Guest Artist, Duke University , March 2012
Next Stage Dance Residency, January 2012
Creative residency for development of ruth's garden, Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Performing in Margaret Paek's work
Danspace Project, St. Mark's Place, NYC, Dec 1st, 8 p.m,
Movement Research Fall Festival.
Movement Research Fall Festival.
Guest Artist: Choreographer's Series, December 1st, 2011
Guest Artist, November 22, 2011
Rhythmic Notation for Dancers Master Classes Marymount Manhattan College, NYC
Guest Artist, Master Classes and performance, November 9th, 2011
"8-minute meditations" excerpts + "ruth's garden" work in progress
College of the Holy Cross
College of the Holy Cross
Performing in Gina Milovan Kohler's work, November 6th, 3 p.m.
[dream] factories, presented by Watusi Regime
in association with Shen Wei Dance Arts
Park Avenue Armory, NYC
in association with Shen Wei Dance Arts
Park Avenue Armory, NYC
Guest Artist, October 17th, 2011
Master class and performance: "8-minute meditations" excerpts.
Salem State University
Salem State University
Academic Guest Artist Tour 2011-2012
Upcoming guest lectures/master classes/performances/artist talks: Long Island University, Salem State College, College of the Holy Cross, Marymount Manhattan College, Cornish School for the Arts and more. Email info@dahlianayar.com
Creation Phase: untitled solo
Commissioned by Candice Salyers. Creative period September 2011-Summer 2012
Creation Phase: "one three five two four"
multi-media performance inspired by S. Indian rice flour patterns, Supported in part by Northampton Council for the Arts. June 2011- December 2011.
"acqua alta", June 2011,
multi media work inspired by a meditation on the flooded body. Dance Place, Washington DC.
"acqua alta" draft showing, Saturday, May 7th, 2011, 7 p.m.
University of Maryland, College Park.
"ruth's garden" draft solo, Friday, March 4, 2011, 8 p.m.
"Page Not Found" evening of dance, film, live music and visual art, Brooklyn, NY.
"Trios" (adapted version), Sunday, October 3rd, 2010, 6:45 p.m., Kennedy Center
Featuring dancers Valerie Bonk, Angela Edwards, Nithya Joseph, Melissa Greco Liu, Sharon Mansur, Emily Oleson and Dawn Springer. This work will be shown alongside Vincent Thomas's "One or Ten or One Hundred", a site-specific tribute to choreographer Pola Nirenksa. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Master Class, Tuesday, September 21 2010, 1 – 3p.m.
International Cultural Visitors Program: Modern Dance Guest teacher. DeVos Institute of Arts Management, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
"8-minute meditations" excerpts, June 2010
A series alternating between film, movement, story and guided meditation, each piece explores the breadth and brevity of eight minutes. Thesis concert, 2010 American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina.
"Trios" Sunday, April 25, 2010, 3 p.m. at the U.S. Botanical Gardens
An Earth Day weekend site-specific dance performance for nine dancers at the US Botanical Gardens. This work offers a moment for intimate reflection on body's unique expression of time, memory and consciousness in relationship to nature and the environment.
