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I did my own art meme thing for next month!!
EDIT: Accidentally put Birds twice
Anyone who wants to participate can!! (And if you can't get something done every day consistently, that's totally fine!) The most important thing is to have fun!
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A mini photoshoot Thuan and I did after MadFest last Saturday. Awesome photos by fantastic Mr. Ben
May Spring Art Challenge - Day 1: Flowers
Decided to do Snowdrops since they're the first sign of Spring!
Visiting Oshun Movement Research With Coppin State University Students with Dr. Celia Weiss Bambara PC CBambara CCBdance Project
-Thank you MSAC for your support in Maryland. Please see http://msac.org/directory/artists/celia-bambara
-This is the 16th year for the CCBdance Project. Celia Weiss Bambara became solo director of the company in 2012 carrying on the work begun with co-founder Christian Bambara during his illness. During this ten year period the company taught and performed in Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, France, Germany, North Carolina, New York, California, Maryland, and Michigan. In 2015, the CCBdance Project became a non-profit in the Ivory Coast as well as a fiscally sponsored entity in the United States. Celia created site dance work, installations, dance films, improvisations, work with students and large scale solo and small ensemble pieces. This spring, celebrating this spirit of resilience and regeneration we will show repertory dance work at Coppin State University in Baltimore and site dance or dance film created by students at Coppin and possible visiting artists. We will also create a new dance film with collaborators and students and some movement research/improvisation as an installation in a parking lot West Baltimore.
May 4th- Showing of student dance work and work set on students, “Let it Flow-Let it Grow” by Cbambara.
May 6th- Studio showing of student work and screening of “Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres” movement research for the solo “Steppin Up.” Co-sponsored by the Title IX Office at Coppin State University.
-Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres Screen Dance is a semi-finalist for the Sydney Indie Short Film Festival.
-Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres Screen is a semi-finalist for the Dubai Independent Film Festival.
-Screen Dance blue, green is selected by the Toronto International Women Film Festival.
April 27th- Dialogue on Improvisation-From Tradition to Contemporary with Lacina Coulibaly. Virtual event co-sponsored by the CCBdance Project 10 am -11 am.
-Screen dance production with collaborators Lacina Coulibaly, Jessica Ray, Jerry Brown, and Coppin Dance Students at CSU as part of DANC 426. Spring production of a dance film with collaborators Lacina Coulibaly and Jessica Ray with Coppin Students.
March 28th-Workshop on African Dance with Lacina Coulibaly co-sponsored by the CCBdance Project. Virtual event through CSU.
March 30th-Performance of student work in library quad and site-dance work set on students by Bambara (in process).
February 4th Screening of Je Te Souhaites Du Bien at Apres, at Screen Dance Istanbul/Dance Camera Pandemania. Official selection.
With gratitude!
-An improvisational installation and dialogue about improvisation may also be improvisationaly made possible.
First swim at msac in more than a year Ironically this is the last swim before going into lock down again. Swam 1k but it was real tough Have been swimming in the ocean and surfing this year but that has dropped off recently as the weather is getting colder Will need to make this atleast a fortnightly thing though winter as it's just to good an exercise to not do regularly #swim #swimming #outdoorswimming #msac #completeathlete #allroundathlete #sports #fitness https://www.instagram.com/reel/CPYSuMfjYu6/?utm_medium=tumblr
Spring 2021-News, Updates, Premiers- We are in our 15th Year-
Film Stills-2020. Yacouba Badolo,Celia Bambara, Kayla Hamilton “Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres”
- April 27th BCPS (Baltimore County Public Schools) Virtual Dance Festival, Masterclass in Contemporary Dance For High School Students. Outreach for Coppin State University.
-February 11th Guest Class with Northern Michigan Universitys’ Choir on Performing with the Body and Opening the Body to Sound and Movement.
-Premier of Dance Film and Dialogue About Process February 26th through Coppin State University at 3pm. Link to Film Premier Here
Moderated by Dr. Edwin Hill Professor of French and Francophone Studies, American Studies and Ethnic Studies, USC
-Official selection of Montreal Independent Film Festival, Screening April 20th.
-Completion of blue, green dance film with Loren Earle and Kima Moore.
- Final musical composition production for Who Fears Not Death solo with musician Kimathi Moore.Two versions are being created a 20 minute version with and a 30 minute version with tire props and mise-en-scene.
-Premiere and Informal sharing of two dance films and solo dance work in excerpt. May 21st at 8 pm in a private beach location in Marquette, MI. Invite only for up to 30 people.
Please see trailer below-”Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres...Is This What We are Looking For?”
Inherited Dreams #1 at INSAAC Abidjan, 2013 With Tche Tche member Flavienne Lago
Je Te Souhaites Du Bien ET Après…Is This What We Are Looking For?Choreography/Direction: Celia Weiss Bambara
Collaborators: Movement: Kayla Hamilton, Yacouba Badolo Videography: Jessica Ray, Ashli Bickford, Loren Earle Original Composition: Abou Bassa, Kimathi MooreVideo Editing: Jessica Ray
This work draws upon scores for an evening length work of the same title. Dance artists Jean-Luc Okou and Momar Ndiaye have assisted in the research process for this work as collaborators.
This contemporary dance project engages the thematic materials of how we treat others in society and suggests perhaps other ways of intertwining our worlds. Very often we say how we wish people well but turn a blind eye to their plight or to the lives of others in general. This work suggests then a way of seeing, hearing and speaking differently so as to break apart established ways of societal blindness or numbness. The work draws upon the ways that we are blind to those around us and presents an observation of the human condition. Due to the pandemic, selected scores from the evening length work, which was slotted to premier in 2020, have been made into a dance film. The CCBdance Project is indebted to our collaborators and mentors as well as to the Maryland State Arts Council. This project has been supported by the Maryland State Arts Council and through residencies at Ecole Des Sables (Senegal), Donko Seko (Mali), and the University of North Carolina, Asheville. Mentors Souleymane Badolo, Germaine Acogny and Kettly Noel have graciously offered feedback at different points in the process. Christian Bambara has also generously offered his support for this new work for the company.
Fall 2020 Celia will be in production for a solo dance film blue, green with Lauren Earle and Kimathi Moore. This work will respond to Celia’s Jewish identity and vision disability. We will adapt the original sound composition to new improvisational scores and somatic studies created in 2020.
This screen dance was researched in sites in Asheville, NC in 2019 and in Marquette, MI in 2020. The original score was created by Kimathi Moore was funded by a University of North Carolina Asheville Teaching Council Award in 2019 for musical collaboration during a production for dance minor students, which drew upon similar thematic materials. In 2020, Celia Weiss Bambara furthered the research process by improvising and engaging in somatic studies in sites in the small peninsula in Michigan where she lived between the ages of 2 and 12 roughly. From the ages of 9-11, approximately, my mother would pack me off to Jew camp in Wisconsin for almost a month. There I lived on a kibbutz for children in army tents. While it was a wonderful experience on many many levels it was also challenging on other levels. Mainly, I was not as sophisticated as the big city Jewish girls. I found refuge though, in the small garden patch, singing everyday, New Hebrew learning, and the lake and in the outdoor temple services. We would sit outside in the woods and listen to lectures on god and nature, ethics, and community. The 11-year-old girl, that is still a part of me, with the long braids and uneven laugh, loved the lectures on Kabbalah and nature and the singing. This dance film working connects me to that partially blind 11 year old and my adult understanding and somatic studies of women’s connections to nature as a place of power, Jewish female identity, African dance practices, Diasporic links and refuge.
Film will be premiered in 2021.
