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Baye & Asa create a new work for Martha Graham Dance Company

Choreographer duo Baye & Asa rehearse "Cortege 2023," a new work created for Martha Graham Dance Company, premiering at The Joyce Theater.
Roobi Gaskins ’19 Joins Urban Bush Women as a Company Member

Roobi Gaskins ’19 Joins Urban Bush Women as a Company Member

Roobi Gaskins is a NYC-based artist, who specializes in dance, choreography, and garment construction. Although she has always had a passion for dance, she owes her movement genesis, ability, and training to 14 years of competitive figure skating, where she competed internationally as a member of the Puerto Rican national team. Due to injury, she decided to redirect her career path, and began her formal dance training at Bard College, where she received a bachelor of arts in Dance with a focus in Africana Studies. She was an apprentice with Urban Bush Women in 2019–20, and has also performed works with various artists and companies including but not limited to Abby Z and the New Utility (Jacob’s Pillow), Brownbody, Marguerite Hemmings (Baryshnikov Arts Center), 7NMS (New York Live Arts), and Trisha Brown (92nd Street Y).

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Baye and Asa Updates

Baye and Asa Updates

Baye and Asa continue to create amazing work and we are fortunate to be able to share this with you. They're also teaching weekly classes at Gibney Dance on Fridays at noon. Follow this link to learn more: 
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/ddOGMKVhv?languageTag=en&cid=eaa07993-8119-401f-a325-ed3fd16a5153#/main

The Making of Hothouse

Dancers and choreographers Sam Pratt ’14—Bard alum and double major in dance and philosophy—and Amadi Washington discuss their new project Hothouse with Maria Simpson, faculty and former director of the Dance Program at Bard College. Amadi and Sam collaborate as the duo Baye & Asa. Hothouse responds to the re-illumination of the country's practice of systemic racism by way of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sakinah Bennett ’21 Cofounds Sister2Sister, a “Sisterhood” Mentoring Project for Women of Color

Sakinah Bennett ’21 Cofounds Sister2Sister, a “Sisterhood” Mentoring Project for Women of Color

Sister2Sister was founded in Spring 2018. Although the project was initially based in performing arts, it has evolved into a mentoring project. The objective is to create a sisterhood of women of color; founders Sakinah Bennett ’21 and Skylar Walker ’21 want to become the older sister-like role models they wished they’d had in high school.

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Lisa Fagan ’11 Returns to Bard for a January Residency
Lisa Fagan ’11 leading dance residency. Photo by Erika Nelson

Lisa Fagan ’11 Returns to Bard for a January Residency

I and a group of seven multidisciplinary artists began working on a new piece in 2019 called Give it a Go while my collaborator, composer/vocalist Catherine Brookman, and I were artists in residence at Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn, NY. That work was cut short by the pandemic. We are lucky to have received support from the Mental Insight Foundation in the form of $10,000 to continue development on a large-scale collaborative work. The work will move in a new direction after so long away from its original development period, and the group of collaborators is expanding. We are working with an incredibly brilliant company of 13 dancers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and writers for this new re-imagining of the project (currently untitled). We have also just received a developmental residency and financial support from the new performance incubator Mercury Store in Brooklyn, for the spring. Show dates are currently forthcoming.

Ainesh Madan ’15 –  Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan's BangaloreREsidency

I am writing this email from Weltkunstzimmer, where I am graciously being hosted for five weeks, as part of Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan's BangaloreREsidency Expanded program. The work I am creating through the program is inspired by Part 3 of Nietzsche's The Second Dance Song. Here is a video of me keeping up my Cunningham Practice at the WeKuZi studio.

Ainesh Madan ’15 –  Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan's BangaloreREsidency

More exciting news to share is that my writing has been published for the very first time! Written for Gibney's Imagining Journal, “Transformations” is an attempt at recollecting my journey as a dancer with a disability. You can read (or listen to) the full essay, as well as works by some other amazing artists, here.

Thank you for your continued support. Here is to an exciting end to what has been a roller coaster of a year! 

With gratitude,
Ainesh

Artmaking in a Pandemic 
Photo by Chris Kayden

Artmaking in a Pandemic
 

Featured alumna Olivia Berkey ’20 and what she made for her Senior Project in dance.

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“Some Pros Let It Go on TikTok: Is The the Future?” From the New York Times

Emma Lutz-Higgins ’16 and Collaborator Meghan Herzfeld on TikTok

Emma Lutz-Higgins ’16 and Meghan Herzfeld, Brooklyn roommates and dance collaborators, on their rooftop, rehearsing and recording the J. Lo Super Bowl challenge. “This is about me performing for you, and I don’t have to pretend that I’m not,” Ms. Lutz-Higgins said. “It’s all just out in the open. It’s kind of weirdly liberating.”
 

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