LES Citizens Parade Comes to Seward Par…o-Down – News from the Lower East Side
Take a listen to Naomi’s interview with WBAI! https://www.dvpnyc.org/wbai-interview-6-13-18/
For rain cancellations we will let you know by 2 hours prior start time to event.
Today Wednesday, June 13 for the 7:30 dress, we will let audiences know by 5:30 if cancelled.
Call 347 683- 2691
Revival 2 Public Dance Performances
Saturday, June 9, 4:00pm at QUEENSBRIDGE PARK; Enter at Vernon Blvd and 21st.
Directions: F train to 21st st/ Queensbridge (first stop in Queens after Manhattan)
Walk three blocks on 41 ave towards Vernon Blvd to the Park and the East River
(F train service is slow as under construction, please leave early to make 4 PM Show)
Saturday, June 16 at 5pm and 7pm at Grant’s Memorial Tomb, 122nd & Riverside
Directions:
#1 train to 125th St.
M5 bus to 122nd St. & Riverside Drive
M4 or M104 bus to Broadway & 122nd St.
**Walk West towards Hudson River to 122nd Street & Riverside Drive**
A Celebration and Renewal of Great 20th Century Dance! This outdoor, public performance incorporates DVP’s multi-generational company, legendary dance artists, and neighborhood seniors to showcase the eloquence of the older brain/older body.
Summer on the Hudson: Variable Pop Dance Workshop – Dances For A Variable Population will present 5 Variable Pop Dance Workshops for seniors as part of Movement for All Abilities in West Harlem Piers Park, Thursday’s from 6pm-7pm, August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
Dances for a Variable Population master teacher Naomi Goldberg Haas and members of the intergenerational company lead dance workshops for adults of all ages and abilities, with a special focus on seniors. Celebrate moving in strong and creative ways. https://www.nycgovparks.org/
REVIVAL 2 GUEST ARTISTS BIOS
Shirley Black-Brown-Coward is a graduate of The Julliard School and an award-winning performing artist of classical and modern, Broadway and liturgical dance. She is a Master Teacher and received an Audelco Award (Best Off-Broadway Choreographer) for BLACK NATIVITY by Langston Hughes.
Ellen Graff danced with the Martha Graham Company, appearing in New York, and touring internationally. She has performed in Broadway musicals and was a longtime regular on The Carol Burnett Show. Graff has taught at colleges and universities across the country, and has a PhD in Performance Studies.
Elizabeth Keen makes dances for the concert stage, as well as for theater and opera. As a dancer she performed with the Paul Taylor Company and The Helen Tamers-Daniel Nagrin Company. She choreographed many dances for her own group, The Elizabeth Keen Dance Company. Theater and opera credits include SALOME (Covent Garden, and L.A. Opera) and CARMEN (The Met). She presently teaches in the Fordham Ailey BFA Program and at Marymount Manhattan.
Marni Thomas Wood danced with the Martha Graham Company in 1958, performing and teaching for Graham until invited in 1968 with husband/partner, David Wood, to establish the Dance Major at UC Berkeley. She served as Director of the Graham School and currently teaches there and at Adelphi University.
Alice Teirstein multiple award-winning dancer, educator and choreographer and recipient of a Bessie in 2012 and two lifetime achievement awards in 2015. She is the founding director of the Young Dancemakers Company – a nonprofit teen touring ensemble featuring choreography by NYC teens.
Audrey Hubbard Madison has been a teacher, dancer, and choreographer since she was a teenager, working in various dance forums around the tri- state area. She was an original member of the Charles Moore Dance Theater and has toured the Caribbean and the United States. Inspired by the dedicated members of her modern jazz class, Audrey founded her company, MoJazz Dance. She retired from New York City Department of Education after thirty-six years of service.
Myna Majors studied with the legendary Baba Chuck Davis (who recently transitioned), is a former Member of The Titos Sompa Dance Troupe, The Legendary Baba Olatunji Drum and Dancers, and Bernard Dove and The Dovetts. For the last 11 years, she has been a proud dancer with The WNBA N.Y. Liberty Timeless Torches.
Watch Shirley Black Brown Coward (Broadway, George Faison Universal Dance Theater) begin creation of a new dance at the Central Harlem Senior Center! Shaking up social dances of the 20th Century! So honored she is one of our 2018 REVIVAL 2 choreographers!
See wonderful video of legend Phyllis Lamhut (current faculty, Tisch School of the Arts; formerly Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company; formerly Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Companies) at the George Bruce Library April 6 class teaching a guest session in DVP’s MOVEMENT SPEAKS class!
She shares improvisation and life!