About a month ago, Kelli Youngman- a senior at the Fordham/Ailey BFA Program in New York City- performed a solo that we choreographed in collaboration with the dancers of YSDT for the Fordham/Ailey BFA Senior Solo Concert. This was my fifth senior solo commissioned by students of the Ailey/Fordham BFA [...]
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Since Samar’s departure in December many things have changed: almost all of the dancers now have smart phones, which facilitates us watching videos or reading emailed notes during rehearsal; everyone has downloaded Skype- for both social and professional reasons- where we hang out in a new sort of virtual apartment; Samar has become [...]
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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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The Huffington Post
Read Jennifer Edward's feature about YSDT's newest work, Bound, featuring interviews by Samar Haddad King and Zoe Rabinowitz.
