In review: "the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds"

Cast of the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds
(photo: Ian Douglas)

Read reviews of the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds, an evening of site-specific improvisation curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, part of Danspace Project's Lost and Found platform at St. Mark's Church, Saturday, October 22, 2016.

Click to read:

Maura Donohue, Culturebot

Alexis Clements, Hyperallergic

Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, The Dance Enthusiast

Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

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A wonderful afternoon with Barnard's Dance in the City!

An afternoon well spent at Barnard College
with Sydnie Mosley and her lucky group of Dance in the City students!
(photo: Christine Jowers)

Many thanks to the resourceful artist/educator Sydnie Mosley and all the students from her Dance in the City 2015 summer program at Barnard College for a warm welcome, interesting questions and discussion of issues and strategies in dance criticism and advocacy with my treasured colleagues, Marissa Perel and Christine Jowers!

I wish the students continued fun and revelations as they complete their stay in New York City. Please feel free to keep in touch!

For information on Dance in the City's multifaceted residency program, click here.

Don't curb your dance enthusiasm! Join Christine Jowers, April 7!

The Dance Enthusiast

invites you to

Dance As Empowerment

Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

Tuesday, April 7, 6:15pm

Christine Jowers
(photo: Jordan Matter)

Join Christine Jowers (Editor-in-Chief, The Dance Enthusiast) in welcoming Lucija Stojevic, (director-producer of La Chana) and David Leventhal (founding teacher/Program Director for Dance for PD®, a collaborative program of the Mark Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn Parkinson Group) for an intimate discussion about dance as a force for empowerment.

See film clips from Stojevic's upcoming documentary, La Chana, which tells the story of Antonia Santiago Amador (La Chana), a brilliant, self-taught flamenco dancer who, after thirty years, resumed her career in triumph over victimization and physical limitation.

The evening includes a performance by flamenco dancers Sonia Olla and Ismael de la Ros Fernandez and food by Chef Babo.

6:15pm -- first course of food, drinks, socializing

7pm -- flamenco performance and conversation 

followed by second course of food and mingling

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Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway (entrance at 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan
(map/directions)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Works by McGregor, Jones and Barton

AADT in Bill T. Jones's D-Man in the Waters (Part 1).
(photo by Paul Kolnik)

The Dance Enthusiast has just published my review of the Ailey troupe's program of new productions--featuring company premieres of works by Wayne McGregor and Bill T. Jones and a world premiere by Aszure Barton. Read it here!

The Apollo celebrates James Brown in dance: my review for TDE

The amazing Derick K. Grant
in Live by Otis Sallid
(photo by Shahar Azrari)

I reviewed the just-closed James Brown: Get on The Good Foot, A Celebration in Dance show at The Apollo Theater for The Dance Enthusiast, and you can find my review by clicking here.

The anatomy of change: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and LIz Lerman at Harlem Stage

Impressions of: Blood, Muscle, Bone: the anatomy of wealth and poverty

by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, The Dance Enthusiast, October 14, 2013

"Points of Entry" workshop for The Dance Enthusiast

photo by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

It was so much fun to facilitate my writing workshop--"Points of Entry"--for editor Christine Jowers (top photo, third from right) and her lively, talented writers from The Dance Enthusiast. I am serving as a Master Writer in Residence for TDE through May 2014 and, in addition to tonight's workshop, will be contributing several articles or reviews in coming months.

Eva Yaa Asantewaa (right) with TDE writers
photo by Christine Jowers

Thank you very much for this opportunity, Christine. And thanks to New York Live Arts for hosting us.

Now, everyone, make sure you write and publish those fantastic reviews we talked about!

Brenda Bufalino to dance writers: Challenge!!!

Christine Jowers and Trina Mannino of The Dance Enthusiast interview international tap superstar Brenda Bufalino here.

Come hear Bufalino and other tap artists and experts--including Constance Valis Hill, Michelle Dorrance and Derick K. Grant--at Writing on Tap, this Saturday afternoon at American Tap Dance Center. Join us! There's still room, much to learn and a lot of fun to be had.

Get full details here.

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Dance is truly an infinite body

Dance is such a beautiful thing. It keeps revealing parts of myself and myself in relation to the world-- back and forth. It is limitless…endless…very exciting and a little comforting, because I don’t have to worry that I am going to use it up. It’s always always there, as long as I show up.

--Sondra Loring, dance artist and co-curator, with K. J. Holmes, of Movement Research Festival Fall 2011
(from an interview with Loring and Holmes, conducted by Christine Jowers, on The Dance Enthusiast. Click here)

Dance...and words

What I learned This Week about Words and Using Them
by Christine Jowers, The Dance Enthusiast, October 26, 2011

Jowers says, Just don't call it a blog!

Read what my colleague, the dedicated and energetic Christine Jowers, has to say about The Dance Enthusiast (not a blog, people! not a blog!) and what's down the road for dance journalism. (Hint: You will have a lot to do with it!)

Back to School and the Homework Assignment is THE DANCE JOURNALISM OF THE FUTURE
by Christine Jowers, The Dance Enthusiast

Why not blog about it?

The Dance Enthusiast has put out a call for guest bloggers on any topic, particularly the effects of the current recession. See this notice from editor Christine Jowers:

"For those of you who have expressed interest please contact info@dance-enthusiast.com to get a password to enter the bloggers portion of our site where you will be able to write and submit your entry. We would love to hear what you have to say on any topic that interests you. I am especially interested right now in how the recession is affecting all of you performers/enthusiasts. Do you have any creative ideas of how to deal with it? I am looking forward to your guest blogs (on whatever topic).

"Be Well, Happy Dancing Dreams,
Christine"

Chi Movement Arts Center opens in Philly

A Day in The Life of Dance--Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Officially Open Their New Home--CHI Movement Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
by Christine Jowers, The Dance Enthusiast, June 15, 2008

Crossing borders

Dancing Across Borders--A Floating Festival
by Caitlin Cobb

Excerpted and abridged for The Dance Enthusiast
with a slide show by Cobb and Susan Osberg