Jason Samuels Smith

This Saturday, October 24, you'll be meeting Brian at the Kitchen at 2:40 sharp for what should be an incredibly entertaining show.....

The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenue)
Close subways: A, C, E, L, and 1 train.

Jason Samuels Smith: Charlie’s Angels

In less than a decade, Emmy award-winning choreographer and hoofer Jason Samuels Smith has emerged as a leader in the tap dance world. For the New York premiere of his new dance work, Charlie’s Angels, he considers the complex intersections between inspiration, re-interpretation, and creative process, using Charlie Parker’s revolutionary harmonic ideas and tonal vocabulary as a point of departure. Revisiting Parker’s early influential recordings, Samuels Smith relates them to the history of tap dance, as well as to his personal development as a choreographer.

Developed in collaboration with and performed by three of the most innovative women tap dancers in the world, Chloe Arnold, Michelle Dorrance, and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, and also featuring Samuels Smith, the piece recontextualizes Parker’s music in the present moment. Samuels Smith takes us on a ride through fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and improvisation based on the harmonic structure that has become the legacy of bebop music.

Curated by Rashida Bumbray

Produced by Divine Rhythm Productions and Dulé Hill

Vanessa Justice Dance

The first dance performance immediately follows the first class! 


Vanessa Justice Dance 
performs FLATLAND @ Joyce Soho, 8 pm
155 Mercer Street (between Houston and Prince)
You'll be near the R,F, V, B, D and 6 trains

About the show: 
FLATLAND casts a surrealist tone with implications of anxiety and beauty. Inspired by Edmund Burke's On the Sublime (1756), this evocative, layered work creates an alluring tension while juxtaposing different forms and mediums (dance, film, animation). The dance hatches a dream-like world of precise and pulsating movement set against white-washed walls and featuring sound from David Lynch's 1977 movie Eraserhead. Considered an open-text choreography, the suggestive work makes layers of association to allow it to be received uniquely by each viewer. FLATLAND further develops Ms. Justice's interest in a poetics based on perception. She is honing a relational approach to choreography where divergent sources of information meet and create a context for interplay.

Dance TRaC begins!

The adventure begins, with Brian McCormick as your fearless instructor!  (Click here for images of Brian, probably pontificating about something.....)

First things, first.  Where to meet?????  Dance TRaC meets on Friday afternoons, 4:30-6:30, at the home of our partner, the Dance Theater Workshop (commonly called DTW by those in the know.)

Directions:

Dance Theater Workshop is located at 219 West 19th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues in the Chelsea district of New York City.

Subway: 1/9 to 18th Street. 2/3, F, L and A/C/E to 14th Street.




This is what the entrance looks like:


See you there!