Collective Thread

Arielle Crook

Basma Arfaoui

Cheri Stokes

Arielle Crook

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Photo Caption: Photos of the 2021 Collective Thread Artists.

MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) is elated to announce its sixth annual dance festival, Collective Thread, on March 6-7 12 PM & 11-13, 2021 7:30 PM via Zoom. 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.

The festival will kick off with What Fuels You & Your Creative Process, a FREE round table discussion with some of this year's Collective Thread presenting artists sharing their creative process and how they pour into themselves through self-care practices to better navigate all aspects of their lives on Saturday, March 6 at 12 PM EST via Zoom Webinar. Click here to register.

RESPITE: a FREE health & wellness event for BIPOC womxn and girls will cultivate a healing and therapeutic space through affirmation, Mobility (low impact exercises that create calm and reduce stress while improving range of motion, flexibility, and muscle recovery), breath work, & meditation on Sunday, March 7 at 12 PM EST via Zoom. Click here to register.

The following weekend, March 11-13 at 7:30 PM EST via Zoom Webinar, will be a different evening program of six unique & gifted artists through the medium of concert dance & dance film.

Collective Thread was made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Tickets can be purchased up to 30 minutes before the start of each concert.

Please note: Every ticket holder will receive a private Vimeo link to view their chosen day(s) of the virtual concert until 11:59 PM EST on March 27th.

2021 Artists/Dance Companies

2021 CREATE | SHARE | INSPIRE AWARD Recipients: Sheila Rohan &

Ella Thompson Moore

Thursday, March 11

Makayla Peterson/Monét Movement Productions: The Collective, Monica Shah, Fang-Ting Yeh, Ashley Pierre-Louis, Arielle "seria" Crook, & Basma Arfaoui

Friday, March 12

Mimi Liu, Andrea Smith/Revolutionary Artistic Productions, Jessica Gabrielle Thomas/Selah Gabrielle, Beatrice Capote, Jamison Curcio, & Gelline Guevarra/GG Projects

Saturday, March 13

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)

2020 CREATE | SHARE | INSPIRE AWARD Recipient: Hope Clarke

2020 Artists/Dance Companies

Preya Patel/Vivarta Arts, Shekoya Gordon, Audrey Hubbard Madison/MoJazz Dance, Chatiera Ray/The CRay Project, LLC, Sahana Madabhushi /SnD Productions, Winter Bosanko/Winter Dance Projects, Shachi Phene/Noor Dance Academy, Akane Koizumi & Yu Fujiwara/A&Y duo, Jenny Boissiere/DanceBoissiere, Andrea Smith/Revolutionary Artistic Productions, & Allyson Ross/SouthernBelleStories