CREATE with Moving Forward

Moving Forward's CREATE workshop is back by popular demand!

This unique compositional workshop focuses on giving artists the space, knowledge, and training to hone their creative voices. Dancemakers will explore choreographic tools through classes led by three established choreographers in the field.

This will be an expansion on CREATE's 2023 workshop. Reocurring and new participants are encouraged to join for unique ideas and a fresh, explorative experience.

Participants will work with…

Madison Hicks

Kayla Farrish

Alexander Anderson

(bios below)

DETAILS:

When: Aug 24-25, 2024

Where: New York Center for Creativity and Dance

287 East 10th St

Who: Artists ages 15 and up

10 am-4 pm both days with a 30 minute lunch break

Schedule will be sent out one week prior to the event.

Cost: $250

EarlyBird: $200* (limited spots. Ends July 12)

College/Professional Rate: $220**

Registration opens June 28

Email [email protected] for college/pro rate discount code

Madison Hicks holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School and an MFA in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts. She is the Director and Founder of The Moving Forward Collective where she presents original work by herself and her collaborators. She has received choreographic residencies at Orsolina28, 14StreetY, Chez Bushwick, DanceLabNY, and was a Jacob’s Pillow Ann and Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellow. Madison has been commissioned by universities such as Loyola Marymount, The Fordham Ailey BFA program, Peabody University, University of Texas, and Wayne State University. She has also been commissioned by companies such as Vitacca Ballet, Ballet Arkansas, Avant Chamber Ballet, Mash-Up Contemporary Dance company, Ballet Project OC, and Water Street Dance Milwaukee. Most recently, she worked alongside Tony Yazbeck and Chip Abbott as Associate Choreographer for Manhattan Concert Production’s Children of Eden at Lincoln Center.

Madison was also a guest choreographer at The Juilliard School’s Summer Intensive, UNCSA Professional Studies, and MoveNYC in 2023. She was the choreographer for “The Elixir of Love” Opera at Curtis Institute of Music in 2023. She is the Director and Founder of Moving Forward, an innovative Non-Profit Organization for young artists and founded The Moving Forward Collective in 2022, a group of collaborators that present original work across the country. She has presented work at Arts on Site, Boston Dance Festival, LA Dance Festival, Palm Desert Choreography Festival, and others. She has been a guest choreographer for Orange County School of the Performing Arts, Lindenwood University, Booker T. Washington HSPVA Rep II Ensemble, Center of Creative Arts, Houston MET Too, San Diego Civic Center, and The Windward School along with rigorously teaching artists of all ages. She has been a company member with Sidra Bell Dance New York and LA Dance Project. Madison joined DanceONE’s 24Seven Break The Floor faculty in 2022 and is a faculty member at Steps on Broadway.

www.madisonhicks.com

Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. She captures ranging identity, the mythical dualities of history and present survival, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation.  She is currently a NEFA National Dance Project Grantee for her project “Put Away the Fire, dear” currently on tour and the recipient of the Ellis Beauregard Contemporary Dance Award. She has been commissioned by Limon Dance Company, ODC Theater, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Blacklight Summit, Harlem Satage and beyond.  She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive, and collaborations with musicians and other artists. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust, among receiving support from Watermill Center for the Arts, Armstrong Now, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Baryshnikov Arts Center, La Mama Theater, and others. She is excited to create more, and continue to be a part of radical movements of freedom and humanity.

Alexander Anderson is a South Florida native where he attended the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, Class of 2010. Upon finishing high school he continued his training at The Juilliard School where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Dance in 2014. While at Juilliard, his workshop choreography was well received and featured in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater from 2010 - 2014.

Alexander is a 2012 recipient of the Dizzy Feet Foundation Scholarship Award and a 2013 recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Scholarship Award. Upon graduation, Alexander began dancing for Nederlands Dans Theater 2 and in 2017, joined as company artist with Nederlands Dans Theater 1. In October 2019, he was mentioned in Dance Europe Magazine by Critic's Choice for 'Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer' for his performance in Crystal Pite's "Solo Echo". Alexander is currently based in New York City as an Artist Associate with Gibney Company as well as a class teacher and choreographer.

Email [email protected] with any questions

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