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NM announces call for CounterPointe3!
Norte Maar in collaboration with Brooklyn Ballet opens a call for CounterPointe3 the returning performing series featuring emerging and established women choreographers making new work for pointe.
Karole Armitage talks Pointe Shoe with 6 rising choreographers.
Read the excerpts from transcript a riveting post performance discussion following the November 2, 2013, Counterpointe program at The Actors Fund Arts Center. Moderated by Karole Armitage of Armitage GONE! Dance the discussion featured Lynn Parkerson (Brooklyn Ballet), Julia Gleich (Gleich Dances), Nikki Hefko, Eryn Renee Young (XAOC Contemporary Ballet), Morgan McEwen (MorDance) and Sam Grymont (Arch Contemporary Ballet).
CounterPointe Choreographer, Nikki Hefko talks about choreography
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Nikki Hefko trained at Mobile Ballet (Mobile, AL), Ballet Hysell (New Orleans, LA), New Orleans Ballet Ensemble (New Orleans, LA), and the Dance Theatre of Harlem School (New York City). She was a company member with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, under the direction of Arthur Mitchell. While at DTH, she toured the states and abroad dancing a full repertoire of classical, neo-classical, and contemporary ballets. Additionally, Nikki danced with Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, The Metropolitan Opera, and other national companies as a free-lance artist.
CounterPointe Choreographer, Eryn Renee Young, talks about choreography
Eryn Renee Young is co-founder and resident choreographer of XAOC Contemporary Ballet, a New York City-based neoclassical ballet company founded in 2010. Her choreographic work has been showcased at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, the Young Choreographer’s Festival at Symphony Space, Boston Contemporary Dance Festival at the Paramount Theater, the White Wave Dumbo Dance Festival, among others.
NM announces the return of CounterPointe
Norte Maar in collaboration with Brooklyn Ballet announces an open call for choreographers for the return of CounterPointe, a new series presenting choreography by women dance makers working with the pointe shoe.
CounterPointe opens in London
Exciting news! Norte Maar (Brooklyn, NY) joins forces with The Broadway (Barking, UK) to present the 2nd edition of CounterPoint an important series, which originated as a collaboration with Brooklyn Ballet to present a forum for women choreographers working with the pointe shoe to show and discuss their work. The series will run at The Broadway June 17, 18, 19 at 8pm all tickets £10. The series is curated by Julia K. Gleich.
Norte Maar presents a week of Ballet in London
Julia K. Gleich, Norte Maar and The Broadway present a week of ballet at The Broadway in Barking, East London, June 18-23, 2013 offering two programs feature ballet in different contexts: CounterPointe: a curated evening of new works by women making choreography for pointe and Speak Easy Secrets: an immersive ballet experience for an Era of Wonderful Nonsense. This special week of ballet is sponsored by Arts Council England.
2012 recap and celebrating John Cage
2012 was an amazing year for Norte Maar with a number of stellar programs, exhibition, and events. Cage Transmitted Series, The Brodmann Areas, CounterPointe, To be a Lady. And much, much more all recapped here!