Clark Center NYC pays tribute to Thelma Hill

Dance artist and educator
Thelma Hill
(photo courtesy of Clark Center NYC)

On Tuesday, November 17, Clark Center NYC and 651Arts will join forces at MOCADA in a symposium to honor the life and legacy of acclaimed dance educator Thelma Hill.

CCNYC Steering Committee member Jill Williams writes, "Thelma was one of the architects of Clark Center and a major influence and mentor."

Hill in the studio
(photo courtesy of Clark Center NYC)

"Delores Brown who danced with Thelma in The New York Negro Ballet will moderate.  She'll be joined by Otis Sallid who began studying with Thelma as a teenager and continues to work as a choreographer, producer (recently with the James Brown project, Get on the Good Foot at the Apollo Theater), Mickey Davidson who was a student of Thelma's at Clark Center and works as a dancer, choreographer and director of her own company and Kathe Sandler who will share her short documentary gem, Remembering Thelma."

For further information on the symposium and to purchase tickets, click here.

MOCADA
80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn
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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

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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.)

They did it anyway: Women in jazz [UPDATE]

THE GIRLS IN THE BAND, written, directed and produced by Judy Chaikin, tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30′s to the present day.

“A vivid experience…I sat there watching and just wiping tears away… tears of joy.” -- Herbie Hancock 

LINCOLN CENTER 
SCREENING SCHEDULE

NYC Premiere Screening (invitation only): May 10, 7:15pm at Walter Reade Theater

Public Screenings at The Beale Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

May 10, 11am
May 10, 1pm
May 10, 3pm
May 10, 5pm
May 10, 9:15pm
May 11–16, 11:30am
May 11–16, 2pm
May 11–16, 4:30pm
May 11–16, 7pm
May 11–16, 9:30pm

TICKETS

For further information on The Girls in The Band, click here.

UPDATE

Playing Jazz in High Heels and Skirts

‘The Girls in the Band,’ a Documentary by Judy Chaikin

by Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times, May 9, 2013