Dance group Stefanie Nelsonpresents the twonaVersion ofThe Reminiscence in Movement challenge:ONLY NOWThursday, April 20 at 7:30 pm at The Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 W. 114th Road New York, New York. Tickets are free, although donations are inspired. Advance reservations are required at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/only-now-the-moving-memory-project-2nd-edition-tickets-567184854167.
Launched in 2019,The challenge of reminiscence in movementembodies its founders’ imaginative and prescient to deliver collectively artists, caregivers, and older adults to create a group of care surrounding points associated to reminiscence loss and destigmatize the prognosis of dementia, with the final word objective to boost consciousness to boost funding till till a remedy is discovered. The way it works may also help the world assume and discuss Alzheimer’s in new and essential methods, says co-producerDavid Shenk,whose writings on Alzheimer’s and dementia have received him worldwide acclaim as an authority on the topic.
Plan
Dancers for a variable inhabitants
2 trainer artists lead a 20 minute dance session for the members
goddessWorks in progress
Choreography by Stefanie Nelson and Maya Orchin
Starring: Graziella Murdocca, Maya Orchin and Mark Willis
Impressed by Massimo Bontempelli’s 1925 play Nostra Dea, during which the persona of the principle protagonist is decided solely by the attributes of the garments she wears.
Publish-performance dialogue moderated by David Shenk
Reception
Stay jazz music by musicians from the Manhattan College of Music and Dance Celebration
For extra data, go to https://www.sndancegroup.org/.
ABOUT PARTICIPANTS
Stephanie Nelson(Producer, Choreographer) based and directsStefanie Nelson Dancegroup, a recent efficiency group primarily based in New York, and Dance Italia, a world dance summer season program in Lucca, Italy. She approaches her work intuitively, distilling deeply private concepts into extremely kinetic, expressive and provocative works rooted in cross-media collaboration with artists working within the fields of music, video and visible arts. Her work has been described as instinctive, wild and edgy. Getting into the dance subject as an artist, most notably as a soloist with Anna Sokolow’s Gamers Challenge, Nelson can also be an achieved trainer and has been invited to many studios and academic establishments around the globe. The New York Basis for the Arts (NYFA) has recognized her as an rising chief within the dance subject by offering a year-long mentorship. She has been a choreographic speaker for NYFA’s prestigious Artists Fellowship awards and for the Joyce Theater and native New York dance festivals. Nelson just lately collaborated with stylist Terrence Zhou for the New York Vogue Week debut of Dangerous Binch TONGTONG with assistant Maya Orchin. She additionally choreographed Plan-B, a characteristic movie with Diane Keaton and just lately opened Motore592, a brand new heart for modern practices in Lucca, IT in 2021, internet hosting Dance Italia and the worldwide dance program TRY.
Maya Orchina(Choreographer, Performer) is a New York-based choreographer and motion director. His work has been introduced internationally in Canada, Poland, Italy, Germany, Russia, Israel and the US. She choreographed the immersive stage play Publish Mortem in Montreal, Canada and was solely the motion director for North Star, which toured in Los Angeles and Edinburgh, Scotland. You’ve had inventive residencies at PAF (France) and SPAM (Italy). Maya was the choreographer and performer on the Israel Story dwell podcast tour which toured all through the US and Israel. In New York her work has been exhibited at 92nd St Y, Judson Church, Heart for Efficiency Analysis, The New Dance Alliance Competition, The Williamsburg Artwork and Historic Society, The Dumbo Dance Competition, Artwork Helix, Theaterlab and Arts on Website. As a performer she has labored with artists resembling Luis Lara Malvacias, Okwui Okpokwasili, Invoice T Jones, Christine Bonansea, Davis Freeman, Zoe Scofield, Madeline Hollander, Reut Shemesh, Lynn Neuman, Kate Digby, Jody Oberfelder and others. She was a solo performer in Room 29 on a European tour with musicians Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales. She has been an assistant choreographer with MOMAPS1 and NIKE and most just lately for Stefanie Nelson for designer Terrence Zhou for Dangerous Binch TONGTONG’s New York Vogue Week. This fall Maya will premiere a brand new work with Stefanie Nelson on the Competition Quartier Danses in Montreal, Canada.
David Shenk(Co-Producer) is the award-winning and nationwide bestselling creator of six books, together with The Genius in All of Us (deeply fascinating and essential The New York Occasions), The Forgetting (notable The Los Angeles Occasions), Knowledge Smog (indispensable The New York Occasions) and The Immortal Sport (very good The Wall Road Journal). He is a well-liked speaker, quick movie director/producer, and contributor to Nationwide Geographic, Slate, The New York Occasions, The Wall Road Journal, Nature Biotechnology, Harpers, Spy, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, NPR, and the BBC. PBS’s The Forgetting, impressed by Shenk’s e-book, received an Emmy in 2004. In 2006, the e-book The Forgetting was featured in Sarah Polley’s Academy Award-nominated movie Away From Her. Shenk has suggested the Presidents Council on Bioethics on dementia points, served as a Senior Advisor for the Remedy Alzheimers Fund and is the creator/govt producer of the movie challenge Dwelling with Alzheimers. Shenk lives in Brooklyn. www.davidshenk.com
Dance for a Variable Inhabitants, Inc. (DVP)based by Naomi Goldberg Haas, inventive director, is a multigenerational dance firm and academic group dedicated to selling robust and artistic motion amongst seniors of all skills, enabling them to develop creativity, enhance their psychological and bodily well being , strengthen social connections and enhance their high quality of life. By means of courses, dance workshops and performances, utilizing the ability of dance, we construct communities, creating vibrant, enjoyable and fantastically carried out dance theater with numerous people {and professional} dancers. Serving over 2,500 seniors throughout New York yearly with courses and performances. Our free MOVEMENT SPEAKS Basis Program for Seniors is obtainable 3 occasions every week at Grants Tomb Plaza, Manhattanville Neighborhood Heart, Jackie Robinson Senior Heart at Grant Homes and Morningside Gardens.
Graziella Murdocca(s/he) (performer) is a contract artist and pilates teacher. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Graziella graduated from Hunter School with levels in Math and Dance. She has labored with Amirov Dance Theatre, Nicholas Andre Dance, The Subsequent Stage Challenge, Shawn Bible Dance Firm, Depth Dance and City | Tribe. She at the moment dances for BARE Dance Firm and enjoys educating Pilates at East River Pilates in Brooklyn.
Marco Willis(performer), a New York Metropolis native, started his formal dance schooling at Montclair State College, the place he earned his BFA in dance. At MSU, Mark carried out works by Jos Limn, Earl Mosely, Invoice T. Jones, Anna Sokolow, Could O Donnell and Maxine Steinman. He was additionally the recipient of the Jeanne Wade Henningburg Scholarship and the Spirit of Dance Award from the Division of Theater and Dance. In 2008, Mark had the privilege of performing with the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps in President Barak Obama’s inaugural parade. In 2014, Mark’s solo piece Save Me was chosen to be carried out on the American School Dance Competition on the Kennedy Heart in Washington DC the place it acquired optimistic reception and reward. He has additionally had the pleasure of working with Douglas Dunn and Dancers, ARCOS Dance, Christina Noel and The Creature, WHITE WAVE Dance, JOIN Ensemble, amongst others. Mr. Willis has taught and carried out all through the US, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. His different pursuits embody choreography, composing, singing, modeling and enjoying the trumpet. Mark joined Limn Dance Firm in 2015.
The challenge of reminiscence in movementis made potential partly by funding from the Higher Manhattan Empowerment Zone Growth Company administered by the Decrease Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC); partly, with public funds from the New York Metropolis Division of Cultural Affairs in cooperation with the Metropolis Council; and the West Harlem Growth Company.