ADG 2022 Online Film Festival
STREAMING: January 31st - February 27th, 2022
New Dance Group: Voices for Change
A new 4-week online film festival produced by ADG
Join ADG in a sharing of our exclusive archive of rare historic dances created by members of the legendary New Dance Group Studio and produced by the Guild in 1993. Discover the powerful social consciousness embodied in these uniquely expressive works ringing as true today as it did then. Teachers, we invite you to use this material in your curricula.
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The American Dance Guild’s New Dance Group: Voices for Change will stream on Vimeo. The showings are free, with donations encouraged. The lineup of 18 works is below; updates will be announced weekly through the duration of the virtual Festival. Each program will run for one week only from Monday 9 a.m. through Sunday midnight EST.
New Dance Group: Voices for Change lineup:
Songs, part III “To Each His Own” (1956) Mary Anthony
Tenant of the Street (1939) Eve Gentry
Blues (1962) Ronne Aul
Mourner's Bench, from “Southern Landscape” (1947) Talley Beatty
The Desperate Heart (1943) Valerie Bettis
Lynchtown, from “Atavisms” (1936) Charles Weidman
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (1944) Pearl Primus
The Flight, from “The Pursued” (1947) Joseph Gifford
Shuvi Nafshi, from “Return Oh My Soul Unto Thee” (1947) Hadassah
Time is Money (1934) Jane Dudley
Harmonica Break Down (1934) Jane Dudley
Sign Dance for Sarah (1979) Irving Burton
Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder (1959) Donald McKayle
The Transformations of Medusa (1942) Jean Erdman
Lyric Suite (1954) Anna Sokolow
Strange Hero (1948) Daniel Nagrin
Concerto in E (1979) Joyce Trisler
Folksay (1942) Sophie Maslow
“The history of the American Dance Guild was entwined with the New Dance Group through many of our earlier members like Muriel Manings who spearheaded and produced this retrospective in 1993. We are thrilled to share this unique portfolio of legendary work,” said Gloria McLean president of the American Dance Guild. “I think people today will be inspired by the courage and engaged vision of these fearless artists.”
Find an essay of the history of the new dance group here.
To view the virtual collection on the above dates, please visit vimeo.com/americandanceguild. Artist information can be found by clicking the links for each week above.
The American Dance Guild gratefully acknowledges support from Jody and John Arnhold / Arnhold Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and The Janis and Alan Menken Charity Fund.
(Photos L to R: Mary Anthony, New Dance Group Improvisation, Anna Sokolow. All courtesy of ADG archives)