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Ven­mo: Mark-DeGar­mo‑2

Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 4th, 2021 7PM ET on Zoom*
*Zoom Link will be sent to atten­dees at 4PM ET the day of the per­for­mance. If a dona­tion is made after that time, the MDD staff will send the link via email as soon as possible.

MDD’s Feb­ru­ary VSPS fea­tures artists Jenise Antho­ny (USA), David Lopi­ki (DR Con­go), Truth­Nan­da (Ugan­da), and Waeli Wang (USA).

Mark DeGar­mo Dance broad­casts its tran­scul­tur­al trans­dis­ci­pli­nary Vir­tu­al Salon Per­for­mance Series for Social Change to an inter­na­tion­al audi­ence on Zoom with per­for­mances fea­tur­ing inter­na­tion­al and emerg­ing per­form­ing artists Jenise Antho­ny (USA), David Lopi­ki (DR Con­go), Truth­Nan­da (Ugan­da), and Waeli Wang (USA) on Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 4th at 7PM ET. Each per­for­mance includes an audi­ence feed­back ses­sion curat­ed and facil­i­tat­ed by Dr. Mark DeGarmo.

Found­ed in 2010, MDD’s Salon Per­for­mance Series pro­vides a curat­ed oppor­tu­ni­ty to view, engage with, and demys­ti­fy orig­i­nal dance and move­ment works-in-progress of guest artists. The 2019–20 sea­son fea­tured 51 artists/performers in 9 salons, the final 3 of which were held vir­tu­al­ly on Zoom.

Mark DeGar­mo Dance rec­og­nizes the impact of COVID-19 on glob­al artists and our com­mu­ni­ties and is com­mit­ted to offer­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for artists to share and devel­op their work, despite and respond­ing to our cur­rent cir­cum­stances. Through vir­tu­al pro­gram­ming and online events, MDD con­nects the embod­ied imag­i­na­tions of the inter­na­tion­al arts and schol­ar community.

Dr. Mark DeGar­mo curates the series and facil­i­tates audi­ence response ses­sions dur­ing each install­ment through a crit­i­cal response process. DeGar­mo guides dis­course among the artists and audi­ence mem­bers and encour­ages the pub­lic to active­ly par­tic­i­pate in the devel­op­ment of orig­i­nal works-in-progress and under­stand­ing of dance as a tran­scul­tur­al trans­dis­ci­pli­nary art form.

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About Mark DeGar­mo Dance

Found­ed in 1987, Mark DeGar­mo Dance is a non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion that edu­cates New York City com­mu­ni­ties and chil­dren; cre­ates, per­forms, and dis­sem­i­nates orig­i­nal artis­tic work; and builds inter­cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ty through dance arts. MDD com­mits its resources to serv­ing social jus­tice, equi­ty, and equal­i­ty issues across mul­ti­ple fronts through dance arts in NYC, the U.S., and internationally.

About Mark DeGarmo

Mark DeGar­mo, Ph.D., B.F.A. is a New York City-based dancer, chore­o­g­ra­ph­er, writer, and researcher. They are Founder, Exec­u­tive & Artis­tic Direc­tor of Mark DeGar­mo Dance, New York City; Dance Direc­tor of Cross­ing Bridges Inter­na­tion­al Artist Res­i­den­cy, Michoacán, Mex­i­co; and an Artist-Schol­ar with Cre­ative Agency, Aus­tralia. Their 2020 pub­li­ca­tions explore autoethnog­ra­phy dur­ing COVID.

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We are grate­ful that this pro­gram is sup­port­ed in part by the New York City Depart­ment of Cul­tur­al Affairs in part­ner­ship with the City Coun­cil and the New York State Coun­cil on the Arts with the sup­port of Gov­er­nor Andrew M. Cuo­mo and the New York State Legislature.

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