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 performances and workshops of REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care will take place Saturday, Sept 10 at Washington Square Park in Garibaldi Plaza at 6 PM and Saturday, September 24 at Yolanda Garcia Park at 4 PM with pre-show workshops of interactive "All Together Dance" 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.

In a project of historical, social, and technical innovation the online portion of, REVIVAL highlights five choreographers, extraordinary artists who trained in dance traditions of the 20th century. They transmit and interpret the essence of Martha Graham, Charles Moore, Katherine Dunham, and Alvin Ailey, celebrating the past performing careers of these artists and the impact these techniques have had on dance history and their lives in a completely new way. Through
exploration in rehearsals, in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care will bring audiences the unique expression of older adults mixed with the power of older trained professionals.

This one-of-a-kind event will be free to the public. Covid restrictions will allow socially distant seating for audience members, at the performances featuring the guest artists and DVP teaching artists. Reservations are recommended. The event will provide diverse audiences an opportunity to see movement distilled from the seminal techniques of legendary geniuses, to see the eloquence of the older brain/older body and witness the intergenerational connection in the
spirit of creation and collaboration. Performances will also include daily interactive free open- access workshops for adults of all ages and abilities. Through these workshops, audiences including adults of all ages and abilities, will dance in ways that are new to them, be stretched physically and intellectually, and gain new experiences of personal mastery.

To learn more about the choreographers, visit our website dvpnyc.org.
REVIVAL 6 Home/Body/Care PROGRAM and VENUE INFORMATION
Saturday, Sept 10
Live In-Person Performance at Washington Square Park at 6 PM
Pre-Performance All Together Dance workshop at 5 PM
Washington Square South
Garibaldi Plaza (east of the fountain)
New York, NY 10012
Must have reservations: Go to revival6.com

Bus:
M1, M2, M3, M55 to East 8 St and 5 Avenue, M8 to E 8
St and 5 Av
Subway:
A, B, C, D, F, N to W 4 St - Wash Sq
1 to Christopher Street R, W to
8 Street Station Train:
PATH to 9th Street

Saturday, Sept 24
Live In-Person Performance at Yolanda Garcia Park at 4 PM
Pre-Performance All Together Dance workshop at 3 PM
Melrose Ave and East 159 St
Bronx, NY 10451
Must have reservations: Go to revival6.com
Bus:
BX15, BX21 to 3 Av/E 158 St
BX41 to Melrose Av/E 160 St
BX6, BX13, BX6-SBS to Elton Av/E 161 St
Subway: 2, 5 to 3 Av - 149


URLs:
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/1285929-2?pid=2874
YouTube: https://go.evvnt.com/1285929-3?pid=2874
Facebook: https://go.evvnt.com/1285929-4?pid=2874


Category: Arts | Performing Arts | Dance


Price:
Free: USD 0.00

Artists: 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), Anthony Howell (Dances of the African Diaspora) along with artistic director of DVP Naomi Goldberg Haas and the multi- generational DVP dance company and Daniel Carlton (NYC playwright) as dramaturg.