
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
