A Year To Remember...
As 2021 comes to a close, what a year it has been! EMERGE125 has been gifted with so many incredible opportunities and we are extremely grateful to our staff, dancers, partners, donors, students, and community. Without you, none of this would be possible! We are looking forward to what this next year will bring! In the meantime, please enjoy some highlight moments from the past year...
Our very own Tiffany Rea-Fisher co-authored a piece with Justin Krebs as a response to former NYC Governor Cuomo's Arts Plan. Thank you to Tiffany for always leading the fight for the Arts in New York!
This virtual event premiered 8'46", a dance and music piece created by Tiffany and Daniela Bernard Roumain in response to George Floyd's murder.
The company performed and officially kicked off Mayor de Blasio's Open Culture program, an initiative to bring the arts back to NYC during the Covid19 pandemic.
We successfully had four company residences held in our second home, Lake Placid, NY for numerous projects and creations!
Our first LIVE performance since Covid located at Bryant Park. This performance showed us all how much we missed performing for a live audience and how the arts can impact our communities.
The company was hand selected by Nippon TV in Japan to represent the experience of working artists in New York City during the pandemic.
EMERGE125 received the IABD Influencers grant for $150,000 over the next three years. A huge opportunity and an honor to be the only female-run company in the cohort!
Our educational programming continued successfully during the pandemic and beyond with the Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts, Police Athletic League, Newcomb Central School and Kinetic Kinship Digital Dance Classes. The Lake Placid School of Dance had a successful virtual Recital and classes have resumed in-person this fall. All of our students have been working incredibly hard and we could not be more proud!
Our first ever virtual Gala was a hit AND we officially transitioned from Elisa Monte Dance to EMERGE125! What an incredible journey it has been and will continue to be!
Tiffany's new work for Dance Theatre of Harlem was awarded the National Dance Project grant! The work is currently in progress and set to premiere in Fall of 2022.
Our film, "Rights of Renaissance", premiered virtually at Harlem Stage. What a gift this was to share with so many through this digital platform!
Our FIRST performance as EMERGE125!! The company performed "Emerged Nation", "Tilted Arc", and an excerpt from "Rights of Renaissance" in Jamaica, Queens.
2021 marks the year that Juneteenth became a federal holiday and EMERGE125 was honored to be a part of the celebration in both NYC and Lake Placid, a tradition that we plan to continue in the future!
Another fabulous summer production and collaboration with the Classical Theatre of Harlem! Seize the King brought the arts BACK to NYC and was the NY Times Critic's Pick!
We were able to successfully bring our students in person and virtually to Lake Placid, NY for our Emerging Artist Summer Series! The students had an intense two weeks of dancing, town halls, movie nights, outings, and more.
The company performed alongside the Paul Taylor Dance Company for this year's Bryant Park Picnic Performances and lit the stage on fire! A huge thanks to Bank of America for live-streaming the event.
This year, Caitlyn Morgan and Mikayla Klein were promoted to company dancers and in the 2021/22 Season we gained Nikaio Thomashow and Tiffany Terry to the E125 family! Most recently, Alyssa Manginaro became our understudy!
EMERGE125 is excited to be a part of the The Flea Theater's new multi residency program, focusing on Black and Queer artists.
We were honored to be a part of this year's National Dance Day performance at The Little Island Dance Festival, co-curated by Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard.
On October 3rd, our very own Executive Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher spoke at a reception for NYC mayoral candidate, Eric Adams. Thank you, Tiffany for speaking on behalf of NYC artists!
Thank you for leaping into the future of EMERGE125 alongside us.
Thank you for your crucial support as we've built on this legacy to become a true hub for performance, creation, and education. We've grown accessible dance training to serve students throughout Harlem, the Bronx, and Lake Placid; we've created innovative, cross-disciplinary collaborations with leading artists; we've set a new industry standard for dancer care, and we continue to find ways to better engage with our local communities through dance.
None of this would have been possible without your partnership!
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