Global Water Dances New York 2023 Program
Welcome
Opening Ritual
Artichoke Dance Company presents Water…We Waiting For? (excerpt)
Choreographer: Lynn Neuman
Dancers: Emily Arden Jones, Aidan Feldman and Sawyer Newsome
Water…We Waiting For? reflects the energetic nature of water and its cyclical patterns while raising questions about the nature of responses to climate change.
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Art of Motion Dance Theater presents SHAKTI
Choreographer: Lynn Needle
Dancers: Lynn Needle, M.A. Taylor and Janette Dishuk
Live Percussion: Mickey Hart and Teddy Gibbons
Costume Designer: Annie Hickman
SHAKTI is a trio set to a percussion sound score by Mickey Hart, the percussionist from The Grateful Dead. It embodies the essence of Gaia, divine femininity, and worships all things related to the sun, warmth and embrace.
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House Of Negesti, LLC presents Waves
Dancers: Negesti McIntosh, Charnay Paris and Jonayah Jackson
Waves explores the various ways in which water (Spirit) supports us in the ebb and flow of life. We are led by water, supported by water, nourished by water, taken by water, connected through water, and we are water. Waves dives into the multi-dimensional relationship we have with the divine element of water.
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Conversation with Adriana Ortega, Environmental Advocates of New York
Artichoke Dance Company presents We Are Drowning
Choreographer: Lynn Neuman
Dancers: Emily Arden Jones and Aidan Feldman
Music: Adam Borecki
We Are Drowning envisions a world underwater swimming in plastic.
Art of Motion Dance Theater presents SURRENDER
Choreographer and Dancer: Sara Gloede
Music: "Fly" by Ludovico Einaudi
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company present On Wings To Fly and Slow & Beautiful
Choreographer: Lori Belilove, in the style of Isadora
Dancers: Company Members Samuel Humphreys, Samantha Mercado, Hayley Rose; and Guest Dancers Claire Gaylor, Christina Michalski, MaryBeth Rodgers
Music: Bach, Rachmaninoff
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Direct Action with Artichoke Dance Company
Take a stand against plastic pollution and support impending legislation in New York State. Use the call script LINKED HERE
Global Water Dance’s Story of Water
Music: Nicolas Soto
Dancers: Emily Arden Jones, Aidan Feldman, Sawyer Newsome, Louise Heit, Layla Gasawara, Theresa Herron, Sia Luna, Megan Haungs, Margaret Yuen, Renee Lupperger, Renie Reiss, Kiki Black, Marítza Matias, Rosy Gentle, Christine DeLuca, Lian Kizner, Linda Lawrence, Amy Harrison, Yuri Ogasawara, Christine Dubov, Jeonghae Jones, and Jill Higson
This dance is being performed by hundreds of groups and thousands of dancers across the globe on this day.
https://globalwaterdances.org/
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Closing Participatory Movement
This program was made possible, in part, through the Global Water Dances Site Impact Fund with additional support from a Broadway Green Alliance Theatre Greening Grant.
ABOUT THE COMPANIES:
Artichoke Dance Company is an arts organization working at the intersections of performance innovation, environmental activism, education, community building and civic engagement. Our productions model scientific phenomenon and occurrences in nature, make use of recycled materials, and involve the public in the process and performance. We collaborate with scientists, architects, visual artists, composers, designers, filmmakers, museums, presenters, educational institutions, corporations and the public to create works infused with forward thinking perspectives. Our groundbreaking work inspires people to gather around pressing issues, to build community, create art, and enact change.
Art of Motion Dance Theatre was founded by former Nikolais Principal and Artistic Director, Lynn Needle. The AOMDT is known for their site specific environmentally conscious work performing on all terrains. They are the recipients of numerous prestigious grants, including Andrew W. Mellon, BCDCHA, Harkness Foundation, NOAA, National Oceanic Atmospheric Association, DEP, Coastal Management Project grants for their Coastal Art project THE POSEIDON PROJECT: An Aquatic Myth. The company has performed internationally and in more than a dozen United States and has been featured at Global TEDMED at the Kennedy Center, Jacob's Pillow, Lincoln Center and beyond.
Global Water Dances connects and supports a global community of choreographers and dancers to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance. Global Water Dances began as a collective idea of an international group of individuals, certified by the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS), with decades of experience in producing Movement Choirs, events that use community dance to create social cohesion through non-verbal communication. They met attending a conference on Dance and the Environment in July 2008 at Schumacher College in England. The original group includes Karen Bradley, Richard Bell, John Chanik, Gretchen Dunn, Martha Eddy, Ellen Goldman, Marylee Hardenbergh, Antja Kennedy, Tara Stepenburg, Simone Hoever,and Daniela Schlemm. The first event took place in June 2011 where 57 locations came together for a 24 hour movement around the world.
House of Negesti: Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Negesti is a dancer, choreographer, and educator. Her background being of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage, she has always had a love for polyrhythms and dance. Some of her work as a freelance artist includes performing at Lincoln Center's Okay Africa festival, dancing as a background dancer for Janet Jackson’s “Made for Now” music video, Essence Fest, Afropunk, and more. Negesti’s choreographic work has been presented at the La Mama Theater, Dixon Place, The National Black Theater of Harlem, and the Baxter Theater in Cape Town, South Africa.
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company dancers breathe new life into Isadora's legendary works and Belilove's masterful interpretations of the technique. Raw and unassuming, vibrant and sensual, the dancers swathed in silk are borne aloft by the brilliant musicality of the Duncan style. Lori Belilove, the world's premier Duncan Ambassador, is dedicated to the creation of new works while keeping Isadora’s original works alive as priceless jewels of American modern dance.