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MISSION: Dancing in the Streets (Dancing) strives to illuminate the urban experience with free public performances and site-specific installations that examine the kinetic life and history of natural and architectural public spaces. Its productions explore the intersection of the arts and the city, strengthen community life through active engagement with the arts, diversify audiences, and serve as catalysts for the celebration of urban life. Since Dancing was founded in 1984, it has commissioned, produced and presented more than 500 performances and installations by over 300 contemporary artists. It has garnered local, national and international praise for its large-scale performances and site-specific productions that have revitalized public spaces and helped break the barrier too often existing between art and the general public. Dancing was founded by Elise Bernhardt and has been under the leadership of Aviva Davidson since 1998. PROGRAM INITIATIVES: Dancing presents an average of two–three projects a year, ranging from intimate, one-day performances to large-scale, site-specific productions. Its current signature series are: Hip Hop Generation Next – a celebration and exploration of hip hop dance as a significant urban art form that was spawned on New York City streets; BREAKING GROUND – A Dance Charrette – site-specific dance commissioned for compelling historic sites in transition; and Intersections, performances and installations that explore the intersection of the performing arts, technology, and the urban environment. PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS: Hip Hop Generation Next (6/14/08&6/9/07) – a five-hour block party with performances in Red Hook, Brooklyn; BREAKING GROUND – A Dance Charrette, Artistic Director, Joanna Haigood: five choreographers create five site-specific works in five days for compeling New York City sites in transitions. Choreographers: Jonah Bokaer, Tania Isaac, Stephan Koplowitz, Gus Solomons jr, and Nami Yamamoto. Site: Hangar B at Floyd Bennett Field (9/29-10/5/08). Choreographers: Douglas Dunn, Noémie Lafrance, Elizabeth Streb, Reggie Wilson, and Yasuko Yokoshi. Site: Fort Jay on Governors Island (8/14-19/06). Choreographers: Ann Carlson, Eiko & Koma, Larry Keigwin, Tere O’Connor, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Site: Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO (9/12-17/05); The Grand Step Project by Stephan Koplowitz (6/15-28/04): A site-adaptive work with 50 dancers for six NYC grand staircases; Offering by Eiko & Koma (7/02 & 6/03): An elegy to a wounded city performed in seven NYC parks, plazas, and gardens; Picture Red Hook by Joanna Haigood, Mary Ellen Strom, and Lauren Weinger (8/22-24/02): Aerial dancers and100-foot high video projections on a massive grain terminal. EDUCATION AND OUTREACH INITIATIVES: Dancing’s Red Hook Initiative has served residents of the Red Hook Houses—one of the largest public housing projects in the country—for the past 16 years. Since 1993, Dancing has offered dance instruction in Red Hook’s four public schools and two after-school programs. In collaboration with over 50 Red Hook community organizations, businesses, churches, and schools, Dancing produced multiple free, public dance programs in the neighborhood, including dance performances in public parks, youth festivals, and large-scale community-based site-specific productions. In 2007, Dancing launched Team NXT, a youth development, arts enrichment program for Red Hook and other Brooklyn teens. AWARDS: A $100,000 Arts Partners Award (2001); a $200,000 Leading Dance center Award from the Lila Wallace Readers’ Digest Fund (1997); an Encore Award from the Arts and Business Council; a Certificate of Merit from the Municipal Art Society; and The Doris C. Freedman Award from the City of New York for “greatly enriching the public environment.” | |||||||||||
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Dancing in the Streets Staff Aviva Davidson Mathew Heggem | |||||||||||
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