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(NEW YORK, NY) — Nai-Ni Chen Dance Firm Government Director Andy Chiang will probably be joined by Deborah Damast, Scientific Affiliate Professor and Program Director of NYU’s Dance Schooling Program, to debate the work of Nai-Ni Chen and her relationship with one in every of her mentors, the fashionable dance icon Bertram Ross, as a part of NYPL’s The Dance Historian is In on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:00pm ET on-line through Zoom and in-person on the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Bruno Walter Auditorium, 111 Amsterdam Ave. between West sixty fourth and sixty fifth Streets. The occasion is free, however registration is required.
Bertram Ross taught at NYU and the close by Mary Anthony Dance Studio on Broadway, the place he met and taught Nai-Ni Chen. Nai-Ni Chen turned one in every of his favourite college students and, in his phrases, a formidable choreographer. To introduce Nai-Ni Chen to the dance world in 1989, Mary Anthony sponsored a live performance with two commissioned dances from Bertram Ross (Entrances and Exits and Nocturne), and two dances from Nai-Ni Chen on the Nikolais/ Louis Choreolab. The discuss will embody viewing of this live performance, entitled An Night with Bertram Ross and Nai-Ni Chen.
Nai-Ni Chen, who handed away a yr in the past, has been introduced the 2023 Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. She has created a physique of choreography that has been touring america for 3 a long time and has been seen by thousands and thousands of individuals.
Through the dialogue, Professor Damast and Andy Chiang will evaluate the fantastic choreographic craft of Bertram Ross in these two works and the way it may function exemplary choreographic classes for future generations. The lecture can even embody footage of Nai-Ni Chen’s later work Movable Figures, which follows concepts from Bertram Ross’s Entrances and Exits and expands on them in a number of instructions.
Deborah Damast has been instructing within the NYU Dance Schooling program since 2002 and presently serves as Program Director and Inventive Advisor. She has taught trendy dance method, pedagogy, artistic motion for youngsters, manufacturing, and choreography, is the Inventive Director of Dance Live shows, Kaleidoscope Dancers and the examine overseas program to Uganda.
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She has participated in movement seize research, Web Arts Collaborations, and in spring of 2019 obtained a collaborative School Problem Grant to analysis information and dance literacy. Within the spring of 2020 Deborah obtained a Steinhardt Range Innovation Grant to start collaborative work with Dancing Earth. Deborah collaborates as a mentor, supplier {of professional} improvement and author with the Dance Schooling Laboratory, LREI, The Yard, and the NYC DOE DELTA management group. She has taught and directed applications at Peridance Middle, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Harvey College, Dance in Schooling Fund, and has taught for New York Metropolis Ballet, the 92nd St. Y, Temple Habonim, Harkness Dance Middle, Revolutionary Studying Facilities, and others. She has created artistic dance movies for youngsters, Transfer N Groove Children and teaches early childhood dance at LREI.
Deborah’s choreography has been proven in quite a few venues in NYC together with World Monetary Middle, Riverside Church, 92nd St. Y, 14th Road Y, Judson Church, Peridance, St. Marks Church, Context, RAPP Arts Middle, Gowanus Arts Change, Cooper Union, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Skirball Theater, Frederick Loewe Theater, for NDEO and ADTA conferences, and for Peridance and Steffi Nossen youth corporations and Marymount Manhattan BA Dance majors. Her choreography has been introduced Nationally and Internationally in Europe, Asia, and Africa. She has taught and introduced at conferences by way of Nationwide Dance Schooling Group (NDEO) yearly since 2004, New York State Dance Schooling Affiliation (NYSDEA), CUNY, Graduate Middle, ACDFA, NYU, Kyambogo Music Schooling Convention 2018 in Uganda. in 2019 Deborah was the Keynote Speaker and presenter on the Utah Dance Schooling Group convention. She conducts skilled improvement for the New York Metropolis Dept. of Schooling Workplace of Arts and Particular Initiatives and DEL/92Y, and has written curriculum for New York Metropolis Ballet, Paul Taylor Schooling Division, Carnegie Corridor, the Revised Blueprint for the Arts-Dance for the NYC DOE and continues to get pleasure from working with the Making It Workforce of the Yard in Martha’s Winery on Schooling Initiatives and Group Engagement. Deborah serves on the Board of Administrators of Peridance Up to date Dance Firm and the Dance Schooling in Apply Journal Editorial Board, has served on the Boards of NDEO and NYSDEA, the latter the place she served as President. She was a founding member of the IDEA (Inclusion, Range, Fairness and Entry) Committee for NDEO and has organized conferences, workshops and symposiums at NYU with accomplice organizations. Deborah was a 2008 recipient of the GSO Star School Award at NYU, the 2010 Outstandinglly printed: 02/08/2023
(NEW YORK, NY) — Nai-Ni Chen Dance Firm Government Director Andy Chiang will probably be joined by Deborah Damast, Scientific Affiliate Professor and Program Director of NYU’s Dance Schooling Program, to debate the work of Nai-Ni Chen and her relationship with one in every of her mentors, the fashionable dance icon Bertram Ross, as a part of NYPL’s The Dance Historian is In on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 1:00pm ET on-line through Zoom and in-person on the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Bruno Walter Auditorium, 111 Amsterdam Ave. between West sixty fourth and sixty fifth Streets. The occasion is free, however registration is required.
Bertram Ross taught at NYU and the close by Mary Anthony Dance Studio on Broadway, the place he met and taught Nai-Ni Chen. Nai-Ni Chen turned one in every of his favourite college students and, in his phrases, a formidable choreographer. To introduce Nai-Ni Chen to the dance world in 1989, Mary Anthony sponsored a live performance with two commissioned dances from Bertram Ross (Entrances and Exits and Nocturne), and two dances from Nai-Ni Chen on the Nikolais/ Louis Choreolab. The discuss will embody viewing of this live performance, entitled An Night with Bertram Ross and Nai-Ni Chen.
Nai-Ni Chen, who handed away a yr in the past, has been introduced the 2023 Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. She has created a physique of choreography that has been touring america for 3 a long time and has been seen by thousands and thousands of individuals.
Through the dialogue, Professor Damast and Andy Chiang will evaluate the fantastic choreographic craft of Bertram Ross in these two works and the way it may function exemplary choreographic classes for future generations. The lecture can even embody footage of Nai-Ni Chen’s later work Movable Figures, which follows concepts from Bertram Ross’s Entrances and Exits and expands on them in a number of instructions.
Deborah Damast has been instructing within the NYU Dance Schooling program since 2002 and presently serves as Program Director and Inventive Advisor. She has taught trendy dance method, pedagogy, artistic motion for youngsters, manufacturing, and choreography, is the Inventive Director of Dance Live shows, Kaleidoscope Dancers and the examine overseas program to Uganda.
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She has participated in movement seize research, Web Arts Collaborations, and in spring of 2019 obtained a collaborative School Problem Grant to analysis information and dance literacy. Within the spring of 2020 Deborah obtained a Steinhardt Range Innovation Grant to start collaborative work with Dancing Earth. Deborah collaborates as a mentor, supplier {of professional} improvement and author with the Dance Schooling Laboratory, LREI, The Yard, and the NYC DOE DELTA management group. She has taught and directed applications at Peridance Middle, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Harvey College, Dance in Schooling Fund, and has taught for New York Metropolis Ballet, the 92nd St. Y, Temple Habonim, Harkness Dance Middle, Revolutionary Studying Facilities, and others. She has created artistic dance movies for youngsters, Transfer N Groove Children and teaches early childhood dance at LREI.
Deborah’s choreography has been proven in quite a few venues in NYC together with World Monetary Middle, Riverside Church, 92nd St. Y, 14th Road Y, Judson Church, Peridance, St. Marks Church, Context, RAPP Arts Middle, Gowanus Arts Change, Cooper Union, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Skirball Theater, Frederick Loewe Theater, for NDEO and ADTA conferences, and for Peridance and Steffi Nossen youth corporations and Marymount Manhattan BA Dance majors. Her choreography has been introduced Nationally and Internationally in Europe, Asia, and Africa. She has taught and introduced at conferences by way of Nationwide Dance Schooling Group (NDEO) yearly since 2004, New York State Dance Schooling Affiliation (NYSDEA), CUNY, Graduate Middle, ACDFA, NYU, Kyambogo Music Schooling Convention 2018 in Uganda. in 2019 Deborah was the Keynote Speaker and presenter on the Utah Dance Schooling Group convention. She conducts skilled improvement for the New York Metropolis Dept. of Schooling Workplace of Arts and Particular Initiatives and DEL/92Y, and has written curriculum for New York Metropolis Ballet, Paul Taylor Schooling Division, Carnegie Corridor, the Revised Blueprint for the Arts-Dance for the NYC DOE and continues to get pleasure from working with the Making It Workforce of the Yard in Martha’s Winery on Schooling Initiatives and Group Engagement. Deborah serves on the Board of Administrators of Peridance Up to date Dance Firm and the Dance Schooling in Apply Journal Editorial Board, has served on the Boards of NDEO and NYSDEA, the latter the place she served as President. She was a founding member of the IDEA (Inclusion, Range, Fairness and Entry) Committee for NDEO and has organized conferences, workshops and symposiums at NYU with accomplice organizations. Deborah was a 2008 recipient of the GSO Star School Award at NYU, the 2010 Excellent