Kim Engel, Toni Smith, 2023-2024

2023/24 Capital Region Dance Season Calendar

Year: 2023-2024
DanceForce Member: Toni Smith
Partnering DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Community Partners: Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company; EMPAC, Troy NY; Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady; Russell Sage College; Saratoga Performing Arts Center; Skidmore College; The Egg, Albany; UAlbany Performing Arts Center; Union College, Schenectady
Counties: Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady

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Margarita Espada, 2023-2024

Ubuntu

Dancer Rosa Lina Lima and new immigrant youth from Brentwood NY: final presentation dancing “Ubuntu”. Photos by Segundo Orellana.

Year: 2023-2024
DanceForce Member: Margarita Espada
Artist: Rosa Lina Lima
Community Partners: Brentwood School District; Patchogue School District; Puerto Rican Coalition; Suffolk Community College; Uplift Our Town
Audience: 120
County: Suffolk

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Kim Engel, Toni Smith, 2023-2024

Bringing the Bessies Winner Upstate to the Capital Region

Tatiana Desardouin works with fifth grade students at Abram Lansing Elementary on 11-6-23. Photo by Patrick Ferlo

Year: 2023-2024
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Toni Smith
Artist: Tatiana Desardouin
Community Partners: The Egg, Albany; UAlbany Foundation & Auxiliary Services; UAlbany Office of Intercultural Student Engagement
Audience: 606
County: Albany

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Juried Bessies Artists Initiative, Jim Self, Ivan Sygoda, 2023-2024

DANCE-WISE, GROOVE, and GROVE

VISCERAL, 2020 performers Amanda Morretti, Kathy Lucas, Lauren Cranidiotis, Megan Nicloe, and Indira White. Photo from videos by Mee Ae and Marilyn Rivchin.
VISCERAL, 2020 performers Amanda Morretti, Kathy Lucas, Lauren Cranidiotis, Megan Nicloe, and Indira White. Photo from videos by Mee Ae and Marilyn Rivchin.

Year: 2023-2024
DanceForce Member: Jim Self
Partnering Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Tatiana Desardouin, Jim Self
Community Partner: Cherry Arts Space
Audience: 536
County: Tompkins

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Carlota Santana, 2023-2024

Flamenco Certamen USA

Amirza Hernández (Finalist Estudio Level). Taken during the Flamenco Certamen USA on Oct 14 2022 at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Photo by Lisa Greenberg.
Amirza Hernández (Finalist Estudio Level). Taken during the Flamenco Certamen USA on Oct 14 2022 at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Photo by Lisa Greenberg.

Year: 2023-2024
DanceForce Member: Carlota Santana
Artists: Leslie Roybal, Carlota Santana
Community Partners: Emilio Ochando; Fanny Ara; Lorena Franco
Audience: 362
Counties: Erie, New York

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