Year: 2023-2024
DanceForce Member: Cynthia Williams
Partnering Member: Robin Collen
Artist: Tatiana Desardouin
Community Partner: Hobart & William Smith Colleges Dance Department, Geneva
Audience: 400
County: Ontario
DANCE-WISE, GROOVE, and GROVE

Year: 2023-2024
DanceForce Member: Jim Self
Partnering Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Tatiana Desardouin, Jim Self
Community Partner: Cherry Arts Space
Audience: 370
County: Tompkins
Alice Sheppard Kinetic Light HWS Residency 2022

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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Kinetic Light / Alice Sheppard Residency

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
THE KYLE MARSHALL PROJECT

Year: 2019-2020
DanceForce Member: Elena Mosley
Partnering Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artists: Kyle Marshall, Marcus McGregor
Community Partners: Hudson Hall; JD Urban Photography; Marathon Digital
Audience: 779
County: Columbia
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Kyle Marshall Residency at Bethany Arts Community

Year: 2019-2020
DanceForce Member: Toni Smith
Partnering Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Kyle Marshall
Community Partners: Arts Westchester; Bethany Arts Community
Audience: 63
County: Westchester
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Abby Zbikowski & The New Utility at The Emelin Theater/Dance Off The Grid
Year: 2018-2019
DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Abby Zbikowski
Community Partner: Emelin Theater, Mamaroneck NY
Audience: 124
County: Westchester
The project supported the participation of 2017 juried Bessie artist Abby Zbikowski and her New Utility dance company in the spring 2019 edition of The Emelin Theater’s annual Dance Off The Grid series in Mamaroneck, NY. Specifically, Abby and three other company members occupied the middle third of the April program. DOTG Curator Andrea Snyder summarizes and provides a mini-review: “Abby Z and the New Utility performed a 20-minute work in progress – Radioactive Practice – to resounding applause and appreciation for the dancers’ extraordinary physical abilities and the stimulating choreography. The audience was ‘wowed’ by the work. Unintentionally and serendipitously, Abby’s choreography and the company’s performance aligned with the other two artists on the program – Caleb Teicher and Malini Srinivasan – through the association of rhythm, which turned out to be the noted ‘theme’ of the evening.”
The endeavor sustains the commitment the DanceForce made several years ago to support touring beyond New York City by each year’s juried Bessie artist, selected by a rotating panel of distinguished dance-makers convened by Bessie Director Lucy Sexton. Bessie artists who have toured with Dance Force support include Pam Tanowitz, Pavel Zustiak (Palissimo), Beth Gill, Gerard & Kelly and Darrell Jones. This project continued in particular the Dance Force’s fruitful collaboration with The Emelin Theater in Westchester and with Andrea Snyder, who curates their Dance Off The Grid Series.
Each DOTG program presents three different dance artists/companies and culminates in an informal audience-performer dialogue moderated by Andrea. She has built a faithful audience for the series, one comprised mainly of adults, who have developed an appetite for the eclectic nature of the dance on display and a willingness to be surprised and even challenged by unexpected idioms. The houses (the theater seats 265) are usually gratifying—between 150-200 patrons. The participating artists appreciate the evident curiosity and attention of the public and the liveliness of the post-performance discussion. With the exception of Fall for Dance, an eclectic dance sampler of this sort is simply not to be found in New York City. It thus offers participating artists the experience of sharing their work with a truly “new” audience. They value this.
DanceForce Collaboration with Emelin Theater (Mamaroneck, NY)
Year: 2017-2018
DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artists: Beth Gill, Jim Self, Pam Tanowitz, Adam Weinert
Community Partners: Emelin Theater, Mamaroneck, NY
Audience: 280
County: Westchester
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Buffalo contingent advance trip to see Palissimo’s “Bastard” in Albany
Year: 2016-2017
DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Pavel Zustiak
Counties: Albany, Erie
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Souleymane Badolo at The Emelin Theater March 3, 2017
Year: 2016-2017
DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artists: Souleymane Badolo, Mamadou Konate
Community Partners: Emelin Theater, Mamaroneck NY
Audience: 250
County: Westchester
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