Celebrate with Dianne McIntyre

Dianne McIntyre (photo by Larry Coleman)

When American Dance Guild presents its Performance Festival 2012--a tribute to distinguished dance artists Elaine Summers and Dianne McIntyre--it will offer McIntyre the chance to call together a "family" reunion in celebration of the 40th anniversary of her company, Sound in Motion. McIntyre writes,

In addition to presenting Life's Force (1979), on September 6 and September 8, with twenty dancers who have worked with her from 1972-2012, she writes, she will "gather with even more people, probably in Harlem to mingle, network, catch up, have meetings between people of different generations and document stories and memories. This gathering and documentation is important to me, because there is not much available about my history and the amazing artists--dancers and other artist collaborators--I have had the chance to work with and the influence of that work on the dance scene.

"Some of the dance artists I know right now who will be involved in this celebration are (in order of the years I met them in Sounds in Motion and later) Dorian Williams-Byrd (1972), Lonnetta Gaines (1973), Mickey Davidson (1975), Cheryl Banks-Smith (1978), Alde Lewis (1976), Francine Piggott-Butler (1976), Robin Wilson (1979), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (1980), Aziza (1983), Laceine Wedderburn (1983), Kathleen Sumler (1984), Marlies Yearby (1985), Malik Lewis (1985), Charles Wallace (1986), Shireen Dickson (1996), Telly Fowler (1999), Catherine Meredith (2006), Maria Lucas (2006), Sarah Yarrington (2011), Kalila Smith (2011), Yusha-Marie Sorzano (2012)."

For complete ADG festival information, click here.

American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2012
September 6-9

Thursday, September 6 at 8pm (followed by reception)
Friday, September 7 at 8pm
Saturday, September 8 at 8pm
Sunday, September 9 at 7pm

Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater
The Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 West 55th Street (at 9th Avenue), Manhattan
(directions)

American Dance Guild seeks choreographers

Call for Choreography

ADG 2012 Performance Festival

September 6-9

@ The Ailey Theater

Honoring Elaine Summers and Dianne McIntyre

After great enthusiasm and sold out performances at our Festival in 2011, the American Dance Guild (ADG) continues its mission of serving artists and audiences. For our 2012 Performance Festival, we invite applications from contemporary dance artists of diverse backgrounds, ages and aesthetics throughout the United States and internationally.

Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater is a terrific performance space (26'x35') with an audience capacity of 275. Four different programs will be presented during the festival on Thursday through Sunday, September 6-9.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 20

Click here for information and an application.

ADG 2011 Fest invites choreographers

Call for ADG 2011 Festival Choreography!

American Dance Guild

American Dance Guild's call for choreography

American Dance Guild (ADG) invites applications from contemporary dance artists of diverse backgrounds, ages and aesthetics throughout the United States and internationally for its 2009 Performance Festival (September 10-13, 2009):

We are very excited to be holding our festival at the beautiful new Manhattan Movement Arts Theater located at 248 West 60th Street in New York City. This is a terrific space -- 32' x32' performance area, high ceilings, and an audience capacity of 170. Four different programs will be presented during the festival.

For an application, click here (deadline: March 30).

ADG is dedicated to presenting the range and diversity of expression in current dance art practice and how it interfaces with our historical modern dance roots. Last year, we featured work by Murray Louis and Anna Sokolow.

This year we will be featuring work by Donald McKayle and Erick Hawkins (celebrating his 100th birthday.) Our theme this year will be Influence and Innovation.

If you applied in the past and were not accepted, PLEASE apply again!

For questions, contact Tina Croll at tina@horsesmouth.org or Gloria McLean at gloria.mclean@americandanceguild.org.