Archives for the ‘From the NDA Blog’ Category

Video Featurettes

By • Mar 29th, 2010 • Category: From the NDA Blog, General

Featuring just a few of the Performance Mix Festival Artists on their process. Get to know them on-line. And then, take the leap and see them live at Joyce SoHo. dubD Productions is a rising talent in Vancouver who is recognized for using traditional techniques in mime, clown, and dance and fusing them with new [...]



Bogliasco Diary 11.6.09

By • Nov 7th, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Hello from Bogliasco, With three days to go, I am driven to make connections between the edited video of relics and nature, soundtracks and movement images. I seem to be obsessed with my shadow – as it crosses over into different realms of time and space. The piece is a movie within a movie – [...]



Bogliasco 10.30.09

By • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Hello from Bogliasco, I am excited today, because I have an idea for a new section for Ouette – I call it Glisten. My pieces often start from a reflection of where I am at emotionally and fueled by music. But here I have found that video imagery is a departure point for me to explore increasing [...]



Bogliasco Diary 10.23.09

By • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Hello from Bogliasco, I have come to the end of week two. The days seem to slip through my fingers. It has been a wonderful week working in my studio. I continue to edit my video, which creates ambiance and places where the live performance of moving tableaus live. I have incorporated images and sound [...]



Bogliasco Diary 10.16.09

By • Oct 16th, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Hello from Bogliasco, Here is a view of the sunrise from my room.  Yes, friends and neighbors, Bogliasco is the creme de la creme of residencies.  I wake up in the morning to breakfast while my room is cleaned and bed made.  Truly heaven.  Then up up up a path to my studio.  The studio [...]



Look who’s writing about Nili Lotan!

By • Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Does My Kibbutz Look Big in This? Israeli Designer Channels Hippies for Spring In her spacious Tribeca studio, Nili Lotan makes fashion fit for a revolution > Read Full Articleby Lacey Tisch-Sidney| The New York Observer | 12:03 PM January 27, 2009 Tedi Tafel’s LIFE-WORLD will be located at the Nili Lotan Design Studio



White Oak Residency & the Shua Group

By • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

White Oaks, a short film by the Shua Group and filmmaker Diana Quiñones Rivera was created during a New Dance Alliance 2008 residency at White Oak through the support of the Howard Gilman Foundation.  The film will be presented at the Performance Mix Festival on February 24 and 25 at Joyce SoHo. In White Oaks [...]



Festival Artist in New York Times

By • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Tapper’s Tale: She Had the Time-Step of Her Life By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO A diehard tap-dancer, journalist and historian, Jane Goldberg has published a memoir about her drive to unearth all things tap. > Read full article



NDA joins forces with Community Cares

By • Jan 21st, 2009 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Tribeca Senior Center Comes Alive with the Joy of Dance By Matt Dunning POSTED JANUARY 2, 2009 New Dance Alliance joins forces with Community Cares in Tribeca and brings;’ Dance For a Variable Population to Seniors…… > Read full article



Performance Mix Festival: Looking Back

By • Nov 29th, 2008 • Category: From the NDA Blog

Performance Mix Festival: Looking Back » Great compilation of excerpts of performances from the festival with a broad variety of performers, dancers and choreographers. From 1991 to 2006. It is an important documentation of the Downtown New York City scene of the last 15 years. With excerpts of performances by Jenifer Monson,Ishmael, Houston-Jones, Kelly Garfield, [...]