Have you seen the new Dance NYC site?

Well here it is! (CLICK)

New Web site from Charmaine Warren

My esteemed and richly talented colleague Charmaine Warren is debuting her Web site. Visit and learn more about her multifaceted practices--dance, dance education, arts consultation, yoga instruction and writing on dance. Click here!

Arts America: new resource for arts lovers

Here's a new Web site that bills itself as the go-to authority on arts and culture across the US:

Arts America gives you the inside story on 2,000+ museums and performing arts organizations in 99 American cities as well as major SummerArts festivals throughout the country. Plus lots of general advice for enjoying the arts, both where you live and when you’re traveling. Arts America provides all the important details for hundreds of arts organizations, including websites, public-transportation options, handicapped access, hours, and admission fees, along with potent strategies for saving money via free days, discounted performances, subscriptions and memberships, and myriad half-price opportunities.

Just click Arts America.

Find me...

Me (photo by Me)

...on my Web site

...on InfiniteBody

...on hummingwitch

...on starlight-sensitive

...on Facebook (Eva Yaa Asantewaa)

...on Facebook (Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Journalist)

...on Twitter

...on tumblr (Eva, naturally)

...on Warren Adam's Home4Dance
(A new professional/social site for the dance community. Check it out!)

...on LinkedIn (though not very active there)

...and last, but not least, on Google+. (No link. You'll just have to...find me.)

Yes, I really am all over the place. It's fun, surprisingly easy and, as the whip-smart Sarah A.O. Rosner once said, "We're just wired this way."

Rosner, a choreographer and new media activist, is much younger than I am, but I seem to be wired in a similar way and curious about it all. And, yes, in the CyberAge, it really does make a difference.

I especially love it when someone comes up to me at a dance event and says, "I've never met you, but I feel like I know you!" :-D

See you around town (and the 'Net), folks!

Your own site to see

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council invites you to Create Your Own Artist Website with WPFolio & WordPress, a hands-on workshop led by Michael Mandiberg, artist, designer & educator.

Workshop 1: Wednesday, May 25, 6:30-8:30pm
Workshop 2: Thursday, May 26, 6:30-8:30pm

Note: Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 are NOT SEQUENTIAL. The same workshop is being offered twice to allow for more artists to participate. 

This workshop will provide artists with the basic skills to create, update and maintain a personal website with WPFolio, a free and open source website theme on WordPress. Step-by-step instructions will be provided to install and configure a portfolio website while participants follow along on their personal laptops. At the end of this two-hour workshop, participants will be able to leave with a basic, working portfolio site, ready to be updated with future contents.

WPFolio is built by media artist Steve Lambert and a team of open source developers and designed for artists like you.

Registration and selection:

Two workshops will be offered, each accommodating 30 artists, selected by lottery. Registration for the lottery is required.
Click here for complete program information and registration.

Registration deadline: Wednesday, May 17, 11pm

Workshop is free, but participants should be prepared to incur costs for web hosting and domain name registration in order to build a site.

 For complete details and registration, click here.

In step with writer Ennis Smith

Ennis Smith

I'm enjoying this amazing, dynamic new multifaceted arts site created by one of my former Writing on Dance students, Ennis Smith. Be sure to check it out!

Changes for Movement Research

Movement Research will start moving out of its current office space (at Dance Theater Workshop) on Tuesday, December 21 and open its new office at Avenue C Studio (55 Avenue C between 4th and 5th Streets) on Monday, January 3.

If you can help with the move in any way, please contact Rebecca Wender at rebeccawender@movementresearch.org.

And here's more MR news:

Update your bookmarks and links: The new Critical Correspondence Web site can be found at

http://www.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/.

Paris Review: what's old, what's new

The Paris Review Opens Its Interview Archives Online

by Dwight Garner, The New York Times, October 22, 2010

New online presence for the Ailey organization

Visit the new online home of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and keep up with all things Ailey!

UBW on the go, on the Web

Urban Bush Women has launched its new Web site. Check it out here.

Also, join UBW on July 14 (7pm) for Conversations with Jawole - Working It Out Over 25 Years. Dance Theater Workshop Artistic Director Carla Peterson talks with Jawole and Nadine George-Graves, author of new book about UBW, about UBW's legacy and stories. Signed copies available.

The Great Room
A.R.T. NY building
138 S. Oxford Street, 2nd Floor
(between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue), Brooklyn

Directions: 1 block from C train to Lafayette 4 blocks from B/D/M/N/Q/Q/R/2/3/4/5 to Atlantic Station

Information: Call 718-398-4537 or click here.

New site for a great site

Check out Danspace Project's new website here.

MADE HERE Project

MADE HERE Project

A new documentary series and website devoted to the challenging and eclectic lives of performing artists in New York City

View the first episode--CREATIVE REAL ESTATE--by clicking here.

Special event: 

Tuesday, May 25, 6:30-8:30pm

at LMCC Swing Space

14 Wall Street (Penthouse), Manhattan

Launch event and public discussion with screening, refreshments and  conversation about CREATIVE REAL ESTATE

Event co-hosted by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

RSVP to madehere@here.org by Friday, May 14. Space is limited.

A project of HERE

New online presence for Tudor trust

The Antony Tudor Ballet Trust launches www.antonytudor.org to reinforce the relevance and enduring importance of Antony Tudor's ballets, and, ensure his works are never lost.

The new website features a comprehensive online catalogue of Tudor's ballets, complete with premiere dates, details of music, production, and cast; supplemented notes on the work, revisions and stagings; rich and historical content on the life of Antony Tudor; and, upcoming performances and related ballet news.

Nearly every major and minor ballet company in the world and many
distinguished university dance programs have licensed Tudor ballets since his death. This website will best serve to further motivate artistic directors, and future artistic directors, to continue to perform and add Tudor ballets to their repertoire. A comprehensive catalogue of ballets, archival images, and video will reinforce the power of this master choreographer and his influence on so many choreographers of the twentieth century including: Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, Pina Bausch, Sir Frederick Ashton, Agnes DeMille, Glen Tetley, and Eliot Feld, to name just a few.

"Only a handful of truly great ballets survive their creators," said Sally Brayley Bliss, Trustee. "Tudor's Lilac Garden, Dark Elegies, Judgment of Paris, Gala Performance, Dim Lustre, Leaves are Fading, Echoing of Trumpets, and Undertow, as well as his smaller works including Little Improvisations, Continuo, Cereus and Sunflowers, represent irreplaceable choreography threatened with extinction in society's current fixation on full-length ballets."

As noted by The Washington Post, April 4th, 2008, following The Antony Tudor Centennial Celebration at Lincoln Center, "His (Tudor's) works are largely written off as too delicately nuanced to teach to today's technique-oriented dancers, too demanding for an audience groomed on the ready thrills and speed of George Balanchine, too financially risky for boards of directors who prefer easy sells -- Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and so on." And yet, performing in even one Tudor ballet, said the celebrated former dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov, in a recent interview, amounted to "a passport to become mature, to be an adult dancer, a dancer in depth..."

The Antony Tudor Ballet Trust is a not for profit organization created under the Last Will and Testament of Antony Tudor. Mr. Tudor appointed Sally Brayley Bliss as the Co-Executrix of his Estate, and sole Trustee of his ballets, to preserve the artistic integrity and standard of excellence Mr. Tudor insisted upon.

Touring Dancers

Check out Daniel Madoff's Touring Dancers, a new Web site dedicated to compiling suggestions of a world of resources for dancers on tour. Post your company's tour schedule. Join a discussion forum. Recommend your favorite restaurant in Rio or hostel in Berlin. This site's success is up to you!