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Booking Dance Festival NYCAN EVENING OF DYNAMIC SHOWCASES FEATURING THE BEST OF DANCEFROM THE USA

PLUS AN INTERNATIONAL GUEST ARTIST FROM CANADA AND A WORLDRENOWNED THREE-TIME EMMY NOMINEE

See a stunning array of 25 extraordinary dance companies performing 30 exquisiteand diverse showcases in the most spectacular setting imaginable. Featuring threeworld premieres!

Thank you for joining us at Jazz at Lincoln Center for this once-in-a-lifetime experience!

There will not be an intermission during this performance.

The audience is free to come and go throughout the evening. Kindly exit asneeded during pauses between dances.

Photographs and video are strictly prohibited by audience members. Only BookingDance Festival’s professional photographer and videographer are permitted.

DEDICATION TO THE MEMORY OF DARIAL SNEEDThis evening’s performance is dedicated to our Booking Dance Festival NYCphotographer Darial Sneed. We mourn her recent passing and dance tonightto shine light on her memory. We are deeply honored that she shared ourlove of dance for so many years with us and captured so many beautifulmoments together!

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BOOKING DANCE FESTIVAL NYCFEATURED ARTISTS

ROSTER ARTISTS:An Nuo Spiritual DanceArt (NYC & China)nuospiritualart.org

Chicago Dance Crash (Chicago, IL)chicagodancecrash.com

Eisenhower Dance Detroit (Detroit, Michigan)eisenhowerdance.org

Elisa Monte Dance (NYC)Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher elisamontedance.org

Freespace Dance (NYC)freespacedance.com

KAIROS Dance Theater (Boston, MA)kairosdancetheater.org

Kim Robards Dance (Denver, CO)kimrobardsdance.org

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy (NYC)DanceEntropy.org

Yin Mei Dance (NYC & China)Yinmeidance.com

GUEST ARTISTS:Amanda L. Edwards & Dancers(Philadelphia, PA)amandaleee.com

Art of Motion Dance Theatre (NYC)AOMDT.org

CELLOGRAM (NYC)

Cirque-Tacular Productions (NYC)cirquetacularshows.com

DANCE IQUAIL! (Philadelphia, PA)danceiquail.org

Found Movement Group (Nashville, TN)foundmovementgroup.com

Just Sole! Street Dance Theater(Philadelphia, PA)Justsoledance.com

Margie Gillis – Legacy Project (Canada)Margiegillis.org

Nadia Dieudonné & Feet of RhythmHaitian Dance Company (NYC)feetofrhythm.com

Ninja Ballet (NYC)ninjaballet.com

RIOULT Dance NY (NYC)rioult.org

SHAPESHIFT (Minneapolis, MN)shapeshiftmpls.com

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble(Pennsylvania)voloshky.com

Yu.S.Artistry (NYC)yukiishiguro.com

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BOOKING DANCE FESTIVAL NYCPROGRAM ORDER

5:30–6:30 p.m.Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Art of Motion Dance Theatre Yu.S.Artistry

Just Sole! Street Dance Theater Elisa Monte Dance

Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher Freespace Dance

Found Movement Group SHAPESHIFT

6:30–7:30 p.m.Ninja Ballet

Cirque-Tacular Productions: Art of Circus Kim Robards Dance RIOULT Dance NY

Amanda L. Edwards & Dancers

7:30–8:30 p.m.Eisenhower Dance Detroit

Yin Mei Dance CELLOGRAM

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy Margie Gillis – Legacy Project

An Nuo Spiritual DanceArt

8:30–9:30 p.m.Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Nadia Dieudonné & Feet of Rhythm

Haitian Dance CompanyDANCE IQUAIL!

KAIROS Dance Theater Kim Robards Dance

9:30–10:30 p.m.An Nuo Spiritual DanceArt

Cirque-Tacular Productions: Art of Circus Chicago Dance Crash

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Eisenhower Dance Detroit

AFTER-PARTY10:30 p.m.–12:30 midnight

Hosted by Jodi Kaplan & Associates /Booking Dance Festival

Co-hosted by Eisenhower Dance DetroitEisenhower Dance Detroit would like to

thank Debra Bernstein-Siegel and theboard for their support of the After-Party

For VIP After-Party ticketholdersLocation: Ertegun Atrium

(on fifth floor adjacent to The Appel Room)

*VIP After-Party ticketholders will enjoymeeting the artists, live piano entertainment,

and mingling with presenters!

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Jodi Kaplan & Associates/ Booking DanceExpect to be inspired, transfixed, andtransformed by a dynamic range of dancecompanies performing tonight. Rangingstylistically from classical and modern, toballet, hip-hop, dance theater, and traditionaldance from around the globe, this year’sBooking Dance Festival features innovativeand diverse works by 25 participating com-panies in 30 showcases including morethan 300 dancers and musicians in oneshow for one magical night!

After producing international Booking DanceFestivals for the past decade, including theOlympics in Beijing and London and annualfestivals in Edinburgh, Scotland, producerJodi Kaplan brings the best of dance fromacross the United States to New York Cityfor a-once-in-a-lifetime experience!

Jodi Kaplan / Booking Dance produced itsfirst international festival, Booking DanceFestival Beijing 2008, coinciding with theBeijing Olympics. Endorsed by the U.S.ambassador in China, the festival imple-mented extensive outreach activitiesincluding performances at an outdoorOlympic venue.

For seven years from 2009 to 2015 theBooking Dance “Festival-within-a-Festival” atthe Edinburgh Fringe garnered worldwideacclaim and five-star reviews while position-ing U.S. dance artists to gain internationalexposure and touring opportunities. Theshows were featured in the BBC WorldNews, BBC Scotland, and CNN. Additionally,the agency partnered with Bryant Park for fiveyears to produce Booking Dance in BryantPark, bringing audiences of thousands to theheart of New York City to see previews fromthe annual Booking Dance Festival Edinburgh.

Jodi Kaplan & Associates / Booking Danceis a personal “boutique agency” that booksdance companies on extensive toursthroughout the United States and interna-tionally. Director Jodi Kaplan also consultswith both established and newly formeddance companies and runs booking semi-nars for professionals and college students,partnering with the University of EdinburghBusiness School, Beijing Dance Academy,and Western Australia Performing ArtsAcademy, among others.

For the past two decades Booking Dancehas booked extensive tours internationally.Recent collaborations in South Americainclude Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile,Uruguay, and Guatemala, with upcomingprojects in Mexico; in Europe includingTurkey, Germany, and Spain; and through-out the United States including engage-ments at The Joyce Theater, the NewVictory Theater, Lincoln Center Out ofDoors, Fall for Dance, American DanceFestival, the Kennedy Center, and Ja -cob’s Pillow.

Jodi Kaplan / Booking Dance is currentlyexpanding its presence in Asia and touringselect U.S. dance companies throughoutChina and the region. For the past five yearsMs. Kaplan has booked highly successfultours in China’s premiere state-of-the-artPoly Theaters. In 2018 Ms. Kaplan bookeda 20-city tour of China featuring the shadowdance company CATAPULT; in 2017 arecord-breaking 31-city tour with FJK Dance;in 2016 a crowd pleasing 29-city/36-perfor-mance tour with Bellydance Evolution; andin 2015 a 25-city/34-performance tour withState Street Ballet. Kaplan is thrilled toannounce its upcoming 26-city tour ofChina for the Colombia National Balletfrom South America in February–April2019. Chopsticks ready!

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With a strong dance background, JodiKaplan has successfully bridged the world ofartist and agent. Since founding Jodi Kaplan& Associates / Booking Dance two decadesago, she has booked extensive performanceengagements with hundreds of venues inthe United States and internationally.

Ms. Kaplan recently forayed into the worldof visual art as an arts producer and curator.This year she was honored to be creativeproducer for Lois Greenfield’s extraordinaryphotography exhibit Lois Greenfield: MovingStill as part of the Bienal de Danza de Caliin Colombia, with additional plans to tour itto Mexico and throughout South America.In 2014 Ms. Kaplan conceived of and pro-duced a six-story art installation at BryantPark, inspired by the permanent collectionof the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thisunprecedented multi-disciplinary project waspresented in conjunction with the ArmoryShow and featured an exciting lineup of per-formance components and sound designs.She is foraying further into the world of artwith plans to curate dance programming atmuseums and galleries worldwide.

As a visual designer and event producer,Ms. Kaplan specializes in press and medialaunches with top corporate clients and PRfirms including GolinHarris, Edelman, andPorter Novelli. Her recent projects includehigh-profile designs with the InternationalOlympics Committee, the McDonald’s McRiblaunch in Times Square; a Nick Jonassuperstar event at MTV; a Giuliana Ranciccelebrity event at the Four Seasons inBeverly Hills; Dow Live Earth Run forWater at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers;and a launch at Donna Karan’s Urban Zen.

She worked with the Tate Modern inLondon as the visual designer and pro-ducer for the Blue Planet Run and curatedperformances at the Blue Planet Run’sstart at the United Nations in New YorkCity. Additional consulting includes theRachel Ray Show and the McDonald’scampaign during the Beijing Olympics.

As an artist Ms. Kaplan is internationallyrenowned for producing and directingdance films. Her award-winning shorts havescreened at more than 100 festivals, muse-ums, and venues worldwide, including NewDirectors/New Films at the Museum ofModern Art, Dance for Camera at LincolnCenter, and the World’s Fair in Lisbon,Portugal. She has also had screenings at theMetropolitan Museum of Art, the BrooklynMuseum of Art, and a retrospective at theSmithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, as well asat DanzLenz in Delhi, India, where she alsotaught intensive film workshops at theAsian Academy of Film and Television, andwas honored to receive a lifetime member-ship at this prestigious institution. Her workhas also been broadcast on PBS televisionand the Sundance Channel.

In addition to her film work, Ms. Kaplan isa member of the Screen Actors Guild andher photography has been exhibited at theTate Modern. She has traveled the worldas a photojournalist with CNN and SplashMagazines Worldwide. Additionally, herpaintings are in elite collections in metro-politan areas including Los Angeles, Chicago,and New York City.

Ms. Kaplan is currently collaborating withpioneer dance photographer Lois Greenfieldon an international feature film, The 18thParallel, exploring ritual dance and prayeraround the world. They shot the first seg-ment in Western Australia and presented aprogram at the Perth Institute of Con -temporary Art. Ms. Kaplan is also complet-ing her boxing/dance film In The Blood, a

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JODI KAPLAN & ASSOCIATES / BOOKING DANCE Dance is an underserved art form and Jodi Kaplan& Associates / Booking Dance is committed to promoting the best of it!

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STAFFEva Kaplan, Artistic AdvisorNathan Tomlinson, Lighting Designer/TD Lisa Grimes, Front of House Manager Caitlin Murray, Booking Dance Festival DesignerTracie Stanfield, Artist LiasonMorgen Sherwood, Social Media AssociateClaire Jiang, China AssociateCharles Dennis, VideographerJaqi Medlock, Photographer

THANK YOULois Greenfield for her significant and continued work with our artists. loisgreenfield.com

And the wonderful staff and production team of Jazz at Lincoln Center. And a specialthank you to tonight’s dancers and musicians for making the evening so magical.

Poster Photo: Darial Sneed Poster Image: Booking Dance Festival / Mark Foehringer Dance Project SFLocation: The Appel Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

creative collaboration with Lois Greenfieldthat recently previewed at the Bienal deDanza de Cali in Colombia.

Ms. Kaplan is a former dancer and choreo-grapher and toured as a guest artistthroughout Scotland, England, France,Portugal, Israel, the Czech Republic,Slovakia, and the Caribbean. Ms. Kaplanholds a B.A. degree with high honors inreligion and philosophy from Smith College(Phi Beta Kappa), an M.F.A in film fromColumbia University (honors in directing),

and a graduate diploma in international rela-tions from Hebrew University in Jerusalemas a Wallenberg Scholar. Ms. Kaplan hasbeen an artist-in-residence three times atYaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, and aFulbright Scholar in dance in Jamaica.

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“Jodi gracefully manages the delicate bal-ance between enthusiastic abandon andfierce tenacity when working for herclients.” —Jeffrey Kazin, The Bang Group