SNIC Eternal Works@ DTW

Dance Theatre Workshop
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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