ARTPORT KINGSTON | PERFORMANCE SERIES x MAXINE STEINMAN
Presented in the Garden of Delights exhibition, dancer/choreographer Maxine Steinman will present a solo dance work entitled “Carmelita: Spring Emergence.”
The solo work will be performed by dancer Sierra Christine Sanders (@sierra.christine).
The performance is approximately 15 minutes in length and will be presented twice throughout the day on Saturday, July 5th: first at 1PM and again at 3PM, during the exhibition’s open hours.
Join us for the special performance activating the Garden of Delights!
ABOUT THE ARTIST(S)
Maxine Steinman has presented her choreography in festivals and venues such as Joyce Soho, The 92ndStreet Y Harkness Dance Festival, Westfest Dance Festival, the American Dance Guild Festival, DUMBO, Battery Dance Festival, Outlet Dance Festival and others. She has traveled to Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Lebanon and Cyprus to teach, choreograph, and perform her work. Jack Anderson and Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times have called her choreography “ingenious” and a “jewel” and twice she was awarded grants from the O'Donnell-Green Foundation for Music and Dance. Maxine has also received grants from Dance New Jersey and New Jersey State Council for the Arts. She is currently Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the BFA Dance Division at Montclair State University and holds an MA (Teachers College Columbia University), and an MFA (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
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Sierra Christine Sanders
Born and raised in Montclair New Jersey, I'm a passionate artist continuing the legacy of American Modern dance through Performance & Education. With training in West African Dance & Tap from a very young age, rhythmic movement is the very foundation of my love for the personification of sound through dance. A product of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Youth Artist Institute as well as Montclair State University, I studied extensively in Horton and Limón . As a member of Graham 2, I received my Teacher's Certification in the Graham Technique from the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. As an African American woman, it is an honor to continue representation, share my artistry through performance and education in the American Modern Dance community. I am grateful to continue to cultivate my God's manifestation in me through the Arts.