Choreographic Sketches Presents Series II: The Demystification of the Choreographic Process
Choreographic Sketches, extends its 2008 series featuring new works by emerging African Diasporic choreographers and their companies. The 2008 series feature choreographers are Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins, Alfred L. Dove, "La Mora" Danis Perez Prades, Jo Anna H. Norris, William Oaks, Makeda Thomas, Penelope JoAnn Armstead-Williams and Kwame Azalius Ross; curated by Jo Anna Hazel Norris the Founder/ Director of Choreographic Sketches.
Brooklyn, NY, April 05, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Choreographic Sketches 08 Panel Dialogue Session
Venue: A.R.T/New York’s Space @ 520
Address: 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Fl, Suite 324
Neighborhood: Manhattan
Travel: Between 36th and 37th St., 2 block from Penn Station, 4 from Port Authority. Nearest 36th St. Exit off 34th stop A-C-E.
Tickets and Info: $10 Donation; reservations for tickets at choreographicsketches@gmail.com
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 at 6PM
Choreographic Sketches 08 Series II: The Demystification
Venue: BRICstudio
Address: 647 Fulton Street at Rockwell Place
Neighborhood: Fort Greene
Travel: 2, 3, 4 or 5 to Nevins Street; B, M, Q, R to DeKalb Avenue; G to Fulton Street.
Tickets and Info: $25/$20 for seniors and students; admission includes complimentary wine & light hors d’oeuvres. Reservation for tickets can be made at choreographicsketches@gmail.com.
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 8PM
Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins (SNIC), Founder/Director of Eternal Works, is a New York based visual performance artist and choreographer; a 2006 recipient of the New York (Bessie) Performance Award. Collins holds a M.F.A from Hollins University/ADF and a B.A. from Hollins University. SNIC's Eternal Works has been commission by Dance Theatre Workshop, 651 Arts, Aaron Davis Hall, BRICstudio, Joyce Soho, Jacob's Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, The Kumble Theater, Dixon Place, St. Marks Church, and in Mexico at the Performatica Dance Festival. Her new work entitled The and that rocks the cradle, holds the World is a multi-media collaboration where two sisters delve into how sexuality is shaped by looking at childhood, memory, and the intimate relationship of mother/daughter.
Kwame Azalius Ross (Artist, Musician, Choreographer, and Priest) Founder and Artistic Director of KAR Dance Project; has experienced a life of Artistic investigations. Ross leadership spans as former Associate Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women, to former Cultural Ambassador of Egypt. Mr. Ross work has been commissioned by Long Island University, Florida A&M University, Tulane University, Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall, St. Marks Church Dance Project, Riverside Church, Cutno Artist Group, and Cairo Opera House Modern Dance Theater. He has received funding from Puffin Foundation, Jerome Foundation; Dance USA, Harkness Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Kwame has studied extensively in four continents, giving a dialogue of expression of unlimited expression. Presently Ross is developing a performance art work around the last fifty years of the independence of Africa, entitled “Movement of the People”, original score by Charles Vincent Burwell. To be premiered in May of 2008 at Choreographic Sketches.
Makeda Thomas New York/Trinidad dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director of Makeda Thomas/Roots Wings & Movement; holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Hofstra University. Her choreography has been commissioned by 651 ARTS, received awards from the United States Embassy, Puffin Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Arts International, Yellow Fox Foundation and the National AIDS Council of Moçambique. Thomas work has been presented at HARLEM Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Chicago Women's Performance Arts Festival, Maputo's Teatro Africa, Caribbean Contemporary Arts and as a Cultural Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. Thomas work entitled Fresh Water is a work about family, legacy and continuity; tradition and heritage; about the fragility of life and the fragility of culture.
About Choreographic Sketches
Choreographic Sketches was founded in 2006 in Brooklyn, New York under the vision of Founder Jo Anna Hazel Norris. Choreographic Sketches is an emerging educational choreography series that investigates the demystification of the choreographic/creative processes of choreographers, featuring new works by emerging African Diasporic choreographers and their companies; design to empower African Diasporic choreographers to make choreographic ventures through experimentation and demystification of their creative processes; thus producing choreographic transparency. This series objectives are: creating community partnerships that encourage and facilitates the advancement of traditional and contemporary African Diasporic art forms; producing a greater wisdom, knowledge and understand of choreographers, to audiences, and the field at large.
Press kit and digital images available upon request.
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Venue: A.R.T/New York’s Space @ 520
Address: 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Fl, Suite 324
Neighborhood: Manhattan
Travel: Between 36th and 37th St., 2 block from Penn Station, 4 from Port Authority. Nearest 36th St. Exit off 34th stop A-C-E.
Tickets and Info: $10 Donation; reservations for tickets at choreographicsketches@gmail.com
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008 at 6PM
Choreographic Sketches 08 Series II: The Demystification
Venue: BRICstudio
Address: 647 Fulton Street at Rockwell Place
Neighborhood: Fort Greene
Travel: 2, 3, 4 or 5 to Nevins Street; B, M, Q, R to DeKalb Avenue; G to Fulton Street.
Tickets and Info: $25/$20 for seniors and students; admission includes complimentary wine & light hors d’oeuvres. Reservation for tickets can be made at choreographicsketches@gmail.com.
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 8PM
Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins (SNIC), Founder/Director of Eternal Works, is a New York based visual performance artist and choreographer; a 2006 recipient of the New York (Bessie) Performance Award. Collins holds a M.F.A from Hollins University/ADF and a B.A. from Hollins University. SNIC's Eternal Works has been commission by Dance Theatre Workshop, 651 Arts, Aaron Davis Hall, BRICstudio, Joyce Soho, Jacob's Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, The Kumble Theater, Dixon Place, St. Marks Church, and in Mexico at the Performatica Dance Festival. Her new work entitled The and that rocks the cradle, holds the World is a multi-media collaboration where two sisters delve into how sexuality is shaped by looking at childhood, memory, and the intimate relationship of mother/daughter.
Kwame Azalius Ross (Artist, Musician, Choreographer, and Priest) Founder and Artistic Director of KAR Dance Project; has experienced a life of Artistic investigations. Ross leadership spans as former Associate Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women, to former Cultural Ambassador of Egypt. Mr. Ross work has been commissioned by Long Island University, Florida A&M University, Tulane University, Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall, St. Marks Church Dance Project, Riverside Church, Cutno Artist Group, and Cairo Opera House Modern Dance Theater. He has received funding from Puffin Foundation, Jerome Foundation; Dance USA, Harkness Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Kwame has studied extensively in four continents, giving a dialogue of expression of unlimited expression. Presently Ross is developing a performance art work around the last fifty years of the independence of Africa, entitled “Movement of the People”, original score by Charles Vincent Burwell. To be premiered in May of 2008 at Choreographic Sketches.
Makeda Thomas New York/Trinidad dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director of Makeda Thomas/Roots Wings & Movement; holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Hofstra University. Her choreography has been commissioned by 651 ARTS, received awards from the United States Embassy, Puffin Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Arts International, Yellow Fox Foundation and the National AIDS Council of Moçambique. Thomas work has been presented at HARLEM Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Chicago Women's Performance Arts Festival, Maputo's Teatro Africa, Caribbean Contemporary Arts and as a Cultural Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. Thomas work entitled Fresh Water is a work about family, legacy and continuity; tradition and heritage; about the fragility of life and the fragility of culture.
About Choreographic Sketches
Choreographic Sketches was founded in 2006 in Brooklyn, New York under the vision of Founder Jo Anna Hazel Norris. Choreographic Sketches is an emerging educational choreography series that investigates the demystification of the choreographic/creative processes of choreographers, featuring new works by emerging African Diasporic choreographers and their companies; design to empower African Diasporic choreographers to make choreographic ventures through experimentation and demystification of their creative processes; thus producing choreographic transparency. This series objectives are: creating community partnerships that encourage and facilitates the advancement of traditional and contemporary African Diasporic art forms; producing a greater wisdom, knowledge and understand of choreographers, to audiences, and the field at large.
Press kit and digital images available upon request.
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