For many non-Jersey residents — myself included — art programs such as the second annual Your Move dance series are the sparks that are much needed to excite New Yorkers to leave the confines of their own creative districts and explore other flourishing neighborhoods.
Lavarro Supporters Protest Election Result Delay: Roughly two dozen Filipino supporters of Rolando Lavarro protested in front of Hudson County Plaza yesterday to demand that election officials certify Lavarro’s apparent victory in Tuesday’s Jersey City special election. The election results might not be certified until Monday, or even Tuesday, county officials said. Look for more [...]
Dance with a narrative, dance theater, dancing as comedy and with an eye towards investigating space, movement, and the body. This is the broad scope that Insurgo Stage Project will be addressing over the course of four nights in November – the 10th to the 13th — for its second annual “Your Move” emerging choreographers [...]
Starting next week, The Kennedy Dancers will offer new dance and dance/fitness classes for fun, improved health, recreation and performance opportunities for adults 62 and up at the dance troupe’s Heights location (79 Central Avenue). The classes used to be 100-percent free, but due to cuts to arts funding Kennedy Dancers says it has to [...]
Your Move, a Jersey City showcase for emerging choreographers put together by Art House Productions and Insurgo Stage Project, is now accepting submissions for its second annual event. Choreographers are invited to submit one movement-based piece (no longer than 15 minutes) in a wide range of movement performance, including: modern and postmodern dance, physical theater, [...]
Jersey City has a new resident in town, and her name is Megha Kalia. She recently moved here from Sunnyside, Queens, to be closer to the new performing arts center she just launched in India Square: Sitarrey Performing Arts Center. We recently caught up with her to discuss her vision of Sitarrey and the role she hopes it will play in Jersey City’s vibrant arts community.
If you have a young boy interested in dance, listen up. The Jersey City Dance Academy on West Side Avenue is hosting auditions tonight for the first class of its new Boys Training Program. The academy will choose between 15 and 20 boys between 9 and 16 to participate, for free, in a 32-week training [...]
For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Today’s Creative Grove Artist Market is a little different than usual, as it is the first of Sirelo Entertainment‘s “Creative Grove Under Siege” events of [...]
The Kennedy Dancers is holding open auditions for full dance scholarships to its Inner City Youth Junior Dance Company Thursday at its studio in the Heights. The Inner City Youth Junior Dance Company, also known as ICY, is a pre-professional training program for 14- to 18-year-olds who hope to become professional dancers and have completed [...]
Jersey City dance company Insurgo Stage Project is holding auditions next week for the next installment of Art in Motion, a “collaborative multidisciplinary performance series” produced by Insurgo’s Avianna Perez along with Chelo Mercado and Justin Woo. The group is looking for dancers, musicians, poets and visual artists for the show, which will take place [...]
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