NEW DATE! Solar One and Dance Films Association Present Dancing In Public Wednesday September 14
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011| September 14, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
UPDATE! We’re rescheduled Dancing In Public for the evening of Wednesday September 14! We hope to see you then!
On September 7th, Dance Films Association will host an evening of live and cinematic works focused on “Dancing in Public”. As a part of the Solar One Green Energy Arts Festival, the evening will begin at 7:00 with a reception featuring live performance created by Rebecca Brooks, with dancers Ursula Eagly and Emily Wexler. The evening will feature a dynamic screening of several dance film shorts curated by Jennifer Edwards, Content Creator and Founder of JenEd Productions, and Christy Park, Executive Director of Dance Films Association. In creating this event, the curators focused on finding pieces that speak to various interpretations of dance and public space. Moving ‘bodies’ range from construction equipment to school children, and their dancing is carried out in spaces ranging from deserts to grocery stores to Grand Central Station. This is an event – with works by OK GO, JenEd Productions, David Hinton, and Anthony Atanasio – holds something for everyone yet promises to carry viewers on a journey through shifting landscapes and genres effortlessly. A Q&A with the choreographer and filmmakers will follow the screening.
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Sun To Stars South Asian Festival Returns to Solar One Saturday September 10
Thursday, September 1st, 2011| September 10, 2011 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Sun to Stars returns to Solar One for its 6th season on September 10, 2011 from 2-10 pm [Rain Date September 11]
This year’s performers include: Neel Murgai │ Shobana Ram│Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury│Gaurav Shah│ Parul Shah Dance Company│Malini Srinivasan│ Rujuta Vaidya │Jay Gandhi │Nitin Mitta
Please click on the links above to learn more about the artists!
This year’s Festival will have a special emphasis on children, with special activities for them in the early part of the Festival (2pm-4pm). These activities will include traditional kite and lamp making, coloring South Asian deity puppets, learning to wrap a sari and a special storytelling performance.
Curated by Parul Shah with Reena Shah
Artistic Direction by Tamar Rogoff
Food from Five Star Banquet and Catering
East India Pale Ale from Brroklyn Brewery
For more information about Sun To Stars, click HERE.
Saturday September 10 from 2pm-10pm with special activities for kids from 2pm-4pm
Schedule (subject to change):
2pm Kids Program: Student Performers, Arts & Crafts, Storytelling, Kite Making
4pm Dance Performances: Malini Shrinivasan, Shobana Ram, Parul Shah Dance company, Rujuta Vaidya
6:30pm Music Performances: Neel Murgai, Jay Gandhi & Nitin Mitta, Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury, Gaurav Shah
Sun To Stars Video by Andrew Baker
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TONIGHT & TOMORROW! Stuyvesant Cove Park Association Presents Paul Sachs on Monday August 29 and Folk Dancing with Evelyn Diamond on Tuesday August 30
Monday, August 29th, 2011| August 29, 2011 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
| August 30, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Hello, world! Beautiful day today, isn’t it? You’re probably out enjoying it, after being cooped up all weekend. This evening, join the Stuyvesant Cove Park Association for the next event in the Margaret D, Lawrence and Helen W.Collins Memorial Music and Dance Series at Solar One. On Monday, local singer-songwriter Paul Sachs returns with his band, and on Tuesday, we’ll have informal dance lessons and open dancing with local legend Evelyn Diamond. Both events are free and open to the public!
Paul Sachs & Band
Monday August 29 at 6pm
Folk Dancing with Evelyn Diamond
Tuesday August 30 at 7pm
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TOMORROW BEFORE THE FILM: See Handleless, a Dance Sitework in the Park by projectLIMB
Thursday, August 25th, 2011| August 26, 2011 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| August 27, 2011 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Join us tomorrow for a repeat performance of choreographer Gabriel Forestieri and projectLIMB’s Handleless, a site-specific dance work created especially for the Park.
Melissa Guerrero, photo by Luka Kito
ProjectLIMB creates, evolves, and performs work where real time relationships, rather than content, are primary.
Handleless is an investigation of all our interactions, an attempt at revelation of the places we inhabit.
Most performance is about control. Controlling the lights, controlling the sounds, controlling the movement, and controlling the experience. Handleless
ProjectLIMB works to bring performer, space, and audience back into relation. Using an immersive language that joins us all together in a celebration of this moment. Which is infinite and can never be “understood” nor separate from. A living space is opened, where transformation and illumination act independent of design. Just as Solar One receives its power from the Sun, so Handleless will take its cues from the multitude of stimulus that is Stuyvesant Cove.
projectLIMB is
Gabriel Forestieri – Director and Dancer
Benjamin Asriel, Melissa Guerrero, Ted Johnson, Emily Moore – Dancers
Loren Dempster – Composer
Django Carranza – Percussionist
For more information, visit the Dance page.
Benjamin Asriel, photo by Luka Kito
Friday August 26 and Saturday August 27 at 5pm (rain date Sunday August 28)
At Stuyvesant Cove Park
18th Street and Avenue C entrance (Map)
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Folk Dancing with Evelyn Diamond – August 6 @ 7pm – Free
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011| August 6, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
An evening of free dance classes and open dancing with local legend Evelyn Diamond. You’ve never experienced folk dancing like this before! Presented by the Stuyvesant Cove Park Association.
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