On a Sunday afternoon, 15 dancers and choreographers gather in a Brooklyn dance studio to share their works in progress under the careful eye of Candace Thompson, the founding Executive Director of Dance Caribbean Collective. Together, they are preparing for DCC’s second annual New Traditions Festival, a performance series that celebrates Caribbean diasporic dance traditions…
Performed Friday, November 20, 2015 Barnard/Columbia Dances New York Live Arts New York, NY There are few places on campus as unifying as Barnard College’s Department of Dance. Attracting students from a long and varied list of programs at Barnard and Columbia University, the department has distinguished itself as a creative haven, inviting aspiring choreographers…
Performed Sunday, September 27, 2015 Camille A. Brown & Dancers The Joyce Theater New York, NY There’s no question about it – Camille A. Brown is one of the most formidable dancers you can find in New York today. A fiery intensity resides underneath her compact muscularity, making her movements fast, clear, and direct. But within this…
Performed Friday, June 12, 2015 Choreographed by Anna Sperber Gibney Dance’s Agnes Varis Performance Center New York, NY It’s no secret that dance and architecture are inextricably linked. Dance relies on performance spaces in order to exist in the public record, and religious leaders, royal families, and city planners alike have spent years (and millions…
The Median Movement Performed April 15, 2015 GAP Presents! at The Green Building Brooklyn, NY In a place like the Green Building, it’s hard not to think about the transformation of space. Tucked away on the upper bank of the Gowanus Canal, this former brass foundry has found new life as a performance venue with…
With a flourish of long, colorful skirts, the members of Trainor Dance take their places for the day’s last run-through of their newly finished piece. The company will open its fourth performance season this weekend at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, and though the seven dancers are undoubtedly tired, they betray no fatigue as they kneel and place their heads…
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