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WALKING DISTANCE DANCE FESTIVAL May 12-19 odc.dance/wddf
Flyaway Productions Artistic Director Jo Kreiter Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Akonadi Foundation Announces Final Awards in its Beloved Community Fund The funding – to 17 grantees – provides gen- eral support to organizations that employ a cultural strategy to advance racial justice in Oakland. The Beloved Community Fund was founded in 2012 with the goal of investing in efforts that use art and culture to build voice, power, and self-determination in communities of color. Awardees include: Afrocentric Oakland American Indian Child Resource Center Afro Urban Society SambaFunk! Fua Dia Congo Betti Ono Intertribal Friendship House Omnira Institute Peacock Rebellion The Umoja Festival BH Brilliant Minds Project, Inc. Studio Grand Friends of Lincoln Square Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park Oakland Public Conservatory of Music American Friends Service Committee (67 Sueños) Omi Arts Project Space at Ashara Ekundayo Gallery akonadi.org
The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Fellowships to a diverse group of 168 scholars, artists, and writers across the US and Canada. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-fifth competition. gf.org Dancers' Group Publishes Research Report: "Health of the Dance Field in the San Francisco Bay Area and California" In the dance world, numbers play a signifi- cant role—and if your work is not based on musical counts then audience and financial numbers are definitely there. Dancers’ Group continues to ‘crunch’ a vari- ety of numbers for an ongoing and unique research project that focuses on California’s dynamic dance community. We have gath- ered statistics from DataArts for seven years – with data that covers 9 years – to reliably track a series of indicators to understand the “health” of dance in the San Francisco Bay Area and statewide. For this research project, a short-list of six Key Benchmarks were identified to serve as reliable indicators of our sector’s health, indicators that reflect the economic impact of the dance ecosystem. Read the full report at dancersgroup.org/ research
Mary Armentrout Dance Theater listening creates an opening May 12-14, 6:30PM
Kinetech Arts Resonant Frequencies & USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance Monger by Barak Marshall May 16 & 17, 7PM
ODC/Dance Canine Comfort & d. Sabela grimes
A Blade of Grass Names 2019 Fellows for Socially Engaged Art
ELECTROGYNOUS May 18, 2 & 6:30PM May 19, 6:30PM
Oakland-based collective House/Full of Blackwomen is one of nine artists and collectives to receive this award, which sup- ports socially engaged artists nationwide. abladeofgrass.org
The Tamalpa Life/Art Process®is a movement-based expressive arts approach that integrates movement/dance, visual arts, poetic dialogues,performance and therapeutic practices. This approach supports personal, interpersonal and social transformation, while teaching new models for health, psychology, art and communication.
SUMMER WORKSHOP with DARIA HALPRIN In this workshop, movement, drawing, poetic narrative, individual and group dance, reflective exchanges, performance and witnessing practices will generate new thresholds of EMPOWERING CREATIVITY THROUGH MOVEMENT/DANCE AND LIFE/ART METAPHORS with DARIA HALPRIN with special guest Anna Halprin, Jahan Khalighi, and Miles Lassi Held at the renowned Esalen Institute Participants will experience dance as a healing art and the expressive arts as as a way to develop body/ mind connection and expand personal and collaborative creativity. August 4-9, All Day exploration and expression. June 15-19, 10AM-5:30PM
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