![]() ![]() A documentary, Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan, recently won the Chita Rivera Award for Best Dance Documentary, and speaks to her commitment to nullifying the stigma of aging and to focus instead on empowering women. For the latter, Whelan has joined forces with cellist Maya Beiser and the seminal modern dance choreographer Lucinda Childs to create an evening-length work featuring music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. Whelan has been teaching young female dancers and developing her own projects, including Hagoromo Some Of a Thousand Words and The Day. She has performed on four continents and has worked with countless other dance legends including Christopher Wheeldon, William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, Alexei Ratmansky, Jorma Elo, Shen Wei, and Wayne MacGregor. Whelan has been nominated for an Olivier Award and a Critics Circle Award, and has received the Jerome Robbins Award, a Bessie for Sustained Achievement in Performance, the Dance Magazine Award, and a Doctorate of Arts, honoris causa, from Bellarmine University. She spent thirty years at New York City Ballet, performing virtually all the major Balanchine roles, working closely with Jerome Robbins on many of his ballets, and appearing internationally as a guest artist with The Royal Ballet and the Kirov Ballet, among others. Wendy Whelan is widely considered one of the world’s leading dancers. She is the newly appointed artistic director of Ailey II. Sought after for her expertise and experience as a consultant for major film and stage productions, Harper is currently engaged as Executive Producer with Sony Pictures on a series in development. Harper has been a principal dancer with Frankfurt Ballet and a featured performer in Broadway shows. She has also choreographed works commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and her own company, The Francesca Harper Project. ![]() He was recently appointed as Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.įrancesca Harper has choreographed works for both Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Hubbard Street II, and Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, among others. He has lectured at more than two hundred colleges and carried adjunct professorships at Stanford University and Lehigh University, among others. Bamuthi’s essays have been published in Harvard Education Press. Dance Magazine named him a Top Influencer in 2017.īamuthi is the founding Program Director of the exemplary non-profit Youth Speaks and a co-founder of Life is Living, a national series of one-day festivals which activate under-resourced parks and affirm peaceful urban life. A 2017 TEDGlobal Fellow, Bamuthi graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine as one of America’s Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences artistically directed HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices and is an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, which annually recognizes fifty of the country’s greatest living artists. He is a steadfast believer in empathy as the most valuable currency in building community, and he seeks to spark curiosity and dialogue about freedom, compassion, and fearlessness through pioneering arts stewardship and education. His bold, poetically-driven work investigates social issues and cultural identity. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a curator of words, ideas, and protagonists. ![]()
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