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2 weeks 6 days ago

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2 weeks 6 days ago

ECLIPSE WEATHER: We're tracking the latest weather updates for next Monday's eclipse. Here is the current forecast for New York locations within the solar eclipse's path of totality. - Buffalo: Partly sunny, with a high near 59. - Rochester: Mostly sunny, with a high near 58. - Watertown: Mostly sunny,

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3 weeks 1 day ago

Pop Up Dance Workshop. Be in the room when it happens!

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4 weeks 16 hours ago

📣 Learn more about the NYS Choreographers Initiative! NYS Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI) is designed to help choreographers develop their skills by providing them with resources to advance their creative practice. The awardees each receive a $2,500 stipend, a $2,000 stipend for a mentor of their choice, and up to $7,000

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1 month 3 days ago

It all started with a DanceForce project called "Bring It Home". @AmericanDanceAsylum

The Unexpected Path to Creative Freedom

Mark Schmidt a dancer and movement maker left for the big city to follow his dreams as a dancer. He's realized that his return home has only made his creativity-fueled journey even better. This is his story.

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1 month 1 week ago

Hettie Barnhill with cast, rehearsal director (Kerri Canedy), and stage manager (Lex Jerome). Hettie's dance, "Handle With Care" will be performed in the SUNY Potsdam Dept. of Theatre and Dance Spring Concert, opening May 2, 2024.

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1 month 1 week ago

Hettie Barnhill teaching Afro-Modern at SUNY Potsdam, 3/13/2024

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2 months 3 weeks ago

NYS DANCEFORCE AND THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ANNOUNCE 2024 NYS CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVE AWARDEES 📣 Twelve upstate New York-based choreographers have been selected for the 2024 NYS Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI), a funding opportunity administered by @nysdanceforce and @nyscouncilonthearts The NYS Choreographers Initiative is designed to help choreographers

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4 months 1 day ago

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2023 NY State Choreographers Initiative recipient, Larissa Velez-Jackson The NYS Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI) is a program of the NYS DanceForce in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts #NYSCI #NYSCA

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4 months 6 days ago

Choreographer Kelly Johnson, exploring shadow play with mentor Harold Taddy. 2023 NYS Choreographers Initiative

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4 months 2 weeks ago

Choreographer Larissa Valez-Jackson (l) with mentor David Brick. NYS Choreographers Initiative 2023, Newburgh NY

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4 months 3 weeks ago

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4 months 3 weeks ago

Souleymane Badolo, 2023 NYS Choreographers Initiative recipient with choreographic mentor Nora Chipaumire.
Next deadline: Dec.7
New York State Council on the Arts

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NYS DanceForce

5 months 3 days ago

Maestro Henry Threadgill (l) mentoring Choreographer K.J. Holmes. a 2023 NYS Choreographers Initiative project. NEXT DEADLINE: Dec. 7. Learn more at www.danceforce.org. funded by the NYS Council on the Arts #nysdanceforce New York State Council on the Arts

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5 months 6 days ago

2023 NYS Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI) recipient, Choreographer Teresa Fellion (l) with Mentor JoAnna Mendl Shaw (r) testing ideas about framing and landscape in choreography. 📣 The 2024 NYSCI Applications are open. APPLY TODAY! Established in 2018, NYSCI is designed to support individual choreographers, in all genres, develop their choreographic skills

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NYS DanceForce programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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Margaret Kaiser
James Lemons
Nancy Long
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Jim Self
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Toni Smith
Ivan Sygoda
Paz Tanjuaquio
Lois Welk
Cynthia Williams
Glenna Yu

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A network of dance activists working to increase the quality and quantity of dance throughout upstate New York.