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“Karen Bernard, New York City-based Dance Soloist and Founder and Director of New Dance Alliance (NDA), a non-profit arts service organization that produces an annual performance festival, talks about her autobiographical work Ouette…”
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Exchange/Échange in S303: criticism
Explosion of clowns
“If one still crosses clowns with the daily newspaper, in the street or anywhere, their appearance on the boards and in the spectacles rarer, is limited to the world of the circus or the rigour diverted for large sanguinary productions of horror with psychopathes. With Studio 303, one hides some behind the curtains…”
by Marion Gerbier
DFdanse
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“Rocking the Strange and Original
New Dance Alliance presents a true mix
Karen Bernard curates one of the more interesting dance festivals presented in NYC in her Performance Mix Festival at Joyce Soho. The unifying theme, if there is one, seems to be quirky originality. MC/hosts Regina Rocke and Rosita Laval do a great job of keeping the interpiece transitions lightly comic, rock with her ’80s-dressed straight-outta-Bushwick persona and Laval (Nathalie Claude) as a cleverly rough-around-the-edges French Canadienne.” Quinn Batson
Offoffoff.com
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“The New Dance Alliance (NDA) took over Joyce SoHo last week for its 24th annual Performance Mix Festival, which brought together over thirty dance, music, video, and interdisciplinary artists from the US and abroad.” Evan Namerow

Dancing Perfectly Free

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“On Sunday, April 18th at 3:00 PM, the line up of artists who performed were three New York City artists: Brynne Billingsley, Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance, and Kristi Spessard Dance Projects; one Utah artist: Ashley Anderson; one Vancouver group: MOVE: the company.

The concert opened with a solo by Kristi Spessard, who collaborated with Jeanne Trevers on its creation. The title was Tremor, and Kristi began the solo with pulses and contorted gestures to the sound of amplified breathing. This dance began slowly in a spotlight, the dancer appearing strung up like a puppet as if being moved by some outside force.”
Megan Boyd

Manhattan Dance Examiner

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“The third piece in the concert, Elbow Tow Blues, started out with a fan blowing. A woman, Brynne Billingsley, set herself up in the blackout wearing an enormous costume. When the lights went up her upper body was hidden, only exposing a giant skirt suspended up by the air produced by the fan, looking like a jellyfish.
In this chapter, the artists Brynne Billingsley and Josh Beamish were reviewed.”
Megan Boyd

Manhattan Dance Examiner

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“Dead Dog Song, by Ashley Anderson, was a uniquely compelling duet. It opened with two dancers on stage, quietly present and physically still. One dancer began moving closer to the other dancer on stage. Her movements were like liquid.”
In this chapter, the artists Ashley Anderson and Jody Sperling were reviewed.

Megan Boyd

Manhattan Dance Examiner

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“Starting today, Tuesday April 13, some of the most innovative dance from around the world will make its way to New York City, as New Dance Alliance hosts the Performance Mix Festival at the Joyce Soho…“I love it when audience walk away saying – ‘is this dance?’” says Bernard. Indeed, as dance moves into the future, the lines between dance, video, theater, visual art, music, and beyond are being blurred. This prospect is exciting and promising for artists, as it creates endless possibilities.” READ MORE

“A model of survival in good times and bad, the Performance Mix Festival returns in its 24th incarnation to New York this April, despite a recession that’s meant cutbacks this year of about $7000. “For a festival our size, that’s a lot of moneys,” says producer/curator and New Dance Alliance Director Karen Bernard. Never mind. This year’s event brings together a raucous mix of over 30 artists, known and unknown, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary and the in-between, and continues to hone its service mission of providing rehearsal space, marketing help and chances for networking and touring.” READ MORE – THE BROOKLYN RAIL