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Welcoming Ronald K. Brown / EVIDENCE to the Lotus Arts Management roster!
I am so thrilled to announce that Ronald K. Brown / EVIDENCE will be joining the Lotus Arts Management roster! I have always admired the company’s work and feel truly honored to welcome and represent such a respected dance company. This new partnership would not have been possible without the support of the inimitable Pam…
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Streaming this week: Watch an Evening of Selected Works by Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group presented by the Bates Dance Festival
Click here to view the program (available until August 24, 2020). Photo: Courtesy of the Bates Dance Festival
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‘CONTRA-TIEMPO founder brings Austin joy through virtual family dance class’
Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin is presenting CONTRA-TIEMPO’s Dancing Familias workshop on Saturday, Aug 22 at 10am CST. RSVP before Aug 21 at: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcO2qrzosGNO7SRZCq60hQS_EkCL5B_Lt “dance is our connection to ourselves. We all have bodies. We all have a connection to our bodies. It’s easy to be still all day. ……
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Dance Magazine/CONTRA-TIEMPO : ‘The challenges of parenting while dancing while going through a pandemic’
‘”Mothering is critical, essential work that often gets invisibilized, leaving working mamas feeling exhausted and alone,” Ana Maria Alvarez says. She continues to offer Dancing Familias, a family-friendly virtual class on Wednesdays, and on Tuesdays she hosts “A Place at the Table” on Instagram Live, where she chats with a fellow “mama artivist” each week…
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Document Journal/Interview: ‘Choreographer Kyle Abraham, actor Jeremy Pope, and artist Louis Fratino on what it means to be a man today’
‘No performance should look and feel the exact same way every time because part of the performance comes from the audience, and the audience is different every night. A moment that might have seemed comedic to one audience may seem offensive to another, or maybe cerebral to a different group. So you can’t perform anticipating…
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Jacob’s Pillow Virtual Festival to present Bereishit Dance Company
Premiere on Wednesday, August 13 at 7pm EST and available for viewing until Saturday, August 15 (midnight EST). ‘This Virtual Festival stream features the rigorous male duet BOW_CONTROL, inspired by the tradition of archery and explores the boundaries of sports and dance, while the intensely physical work Balance and Imbalance features brilliant and fun interplay…
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Appalachian Connections: ‘A.I.M Hits the Mark with App State Students’
“Kyle is a black man,” says A.I.M dancer Catherine Ellis Kirk. “He speaks to and for a community.” Kirk, now in her eighth year with the company, was speaking with nearly 20 members of App State’s Black Student Association about MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant award winner Kyle Abraham, a Pittsburgh-born choreographer whose acclaimed dance company A.I.M…
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San Diego Story review: ‘A.I.M Offers a Bonus: A Performance by Kyle Abraham’
There’s plenty of assertiveness in the high-octane “Drive”—and plenty of sound. To urgent percussion and an insistent voice repeating, “Where’s your drive?” (Theo Parrish’s “Drive”), eight dancers scramble with powerhouse leg swings, sharp isolations, slashing arms. One minute, they’re doing unison pirouettes, the next owning the stage in dance-battle solos.’ Read the full review here.
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CONTRA-TIEMPO WALLIS PERFORMANCES/LA DANCE CHRONICLE REVIEW: ‘CONTRA-TIEMPO MELDS AND MOVES TIME’
‘The stories clearly reveal a people’s ability to rise up and vanquish personal and physical challenges when “you and I become us.”There are many moments of brilliance from the supple undulating musicality of Jannet Galdamez, who lit up and covered the stage with her unique spirit and compelling movements. Diana Toledo’s guttural emotional song, Stanley…