights. They must reproduce their scripts exactly — no improvising allowed — night after night, under blinding lights, in front of a demanding audience. How do they do it?
Read more here.

Art Roundup: A Stein is a rose; radical cameras

Fans of Gertrude Stein, make your pilgrimage to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, an immersive introduction to the prophetic taste of Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael and her sister-in-law, Sarah. Picasso, Renoir, Manet...all of that's fine, but what really lifted me were the images of the writer herself--photos, paintings, sculpture infused with her presence and the energy of how she was perceived by her contemporaries. The Steins Collect opens to the public on Tuesday, February 28 and runs through June 3. For information, click here.

Detail, Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met will also host a Gallery Workshop on Art and Writing: Making Creative Connections, led by Claire E. Moore, assistant Museum educator on Friday, March 30, at 6:30pm.
Explore the synergies between the artists and writers who were part of famed collector Gertrude Stein's Paris as you listen to inspiring literary excerpts, view works in the exhibition The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde, and respond through writing.
At the Met's Carson Family Hall, Uris Center for Education. Fee: $35. For more information or to purchase tickets, click here.

Also highly recommended:

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 at The Jewish Museum, an exhibition of documentary photography-- most often treating social issues and conditions--that can surprise and inspire today's viewers by its fine aesthetic vision. The Radical Camera continues through March 25. For complete information, click here.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Vernon Reid: Imagining Africa

As Black History Month winds down--where does the time go?--Danspace Project continues tracing the handsome spectrum of choreography by today's Black dance makers in its Parallels platform. Meanwhile Dixon Place is hosting Vernon Reid's Artificial Afrika: A Tale of Lost Cities, an hour-long, multimedia piece that could have been designated a Parallels outpost, one even farther downtown from the mainstream. The veteran guitarist/Living Colour founder/Black Rock Coalition co-founder combines forces with Zimbabwe-born dancer-choreographer Akim Funk Buddha and DJ Leon Lamont.

Artificial Afrika collages an Africa of memory, imagination and speculation (as opposed to reality), and one of its most striking props is a large-headed, caricatured sculpture of James Brown, presumably crafted somewhere on the continent. We all gaze at Africa through our particular filters, and Africa gazes right back.

When Reid opens the piece by recalling a visit to Sudan ("as foreign to me as Berlin, Germany") his unnecessary addition of "Germany" gives just the right note of formality and distancing to establish his sense of difference as an American and estrangement from the Motherland. Lamont goes one step further: He has absolutely no interest in visiting Africa. He's from St. Louis, he says, where simply holding a barbecue is the solution to every possible problem.

The evening opens, promisingly, in a swamp of sound and imagery--Reid working the guitar; Lamont working the computer; Reid's video splashing across the back wall. This swamp, one hopes, will eventually issue coherent form and focus. But that video itself--primordial delirium, silk dyed and moonstruck, a florid, inexhaustible acid trip--proves to be the only fully realized, satisfying element. Besides music and visuals, the work includes text written and delivered by Reid and Buddha and Buddha's performance. We all know that Buddha's dance expertise encompasses an unusual range of styles, but it's not clear why he has interjected a long passage of Balinese dance here.

Artificial Afrika's interesting premise deserves a fighting chance. The text might have helped to elucidate matters and hold things together, but Reid's words, in particular, were too often indistinct, hard to make out. And this is not the first time that vocal sound has been disappointing at Dixon Place.

Artificial Afrika had an early advocate in the dance artist Niles Ford, who passed away on January 14. Ford brought Reid's idea to Ellie Covan, Dixon Place founder/artistic director, and these performances, produced by Gabri Christa and directed by Christa and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, are dedicated in his memory.

Final show tonight at 7:30pm. For tickets, click here.

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey), Manhattan
(directions)

Friday, February 24, 2012

What a dancer can teach a business leader

Dancer-choreographer Darrell Jones--whose Hoo-ha (twister pump breakdown) is currently featured in the From the Streets, From the Clubs, From the Houses on the Parallels platform at Danspace Project--inspired some creative innovation at Tom Tresser's MBA class at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Read more:

What’s Dance Got To Do With Business?
by Tom Tresser, Entrepreneur The Arts, February 12, 2012

UK: arts and environmental sustainability

Speaking at the Tipping Point conference in Newcastle, Alan Davey, Chief Executive, Arts Council England has today announced that the Arts Council is the first arts funding body in the world to embed environmental sustainability into the funding agreements of its major programmes.
Read more:

Arts Council England to embed environmental sustainability into funding

Thursday, February 23, 2012

BAC FLicks screens Lidberg's "Labyrinth Within"



Trailer for Pontus Lidberg's Labyrinth Within (2010, Sweden, 28.5 min.)
Jury Prize for Best Picture, Dance on Camera Festival 2012, New York

Labyrinth Within--screened this week at Baryshnikov Arts Center--opens with a horizontally compressed view of a dizzying swirl of bare torsos belonging, provocatively, to the film's male performers. They are director/choreographer Pontus Lidberg, a remarkably lithe dancer, and the brooding Giovanni Bucchieri, who also played a similarly sensual role in Lidberg's award-winning film, The Rain (2006).

After your half-hour with Labyrinth Within, you might walk away uncertain of what you just saw. (Who's who? What's what? What's with that mask you see for a split second?) But asking this film to deliver straight answers is like asking a dream to get out of bed and make you bacon and eggs. That's not its job. Lidberg's project, co-written with dramaturg Niklas Holmgren, deals with mystery--change itself--as a permanent reality.

Labyrinth Within's layers slip through your awareness through multiple pathways--dramatic lighting and suspenseful camerawork; Bucchieri's brooding melancholy; rapturous, expressionistic duets between Lidberg and his female muse, the versatile NYCB principal Wendy Whelan, and the tension-building power of David Lang's original and arranged music. Place matters, too. The work--developed in residencies at BAC and Joyce SoHo but mostly filmed within the muted, under-furnished interior of a Stockholm apartment--turns upon evocative architectural as well as psychological space. In the discussion that followed BAC's screening, Lidberg, quite rightly, volunteered few revelations about his beautiful film but did dangle this tidbit: "I had a very eccentric father and grew up in an apartment with things like secret doors."

Upcoming at BAC Flicks: Carmen & Geoffrey (2005), a documentary on the lives and careers of Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder by filmmakers Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob. The screening will be followed by a discussion with de Lavallade. Tuesday, April 24, 7pm. For further information and ticketing, click here.

Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues), Manhattan
(map and directions)

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Dance Roundup: Politics, Uganda, Field grants

Politics and the Dancing Body, an exhibition of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, focuses on the work of 20th Century choreographers who used dance as force for social justice, human rights and cultural diplomacy, from World War I through the Cold War. Open now through July 28. For more information, click here.



Spirit of Uganda returns to New York City, bringing a dynamic troupe of young drummers and dancers from the East African nation.
Spirit of Uganda combines cultural African traditions with contemporary concerns and addresses real life issues – issues that have affected the children personally – such as devastation in the wake of HIV/AIDS, poverty and war.
See this acclaimed company perform at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, March 2 (8pm) and 3 (2pm and 8pm). For information and ticketing, click here.

Congratulations to New York choreographers Luciana Achugar, Rachel Cohen and Michelle Dorrance, all winners of The Field Dance Fund grants. Learn more about The Field and this program here.

Collective for Dance Writing and New Media will meet twice in March at the Gibney Dance Center (Monday, March 5, 6pm and Thursday, March 8, 2pm). Get involved and help create the future of writing about dance. For more information and to RSVP (required), click here.

Charles Rice-Gonzalez talks about "Chulito"

Charles Rice-Gonzalez--known to many of us as an activist and Executive Director of BAAD!--discusses his new novel, Chulito, about a young gay Puerto Rican man living in the South Bronx, in this wonderful interview with Maria Hinojosa of NPR's Latino USA.

Tough Love (12:03)

NYPL Dance seeks Assistant Curator

Click for complete information:

Assistant Curator, Dance Division - New York Public Library

Doc on Ai Weiwei out this summer

Ai Weiwei Documentary Planned for Summer Release
by Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times, February 21, 2012

Joe Thompson, folk musician, 93 [UPDATED]

NC folk musician Joe Thompson dies at 93
by David Menconi, charlottesobserver.com, February 22, 2012

Carolina Chocolate Drops with Joe Thompson- John Henry - YouTube
(2:57)
Festival of American Fiddle Tunes. The Carolina Chocolate Drops with 88-year old fiddler Joe Thompson doing the song "John Henry" in a small un-amplified showcase concert. July 2007
UPDATE: Read the March 1 New York Times obituary here.

Dick Anthony Williams, 77

Dick Anthony Williams, Actor and Producer, Dies at 77
by Paul Vitello, The New York Times, February 21, 2012

Hunter College launches MFA in Dance

Hunter College Launches new MFA Program in Dance
The Hunter College Dance Program is proud to announce the launch of its new MFA/Dance degree program in the Fall 2012 semester. Aiming to engage a diverse, talented and motivated student body destined to become leaders in the field, the 60-credit curriculum integrates the rigorous study of art making and performance with a diverse array of aesthetics, cultural perspectives, and pedagogy. The program will be built around core Hunter full-time and part-time faculty, prominent guest artists, strong and ongoing relationships with curators, theaters and other NYC resources. Cross-disciplinary and specialized interests are a significant feature of the program curriculum: our aim is to merge professional-level artistic practice with invigorating critical perspectives in a supportive and challenging community of artist/thinkers/educators prepared for the future of the field.
Application deadline to the Graduate Admissions is March 1, 2012. Auditions will be held at Hunter College on March 10 and 11, 2012.

For further information, click here.

Jana Feinman, Director of Dance  (212) 772-5012  jfeinman@hunter.cuny.edu

David Capps, MFA Coordinator (212) 772-5014  dcapps@hunter.cuny.edu

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Tim Miller censored by Villanova

Villanova Cancels Gay Artist's Workshop
The Huffington Post, February 21, 2012

What a hoot: Screening "The Shining" for writers!


Free Screening of The Shining with Poets & Writers Magazine

The ShiningPoets & Writers Magazine celebrates its annual Writers Retreats Issue (March/April 2012) with a screening of the classic writers-retreat-gone-bad flick The Shining. Gather with writers, editors, agents, and Poets & Writers Magazine staff this Thursday at 6pm at DUMBO's Galapagos Art Space.

Admission is free. There will be a cash bar with drink specials, including Red Rum, Danny Boy, and Jack & Coke.

Poets & Writers Magazine
Hosts Screening of The Shining
February 23, 6pm
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, DUMBO

RSVP (not required) on Facebook.

Directions
Galapagos is located at 16 Main Street, corner of Main and Water Streets in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Take the F to York, the A/C to High, or the 2/3 to Clark. Also accessible by the East River Ferry to the Fulton Ferry Landing stop in Brooklyn Bridge.

Monday, February 20, 2012

A chat with photographer Ian Douglas

Will Rawls in Collected Fictions, Frontispieces (c)Ian Douglas

Photographer Ian Douglas

Since 2006, Ian Douglas has been actively photographing New York City's amazing contemporary dance and performance art scene, regularly working with artists like Ishmael Houston-Jones, Miguel Gutierrez, Yvonne Meyer and others. He is the photographer-in-residence for Danspace Project and Movement Research, and has photographed for the New York Times, New York Live Arts/Dance Theater Workshop and more. Douglas's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Dance Magazine and various publications throughout New York City and the world.

Click here for Ian Douglas's Web site.

Scroll down for more samples of his work for Parallels.

Ishmael Houston-Jones, Parallels curator (c)Ian Douglas
Dancer-choreographer Nora Chipaumire (c)Ian Douglas

Click here for information on purchasing the Parallels catalogue and other Danspace Project catalogues.

Of related interest


Movement Research Studies Project presents Photography and the Performance Journal, a discussion with photographers Dona Ann McAdams, Anja Hitzenberger and Miana Jun, moderated by Ursula Eagly.

Tuesday, March 20 at 6:15pm -- Free admission

More information at Movement Research

Gibney Dance Center
5th Floor, Studio 1
890 Broadway, Manhattan

Friday, February 17, 2012

Once again, Writing on Dance at NYLA!

Once again, I'm delighted to be facilitating the Writing on Dance workshop series at New York Live Arts. We'll be meeting this Spring on eight Wednesdays, from May 2 through June 20, 5-7pm.

This season, I hope to welcome not only prospective professional dance writers but also anyone who might enjoy playing with creative approaches to getting closer to dance, understanding and enjoying it more. This workshop welcomes anyone open to disrupting habits of perception, thought and written response.

Please check out all the details and application directions (deadline: March 26, 5pm EST) on NYLA's workshop page here.

I'm looking forward to exploring dance with you!

Keep the memory of our artists alive

Black sisters: Are you tired of hearing young people say "I never heard of her" when you mention of one our great women artists? I am.

Commit to educating our youth about our heritage. Each one teach one.

Here's a striking photo of legendary singer/actress and fervently outspoken civil rights activist Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) by photographer Kenn Duncan (1928-1986).

Eartha Kitt Digital ID: ps_the_cd72_1109. New York Public Library















Find more images in the NYPL Digital Library.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Field to artists: Get writing!


presented by The Field

Instructor: Beth Morrison

Tuesday, April 10 and Thursday, April 12, 6:30-9pm 

Project descriptions and artist statements are the backbone of artists' materials. Whether you're applying for a grant, residency or performance, or putting together your press kit, solid writing that describes your work and expresses your creative voice is key. This workshop provides examples from other artists, and gives participants a forum to develop their writing and receive feedback. 

$80/$50 Field Members

For more information on this and other workshops from The Field, click here. 

BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) identifies and supports the work of emerging and established composers and their collaborators through the commission, development, and production of their work, taking the form of opera-theatre, music-theatre, and multi-media concert works. Relying on the core values of collaboration, exploration, experimentation, artistry, and excellence, BMP provides a nurturing structure that allows artists to push the boundaries of their art form. Founded in 2006, BMP rapidly developed a reputation for “envisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realization.” (New York Times) In 6 years, BMP has commissioned, developed, and produced more than 24 operas and music-theatre pieces that have premiered or been performed in New York, across the country, and around the globe. The Wall Street Journal said, "Ms. Morrison may be immortalized one day as a 21st-century Diaghilev, known for her ability to assemble memorable collaborations among artists." BMP’s ability to recognize emerging talent, invest in the vision of living composers and their collaborators, and partner with presenters to bring new work to life has allowed it to become vital in the landscape of new music and opera.

The Field
161 Sixth Avenue, 14th Floor, Manhattan
(directions)

Speakers advocate for Asian-Americans in theater

Advocates Ask: Why Do Asian-Americans Go Uncast in New York Theater?
by Patrick Healy, The New York Times, February 14, 2012

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Have a look at Low


Malcolm Low
Artistic Director, Malcolm Low Formal Structure

2011 fellowship award recipient
New Directions Choreographic Lab at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Presenting Collapsing Giant

March 2-3, 7:30pm
Featuring original text by Low and the dancers, Collapsing Giant addresses stories about love, loss, and memories from home to show the human condition through Low’s eyes.  This demanding and physical work will focus on those things we do while on this earth: we live, we love, we fight, and we gain knowledge, all while time continues to push forward.  Working with lighting designer Gregory Bain and visual artist Gautam Kansara, Low will create a new world vision.
For information, ticketing and a preview video, click here.

Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street, Manhattan
Between Houston and Prince Streets
B/D/F/M to Broadway-Lafayette, R to Prince or 6 to Bleecker

Dance leaders speak out for NYS funding

Dance leaders speak out!
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