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Greetings!
We're pleased to present you with CTMD's
Global Beat
of the Boroughs eNewsletter featuring
news
from
New York's traditional music scene, artist
profiles and
information on CTMD-related events. Each month
we'll provide
information on
events around town and highlight the people
working
to preserve the rich cultural heritage of New
York's
immigrant communities.
Master Artist Profile & Sounds of the Prairies Oct 16-22
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Brian Cherwick and Andriy Nahachewsky present Canadian-Ukrainian Prairie Music
CTMD's Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural
Initiative is pleased to partner with the
New York
Bandura Society to present "Sounds of the
Prairies:
Music and Dance of the Ukrainian Settlers of
Western
Canada."
The program
explores the
unique
music
and dance traditions which evolved when
hundreds of
thousands of Ukrainians settled the prairies and
parklands of the Western Canadian provinces of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta through a
number of waves of immigration that began at
the turn
of the 20th century. A series
of concerts, workshops and
lectures will feature special guests from
Edmonton,
Alberta: Brian Cherwick, a
tsymbaly (hammered dulcimer)
player and ethnomusicologist, and
Andriy Nahachewsky, a folklorist/dance
ethnographer who serves as Director of the
University
of Alberta's Ukrainian Folklore Centre.
See the CTMD calendar below for a full
schedule of Sounds of the
Prairies events. For a
profile of this month's Master Artist
Brian Cherwick, please click the
below link:
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CTMD Calendar
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We hope to see you at some of these exciting presentations:
Tuesday, October 16th - Thursday, October 18:
Sounds of the Prairies - CTMD Ukrainian
Wave
presents
Prairie Dance Music Workshops with
tsymbalist
(hammered dulcimer player) and scholar Brian
Cherwick. Bring your instrument! Workshop
held in
the evening at the Ukrainian East Village
Restaurant
(140 Second Ave. between 8th and 9th Streets,
Manhattan). Call 212-571-1555 ext. 35 for
times and to
register.
Friday, October 19: Sounds of the
Prairies -
CTMD Ukrainian
Wave and the New York Bandura Ensemble
present a Canadian-Ukrainian Prairie
Music
Concert featuring tsymbaly
(hammered
dulcimer)
player/ethnomusicologist Brian
Cherwick at the Ukrainian Museum (222 E 6th St
between 2nd and 3rd Ave). Held in conjunction
with
the Ukrainian Museum's exhibit "Thread to the
Past:
Folk Art from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair."
Tickets
are $15 (member/student/senior discounts
available).
(7:30PM).
Saturday, October 20: Sounds of the
Prairies - CTMD Ukrainian
Wave presents a special Vechornytsi
(Ukrainian Village Social Dance) featuring
Canadian-Ukrainian
Prairie music from Alberta. Led by
tsymbaly
(hammered dulcimer) player/ethnomusicologist
Brian
Cherwick and folk dance scholar/dance master
Andriy
Nahachewsky. Ukrainian East Village
Restaurant, 140 Second Ave. between 8th and 9th
Streets in Manhattan. Admission $10 for
adults, $5 for
kids. (Instruction
7:30-8:15PM; Dance
party 8:30-11:00PM).
Sunday, October 21: Yiddish Dance
Classes begin in
collaboration with
the 92nd Street Y. Seven, three-hour
intensive sessions
will be
taught by Walter Zev Feldman and other master
dance
leaders on the following Sundays from
2:00-5:00PM:
October 21, November 18, January 20,
February
17, March 30, April 27, and June 1.
For more information and registration call
the 92 St.
Y's Harkness Dance Center at 212-415-5552, or
call
Pete Rushefsky at 212-571-1555 ext. 36.
Monday, October 22: Sounds of the
Prairies - CTMD Ukrainian
Wave presents a lecture/presentation on
Canadian-Ukrainian prairie music hosted by the
Columbia University Ukrainian Studies Program.
Room 1219, Harriman Institute/Columbia
University,
420 W 118th St. - 12th Floor MC 3345. Admission
free.
(noon - 2:00PM).
Thursday, November
1:
Tantshoyz (Dance House) in
collaboration with
the JCC in Manhattan & Workmen's Circle. Yiddish
dance led by Walter Zev Feldman with live
klezmer
music.
Dancers of all skill levels welcome. At
the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at
76th
Street (7:00-10:00PM)
Saturday, November 4th CTMD Touring
Artists Ballet Fiesta Mexicana perform at
the
Newark Museum. For more information go to the museum's
website. (4:00PM)
Friday, November 9: CTMD Ukrainian
Wave
presents an Armistice Day Concert
featuring Ukranian songs and poetry
reflecting on the
First World War at the Ukrainian Museum, 222
E 6th St
between 2nd and 3rd Ave. (7:30PM).
Friday, November 9: CTMD Touring
Artists Vodou Drums of Haiti perform at
Bergen
Community College's Anna Maria Ciccone
Theater in
Paramus, NJ. For more information see the College website
(7:30PM)
Wednesday, November 14: CTMD Touring
Artists
Thunderbird Dancers at the Hostos Center
for Arts
and Culture in the Bronx. For more
information see the
Hostos Center website
Saturday, December 1: CTMD Touring
Artists Shashmaqam, featuring NEA National
Heritage Fellow Fatima Kuinova perform
Central Asian
music for World Music Institute's National
Heritage
Masters series in a show that also features
oudist/violinist Simon Shaheen, nay
player Nadeem
Dlaikan and oudist Richard Hagopian. At
NYU's
Skirball Center, 566 LaGuardia Pl. at Washinton
Square South. Tickets $32. (8:00PM)
Thursday, December 6:
Tantshoyz (Dance House) in
collaboration with
the JCC in Manhattan & Workmen's Circle. Yiddish
dance led by Zev Feldman with live klezmer
music.
Dancers of all skill levels welcome. At
the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at
76th
Street (7:00-10:00PM)
Sunday, December 9: Defining Yiddish
Dance: Sacred, Secular, Borrowed and
Transformed. The first ever Yiddish Dance
Research Symposium will present a day-long
session
at
New York University featuring leading
researchers and practitioners of traditional
Yiddish
dance
along with scholars of Yiddish culture and
related
dance genres. Symposium is chaired by Michael
Alpert and Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D. and will be
moderated by NYU Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-
Gimblett. In the evening prior to the
event, a
participatory
dance workshop will take place featuring leading
dance
teachers and a live klezmer band.
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Yiddish Dance in NYC
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Upcoming Dances, Classes and a Symposium!
There's still an opportunity to enroll in our
new
Yiddish Dance Class at the
92St. Y.
Led by
Walter Zev Feldman, the 92 St. Y
classes
will provide intermediate and advanced
dancers with a
more in-depth
opportunity to explore classic Yiddish dances
such as
the sher, hora, freylekhs
and
bulgar. Special focus will also be
given to the
expressive power and gestures of solo dance.
Classes will feature live klezmer music
performed by
Jake Shulman-Ment on violin and Pete
Rushefsky on
tsimbl (hammered dulcimer). Seven,
three-hour
sessions
will be held from 2pm-5pm on the following
Sundays: October 21, November 18, January 20,
February
17, March 30, April 27, and June 1. Price for
the series
is $250. To
register or for
more information, contact the 92St. Y's Harkness
Dance Center at (212) 415-5552, or Pete
Rushefsky at
212-571-1555, ext. 36.
Through
our partnership with the JCC in Manhattan
and the Workmen's Circle, CTMD is pleased to
present a new season of its popular
Tantshoyz
(Dance House) series. The next
Tantshayzer
will
be on Thursdays November 1 and
December 6 at the JCC in Manhattan, Amsterdam at
76th St. from 7:00-10:00PM. Cost is $10.
Finally, the first-ever Yiddish Dance
Research
Symposium, entitled "Defining
Yiddish
Dance:
Sacred,
Secular, Borrowed and Transformed," is
scheduled for
Sunday, December 9th at New York University's
Bronfman Center. The symposium will be a
first-ever
gathering in an academic setting of leading
researchers and practitioners of traditional
Yiddish
dance
along with scholars of Yiddish culture and
related
dance genres. Symposium is chaired by Michael
Alpert and Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D.
and
will be
moderated by NYU Professor Barbara
Kirshenblatt-
Gimblett. In the evening prior to the
event, a
participatory
dance workshop will take place featuring leading
dance
teachers and a live klezmer band.
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Introducing Tema Fishbein
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New CTMD Development Director
We're pleased to announce that Tema Fishbein
has
joined CTMD as our new Development
Director. Tema was formerly Assistant
Professor in
the Arts Management Program at American
University,
and prior to this was Program Director for
the New
York Arts Recovery Fund, a program of the New
York
Foundation for the Arts which awarded $5
million in
grants to individual artists and arts
organizations to
assist their recovery from
financial harm as a result of 9/11.
Tema
served as Associate Institute Director of the
Lim�n
Dance
Foundation and Education Director for the
Mark Morris Dance Group. She holds a
Masters of Public Affairs in Finance and
Management from Columbia University School of
International and Public Affairs and a
Masters in
Dance/Movement Therapy from Hunter College, City
University of New York. For 15 years she
maintained a
private Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy
practice. Welcome Tema!
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New CTMD Touring Artists: Ologund�
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Afro-Brazilian music from Salvador, Brazil
CTMD is pleased to welcome Ologund� to its
Touring
Artist roster. Ologund� celebrates
the rich
Afro-
Brazilian culture of the city of Salvador, in
the Brazilian
northeastern coastal state of Bahia, through
music,
dance and martial arts.
Under the
direction
of noted
percussionist Dend�, of the famed
Timbalada
band,
Ologund� explores a diverse repertoire which
includes candombl�, a synthesis of
Yoruba and
Catholic religious performance rituals, the
breathtaking capoeira, a martial arts
dance
which employs acrobatic movements,
macul�l�, a warrior dance which
utilizes sticks
and machetes, and the exhilarating samba de
roda, a spontaneous dance which can be
traced
back to Angola. Ologund� has toured
throughout the
United States including noteworthy
performances at
Popejoy Hall at the University of New Mexico
and The
CityFolk Festival in Ohio. Most notably,
Ologund�
toured Greece as part of the Cultural
Olympiad in
2002, appearing at the Kalamata Dance
Festival and
The Athens Festival at the
Acropolis.
For more
information about CTMD Touring
Artists, all
New York-based artists who are available for
concerts
and workshops around the country, click the
following
link:
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Review of Recent Festivals
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Heritage Sunday, New York World Festival & Marty's Photo Exhibit
We've had some wonderful events recently...
On a very
hot August 12, CTMD curated a spectacular
Lincoln
Center Out of Doors Heritage Sunday in a
program
that featured CTMD Touring Artists
Abdoulaye
Diabate and Super Manden performing West
African Manden music, Albanian superstar
Merita
Halili and the Raif Hyseni Orchestra
performing
traditional Albanian music, and Viento de
Agua
performing Puerto Rican bomba and
plena.
Then, on September 16, CTMD and World Music
Institute teamed up to present the New York
World
Festival: Music Around the Mediterranean
at
Central
Park SummerStage. A beautiful day and beautiful
music, dance and pageantry started with a
parade by
the devilishly fun Dimonis d'Albopas
of the
Balearic
Islands of Spain, complete with bagpipers, and
demonic masked drummers. Hassan Hakmoun
provided a workshop on Moroccan Gnawa
music,
and
Demetri Tashie and members of the
Greek
American
Folklore Society led participants in
Greek Island
dance.
The concert portion of the day opened up with
the
magestic Orchestra of Tangier
performing a
set of
Moroccan Andalusian music. Then many of the
crowd
joined in a large dance circle during
consecutive sets
by Pontic lyra player Chris
Tiktapanidis
and
Greek
Island singer Amalia Papastefanou.
Hassan
Hakmoun
finished the day with a spirited set of Gnawa
music.
Finally, on September 26, CTMD and
the Bulgarian Consulate presented the opening of
Martin Koenig's beautiful photographic
exhibition
entitled
"Voices and Images From Bulgaria
1966."
The exhibition, which was presented in
Sofia
earlier features photographs taken by Martin
during
several trips through Bulgaria in the 60s and
70s. As
the event coincided with the annual U.N. General
Assembly, we were honored to be joined by
Bulgarian
Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin,
Bulgarian Ambassador Elena
Poptodorova, and Consul-General Nikolay
Milkov.
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Other Happenings...
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On Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 at 7pm the Egyptian
Folkloric Dance Troupe performs at Walt Whitman
Theater in Brooklyn. For the first time in NY, here is a
chance to
experience the intoxicating beauty of Egyptian/Arabian
culture through the long history of the Raqs Sharqi
--
the colorful and exotic folkdances as of Ancient Egypt
as passed down through eons of generations. These
dances arose from Upper Egypt, Cairo and Alexandria
and were an integral part of both ancient religious
ceremony as well as secular celebration; these dance
forms were danced in local towns and villages where
men, women and children all knew the colorful
baladi
or saiidi dance movements. Tickets: $25.00,
kids
under 12, $15.00. Tickets can be purchased on-line by clicking
here
or by phone at 866-386-4849. For
more detailed info, call: 347-254-8437, or email
[email protected].
On Thursday, October 18 from 8:00-10:00 PM,
Columbia
University presents an evening of traditional song
and dance from the Republic of Georgia featuring the
Zedashe Ensemble. The Zedashe Ensemble
is based in the medieval fortress city of Sighnaghi,
Eastern Georgia, which has been home to the Kiziqian
wine growers and warriors since ancient times.
Directed by Ketevan Mindorashvili, the current
incarnation of this ten-member, mixed-voice
ensemble was founded in the mid-1990s to sing
repertoire largely lost during the Communist era. Their
repertoire consists of ancient three-part chants from
the Orthodox Christian liturgy, folk songs from the
Kiziqian region as collected from village song-masters
and old publications, and folk dances from the region.
The concert will take place at Milbank Chapel,
Columbia
University's Teachers College (120th St. and
Broadway). Admission free.
Raices Latin Music Museum presents Salsa
Sunday,
celebrating Afro-Caribbean music and dance on
Sunday October 28, from 1:00PM to 7:00PM, at the
Heckscher Building, 1 East 104th St. at 5th Ave.
Admission is $7. For more information go to the Raices/Harb
or Conservatory web site.
Throughout their 2007-2008 season World Music
Institute will be featuring concerts by a number of
past
recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts'
National
Heritage Fellowship Award . From
Appalachian to Central Asian traditions, experience
the music of master musicians who have been
awarded the federal government's highest award for
achievement in folk arts. For more information, go to
the WMI
website.
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