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May 2022

MDD’s Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change 2022 (virtual)

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June 2, 2022 @ 7pm ET on Zoom

Mark DeGarmo Dance Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change 2022
A curated performance of works-in-progress with a facilitated audience response

The Moving Architects will share “O my soul” with dancers Bethany Chang, Emily Cicio, and Zoe Kaplan.

Tickets are for sale by donation HERE

Mark DeGarmo Dance continues its transcultural transdisciplinary Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change 2022 to an international audience on Zoom with performances featuring global performing artists from Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Taoyuan City, Taiwan; and Montclair & Jersey City, NJ– Chien Ying-Hsuan (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Kamalaksi Rupini (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Keivonte Newbell (Jersey City, NJ) and Erin Carlisle Norton (Montclair, NJ) on Thursday June 2nd at 7PM ET. Each performance is curated and includes audience response supported, encouraged, and facilitated by Dr. Mark DeGarmo.

“O my soul” was supported by the For the Artists! Residency Program at MOtiVE Brooklyn. The Moving Architects also gratefully acknowledges that this production was made possible in part through a residency grant offered by SMUSH Gallery, Monira Foundation, and Mana Contemporary.

Movers & Shapers: Erica Hornthal

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PODCAST No.135 – Erica Hornthal


Release Date: 5.23.22

 

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ABOUT Erica Hornthal

Erica Hornthal, a licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance/movement therapist, is the CEO and founder of Chicago Dance Therapy. Since graduating with her MA in dance/movement therapy and counseling, Erica has worked with thousands of patients from age three to 107. Known as “The Therapist Who Moves You,” Erica has truly changed the way people see movement with regard to mental health: moving people toward unlimited potential, greater awareness, and purpose by tapping into their innate body wisdom. In addition to her passion for working with cognitive and movement disorders, neurologic conditions, anxiety, depression, and trauma, she is an advocate for the field of dance/movement therapy. Erica created the Dance Therapy Advocates Summit in 2020 in order to spread awareness and inspire and connect individuals and practitioners from all over the world. She currently lives in the North Shore of Chicago with her husband, two kids, and two French Bulldogs.

 

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PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

University of Florida – Dance

University of Illinois – Psychology

Columbia College Chicago – Dance Movement Therapy Program

Dimensional Scale

 

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Theme Music: Adam Crawley whose music can be found at djplie.com

This podcast episode is in partnership with JAM.  JAM is the home of dance entrepreneur Jessica Marino, providing artist management services and industry shopping. jamdancer.com, networking for dance and bringing ideas to the spotlight.

Movers & Shapers: Shamel Pitts

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PODCAST No.134 – Shamel Pitts

Release Date: 5.9.22

 

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ABOUT Shamel Pitts

Shamel Pitts is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, as well as performance, conceptual, and spoken word artist. Since 2019, he is the artistic director/founder of TRIBE, a New York-based multidisciplinary arts collective which was a 2020-21 Artist-In-Residence at 92Y Harkness Dance Center. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Shamel began his dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts and, simultaneously, at The Ailey School. He received his BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and was awarded the Martha Hill Award for excellence in dance. He started his professional dance career with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal. Between 2009-2016, he was a company member of the Batsheva Dance Company, led by Ohad Naharin where he studied Gaga movement language, of which he is now a certified teacher. Since 2015, Shamel has created a triptych of award-winning multidisciplinary works known as “BLACK Series,” which has been performed and toured extensively to many festivals around the world. His recent New York projects include choreography for the play “Help” by acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine, directed by Taibi Magar, commissioned and presented by The Shed in Spring of 2022. He is the recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award in Choreography, a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Award winner in Choreography, and a 2020 Jacob’s Pillow artist in residence, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and the cast member of the 2021 Bessie Award-winning production of “The Motherboard Suite” at New York Live Arts. He is an adjunct at The Juilliard School and has been an artist in residence at Harvard University.

 

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PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Laguardia High School

Julliard School

Ohad Naharin

Gaga Movement Language

“Tabula Rasa”

Springboard Danse Montreal

Alexandra Wells

Crystal Pite

Aszure Barton

Ballets Jazz Montreal

Hell’s Kitchen Dance

Batsheva Dance Company

Les Grands Ballets

“Black Box”

Tribe

“Lake of Red”

“Blackhole”

Elizabeth Alexander “The Trayvon Generation”

 

 

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Theme Music: Adam Crawley whose music can be found at djplie.com

This podcast episode is in partnership with JAM.  JAM is the home of dance entrepreneur Jessica Marino, providing artist management services and industry shopping. jamdancer.com, networking for dance and bringing ideas to the spotlight.