Save the date to honor Clark Center's history: April 17

Celebrate the historic Clark Center for the Performing Arts--
founded by Alvin Ailey in 1959 in New York as a multi-racial, multi-ethnic arts community--at Fridays at Noon at 92Y.

For 30 years Clark Center trained dancers, encouraged emerging companies and developed new choreographic talent. Among the choreographers and companies that performed there are Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Eleo Pomare, Anna Sokolow, Mimi Garrard, Donald McKayle, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Meredith Monk, Laura Dean, Ballet Hispanico, Chuck Davis, Sounds in Motion, Senta Driver, Bill T Jones, May O’Donnel, Gus Solomons, Capoeiras Bahia, Doug Varone and Urban Bush Women.

This afternoon event will include live dancing, film, photographs and a panel discussion.

Live streams of each Fridays at Noon performance are available at www.tischdanceandnewmedia.com/live. The live streams of the Fridays At Noon performances are part of an educational collaboration between 92Y Harkness Dance Center and NYU’s Tisch Dance and New Media Program.

Friday, April 17, 12pm

Purchase tickets in advance online or at the 92Y Box Office (lobby).

For information, click here.

92Y (Buttenweiser Hall)
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
, Manhattan
(map/directions)

Share your memories of Ailey's Clark Center for the Performing Arts

The new website for Clark Center NYC--an organization dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of Alvin Ailey's multicultural Clark Center for the Performing Arts--invites you to contribute to its compilation of personal remembrances.

Through a preeminent faculty of instructors, an extensive scholarship program, and a philosophy of accessibility, Clark Center provided an environment that produced performing artists with far-reaching influence on the dance world. Students were given both training and performance opportunities with an outstanding faculty including Alvin Ailey, Fred Benjamin, Pepsi Bethel, Anna Sokolow, and Charles Moore.

By preserving this history through a website, documentation, symposia and presentations; dancers, scholars, artists, and the public will be able to learn about all who helped shape the dance world then and now.

Click here to learn more about Clark Center NYC and to connect with this important project.

Send your memories of Clark Center (100 words or less) to:

info@clarkcenternyc.org

Loretta Abbott on Clark Center legacy and Black artists in dance

Clark Center NYC

and

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
 present

Before 5: Loretta Abbott

Wednesday, December 4

(2pm to 3:30pm)

Join Loretta Abbott, distinguished dancer and choreographer, for an afternoon Q&A on her enduring career in theater, her connections to Clark Center for the Performing Arts, and the legacy of Black performers and dance companies. Abbott will be in conversation with Clark Center alumni, Sheila Rohan and Jill Williams. Materials from the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will be displayed.

Abbott, an accomplished dancer, actress, singer and choreographer was an early member of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, performed on Broadway, in film and television, and in concert in partnership with Al Perryman and her own solo program, Woman of Color.

This event is the initial presentation of Clark Center NYC as part of its mission to preserve the history and legacy of the Clark Center for the Performing Arts, a distinguished arts organization in New York City from 1959-1989.

Admission: Free with required RSVP at Eventbrite

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan

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