DanceMotion USA, a cultural diplomacy initiative, is sending the likes of the Trey McIntire Project, Rennie Harris Puremovement and the Seán Curran Company to far-flung corners of the globe.
"I think for many of the dancers this has been one of the biggest productions. It's Michael. You can't go bigger, I think, unless you're working with the man himself."
Created by choreographer Amy Seiwert, spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and violinist-composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, this May premiere was one of Atlanta Ballet’s most synergistic collaborations in recent years.
At just 15 minutes, the appearance of Los Angeles tapper Jason Samuels Smith at the Left Coast Leaning Festival was packed with a jazz-inflected world of rhythm, humor and wisdom delivered by a master hoofer.
?The sixth annual round of the USA Fellowship grants -- fifty awards of $50,000 each -- were announced last night in Los Angeles, and exactly one went to a Colorado artist: Michelle Ellsworth of Boulder, for her work in the field of dance.
To him the contest-winning stories sounded like one collective story, a tale about how a life-changing bit of news (like a possibly terminal diagnosis) disconnects a person from everyone else.
