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We aim to provide the underserved residents of the borough and surrounding communities with access to affordable, culturally-diverse music, dance and theatre performances.
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Africa-USA Radio africausaradio.com had a great time with Soweto Gospel Choir at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
See CDI resident Alethea Pace in action at Lehman College's Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, developing a new work informed by The Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground Project. She's using her studio residency to zero in on the intersections of history, memory and geography.
Pace is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary choreographer and performer who's committed to work rooted in social justice. A recipient of the 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award, she has a BA in Urban Design from New York University and an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from The City College of New York.
She previously had a 2019-20 CDI residency at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, where she developed "Here goes the neighborhood..." a profoundly personal piece about the erasure and transformation of her Bronx community. The film version will make its festival premiere in January 2023 at Screen Dance Miami.
Alethea is also looking forward to a Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts Makers Experience Residency in February (Albuquerque, NM) and a Loghaven Artist Residency in April-May 2023 (Knoxville, TN).
Saludos y bendiciones familia. Aquí La LEYENDA de la Percusionista Carlitos Soto Ya con la nueva línea de Palos A.L. Percussion and Restoration en el ensayo de Luis Perico Ortiz Concerto estás noche en Lehman Center for the Performing Arts.
How do I find my tickets for concert
On Nov 13-14, see the long-awaited premiere of CDI alum Ephrat Asherie Dance's "UNDERSCORED." Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim.
Event Link:
https://www.guggenheim.org/event/ephrat-asherie-dance-and-nyc-club-legends-underscored
"UNDERSCORED" is a multifaceted project that acts as a living archive of five generations of NYC club dancers. The performers, ranging in age from 27 to 79, share lived experiences, stories, and vibes from seminal underground parties, including David Mancuso’s the Loft, Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage, and Timmy Regisford’s Shelter.
Featuring costumes by David Dalrymple and building on the intergenerational transference of knowledge and culturally reflective movement that happens night after night on dance floors across the city.
For $10 off tickets, visit worksandprocess.org and use the discount code CUNY at checkout.
Ephrat Asherie Dance has been a CDI resident with Baruch Performing Arts Center, Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, and Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
Photo Credits: Erick Munari
Works & Process Bubble performance of "UNDERSCORED" by Ephrat Asherie Dance, in collaboration with NYC’s club legends and featuring Ephrat Asherie Dance and Archie Burnett (center), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 2, 2021.
Help us congratulate CDI alum Jeremy McQueen and The Black Iris Project for winning an Emmy®!
Their work “Shelter” from the film WILD: These walls can talk, was nominated for 8 New York Emmy Awards this year. They won for the Musical Composition/Arrangement by morgxn.
The film features an original ballet that explores systemic racism in the juvenile justice system and the effects of isolation and imprisonment on childhood development.
Learn more about this EMMY win and these incredible artists at blackirisproject.org.
Watch “Shelter” from the film WILD: These walls can talk here. vimeo.com/759168585
Jeremy McQueen was a CDI resident in 2016 at The City College of New York's City College Center for the Arts, 2019-20 at Lehman College's Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, and 2020-21 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presented the Legendary Eddie Palmieri & His Salsa Orchestra: Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presented legendary Ten Time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri & His Salsa Orchestra featuring Herman Olivera and The Del Caribe Latin Jazz All Stars with invited guest Lucrecia on Saturday, September 17th at 8pm. Check out Lehman for more amazing Latin music concerts.
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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presenta al Legendario Eddie Palmieri & Su Orchestra de Salsa: Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presentó al legendario ganador de diez premios Grammy Eddie Palmieri & His Salsa Orchestra con Herman Olivera y The Del Caribe Latin Jazz All Stars con la invitada Lucrecia el sábado 17 de septiembre a las 8 p.m. Echa un vistazo a Lehman para ver más conciertos increíbles de música latina
Say hello to Alethea Pace, our new resident at Lehman College's Lehman Center for the Performing Arts.
This Bronx-based multidisciplinary choreographer and performer is a recipient of the 2021 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award.
She's committed to creating work rooted in social justice, born out of resilience and made in spite of the obstacles facing artists (and people) of color. Her most recent work, "Here goes the neighborhood..", was presented at Works & Process at the Guggenheim and premiered at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance with support from the Bronx Council on the Arts.
Her work has also been presented by the Bronx Museum, Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, Performance Mix, Pregones Theater, Wassaic Project and the 92Y to name a few.
Alethea trained at Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in the Bronx and has a BA in Urban Design from New York University and an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts from The City College of New York.
Pace was also a CDI resident with Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture in 2019-20.
Learn More: aletheapace.com
Photo: Kathyrn Butler
BIG NEWS! CDI announces our 2022-23 season. Our 9th cycle is the largest yet, in the number of host venues and artists we're supporting. From July 2022 to June 2023, CDI is underwriting residencies for 25 artists at 13 CUNY colleges and 3 arts organizations.
READ ON in BroadwayWorld: bit.ly/cdi-22-23-bwayworld
2022-23 CDI Resident Artists reflect both the City and CUNY’s cultural vibrancy, and work in a variety of dance styles, from modern dance to street forms; ballet to tap; and African to flamenco.
Baruch Performing Arts Center: LayeRhythm, RudduR Dance
BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center: Danielle Diniz
Brooklyn College Presents: Annie Rigney
City College Center for the Arts: Planet Bouie, ZCO/DanceProject
College of Staten Island in partnership with Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden: J. Bouey, Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture: Jon Lehrer Dance, Music from the Sole
Gerald W. Lynch Theater: Mordance, Rocha Dance Theater
On Stage At Kingsborough: Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, FJK Dance
Laguardia Performing Arts Center: Arsenal Movement dance project, Isaac Iskra
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts: Alethea Pace, Soul Project Dance Company
Queensborough Community College / CUNY: Ariyan Johnson, Jazelynn Goudy, Passion Fruit Dance Company
Kupferberg Center for the Arts: A Palo Seco Flamenco, Fanike African Dance Troupe
(Arts & Social Justice Residency) Brooklyn College and BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange: Anna Gichan
York College Performing Arts Center and Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning: Nubian Néné
Photo: RudduR Dance by Jeff Castro
The City University of New York
Special Thanks to Evik Abbott-Main for sharing their experience with CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College's Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in 2021-22.
Abbott-Main's Boy Friday is a New York–based company creating surreal performance experiences charged with social commentary. Situated at the intersection of movement, visual art, and storytelling, their work bends the myth of "normal" into a mirage of q***r utopia full of futurity and potentiality.
He's presenting "You Always Do This to Me" at Triskelion Arts. September 29 - October 1
"You Always Do This to Me'' is a dance-play that finds the Audience and the Performer caught in a tangled relationship. We watch as these not-quite-lovers replay memories of the past, unfurling their circular symbiosis through dance and conversation.
LEARN MORE: triskelionarts.org/boy-friday-2022
Photo: Effy Grey Photography
Next Saturday Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx!
In one week I’ll return to Lehman Center for the Performing Arts with friends! Hope to see you there!
For more information visit: bit.ly/3eCPmiI
Special thanks to Sidra Bell for sharing her experience with CUNY Dance Initiative. Bell was a resident at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts (2017) and Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (2019-20).
Sidra Bell's creations have been described as, “brainy, exuberant, and audacious” (San Francisco Chronicle), demanding both physical power and tender expressiveness from her crack ensemble of “fearless and technically honed dancers” (Vancouver's Georgia Straight).
She was the first black woman choreographer for New York City Ballet. Her company, Sidra Bell Dance New York, was awarded a National Dance Project Award from NEFA, received a Dance Advancement Fund Award from Dance/NYC, been featured on NOWNESS in director Jovan Todorovic's latest film as part of MOTIONPOEMS' 8th Season at Anthology Film Archives and much more.
LEARN MORE: sidrabelldanceny.org
Photo: Umi Akiyoshi Photography
Make Up: Danielle Gerkens
SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 1: CDI alum Boy Friday presents "You Always Do This to Me" at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn.
"You Always Do This to Me" is a dance-play that finds the Audience and the Performer caught in a tangled relationship. We watch as these not-quite-lovers replay memories of the past, unfurling their circular symbiosis through dance and conversation.
LEARN MORE:
https://www.triskelionarts.org/boy-friday-2022
Boy Friday is a New York–based company creating surreal performance experiences charged with social commentary. Situated at the intersection of movement, visual art, and storytelling, their work bends the myth of "normal" into a mirage of q***r utopia full of futurity and potentiality.
They were residents at Lehman College's Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in 2021-22.
📸: Umi Akiyoshi Photography