WADE into ACTIVISM is a Virtual Event Series made up of performances, conversations, and interviews by artists and activists, centered around gender-based violence, reproductive rights, trafficking, toxic masculinity, erasure, identity, and power. This event takes on global and multifarious perspectives, our participants’ voices hailing from Argentina, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Tobago, Trinidad, and U.S.A. WADE is joining the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign organized by the UN. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign invites us in galvanizing actions around the world to take a stand against sexual violence in all contexts and spark a global conversation about what it will take to prevent and end rape.

Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance is thrilled to be presenting excerpts of Tales of Hopper in this event. Tales of Hopper is the fruit of a collaboration between choreographer Cherylyn Lavagnino and composer Martin Bresnick inspired by the work of American painter Edward Hopper. This theater-dance work casts the dancers as figures plucked from selected Hopper paintings, illuminating human connections through gestural movement steeped in subtext, as Bresnick’s original composition for piano, violin, and cello brings emotional undercurrents to the surface. Transparent set pieces reference Hopper’s environments, contextualizing each of the eight vignettes as they unfold. Tales of Hopper marks a departure for Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, asking each of the dancers to step into the new roles of actor and collaborator in the company’s most character-driven work to date.

In these excerpted vignettes, dancer Justin Faircloth embodies painter Edward Hopper as present, yet disconnected. Through Lavagnino’s research and Faircloth’s performance, Hopper faces the dichotomy of emotional repression and sexual yearning. We find a disaffected, lonely, misogynistic man unable to balance his need to dominate women with his dependence on them. He is revealed to be searching for an exciting intimacy while realizing the stability of the relationship with his wife, Josephine, is something he cannot relinquish. This trio is, of course, driven by biography but created with imaginative license. 

This festival is free and available to all. This work will be shown Thursday, December 3 2020 at 8:00pm EST. Visit facebook.com/wia20 for more information and subscribe to WADE’s YouTube channel to view the festival: https://youtube.com/channel/UCiFI1DE1DJTcenkitANJn5A

Corinne will be performing Pascal Rioult’s work Les Noces on November 22, 2020 as part of the RIOULT Repertoire Group. This performance will also include a first look at Rioult’s newest work on his RIOULT Dance NY company.

Corinne will be performing “Together Together,” a work created in 2017 by Ori Flomin during his residency with the Second Avenue Dance Company, at AICF’s 80th Anniversary Celebration and the launch of the inaugural Israeli Culture and Arts Awards. As an original cast member of this work, Corinne is excited to revisit it two years later. The ICA Awards will honor Israel’s most impactful artists. The 2019 winners have been announced and will be honored at the event. They are:

Theater: Hanna Azoulay Hasfari
Dance: Ohad Naharin
Film/TV: Ron Leshem
Visual Arts: Vania Heymann
Music: Idan Raichel

This year’s program will feature Anbessa Orchestra lead by AICF alumnus Nadav Peled, Sheba Ensemble, prodigy cellist and AICF current grant recipient Nahar Eliaz, choreographer and AICF alumnus Ori Flomin, along with incredible visual artists, designers, and other performing artists.

TDH/The Larger WE performance presents works by Toscana Dance HUB’s artists-in-residence and alumni. The performance affirms the need of engaging our community around important topics of inclusion, acceptance and a collective WE, using dance and music as transformative practices.

Works by Morgan Burns, Simona de Tullio, Giada Matteini Ferrone and Javier Padilla. Featuring Molissa Fenley and Company and live music by Robert Boston.

Toscana Dance HUB has been engaging in international collaborations since 2011 and is gearing up for its 10th Anniversary Season Celebration! Here are some of the projects we are producing both in NYC and in Europe:

·      Dance and music residencies in Barcelona, Florence and Agropoli;

·      The first edition of the Agropoli/New York Festival/Danza e Musica in collaboration with the City of Agropoli, produced and curated by Toscana Dance HUB;

·      Italian tour of Molissa Fenley and Company in Florence, Roma, Agropoli and a collaboration with artist Mark Kostabi in Abruzzo;

·      TDH Festival for Emerging Choreographers in NYC, with performance at the Jack Crystal Theater and two days jam-packed with lectures, free classes, feedback sessions, networking opportunities;

·      TDH monthly masterclasses at Gibney Dance at 280 Broadway;

·      10th anniversary performances/events in Agropoli (July 2020) and New York City (November 2020).

This extraordinary “eclectic performance series” (The New Yorker) returns for its sixth season of spectacular dance at the Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck, NY. Dance Off the Grid is two evenings of multiple performances showcasing the diversity of today’s dance landscape, followed by a Q&A with the artists about what inspires their work. The May 4th event features the highly eloquent contemporary ballet of Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, the abstract, often comedic dance of Larry Keigwin & Nicole Wolcott, as well as Mamaroneck dancer, choreographer and teacher Megan Williams in Megan Williams Dance Projects.

CLD will be performing “Veiled” and “Drive” in this festival.

Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance will be presenting an assortment of excerpts for this year’s APAP presentation at Alvin Ailey Studios. Join us at 4:30pm in studio 5A.

Join us for a wonderful evening of dance followed by a reception with the company. More info to come!

Performing Cherylyn Lavagnino’s Veiled at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City.

The American Dance Guild Festival 2018, Visions Then and Now, will honor choreographic luminaries Jane Comfort and the late Eleo Pomare with four days of performances by 34 multi-generational artists from across the United States. The Festival will take place October 25 through October 28 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, in New York City.

Day of Dance

This family-friendly event and community favorite is a truly remarkable afternoon of site-specific dance and work created for the stage. The festival, now in its 14th year, celebrates the visions of women choreographers and intersections of the visual and performing arts, exploring relationships between sculpture and dance, and place and movement. Featuring indoor and outdoor performances, it is an extraordinary way to encounter the beauty of Grounds For Sculpture.