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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Indian dance joins downtown summer fest

Indo-American Arts Council will present two days of Indian dance (August 18-19, noon to 2pm) as part of Battery Dance Company's annual Downtown Dance Festival at Chase Manhattan Plaza.

These free performances will include a variety of styles, including the classical Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi and Odissi as well as contemporary choreography based on Indian dance.

Chase Manhattan Plaza is at Nassau Street between Liberty & Pine. By subway, take the #2, 3, 4 or 5 train to Wall Street.

Click for more information.

Monday August 18, noon to 2 PM

Natya Dance Theater
Manu Kala Mandir
Anurekha Ghosh & Company
Janaki Rangarajan
Ananya Dance Theatre Company

Tuesday August 19, noon to 2 PM

Sampradaya Dance Creations
Manijeh Ali
MariaColacoDanceCo.
Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company
Sinha Danse

The complete Downtown Dance Festival runs August 16-24 and will present 30 companies in three downtown locations: Chase Plaza, The Lawn at Battery Park, and, for the first time, on Governors Island. All concerts are free to the public. For a complete schedule, click here.

Ailey: a wish fulfilled!

Ever since the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's last season at City Center, I've been dreaming of an chance to see this towering company up close in a small venue. Well, that wish was fulfilled--and then some--yesterday afternoon when I attended the troupe's open studio rehearsal of two Alvin Ailey works that will grace its 50th Anniversary season.

With artistic director Judith Jamison, veteran dancer Dudley Williams and choreographer Robert Battle in attendance, associate artistic director Masazumi Chaya led a full rehearsal of the company's new production of the classic masterpiece Blues Suite (1958), which brings to sizzling life a group of characters from Depression-era Texas, and an excerpt from Three Black Kings (1976), an inspiring Ailey/Duke Ellington collaboration.

As they say, Be careful what you ask for; you might get it!

I think I'm still stunned, still dazed, still overwhelmed by experiencing up close the power of these dancers, individually and as an ensemble. They demonstrate why, over half a century, this company has made believers of all kinds of dance audiences worldwide. Their physical instruments could not be finer, more vibrant; their passion for dance and for delivering every detail of expression, character, story and theme, could not be more profound. I felt that I was at a command performance but that it was the royalty--Clifton Brown, Hope Boykin, Renee Robinson, Matthew Rushing, Glenn Allen Sims, Guillermo Asca and more--performing for me and my colleagues on the sidelines. And Chaya could not have been more gracious and excited to tell us all about the company's anniversary plans.

Don't miss your own chance to connect with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II troupes this August! Click here for details about the Ailey street party and free performances (August 5-12).

Cincinnati Ballet in art partnership

Mexican visual artist Carlos Amorales teams up with Cincinnati Ballet for his upcoming exhibition of animated films, sculptural objects, performances and drawings at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center (September 27, 2008-January 11, 2009).

Summer's here and the time is right

It’s summer, the lazy season, and dancing, which never rests, has taken to outdoor venues.

Guest of Summer
by Tobi Tobias, Voice of Dance, July 30, 2008

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Oberfelder's Partnering with Camera

Jody Oberfelder announces her Partnering with Camera/Physical and Visual Imagination, a workshop held at Bearnstow, Mt. Vernon, Maine

August 10, 2008 at 1pm to August 16, 2008 at 3pm

This workshop will explore how the interaction of camera and movement creates kinetic imagery capable of expressing something beyond the frame. We will cultivate the relationship between movement and visual elements , creating dance films that explore relationships. This workshop will allow participants to work with physical imagination, storyboarding, and hands’ on camera work, finding an individual expression of vocabulary . Each day will include a physical morning class, , followed by afternoons developing studies for film: investigating site specific locations, and choreographing for the camera to find a unique language in dance/visual vocabulary realized through the lens.

All levels of experience are welcome. Video-cameras recommended.

Jody Oberfelder creates emotionally and intellectually provocative work that distill the movement of every day life, She has shown her richly variegated work in New York City as well as nationally and internationally at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris, Belgrade Dance Festival, The Festival of Modern Dance in Seoul, Jacob’s Pillow, Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, Symphony Space, PS 122, MASS MoCA, The Yard and other venues. Jody’s dance film LineAge received the People’s Choice Award for 2007 from Cinedans. This past year Jody was selected as a ’07-’08 Joyce Resident Artist.

directions
Bearnstow info

Contact: Bebe Miller 614 242 2601

Robert Battle: Enthusiast

Watch Christine Jowers's interview with choreographer Robert Battle whose Battleworks Dance Company has launched its fifth anniversary season at the Joyce Theater this week. Visit Dance-Enthusiast.com.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Tradition in action

video by Mitsu Yasukawa, Newark Star-Ledger, July 25, 2008

Members of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers (New York) perform their North American Indian social dances for some summer students and the public at the Newark Museum (Newark, New Jersey).









The axis of dancing

"DanceAxis.com was created to help dancers network both socially and professionally," writes site creator Jason Corbin. "With this site you can network with other dancers, create blogs, chat, start a topic in a forum, learn about upcoming auditions, buy and sell your dance-related stuff, learn from or add to the DanceWiki..."

Reflections, revelations: the Ailey anniversary

Theresa Ruth Howard guest blogs on the 50th anniversary of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
foot in mouth, July 28, 2008

The Field wants you!

September 19th & 20th

The Field is seeking artists for our next Fielday performance opportunity at Abrons Arts Center's Experimental Theater in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Fieldays are shared performance showcases that help artists move their work forward by getting it out of the studio and onto the stage.

Artists receive a 12-minute performance slot and brief technical rehearsal the day of the show. Low-cost DVD documentation is also available. Participation is open on a first-come-first-served basis. Please contact James Scruggs at james@thefield.org for more information.

Info & Sign Up

FEE: $50/$35-Field Members

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Just say Om!

Om, Sweet Om
by Amy Alexander, TheRoot.com, July 18, 2008

Monday, July 21, 2008

Soledad Barrio: Caught between two lovers



photos of Soledad Barrio

La Dama del Mar is the world-class jewel in the crown that is El Mar, Noche Flamenca's currrent touring production. Presented at Theatre 80 Saint Marks, the two-hour program delivers the stripped-to-essentials, traditional flamenco music, song and dance that this Spanish company, under the direction of Martin Santangelo, has taught smart New Yorkers to expect and crave. But La Dama del Mar introduces something new from Noche Flamenca--dance theater that expresses a powerful narrative, modernizes the movement, and requires some sustained physical acting from its star, the electrifying Soledad Barrio.

La Dama del Mar offers a spare impression of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, offsetting the surprising subtlety and range of Barrio's dramatic abilities. There's no need for dialogue or the support of extensive program notes. Barrio's mercurial glances and expressions, her supple body language, the fresh responsiveness of her interaction with rival partners Antonio Jimenez "El Chupete" and Alejandro Granados--both excellent, heartful performers--are quite enough to tell this story of conflicting desires and hunger for freedom. This role is a profound revelation; Barrio exceeds her own sky-high standards.

Fans of the troupe--and we are legion--will find fresh joy in the familiar conventions of flamenco, particularly the delectable work of cantaors Emilio Florido and Manuel Gago and guitarristas Jose Valle "Chuscales" and Salva de Maria. And it's wonderful to meet new company members like Sol La Argentinita and Rebecca Tomás--who bring spark and spunk to their solo moments--and Jimenez, with his feral appearance and dark, trance-like performances, especially in his Solea por Bulerías. "El Chupete" has got true soul. Watching him, I wondered what a flamenco/tap jam with the late, great Gregory Hines might have looked like!

The Theatre 80 Saint Marks presentation of El Mar runs through August 14 on an irregular schedule. For schedule details and to purchase tickets, visit TheaterMania.com. For further information on the company, visit Noche Flamenca.

Noche Flamenca video

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Apply for DTW's Writing on Dance series

Writing on Dance (Fall 2008)
with Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30pm at Dance Theater Workshop
October 7-November 18

For complete details, visit DTW's Writing on Dance page.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Jan Schmidt appointed Curator of dance library

Jan Schmidt has been appointed the Curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, where she has worked for 20 years, most recently as the Acting Curator. The Library’s Dance Division is recognized as the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance.

Ms. Schmidt began in 1989 as a Specialist in the Dance Division’s Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, and was later promoted to Coordinator of the Archive. During this time, she produced original documentations of hundreds of dance performances by companies ranging from ballet and modern dance to ethnic and social dance and including such companies as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Limón Dance Company, and the companies of Elizabeth Streb, Ron K. Brown, and Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. In addition she has produced documentation of the work of tap dance great Savion Glover, the Haitian dance master Jean-Leon Destiné, the Korean dance exponent Sun Ock Lee, the Dancers and Musicians of Bali, and the traditional West African dance of Les Ballets Bagata. Recent preservation work on films, which have included such notable works as Martha Graham’s Primitive Mysteries and Night Journey and Alvin Ailey’s Stream, Blues Suite, and Hermit Song will ensure these unique recordings will be available for generations to come. She also acquired films and videotapes through donations from many companies and choreographers and oversaw the work of the Archive, including negotiating with donors and unions to open up previously restricted collections.

Promoted to Assistant Curator in 2007, she worked with the Curator on acquisitions, preservation, access policies and grant writing. She was instrumental in the preservation and presentation of George Balanchine’s ballet Don Quixote, a 1965 film record of the New York City Ballet that captures a rare performance by choreographer George Balanchine and his muse, the then-nineteen-year-old Suzanne Farrell. In addition, she has been active in the presentation of public events and programs such as the recent Danse/Dance -- Paris/New York at the Library’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. The free screenings of several French dance films on May 29 inaugurated a cultural exchange program between Cinémathèque de la Danse and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Among the selections were Jean Babilee in Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la mort (1955)and La Plantation excerpt of Josephine Baker in the Folies Bergeres (1927).

Her publications include “Creating a Dance Archive: Documenting the Art and Collecting its Records,” the Korea Society for Dance Documentation (2008), “The Collaborative Editing Project to Document Dance,” which she wrote with M.N. Levine, M.M. Nichols, and E. Peck (2001), and “Djoniba Dance and Drum Centre,” New York Stories (2001).

About the Jerome Robbins Dance Division
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s mission is to connect artists, scholars and dance lovers to the world of movement. The Division’s commitment is to preserve and provide free access to its unequaled collections of resources, ranging from multi-camera recordings of dance performances to rare manuscripts. As the active memory of the dance community, the Dance Division honors the past and offers inspiration for the future. The Dance Collection, as it was then known, was founded in 1944 as a separate division of The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library at the insistence of staff, dancers, and dance historians and writers. In its Lincoln Center home since 1965, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division is used regularly by choreographers, dancers, critics, historians, scholars, journalists, publicists, filmmakers, graphic artists, students, and the general public.

About The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the world’s most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. Its divisions are the Circulating Collections, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Music Division, Billy Rose Theatre Division, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. The materials in its collections are available free of charge, as are a wide range of special programs, including exhibitions, seminars, and performances. An essential resource for everyone with an interest in the arts – whether professional or amateur – the Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters, and photographs.

Eti! East Africa Speaks!

651 ARTS/Africa Exchange--in a collaboration with Dartmouth College, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center/CUNY, and Theatre Without Borders--presents Eti! East Africa Speaks!

Monday, July 21 and Tuesday, July 22
at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY

Free!

Eleven theater artists-in-residence from East Africa (Uganda, Kenya,Tanzania, and Rwanda) offer presentations by George Bwankika Seremba, Okello Kelo Sam, Mumbi Kaigwa and Mgunga Mwa Mnyenyelwa, plus panel discussions with leaders from the East African performance community.

For complete details, click here.

PURE honors Brooklyn's trees

You are invited to join PURE NYC (Public Urban Ritual Experiment) for its annual procession, this year winding its way through beautiful Prospect Park in recognition of the role of trees in the effort to end global warming.

PURE was founded in New York four years ago by a group of performers committed to promoting peace by publicly presenting their dance and music outside of traditional performance venues. The members of PURE are a mix of professional and amateur performers of all ages, races, sizes, and levels who have come together with the common goal of inspiring peace and healing through their art.

Starting at the north end of the park next to the Brooklyn Public Library and Grand Army Plaza , the event will feature a procession of dancing and drumming, punctuated with site-specific choreographies and a tree adoption ceremony led by urban shaman Queen Mama Donna (internationally-acclaimed spiritual teacher, popular speaker, and award-winning writer).

For more information on this dance procession, click here.

Go to SEEDS

SEEDS Festival

Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science
from Earthdance: Inspiring the art and spirit of improvisation

July 27 - August 17

Inviting a diverse group of artists, movement practitioners, architects, scientists, spiritual leaders, and activists to creatively research ecology and experiential arts

The Prayer of the Butterfly - Suprapto Suryodarmo
Introduction to Permaculture - Andrew Faust
Land Dreaming - Body Awakening - Zjamal Xanitha
Pause - Karen Nelson
Micro macro - The BodyCartography Project
The Western Massachusetts Moving Arts Festival
Opening to the Unknown - Chris Aiken & Andrew de L. Harwood
Interdisciplinary & Land Based Projects

Earthdance

Fly By Night

Jeff Scher's Fly By Night
from his New York Times blog, The Animated Life

Jeff Scher is a painter who makes experimental films and an experimental filmmaker who paints.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The rise of Zumba

Samba Lines at the Gym
by Mireya Navarro, The New York Times, July 16, 2008

Artists emergent and urgent

Nice, nice show at Dance Theater Workshop last night--Emerging Artists. Very strong showing from Camille A. Brown who...listen, doesn't she, by now, make you begin to look sideways at that word, emerging? In her new Matchstick, set to piano music composed and performed by Brandon McCune, she creates a physical and emotional environment in which four Black men in post-Civil War/pre-civil rights America--future leaders of a community--gather around a table strewn with papers to strategize, argue and perhaps resolve differences. Their movement--expressionist and often jarring--gives us a sense of their conflicts and their vital connection to one another. It was a joy to see Kevin Guy, Otis Donovan Herring, Juel D. Lane and Keon Thoulouis dancing at DTW, giving their all to this intriguing and powerful piece. Later, Brown told me that, although this was a world premiere performance, she's still developing Matchstick and has plans to expand it. Good!

Sydney Skybetter. Oh, wow. If he's still "emerging," will someone please light the fuse and blast him out there? Some better-known choreographers working a similar aesthetic vein get high praise for their musicality whether their work indeed has true musicality or much else to recommend it. This man actually deserves the kudos he's received. And the clarity of execution in his poetic, sophisticated craftsmanship, married with contained passion, makes him a standout. There's never a dull moment in Potemkin Piece (2007) or The Cold House You Kept (2008). And you must see Bergen Wheeler who appears in all three Skybetter pieces on the program but solos in an extravagant excerpt from The Personal (2008), dancing around a pliable axis of beauty. She's a dancer's dancer, an extraordinary instrument with star quality.

Jessy Smith's pop-culture -loving, all-female troupe, POW! offered refreshing retro with a chik-a-boom kick in Pow! And The Bedazzlers, The Gimme Muney Hunnies and, especially, Let's Get Tangled. That last one, which closed out the program, managed to hold its own against the potentially-upstaging song it's danced to--Outkast and Janelle Monae's hilariously-delivered, if hair-raising, Call the Law. Jacob Peter Kovner and Anna K. Whaley premiered Adjacent People and Other Problems. Its elusive subtlety made it a little recessive in the company of all these heavy hitters, and I might not relish long dances set to music that lulls me. But there's something about Kovner and Whaley's sensibilities that can't be easily dismissed. I'd like to see more.

Catch the final night of Emerging Artists at DTW by clicking here.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Do it yourself with The Zine

Ana Isabel Keilson invites your contributions to the zine:

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recovering from your july 4th reveries?

tired, hot and cranky?

beat the heat and summer lethargy with the zine!

the time has come for number three! send us anything and everything.
dance related, non-dance related. tangentially dance related. you
decide.

what you do:

1. write something.

2. put your name and email at the end of what you write.

3. send it to this address, either in the body of the email, or as an attachment.


beyond spell-checking, nothing is subjected to any kind
of editorial or curatorial process, so what you send is what gets in.

this means:

1. be reasonable in terms of length. there is no word cap, but save
epic tendencies and angsty poetry for your blog.
2. if you choose to write anything incendiary and outlandish (as always, heartily encouraged), your name and contact information is attached.
3. it is up to you to take this seriously. we do!


pass this along, spread the word. send things in by august 31.


support local arts and ideas through DIY publication!


WE NEED MORE WRITING. WE NEED MORE DIALOGUE.


with love, as always,
the zine

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the zine

Promoting the art and ideas of the NYC-based dance community through Do-It-Yourself publication.

thezine.email@gmail.com

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Dance artists interviewed on WBGO sports show

For some fun and inspiration, go to the WBGO site and click down the podcast list for Doug Doyle's interviews with:
  • Judith Jamison
  • Savion Glover
on WBGO's Sport Jam with Doug Doyle (Jazz88FM--88.3FM)

Amanda Ameer blogs on arts marketing and publicity

New blog alert!

Life's a Pitch
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
by Amanda Ameer, Life's a Pitch, ArtJournal.com
Why don't we apply the successful marketing and publicity campaigns we see in our everyday lives to the performing arts? Great ideas are right there, ripe for the emulating. And who's responsible for the wide-reaching problems in ticket sales and audience development? Boring artists? Greedy managers? Overstretched marketing departments? We're beyond debating who owns the problem. Let's fix this thing.

What I like about Apollinaire

Dance critic Apollinaire Scherr takes a good look at Neil Greenberg's Really Queer Dance with Harps

What I like about him
by Apollinaire Scherr, foot in mouth (ArtsJournal), July 5, 2008

Friday, July 4, 2008

Annie Get Your Bat

Annie Lanzillotto's The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?--part of Dixon Place's 2008 Hot! Festival--is one woman's backlash against the forces of real estate development that are rendering our city unrecognizable to anyone with more than a minute's worth of memory in their heads.

Lanzillotto packs a lot into this roaring (and roaringly funny) 90-minute extravaganza in a vest-pocket performance space. Her monologue (with a quiet assist from Audrey Kindred and Caitlin Michener, who dance a bit, too) is a thing of wonder--stuffed with color and volume ("I'm not yelling! It's just my accent!"), geological and historical factoids, urban folklore and personal stories of loss and survival, all delivered with a killer combination of Italian-American and butch dyke charm. This is powerful, skillful, poetic performance, born of "the edges of the city where my journeys began" and filled with "buttons and epithets" (a delightful mis-speaking--for "epaulets"--if not deliberate). Lanzillotto will remind you that "neighborhood" means "where the butcher comes to your funeral" and help you get in touch with your Inner Glitter. In her smackdown between Pachelbel and Joan Jett, guess who wins?

Get onboard Annie's houseboat. You've got just two more chances--tonight and tomorrow--and Dixon Place isn't exactly roomy. So, hurry!

Dixon Place
Annie Lanzillotto

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Hooray for Bollywood!

New York Open Center - Bollywood Dancing
Bollywood Dancing
a course at The New York Open Center
with Pooja Narang

Bollywood Dancing, one of the hottest current dance styles around the world, is the basis of nearly every Indian film. It fuses traditional Indian with jazz and modern dance forms, and now integrates the high-energy beats of Bhangra, hip-hop and other world music. It will keep you moving and make you want to dance non-stop. Pooja Narang is renowned as a Pied Piper of Indian Dance and, in this class, she will teach us the timing, rhythm, energy and expressive movements of Bollywood Dance, so that we move every part of our body and have a full workout and great fun. If you are looking to escape into the dream world of Bollywood and learn the dances of India’s top film stars, this is the class for you.

Note: Each class will include a warm-up and cool-down. Wear loose, comfortable clothing and non-slip footwear (such as lightweight athletic shoes); wear two layers so that one can be removed if you get too hot; tie long hair back; don’t eat at least 45 minutes before class; and bring water.

A WEEKLY COURSE
(6 sessions) Thursdays
July 10–August 14, 6–7:30pm
08SAD06T
Members: $100 / Nonmembers: $110

Pooja Narang, a gifted dancer, choreographer, singer and actress, studied classical Indian dance forms as well as Bhangra in India, and jazz and hip-hop in London. She founded the Bollywood Axion Dance Company in NYC and successfully trains many actresses for dance roles in Bollywood films.

Human Geography and the Practice of Presence

iLAND- interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance invites you to public engagements for the iLAB 2008 Artist in Residence Program.

Human Geography and the Practice of Presence

Collaborators:

Karl Cronin, Choreographer, NYC
Sasha Cuerda
, Geographer, Chicago

with Dancer Maggie Bennett

Dates, Times, Location:

6-8 pm Thursday, July 10, 2008: The Choreography of Agency

An evening of movement and experiences and experiments — through a series of guided practices led by the collaborators, participants will have the opportunity to explore different ways of relating to space using their kinetic experience as a starting point.

and

6-8pm Thursday, July 31, 2008: Summer highlights and discoveries

An evening presentation which explores research highlights as well as the struggles and possibilities inherent in art-science collaboration.

Located at Pier 44 in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Events are FREE and open to the general public and will happen rain or shine. Light refreshments will be served.

Directions and Transportation:

Meet in front of The Waterfront Museum at at 290 Conover St. at Pier 44.

The museum is at the end of Van Brunt St. Turn right on Reed St., go one block and turn left on Conover. Go through the entrance gate to the right to Pier 44. For more specific directions call 212 375-8283 or click here.

**Wednesday evenings 6-8pm, an open practice session will be held with the collaborators that is open to the public.

For more information call Karl at 617 759- 8466.

The collaborators will conduct movement research based on two leading theories from the field of Human Geography: Action Network Theory (ANT) and Non-Representational Theory. These two theories have been widely debated within the field of geography, and in their own ways postulate a manner of being in space that involves interacting directly with one’s environment—moving beyond layers of semiotics and abstracted representations.

During the iLAB residency, the collaborators will create movement practices that begin to address some of the fundamental elements of these two theories, and will offer opportunities for participants to engage in the movement practices firsthand. Scores will be developed and tested and presented on-site at Brooklyn Bridge Park as well, as two locations yet to be determined in the Brooklyn littoral zone.

iL
AB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within different fields/disciplines. The goals of iLAB are 1) to invigorate and re-imagine relationships between the public and the urban environment through kinetic experience, 2) to engage artists and practitioners across the disciplines of dance, art, and the ecology of physical interrelationships such that we create and investigate innovative approaches to science, infrastructure, urbanisms, and architecture within a performative context, and 3) to support the development of process in engagement over product such that process is itself a product for artistic and public action.

iLAND is a not for profit organization conceived and formed by choreographer Jennifer Monson in 2004. The organization’s mission is to investigate the power of dance, in collaboration with other fields, to illuminate our kinetic understanding of the world. iLAND, a dance research organization with a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context, cultivates cross-disciplinary research among artists, environmentalists, scientists, urban designers and other fields.

iLAB 2008 is supported in part by the Jerome Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council.

info@ilandart.org
212-375-8283

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

New blog from Jill Sigman

Tune into the alchemical, shamanistic properties of egg shells and Cheese Doodles at Jill Sigman's new blog, Dispatches from jill sigman/thinkdance. It's bound to be colorful and thought/dance-provoking!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Risa Jaroslow: Body and Soul podcast

Program notes at http://infinitebody.blogspot.com. Guest info at www.risajaroslow.org. (c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

MP3 File

Show notes: Risa Jaroslow: Body and Soul podcast

What do we expect of government in these fraught, transitional times? Choreographer Risa Jaroslow wants to know and has turned the power of asking questions into a new dance involving everyday New Yorkers in the live creation of its soundscape. See the following blog entry, and click on the audioplayer or mp3 link to listen to my Body and Soul podcast interview with Jaroslow.

Risa Jaroslow and Dancers present 311 at New York City's Municipal Building (1 Centre Street) on July 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 at Noon and 1:30pm. These free site-specific and interactive events are commissioned by and presented as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Sitelines '08 series, produced in association with the River to River Festival.

For guest bio, event details, and additional information about Risa Jaroslow and Dancers, click here.

(c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Unleash Your Creativity

How to Unleash Your Creativity
Experts discuss tips and tricks to let loose your inner ingenuity
by Mariette DiChristina, Scientific American, May 2008

John Houtz is a psychologist and professor at Fordham University. His most recent book is The Educational Psychology of Creativity (Hamptom Press, 2002).

Julia Cameron is an award-winning poet, playwright and filmmaker. Her book The Artist's Way (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002) has sold more than three million copies worldwide. Her latest book is The Writing Diet.

Robert Epstein is a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego. Contributing editors for Scientific American Mind and former editor in chief of Psychology Today, Epstein has written several books on creativity, including The Big Book of Creativity Games (McGraw-Hill, 2000).