MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) is elated to announce its sixth annual Move to Change Dance Festival on Friday, November 3 & Saturday, November 4 7:30pm EST at Speyer Hall @ University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002 & Livestream with on demand viewing option: November 6-27. The purpose of Move to Change is to use dance as a form of social justice and arts activism through the lens of BIPOC choreographers and dance filmmakers. The goal of Move to Change is to create cultural and gender affirming spaces for artists of color (African, Latina/o/x, Asian, Arab, Native American [ALAANA]), MENA (Middle East & North Africa), & SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) to educate, empower, and illuminate issues that reflects their histories and cultures through their unique and rich movement aesthetics.

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This hybrid festival consists of live performance and dance films in two different programs over the two day festival. This year’s theme is the word 'community' and how groups of people with a common goal or interest can shift the paradigm of a neighborhood.The submitted pieces/dance films will answer one or more of the following questions: 1. What communities am I a part of? 2. What is/are the common goal(s) within the community? 3. What is my role in the community? 4. How can I continue to move the community forward?

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The Friday, November 3rd presenting choreographers/dance companies & dance filmmakers are Janet Aisawa & Osamu Uehara/Ai Dance Theater | New York, NY; Tina Bararian | New York, NY; Belleza | New York, NY ; Vanessa Hernández Cruz | Tarzana, CA ; Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş | Mill Valley, CA ; Stephen Hill/The ChoreoJoey Project | New York, NY; Pavitra Jayakanth | Hillsborough, NJ; co-collaborators Li Chiao-Ping, Elisabeth Roskopf, & Christal Wagner | Oregon, WI; Leah Tubbs/MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) | New York, NY; & Rathi Varma | Brooklyn, NY.

 

The Saturday, November 4th presenting choreographers/dance companies & dance filmmakers are Janet Aisawa & Osamu Uehara/Ai Dance Theater | New York, NY; Belleza | New York, NY; Jackie Bennett | Durham, NC; Bella Boné | Memphis, TN; Reba Browne/Reba Browne Dance Company | New York, NY; Robin Gee | Greensboro, NC; Mario Matias | British Columbia, Canada; Jurne Smith | Greensboro, NC; Keith Thompson/danceTactics performance group | Tempe, AZ; & Leah Tubbs/MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) | New York, NY.