Providence Dance Festival at AS220

Providence Dance Festival at AS220 AS220 proudly presents the annual Providence Dance Festival. This year it runs April 15th through 19

03/21/2020

More shout-outs coming back on Monday! Stay tuned.

A note from AS220 and Providence Dance Festival at AS220Dear artists, supporters and friends of the Providence Dance Fes...
03/21/2020

A note from AS220 and Providence Dance Festival at AS220

Dear artists, supporters and friends of the Providence Dance Festival at AS220 and Steez.

We hope that you and your loved ones are well and able to care for each other during these uncertain times.

We are writing today to let you know that AS220 has decided to cancel all events, and keep our public spaces closed, for the month of April to do our part to help slow the spread of COVID-19. This includes performances at our Main Stage and Black Box Theater, along with the AS220 Galleries, AS220 Industries, the AS220 Dance Studio, and Psychic Readings.

But wait, there’s hope!

Even though these spaces are closed, you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where we're shouting out artists whose events were canceled.

Although AS220 Youth’s downtown studio will be closed, our hard-working staff have distributed “art kits” for members to take home and continue their creative work! Instructors are also working on distance-learning plans to keep members engaged remotely.

While AS220 Food & Drink will be closed for the month, our restaurant staff are currently exploring the possibility of take-out and delivery in April! If this is something that you’re interested in, let us know by emailing!

If you are looking for ways to help AS220 while our public programming is shut down, you can donate online at as220.org/support. Your donations will:

- allow AS220 to continue to pay our staff and provide healthcare benefits

-support the 60 residents who live and work in our three buildings

-ensure that our programs come back as strong as they were before

Together, we are all part of this unique and amazing creative community - we wouldn’t be here without you! Thank you for your support!

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we navigate these uncertain times. AS220 WILL be back, and we look forward to you being here with us!

https://as220.org

Shout-out #5 - Get to know the work of Sasso & Company From Nothing explores that idea that movement can come from not...
03/18/2020

Shout-out #5 - Get to know the work of Sasso & Company

From Nothing explores that idea that movement can come from nothing and everywhere all at once. It explores the relationship of burnout and vulnerability through themes of tension and release embodied in powerful partnering, athletic floorwork, and elegant release.
"Simultaneously offering grace and power" - Dance Informa
Photo credit: Olivia Moon Photography


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia Krasnow Nellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

Shout-out #4 of the Day: Get to know Floreciente Dance CompanyThe ladies of Floreciente Dance Company incorporate conte...
03/18/2020

Shout-out #4 of the Day:

Get to know Floreciente Dance Company

The ladies of Floreciente Dance Company incorporate contemporary, ballet and hip-hop influences into a New York Style on 2 Salsa Dancing. They enjoy training with local and out-of-state choreographers and companies in order to push their limits in a new and exciting way.

Photo Credit: John Shider


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia Krasnow Nellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson DanceReject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowanVeronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly, Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

Shout- out #3 goes to: Connections Dance Theater:Get to know the work of Connections Dance Theater - The Gathering is ...
03/18/2020

Shout- out #3 goes to: Connections Dance Theater:

Get to know the work of Connections Dance Theater -
The Gathering is inspired by the story of my tribe, The Massachusetts Tribe at Ponkapoag (http://massachusetttribe.org/) that talks of the land before the settlers arrived. What we now know as Eastern Massachusetts was a paradise; a place of great nature, plentiful fish, natural medicines, and many tribes cohabiting.
Connecting the idea that many tribes lived together in the same area, but tribal families were specific to particular people. Tribes worked together and shared resources for survival. In current times, the notion of living with each other and nature is becoming more critical as the environmental crises are crushing us and Indigenous people all over the world. Through a contemporary lens, The Gathering aims to focus on the beauty, positivity and intersectionality of the land and the people that lived here.

Boston Center for the Arts, 2019; Photo: Melissa Blackall


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity NicholsTaylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia Krasnow Nellie RainwaterJessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E McnamaraEllen OliverBetsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy PhillipinoMolly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr..., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly, Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

Shout out #2 goes to: Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Emily Jerant-Hendrickson is a Boston based dancer holding a BFA in conte...
03/18/2020

Shout out #2 goes to: Emily Jerant-Hendrickson

Emily Jerant-Hendrickson is a Boston based dancer holding a BFA in contemporary dance from The Boston Conservatory. She has worked with various Boston and New York City based artists including David Parker and the Bang Group, Lorraine Chapman the Company, Heather Stewart, Reciprocity Collaborative, Boston Dance Theatre, Emily Beattie, Daniel McCusker, Annie Kloppenberg, and Audra Carabetta. Emily has had the pleasure of performing at festivals and venues such as World Music/CRASH Arts, APAP at City Center, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Martha Graham Theater, Soaking WET, Boston Center for the Arts, and Cape Dance Festival, among others. In addition to performing, Emily’s choreography has been presented at Gibney Dance Center NYC, Manhattan Movement Arts, The Boston Conservatory, The Canterbury Shaker Village, The Dance Complex, and Green Street Studios.

Photo by: Brian Mengini


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia Krasnow Nellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly, Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

The shout-outs continue at Providence Dance Festival at AS220 and so we wish a good day to you PDF 2020 page re...
03/18/2020

The shout-outs continue at Providence Dance Festival at AS220 and so we wish a good day to you PDF 2020 page readers!

We hope you are all taking care and prioritizing your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health as we navigate these unprecedented times of due to COVID-19.

We will continue posting daily here on our PDF page; creating a space in which to post shout-outs for the artists and performers who were / are (?) scheduled to perform at PDF 2020 and who depend largely on rehearsals, performances and classes for their livelihood.

Today, we are pleased to introduce you to
Reciprocity Collaborative:

Please meet Reciprocity Collaborative's Creative Director:
Ilya Vidrin is a choreographer, educator, and researcher at the intersection of performing arts, philosophy, and interactive media. Born into a refugee family, Ilya’s research and artistic practice interrogates the complex ethics of human interaction, including the embodiment of empathy, cultural competence, and social responsibility. He is an alum of Northeastern, where he pursued undergraduate studies in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience. He completed graduate work in Human Development and Psychology at Harvard University, and a doctorate in Performing Arts at Coventry University in the United Kingdom. In recent years, Ilya has worked with The Royal Swedish Ballet, the MIT Media Lab, and has been artist-in-residence at The National Parks Service, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts, the MIT Media Lab, the Walnut Hill School, Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Harvard ArtLab. He has been invited to perform and present work at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Malta, Le Laboratoire, TEDx Providence, Center for Performance Research in New York City, and the New Museum.

Photo courtesy of Ilya Vidrin


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia Krasnow Nellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt GarzaAnthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly, Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

03/18/2020

A Call for Work from our friends at Loculus :

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 - 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜/𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜/𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜?

Follow this link to submit:
https://tinyurl.com/ufn3bxc
Contact us at [email protected] with questions.

Work must have been created during COVID-19 lockdown/quarantine/social distancing. It does not have to be about COVID-19, but it can be.
We will accept work of any medium as long as it can be hosted on the internet (writing, visual art, video, sound, something we haven’t imagined yet). As always, we are particularly interested in ‘dance’ and work that deals with the body and embodiment, but are entirely open to what dance, body, and embodiment mean to each of you.

Notes from Quarantine will go live on April 1 but submissions will continue to be added as long as it feels necessary.
Photo by OZF, December 2019

Shout-out #5 - Get to know the work of barbie may diewald of Barbie Diewald ChoreographyBarbie Diewald's current resear...
03/17/2020

Shout-out #5 - Get to know the work of barbie may diewald of Barbie Diewald Choreography

Barbie Diewald's current research focuses on the idea of intimacy as a relational continuum between choreographer, dancer, and audience. She is interested in creating dances that feel hospitable-- making room for dancers' agency, personal readings and interpretations of the audience, and adapting to context. She is working on staying awake to the moments in a process where the logic or the priorities of a dance seem to shift into unexpected vectors.

Photo of Barbie Diewald by David Gonsier


Michelle Renée ErardAngelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia Krasnow Nellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly, Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

Shout-out #4 - Get to know KamrdancekamrDANCE will be presenting Everything is taken care of in Program A at this year’...
03/17/2020

Shout-out #4 - Get to know Kamrdance

kamrDANCE will be presenting Everything is taken care of in Program A at this year’s festival! The first iteration of the work premiered in August 2019 at Dixon Place in NYC and has since been developed into a 10 minute piece. This duet, which combines poetry and contemporary dance, will also be performed in Atlanta, GA at the Southwest Arts Center in MIXTAPE curated by Zoetic Dance. Alexis and Sarah Robbins, creators and performers, are elated to be travelling to perform this very personal work.
Photo by: Andrew Mauney


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia Krasnow Nellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

Shout-out #3 today:The Bang Group / David Parker and Jeffrey KazinAssembly Required - Inspired by Steve Reich's "Clappi...
03/17/2020

Shout-out #3 today:

The Bang Group / David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin

Assembly Required -
Inspired by Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" and various Soft Shoe dances.

Assembly Required is an a capella tap dance duet which limns in sound and movement a long term relationship between two men of a certain age. The rhythms are derived from Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" and the old Soft Shoe. These performances mark Parker's return to the stage following a total knee replacement.
Photo credits: Nicholas Burnham
Performers in each photo are Jeffrey Kazin and David Parker


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia KrasnowNellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie Hartley Nicole C. Laliberte Lea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph TurnerKathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

Our second shout-out today goes to Ellen Oliver"Shiny Side Up" features dancers shaping over 30 yards of aluminum foil ...
03/17/2020

Our second shout-out today goes to Ellen Oliver

"Shiny Side Up" features dancers shaping over 30 yards of aluminum foil in a collaboration between movement and material. "Shiny Side Up" is developed in part at the aMaSSiT Program at The Dance Complex 2020.
Photo by: Nikki Lee


Michelle Renée Erard Angelina Benitez Erin McNulty Project31 Fern Katz Verity Nichols Taylor King B-A-R Dance Cayley Dorr Ann Ditmars Huyck Julia KrasnowNellie Rainwater Jessika Ashley Angie HartleyNicole C. LaliberteLea Marie Metamorphosis Dance Company Natalie Johnson Dance Reject Dance Theatre Steph Turner Kathryn E Mcnamara Ellen Oliver Betsy Miller Dance Projects The Bang Group Kamrdance Barbie Diewald Choreography Sasso & Company Connections Dance Theater Emily Jerant-Hendrickson Irina Abramov Reciprocity Collaborative Martin Rivera Baldera Krissy Phillipino Molly Hess Dance Bollywood Fusion & Fitness Julia Friend Rebecca McGowan Veronica Barron Jennifer Kuhnberg Elizabeth Powers Floreciente Dance Company Glory Liu Matt Garza Anthony Marcus Andrade Jr.., Choummalaithong, Assi Lakin Coulibaly, Lee Weeks The Park Studios PVD

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