Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Soul To Self Series One
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Makeda Thomas Return to the States
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; created in the midst of Makeda Thomas returning home to Trinidad after 20 years living abroad. Fresh Water will be previewed at Choreographic Sketches on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at BRICstudio.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
2008 Series Choreographers
Alfred L. Dove is a Director, Choreographer and Dance Education Specialist. Dove holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of California at Irvine and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Howard University, in Washington, D.C., and has joined the dance faculty at Northern Kentucky University as a full-time lecturer. Alfred Dove has been a member of many committees, panels, also he has lectured, choreographed and directed at several colleges and universities across the United States. Dove has been an instructor at Fort Hayes Performing Arts High School, Columbus State Community College and The Ohio State University, and has also worked with Ballet Met in Columbus and directed the City's Biennial production of The Chocolate Nutcracker. He has given workshops at the Northeast Ohio Dance Conference and National Blacks in Dance Conference held in Washington, DC. Mr. Dove has performed in national and international touring Broadway productions: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In the Sun assistant choreographer European Tour, Langston Hughes’ Sound of Soul and Black Nativity choreographer & featured dancer; Geoffrey Holder’s The Wiz lead winged monkey; Donald McKayle’s Purlie, Sweet Charity and Emperor Jones and Judith Jamison’s Philadelphia Opera production of Mefistofele. Dove has worked with “in-school/at-risk” and incarcerated youth programs for over twenty years and finds great satisfaction in giving back. Mr. Dove is currently The Dove Arts Project’s (The DAP) Founding Director and Administrator of Ulysses Dove’s choreographic works. The Dove Arts Project’s goal is “Foster opportunities to advance the choreography and philosophy of legendary choreographer Ulysses Dove”.






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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
SNIC Eternal Works@ DTW
March 12-15 @ 7:30pm
$20/$12 (Discount)
Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins (SNIC) Eternal Works will be performing at Dance Theatre Workshop; composes, challenges and perspectives of the African-American condition while remaining open to its epic memory of the creator and her ancestry in the work entitled Don't Live Here Go. The work is a contemporary cleansing dance that maps the sensory experience of transformation, release and purity. Don't Live Here Go was featured in last year's Choreographic Sketches 07series. The work Don't Live Here Go has been commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop.
Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins (SNIC), a New York based visual performance artist, native of Greensboro, North Carolina. Holds a Master of Arts degree from Hollins University/American Dance Festival and a Bachelors of Art in Dance from Hollins University , where she was mentored and inspired by Donna Faye Burchfield. Collins spent a year studying dance, music and theatre at the University of North London and has received the Martha Myers Choreography Award from American Dance Festival. She has performed with Urban Bush Women, Bill T. Jones, Nathan Trice/RITUALS, David Dorfman, and Marlies Yearby among others. SNIC's Eternal Works has been commission and performed at Judson Church, Lincoln Theater, Aaron Davis Hall, Hollins University, Long Island University's Kumble Theater, Dixon Place, St. Marks Church, The Ailey School, Howard University, and in Mexico at the Performatica Dance Festival, 2007. Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins (SNIC) is a recipient of the 2006 New York (Bessie) Performance Award and is currently performing with Ronald K. Brown/ Evidence, on faculty at the American Dance Festival, and developing her vision through Eternal Works.
Dance Theater Workshop is located at 219 West 19th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea district of New York City
Subway: 1/9 to 18th Street. 2/3, F, L and A/C/E to 14th Street
Please support future SNIC's Eternal Works endeavors & projects:
Dance Theater Workshop NYC
March 12-15 @ 7:30pm
March 14 @DTW-Thursday Night Champagne Toast and Reception !!!
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"Breaking Out" Greensboro, NC
March 29th-April 3rd
Workshop/Teaching residency
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Danspace Projects NYC
"Out of Space" Series
May 23-24 @ 8pm
BRIC Studio NYC
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Choreographic Sketches 08: Series II NYC
May 31 @ 8pm
Opening reception @ 7:30 pm
Informal showing @ 8:00 pm
Closing reception @ 9:00 pm
Featuring complimentary wine and light hour devours!!!
BRIC Studio NYC
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American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
June 5-July 19
Teaching Residency
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
Welcome to Choreographic Sketches Blog!
“….Inspire Paths of Hope; Establish Connections; Transform & Transcend to New Dimension” Jo Anna H. Norris Founder/Director Choreographic SketchesPurpose of Blog
Exclusive blog videos
Artists on artist interviews
Features on choreographers apart of the series
Updates on feature choreographers
Backstage exclusives on Choreographic Sketches Productions
Choreographic Sketches was founded in 2006 in Brooklyn, New York under the vision of Founder Jo Anna Hazel Norris. Choreographic Sketches is an educational choreography series design to empower African Diasporic choreographers to make choreographic ventures through experimentation and demystification of their creative processes; thus producing choreographic transparency. 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, audiences, and the field at large.
The Purpose of Choreographic Sketches
Choreographic Sketches is an educational choreography series that investigates the demystification of the choreographic/creative processes of choreographers; featuring works by emerging and evolving African Diasporic choreographers and their companies, through the processes of choreography/dance workshops, performance opportunities, seminars and community panel dialogue sessions.
To form community partnerships that encourages and facilitates the advancement of traditional and contemporary African Diasporic choreography and their support systems; and to create choreographic transparency.
Values of Choreographic Sketches
Empowering African Diasporic choreographers to make choreographic ventures through experimentation and demystification of their creative processes; thus producing choreographic transparency.
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