Honoring more than a quarter century of support, Career Transition For Dancers connects dancers to their future, and embraces the unique legacy of dance and dancers that enrich the human condition.

Mark your calendar: Monday, October 31, 2011 at 7pm
Join us at New York City Center on Monday, October 31, 2011 at 7pm for our 26th Anniversary Jubilee. The Masquerade Supper with the Stars, live auction and dancing ’til the witching hour to follow at the Hilton New York’s Grand Ballroom. Dress attire: ghoulishly clever or elegant masquerade, but masks a must!

Join Host Chita Rivera and dancers from around the world to celebrate one of America’s greatest art forms.

Produced by Ann Marie Deangelo
Video Design by Eric Dunlap/Forward Motion Theater

With appearances by:
Judith Jamison
Andrew Eccles
Bebe Neuwirth
Christopher Calkins

Special appearances and performances by, and artists from:
American Repertory Ballet
Carolina Ballet
Lynn Cohen
Carmen De Lavallade
Houston Ballet
Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Lypsinka
Mark Stuart Dance Theatre
Donna McKechnie
National Dance Institute
New York City Ballet
New York Song & Dance Company
Peter Pucci Plus Dancers
Noah Racey
plus Michael Jackson’s THRILLER performed by 150 children from NYC schools.

Gala Honorees:
Victor Elmaleh – Career Transition For Dancers’ Award
Nancy MacMillan – Career Transition For Dancers’ Award
Nigel Lythgoe – Rolex Dance Award

FMT co-founder Eric Dunlap creates facade projection for the spinning-mill as a part of the artMUSE festival. The event takes place on July 16-17 in Bocholt, Germany. The factory is now an extension of the LWL-Museum of Industrial Culture.

For complete information, visit the artMUSE Bolcholt website.

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Once again FMT Co-Director has been invited to join the selection committee for the Live Media and Performance category of the Celeste Prize 2011.

The prize has been established to promote international contemporary art in the widest possible sense. There will be a final art exhibition with 50 artworks, a final catalogue of circa 150 pages with circa 120 illustrated works of art and critical texts, as well as 5 prize awards and benefits totaling 30,000 €. The exhibition of finalist works, voting and awards will take place at The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, New York, 11-13 November 2011.

The 50 finalist artists will be chosen by a selection comittee of international art critics and curators led by Eugene Tan. Each selector will make his or her personal choices known in public, onsite. We all share the value in having clear and open processes. With this in mind, you will see each selectors’ choices online by early September, and understand exactly how 50 works made the final exhibition in New York according to the majority-preference principle.

Visit The Celeste Prize website for more information and to submit work.

ReVision by Forward Motion Theater
presented by The Tank

Date: Friday and Saturday, January 14-15, 2011
Time: 8PM
pre-show 7:30PM

The Tank
354 West 45th Street (bet. 8th & 9th Ave)
A/C/E to 42nd Street/Port Authority
Tickets: $15 advance, $18 at door
Purchase: BUY ONLINE or at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/139354

Six independent works by Performing Artists incorporating
Technology, Dance, Spoken Word, Costume, and Music

featuring:
Blue Muse Dance
Kim Gibilisco Dances
Wetcircuit
Eric Dunlap
Jon Keith Brunelle
Mikhail Torich
Urban Wash Dance
DJ SphinX

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Bearnstow Presents The Nikolais Centennial Alumni Concerts

As the celebration of Alwin Nikolais’ Centennial continues, Eric Dunlap teams up with fellow alum Kim Gilbilisco to present a dance and video work in the Nikolais Tradition.

The Interdisciplinary Studio Theater at Hunter College
Enter 69th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
December 3 and 4, 8 p.m.

Alwin Nikolais’s Former Company Members and
Dancers from His Tradition Present Their Works:

Choreographers and Presenters on Friday, December 3, 2010:
Bob Beswick, Beverly Blossom, Janis Brenner, Kim Gibilisco & Eric Dunlap, Claudia Gitelman,
Sally Gross, Timothy Harling, Steven Iannacone, Kathy Kroll, Murray Louis, Chris Reisner

Choreographers and Presenters on Saturday, December 4, 2010:
Beverly Blossom, Janis Brenner, Susan Creitz, Peter Kyle, Murray Louis, Suzy MacDermaid Fridell,
Lynn Needle, Jody Oberfelder, Chris Reisner, Dorothy Vislocky, Maida Withers

Works by Murray Louis presented by Janis Brenner & Dancers, and Peter Kyle
Work by Beverly Blossom performed by Christine Reisner
Lobby presentations by Mimi Garrard and Ruth Grauert

Reservations at SmartTix, 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.

Preferred seating: $25.00; General seating: $20.00; Seating on floor mats: $15.00

We gratefully acknowledge the following persons for their contributions to these events: Beth Bagnold, Tandy Beal, Anne Berry, Bob Beswick, Jan Connor, Kitty Cunningham, Virginia Dillon, Suzy Friedel, Cathy Heath Gaedje, Mimi Garrard, Claudia Gitelman, George Gracey, Tim Harling, Steven Iannacone, Claudia Melrose, Nusha Martynuk, Lynn Needle, Gerald Otte, Fred Timm, Steven Vendola, Maida Withers, and Joan Woodbury.

Download the latest Centennial Concerts flyer (PDF). Please print and distribute.