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La MaMa Moves Dance Festival

Chamber Works 1--featuring Dark Matter by Juliette Mapp; present.tense (progressive) by Maura Donohue; and So be it--not a piece--miniatures for five by Vicky Shick. May 11-13. La MaMa’s The Club, 74A East 4th Street, 2nd Floor.[information and tickets]

Beauty--Jane Comfort and Company. "...a gimlet-eyed look at the extremes women go to achieve impossible beauty." May 17-20, 7:30pm La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor. [information and tickets]

La MaMa
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Dancing While Black: Voices from the Bush
a presentation of BAAD!'s 2012 Boogie Down Dance Series

Thursday, May 17, 8pm

Featuring current and former dancers from Urban Bush Women--Maria Bauman, LoveForte (Marjani Forte and Nia Love), Paloma McGregor and Samantha Speis--who present their own brazen dance works as part of Dancing While Black, "an artist-led project/initiative that explores many questions including what does it mean to be a Black artist today in order to shift the power of contextualizing work and articulating aesthetic values into the hands, and bodies, of black dancers themselves."

For more information on this and all Boogie Down festival events and to purchase tickets, click here or call 718-842-5223.

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance
841 Barretto Street, 2nd Floor, Bronx
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Comfort: a dance on the dark side

Click here for my Dance Magazine review of Jane Comfort and Dancers in Comfort's An American Rendition at The Duke on 42nd Street this past September.

Jane Comfort: Body and Soul podcast

Bessie Award-winning choreographer Jane Comfort talks about "An American Rendition"--her new dance-theater work that addresses American addiction to Reality TV and avoidance of political realities such as our government's policy of rendition--the secret kidnapping, interrogation and torture of detainees in overseas prisons. Jane Comfort and Company will premiere this piece at the Duke on 42nd Street (September 24-28).

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

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Program Notes: Upcoming on "Body and Soul"

In the next Body and Soul podcast, Bessie Award-winning choreographer Jane Comfort talks about An American Rendition--her new dance-theater work, which addresses American addiction to Reality TV and avoidance of political realities such as our government's policy of rendition--the secret kidnapping, interrogation and torture of detainees in overseas prisons. Jane Comfort and Company will premiere this piece at The Duke on 42nd Street (September 24-28).

Click here for a complete program schedule, ticketing and additional information.

Jane Comfort is a choreographer, writer and director whose work has been produced throughout the United States, in Europe and Latin America.  She received a Bessie Award for Underground River and a recent New York Foundation for the Arts Award for Performance Art. 

Comfort grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and received a degree in painting at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been making interdisciplinary work since 1978. She and her company have performed throughout the United States, in Europe and Latin America.Jane also choreographs for theater and opera.  She recently choreographed Salome for Chicago's Lyric Theater with Deborah Voigt in the title role.  She choreographed the Broadway musical Amour, with music by Michel Legrand and direction by James Lapine and was Associate Director/Choreographer of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Broadway musical Passion, which won a Tony Award for best musical.   She choreographed NYC's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing as well as Playwrights Horizons' musical Wilder.

See additional biographical information for Jane Comfort here.

(c)2008, Eva Yaa Asantewaa