Nathan Trice, US Naval Veteran, ordained minister, anti-racists organizer and artistic director, choreographer and founder of nathan trice / RITUALS: dance, theater, music, created in 1998. His mission is to develop and presents artistic/educational programs and performances that reflect the importance of empathy, compassion, and understanding for one another, in the pursuit of global humanism. His company has toured nationally and internationally and is in-residence at the Billie Holiday Theater, a center for arts and culture in Brooklyn, since 2005. His residency at the Billie has supportive the development of creative processes rooted in community collaborative research, that aim to foster inclusion, access, and exposure to art, as a form of cultural transformation and literacy.
Company projects include The Recognizing Women Project, residencies and performances about women’s experiences and stories across cultures, generations, and geographies. An Inquiry Dynamic: The Future of…,in partnership with Judson Arts, is a project that invites millennials, Gen Z dancers and their generations to contemplatively inquire, through community discussion, dance, theater and music, the trajectory of humanity and spirituality, morality and technology, and racism and environmentalism. Strange Love: EPISODES, a serialized performance that explores and illustrate the anatomy and beauty of courtship, intimacy and love.
Trice has taught and coached his brand of dance/movement for over 25 years at multiple dance education institutes. He currently serves as the director/consultant of the Billie Holiday theaters’ ChoreoQuest, a choreographer residency program and is the co-founder of ACRE (Artists Co-creating Racial Equity).
“My creative history with New Dance Alliance goes a way long. Since my friend, Chivas Sandage brought me to New Dance Alliance to rehearse in early 90’s, the place has become a part of my creative life. The long time existence of the studio and Performance Mix Festival are vital to the artists who seek and explore deep into their process. Whenever I step into the studio, it’s a new space with a lot of memories. I lie down on the floor, listen to my body, and I dance. It is valuable. The time in the space nurtures my practice and artistic vision. Karen’s vision of Lift-Off residency, feedback sessions, providing peer to peer connections are more significant than ever. It has been helping us to get through 2020 and we are going into 2021.”
– Nami Yamamoto
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