There will be over 6,000 Dancers in the Sixth Annual Dance Parade and Festival on May 19th. Dancers doing everything from Zumba, Tango, Salsa, Polynesian, Belly Dancing on skates, Bolivian to Hip Hop will participate in the Sixth Annual Dance Parade and Dance Festival. Starting at 1pm at 21st Street and Broadway, traveling down to Union Square, Astor Place, along St. Mark’s Place for Dance Festival in Tompkins Square Park from 3pm to 7pm. The Festival will include a staged program of dance performances, with dance workshops and dance activities for children. WBAI Radio will host a live broadcast from the Festival in Tompkins Square Park from 3-5pm with hosts Barika Edwards and Desi K. Robinson. Stop by the booth, check out the Festival, and say hello to fellow WBAI listeners.

Check out a special interview by Jeannie Hopper of Liquid Sound Lounge on WBAI last Saturday with Greg, Shireen, Nikki & Chauncey talking about many different aspects of Dance Parade

DanceParade is a feast for the senses. Photographers, join us for this unique opportunity to celebrate the beauty of dance against the stunning backdrop of New York City! Enter your five favorite photos into the 2012 New York Dance Parade Photo Contest for a chance to win a $100 B&H gift certificate and to have your work shared with the world.

I am sure it will be an amazing day!

Click here to check out last year’s winning photo by Senén Cito

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ANNOUNCING DANCE PARADE AND DANCEFEST 2012 AND RESIDENCY PROGRAM

MAKES 100 KIDS STARS ON BROADWAY 

New York, May 14, 2012 – At New York City Hall today, Dance Parade organizers, sponsored by City Council member, Rosie Mendez, announced the Sixth Annual Dance Parade and Festival, which will take to the streets of New York City at 1pm (eastern) on Saturday, May 19^th, 2012.  For exceptional viewing there is a Grandstand on Astor Place, but organizers say there is still time for anyone who wants to dance to register to be in this year’s parade and join the celebration amongst thousands of dancers, parade floats, live bands and disc jockeys.

The Parade, which unites dancers of all genres throughout the City under the 2012 theme “United We Dance Parade”, honors four Grand Marshals – prima ballerina Ashley Tuttle, choreographer Elisa Monte, dancer Bill Shannon and DJ Jonathan Peters.  The Parade, which starts at 21^st Street and Broadway, moves and grooves south through Union Square, into Astor Place where each group will be presented before a Grandstand.   Then east on St. Mark’s Place (8^th Street) where the Parade dancers salsa, swing and two-step their ways into Tompkins Square Park in the East Village for Dance Fest.  Starting at 3pm, the Festival is a three-hour program of free dance performances, workshops, lessons and social dancing scattered throughout the Park.  Dance Parade includes over 70 styles of dance everything from classical ballet to contemporary hip-hop to folk dance traditions from African countries, Hawaii, Bolivia, Britain, India and the Caribbean.

“Dance Parade is a celebration of dance.  For one day only, the streets of New York are softened with the grace of human movement in splendid color and sound, expressing joy at every twist and turn,” says Greg Miller, Executive Director of Dance Parade, Inc.  “In the melting pot of so many diverse New York cultures, our passion for dance can be celebrated all in one place.  We want to educate the public in a way that inspires folks to take on this fun and healthy activity. “ 

COMMUNITY KINECT

This year’s Parade will see 100 young people participate who have been learning dance routines through a five-week education program of dance workshops arranged with the New York City Departments of Parks and Recreation, and funded by a grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Charles Evans Foundation.  The workshops have been running in Jamaica, Queens, and Inwood, Washington Heights, East Harlem in Manhattan. Shireen Dickson, Dance Parade’s Education Coordinator, said “We’re excited to see so many young people turn up for our dance workshops.  The biggest thrill for them is to take a classroom exercise, include them in the Parade, and watch their minds opening to being part of a larger community of dancers, and for them to have their Broadway debut!”

Dance Parade, since its inception in 2007 has seen 30 of the 200+ groups participate for all five years, dance participate has increased four fold, and spectators have increased by nearly 50% each year, with an estimated 65,000 attendees in 2012.  The impressive list of dance genres to be represented in this year’s Parade will include traditional, cultural, urban, electronic and club dance styles.  Participants and spectators can check into the Parade on FourSquare as a moving target or post real-item videos to Dance Parade’s YouTube channel.  Fans can also follow the parade on Twitter and Facebook.

ABOUT DANCE PARADE NEW YORK

Dance Parade originated as a reaction to a 2006 lawsuit against New York City’s 1926 Cabaret License Law that restricts social dancing.  After New York State Supreme Court Judge ruled that social dancing was not considered expressive activity protected by the State Constitution’s freedom of expression amendment, the organization leveraged an outpouring of vibrant cultural and dance expression into what became a nonprofit artistic and cultural event.  Dance Parade New York is an entity of Dance Parade Inc whose charitable mission is to promote dance as an expressive and unifying art form, while educating the public about opportunities to experience Dance.  Dance Parade celebrates diversity by showcasing all forms of dance around the world through sponsorship of a yearly, citywide Dance Parade and Dance Festival.  Additional programs include education outreach, residencies and artistic partnerships to aid in increased public awareness, and the showcasing of dance on multiple levels.  For more information about Dance Parade programs, volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, or to donate, please visit danceparade.org

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Get your hats and whistle’s ready, not to mention your sexiest representation of New York’s finest in “dance” form! That’s right Dance Police, we want YOU!!!  It’s that time again, the parade is right around the corner and we need your help! Many of you have expressed an interest in participating as a member of the NYDP…and why not, it’s so much fun! You get to meet amazing people and interact with spectators all through the parade while handing out tickets and promoting one of the most amazing events to hit NYC this year!

Please make sure to register on our website and sign the volunteer form! It also gets you into the after party with Jonathan Peters at Webster Hall!!

Dance Parade invites members of the Press to join 50 vibrant diverse and passionate dancers who will represent over 6000 dancers registered in the parade May 19th.  An announcement to TV, radio and print media will include the reading of the City of New York’s Mayoral Proclamation making May 19th “Dance Parade Day”, an overview of the history and mission to inspire the public with 75 styles of dance, the organization’s Community Kinect program and testimony from those involved.

The Steps Of City Hall (entrance on Broadway)

Monday, May 14th

12:00pm-12:30pm

Contact publicity@danceparade.org for more information

Confirmed Speakers included are:

• Greg Miller, Dance Parade Executive Director speaking on the mission & history of Dance Parade.

• Nikki Creary, Dance Parade Production Director presenting the 5/19 Parade and Festival lineup.

• Dance Parade Board Chair Erik Slavin
• Shireen Dickson – Announces Dance Parade’s Community Kinect program.  Three of Dance Parade’s teaching artists (Dhoonya Dance, Jamaican Dancehall Aerobics and Broadway Bodies) will be on hand to descirbe their 5 week residences in partnership with the NYC Parks & Recreation Department.  Over 100 youth from various Recreation Centers will celebrate the end of their 5 week program by participating in the parade and presenting their work on stage at the post-parade DanceFestival.
• The Community Kinect Program features: Dhoonya Dance, Indian Bhangra, Broadway Bodies, Dance Theater and Jamaican Dancehall Aerobics
• The Sixth Annual Dance Parade on Saturday has 4 Grand Marshals. Today, we will introduce Elisa Monte.
• Jamie Hannigan, Director of Stage Stars and participant in past 6 years of dance parade speaking on why she loves dance parade
• Mary Silverstein, Pink Tutu Ballet
• JuxtapOle, Arial Rosalis, Flamenco Dancers
• Jimena Martinez, co-founder of Cumbe Center for African & Diaspora Dance — speaking on how Dance Parade helps emerging dance studios
• Paul Nagle, Executive Director at the Cultural Strategy Initiative, speaking on how Dance Parade sustains and grows Community

Another fantastic and talented DJ has joined the lineup for The Social Dance Area in Tompkins Square Park for DanceFest this year!

Check out Nutritious!

A world class dj, producer, remixer, and jazz-percussionist, Nutritious has an eclectic style layering fresh picked

flavors from music around the globe. Fueled by a background in holism and ancient medicine, he’s steady

blending magic, stunning dancefloors at the world’s finest parties, and arousing a wave of energetic response.

High Times called Nutritious “A Musical Healer” URB Magazine boasted, “Nutritious is holding it down in NYC

proper”, 1200 Dreams hailed him as “One of the most appetizing DJs on the scene”, and the Sample UK recently

reiterated, “An integral part in the growth of soulful music worldwide…he really is one of the most interesting and

exciting DJs at the moment.”

Globally, Nutritious is favored by the World’s most select purveyors; booked to appear at The Whitney Museum

of American Art, Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, Nateva, Jam Cruise, Cielo, Mighty, and share

the spotlight with Femi Kuti, Mark Farina, J Boogie, and DJ Logic. In addition to impressive performances, add

a residency at the Ace Hotel New York and a truly pioneering stint in Latin America by bringing electronic dance

music to Nicaragua; second only to USA’s Charles Feelgood and preceding the Netherlands’s often #1 globally

ranked dj, Tiesto.

His weekly radio show Gratitude garners loyal music loving supporters from around the world, while his

SpinSpinNYC & Brooklyn Shakedown parties receive critical and international acclaim; featuring guest stars like

Pete Dafeet, JT Donaldson, Djoon Paris’ Reverend P, Editorial Record’s Dave Allison, Dubtribe Soundsystem’s

own Sunshine Jones, Africa’s Clive Bean, and the Shakedown originators Rob Paine & Willyum.

Along with the premiere of his Spin Spin Records imprint, numerous charity fundraising events and local outreach

initiatives, it’s obvious Nutritious has a enhanced sense of community and a penchant for culture creation. He’s

even scored two films for Hollywood’s A-List and co-authored a New York Times bestselling wellness & lifestyle

book.

A man of many tastes and styles, one thing is certain, Nutritious is inventive and full of flavor. Through a sensible

use of groove and energetic mixing, Nutritious moves your body, frees your mind…nourishes your soul.

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DJ WISEACRE aka Eric Tucker will be making the masses move this year at The Social Dance Area in Tompkins Square Park at DanceFest immediately following The 6th Annual Dance Parade in New York City!   He’ll also be sharing space in the booth with 2012 Grand Marshal DJ Jonathan Peters at The Official Dance Parade After Party at Webster Hall after the sun goes down.

Check out more about DanceFest

Check out more about The Official After Party at Webster Hall

DJ WISEACRE aka Eric Tucker

Born into the lovely environs of suburban lands lying to the east of Los Angeles, and raised on frozen food, meat and the religious right, Eric Tucker, aka WISEACRE, currently finds himself happily free yet equally inspired by it all. Living in the seaside republic of Venice for 20 years, WISEACRE initially established a successful career as a commercial/fine art photgrapher. in 2003, he decided to pick up some vinyl, a couple of turntables, a mixer, two speakers and a few friends in order to begin the labor of love we call “throwin’ parties”. since this time, wiseacre has put his love for photography on hold and co-created three very successful LA parties, FUNKY IN THE MIDDLE, CUSTOM SUNDAZE and now theLIFT which after one year is expanding to san francisco and new york . he has hosted and played along side such talents as GILLES PETERSON, DANNY KRIVIT, BONOBO, NICKODEMUS, LOUIE VEGA, JOE CLAUSELL, OSUNLADE, BLACK COFFEE, MARK FARINA, MR. SCRUFF, QUANTIC, MARQUES WYATT, KING BRITT, MAD MATS, SIMBAD, NICK CURLY, RON TRENT, DOMU, KARIZMA, IAN FRIDAY, RICH MEDINA, SPINNA, BODDHI SATVA, DAM FUNK, CUT CHEMIST, RECLOOSE, MAKOSSA + MEGABLAST, DJ GARTH, J ROCC, MARK RAE, FEDERICO AUBELE, SABO, DJ VADIM, MARK DE CLIVE LOWE, VIKTER DUPLAIX, 7 SAMURAI, SCOTT K, EDUARDO CASTILLO, RAUL CAMPOS, DAZ-I-KUE, GARTH TRINIDAD, DJ DAY and the one and only JEREMY SOLE. currently, wiseacre is living a bi-coastal existence between LA and NYC.  while theLIFT continues to thrive in los angeles and beyond, he simultaneously is designing and building a restaurant/club, LOUIE and CHAN in the lower east side of new york.  here wiseacre will continue his quest to bridge genres of music and people; creating a scene that is not exclusive or segmented, but rather one that simply appreciates “fine tunes”. the selections wiseacre chooses to share are deep and wide…. from brooklyn to the balkans, from south america to sweden, from house, to disco, to afro-latin broken beat, dub and soul… in short, wiseacre loves life, music and adores his daughter zoe.

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Bill Shannon performing in Australia - Skateboard Aerial move with his skate/dance hybrid movement style

Dance Genre Buzz – Bill Shannon’s Stepping-Roll technique

Bill Shannon is an artist who has created a unique movement style; a skate/dance hybrid, called the Stepping-Roll technique.  Influenced by breakdancing, hip-hop, silent film aesthetics and disability culture, Shannon’s unique hybrid of movement defies gravity with devastating style and grace.

Diagnosed at the age of 5 with a rare form of arthritis that affects his hips, Shannon dances on crutches and a skateboard, and has developed an extraordinary vocabulary with impeccable timing, fluidity and body awareness.

Bill Shannon is known internationally as a conceptual, interdisciplinary performance and media artist.  He considers his work rooted in street/club culture and informed by the fine arts.  He is widely recognized in the dance/ performance world, the underground hip-hop and club dance scene as well as the disabled artist community.  His performance and video work have been presented nationally and internationally.

View a video showcasing Bill Shannon’s Stepping-Roll technique

Evolution of Movement Style

Broken Puppet style of Boogaloo dance form

Bill Shannon moved to New York to make his name, both as a street dancer known as ‘Crutchmaster’ and as a performer and choreographer who combined a new style of movement with an artistry that piquantly questions the relationships between street and stage, audience and performer.

Throughout his career, his technical language to describe his unique movement style has grown.  First termed ‘the Shannon technique‘, his style has evolved into what he terms the ‘Stepping-Roll‘ technique.

Bill Shannon is seen in the photo on the right, where through the weight distribution of the Shannon Technique in a performance art piece.  This photo showcases Shannon’s Broken Puppet Style of Boogaloo Dance Form which is one of the schools of Hip-Hop dance.

Shannon's Saddle-Forearm Mid Uprock move

This next photo demonstrates Shannon’s Saddle-Forearm Mid Uprock move, dancing in a Top-Rock Style a form of dance in the Hip-Hop Tradition that predates the technically complex breakdancing of today.

In the early ’90s, Shannon was part of Pittsburgh’s vibrant underground art scene, and later returned in 2004 at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, during which he performed a series of improvised street shows.  Outside Pittsburgh, though, he has been prolific.  Shannon has performed in group and solo stage shows, street performances and installations around the world: Jordan, Russia, Finland and Australia.

Throughout his career, Shannon’s press coverage has been favorable. In 2001, Dance Magazine put him on its “25 to Watch” list. “Dancing on futuristic steel crutches with curved bases, Shannon is a beautiful alien creature gliding through space in loping strides,” wrote Sally Sommer. “Through his dancing Shannon forces you to look at life afresh, to see movement with clear vision.”

Critics admiringly note how his public-space shows interrogate standard notions of both “disability” and “audience.” And his desire to evoke ideas and emotions through movement means Shannon gets more comparisons to Chaplin than to break dancing crews.

Hanging Dog-Leg and Aerial move

The photo on the right demonstrates Shannon’s Hanging Dog-Leg and Aerial move within the Shannon Technique Lexicon
performed Image from Belgrade 2010.

Check out a video clip showcasing Shannon’s Sweeper-Spin move and his versatility on crutches.  Moving up in levels of complexity, this video shows his transitions from a flare into a float.  Since Bill Shannon is well known for his video work and performances, you can find many more videos on YouTube on his channel or those uploaded by his associates.  (Find the links to Bill Shannon’s website, video channels and social media sites below).

On some days, Shannon is incapacitated by pain, and he needs the crutches if he’s on his feet for more than a few minutes at a time.  But as these videos demonstrate, they also permit him to do things a crutchless person couldn’t, so that his performances blur the lines between what it means to be able and disabled.  His work embodies other paradoxes as well.

Shannon is in competition with an image of himself: the center of attention who often feels invisible behind the crutches that have symbolized his career.  He struggles not so much with his disability as with the way other people think it defines him.

Or as Shannon puts it, “I’m an artist trapped in a human-interest story.”

Check out the 2007 Interview of Bill Shannon with Pop Tech as he discusses the relationships between street and stage, audience and performer.  This ingenious performance artist’s work will challenge your notions of disability.

Skate/Dance Hybrid

In motion, especially on wheels and propelling himself with rhythmic sweeps of his crutches, Bill Shannon combines a surfer’s grace with a skateboarder’s knowing navigation of concrete — hopping curbs, cutting around steam grates, slipping between wheel-less, gawking bipeds.

With specially modified crutches, Shannon skates and dances while pushing forward with crutches.  Stepping Roll is basically a hybrid of the three kinetic lineages Bill Shannon’s life has taken him through. (1) mobility via crutches, (2) mobility via skateboard, (3) footwork via dancing to house music.

Stepping Roll is essentially weightless because Shannon uses crutches to push along the board instead of his legs.  The weightless effect on the feet as his arms push allow manipulations and dance steps on the surface of the board in absence of weight.  The form is at its root inherently rhythmic because Shannon moves his whole body in a left right left right pattern that my arm set and my shoulders bounce to.  The unique use of the platform of the board that Stepping Roll manifest is similar to the way a long-board surfer might “hang ten” or “walk the dog”.  The fact that Shannon’s steps are on beat and performed while rolling on pavement in traffic creates an effect of people reacting to it not as skateboarding and cheating with crutches, but one of that’s an entirely new thing that the skateboard and the crutches are equally essential to.

This photo illustrates sequential images of a difficult technical combination move created by Shannon called a Sweeper-Kickout to Crossed-Up-Heel-Hold No-Handed-Rotation.  Its a trick move that applies Shannon Technique in a Skate/Dance Hybrid.

Stepping Roll gets interesting when Shannon expresses Classic B-Boy Freezes over the course of city blocks, uprocks down sidewalks fakie to no footed rolls.  These hybrids are retro skating in the sense that they are not ollie based but based on carving lines and body stances that reflect
street dance and dogtown equally.  Like poppers and b-boys Shannon wears crisp bright shoes when he throws down on the skate repping footwork and a soulful flowing house head openness to the music.   Shannon is also limited by an inability to jump off the board and land hard on his legs.  In short Shannon
won’t try stuff that will further damage his hip though his own awareness and timing of his moves.

Bill Shannon came to define the form as Stepping-Roll after practicing it for years and after realizing that it was important to classify what was happening.  The form is still in its infancy in terms of possible tricks though Shannon has a few moves that are only performed within Stepping-Roll including Rolling No Footers, Tip Stalls, Floats to Shuvits and Ghost Glides.

Bill Shannon reports that “People would say I was urban slaloming, or freestyle skiing on a skateboard.  Lay people (non skaters) yell at me on the street to “get a patent” or they yell “that’s ghetto” or “isn’t that nifty”.  Wanna see something nifty?  Take a 360 degree bird’s eye look into Bill Shannon in action in this video.

Media Projects

Bill Shannon has also recently released a DVD entitled “Translations from Pavement”.  This DVD features excerpts from multiple solo projects in crutch street dance, including performance art, video installation, practice sessions and design along with a demo reel of Shannon’s unique group projects.

Post hip-hop troubadour RJD2 teamed with dance and media artist Bill Shannon for the ‘Work It Out’ video.   Director Joey Garfield took to the streets of New York and captured one continuous shot of Shannon, injecting RJD2 into random roles throughout the video.

Shannon has also directed and choreographed for short films including a video mixdown excerpt entitled “Keep Pushing Yourself” from his group work SKETCHY.  This clip features dance battle performed live by b-boy Cyclone (Step Fenz) NYC then delayed live by VJ Glytch (NYC).  This clip was excerpted from an evening length choreographed performance at Kaii Theater in Brussels Belgium 2007.

The beauty of Bill Shannon’s movement is as inspirational as it is mesmerizing. The fluidity of his dance moves was seen as the perfect embodiment of VISA’s flow campaign.  In the TV ad not only does Bills choreography represent life flowing effortlessly but his flow and movement throughout the film turns a mundane shopping trip into something quite magical.

Shannon created a multimedia piece called The Invisible Man Epilogue Remix 2007, for a Washington, D.C. gallery. Like H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, the character in Shannon’s video installation is bandaged, though now he’s a “burn-unit escapee.” And like the title character of Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel Invisible Man, he is “socially invisible.”

“I watch my condition cast a shadow across any attempt to speak and be heard,” runs a line from a proposed monologue.  Shannon portrays both the bandaged figure and a videotaped dancer on crutches; during the performance, the bandaged man will use the video to illustrate his own condition.

Wells’ Invisible Man went murderously mad; Shannon blames it on the character’s doomed attempts to return to normalcy.  In a proposal for the piece, Shannon writes that his work “shows how madness can be averted by hosting the gaze rather than being subject to it.” Or, as Shannon says in real life, “In my work I’ve entertained the notion that normalcy is not always the best option.”

In 2003, videos by Shannon were featured in Art, Lies and Videotape, a group show at the Tate Liverpool that included work by Diane Arbus and Yoko Ono.  View a history of his works here.

Shannon’s career includes work that extends beyond his own performances.  For example, in 2001, he joined the creative team for the Cirque du Soleil show that became Varekai.  He choreographed two acts for the world-renowned Montreal-based theatrical circus: an aerial duet, and a solo dance on crutches for the Russian tumbler Vladimir Ignatenkov.

Working with British acrobats Andrew and Kevin Atherton, Shannon spiced the Cirque’s overwhelmingly modernist aesthetic with something street.  Over the twin brothers’ protests (documented in The Fire Within, the cable-TV series about Varekai, now available online), he got them to forgo pointed toes and lifted chins for the right-angled limbs of skateboard aerials (and, as Shannon points out, of Celtic and ancient Egyptian art).  The finished act, with the brothers swinging and soaring on straps, was a hit (Varekai played Pittsburgh in 2005).

Documentary Film and Upcoming Events Featuring Bill Shannon

Bill Shannon is collaborating with filmmakers Sachi Cunningham and Chandler Evans to create a feature-length documentary entitled ‘CRUTCH’.  Part of the documentary will be filmed on location at the 2012 NYC Dance Parade and Festival.  Learn more about the documentary on Bill Shannon at http://www.crutchdoc.com.  Stay tuned for updates on the film’s release.

Bill Shannon is one of the Grand Marshal’s for the 2012 Dance Parade and Festival on Saturday, May 19th.

Catch Bill Shannon performing his Stepping-Roll technique on the streets of New York, and later at his performance on the Main Stage at the Dance Festival in Tompkin’s Square Park.

Feel free to take photos of Bill Shannon at the event, and enter Dance Parade’s annual PHOTO CONTEST for a chance to win.

You can also share your photos and videos of Bill performing his Stepping-Roll technique on Dance Parade’s Facebook page.

Visit Bill Shannon’s website, ‘Like’ his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter @whatiswhatcom.  Check out his video channels on Vimeo and YouTube and share your comments on his videos.

Genre Buzz: Dance Education Series

Genre Buzz Source: Excerpts from articles on Bill Shannon listed on Wikipedia- and personal notes from the artist himself 

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