Kim Engel, 2026-2027

Putting Out the Welcome Mat…Again!

Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Artist: Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company
Community Partners: Bank of Greene County; Dance Alliance; Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company; Schenectady County Legislature; Upstate Coalition for a Fairgame
Audience: 780
Counties: Albany; Fulton; Montgomery; Rensselaer; Saratoga; Schenectady; Schoharie; Washington

Putting Out the Welcome Mat 2025-26. Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company performing at the Vischer Ferry General Store 9-20-25.

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Kim Engel, Ivan Sygoda, 2026-2027

Heidi Latsky at Capital Region Colleges

Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Heidi Latsky
Community Partners: Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dance Alliance; Russell Sage College’s Visual & Performing Arts Program and School of Health Sciences
Audience: 250
County: Rensselaer

Heidi Latsky in LIVING IN THE GREY. Photo courtesy of Heidi Latsky Dance

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Kim Engel, 2026-2027

Colleges Aid in Reviving a Robust Dance Season

Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Artists: Albany Berkshire Ballet, Baye & Asa, Doug Varone & Dancers (tentative), Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company
Community Partners: Dance Alliance; Skidmore College Department of Dance; UAlbany Performing Arts Center; UAlbany’s Department of Music and Theatre; Union College Department of Theatre and Dance, Schenectady
Audience: 350
Counties: Albany, Saratoga, Schenectady

Bessie Award winners Baye & Asa will perform at Skidmore College on 10-30-26.

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Kim Engel, 2025-2026

Soles of Duende in Capital Region Residency

Soles of Duende in performance in Schenectady on 10-17-25. Photo courtesy of Proctors Collaborative

Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Artists: Soles of Duende
Community Partners: Cohoes School District; Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana; Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady; Union College Department of Theatre and Dance, Schenectady
Audience: 1,185
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Kim Engel, Ivan Sygoda, 2025-2026

Bringing Barkha Patel Back to the Capital Region

Top photo: Barkha Patel in “ramti aave: her playful arrival” at Union College on 2-13-26. Still from video shot by Sean Junda. Bottom photo: Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company in Barkha Patel’s “zikr” at The Egg on 4-25-26. Photo by Eleanor Goldsmith

Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Barkha Patel
Community Partners: Albany Academy; Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company; Russell Sage College Dance Program; Schenectady City School District; UAlbany; Union College Department of Theatre and Dance, Schenectady
Audience: 862
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Kim Engel, Nancy Long, 2024-2025

Juried Bessies Award Winner in Hudson, Albany & Troy

Barkha Patel demonstrates for 5th graders at Abram Lansing at workshop on 3-27-25. Photo by Kim Engel

Year: 2024-2025
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Nancy Long
Artist: Barkha Patel
Community Partners: Abram Lansing Elementary School; Hudson City Library; Hudson City School District; Elena Mosley; Russell Sage College
Audience: 701
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Kim Engel, 2024-2025

Supporting Venue/College Collaborations in the Capital Region

Students at Academy of the Holy Names participate in a ribbon dance workshop with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company on 1-23-25. Photo by David Perritano courtesy of Academy of the Holy Names.

Year: 2024-2025
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Artists: A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham; Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Community Partners: Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady; Saratoga Performing Arts Center; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs; Union College, Schenectady
Audience: 1,235
Counties: Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady

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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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