Friday, November 6, 2015 / 7.30pm
Nacre Dance presents “So You Think You Can Choreograph!?”
Procters Theater
Schenectedy, NY
Tickets: $20, more info Procters Theater
“So You Think You Can Choreograph!” returns, debuting original works from a selection of the nation’s best up and coming choreographers including The Moving Architects. Audience member votes will determine who becomes the Nacre Dance 2016 Guest Choreographer.
Thursday, October 29, 2015 / 7.00pm
XYZ NYC
The Tank
151 W. 46th St. 8th Floor
New York, NY 10036
More info: HERE
xyz nyc is a new approach to modern dance-making in New York City. Bringing the choreographic process to a reality-TV-inspired format, The Tank invites modern dance-makers to meet for the first time and create an entirely new performance-ready piece in a single week. Each month’s performance features a guest judge, who discusses the piece with the choreographer, and then the audience votes on which dance should move on to the championship round. At the end of each season, a winner is selected who gets the opportunity to premiere a full-length dance piece at The Tank in a two-night run. TMA Director Erin Carlisle Norton joins XYZ, NYC for October 2015.
Saturday, September 26, 2015 / 7pm
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
153-10 Jamaica Avenue
Jamaica, NY 11432
Tickets: $15/adults; $12/Seniors and Students
More Info: JCAL.ORG
Making Moves Dance Festival, featuring The Moving Architects, presents NYC’s emerging dance companies and choreographers for a two-part showcase featuring diverse and original works that span the globe and dance genres.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 / 7pm – approx. 8pm
Fitness for the Arts with PhilanthroFIT
Sheep’s Meadow Volleyball Courts
Central Park
New York, NY 10021
Cost: $20 online donation in advance or $30 cash at event
In order to secure your spot you must make your $20 donation HERE before September 21. Your donations are greatly appreciated and TAX-DEDUCTIBLE!
More info on our Facebook Invite: Fitness For the Arts
More info on PhilanthroFIT: PhilanthroFIT.com
PhilanthroFIT is teaming up with The Moving Architects to support the performing arts! 100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to The Moving Architects. PhilanthroFIT’s Senior Personal Trainer Caitlin Bailey will lead the hour-long session consisting of high-intensity interval training followed by a complete full body stretch. Open to all ability levels, the session with be engaging, challenging, and fun. Don’t miss out!
Podcast No.7 – PAULA KELLINGER
ABOUT PAULA KELLINGER: CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCE PROFESSOR
Paula Kellinger is Professor of Dance at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA, a position she has held since 1995. Prior to teaching at Wilson College, Paula danced for such choreographers as Meredith Monk, Laura Dean, Susan Rethorst, Wendy Perron, Brendan McCall, and as an apprentice for Trisha Brown, alongside creating her own body of choreographic work. As a dance instructor she has guest taught at the Kanon Dance Company/Academy (St. Petersburg, Russia), Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (Salzburg, Austria), Academia Del’Arte (Arezzo, Italy), Universita Perugia (Perugia, Italy), and as adjunct professor at Gettysburg College. Paula formed the workshop series SUPA with Susan Rethorst, a yearly summer choreography-based program hosted by Wilson College. Throughout her career as a professor and choreographer, Paula has received numerous awards including the Donald Bletz Outstanding Teaching Award (2012, 2000, 1997), a NEA Choreographic Fellowship (1999), PSCA Choreographic Fellowship (1999, 1996), and Wilson College Research Stipends (2011, 2008, 2002). Paula holds a MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College and a BFA in Dance and BA in Sociology/Anthropology from Adelphi University.
Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron
Podcast No.6 – ANABELLA LENZU
ABOUT ANABELLE LENZU: DANCER, CHOREOGRAPHER, TEACHER, WRITER
Originally from Argentina, Anabella Lenzu is a dancer, choreographer and teacher with 25 years experience working in Argentina, Chile, Italy and the USA. As Artistic Director of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama, Lenzu draws on her diverse background to create thought-provoking and socially-conscious dance-theatre in the interest of improving our human condition. Classically trained at the renowned Teatro Colòn in Buenos Aires, Lenzu studied the modern dance techniques of Humphrey/Limòn and Graham in New York. Her studies of Tango and the folkdances of Argentina, Spain, and Italy, further inform her work. Her choreography has been commissioned all over the world, for opera, TV programs, theatre productions, and by many dance companies, such as Anna Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble (New York) and Movimento Danza (Naples, Italy). Lenzu founded her own dance school L’Atelier Centro Creativo de Danza in 1994 in Argentina, and has maintained an active teaching career ever since. Currently, Lenzu conducts classes at Peridance Capezio Center, Wagner College and Lehman College.
Lenzu has written for various dance and arts magazines, and published her first book in 2013, entitled Unveiling Motion and Emotion. The book contains writings in Spanish and English on the importance of dance, community, choreography, and dance pedagogy. Photography by Todd Carroll documents Lenzu’s vast range of experiences dancing, teaching, and choreographing.
Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron
ABOUT RACHEL NEVILLE, DANCE AND MOVEMENT PHOTOGRAPHER
Rachel Neville is a dance and movement photographer. So much of her perspective on lines, shapes, storytelling and ability to coach dancers and bring out the best in all her clients comes from her dance background. A former dancer, Rachel trained in Toronto, Canada and moved to Europe at 18 to pursue her career. Two years later, she sustained a knee injury that brought her home and, a little while later, her life purpose came into focus as she started photography studies. Having earned a certificate through the RAD, Rachel began teaching ballet in order to pay her way through photography school as she couldn’t put her parents through another round of very costly schooling. Upon graduating at the top of her class from Humber College in 2000, Rachel launched her new career by working in weddings and portraits, followed by table top commercial photography. Rachel and her husband David, a stills photographer in the television and movie industry, moved to NYC in 2006 and in 2008, Rachel fully settled into her true passion: dance and movement photography. Their daughters Oriane and Cadence were born in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and in 2014, Rachel realized her dream of building her own studio specifically designed to shoot dance and movement, complete with a sprung floor for her dancers to work on. Along with always looking for new ways to help her clients, Rachel currently has several personal storytelling-based imagery projects that she can’t wait to share.
Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron
ABOUT CAROLYN DORFMAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CAROLYN DORFMAN DANCE
Known as a creator of evocative dances that reflect her concerns about the human condition, Dorfman is interested in creating “worlds” into which the audience can enter. She has created stunning pieces that reflect a spirit and passion for life, people and truth, survival and renewal. Hailed as the consummate storyteller, Dorfman, a child of Holocaust survivors, has also created a celebrated body of work that honors her Jewish legacy; its trials and triumphs, its treasured uniqueness and, most importantly, its universal connections. Her interdisciplinary and intercultural approach on the stage and in the community explores the rich tapestry of human experience, tradition and stories – through the powerful universal language of dance.
Honored with many artistic and civic awards, Dorfman has been designated a Distinguished Artist by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA), which has granted her six Choreography Fellowships (most recently 2011). She received the Prudential Prize for Non-Profit Leadership (the first ever given to an artist) and the Jewish Women in the Arts Award for Dance from the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery. Most recently, in 2012, she was named the Industry Partner of the Year from the Union County Vocational Technical School/Academy for the Performing Arts; in 2013 she received the Dance Advocate Award by DanceNJ; in 2014, she was named a “Woman of Excellence” in the Arts and Humanities by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders/The Union County Commission on the Status of Women. This year, she is honored to be chosen to receive the 2015 Humanitarian Award from Seton Hall University and The Sister Rose Thering Fund.
A Michigan native, Dorfman received her BFA in Dance with certification to teach grades K-12 from the University of Michigan and her MFA from New York University Tisch School for the Arts. A former Assistant Professor of Dance at Centenary College in NJ, Dorfman is a master teacher, mentor, and a guest artist/choreographer/lecturer at major universities, pre-professional and professional training programs across the U.S. A former artist and member of the board of the Yard and ArtPride NJ, she is currently on the Artist Committee of the All Stars Project NY/NJ and a member of their NJ Board of Trustees. She is a mentor for Dance USA’s mentoring program, is an Honorary Co-Chair of NJPAC’s Celebrate Dance Advisory Committee, and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the College of Saint Elizabeth Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education. Ms. Dorfman and the company lead the Dance Division for NJPAC’s Arts Education Program and is a resident artist, guest choreographer/teacher and mentor at leading pre-professional training programs in the U.S.
Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron
MOVERS & SHAPERS:ABOUT ALEXANDRA BELLER
Alexandra Beller is Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/Dances, which is currently celebrating its thirteenth anniversary. As a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1995-2001, she performed in over 50 countries and throughout the U.S. In 2004-05 she helped to create “The Belle Epoch,” (Martha Clarke and Charles Mee). She was a 2-year Artist in Residence at HERE Art Space, and has also been an AIR at Dance New Amsterdam and DMAC.
Alexandra’s choreography has been presented at and commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop, 92nd St. Y, Aaron Davis Hall, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s, Abron’s Art Center, Joyce SoHo, P.S. 122, WAX, HERE, The Connelly Theater, SUNY Purchase College, Dance New Amsterdam, Symphony Space, and Jacob’s Pillow and has been commissioned by companies in Arizona, Michigan, Texas, Korea, Hong Kong, Oslo, Cyprus, Maine, New York City, Florida, Boston, Rhode Island, New Jersey and elsewhere. Her company has toured to the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Bytom Festival in Poland and throughout Michigan, Massachusetts and New York and received The Company Residency at The Yard in 2004 .
Alexandra co-created the Choreographic Investigation Course at DNA, and curated the Modern Guest Artist Series at DNA and the Contemporary Forms Series at Gibney Dance Center. She is on faculty at Gibney Dance Center and Long Island University and frequently teaches Technique, Composition, Improvisation and other classes at the Atlantic Theater School, The New School, , 92nd St Y, and at Universities throughout the United States. She was a visiting artist at APA, CCDC, and DanceArt in Hong Kong, D-Dance Festival in Korea, Den Nordsk Balletthoskole in Oslo, Henny Jurriens Stichting in Amsterdam, and Cyprus Summer Festival in Nicosia. She was a guest choreographer at numerous Universities throughout the US including University of Michigan, Rhode Island College, Princeton, The University of South Florida, MIT, Texas Woman’s University, Connecticut College, Texas Christian University, and Bates College, among others, and received an NCCI commission from Montclair State University in 2003/2004.
Film work includes “Romance and Cigarettes” by John Turturro. In 2000, she was the subject of a series of photographs by Irving Penn, “Dancer.” Recent projects include the premiere of her evening length work, “other stories” at ICA in Boston (co-commissioned by Summer Stages), a tour to Jacob’s Pillow, and a residencies at The University of Iowa, University of Nebraska (Lincoln) and Oakland University. Upcoming projects include a two week season at La Mama (NYC) to premiere two programs of new work, including “milkdreams,” which has been the subject of two international documentaries. The company will also be touring throughout upstate NY in Winter 2015 to Geneva, Syracuse, Rochester, Brockport, and elsewhere.
ABOUT ALEXANDRA BELLER/DANCES:
Created in 2002, Alexandra Beller/Dances has been extremely active in the New York scene as well as throughout the United States, and has toured to Cyprus, Hong Kong, Oslo, Amsterdam, Poland, Russia, and Korea. The work has been commissioned by and performed at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston (ICA), Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s, University Settlement, Aaron Davis Hall, and other major NYC venues as well as Jacob’s Pillow, SUNY Purchase, and in Michigan, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Arizona. The company consists of 4-6 performers and creates hybrid performances, which are collaborations with dramaturges, composers, set and light designers, costume designers and visual artists. Funding has been received from HERE Art Space, Dance New Amsterdam, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, LMCC, Puffin Foundation, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, American Music Center, and private funders. The Company has toured to Oslo, Amsterdam, Poland, Korea, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
COMPANY MISSION:
Alexandra Beller/Dances is an ensemble of highly skilled dancer/actors working on the edge between dance and theater. Rich with personal revelations, performances attempt to move, stimulate, impassion and incite the audience. Ripe with metaphor, abstracted narrative and controversial ideas, the dances often traffic through the uncomfortable territory of homophobia, sexism, and emotional isolationism. The company seeks to intersect distinctions between races, nationalities, sexual orientations and political affiliations through a series of artistic collisions. The creations are a truly hybrid form, where speaking and moving are essential forces in the creation of meaning. Dances often pay homage to great writers and landscapes of words are used to create a sense of place, time and relationship. Movement is a key to the startling, idiosyncratic and mysterious information that resides in the body. The process is highly collaborative and focuses on bringing as many artistic models to the table as possible in an attempt to create original imagery, sound and structure. Humor, irony, satire and pathos are interchangeable in the drive towards meaning. Education, performance, discussion and community involvement are all pathways taken towards audience and community partnerships. Alexandra Beller/Dances became a 501©3 non profit company in 2006.
Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron
MOVERS & SHAPERS:
ABOUT TRACIE STANFIELD
As one of the most sought after dance educators in the world, Tracie connects with dancers from all walks of life. Tracie has been regularly featured in Dance Spirit Magazine, Dance Teacher and Capezio.com. Ms. Stanfield is on faculty at Broadway Dance Center in NYC, inspiring students from around the world in her classes. Additionally, she teaches Contemporary Lyrical at Peridance Capezio Center to the professional dance community.
Tracie serves as the Artistic Director of SynthesisDANCE, a contemporary jazz dance company based in New York City. SynthesisDANCE has been seen at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Booking Dance Festival in Edinburgh Scotland, Brooklyn College, Bryant Park, the International Dance Festival. SynthesisDANCE is a touring company and has performed throughout the US.
In addition to her work with SynthesisDANCE, Ms. Stanfield has created work for dance companies all over the world. Highlights include Verismo Opera Company, Tapestry Dance Company, Brooklyn College, Mesa State College, Movement Exchange (Tokyo), Spirit Dance Company (Costa Rica), Primero Ato (Brazil), DJazz Company (Mexico), Mydonose Entertainment (Turkey), Sureste Dance Festival (Mexico) and The University of Michigan.
Other choreography projects have included choreographing for the independent film “The Fairy Queen” with Director Erin Levendorf and creating an online commercial campaign for Caseology Watches. Ms. Stanfield’s work has been seen at New York Fashion Week, industrials for Mercedes Benz and CISB, SUNY Purchase, fashion show for UDMA and Dance Spirit Magazine’s Cover Model Contest.
Ms. Stanfield is known for developing artistically minded and technically proficient dancers focused on exploring movement, transcending choreography and reach their highest creative potential.
Dance Magazine
Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Assistant: Christina Carminucci
Intro Music: “Singing Distance” by Elijah Aaron
