Uncontainable: Collage Collective announces first show at La MaMa Galleria

CollageUncontained

by The Collage Collective

at La MaMa Galleria

January 23 – February 8

The Collage Collective’s first group show features an array of collage and mixed media work. These seven women cut, rip, shred, glue, stitch, tape and pin two- and three-dimensional pieces. They’ve been upcycling and recycling, hunting and gathering, scavenging and hoarding alone and together since meeting in a weekly art class in Manhattan three years ago. The results: diverse, colorful, exciting, thought-provoking and thoughtful expressions ripped from today’s headlines and their deepest desires.

La MaMa Galleria

6 East 1st Street (between Bowery and 2nd Avenue), Manhattan

Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 1-7:30pm

And, in celebration of this exhibition, a special performance:

The dream of a New Orleans home for tap

Thanks to New York's Laraine Goodman for alerting me to a beautiful 2011 profile of dance educator Janet Edwards, dedicated and visionary founder of the New Orleans Dance Collective. Read and enjoy it here.

May is tapping out all over!

La MaMa e.t.c presents

Tap Gallery: Space, Time, Tempo

a tap salon curated by 

Laraine Goodman and Allison Plamondon

Wednesday, May 23

7:30-10:30pm

New York City's first Tap Gallery Salon presenting works and riffs on space, time and tempo. Variations on vaudeville, jazz tap, funk and more.

Tap dancers: Baakari Wilder, Hank Smith, Chikako Iwahori, Eric Robertson, Megan Haungs, Toes Tiranoff and more. Indian/Contemporary dancer Noah Damer. Robert Galinsky and Susan Justice, Mary Jo Lombardo, Susan Sherman and Maggie Craig

Musicians: Akayko Shirasaki, Debbie Kennedy, Bernice "Boom Boom" Brooks, Heather Paauwe, Rachelle Garniez, David Conrad

La MaMa La Galleria
6 East 1st Street (between Second Avenue and Bowery), Manhattan

F train to Second Avenue or Broadway-Lafayette
N or R Broadway/Astor Pl
6 train Astor Place

Suggested donation: $15

For information and reservations, email: lamamatapgallery@gmail.com

Laraine Goodman: 646-263-7926

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And don't miss American Tap Dance Foundation's numerous 25th Anniversary youth program events and adult student showcase (May through June) leading up to this year's Tap City festivities in July. Information here.

For information on Writing on Tap (Saturday, June 23)--a special presentation of Collective for Dance Writing and New Media co-sponsored with American Tap Dance Foundation--click here. RSVP early!