Home » EVENTS: Seminars and Clinics, NEWS: Industry Headlines

U.S. Dept. of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music to showcase DanceMotion USA

by Jesse JJ Jame
published Wed, 20 Jan 2010 – 22:31:50 -0800 PST
No Comment
Email this Page Share this Page Feedback

Washington, DC /Music Industry Newswire/ — The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will rollout DanceMotion USA on Friday, January 22, from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at The George Washington University (GWU) Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre (800 21st Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.).

This new cultural exchange program will send three outstanding American dance companies – Urban Bush Women; ODC/Dance; and Evidence, A Dance Company – to South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa, respectively.

Hosted by Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Chair of the GWU Theatre and Dance Department and a distinguished alumnus of the State Department’s Cultural Envoy program, this event will feature a sample of performances by each of the dance companies and a demonstration of their planned approaches for engaging international audiences while on tour. A question and answer session will follow with representatives from the dance companies, ECA, and BAM.

SPHERE: Related Content — CLICK HERE to See What Else is Out There!

About The Author / Editor:


JJ Jame is a percussionist and theremin player, formerly a member of the Redondo Beach based BoyRacer.com™ electronica band, and a long-time electronic music fan, formerly an editor for the defunct EMcult™ website.

  delicious:U.S. Dept. of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music to showcase DanceMotion USA digg:U.S. Dept. of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music to showcase DanceMotion USA newsvine:U.S. Dept. of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music to showcase DanceMotion USA furl:U.S. Dept. of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music to showcase DanceMotion USA reddit:U.S. Dept. of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music to showcase DanceMotion USA Y!:U.S. Dept. of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music to showcase DanceMotion USA  Add to Mixx! 
Permalink:   http://musicindustrynewswire.com/2010/01/20/min2706_223150.php

Related Stories:


Acclaimed Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky Comes to Los Angeles for One Night Only Performance
JSM Music Produces Music for New Chevy Tahoe Ad Campaign Featuring Mary J Blige
From Bar Band to Buzz Band: Starving For Gravity to Play Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival
Mouse Mic from Blue Shines in New Star Trek Movie
NEW Radio Station 90.5 KTRL Looking for NEW Music
Want2BDiscovered Gives Global Exposure to Indie Artists via Live Webcasts

Rings With Side Stones


Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam. All comments are moderated and self-promotional posts will never be visible.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.