Marian Horosko, 92

Marian Horosko, Dancer and Advocate for the Art, Dies at 92
by Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times, September 22, 2017

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Dance treasures, one and all!

Dance Heritage Coalition--founded in 1992 with the mission of documenting dance and preserving its record--has announced twelve additions to its list of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures. The roster includes:

Josephine Baker

Joan Myers Brown

Clark Center for the Performing Arts

Alonzo King

Isamu Noguchi

Ginger Rogers

Urban Bush Women

See the complete list here.

Gregory Hines in The Cotton Club (1984)
(photo: Photofest.)

See the page for Dance Treasure Gregory Hines here.

Dance History Coalition is the sole national non-profit alliance of institutions holding significant collections of materials documenting the history of dance. Its mission is to preserve, make accessible, enhance and augment the materials that document the artistic accomplishments in dance of the past, present, and future.

Learn more here.

Why I live for the dance

Sun Moon Child

A video altar piece, a celebration and tribute to Black dance, 

created in 2007 by pierre bennu

music by Imani Uzuri

La Danse Noire Magazine debuts with tribute to Dunham

The life, work and legacy of the great Katherine Dunham is celebrated in the premier issue of Atlanta-based La Danse Noire Magazine, an online quarterly dedicated to "the history of Black dance, its pioneers and the ongoing continuum in the field."

Publisher Carol Lloyd invites you to access this issue for free on ISSUU here.

Walter Rutledge talks with Joan Myers Brown and Brenda Dixon Gottschild

a video conversation (22:49) moderated by Walter Rutledge

with Joan Myers Brown, founder, Philadanco

author and dance historian, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of Joan Myers Brown and The Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina, a Biohistory of American

NYU, Jennifer Homans to launch Center for Ballet and the Arts

Think Tank to Ponder a Future for Ballet
New Center at N.Y.U. Focuses on Dance and the Arts
by Michael Cooper, The New York Times, September 2, 2014

Join the legendary Jane Goldberg for film and panel on tap

Tap dance expert extraordinaire
Jane Goldberg
(photos courtesy of Jane Goldberg)

STEPS ON BROADWAY ARTISTS TALK SERIES 

WITH JANE GOLDBERG

Saturday January 11 , 8pm (followed by a reception)

Steps on Broadway

2121 Broadway, 4th floor, Manhattan

(map/directions)

Steps Beyond continues its Artists Talk Series with a film by famed tapper Jane Goldberg, followed by a panel discussion. The film, By Word of Foot: Passing on the Tap Tradition, is a documentation of Goldberg's three tap festivals held in NYC venues in 1980, 1982 and 1985, paving the way for tap's continuity by bringing together tap masters and students.

The discussion that follows will feature panelists Goldberg, David Parker, Melinda Mousouris, Barbara Duffy, and Heather Cornell, discussing the teaching and passing on of the tap tradition.

Admission: $10 (Purchase online, at Steps' front desk or call 212-874-2410 x27.)

American dance history in photos: Smithsonian's "Dancing the Dream"

Dancing the Dream

open now through July 13, 2014

Dancing the Dream tells the stories of performers, choreographers, and impresarios who harnessed America’s diversity and dynamism into dance styles that defined the national experience: dance was American culture in motion. From the era of live performance to today’s media age, dance’s “singular sensations” have riveted our attention—iconic figures with signature styles that leap into the starscape and strike us with wonder.

Admission: Free

Learn more here.

Visitors info here.

Dance historian Nancy Reynolds receives Bessie for Service to the Field

Nancy Reynolds interviews Edward Villella
(George Balanchine Foundation video archives)

The New York Dance and Performance Awards (The Bessies) announced another award in advance of its October 7 awards ceremony. Dance historian Nancy Reynolds has received the 2013 award for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance.

Nancy Reynolds, former New York City Ballet dancer, will be honored for profoundly altering and enriching the field of dance preservation and archival research. Reynolds currently serves as Director of Research at the George Balanchine Foundation, where she manages the Balanchine video archives, giving new life to his works by filming former ballet stars coaching Balanchine’s work on current dancers—an invaluable resource for educational institutions. This groundbreaking project, started in 1994, is a masterful conservation for future generations of dancers, often recreating dances that have been lost. To date more than 50 sessions have been filmed – accessible at more than seventy libraries around the world, including the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Reynolds has simultaneously published authoritative dance history books such as No Fixed Points, a nine-hundred page history of Western dance in the twentieth century, and Repertory in Review, a history of City Ballet’s repertory from 1935–1976. She edited Lincoln Kirstein’s book Movement and Metaphor and contributed to the International Encyclopedia of Dance. She directed research for Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works. Each of her books is considered an essential addition to any serious dance lover’s library.

The 2013 Bessies will be presented on Monday, October 7 (8pm) at Harlem's historic Apollo Theater.

For a list of the 2013 Bessies nominees and winners, click here.

For program and ticket information for the awards ceremony, click here.

Memorial planned for cultural historian Delilah Jackson

Delilah Jackson

A public memorial tribute to Delilah Jackson, Harlem's cultural historian, who died on January 12, is planned for St. Peter's Church--New York's world-renowned jazz church--on Friday, March 8 (7-10pm).

Organized by Al Heyward, Michela Marino Lerman, Mable Lee and Cobi Narita, this tribute will feature nearly 100 jazz musicians and tap dancers along with special guest Jill Jackson, Delilah's daughter. A coffee and dessert reception will follow.

All are welcome!

St. Peter's Church
619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street), Manhattan
(map/directions)

Job opening: Assistant Professor of Dance

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF DANCE: Dance History/Theory: full-time, tenure track position available Fall-2013

Marymount Manhattan College
New York, NY

Posted: December 13, 2012

Employment Level:
    Tenured, tenure track

Website:
    http://www.mmm.edu

Application Deadline:   
    January 15, 2012

Employment Status:
    Full-time

Salary:   
    Not specified

Marymount Manhattan College seeks to fill a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Dance, with specialization in Dance History/Theory beginning September 1, 2013. The Dance Department currently enrolls 185 BFA/BA majors. The curriculum includes a broad range of dance styles preparing graduates to perform in diverse venues from ballet to musical theatre and supplements technical training with eight areas of concentration.

Responsibilities include teaching, participation in student assessment and academic advisement, cultivation of interest in Dance Studies, administrative assignments as determined by the Chair of the Dance Department, curriculum development, recruitment activities, scholarly activity, college-wide service.

Required: MFA or PhD in Dance; college-level teaching experience in dance history and critical theory, and one or more of the following areas: movement analysis, cultural studies, dance and technology, dance education, or dance ethnography; a demonstrable interest in interdisciplinary connections among visual arts, dance, theatre, and music; an understanding of international developments in the field of dance; and a commitment to teaching within a liberal arts, urban undergraduate setting.

The application deadline is January 15th, 2013. Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three names and phone numbers of current references to Katie Langan, Chair, Dance Department.

This position is subject to final budget approval. Please refer to the college website, www.mmm.edu, and catalogue for further information. Marymount Manhattan College is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Members of under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.

Dance: an American treasure

America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: the First 100

Dance comprises an entire world of spiritual and secular ideas, stories, emotions, and human experience, understood and expressed through movement. The rich history of dance in America serves as a reflection and a record of the nation's increasingly diverse, dynamic culture.

In the Fall of 1999, the Dance Heritage Coalition solicited nominations for America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: the First 100. Over 900 nominations from across the full range of American dance artistry, forms, and traditions were submitted and vetted through a three-stage process of selection committees made up of experts from across the country.

The list of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: the First 100 is intended to heighten public interest in the magnificence and richness of America's dance heritage and the imperative to document and preserve it for future generations.

Read more at 100 Treasures. 

And also at: http://www.danceheritage.org/treasures_launch_announcement_pr.pdf

Skybetter's magical (dance) history tour

Dancer-choreographer Sydney Skybetter takes us on a whirlwind tour of dance history in this creative slide presentation.

From Medici to Jooss: Four Centuries of Crazy Incestuous Dance Action

View more presentations from Sydney Skybetter.