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The festival premieres its first evening-length dance film
Vwa Zanset Yo: Y’ap Pale, N’ap Danse! “Ancestral Voices: They Speak… We Dance!” on
Saturday, May 29 at 7pm EDT on BAM.org
May 25, 2021/Brooklyn, NY BAM’s DanceAfrica the nation’s largest African dance festival continues its celebration with special Memorial Day weekend programs, including the world premiere of the evening-length dance film
Vwa Zanset Yo: Y’ap Pale, N’ap Danse! “Ancestral Voices: They Speak… We Dance!” and live dance party on Saturday, May 29; a public art installation
A Return: Liberation as Power (May 24 31), featuring six Haitian visual artists’ meditation on liberation; a special “for teens by teens” event
DanceAfrica 2021 Celebration Continues Through Memorial Day Weekend
The festival premieres its first evening-length dance film Vwa Zanset Yo: Y ap Pale, N ap Danse! Ancestral Voices: They Speak. We Dance! on Saturday, May 29 at 7pm.by BWW News Desk
BAM s DanceAfrica-the nation s largest African dance festival- will continue its celebration with special Memorial Day weekend programs, including the world premiere of the evening-length dance film Vwa Zanset Yo: Y ap Pale, N ap Danse! Ancestral Voices: They Speak. We Dance! and live dance party on Saturday, May 29; a public art installation A Return: Liberation as Power (May 24-31), featuring six Haitian visual artists meditation on liberation; a special for teens by teens event Haiti In Full Scope-exploring the history, art, and culture of Haiti. Visit BAM.org to join and view the weekly schedule.
Magloire s New Chamber Ballet Will Be Performed Live at Mark Morris Dance Center
The program will see the World Premiere of Magloire s Sea and a new solo for company member Madeleine Williams.by BWW News Desk
Miro Magloire s New Chamber Ballet returns to the stage for two live Friday presentations, May 28th and June 4th, at the Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn.
The program will see the World Premiere of Magloire s Sea and a new solo for company member Madeleine Williams.
The new 55-minute Sea is, according to choreographer Magloire, simply a celebratory work coming from the joy of being able to perform again person, for a live audience. Music is a commissioned score by Richard Carrick, in his third collaboration with Magloire.
Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance
Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’
Larissa Gerszke and Chalvar Monteiro in Claudia Schreier’s duet to “God Is Seen at the Irondale, a church turned performance space, in Brooklyn.Credit.via New York Choral Society
By Marina Harss
Watching: New York Choral Society, ‘God Is Seen’
Like dance and the other performing arts, choral singing has had a tough year. Singing is breath, breath carries germs, and these days large groups of people singing together is the stuff of nightmares. But the urge to raise voices in song together, like the urge to move to music, is powerful. Now, the New York Choral Society is combining the two dance and song in a new short film to be released on Feb. 23.