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Opportunity NYC Job: Graphic Design@ Dance New Amsterdam...part time...free classes!

Posted by Dance New Amsterdam on August 15, 2008 at 5:00pm

Dance New Amsterdam is looking for a part-time graphic designer, 20 hours/week, who is a fast worker, a quick learner and team worker. Must have basic skills in Photoshop, Quark, InDesign and web media (html and CSS).If interested please send resume and cover letter to Amanda Szeglowski at aszeglowski@dnadance.org with DNA graphic design in the subject line.Marlon
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Electrolux, Laura Peterson Choreography at DNA, NYC

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 28, 2008 at 9:57pm
"stylishly sexy" — The New Yorker “I’d settle for more choreographers as hip as Laura Peterson” — danceviewtimes (New York, NY) - Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) is pleased to present Laura Peterson Choreography in the premiere of Electrolux, choreographed by DNA Artist in Residence Laura Peterson to music by Led Zeppelin. Performances are Thursday–Saturday, March 27–29 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 30 at 3:00 p.m. in the theater@DNA located at 280 Broadway (entrance at 53 Chambers St.). An opening reception will precede the performance on Thursday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m. Imagine the kind of luxurious carpet that retains the marks of a vacuum cleaner. Every step destroys its plush perfection. Performed by Kathryn Harris, Kate Martel, Christopher Hutchings and Laura Peterson with costumes by Charles Youssef, Electrolux is about environment, texture, garbage -- and carpet. Laura Peterson is a NYC-based dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director of Laura Peterson Choreography. She received a 2007 Mondo Cane! Dixon Place Commission. Her dances have been presented throughout NYC, other US cities and produced internationally in Argentina and Germany. Her work has been performed at Lincoln Center Out-of Doors and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and commissioned by DROP Dance in Boise, Hartford Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet. In 2004 LPC was a guest performing company at NYU’s Tisch Summer Dance Program. Her performance credits include Julie Taymor’s film, Across The Universe, choreographed by Daniel Ezralow. She has performed the work of Mark Morris at Radio City Music Hall, and has danced with Risa Jaraslow & Dancers, Poppo & the GoGo Boys (NYC), Paule Turner’s c o u r t (Phila), Group Motion Dance Co (Phila), and Asimina Chremos (Chicago). Laura Peterson holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School and a BFA from University of the Arts. She has taught at Western Connecticut State University, Rowan University and has been a guest teacher at Hunter College.
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kate Weare@Dance New Amsterdam

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on May 3, 2008 at 12:00am

I made this preview for kate Weare Company about three weeks ago and they are performing this week in SPLICE at DNA. sharing the program with Deborah Lohse. She got an edge with duets full of raw elegance. They are technically sensual with calculated violence and layered complicity.

I will attend the show this Sunday, This is taste from that informal showing! Enjoy.
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DNA World and interview with Lois Greenfield!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on May 2, 2008 at 8:00am

Find more videos like this on DNA World
Dance New Amsterdam, where I work as a web/new media specialist launched DNA World, a social network open to everybody. This is from the home page: Dance New Amsterdam, downtown New York's home for contemporary dance invites you to be a part of DNA World. To see members pages and any content beyond the home page, you need to join, complete your profile and login using your password. DNA World is a forum for discussion about dance; a place to talk about what you are doing in the dance world, and a network of dancers, dance teachers choreographers, bloggers, critics and dance administrators. I also had the amazing opportunity of interviewing Lois Greenfield for DNA World. Yes, she is the one that created those iconic images of flying dancers. She talks about the show opened yesterday at DNA called Celestial Bodies and some cool anecdotes about her 20 years of taking photographing the downtown dance in New York City.
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