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Wed 1st
SummerStage Dance presents A Conversation with Kyle Abraham hosted by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
SummerStage
A New York native of Black Caribbean descent, Eva Yaa Asantewaa is a Bessie-award winning dance critic, writer, and educator. Since 1976, she has contributed to Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, Soho Weekly News, Gay City News, and others. She has interviewed dance artists and advocates as host of two podcasts, Body and Soul, and Serious Moonlight. She also blogs on the arts, with dance as a specialty,…
SummerStage Dance presents A.I.M
A.I.M
Abraham.In.Motion (A.I.M) is a modern dance company whose mission is to create an evocative interdisciplinary body of work through a sensual and provocative vocabulary with a strong emphasis on sound, human behavior and all things visual. Born into hip-hop culture in the late 1970s and grounded in founder Kyle Abraham’s artistic upbringing in classical cello, piano, and the visual arts, the goal…
SummerStage Dance presents: Movement of the People Dance Company
SummerStage
ounded in 2005 by Bessie Award winning choreographer, Joya Powell, Movement of the People Dance Company is dedicated to addressing historic and present socio-cultural injustices through dance. Primarily a dance-theater company, their choreography combines dynamic Contemporary Dance with traditional dances, and develops a sensitive balance of pedestrian gestural phrases with grounded visceral movements…
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Thu 2nd
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Fri 3rd
8:00pm
One of Sixty-Five Thousand Gestures/NEW BODIES
Jodi Melnick
Part of LUMBERYARD's inaugural season of performances in the Hudson Valley:
Jodi Melnick brings two works to Hudson Hall for LUMBERYARD’s summer 2018 season. The solo One of Sixty-Five Thousand Gestures is a deep exploration of movement, slipping from casual to formal and back again, and uses costume as a sculptural moving object in the dance. The work is the result of Melnick’s unique relationship,…
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Sat 4th
Young Dancemakers Company Performance Tour
Young Dancemakers Company
Young Dancemakers Company, now in its 23rd year as a free summer performing ensemble of New York City teens, creating and touring original work in free performances throughout NYC, has embarked this month on an ambitious, unique composer/choreographer project, involving prominent professional composers teamed with the young creators. The introductory session held July 2nd at the 92Y, resulted in nine…
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Sun 5th
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