Sukanya Burman, Margaret Kaiser, Ivan Sygoda, 2025-2026

Jamestown Dance Festival

Les Ballet Afrik – New York Is Burning

Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Sukanya Burman
Partnering DanceForce Members: Margaret Kaiser, Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Les Ballet Afrik
Community Partners: Arts Services Initiative, Buffalo; Chautauqua Region Community Foundation; Cullen Foundation; Jamestown Community College; Jamestown Pride; Jamestown Public Market; New Neighbors Coalition; Reg Lenna Center for the Arts; Sheldon Foundation; Torn Space Theatre; Wegmans; YWCA Jamestown
Audience: 800
Counties: Chautauqua, Erie

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Juried Bessies Artists Initiative, Sukanya Burman, Ivan Sygoda, 2024-2025

Jamestown Dance Festival

 

Barkha Patel in RAMTI AAVE or Her Playful Arrival. Photo by Joseph Sinott

Year: 2024-2025
DanceForce Member: Sukanya Burman
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Barkha Patel
Community Partners:  Chautauqua Regional Community Foundation; Sheldon Foundation; Reg Lenna Center for the Arts;  National Comedy Center; Jamestown Community College;  Wegmans Jamestown
Audience: 658
Counties: Chautauqua, Steuben

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Juried Bessies Artists Initiative, Missy Pfohl Smith, Ivan Sygoda, 2024-2025

Barkha Patel – Juried Bessies Award Tour in Rochester

Barkha Patel dancing in orange dress outdoors among green natural background.

Year: 2024-2025
DanceForce Member: Missy Pfohl Smith
Artist: Barkha Patel
Community Partners: Bharata School of Indian Dance and Music; Eastman School of Music; Nazareth College, Rochester; Rochester Institute of Technology; SUNY Brockport; University of Rochester
Audience: 645
County: Monroe

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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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Juried Bessies Artists Initiative, Ivan Sygoda, Cynthia Williams, 2021-2022

Alice Sheppard Kinetic Light HWS Residency 2022

Laurel Lawson leading Disability & Technology workshop Sep. 2, 2022. Photo by Kevin Colton.

Year: 2021-2022
DanceForce Member: Cynthia Williams
DanceForce Partnering Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artists: Alice Sheppard, Laurel Lawson
Community Partners: Hobart & William Smith Colleges Dance Department; Hobart & William Smith Colleges Education Department
Audience: 251
County: Ontario

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Juried Bessies Artists Initiative, Jim Self, Ivan Sygoda, 2020-2021

Kinetic Light / Alice Sheppard Residency

Alice Sheppard, balances on her hands, arms straight, and on a pair of silver crutches, lifting her lower body and wheelchair high. Alice’s head is tucked and her short curly hair peeks out from behind her strong arms. She is a coffee-skinned multiracial Black woman, wearing a shimmery gold bodysuit. Set against a black background, light reflects off her costume, chair, and crutches. Photo by Mengwen Cao.

Year: 2020-2021
DanceForce Member: Jim Self
DanceForce Partnering Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artists: Megan Omohundro, Jim Self, Alice Sheppard
Community Partners: CherryArts Space
Audience: 298
County: Tompkins

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