Kim Engel, Nancy Long, 2024-2025

Juried Bessies Award Winner in Hudson, Albany & Troy

Barkha Patel

Year: 2024-2025
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Nancy Long
Artist: Barkha Patel
Community Partners: Abram Lansing Elementary School; Emma Willard School; Hudson City Library; Hudson City School District; Elena Mosley
Audience: 455
Counties: Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer

In support of the NYS DanceForce’s commitment to the Juried Bessie Award winner, members Elena Mosley and Kim Engel will generate outreach activity for Barkha Patel in their respective regions prior to the artist’s March 28 showcase performance at The Egg in Albany.

The schedule of activity is as follows:

  • Interactions with students in the Hudson City School District during lunchtime on March 26
  • Workshop/demonstration at the Hudson Area Library in the evening of March 26
  • Movement workshops with 5th grade students at an Albany elementary school on March 27
  • Master class with high school students in Troy in the afternoon of March 27
  • Performance for the student body of an elementary school in Albany in the morning of March 28

All total, this project will reach approximately 450 Capital Region and Columbia County residents. It will allow the artist the ability to interact with these communities in the area prior to her performance and ideally attract those participants to become audience members for that performance. The outreach activities will be offered at no charge to the participants, and it is anticipated that the venue will offer discounted tickets to them for the performance.