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MSP 139: Gloria McLean

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PODCAST No.139 – Gloria McLean

Release Date: 8.22.22


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ABOUT Gloria McLean

Gloria McLean (Founder, Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Educator) is artistic director of LIFEDANCE/Gloria McLean and Dancers. She choreographs, teaches and performs from her base in New York City and Andes, NY.  LIFEDANCE is dedicated to the integration of body, mind and spirit through the creative process. McLean’s dances often collaborate with new music, art, language and the environment.  Her choreography has been presented in NYC and internationally, including the American Dance Festival, festivals in Ireland, Paris, Montreal, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, and China. In October 2019, she produced “Lucky Dragon 5 Voyage to Hope,” with sculptor Ken Hiratsuka, bringing together artists from around the world on the theme of world peace in memory of the those who perished in the Bikini Island nuclear tests in 1954. In June 2018 in Beijing, McLean collaborated with leading Chinese avant-garde choreographer Wen Hui and Ken Hiratsuka to produce “Stone.Paper, Line. Sky. Water”—dance interacting with drawing, live stone carving, water and audience in the unique 3-story architectural space of painter Huang Rui’s Cloud Pavillion.  In 2012 McLean’s “Dancing Without Illusion” paid tribute to painter Will Barnet. Her video “Twice Marked” was exhibited at Brattleboro Museum in 2008 and the ADF Dancing for the Camera Festival 2009.

Teaching credits include: Professor of Modern Dance for two years at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea (2009-2011);  Henry-Bascom Visiting Professor at UW/Madison (2000); George Washington University (1997 and 2000). Adjunct positions and Guest Artist residencies at Manhattanville College, American University, Dowling College, Hofstra University, University of Texas/Edinburgh and San Marcos, and numerous others. She first received acclaim as a leading member of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company from 1982-1993, performing major female roles in the repertory, teaching at the Hawkins School, and touring the U.S. and internationally. Currently McLean is President of the American Dance Guild producing festivals live and online. She teaches live and through zoom.

“I make dances to celebrate human existence, the miracle of the expressive body, with other artists, people, places, forms, media, with ideas that inspire us, and speak to our shared condition.  I am. It dances.”

 

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PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS 

Frederic Franklin

“I AM. IT DANCES”

Connecticut College – Dance

Martha Myers

American Dance Festival

Twyla Tharp 

“Torelli”

Sara Rudner

Nina Wiener

Sante Fe Opera

Ann Halprin

Erick Hawkins

Martha Graham

Lucia Dlugoszewski

“Angels of the Inmost Heaven”

Marilyn Wood

Alec Rubin

New Dance Group

 

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

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.

Dance & Architecture Exploratory Lab (NYC)

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Dance & Architecture Exploratory Lab (NYC)
October 21, 2022

The Moving Architects will explore the intersection of architecture and movement in collaboration with Professors Ashlie Boelkins and Olivia Pontiff and Master of Architecture graduate students from the School of Architecture & Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  Students will develop an understanding of Laban space harmony as led by Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton, and immerse in a workshop between the students and professional dancers.  The Moving Architects will explore movement in response to the student’s designs or “choreography” of their creative works.  The goal of the Exploratory Lab is to ignite a creative process for both disciplines where the bodies’ relationship to emotion and space are in focus.

Movers & Shapers: Joan Myers Brown and Kim Bears-Bailey

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PODCAST No.138 – Joan Myers Brown and Kim Bears-Bailey

Release Date: 8.8.22

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

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ABOUT Joan Myers Brown

Ms. Brown is the honorary chairperson for the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD), an organization she established in 1991. Founder of the International Conference of Black Dance Companies in 1988, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts and Howard University in Washington, DC. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by Ursinus College and an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Listed in Who’s Who in America and described as an “innovator and communicator,” Ms. Brown’s efforts for dance excellence are only part of her contribution to the field. She was co-chair of Dance/USA Philadelphia. She received the Philadelphia Award and documented in a publication “Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina”, by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. She has received awards from the City of Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania and the Embassy of the United States of America. Brown honored as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania and Outstanding Alumni of West Philadelphia High School. She received the prestigious National Medal of Arts Award. Also honored by the American Dance Guild Honoree Award in addition to many other awards. Ms. Brown is a recipient of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s 2017 Industry Icon Award and received the Philadelphia Cultural Funds David Cohen Award in April 2019. Most recently Ms. Brown received the distinguished 2019 Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance for her choreographic influence on black dance in America.

ABOUT Kim Bears-Bailey

Early formal dance training at Jones & Haywood, Lynne B. Welters School of Dance, and Duke Ellington School of the Arts. A Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) graduate of The University of Arts, Kim joined PHILADANCO in 1981. A 1992 “Bessie” Award recipient, (The New York Dance and Performance Award), Kim represented PHILADANCO at the 1988 American Dance Festival performing works of Dr. Pearl Primus and appeared in the movie “Beloved”. Ms. Bears-Bailey is an Associate Professor of dance at the University of the Arts. Kim is one of few artists granted permission to remount the works of many world-renowned choreographers including Talley Beatty, Pearl Primus and Gene Hill Sagan. She received the Mary Louise Beitzel Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Silver Star Alumni Award from UArts. Kim is a member of the International Association of Blacks in Dance’s Next Generation of Leaders. Kim choreographs and directs an annual ‘Dancing with the Stars of Philadelphia’ event. Kim received the 2017 ‘Bring it to the Marley’ Icon Award and the 2018 ‘Legacy Award’ from DCNS Dance. Just recently Kim completed a one week residency at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa teaching and restaging a work by Dr. Pearl Primus.

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PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS – JOAN

Katherine Dunham

Sister Sledge

Sammy Davis

Billy Eckstine

Pearl Bailey

Pennsylvania Ballet

Arthur Mitchell

Camille Brown

Rennie Harris

Leslie Odem

Lee Daniels

IABD

President Obama presents National Medal of Arts to Joan

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS – KIM

Jones-Haywood Dance School

Louis Johnson

Duke Ellington School of the Arts

University of the Arts

Denise Jefferson

Debra Chase 

Vanessa Thomas-Smith

Deborah Chase Hicks

Tally Beatty

Pearl Primus

Kimmel Center

 

 

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.

Newark Dances (Newark, NJ)

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Newark Dances
Saturday, October 1 @ 2pm

Weequahic Park
Empire Street and Meeker Ave
Newark, NJ 07112
Free Tickets: Available HERE

Come out to Weequahic Park in Newark, NJ and enjoy an exciting afternoon of dance and choreography by local established and up and coming dancers and companies. This event is free and open to all! Featuring The Moving Architects alongside Susan Ramirez and Ray Ruiz, IMGE Dance, Zoey Crenshaw, InnerGy, Nicole Ohr/Cole Collective, and Kofago Dance Ensemble.

Featuring The Moving Architects with “The Vibe”
choreography: Erin Carlisle Norton in collaboration with the dancers
dancers: Emily Cicio, Kelly Guerrero, Graziella Murdocca
Music: “Cadence” by Travis Lake, “Chairman” by ori lichtik, “Nu” by ori lichtik
Interactive Costume “Extended”: gwen charles

“The Vibe” was supported by 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.

The Monira Foundation Artist Residency (MANA Contemporary, Jersey City)

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The Monira Foundation Artist Residency

September 12-18, 2022
MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJMore info: HERE

The Moving Architects will have an artist residency at MANA Contemporary in Jersey City through the Monira Foundation.  The Monira Foundation Artist Residencies Program started in 2018 as a radical experimental laboratory, working in close collaboration with artists, curators, musicians, producers, and writers to conceive, realize, and present innovative projects in all media. Their aim is to spark, intensify, and promote an evolving cultural and social dialogue between creators, audiences, and institutions and focus on the unique potential of interdisciplinary work

 

Freespace Dance and Friends (OSPAC, NJ)

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Freespace Dance and Friends
Friday, August 19 @ 8pm
Rain date: Saturday, August 20

Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center (OSPAC)
4 Boland Drive
West Orange, NJ 07052
Tickets: $20, Available HERE

An evening of dance featuring Freespace Dance alongside guests The Moving Architects, Robert Mark Dance,
and Maxine Steinman.

Featuring The Moving Architects with “The Vibe”
choreography: Erin Carlisle Norton in collaboration with the dancers
dancers: Emily Cicio, Kelly Guerrero, Graziella Murdocca
Music: “Cadence” by Travis Lake, “Chairman” by ori lichtik, “Nu” by ori lichtik
Interactive Costume “Extended”: gwen charles

“The Vibe” was supported by 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: Lar Lubovitch

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PODCAST No.137 – Lar Lubovitch


Release Date: 6.20.22

 

TO DOWNLOAD PODCAST OR LISTEN:

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ABOUT Lar Lubovitch

LAR LUBOVITCH is one of America’s most versatile and widely seen choreographers. He founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. Over the course of 54 years, it has gained an international reputation as one of America’s top dance companies, produced more than 120 dances and performed before millions across the U.S. and over 40 countries. Many other major companies throughout the world have performed the company’s dances, including American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, and more. Lubovitch has created ice-dancing works for Olympians John Curry, Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Brian Orser, JoJo Starbuck, and Paul Wylie, and he has created feature-length ice-dance specials for TV: “The Planets” for A&E (nominated for an International Emmy Award, a Cable AceAward, and a Grammy Award) and “The Sleeping Beauty” for PBS and Anglia TV, Great Britain. His theater and film work includes Sondheim/ Lapine’s Into the Woods (Tony Award nomination), The Red Shoes (Astaire Award), the Tony Award-winning revival of The King and I (on Broadway and in London’s West End), Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame in Berlin, and Robert Altman’s movie The Company (American Choreography Award). In 2016, he premiered “The Bronze Horseman,” based on the Pushkin poem, for the Mikhailovsky Ballet in Russia. In 1987, he conceived Dancing for Life, which took place at Lincoln Center. It was the first response by the dance community to the AIDS crisis, raising over one million dollars. Together with Jay Franke, in 2007 Lubovitch created the Chicago Dancing Festival, in collaboration with the City of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art. It presented 10 seasons entirely free to the public. Recent awards: 2007 named Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune; 2008 named similarly by Chicago Magazine; 2011 designated a Ford Fellow by United States Artists and received the Dance/USA Honors Award; 2012 his dance “Crisis Variations” awarded the Prix Benois de la Danse for outstanding choreography at the Bolshoi Theatre; 2013 honored for lifetime achievement by the American Dance Guild; 2014 awarded an honorary doctorate by The Juilliard School; 2016 received the Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement and the Dance Magazine Award, named one of America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition and appointed a Distinguished Professor at UC/Irvine. In honor of his company’s 50th anniversary, in 2018 he was presented with the Martha Graham Award for lifetime achievement.

 

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PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Peggy Baker

José Limón Dance Company

American Dance Festival Connecticut College

The Julliard School

Pinchas Zukerman

Donald McKayle

Pearl Lang

Glen Tetley

Anna Sokolow

Lucas Hoving

Antony Tudor

Pearl Primus

Harkness Ballet

John Curry

Jay Franke

Chicago Dancing Festival

The Dance Boom

“Each In His Own Time” NYC Ballet

Maxine Glorsky

NY Library for the Performing Arts

UC Irvine – Dance

Katarzyna Skarpetowska

 

 

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

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: Nadia Adame

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PODCAST No.136 – Nadia Adame


Release Date: 6.6.22

 

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ABOUT Nadia Adame

Nadia Adame is a Spanish multidisciplinary award-winning artist with a spinal cord injury and the Artistic Director at AXIS Dance Company. She studied Ballet & Flamenco at the Royal Dance Conservatory of Madrid and has a BA in Theatre from the University of Colorado. She was a company member with AXIS (2001-2003) and Candoco Dance Company (2007-2008). In 2004, she co-founded and was the Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Y in Spain, a multimedia and performance collective. Nadia’s credits include dance, theatre, commercial, and independent film projects in the UK, Spain, US, and Canada. As a performer, she has been featured in works by Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Arthur Pita, Rafael Bonachela, Davis Robertson, Sonya Delwaide, Marc Brew, Chevi Muraday and Asun Noales, among others.

 

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PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Madrid Roayl Conservatory

University of Colorado Boulder – Theater

Judith Smith

Luna Dance Institute

ONCE

Candoco Dance Company

All Bodies Dance

Bold Moves Festival

Axis Dance at Expo 2020 Dubai

Nadia Adame and Mikhail Baryshnikov

 

 

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

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.

IN 7 – Experimental Video Art Residency (Gardenship, NJ)

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Screening: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 8pm
Gardenship, Kearny Point, NJ

IN 7 – Experimental Video Art Residency

featuring new performance/video work by TMA Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton

More info: Gardenship

IN 7 is a 7-day experimental video art residency where site-specific videos are created and screened at Gardenship, a massive warehouse that houses art studios in Kearny Point, NJ. Artists create a project they have been dreaming about or something inspired by the site, the week culminating with an outdoor drive-in style screening of short films made by selected artists during the week.

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.