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DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION PRESENTS REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care A Live Performance Festival
Celebrating the joy of age in response to innovative ways lessons learned from COVID-19 and how to take care of one's health, Dances For A Variable Population (DVP) will present, REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care, featuring 6 seasoned dance artists and 50 non-professional senior dancers, who reflect the innovation and beauty of older age. Home/Body/Care will be an exploration of self advocacy in American healthcare, strategies for maintaining good health, managing the affordability of healthcare, and how movement, diet, holistic approaches and spiritual practices have made a difference in people's lives as they age.
Through their experience and example of shared vitality and a spirit of unity, we are reminded of the importance of community and connection in spite of the difficulties of these times with healthcare. Revisioning healthcare facilities as places of healing and action, involve senior citizens as knowledge-centers and creators, and the public in dances that showcase seniors as architects of their health. REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care connects a multi-generational dance company with choreographers in their 60s, 70s, and 80s through live performances. Now, as part of DVP's 12th year of free performances in iconic spaces, the world premiere of REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care will take place Saturday, June 11 at Queensbridge Park at 4 PM, Saturday, June 18 at Grant's Memorial Tomb at 5 and 7 PM with all having interactive All Together Dance workshops open to the public.
For REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care Dances For A Variable Population welcomes choreographers Ellen Graff (Martha Graham Company), Audrey Madison (Charles Moore Dance Theatre), Myna Majors (The WNBA N.Y. Liberty Timeless Torches), Sandra Rivera (founding member of Ballet Hispanico), Marnie Thomas Wood (Martha Graham Company) and Anthony Howell (Dances of the African Diaspora) along with artistic director of DVP Naomi Goldberg Haas and the multi-generational DVP dance company. We have also engaged Daniel Carlton (NYC playwright) as dramaturg. REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care will also feature 50 seniors from DVP's free MOVEMENT SPEAKS® and zoom classes as well as phone conferencing classes which take place at numerous senior centers and in homes across the city.
To learn more about the choreographers, visit our website dvpnyc.org.
REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care PROGRAM and VENUE INFORMATION
Saturday, June 11
Live In-Person Performance at Queensbridge Park at 4 PM
Post Performance All Together Dance workshop at 5 PM
41st Avenue and Vernon Blvd
Long Island City, NY 11101
Must have reservations - visit our website revival6.com
Saturday, June 18
Live In-Person Performance at Grant's Memorial Tomb at 5 PM and 7 PM
Pre Performance All Together Dance workshop at 4 PM
122 and Riverside Drive,
New York, NY 10027
Must have reservations - visit our website revival6.com
Artists: Ellen Graff (Martha Graham Company), Naomi Goldberg Haas, artistic director of the multi-generational DVP dance company, Audrey Madison (Charles Moore Dance Theatre), Myna Majors (The WNBA N.Y. Liberty Timeless Torches), Sandra Rivera (founding member of Ballet Hispanico), Marnie Thomas Wood (Martha Graham Company), Anthony Howell (Dances of the African Diaspora)
