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…
I originally wrote this piece for the Dance/NYC Junior Committee member blog, but I thought I’d share it here as well. Feel free to post your own resolutions in the comments – I’m looking forward to hearing other strategies and goals for improving the dance field in 2016. ********** Happy New Year, readers! As we…
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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