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The Jamaica Dance Festival – Night 3 of 4
June 19, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free
The legacy of dance in Jamaica, Queens is rich. In celebration of this rich legacy – and its dynamic future – A Better Jamaica is pleased to present The Jamaica Dance Festival 2021.
This year’s festival will span four Saturdays — June 5th, June 12th, June 19th and June 26th. Each Saturday evening experience will begin at 7:00 pm and will end sometime between 8:30 pm and 9:00 pm.
The festival’s 2nd installment, June 12th, was as brilliant as the first. Many thanks to the Jamal Jackson Dance Company, the Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company, and the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. Here is what’s up next. Hope to see you in the park!
June 19th:
McKoy Dance Project II MDP
Jacqui M. Dugal
Frankie Martinez
Alicia C. Dellimore
Navatman Dance Company
As with the previous festivals, The Jamaica Dance Festival 2021 will take place in Rufus King Park — 150-29 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica, NY 11435.
The festival is free and open to the public. All are welcome! Bring a chair/blanket. Wear a mask.
McKoy Dance Project II MDP
McKoy Dance Project || MDP was founded in 2019 by Founder & Executive Artistic Director, Derick McKoy, Jr. In order to mirror the experiences we live through today, MDP’s mission is to empower one another and marginalized communities by blending together authentic stories, arts programming, and accessible events to strengthen community relationships and support systems. It is important to us that we foster connection and healing by diving head-first into works that are sensitive and conscious of the inequities and trauma built into our society.
Website: http://www.mckoydanceproject.org
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mckoydanceproject
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mckoydanceproject
Jacqui M. Dugal
Jacqui M. Dugal (they/them) is a NYC based Artist, Choreographer, Producer from West Palm Beach, Florida with a BFA in Dance Performance and Entrepreneurship from The University of South Florida. They believe that art is transformative, healing, essential, and can be a powerful vehicle for deepening understanding, social justice, and effective change. In New York City they self-produce choreographic work as Dugal Dance Projects, engage in amateur pottery, and is an active member of Collect 8 a movement based artist collective in NYC. In addition to working as Program Coordinator for Mare NostrumElements Emerging Choreographer Series and Assistant Director for NuVu Dance Festival, they serve as Vice-chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Council for Moulin Belle in France. Past performance credits include Company XIV, VonHoward Project, De Funes Dance, Roschman Dance, Michiyaya, and Impact Movement.
Their choreographic work has been produced in theatres and public spaces, and often in collaboration with visual arts, theatre, and immersive creators. Recent commissions include Queens Council on the Arts and The International Human Rights Arts Festival. Jacqui is a strategic problem solver with experience in non-profit arts administration including space operations, studio leasing, production management, program design and artist services. They have experience in developing and operating artist work space as former Operations Program Manager at Spaceworks NYC and currently are Operations Consultant for The Clemente in LES.
Website: https://www.dugaldance.com
Frankie Martinez
Frankie Martinez is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and progressive Latin dancers of his generation. His exploration into the Afro-Caribbean roots of performance art, as well as the choreographic possibilities native to Latin/Afro-Latin dance, positions him as one of the foremost authorities in the genre.
In 2000, Frankie established the Abakuá Afro-Latin Dance Company. Within months of its inception, Abakuá gained notoriety within the Latin dance community and ultimately, the performing arts community at large.
Frankie is also the founder of the Afro Latin Funk Method, a concept which answers the question, “What would Latin dance be if a disciplined training method were applied?” Renowned for his work as a dancer, choreographer, and educator, Frankie continues to dedicate himself towards the elevation of Afro-Latin dance and to its recognition as a legitimate art form.
Website: https://www.afrolatinfunk.dance
Alicia C. Dellimore
Alicia C. Dellimore is an evolved dance artist, massage therapist, personal trainer, and Pilates and yoga instructor. Her mission is to guide her followers through thought provoking movement, form corrective exercises & manipulations, posture stabilizing alignment, and an empowered meditative flow.
Dance has served Alicia as an anchor – a grounding medium that blossomed the passions of yoga, fitness, nutrition, and energy healing. Alicia found her artistic voice once introduced to dance improvisation and composition. Once concerned to perform the “right” way, for the “right” reasons, for “right” people, Alicia practices to let go of other’s limitations and truths by listening to her inner voice. In both career and life, she’s guided by following her desires.
Website: https://www.aliciadellimore.com
Navatman Dance
Navatman Dance, led by artistic director Sahasra Sambamoorthi, is a bharatanatyam dance company based in New York City whose mission is to bring extraordinary, boundary-pushing productions to the stage, making Indian classical dance more accessible to understand and experience without removing the beauties of tradition and history that the style has developed from.
Website: https://www.navatman.org
