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Move to Change DAnce festival
Move to Change DAnce festival
Headshots of the 2024 Presenting Choreographers & Cinematographers
MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) presents Move to Change - a festival which uses dance as a form of social justice and arts activism through the lens of BIPOC choreographers and cinematographers. 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); Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI); Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI); Black/African American, Caribbean, Indigenous, Middle East & North Africa (MENA); & South West Asia & North Africa (SWANA) to educate, empower, & illuminate issues that reflects their histories and cultures through their unique and rich movement aesthetics. This hybrid festival consists of live performance and dance films in two different programs over the two day festival. The 2024/25 season's theme is the Swahili word 'Umoja' meaning Unity. The dance pieces/dance films will highlight the Kwanzaa meaning of Umoja: to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, and/or the world in which we live in. This season's Move to Change will be on Friday & Saturday, November 22-23, 2024 7:30PM EST at The Jacques d’Amboise Center for Learning & the Arts, 217 W 147th Street, New York, NY 10039 & Livestream with on demand viewing option from November 25 - December 3.
2024 Artists: Sierra Christine Sanders; Saraswathy Lakshmivaraham; Yinqi Wang; Karley Wasaff; Quetzali Hart; Anabella Lenzu; Kayla Spalding; Aubrey Clavines; Andrea Agostini; Janet Aisawa/Ai Dance Theater; Jarid Polite/Melanin Mosaic Performance Ensemble; Xiao (Maggie) Liang; Elise A. Logan; Morgan Gregory; Tsubasa Nishioka; Nandini Kannan; Solenn Etienne; Stephen Hill/ChoreoJoey Project; Chiao-Ping Li with co collaborators Christal Wagner, Byron Au Yong, & Jacob Li Rosenberg; & Medha Srigiri.
2023 Artists: Janet Aisawa & Osamu Uehara/Ai Dance Theater; Tina Bararian; Belleza; Jackie Bennett; Bella Boné; Reba Browne/Reba Browne Dance Company; Vanessa Hernández Cruz; Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş; Robin Gee; Stephen Hill/The ChoreoJoey Project; Pavitra Jayakanth; Mario Matias; co-collaborators Li Chiao-Ping, Elisabeth Roskopf, & Christal Wagner; Jurne Smith; Keith Thompson/danceTactics performance group; & Rathi Varma.
2022 Artists: Janet Aisawa and Osamu Uehara; Stacey Allen; Jackie Bennett; Jenny Boissiere; Nia Calloway; Vanessa Hernández Cruz; Denise Fimiano; Gelline Guevarra; Anabella Lenzu; Shelli Ligonde; Robenson Mathurin; Milanda McGinnis; Derick McKoy, Jr.; Liz Miller; Mayu Nakaya; Edgar L. Page; Ankita Sharma; Aika Takeshima and Sara Pizzi; Pamela Tetteh; Marina Thomas; Rathi Varma & Randolph Ward.
2021 Artists: Janet Aisawa; Bernard Brown; Rodd Denson; Melissa Escano; Sadé M Jones; Justice Miles; Makayla Peterson; Jessica Gabrielle Thomas; Chien-Ying Wang; Kayla Yee; & Fang-Ting Yeh.
2020 Artists: Rebekah JoAnn Guerra; Adebajo Oluwafemi Israel; Caylia R Wallace; Ching-I Chang; Ayako Takahashi; Analida Galindo; Queala Clancy & Jeffery Martin; Sonia Chandaria Tillu/Sona Lisa Dance Company; Quinton Sean Manning; Gierre J Godley; Daniel Martínez; & Anuradha Naimpally & Purna Bajekal.
2019 Artists: Jenny Oliver/Connections Dance Theater; Kayla Yee; Bernard Brown/bbmoves; Leila Mire and Nadia Khayrallah; Janet Aisawa; & James MahKween.
2018 Artists: Eury German; Gierre Godley/Project 44; & Beverly Lopez/REDi Dance Company.
collective thread DAnce festival
collective thread DAnce festival
Headshots of the 2025 Presenting Choreographers
MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) is elated to announce its tenth annual dance festival, Collective Thread, on March 28-29, 2025 7:30 PM at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue, New York, NY 10027 + Livestream & On Demand Option. The purpose of Collective Thread is to provide a voice and a platform for artistic self-impression to those women identifying artists of underrepresented ethnic groups within the medium of dance. ***PLEASE NOTE: MADC uses the term “women” to encompass all those that self-identify as women including cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, or gender non-conforming. We honor and respect all identities.*** 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 CREATE | SHARE | INSPIRE Legacy Award, established in 2021, celebrates an artist who exemplifies community and is a gatekeeper in the dance field.
2025 Award Recipient: Dianne McIntyre, an artistic pioneer, with an impressive career spanning four decades with choreography for dance, theatre, television and film.
2024 Award Recipient: Dyane Harvey-Salaam
2023 Award Recipient: Mary Barnett
2021 Award Recipients: Sheila Rohan & Ella Thompson Moore
2025 Artists: Saharla Vetsch; Andrea Vazquez Aguirre/Another River Interdisciplinary Ensemble; Makayla Peterson/Monét Movement Productions: The Collective; Serene Puri/Kalaa Kendra Performing Arts; Li Chiao-Ping/Li Chiao-Ping Dance; Quetzali Hart; Maxine Montilus/MV Dance Project; Rathi Varma; Ashlyn Williams/Purpose Performing Arts Collective; Kaleigh Ogunniyi; He Linli; Audrey Madison/ MoJazz Dance; Yarumi Gonzalez; Jacquelyn Batten; & Samadrita Bhattacharyya and Meghma Banerjee/Souls of India.
2024 Artists: Ashlyn Christina/Purpose Performing Arts Collective; Sloka Iyengar/The Aseemkala Initiative; Shani Arazy; Shachi Phene / Noor Dance Company; Karina Mehta; Audrey Hubbard Madison/MoJazz Dance; Kiara Paige/CarNYval Dancers; Alondra Galvan; Allyson Ross/ SouthernBelleStories; Aika Takeshima & Sara Pizzi/sarAika movement collective; Sivgin Dal; Janelle Gilchrist/Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe; io Ermoli, Emma Edy Morris, Sky Barnes, Callee Egan, Rachel Fontenot; Nyah Malone; Rachel Harris; Taylor West; Monica Shah/The Aseemkala Initiative & Emily Candaux; and Julia Ramirez.
2023 Artists: Andrea Vazquez-Aguirre; Yu Fujiwara & Tsubasa Nishioka; Jalyn Gill & Tashae Udo; Sloka Iyengar/The Aseemkala Initiative; Joan Liu/Axons Dance Theatre; Audrey Hubbard Madison/MoJazz Dance; Kiara Paige/CarNYval Dancers; Shreya Ramanathan/The Aseemkala Initiative; Carolina Rivera/SUR Dance; Allyson Ross/ SouthernBelleStories; Aika Takeshima & Sara Pizzi/sarAika movement collective; and Kayla Yee.
2022 Artists: 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; Jenny Oliver/Modern Connections Collective; Melissa Garcia Velez & Sebastian Angel/Meldanzando & Dancers; Audrey Madison/MoJazz Dance; 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.
2021 Artists: 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.
2020 Artists: 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.
2019 Artists: Shoko Tamai/Ninja Ballet Dance Company; Sabrina Wong; Candace Tabbs; Audrey Madison/ MoJazz Dance; Yamini Kalluri; Allyson Ross/ Southern Belle Stories; Malaika Holder; Shachi Phene/Noor Dance Academy; Samantha Chapa; Angela Patmon/Patmon Dance Project; Jenny Oliver/Connections Dance Theater; Sunae Hwang/ SUNPROJECT; Beverly Lopez/REDi Dance Company; Chatiera Ray/The CRayProject; Kayla Yee/Kayla Yee Choreography; Nyama McCarthy-Brown/Bent Knee; Shekoya Gordon; Arla Scott/Taratibu Youth Association; & Nithya Subramaniam.
2018 Artists: Malaika Holder; Lindsay Renea Benton; Julianne Cariño; Sunae Hwang/SUNPROJECT; Shilpa Darivemula/The Aseemkala Initiative; Italy Bianca; Jenny Boissiere/Dance Boissiere; Melissa Villarreal/Lotus Contemporary Performing Arts; Lauren C. Smith/The Elsie Project; Brianna Anderson; Kacei Womack; Akane Koizumi & Yu Fujiwara; Chien-Ying Wang/OcampoWang Dance; Beverly Lopez/REDi Dance Company; Audrey Hubbard Madison/ MoJazz Dance; Ayako Takahashi | Ayalis in Motion; Jenny Oliver/Connections Dance Theater; Allyson Ross/Southern Belle Stories; & Anuradha Naimpally.
2017 Artists: Anuradha Naimpally; Chatiera Ray/The CRayProject; Alyssa M. Parnell; Audrey Hubbard Madison/MoJazz Dance; Kaoru Ikeda/MoustacheCat Dance; Melissa Escano (formerly Melissa Garcia Velez); Leah Moriarty; Angel Chinn/NonaLee Dance Theatre; Cyrian Reed/Creative Discipline; SunAe Hwang/SUNPROJECT; Chien-Ying Wang/OcampoWang Dance; Sadé M. Jones/Ashé Arts; Natasha Natraj; Beverly Lopez/REDi Dance; Jessica T. Pearson; Allyson Ross/Southern Belle Stories; Courtney J. Cook; Francine E. Ott; Clarice Young; Courtni Poe; & Robyn Ayers.
2016 Artists: Brianna Anderson; Robyn Ayers; Jenny Boissiere/Jenny Boissiere and Dancers; Angel Chinn/NonaLee Dance Theatre; Shauna Davis/Shauna Davis Dance; Chieh Hsiung; SunAe Hwang/SUNPROJECT; Darnetha Lincoln M'Baye/Roots In Revolution; Jessica T. Pearson; Lauren C. Smith; Chien-Ying Wang & Paul C. Ocampo; & Brittany Wilson.
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