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Second Saturdays with The Moving Architects

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Saturday, May 12 / 3pm

Second Saturdays with The Moving Architects

Central Presbyterian Church of Montclair
46 Park Street
Montclair, NJ 07042
Tickets: Free event!
More info: www.centralpresbyterian.net

“Second Saturdays at Central” welcomes the dance company The Moving Architects in May as part of their monthly community programming at Central Presbyterian Church in Montclair. The Moving Architects will provide a family-friendly interactive dance and movement program and performance. “Second Saturdays” is a community-wide service program presented in collaboration with local arts organizations and businesses and offered to families for free or by suggested donation.

Movers & Shapers: Valerie Green

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.60 –

Valerie Green

 

Release Date: 4.10.18

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

    • iTunes: Subscribe, Listen, Rate Us HERE

    • Stitcher: Subscribe and Listen HERE

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ABOUT VALERIE GREEN

Valerie Green, Artistic Director, originally from Cleveland, Ohio, has been an active dancer, choreographer and teacher in the New York City dance community since 1995. To date Ms. Green has created 29 dances and 9 evening length works. Her choreography has been presented at festivals and venues throughout New York City including St. Marks Church, La Mama, Dance Theater Workshop, Judson Church, Queens Theatre, to name a few. Additionally the work has toured to various festivals throughout the United States including the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival.

Valerie has worked extensively on the International circuit, teaching and performing in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Canada, Croatia, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, India, Italy, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia and Cuba.

As a guest artist, Valerie has also taught and received commissions from Texas State University, BITEF Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, and Theater Alternativa in Tirana, Albania. She has also been a guest artist at UNLV, Texas State, LaGuardia Community College, University of Nanterre, France, the Belgrade Dance Institute and the Faculty of Drama & Art in Serbia and The Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia. As a teacher she has worked with all populations including children, young adults, aspiring and professional dancers, actors, teachers, the handicapped, trauma survivors, and senior citizens.

In order to pursue this work, Valerie created Dance Entropy’s company home Green Space, a 1800 sq. foot studio located in Long Island City, Queens in 2005. Valerie’s choreographic work and teaching style is influenced by her formative years working with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, her certification in Body/Mind Fitness and her undergraduate work at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

CONNECT

Dance Entropy

Green Space Studio

 

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dance

Erick Hawkins Dance Company

Li Chiao-Ping

Lucia Dlugoszewski

Wellspring Project

“Utopia”

Keren Anavy

Skimming the Surface

 

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: Heather Bryce

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.59 –

Heather Bryce

 

Release Date: 3.28.18

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ABOUT HEATHER BRYCE

Heather Bryce is the artistic director and founder of Bryce Dance Company.  Heather started the company in 2006 in Boston, MA.  Heather is a two time recipient of The Emerging Artist Award (Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA), a recipient of the Creation Grant through the VT Arts Council, the Vermont Artists Space Grant through the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, an Alumni Arts Award through Goddard College, and a Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Community Action Grant.  Heather’s work has been presented at various venues across New England, the tri-state area, and beyond. In addition to running the company, Heather currently works as a Teaching Artist and administrator for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center Education, The Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase, and The Center for Arts Education. She holds her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College.

CONNECT

Website: Bryce Dance Company

 

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Goddard College

Marlboro College – Dance

Janet Adler

Kelley Donovan

Green Street Studios

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

Community Engagement Lab

Doug Post Under Exposed Series at Dixon Place

Hawk and Dove

NYC Department of Aging

Mount Tremper Arts

Lincoln Center Education

 

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: Tom Pearson

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.58 –

Tom Pearson

 

Release Date: 3.13.18

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

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ABOUT TOM PEARSON

Tom Pearson, recently named among the 100 most influential people in Brooklyn culture by Brooklyn Magazine, is an artist that works primarily in visual and written media. He is best known for his movement-based theater works, including the long-running immersive theater hits Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise. He is the co-founder/co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects and the director of the Global Performance Studio, an international program for cultural listening and exchange. He has received two New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) awards, a Ford Foundation and National Museum of the American Indian IllumiNation award for his work in native theater, The Kingsbury and Cody Harris Allen writing awards, as well as numerous commissions from Lincoln Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, La Mama E.T.C., and Danspace Project, among many others. Tom holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. All of Pearson’s works draw from depth psychology, archetypal studies, and deep dream practices as well as the medicinal and ceremonial traditions of his native Tsalagi (Eastern Band Cherokee) heritage and its focus on right relationship and story as medicine. His first book, The Sandpiper’s Spell is published in spring 2018 by Buen Parto Press, and will be available in soft cover from on Amazon and E-Book on Kindle, iBook, Kobo, and Nook. More information at: thirdrailprojects.com | globalperformancestudio.com | buenparto.com

 

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Florida School of the Arts

Denise Jefferson

Graham Technique

Florida State University – Dance

Nancy Smith Fichter

MANCEE

NYU Performance Studies

Jennine Willett and Zach Morris

Spiderwoman Theater

Muriel Miguel

National Museum of the American Indian

Abrons Art Center

Then She Fell

Global Performance Studio

 

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

NimbusPRESENTS: OFFLINE+ @ BAM Fisher featuring The Moving Architects

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Saturday, April 21 / 2pm

NimbusPRESENTS: OFFLINE+ @ BAM Fisher
featuring The Moving Architects

BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)
321 Ashland Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tickets: $18 (through 3/25), $22 (after 3/25)
Purchase Tickets: https://offlinebam.brownpapertickets.com

NimbusPRESENTS: OFFLINE+ a series promoting the work of emerging to mid-career choreographers.

Presenting Choreographers/Companies:
Justin Keith Perez/Nimbus2
Sameena Mitta/MeenMoves
Erin Carlisle Norton/The Moving Architects
Keith A. Thompson/danceTactics performance group
Yoshito Sakuraba/Abarukas
Katelyn Halpern/Katelyn Halpern & Dancers
Jenni Hong/Jenni Hong Dance
Ariel Grossman/Ariel Rivka Dance

Movers & Shapers: Nai-Ni Chen

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:


PODCAST No.57 – 

Nai-Ni Chen

 

Release Date: 2.27.18

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

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ABOUT NAI-NI CHEN

Bringing the dynamic freedom of American modern dance together with the elegant splendor of Asian art, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is one of the most visible Asian American dance companies in America. Ms. Chen’s unique choreography transports audiences beyond cultural boundaries to the common ground between tradition and innovation, rising beyond form into the spirit.

One of the few Asian American professional dance company with an extensive season of touring and performing around the world. Nai-Ni Chen has also developed Arts in Education residency programs in school districts to bring culture and arts into educational settings. It’s colorful and engaging programs and workshops has reached over one million young audience in NY/NJ area. The Company is currently in-residence at New Jersey City University and has been a Principle Affiliate of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center since its inception.

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has the honor of having received more than fifteen awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous Citations of Excellence and grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Other funders include the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation; the Hyde and Watson Foundation; Horizon Foundation, The Irving and Laurie Blanchard Foundation; the E.J. Grassman Trust; PSE&G; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Verizon; Sony; New Music/USA; Chase Manhattan Bank; the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and others.

 

MORE ON NAI-NI

  • NaiNiChen.org

  • Instagram: @nainichendancecompany

  • Facebook: @nainichendancecompany

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Cloud Gate Dance Theater

Dr. Patricia Rowe

Louis Horst

Mary Anthony

Bertram Ross

La MaMa

Joanne Rile Artists Management

NJPAC

 

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

Movers & Shapers: Women in Dance Leadership Conference with Sandra Parks and Renee Chatelain

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:


PODCAST No.56 – 

Woman in Dance Leadership Conference with Sandra Parks and Renee Chatelain

 

Release Date: 2.13.18

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ABOUT SANDRA PARKS

Sandra Parks

Sandra Shih Parks is currently a full time assistant teaching professor for Drexel University. She holds her B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her M.F.A. from Smith College, MA.

Originally from Taiwan, Sandra danced with Four Seasons Ballet and Wu-I Dance Company in Taipei; toured nationally and internationally with a Broadway production of the King And I. She also danced with Bosoma Dance Company, Dance Collective, and Impulse Dance Company in Boston, MA.

Sandra has presented work in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Boston, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, in addition to Beijing, China and Taipei, Taiwan. She has created work for professional dance companies including Bosoma, Cangelosi Dance Project, and Of Moving Colors. Before joining Drexel University, Sandra served as a faculty member at Boston University, Bridgewater State College, Colleges of Fenway, Kennesaw State University, Louisiana State University, Smith College, and taught master classes at National Taiwan University of Arts.

In 2013, Sandra founded Women in Dance L.L.C. to celebrate and promote female leadership in dance, and she is the director of the international Women in Dance Leadership Conference.

MORE ON SANDRA

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Steps on Broadway

Ballet Arts

King and I

Impulse Dance Company

Bosoma Dance Company

Smith College Dance

Drexel University Dance

 

ABOUT RENEE CHATELAIN

Renee Chatelain

Renee Chatelain is a native of Baton Rouge and a graduate of Louisiana State University, holding both a B.A. Degree in History and a Juris Doctor. She is the President and CEO of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Her career as a dancer includes performing with the Eglevsky Ballet in New York, Delta Festival Ballet of New Orleans, Tampa Ballet, and American Dance Machine in New York. Renee has been a guest teacher for Iceland Dance Theater in Reykjavik, Iceland, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, at Hunter College in New York City, and at Southeastern Louisiana University. She serves on the Advisory Board of the American Mural Project, supporting internationally known visual artist Ellen Griesedieck, and was selected to participate in South Arts Dance Touring Initiative. She is a co-founder of Mid City Dance Project, Inc. She served as Executive Director at the Manship Theatre at Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, LA. Prior to her position at Manship Theatre, she founded the dance programs for two independent schools in Baton Rouge.   Presently, she serves on the board of the Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System and the Shaw Center for the Arts among others.

Most recently, she has been on faculty at the Ballet Festival of India in Mumbai and has been a guest speaker at the Women in Dance Conference at New York University. She has served as a panelist at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York, at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference in 2015, and has served as a community coach for the City of Mandeville Louisiana, through the Louisiana Department of Culture and Tourism’s Creative Placemaking Initiative. She was also recognized with the National Guild for Community Arts Education Milestone Award in 2017.

Renee is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, The Baton Rouge Bar Association, and has been a panelist for the Louisiana Cultural Economic Summit.   She is a recipient of Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s John W. Barton, Sr. Award for Excellence in Non-profit Management, the Baton Rouge Business Report’s Most Influential Women in Business, the Unsung Hero’s Award by Louisiana State University’s Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, the Esprit de Femme Award by the LSU Women’s Center, and has been recognized by the Louisiana State Senate for her contribution to African Americans in Louisiana through the Arts. She has twice been awarded The President’s Award by the Baton Rouge Bar Association, was a 2005 finalist for the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Angel Award, and was recognized by the Louisiana Association for Non-Profit Organization as a Louisiana Heroine. Renee considers her passion project the creation and staging of a dance theatre work, The Fading Line: A Commemoration of the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott, and is grateful to all of those who played a role – past and present. She is most grateful for the love of her life and constant source of inspiration, her husband, Kevin Lyle.

 

MORE ON RENEE

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Eglevsky Ballet

American Dance Machine

Creative Relief

 

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

Movers & Shapers: Woman in Dance Leadership Conference with Blakeley White-McGuire

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.55 – 

Woman in Dance Leadership Conference with Blakeley White-McGuire

 

Release Date: 1.30.18

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

  • iTunes: Subscribe, Listen, Rate Us HERE

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ABOUT BLAKELEY WHITE-MCGUIRE

Blakeley White-McGuire is a New York-based dance performer, maker and teacher and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. Critically acclaimed as a Principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company (2002 – 2016, 2017) she has embodied the most iconic roles of 20th century Modern dance to international critical acclaim. As a leading practitioner of Graham’s technique, she materially contributed to three historical re-imaginings Ardent Song, Imperial Gesture, and Notes on a Voyage.

Simultaneously and throughout her career, Blakeley has created with and performed in new works by 21st Century Contemporary artists including Jacquelyn Buglisi, Jayoung Chung, Martha Clarke, Sean Curran, Sue deBeer, Nacho Duato, Daniel Ezralow, Larry Kegwin, Michael Klien and Steve Volk, Lar Lubovitch, Richard Move, Bulareyaung Pagarlava, Marta Renzi, Pascal Rioult, Luca Veggetti, Robert Wilson and Anne Bogart SITI/ Company.

As a dance-maker, Blakeley’s original works have been presented by The Museum of Arts and Design, Downtown Dance Festival, Dancers Responding to Aids, New Ballet Ensemble, Jacob’s Pillow’s INSIDE/ OUT, Baton Rouge Ballet Theater, Roxbury Arts Group, RAW, the Moving Beauty series at Williamsburg Movement and Arts Center and the Martha Graham Dance Company in a collaboration for Graham II. Her writings expressing the 21st Century Dancer experience have been published by The Dance Enthusiast, The Huffington Post, Dance Magazine, Performance Research Journal, U.K. and most recently in A Life in Dance: A Practical Guide.

Blakeley has served on the faculties of the Ailey School, the New School, The Actors’ Studio and New York City’s famed LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts as a teacher of technique, repertory and improvisation. A faculty member of the Martha Graham Center since 2002, she is also a coach and official register staging Martha Graham’s repertory internationally, most recently for Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance and Ballet Vlaanderen. Blakeley continues to create, collaborate, research, lecture and perform. A passionate teacher, she leads masterclasses and residencies for companies, universities, studios and festivals worldwide.

 

MORE ON BLAKELEY

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Martha Graham School

Sean Curran Company

Martha Graham Dance Company

Movement Migration

Google Doodle

Janet Eilber

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

I ♥ Gibney Dance Center 2018

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Tuesday, February 13, 2018 / 7.30pm

Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway / New York, NY
Donation Based
RSVP: » http://bit.ly/2nb3NvT

I ♥ GDC is a celebration of the Gibney Dance community, showcasing work being made by the staff, renters, teachers, colleagues, and supporters. Featuring performances by: Julia Discenza, Davalois Fearon Dance, Gibney Dance Company, Joy Douglas, Limón Dance Company, Joya Powell – Movement of the People, Donnell Oakley, Erin Carlisle Norton – The Moving Architects, bait, and Ragamuffin.

Proceeds from the show will benefit the Natural Resources Defense Council. NRDC works to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Movers & Shapers: Karen Eliot

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MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.54 – 

Karen Eliot

 

Release Date: 1.2.18

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ABOUT KAREN ELIOT

Karen Eliot danced in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and now teaches in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. With Daniel Roberts, she staged Cunningham MinEvents at the Wexner Center for the Arts for the Leap Before You Look exhibit in 2016, and for Parallel Connections in 2017. Her books include Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d’Action to Merce Cunningham (2007) and Albion’s Dance: the British Ballet during the Second World War (2016). With Melanie Bales, she co-edited Dance on Its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies (2013). Her research on the British ballet during WWII was awarded several OSU Arts and Humanities and College of the Arts research grants, and a Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant. In 2016 she received a Received Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is a co-editor of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

 

MORE ON KAREN

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

The Royal Ballet

Frederick Ashton

Maggie Black

Martine van Hamel

Lar Lubovitch

Cornell University – Dance

Joyce Morgenroth

Viola Farber

Jane Desmond

June Finch 

Cunningham Works: Channels/Inserts, Locale, Inlets 2, Roaratorio

OSU Dance

Vickie Blaine

Dance Notation Bureau

Melanie Bales

Dance on Its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies

Albion’s Dance: British Ballet during the Second World War

Daniel Roberts

Wexner Center for the Arts

MinEvent with BalletMet

 

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