Dancing in Palestine: Samar Haddad King in conversation with Katie Baer Schetlick
Katie Schetlick interviews Samar Haddad King, artistic director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, a New York dance theater company. They discuss King’s exploration of Palestinian identity and family history in her new work, which is being made with a group of dancers at [...]
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Months ago, my colleague Sara inspired this rumination on the collective similarities and differences of various art forms. As I read her last blog posts, I wondered, what is the distinction between performers across mediums? How do the performances of dancers, actors or musicians differ? I like to imagine that [...]
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How wonderful is it that we can go to a class and stretch out our stress, or turn on music in the living room and shake out our anger? To me, this is movement therapy. Turning off our voice and going inside of our bodies enables us to connect to a wellspring of information that [...]
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It has often occurred to me that the combination of being heavily enamored with both dance and writing is seemingly incongruent. One art form is physical, (usually) non-verbal and requires collaboration with others to some degree; the latter is fairly sedentary and certainly solitary.
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Last year a musician and friend Diego Alamar approached me about conducting a dance workshop at the Star Mountain Rehabilitation Center, a school for children with special needs.
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On Saturday, April 2, YSDT members Zoe Rabinowitz and Sara Genoves-Sylvan taught two masterclasses at the Roseland Performing Arts Center in West Caldwell, NJ. Introducing modern dance and improvisation concepts to students trained primarily in ballet can be challenging- but also rewarding! Watch below [...]
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Sometimes in rehearsal we play with partnering improvisations that focus on the kind of touch occurring between dancers. We usually focus on four basic types of touch: hair, skin, bones, and muscles.
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Samar and the dancers of YSDT collaborate to create choreography.
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See in real time, how Samar and the dancers navigate the creation process through video conferencing and the web.
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Read Jennifer Edward's feature about YSDT's newest work, Bound, featuring interviews by Samar Haddad King and Zoe Rabinowitz.
