About this project
Confined is the newest creation from B3W under the Artistic Direction of Emily Berry. The concert will feature live music by world-renowned violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, video by Gail Scott White, and spoken word by artist Todd Craig. The cast reveals personal accounts of confinement within the implications of one’s own society. Each story will detail personal struggles and triumphs in a society that can be all but forgiving. This interactive manifestation of music, movement, video, and words is bound to peak your interest and get you thinking beyond the parameters of your imagination.
B3W was recently awarded a Mondo Cane Commission from Dixon Place to create Confined. Our amazing dancers include Sara Roer, Nicole McClam, Yuko Mitsuishi, and Milvia Pacheco and actress Shonnese C.L. Coleman. While we received a commission from Dixon Place, the commission only covers a fraction of the cost to create the concert. We still need to raise $2,000 to cover the costs of collaborators salaries, dancers’ salaries, costumes, rehearsal space rental, and video documentation. Please consider supporting Confined. Dixon Place is also our fiscal sponsor, which is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization, so your donation will be tax deductible.
Confined will Premiere Friday, September 10th at 8:00 pm with performances continuing Fridays and Saturdays through September 25th (September 10th, 11th, 17th, 18th, 24th, and 25th at 8:00 pm). All performances will be at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY.
For more information about B3W, the collaborators, or the project, go to www.b3w.org
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$5.00 tax deduction from your taxes!!!! Plus, your name will be listed on our website as a supporter of the project! You will also receive our deepest gratitude!!!!
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Emily Berry is the Artistic Director of B3W, which has performed in the US, England and Mexico. Dance writer Eva Yaa Asantewaa wrote, “Skin boasted intelligent and strong performances by these women – one white, one black – who literally grappled with each other while confronting urgent questions of racial identity and common humanity. Watch for future work by Emily Berry and her Beyond Third Wave dance troupe." (©2006, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Sept. 2006, http://home.mindspring.com/~magickal1). In New York City, B3W has performed at Henry Street Settlement, Dance New Amsterdam (American Dance Guild Festival and CT meets NY Festival), Dixon Place (Crossing Boundaries and the Hot Festival), BAAD! (Blaktino Festival and BAAD! Ass Women Festival), the 92nd Street Y (Fridays at Noon Series), the RAW Studio Showings with DanceNOW, the International Dance Festival NYC, the DUMBO Dance Festival, the Manhattan Movement Arts Center, and the Cool New York Dance Festival. The company has also premiered two dance films in Maryland and in Switzerland.
Emily has performed with Boris Willis Moves, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company, Restless Native Dance/Tamieca McCloud, Milvia Pacheco Dance, Michele Dunleavy, Lesole’s Dance Project, and Ashe Moyubba/Alafia Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance Ensemble.
Emily is a Certified Movement Analyst. She also has a MFA in dance from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Dance Arts from the University of Michigan. She has taught at Oakland University, George Mason University, Marymount University, Coppin State University, Montgomery College, and the Community College of Baltimore County. She has also taught master classes for ACDFA, Hunter College, Goucher College, the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan, and numerous dance intensives. She has also recently been commissioned to set a piece on Ann Arbor Dance Works in May, 2010. She is currently an assistant professor of dance at Queensborough Community College.
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