Audition for DC-based Dakshina dance troupe

Washington, DC-based Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company seeks strong male and female dancers with a solid background in modern dance and/or ballet and release technique for its 2013-2014 season.

New York City audition: 

February 25 (Noon to 1:45pm)

Alvin Ailey Studios

Dakshina has a multi-year partnership with the Sokolow foundation in restaging Anna Sokolow’s iconic modern dance works, works with Bharata Natyam—a South Asian classical dance form, and synthesizes the two forms in a unique three-prong approach to dance.

We are looking for energetic, committed, professional, and positive dancers who love to engage and interact with each other.

To read more about the company, this unique opportunity and audition details, click here.

Surviving greatness

The Afterlife

by Tobi Tobias, Seeing Things, ArtsJournal.com, March 8, 2010

Sokolow: Lectures by Jim May

Jim May, faculty member at The New School and disciple of Anna Sokolow has three remaining lectures on the great American choreographer during this 100th Anniversary of her birth. 

Lectures: 6pm-9:30pm

Location: The New School, 65 West 11th Street, Manhattan (Room 263)

October 15: Walking tour through the East Village, the Henry Street Playhouse, Settlement House (where Sokolow was raised), and the HB Studios, where she taught.

October 22: Jim May describes as "dealing with Anna's recovery from her nervous breakdown by investigating other artists, finding strength from their efforts, and finding a new artistic direction.  We will be viewing Kurt Weill, Kafka, Poe."   The session will also address the question of the difference between a Master and a Genius.

October 29th: Mostly, a discussion of Sokolow, with a Q&A.

Guests are welcome to join Jim and his students at the New School.

RSVP: Audrey Ross at 212-877-3399 or audreyrosspub@aol.com