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Saturday Evening, January 11, 2020Jodi Kaplan presentsBooking Dance Festival NYCAN EVENING OF DYNAMIC SHOWCASES FEATURING THE BEST OF DANCEFROM THE USAPLUS INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST MARGIE GILLIS—LEGACYPROJECT FROM CANADASee a stunning array of 30 extraordinary dance companies and over 200 dancersperform 40 exquisite and diverse showcases in the most spectacular settingimaginable. Featuring three world premieres!Thank you for joining us at Jazz at Lincoln Center for this once-in-a-lifetime experience!We are proud to announce our inaugural educational outreach program. Participants include students from the Brooklyn Ballet and the 92Y’s Harkness Dance Center.There will not be an intermission during this performance.The audience is free to come and go throughout the evening. Kindly exit asneeded during pauses between dances.Photographs and video are strictly prohibited by audience members. Only BookingDance Festival’s professional photographer and videographer are permitted.BookingDance.comJazz at Lincoln Center’sThe Appel RoomFrederick P. Rose Halljazz.orgPlease turn off your cell phones andother electronic devices.
Jazz at Lincoln CenterBOOKING DANCE FESTIVAL NYCFEATURED ARTISTSGuest Artists:Main Roster Artists:Alessandra Corona Performing Works (NYC)acoronaworks.comEisenhower Dance Detroit (Detroit, MI)eisenhowerdance.orgAyalis in Motion (NYC)ayalisinmotion.orgEnzo Celli/VIVO Ballet (NYC)vivoballet.comBlack Label Movement (Minneapolis, MN)blacklabelmovement.comElise Monte Dance (NYC)Carolyn Dorfman Dance (NYC)carolyndorfman.danceArtistic Director: Tiffany Rea-Fisherelisamontedance.orgBoutique Roster Artists:DrumatiX (Boston, MA)drumatix.weebly.comArt of Motion Dance Theatre (NYC)AOMDT.orgHybrid Movement Company (NYC)hybridmovementcompany.comBenjamin Briones Ballet (NYC)benjaminbrionesballet.orgJust Sole! Street Dance Theater(Philadelphia, PA)Chicago Dance Crash (Chicago, IL)chicagodancecrash.comLos Angeles Choreographers & DancersDancers Unlimited/DUNYC (NYC/Hawaii)dunyc-hi.comFound Movement Group (Nashville, TN)foundmovementgroup.comGuilty Pleasures Cabaret (NYC)guiltypleasurescabaret.comKAIROS Dance Theater (Boston, MA)kairosdancetheater.orgLouise Reichlin & Dancers (Los Angeles, CA)LAChoreographersAndDancers.orgMargie Gillis—Legacy Project(Montreal, Canada)margiegillis.orgProject SK A (Michigan)ShaLeigh Dance Works (Durham, NC)shaleighdanceworks.comSnD Productions (NYC)snd-productions.comSALT Contemporary Dance(Salt Lake City, UT)saltdance.comSouli’on Coterie (NYC)soulioncoterie.comSHAPESHIFT (Minneapolis, MN)shapeshiftmpls.comVanessa Long Dance Company (NYC)vanessalongdancecompany.comValerie Green/Dance Entropy (NYC)DanceEntropy.orgVoloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble(Pennsylvania)voloshky.comWater Street Dance Milwaukee(Milwaukee, WI)waterstreetdancemke.comYZ Performing Arts (NYC)yzpacenter.com
Jazz at Lincoln CenterBOOKING DANCE FESTIVAL NYC—PROGRAM ORDER5:30–6:30 p.m.Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble*Shchedryk6:30–7:30 p.m.Carolyn Dorfman DanceSnap Crackle PopYZ Performing ArtsCharm and Magical RingBlack Label MovementBleeding HeartSnD ProductionsSHIVAArt of Motion Dance TheatreEbb & FlowAlessandra Corona Performing WorksLabyrinthBenjamin Briones BalletTierra VivaLouise Reichlin & DancersLos Angeles Choreographers & DancersHybrid Movement CompanyEudæmonia“Brandenburg” from Tap Dance WidowsClub and “Metamorphosis” fromThe Better to Bite You WithProject SK AA Sophisticated DisappearanceValerie Green/Dance EntropyEverythingVanessa Long Dance CompanyUrban TumbleweedDrumatiXRhythm DeliveredJust Sole! Street Dance TheaterFrom the Root7:30–8:30 p.m.SHAPESHIFT*STRUCKChicago Dance CrashLil Pine NutElisa Monte DanceArtistic Director: Tiffany Rea-FisherEMD Does BrubeckEnzo Celli/VIVO Ballet*The VillageEisenhower Dance DetroitARCMargie Gillis—Legacy ProjectCrow
Jazz at Lincoln Center9:30–10:30 p.m.Found Movement GroupEntwinationJust Sole! Street Dance TheaterYou’re Wastin’ My TimeSouli’on CoterieWelcome HomeVoloshky Ukrainian Dance EnsemblePovzunetsSALT Contemporary DanceWhen I Am Lost, We Speak in FlowersCarolyn Dorfman DanceInterior Designs and WAVESKAIROS Dance TheaterBlue Girl GoldWater Street Dance MilwaukeeAction, Re Action & WordsGuilty Pleasures CabaretSway/Black and GoldAyalis in MotionIn the ParkDancers Unlimited/DUNYCClub HeadsBlack Label MovementHITVoloshky Ukrainian Dance EnsembleHopakWater Street Dance Milwaukee(We)ight*World Premiere performancesLOIS GREENFIELD8:30–9:30 p.m.ShaLeigh Dance WorksThe In-BetweenInaugural BookingDance EducationalProgramwill meet production staff in varying positions to learn about the “behind-the-scenes”preparation necessary to successfully present a dance festival of this magnitude.This year’s program includes a welcomeand introduction by Producer Jodi Kaplan,an educational enrichment presentation ofthe featured styles and dance companiesby Educational Director Eva Master Kaplan,a backstage tour led by Artistic DirectorStephanie Pizzo of Eisenhower DanceDetroit, and a movement workshop wherestudents will learn a few steps that will beperformed in the show. Along the way, theyStudents will then attend the first hour ofthe performance, which has been curatedto reflect the diversity of dance in today’ssociety, and to inspire them by introducinga variety of movement styles. Students willend the evening meeting some of the artistic directors and dancers for a brief Q&A,and depart with a worksheet for additionalreflection questions and activities.
Jazz at Lincoln CenterJodi Kaplan & Associates/Booking DanceThe highly acclaimed Booking DanceFestival returns for its eighth annual extravaganza at Jazz at Lincoln Center! Featuringfive hours of extraordinary dance highlighting 30 lauded companies, more than 200dancers, 40 diverse choreographic works,and three world premieres.Internationally renowned for presentingBooking Dance Festivals at the Olympicsin Beijing and London along with 5-starannual line-ups at the Edinburgh Fringe,Producer Jodi Kaplan brings the best ofdance from across the USA to NYC foranother once-in-a-lifetime experience!This year’s distinctive event encompassesa dynamic range of companies from morethan 15 U.S. cities, providing an overviewof dance in America today. Styles presented include: ballet, hip-hop, acrobatics,tap and body percussion, modern, contemporary, jazz, dance-theatre, fusion, cabaret,and a returning audience favorite, dazzlingUkranian Folk dance—plus a surprise hulahoop spectacle to round out a magicalevening of unforgettable performances.Jodi Kaplan/Booking Dance produced its firstinternational festival, Booking Dance FestivalBeijing 2008, coinciding with the BeijingOlympics. Endorsed by the U.S. ambassadorin China, the festival implemented extensiveoutreach activities including question andanswer sessions following each program,master classes, and performances at anoutdoor Olympic venue. Lois Greenfield’slarge-scale installation PROJECTED was afeatured component, positioned on a hugeoutdoor screen in the heart of Beijing.For seven years from 2009–2015, BookingDance Festival Edinburgh garnered worldwideacclaim and five-star reviews, positioning U.S.dance artists to gain international exposureand touring opportunities. The shows havebeen featured in the BBC World News, BBCScotland, and CNN, and most importantlywere welcomed with enthusiasm from audiences, many of which had never seen dancebefore! Additionally, Jodi Kaplan partneredwith Bryant Park in producing Booking Danceat Bryant Park for five years, bringing audiences of thousands to the heart of New YorkCity to see previews from the annual BookingDance Festival Edinburgh.Jodi Kaplan & Associates/Booking Danceis a personal “boutique agency” thatbooks dance companies on extensivetours throughout the United States andinternationally. Director Jodi Kaplan alsoconsults with both established and newlyformed dance companies and runs booking seminars for professionals and collegestudents, partnering with the University ofEdinburgh Business School, Beijing DanceAcademy, Western Australia PerformingArts Academy, among others.For the past two decades Booking Dancehas booked extensive tours internationally.Recent collaborations in South Americainclude Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile,Uruguay, and Guatemala, with upcomingprojects in Mexico; in Europe includingTurkey, Germany, and Spain; and throughout the United States including returnengagements at American Dance Festival,The Joyce Theater, Fall for Dance, Jacob’sPillow, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the NewVictory Theater, and the Kennedy Center.The agency is currently booking EisenhowerDance Detroit on an extensive 10-city tourof Alaska for the Fall of 2020. This is a significant opportunity to bring dance to theremote regions of Alaska, and to partake inunique outreach with traditional communities as well as collaborative presentations inschools and prisons. This will be the agency’sfourth tour throughout the state of Alaska
Jazz at Lincoln Centerand includes performance engagementsin Anchorage Juneau, Haines, Skagway,Sitka, Valdez, Homer, and even Nome,where dance has not been performed sincePaul Taylor was there in the 1990s! Pasttours have included performance engagements in Ketchikan and Kodiak, and current communications with more than 20Alaskan communities aim to position JK&Ato “stretch” its dance presence across thisextraordinary locale.On the other extreme of the spectrum,Jodi Kaplan/Booking Dance is currentlyexpanding its presence in Asia and touringselect USA dance companies throughoutChina and the region. For the past fiveyears, Ms. Kaplan has booked highly suc-cessful tours in China’s premiere state-ofthe-art Poly Theaters. In 2019 Ms. Kaplanbrought the Colombia National Ballet fromSouth America on a 28-city tour of Chinaperforming the ballet Don Quixote witha cast of 30 dancers; in 2018 booked theshadow dance company CATAPULT ona 25-city tour of China; in 2017 a recordbreaking 31-city tour for FJK Dance; in 2016a crowd pleasing 29-city/36-performancetour for Bellydance Evolution; and in 2015a 25-city/34-performance tour with StateStreet Ballet’s production of Beauty andthe Beast. To date, Producer Jodi Kaplanhas worked with a total of 47 differentcities in China, with each location reachingpopulations of more than 10 million.Jodi Kaplan has produced China tours featuringmore than 150 performances in 47 cities!My enthusiastic congratulations to you on the occasion of the Booking Dance FestivalBeijing 2008. By bringing together on a single stage top dance companies from bothChina and the United States, this festival truly embodies the Olympic spirit of internationalfriendship and cooperation Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the important UnitedStates-China cultural exchanges which serve to deepen mutual understanding and bringour two great peoples and nations together. —Clark T. Randt, Jr., AmbassadorEmbassy of the United States of American,Beijing, China
LOIS GREENFIELDJazz at Lincoln CenterJodi KaplanWith a strong dance background, JodiKaplan has successfully bridged the world ofartist and agent. Since founding Jodi Kaplan& Associates/Booking Dance two decadesago, she has booked extensive performanceengagements with hundreds of venues inthe United States and internationally.Ms. Kaplan recently forayed into the worldof visual art as an arts producer and curator. She is honored to be creative producerfor Lois Greenfield’s extraordinary photography exhibit “Lois Greenfield: MovingStill” as part of the Bienal de Danza deCali in Colombia, with additional plans totour it to Mexico and throughout SouthAmerica. Ms. Kaplan also conceived ofand produced a six-story art installationat Bryant Park, inspired by the permanentcollection of the Metropolitan Museum ofArt. This unprecedented multi-disciplinaryproject was presented in conjunction withthe Armory show and featured an excitinglineup of performance components andsound designs. She is venturing furtherinto the world of art as a consultant tocurate dance and performing arts programming at museums and galleries worldwide.As a visual designer and event producer,Ms. Kaplan specializes in press and medialaunches with top corporate clients and PRfirms including GolinHarris, Edelman, andPorter Novelli. Her recent projects includehigh-profile designs with the InternationalOlympics Committee, the McDonald’sMcRib launch in Times Square; a NickJonas superstar event at MTV; a GiulianaRancic celebrity event at the Four Seasonsin Beverly Hills; Dow Live Earth Run forWater at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers;and a book launch at Donna Karan’s UrbanZen. She worked with the Tate Modern inLondon as the visual designer and producerfor the Blue Planet Run and curated performances at the United Nations in New YorkCity. Additional consulting includes theRachel Ray Show and the McDonald’scampaign during the Beijing Olympics.As an artist, Ms. Kaplan is internationally renowned for producing and directingdance films. Her award-winning shorts havescreened at more than 100 festivals, museums, and venues worldwide, including NewDirectors/New Films at the Museum ofModern Art, Dance for Camera at LincolnCenter, and the World’s Fair in Lisbon,Portugal. She has also had screenings at theMetropolitan Museum of Art, the BrooklynMuseum of Art, and a retrospective at theSmithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, as wellas at DanzLenz in Delhi, India, where shealso taught intensive film workshops at theAsian Academy of Film and Television, andwas honored to receive a lifetime membership at this prestigious institution. Her workhas also been broadcast on PBS televisionand the Sundance Channel. Ms. Kaplan is amember of the Screen Actors Guild.From every corner of America, Jodi Kaplan, dance producer extraordinaire, has gatheredeclectic works and woven them into a recipe of pure enjoyment. Professional Americandance at the Fringe has been neglected of late but plans are afoot for this wonderfuldance ‘festival within a festival’ to return next year, and I for one will be sitting in rapturein the aisles.—threeweeks
Jazz at Lincoln CenterMs. Kaplan is currently collaboratingwith pioneer dance photographer LoisGreenfield on an international feature film,The 18th Parallel, exploring ritual danceand prayer around the world. They shotthe first segment in Western Australia andpresented a program at the Perth Instituteof Contemporary Art. Ms. Kaplan is alsocompleting her boxing/dance film In TheBlood, a creative collaboration with LoisGreenfield that recently previewed at theBienal de Danza de Cali in Colombia. Inaddition to her film work, she has traveledthe world as a photojournalist with CNNand Splash Magazines Worldwide.training includes intensive summer programs with Edward Villella at the EglevskyBallet. Ms. Kaplan holds a B.A. with highhonors in religion and philosophy fromSmith College (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.F.Ain film from Columbia University (honors indirecting), and a graduate diploma in international relations from Hebrew Universityin Jerusalem as a Wallenberg Scholar.Ms. Kaplan has been an artist-in-residencethree times at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs,New York, and a Fulbright Scholar in dancein Jamaica.Ms. Kaplan is a former dancer and choreographer and toured as a guest artist throughout Scotland, England, France, Portugal,Israel, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, andthe Caribbean. She was mentored bydance pioneer Pearl Primus and her balletJodi gracefully manages the delicatebalance between enthusiastic abandonand fierce tenacity when working forher clients.—Jeffrey Kazin, The Bang GroupJAQLIN MEDLOCK -VOLOSHKYJodiKaplan.comOur company has been showcasing at APAP for more than 30 years and I must say thatthis was the most pleasant and civilized showcase event. Your staff and volunteers werewonderful and the tech crew was very nice to work with. I especially appreciate how yourprogramming and ambiance brings an artful touch to an evening performance ratherthan showcases that can feel like cold business transactions.—Taras Lewyckyj PhDArtistic DirectorVoloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
Jazz at Lincoln CenterInternational BookingDance Festivals—Edinburgh, Beijing,LondonWe marked a special milestone in celebrating our success in bringing more than 50different dance companies from the USA toScotland over our seven years of producingBooking Dance “Festival-within-a Festival”at the Edinburgh Fringe in partnership theprestigious Edinburgh International Conference Centre! The participating artists havegarnered significant international recognition and secured extensive touring engagements and we applaud their achievements.We are excited about upcoming BookingDance Festivals coinciding with the Olympics bi-annually around the globe starting inBeijing 2022!The crowd screamed and applauded as if they were at a rock concert. And at a specialmatinee performance, a group of 20 children of migrant workers sat in a theater for thefirst time in their lives and saw what they have never seen before - modern dance.—Dance MagazineMost Olympic cultural events are a collection of famous faces sharing the spirit of international cooperation. However, one event straddles the line between entertainment andeducation, giving rising talents a chance to perform on the world’s biggest stage. A brainchild of Manhattan-based booking agent Jodi Kaplan, the annual Booking Dance Festivalgives high-quality, but underfunded U.S. dance troupes international exposure.—Time Out BeijingThe dance festival brought together some of the best dance companies from the US andChina and both delivered top-notch performances.—Metropolis MagazineSince 2008, Booking Dance has been staging their “festival within a festival” inEdinburgh. It’s an ambitious project that gives Fringe audiences a chance to sample afeast of American talent in one serving Producer Jodi Kaplan knows how to please, andher curatorial decision making is resolutely sound throughout.—Kelly Apter, The ScotsmanThis “festival within a festival” certainly provides a wide ranging programme; a danceencyclopaedia, if you like, for newcomers to dance.This production shows a forthcomingapproach to the form, what dance can be rather than what it is.—threeweeksThis show is like an excellent Tapas of theatrical arts and it allows you to sample differentideas whilst challenging your ideas—The Edinburgh Reporter
Jazz at Lincoln CenterJODI KAPLAN & ASSOCIATES /BOOKING DANCEDance is an underserved art form and Jodi Kaplan& Associates / Booking Dance is committed topromoting the best of it!APAP ATTENDEESVISIT US AT BOOTH 2110 HALL IILike us on Facebook: Booking Dance FestivalFollow Us on Instagram: @BookingDanceFestivalFollow us on Twitter: @Booking DanceSTAFFEva Kaplan, Artistic Advisor/Education DirectorNathan Tomlinson, Lighting Designer/TDDavid Vandervliet, Stage ManagerBritney Doyle, Front of House ManagerAllison Armfield, Artist Liaison/Social MediaLauren King, Museum Liaison/OutreachBianca Page Smith, Front of HouseEddy Wei & Claire Lane, Festival InternsCharles Dennis, VideographerJaqlin Medlock, PhotographerCaitlin Murray, Booking Dance Festival DesignerDaniel Stompor, Website DesignTHANK YOULois Greenfield for her significant and continued photography work with our artists.loisgreenfield.comLubell Media Partners for the extraordinary consulting and inspiration; we look forwardto working together in the future!Fran Kirmser for generously supporting our festival artists with development and NYCPress consultations. FranKirmser.comAnd the wonderful staff and production team of Jazz at Lincoln Center. And a specialthank you to tonight’s dancers and musicians for making the evening so magical.“BODY, SOUL, AND BUSINESS”–—Artist RetreatLaunches February 2021Inquiries at artists@bookingdance.comSAVE THE DATE: BOOKING DANCE FESTIVAL 2021—SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2021
South America on a 28-city tour of China performing the ballet Don Quixote with a cast of 30 dancers; in 2018 booked the shadow dance company CATAPULT on a 25-city tour of China; in 2017 a record breaking 31-city tour for FJK Dance; in 2016 a crowd pleasing 29-city/36-performance to
