Jan 27

Essex County Teen Arts Festival (West Orange, NJ)

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Essex County Teen Arts Festival (NJ)
Thursday, March 27, 2025

South Mountain Recreation Complex
(includes Turtle Back Zoo, Education Building, and the Codey Arena)
West Orange, NJ

Essex County teens are invited to participate in classes and workshops dedicated to fine and performing arts with the opportunity to meet other artists and peers from across Essex County.

TMA Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton will be teaching workshops in Dance Improvisation/Choreography and adjudicating dance performances.

More Info: HERE

Jan 26

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TMA Performance Workshop (Montclair, NJ)

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THE MOVING ARCHITECTS PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP WINTER WARMUP

return to your love of dance and performance

This Performance Workshop is for adults who want an opportunity to dance and perform again! Designed for female-identifying adults of all ages, this program welcomes individuals who have a strong dance foundation from experiences dancing in high school, college, and/or professionally. Through a 5-week series of weekly rehearsals, we will create, rehearse, and dance together, culminating in a community dance performance. Come as you are!

Sundays, 1:45-3:45pm: March 9, 16, 23, 30 + April 6, 2025
Performance Showing: April 6 @ 3.30pm*

Location: Yoga Mechanics, 107 Forest Street Montclair, NJ 07042

*Additional opportunities are available to perform alongside The Moving Architects! More details will be provided upon registration.

Cost: $250, Registration opens Feb 17 HERE

List of Q & A’s: HERE

Jan 21

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MSP 183: Heidi Henderson

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PODCAST 183: Heidi Henderson

Release Date: 1.20.25

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Something About the Way She Moves with Heidi Henderson

Episode 183: Show Notes.

Heidi Henderson teaches Modern Technique, Composition, Improvisation, Anatomy, and Dance Writing at Connecticut College. She’s also the artistic director of elephant JANE dance, where she brings her unique vision and creativity to the stage. Heidi grew up in Maine, spent some time in New York City, and now lives in Rhode Island. Heidi is a four-time recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Choreography Fellowship. Her work has been performed internationally in London and Korea, as well as at renowned venues like Jacob’s Pillow, The Flynn Space, and the Bates Dance Festival. She has danced with acclaimed companies and artists, including Bebe Miller, Nina Weiner, Paula Josa-Jones, Colleen Thomas, Peter Schmitz, and Sondra Loring, and was a contributing editor at Contact Quarterly, a vehicle for moving ideas. Join the conversation to hear what inspired her dance journey, what her experience was like in New York, what it was like to figure out the intricate logistics of performing in a roller-skating rink, and what inspired the name of her company. We highlight some of the challenges, benefits, and peaks of her journey, what’s next for her, and much more! Don’t miss out, tune in now.

Key Points From This Episode:

Heidi shares her dance journey throughout the years.
What ultimately sucked her into the world of dance.
She details her experience getting her M.F.A. at Smith.
Her plan after graduate school.
Heidi talks about her experience in New York with Bebe Miller, Nina Weiner, and more.
What Heidi did as a “job” during her time in New York (and how those skills are still in use!)
The logistics behind her recent show, Untitled Sad Piece, performed in a roller-skating rink.
Heidi’s journey as she started making her own work.
The story behind the name of her company, elephant JANE dance.
How her teaching career came together and evolved over the years.
She breaks down some of the challenges she’s faced over the span of her dance journey.
We discuss some of the benefits of starting a dance career later on.
Looking back, we highlight some of the peaks of her dance career.
What’s next for Heidi.
How Heidi finds artists to work with.

ABOUT Heidi

Heidi Henderson (she/her) lives and makes work in RI, is a Professor at Connecticut College, and danced in NYC (in the companies of Bebe Miller, Nina Wiener, Peter Schmitz, Sondra Loring, Colleen Thomas, Paula Josa-Jones, etc.) Her pickup company, elephant JANE dance, performs mostly in New England. She has received, five times, the Fellowship in Choreography from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts. She was a frequent contributing editor for Contact Quarterly. Her process is made slightly more clear in a gracious interview by Sara Smith for Kinebago, republished in Critical Correspondence by Movement Research. She is most grateful for the folks at Motion State Arts and United Skates for allowing her to dance in a roller rink.

photo: courtesy Heidi Henderson

Connect:

elephant JANE dance

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

elephant JANE dance

Connecticut College

‘Elsewhere: Heidi Henderson in conversation with Kinebago’s Sara Smith’

M.F.A. in Dance, Smith College

‘Heidi Henderson’s elephant JANE dance untitled sad piece: A Post Modern Dance Work’
Peter Schmitz

Roger Williams University

Growing Place: Interviews with Artists: 25 Years at the Bates Dance Festival

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton

Jan 20

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Making Art Outside the Academy (Virtual Panel)

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Making Art Outside the Academy
January 26, 2025 / Virtual

Dancers in Graduate School (DiGS) presents a Q&Q/panel with four Ohio State University MFA alumni who are working artists for an open conversation around building your life as an artist outside of higher ed!

Featuring Erin Carlisle Norton (The Moving Architects), Sarah Ramey (Perennial Dance), Orlando Zane Hunter Jr (Brother(hood) Dance), Vik Abbot-Main (Boy Friday).

Jan 07

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Dance Exposure Showcase (Bethlehem, PA)

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ArtsQuest + Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange
presents Dance Exposure Showcase

January 18, 2025 @ 8pm, Doors open 7.30pm
Price: $15 regular | $14 ages 25 and under & senior* | $13.50 ArtsQuest Member
Venue: Fowler Blast Furnace Room
Ages: All Ages
Tickets: HERE

Fowler Blast Furnace Room
ArtsQuest Center
101 Founders Way
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Dance EXPOSURE, presented by ArtsQuest and the Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange (LVDE), serves up a cornucopia of exciting, engaging and captivating dance works by the region’s most talented choreographers and dance companies, including The Moving Architects (LVDE/Cedar Crest College Artists in Residence 2024) with an excerpt of “O my soul”.

Dance EXPOSURE is a curated showcase that provides established and emerging dance artists with a platform to share their work and expand their audience reach. Artists are provided with full technical support and publicity to bring their visions to life in the unique, intimate setting of the Blast Furnace Room set against the breathtaking backdrop of the SteelStacks blast furnaces.

Jan 06

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MSP 182: Jamila Glass

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PODCAST 182: Jamila Glass

Release Date: 1.6.25

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A World Immersed in Art with Dancer, Filmmaker, Choreographer, and Artistic Director Jamila Glass

Episode 182: Show Notes.

Jamila Glass is a filmmaker, choreographer, and Artistic Director of L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC), where she has been a member since its founding in 2005. She has choreographed for Netflix, HBO, Hulu, BET, and PRADA, with her work featured in the NY Times, L.A. Times, Essence, and Ebony. In 2024, she co-founded the Los Angeles Choreographers Institute and has directed 21 short dance films, a TV pilot, and music videos through her production company, The Cutting Room. A graduate of USC’s School of Cinema-Television, her work blends movement, storytelling, and world-building to reflect the human experience. On this episode of Movers and Shapers: A Dance Podcast, Erin sits down with Jamila Glass to discuss her love for dance, her time at a performing arts high school, and her journey through USC’s School of Cinema-Television. Jamila explores how dance and film began to intertwine in her life, unpacking her powerful statement: “I’m a better dancer because I’m a filmmaker, and I’m a better filmmaker because I’m a dancer.” She reflects on nearly five years as Artistic Director of the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC) and shares her current projects and excitement for what’s ahead. Don’t miss this insightful conversation with an inspiring artist. Thanks for listening!

Key Points From This Episode:

Jamila shares the origin story of her love for dance.
She reflects on her time in a performing arts high school (in Houston).
What she wanted to get into after high school and her first entry into film: video editing.
Jamila takes us through her USC journey and her plan for after graduation.
How her two worlds of dance and film began to merge.
She explains how she started and her experience choreographing for film and television.
Jamila delves into and unpacks her quote, “I’m a better dancer because I’m a filmmaker, and I’m a better filmmaker because I’m a dancer.”
Why she finds it interesting that people grapple with the idea that they need to choose one thing and stick to it for the entirety of their careers.
Jamila details her role and insights gained as Artistic Director of the L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC)
What she’s creating now and the energy behind her upcoming projects.

ABOUT Jamila

Filmmaker and Choreographer Jamila Glass is known for creating cinematic journeys of movement, shaping characters, and building worlds that reflect what make us human. In addition to creating work as the Artistic Director of L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (where she joined in 2005 as a founding member), she has choreographed extensively in film and television. Glass’ choreography work includes projects on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, BET, and Prada, and garnered mentions in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Essence Magazine, Ebony Magazine, and Mashable. A cinema-television graduate from the University of Southern California (with an advertising minor), she has spent the last 10 years bridging the world of film and movement, directing and producing 20 dance films.

photo: Photo by Malachi Middleton

Connect:

Video Clip:

Jamila Glass Rehearsal Trailer | “It’s Not You, It’s Me”

Special Links:

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

LA Contemporary Dance

LA Contemporary Dance on Spotify

Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

University of Southern California

University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television

Tribeca Film Festival

USA Film Festival

Mark Woollen & Associates

The Cutting Room on YouTube

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton

January 2025

Essex County Teen Arts Festival (West Orange, NJ)

Essex County Teen Arts Festival (NJ)
Thursday, March 27, 2025

TMA Performance Workshop (Montclair, NJ)

THE MOVING ARCHITECTS PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP WINTER WARMUP