INSPIRIT Recommends: An Evening of Mavericks at BAAD!

An Evening of Mavericks at BAAD!

Friday, November 9 

8pm 

Tickets $20

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Performing three repertory tasters before unveiling the urgent multimedia masterwork, Reference Point. 

Performed within dance theater modalities, Reference Point uncovers processes of regaining control when things fall apart: love addiction, drugs & religion, escapism. The reference point is “how” we cope, how we get through the day. It is the internal, familiar place we always come back to that triggers our basic need to survive, control and carry on through the irresolvable. Expressed through live dj accompaniment, multimedia and spoken word, Reference Point is an urgent piece not to be missed.

INSPIRIT Recommends: Draft Work: Malcolm Low and Paloma McGregor

Photo: Whitney Browne

Saturday, October 27th

3:00pm

Free and open to the public.

DANSPACE PROJECT

INSPIRIT alumna Paloma McGregor presents "Building a Better Fishtrap."

Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, the DraftWork series hosts informal Saturday afternoon performances that offer choreographers an opportunity to show their work in various stages of development.

Performances are followed by discussion and an informal reception during which artists and audiences share perspectives about the works-in-progress.

INSPIRIT Recommends: The T: Dance, Watch, Reflect

MAVERICK DANCE EXPERIENCE presents:
The T: Dance, Watch, Reflect is an experimental venue for selected artists to have their finished work fully produced and presented in a safe place for constructive feedback in support of advancing their creative process. It is an evening of possibilities, risk taking and sharing. Enter the experience, alter your perspective.

DANCE: Storytelling Made Visceral

WATCH: Artistry In Motion

REFLECT: Share Your Thoughts

- JOIN THE COLLABORATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS -

Presenting Artists:
Maverick Dance Experience, Marcus Lavan Braggs, Michael Cerwinski, Eve Chan, Jessica DiMauro, Lorena Egan, Kristen Klein

Location: Baruch Performing Arts Center
25th Street Between 3rd Ave. and Lexington Ave., NYC

Box Office: (646) 342-4083

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INSPIRIT Recommends: 5 Star Chick

Performance artist Denae Hannah explores contemporary images of black womanhood in Five Star Chick.

Through dance and theater, Ms. Hannah shines a satirical spotlight on the role models, stereotypes and aspirations of black women as depicted by popular hip hop music and culture.

Delivered in five vignettes, this thirty-minute solo follows the main character, Ms. Five Star, as she strives to achieve the apex of five star womanhood by getting a good education and job, dating the right men, and “snagging that baller” – all with a nice booty and “everything did.”

Denae Hannah explains, “Black women and women of color are too often portrayed as stereotyped characters in popular hip hop culture. However, the effects on the women and girls who come to identify themselves as these human caricatures must be examined more closely and honestly. I know I’ll be the first to talk about how women are degraded in the music video but still drop it like it’s hot when the song comes on! Five Star Chick is raw, real and provocative. It’s both an introspective and over-the-top journey about a woman trying to live up to the image she sees projected upon herself by pop culture.

Ms. Hannah will also present the work of guest choreographer Monique Roberts. Ms. Roberts will show a solo entitled Contrary Divestment and a duet entitled Labyrinth.

Each night will feature a guest moderator.

Doors open at 7:30 pm. 

*For mature audiences only

A/C/G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn

2/3 to Hoyt

F/R to Jay Street-Metrotech

On street parking available as well as 3 neighboring ParkFast lots

Less than 20 tickets left on each night!

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INSPIRIT recommends: ADG Dance Festival

American Dance Guild Festival 2012

Celebrating Past and Present

Honoring dance legends:

Dianne McIntyre 

Elaine Summers 

and

featuring

35 choreographers from near and far

Dianne McIntyre
photo by Larry Coleman

September 6-9, 2012

at

The Ailey Citigroup Theater

The Joan Weill Center for Dance

405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue

New York, NY  10019

     

The festival features work by INSPIRIT alumnae Shani Collins and Laurie Taylor. Current company member Karina Ikezoe will perform in Shani Collins' work. 

INSPIRIT recommends: DANCENOW Joe's Pub Festival

The 2012–13 Season marks DANCENOW’s tenth year of programming dance at Joe’s Pub. The season kicks off with the 2012 DANCENOW Joe’s Pub Festival featuring an exciting lineup of 40 choreographers/dance companies over five evenings from Wednesday September 5th through Saturday September 8th, including our new ENCORE evening on Saturday September 15, featuring the top ten choreographers whose work best meets the DANCENOW Challenge which asks festival artists to take our “less is more” mantra truly to heart and create a choreographic work of five minutes or less that makes aconcise artistic statement.

Each evening, the audience will vote for a Challenge winner who will receive a free weeklong creative residency at DANCENOW Silo on Kirkland Farm in Pennsylvania. One winner from the entire festival run, selected by DANCENOW producers and advisors, will receive a $1,000 creative development stipend, a free weeklong creative residency at Silo on Kirkland Farm, and a 20-hour space grant from the Gibney Dance Center.

Continuing its signature short-takes format, the DANCENOW Joe’s Pub Festival showcases a wide-range of work by emerging and established artists, offering audiences a look at the rich diversity of dance in New York City.

The festival serves as a testing ground for new ideas, providing artists with a unique opportunity to experiment with their craft and create work for New York City’s “best tiny stage.”  

Some artists we are looking forward to seeing are:

Wed, September 5

Marjani Forté 

Thurs, September 6

Simone Sobers Dance 

Fri, September 7 

Jamal Jackson Dance Company 

LOVE|FORTÉ A COLLECTIVE

Sat, September 8 

Christal Brown

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INSPIRIT recommends: MBDance at SummerStage | JJDC at Downtown Dance Festival

This Saturday MBDance premieres at SummerStage, August 11

MBDance will premiere a new piece, "Stand" with composition by Ashley Phillips and choreography by Maria Bauman. Also showing "50 Ways to Say..." catalyzed by the murder of Sean Bell and so many other black men by police officers. With composition by Keith Witty and narration by Chioke I'anson.

PERFORMERS: Kendra Ross, Maria Bauman, Samantha Speis, Chanon Judson, Zoe Rabinowitz, and understudied by Rae Charles When: August 11 @ 7pm Where: Marcus Garvey Park Cost: FREE! More Information SummerStage is a program of the City Parks Foundation that presents FREE performances of outstanding artistic quality to the communities of NYC. This program also features Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble! --- Jamal Jackson Dance Company at Downtown Dance Festival, August 11 & 12

INSPIRIT company member Karina Ikezoe performs with Jamal Jackson Dance Company at the 31st Downtown Dance Festival produced by Battery Dance Company.

When: August 11 & 12, 1pm

Where: The Lawn at Battery Park 

Adjacent to State Street at Pearl Street By Subway: 

1 to South Ferry; 4/5 to Bowling Green; R to Whitehall

Cost: FREE

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