MOVEMENT of the PEOPLE Dance Company

March 2012

Saturday, March 17th @ 1pm

The Festival of the Moving Body 

Join us for a day of movement and discovery as Stony Brook University presents The Festival of the Moving Body. Through this daylong event, participants will learn how movement, creativity, and imagination impact holistic health, recovery, and well-being. Experts from around the globe will share their ideas, research, creative work, and interdisciplinary thinking through film, dance, media, interactive art installations, somatic education and therapy, visual art, panel discussions, music, classes, and performance.

Joya, Artistic Director of MOPDC, will be facilitating her workshop titled: Revolutionary Movement: Exploring the Evolution of the Dances of the Orixás, and Their Presence in Modern Afoxé, Brazil. This workshop will explore the basic movement phrases of the Dances of the Orixás (dances of the deities within the Candomblé religion), and their evolution into the modern dances of Afoxe. Participants will gain a kinetic understanding of the derivation of these movement techniques, and the sociopolitical context, which necessitates the use of these dances as a healing force within Afro-Brazilian society. The workshop will include a warm-up, across-the floor exercises, short movement phrases, and improvisation.

Where: Charles B. Wang Center room 301, main campus of Stony Brook University, Long Island NY

Time: 1pm-1:45pm, The Festival's activities will be open to the public from 10am-4:30pm!

Cost: $15 by March 13^th or $20 at the door, registration fee for ENTIRE Day of Workshops

For more information please visit: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/movingbody/index.html

Thursday, March 22nd @ 7pm

MOPDC is very excited to be presenting our work-in-progress Personal Private Apartheid. This choreography is based on one's inner struggle; how at times people separate themselves from society without realizing it, resulting in a subconscious fight for self understanding causing some to live segregated lives, however obvious or ambiguous it may be. Choreography fuses West African dance and contemporary dance. Choreography by Joya Powell.

We will be performing with fellow Artists: Jessica Ray, Vangeline, and Megan Sipe. Dance Conversations is a free performance, film & discussion festival presenting both works-in-progress and fully developed pieces by dance artists and filmmakers, followed by an open discussion between the artists and the audience.

Where: The FLEA Theater, 41 White Street New York, NY 10013, between Broadway and Church Streets

Time: 7:00pm

Cost: FREE