SUMMERSTAGE Dance Comes To Harlem 7/30

City Parks Foundation will bring the SummerStage dance program to Harlem on Friday, July 30, 2010 as a part of the 25th anniversary season of SummerStage. For this silver anniversary, SummerStage will extend beyond Central Park to include over 100 music, dance and theater programs in 16 parks in all five boroughs, making it the largest provider of free arts programming in New York City. On both July 30 and June 31, SummerStage will hold special dance performances in Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem as listed below. Prior to all SummerStage dance performances, there will be an hour long, all ages dance class with a member of the performing company or a highly recognized dance instructor.

Who: CREATIVE OUTLET DANCE THEATRE AND KYLE ABRAHAM/ ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION
Jackie Robinson Park, Manhattan
Friday, July 30
7:00 pm - Open Contemporary Modern dance class with Jamel Gaines (Dir. Of Creative Outlet)

8:00 pm - Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.in.Motion

8:50 pm - Creative Outlet Dance Theatre

Artist Website: http://www.creativeoutlet.org
Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet is a professional dance company that marries rigorous classical and modern technique with African-American soul and spirit. Under the direction of Jamel Gaines, the company has been hailed by reviewers in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean for its "richness of dance tone" and "contagious vitality." It is also a dance school for children 3 to 18, with an impressive track record for spotting and nurturing raw talent to produce young performers who gain access to leading performing arts institutions, television, Broadway and concert stages.

Artist Website: http://abrahaminmotion.org

Abraham.in.Motion, led by Kyle Abraham, showcases his diverse training in classical music, visual art, and a multitude of dance forms from ballet to hip-hop to give range and depth to his sleek, evocative work. Dance Magazine named him one of the "25 to Watch" in 2009 and has described his work as "elastic and electric, luxuriantly rippling, poetically arranged with moments of perfect stillness that arrive amid splashes of expression. His choreography wriggles energy through the body, stretches it, suspends it, then unleashes it."

EARL MOSELEY'S INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AND MICHAEL Leon Thomas' MOTION THEATER LAB
Jackie Robinson Park, Manhattan
Saturday, July 31
7:00 pm - Open Hip Funking Hop dance class with Calvin Wiley

8:00 pm - Motion Theater Lab

8:50 pm - Earl Moseley's Institute of Dance

Artist Website: http://emiadance.org

Earl Moseley began his dance training at the North Carolina School of the Arts. His professional performing experience grew to include the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble (Ailey II), Gus Soloman's Dance and Ron Brown's Evidence Dance Inc. He is the founder and artistic director of Diversity of Dance, Inc. a not-for-profit organization concentrating on dance education. The major focus of the organization is Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts (EMIA) which offers a summer intensive program (including ballet, modern, African, hip hop, jazz, and tap), residencies and workshops. Join EMIA students as they perform works choreographed by Ronald K. Brown, Troy Powell, Kevin Wynn, Darrell Moultrie and Fredrick Earl Mosley.

Artist Website: http://www.theatreinmotion.org
Hot off the heels of its successful world premiere, Thoroughly Modern Michael, comes Michael Leon Thomas' Motion Theatre Lab, a chamber dance company comprised of seven critically acclaimed performers under the direction of choreographer/dancer Michael Leon Thomas. Jennifer Dunning of the NY Times wrote, "Michael Thomas scorched the stage with his quiet intensity during his years with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater." Creating works of deep passion and beauty, MTL will premiere a new work, Aquarius Rising, to the sounds of classic underground dance music.

Join internationally acclaimed dancer and instructor Calvin Wiley, founder and president of "From The Top International", an international fitness and dance consulting company and Founder and Artist Director of Calvin Wiley Dance Theater (CWDT), a concert and commercial performance group based out of NYC. Calvin has pioneered and branded his teaching style CALVINOGRAPHY®, which maintains the philosophy that beauty, art and brilliance can be elements in fitness.

Master Class description:
CALVINOGRAPHY®: Hip Funking Hop
A cardiodance workout fused with hip/hop, funk, street jazz and theatre. A collaboration of movement bringing something different to the dance floor and to your dance/movement palette.

What: FREE Dance Performances
Where: Jackie Robinson Park, Manhattan

About SummerStage

In June, 1986, Central Park SummerStage was launched with a free performance from Sun Ra and the Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra. In 1990, City Parks Foundation began programming free concerts in neighborhood parks under the name CityParks Concerts. In 2006, City Parks Foundation began CityParks Dance and CityParks Theater. Today, City Parks Foundation is combining all of these initiatives under the banner of SummerStage, a city-wide festival of over 100 music, dance and theater events in 16 parks in all five boroughs. It will be one of the largest, most geographical diverse and thematically broad festivals in the nation. Over 200,000 people are expected to attend the free festival.

For the most up-to-date scheduling and full line-up for all SummerStage programming, visit http://www.SummerStage.org
City Parks Foundation (CPF) is the only independent, nonprofit organization to offer park programs throughout the five boroughs of New York City. We work in over 750 parks citywide, presenting a broad range of free arts, sports, and education programs, and empowering citizens to support their parks on a local level. Our programs and community building initiatives reach more than 600,000 people each year, contributing to the revitalization of neighborhoods throughout New York City.

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