Dance for Seniors is part performance and part interactive workshop. This city-wide tour visits nine separate NYC senior centers from October through December, and invites older adults of all abilities to join in on individual expression and community empowerment!
Check out this video of our recent Nov. 9th Dances for Seniors 2022 performance/workshop at the Queensbridge Riis Senior Center in Long Island City!
Don’t miss out on our last few performances! Join us:
Nov. 30th at 1:00 PM- Central Harlem Senior Center at the Kennedy Center Site @ 34 W 134th St. New York, NY 10037
Dec. 7th at 1:00 PM- Penn South Social Services @ 290 9th Avenue Suite 21K New York, NY 10001
Dec. 14th at 2:00 PM – Hudson Guild Fulton Senior Center @ 119 9th Avenue New York, NY 10001
Hope to see you dancing soon!
We invite you to join us as we look back at our September production of Revival 6: Home / Body / Care! Dances for a Variable Population’s Fall 2022 Revival 6 performances featured six seasoned dance artists and 50 non-professional senior dancers, who use dance to reflect on the innovation and beauty of aging. This was DVP’s 12th year of free public performances in iconic spaces like Washington Square Park and Yolanda Garcia Park. Every performance included a pre-show workshop with an interactive and inclusive “All Together Dance”. With each performance we bring our dancers and the public together to learn and enjoy to the power of movement and dance. Please enjoy this beautiful highlight video as we reflect back on what we are thankful for this week! We are so thankful to be able to share the power of dance with our communities and see the joy it brings!
Special thanks to all our 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.
Video by: Will Kitchings
“When the actual show started, the performances ranged from invigorating clap-along quick foot movements to soulful sways, African drum beats leading dancers clad in white, and various mixes of modern dance – a lot of smiling, moving, energized seniors in motion – a few seated on chairs set up on the stage, but still participating.”
– Karen Camela Watson
Read more HERE!
DANCES FOR SENIORS
During the Fall 2022 season, Dances For A Variable Population (DVP) will bring DANCES FOR SENIORS, free, community based performances with interactive creative movement for all ages and abilities. Presented by five members of DVP’s multi-generational company and featuring highlights of dances performed in public performances at Washington Square Park, Grant’s Memorial Tomb, and Yolanda Garcia Park, these 75 min community events will feature dances from the styles of modern dance, jazz, flamenco and hip-hop. The performances will be followed by a creative movement and dance experience highlighting moving together in fun and friendship.
Adults of all ages and abilities are encouraged to participate!
The entire event is designed to be accessible to individuals of all abilities, bringing the power of dance in connecting communities. The performance presents dances from concert stages and social dance; the workshop invites the audience to dive into individual expression and discover new possibilities inspired by our company dancers and seasoned guest artists.
Through performance and a following interactive experience, New Yorkers become participants as well as audience members.
Participants should wear comfortable clothing and shoes for moving!
LOCATIONS AND DATES:
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ABOUT DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION
Founded in 2005 by Naomi Goldberg Haas, Dances for a Variable Population (DVP) promotes strong and creative movement among people of all ages and abilities with a focus on seniors. The organization’s programming includes: a multigenerational performance company that engages community members as participants and audiences; MOVEMENT SPEAKS® and Dances for Seniors, which are free, community- based programs for modest income and culturally underserved older adults, annually serves over 700 seniors; ALL TOGETHER DANCE and Fitness classes for adults of all ages, offered year- round; and performance and training opportunities for older professional dancers and choreographers. DVP’s site-related performances have been presented in some of New York City’s most iconic public spaces, including Times Square, the New York Botanical Garden, Washington Square Park, and the High Line. Naomi Goldberg Haas is the 2019-2020 recipient of a Dance/USA Fellowship to Artists, for artists addressing social change,
The development and presentation of Dances For Seniors has been made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Department for the Aging, in partnership with the City Council and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. Special support is provided by Council Members Shaun Abreu, Erik Bottcher, Gale Brewer, Christopher Marte, Althea Stevens, and Julie Won. Support is also provided by the Alpern Foundation, Jody and John Arnhold, Columbia Community Service, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and the West Harlem Development Corporation.
Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY), a project of the Tides Center, is a three-year, $125 million investment in the financial stability of New York State artists and the organizations that employ them. This program was made possible through support from CRNY’s Artist Employment Program.
Check out the full article HERE!
“It was certainly a happy atmosphere at the recent Saturday evening event in bustling Washington Square Park where the crowd quickly filled to standing room only at the start of the “Revival 6” dance performances.”
– Karen Camela Watson, Chelsea News
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 & 5 Avenue, M8 to E 8
St & 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
NEW YORK, Sept 2022 – 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
preshow 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 & 5 Avenue, M8 to E 8
St & 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
Grants Memorial Tomb in Harlem. Not taking any more reservations ! Come to the show and sign up there!
