Bronx Dance Magazine/BDT

BRONX/DANCE MAGAZINE
0anuar5/6ebruar5 200;
BDT= 2> ?ears Strong
Issue E
!ut !f La Botanica
Meeting 0t Lo1inger
The !nl6
Comprehensi1e Bronx
Dance Director6
The Bronx=s !wn Prima Ballerina@
0n Anter1iew with Barbara Klein
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!appy &e( )ear! ,e-re brin1in1 in the &e( )ear in a 1reat (ay by once a1ain di11in1 into the Bronx dance
9andscape (ith an inter;ie( of Barbara =9ein, Artistic Director and AoBnder of the Bronx Dance TheatreD EsD
=9ein (as 1eneroBs enoB1h to spend some GBa9ity time (ith me and share her thoB1hts aboBt (hat it means
to brin1 Bp a cB9tBra9 institBtion that has sBr;i;ed 2I years (ith the sBpport of her hBsband and JxecBti;e
Director, &ei9 Ko9dstein, friends, fami9y and stBdentsD !er reco99ections are a 9esson to anyone tryin1 to keep
the dance f9ame a9i;e in this 1reat boroB1hD
A9so inside this issBe yoB (i99 find some ref9ections from Mhe9ia Ea9donado on the Out of 'a Botanica concert
presented by Nepatian this past &o;ember at BAAD!D Thank yoB to Oane Kabrie9s for pro;idin1 the artic9eD
This artic9e reminds me of the need of a Bronx responsi;e critica9 eye to he9p the process of bBi9din1 a
stron1 dance commBnityD
OBr 9ast coa9ition meetin1 (as hosted by Dante A9berti and the cre( of the Qo;in1er TheaterD The dance
coa9ition (as treated (ith 1reat respect and 1enerosity and (as 1i;en a toBr of the (onderfB9 faci9itiesD ,e
are 9ookin1 for(ard to continBin1 to de;e9op a re9ationship bet(een the Qo;in1er and the coa9ition and are
fi99ed (ith 1reat hopes aboBt the possibi9itiesD
!a;e a 1reat coBp9e of months as (e a99 9eap into the next time aroBndD
-ArthBr A;i9es, Jditor-in-Shief
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ArthBr A;i9es
Jditor-in-Shief, Director of the Bronx Dance Soa9ition
Shar9es Tice-KonUa9eU
Assistant to the Jditor
A9ethea Nace
On9ine Jditor, Ea1aUine Desi1ner
Mpecia9 thanks to Barbara =9ein and the Bronx Dance Theatre for their contribBtion to this issBeD
Thanks to the Association of !ispanic Arts VA!AW, Ee9issa &1irai9emesan1 and The Bronx SoBnci9 on the
Arts for pro;idin1 the posta1eD ,e (oB9d a9so 9ike to thank the ;o9Bnteers for their sBpportD
,e appreciate feedback andXor additions to the ma1aUineD Yf yoB (oB9d 9ike to Zoin the ;o9Bnteer staff, p9ease
contact Bs at I18-8]2-5223D
Bronx Dance Ea1aUine and Bronx Dance Soa9ition are proZects of ArthBr A;i9es Typica9 Theatre and operate
from the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance VBAAD!W, 8]1 Barretto Mtreet, Bronx, &) 10]I]D BAAD! (as
foBnded by dancerXchoreo1rapher ArthBr A;i9es (ith assistance from the Noint SDSD
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!oi$es' )ro+, -.+$e Co.0itio+ 2eeti+3 2i+4tes
December 1), 2003 at Lehman College
Attending: Kathy Adely (Assistant Director- Lovinger), Dante Alberti (Director of the Lovinger), Arthur Aviles (AATT),
Marsi Burns, Laurie Degen (Lighting Designer-Lovinger), Buster Grant (Opus Dance Theater), Patricio Lerzundi
(Director of the Theater and Dance Program at Lehman) Bess Pruitt (Artist Manager), Sita Mredrick (Pepatian), Sherisa
Jarvis (Danze Divas), Henry Ovalles (Supervising Stage Manager- The Dance Lab), Ken Ross (Technical DirectorLovinger)
We thank Marsi Burns for taking notes.
The notes which appear below are a summary of the last and very auspicious meeting held by our generous host
Dante Alberti and the eUually generous crew at the Lovinger Theater. There were four major topics of discussion:
1. Organizing a dance concert at the Lovinger to raise money for the coalition and to celebrate Bronx
dance pioneers.
2. Xsing facilities of the Lovinger Theater in order to video document dance pieces of Bronx dance
companies.
3. Developing ideas and strategies to revamp the dance program at Lehman College.
4. Arranging rehearsal space for coalition members.
At the end of the meeting, Dante and his crew were kind enough to show us the amazing dance facilities. If you missed
this meeting, you missed a very important event. Dante and his crew treated us with great respect and we thank them from
the bottom of our hearts!
Arthur: Welcome. Coalition and magazine are one year old. The last magazine was about a new dance art form, the
shake, and featured Eric Wilson. The Bronx dance coalition brings together Bronx dance related citizens in order to
discuss issues and create actions around those issues.
Dante: Spoke to the group about Lehman stages, consolidating the stages (Studio Theater Lab, Theater, Experimental
Theater) into one entity and future possible programs.
Ken: Technical director of theater
Buster: Director of Opus, 1) year old dance company.
Sita: Representing Pepatian. ]ery grateful to be supported by the Bronx.
Bess: Runs artist management company in Bronx, Co-founder of Bronx council on the Arts
Arthur: Suggests a discussion of issues and action regarding dance hosted by Lovinger Theater.
What could we do for each other^ What are the possibilities of using the space^
Dante: Dance coalition could use a night at Lovinger for a benefit with minimal staff cost from box office and the rest
benefiting the coalition. Lehman can offer rehearsal times at competitive rates, open to Coalition members. Not looking
to take advantage of Bronx organizations but that we work together as non profits. Looking to engage, revamp and
rebuild cultural programs and the dance program. Need to bring back dance.
Arthur: What does it mean to possibly revamp the dance program from outside the institution^
What kind of small step can be made to move closer to a coalition connection^
Dante: Looking future teachers for September, a consultant to build, gather names of groups.
Arthur: Coalition comes together to consider serious recommendations for a curriculum-What would the criteria be^
Bess: The coalition would put together one show a year- have a huge presentation gala recognizing past Bronx pioneers.
Project would take 2 years`2005
Group: Names suggested included: Tina Ramirez, Chuck Davis, Joan Miller, Abdel Salam, Marshall Romaine, Rosemary
Jurist, Barbara Klien.
Bess: Go to the Bronx Council on the Arts for assistance. Coalition members work on the construction of gala.
Dante: We can check Lehman College own archives.
Arthur: Coalition- volunteer to help with the organizationbBronx and tourism.
Buster: Need to put together a financial committee. Need funding.
Dante: Bronxnet can bring in video eUuipment
Arthur: Mund raising party a smaller event in 2004 benefit for pioneers, event held at BAAD!
Bess: We can gather footage from the past. This can be a way of giving thanks to pioneers and finding out some vital
information about Bronx dance.
NEcT MEETING: JANXARY 20, 2004, )PM AT BAAD!
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Bronx River Arts Center ; Gallery
Gail Nathan- Director
1087 East Tremont Ave
Bronx, NH 10460
[email protected]
Camino de Paz
Harry Bobbins
P.O. Box 801
Bronx, NH 10454
718-742-7832
[email protected]
Center Stage Community
Playhouse
2474 Westchester Ave.
Bronx, NH 10461
718-823-6434
Hostos Center for Arts and Culture
Wallace Edgecombe
450 Grand Concourse RC141
Bronx, NH 10451
718-518-6700
718-518-4455 Box Office
Yehman Center for the Performing
Arts
Andrea J. Rockower \
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, New Hork 10468
718-960-8281, 8232
[email protected]
Yive From the Edge Theater
Chantler Townsend
940 Garrison Avenue
Bronx, NH 10474
718-542-4139
Yovinger Theater
Dante Alberti
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, NH 10468
718-960-7830
[email protected]
Vamos A Ya Pena Del Bronx
Joe Perez - Artistic Director
226 E. 144th Street 3rd Fl.
Bronx, New Hork 10451
718-742-2523
Wave Hill Dance Department
675 W. 252nd Street
Bronx, NH 10471
718-549-3200
[email protected]
OTHER ENTITIES
Archie Broady
1912 Osborne Place
Bronx, NH 10463
Benita Brooks
2720 Grand Concourse a516
Bronx, NH 10458
718-561-5480
609-877-5723
Beth Abraham Hospital
Attn: Dance Program
612 Allerton Avenue
Bronx, NH 10467
718-519-4125
Bronx Tourism Council
Yyssette Rivera - Director
198 E. 161st Street, Suite 201
Bronx, NH 10451
[email protected]
Bronx Council on the Arts
Bill Aguado, Ed Friedman,
Ellen Pollen
1738 Hone Avenue
Bronx, NH 10461-1486
718-931-9500
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[email protected],
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Dance NHC
Robert Hesselman, Director
c/o The JEHT Foundation
120 Wooster Street 2nd Fl.
New Hork, NH 10012
212-966-1638
[email protected]
Darlene Carr ; Anthony Carr
2710 Sedgewick Avenue a3A
Bronx, NH 10468
718-601-0824
[email protected]
DRA
Denise Roberts Hurlin
165 W. 46th Street Ste. 1300
New Hork, NH 10036
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Bronx, NH 10461
718-319-0829
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Urban Renewal:
Pepatian’s
Out of La Botanica
A
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BAAD!
city native gets bored easily, needs constant
renewal, not unlike an artist. It helps to look at
things from different angles. In the Bronx a few
Saturday nights ago, there was plenty of stimuli,
lots of folks who seemed like family moving in
ways familiar and new in a show called Out of La
Botanica produced by Pepatian. Like many city
natives, this dance concert and most of its
performers have Latino roots. That understood,
they imagined themselves in kaleidoscopic shapes
and images, located themselves in contexts both
homegrown and abstract.
It could have been a night on the town - catching a
drag king in a smooth guayabera lip-synching to
her salsa jam and her woman (Elizabeth Marrero),
making a circle around kids on a street corner
popping and locking (Keep Rising to the Top),
sitting on the sidelines at a club hypnotized by the
moves of party people (Vissi Dance Theater). It
could have doubled as sites of ritual and
experimentation - the poetic improvisation of an
offering to an altar installation (Noemi Segarra and
Marion Ramirez), the representation of floating,
drifting nature (Richard Rivera). It could have been
a place for new tradition and beauty - ballets
to classically informed house music
November 7&8, 2003
!""# R&'&() *+ *," T+#
Anthony Rodriguez) and the newly discovered
sound of old balladeers (Jessie Flores and Pablo
Amores). It could have also unfolded as a blank
page animated with color and caricature - a critique
of an oversized dictator and the people he exploited
(Sita Frederick), or a send-up of a beloved, but
equally traumatizing, showgirl superstar (Rhina
Valentin).
Placed next to each other, these dances brought
together "the speculative and the liberatory" as one
poet calls it, the innovation of avant-garde work
and the yearning of oppressed people. They have
something to learn from each other, something to
urge the other on, not unlike a city native getting
something from the kind of inspiration an artist
requires.
- Sheila Maldonado
Sheila Maldonado is a poet and freelance writer.
Her family hails from Honduras and she was born
and raised in New York. She divides her time
between Washington Heights and Coney Island.
OUTSIDE THE *RON- .//0
!illa%&ee )otion -culpture 2ro3ect
Fridays at noon at the 92 Street 1
February 6, 12pm
Dixon 2lace presents !ovin& !en (Curated by Arthur Aviles and performed by
Alberto Denis, Pedro Jimenez, Pedro Osorio and Richard Rivera)
Gniversity Settlement
February 23, 8pm
2epatian presents Bronx Dance /arty 2 A/A/ (Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre, Sita
FredericK, Full Circle, Pene McCourty, Physual, Merian Soto Dance and Performance, Awilda
SterlingODuprey Antonio Ramos and Anthony Rodriguez)
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City Center Studios
2hysual
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
January 10, 10pm
January 7, 7pm
Sun
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Sat
January 2004
To list your event call us at 718-842-5223 or email us at
[email protected]. Deadline for submission is February 17, 2004.
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Fieldston
Dance
Company( w/work by
Robert Battle )
@Fieldston, 7:30pm
(718)329-7300x3358
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Arthur Aviles
Typical
Theatre’s History
Dances (video
screening) @BAAD!,
8pm
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Children of
Uganda@
Lehman Center for
the Performing Arts,
2pm
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Bronx Dance
Coalition
Meeting@ BAAD!,
6pm
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Arthur Aviles
Typical Theatre:
Embarking on the
Disco Project @ BAAD!,
3pm
Sun
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Sat
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Forces of Nature
Dance Theater@
Hostos Center for Arts
and Culture
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Bronx Dance
Coalition
Meeting @BAAD!,
6pm
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Black Dance
on Film @The
Point CDC
718-542-4139
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To list your event call us at 718-842-5223 or email us at
[email protected]. Deadline for submission is February 17, 2004.
For groups performing outside the Bronx see page 10.