Photo Caption: Photos of the 2022 Collective Thread Artists. 

MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) is elated to announce its seventh annual Collective Thread Dance Festival on March 18-19, 2022 7:30 PM EST at Downtown Art, 70 E 4th Street, New York, NY 10003, March 19-20, 2022 11 AM-12:30 PM at Go Hard Dance Studio, 2307 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd, New York, NY 10030, & March 20, 2022 2 PM EST at Maysles Documentary Center, 343 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10027 with livestream and on demand options. The purpose of Collective Thread is to provide a voice and a platform for artistic self-impression to those women/womxn identifying artists of underrepresented ethnic groups within the medium of dance. The goal of Collective Thread is to instill artists with the necessary tools to take on leadership roles in an effort to increase diversity, inclusion, and gender equality in the dance field. This weekend celebrating BIPOC womxn choreographers includes two live evening concerts, two free all levels master classes for teens & adults, and one in person screening with livestream and on demand options. You can click here for the press release.

2022 Presenting Artists/Dance Companies

Friday, March 18, 2022

Rhoda Moise/Aseemkala Initiative

Kristina Diaz

Monica Shah

Aika Takeshima & Sara Pizzi/sarAika

Makayla Peterson/Monét Movement Productions: The Collective

Megan Curet/Curet Performance Project

Leah Tubbs/MODArts Dance Collective (MADC)

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Jenny Oliver/Modern Connections Collective

Megan Curet/Curet Performance Project

Monica Shah

Melissa Garcia Velez & Sebastian Angel/Meldanzando & Dancers

Audrey Madison/MoJazz Dance

Leah Tubbs/MODArts Dance Collective (MADC)

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Jurne Smith

Shoko Tamai & Zen Takai / Ninja Ballet 

Saraswathy Lakshmivaraham 

Chien-Ying Wang/OcampoWang Dance

Violeta De Leon Davila

Jennifer Chin/JENNIFERCHINdance

Ankita Sharma

Leslie Alston/ The Angels of Transformation

Suwodi Dutta Bordoloi

Allyson Ross/ SouthernBelleStories

Ann Francis Ang

Jamison Curcio

Linda Steele II - HUMA/lingual Cafe for the Arts

The in person screening and free master dance classes for this year's Collective Thread Dance Festival are funded, in part, through a Seed Fund for Dance grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, thanks to the support of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. 

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MADC’s Collective Thread Dance Festival is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.

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The in person screening and free master dance classes for MADC’s Collective Thread Dance Festival is made possible in part with funding from UMEZ Arts Engagement, a regrant program supported by the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation (UMEZ) and administered by LMCC.

Makayla Peterson/Monét Movement Productions: The Collective, Monica Shah, Fang-Ting Yeh, Ashley Pierre-Louis, Arielle "seria" Crook, Basma Arfaoui, Mimi Liu, Andrea Smith/Revolutionary Artistic Productions, Jessica Gabrielle Thomas/Selah Gabrielle, Beatrice Capote, Jamison Curcio, Gelline Guevarra/GG Projects, Allyson Ross/SouthernBelleStories, Audrey Madison/MoJazz Dance, Chien-Ying Wang/OcampoWang Dance, Bre Seals/BREathe Dance Project, Mushtari Afroz, Cheri Stokes, & Leah Tubbs/MODArts Dance Collective (MADC)