Mark DeGarmo Dance's Dance for Dance for Social Change

Mark DeGarmo Dance’s DANCE FOR DANCE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE 2023 Honors Dancer, Teacher, Director & Filmmaker Christine Dakin with its Inaugural “Dance Ambassador” Award 2023; & Returns In Person for the First Time in 3 Years on Thursday April 20th, 6:30-9:00 PM at St. Mary’s Church in NYC’s Lower East Side to Raise Awareness and Financial Support for its NYC Evidence-Based Public Elementary School Dance & Literacy Programs. Dancer, Choreographer, and Broadway Actor, Gelan Lambert Will Introduce Honoree Christine Dakin.

WHEN: Thursday, April 20th, 2023 6:30-9:00 PM
WHERE: St. Mary’s Church, 440 Grand Street east of Clinton Street, Grand Hall (lower level), New York, NY 10002.
TRAVEL: The site is one block south of Delancey Street and 3 blocks east of the subways at Delancey & Essex Streets. There is municipal parking on Essex St.

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Donations by Check: Dynamic Forms, Inc., 107 Suffolk Street, #310, New York, NY 10002
Mark DeGarmo Dance’s Dance for Dance for Social Change 2023 celebrates MDD’s 36th anniversary as a leading NYC not-for-profit dance organization. The evening promises to inspire, engage, and entertain on New York City’s Lower East Side. We will feature our 36-year commitment to bring impactful evidence-based dance education to disenfranchised and under-resourced communities, families, students, and public schools of Color across the city.
The evening will include food and beverages, a dance lesson and dancing to DJ Steve, performances, a silent auction, and a chance to contribute to MDD’s programs. We will honor esteemed dancer, teacher, director, filmmaker Christine Dakin with MDD’s Inaugural “Dance Ambassador” Award 2023 for her local and global commitment to dance, education, and to humanity’s future generations in the USA and internationally. We will welcome Gelan Lambert, dancer, choreographer, and Broadway actor, as a Guest Presenter.

Dance for Dance for Social Change is Mark DeGarmo Dance’s annual Lower East Side, New York City community celebration that raises awareness and critical funds to support MDD’s vision, mission, core values and 13 programs. MDD’s long-standing tripart mission integrates education, performance, and intercultural community-building through dance arts. MDD’s impacts last year included reaching up to 5m people across all outreach, programs, and activities.
Mark DeGarmo Dance uses dance to engage and empower New York City students through performance and education. President Barack Obama commended DeGarmo and Mark DeGarmo Dance for “your service to your communities and the nation.” MDD’s evidence-based NYC dance education program, Partnerships in Literacy through Dance and Creativity©, was heralded as “a national model” by the National Endowment for the Arts. Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer designated Nov. 17, 2017 as “Mark DeGarmo Dance Day in Manhattan.” Miss America 2019 Nia Imani Franklin endorsed MDD’s education programs and accepted MDD’s Arts Education Advocacy Award 2019.
ABOUT CHRISTINE DAKIN
Christine Dakin, dancer, teacher, director, filmmaker, for four decades performing, teaching, creating dance from Siberia to the Americas, Australia to Europe, collaborating with artists and scholars. She was principal dancer and Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, honored to receive the Dance Magazine Award, a “Bessie” and Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship. A decade at the Juilliard School, she is currently faculty at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and the Ailey School.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Dakin

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ABOUT GELAN LAMBERT
Gelan Lambert is a 2022 recipient of the Drama Desk Award for Choreography for Paradise Square Broadway. Choreographer of The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Public Theater’s “Antony & Cleopatra”. Performance credits: Broadway/Nigeria/World Tour FELA!, playing the role of JK (rhythm tapper)/Ogungun; described by Ben Brantley of the New York Times as “the brilliant, tap dance artist suigeneris” ,The Martha Graham Dance Company, Sean Curran Company, Fosse (1st National Tour). He is a graduate of The Juilliard School BFA in dance, where he was awarded The Martha Hill Prize. His awards and honors are: Young Arts-1st Place, Presidential Scholar for the Arts, National Society of Arts and Letters-1st Place and a Jerome Foundation Fellow to Ghana, West Africa. And was awarded the Key to the City of North Miami in 2013. A principal artist and assistant to Reginald Yates.

ABOUT DANCE FOR DANCE’s HONOREES
Mark DeGarmo Dance has honored over the past 11 years leading USA and global artists, educators, scholars, activists, and outstanding citizens concerned for the well-being of the USA and other world democracies and nations via the equitable education and access to the cultural arts of their citizens. “Educational Visionary” Lifetime Achievement Awardees have included educational theorist and social activist Maxine Green (2013); film actress, writer, director, and Co-Founder of The Living Theatre Judith Malina (2014); classical ballet dancers, choreographers and teachers Oleg Briansky and Mireille Brianne (2015); dance author, critic, and educator Deborah Jowitt (2016); dancer, choreographer, and dance educator Patricia Aulestia (2017); Inaugural “Arts Education Advocate” Awardee opera singer, composer, arts education advocate, and Miss America 2019, Nia Imani Franklin; and Inaugural “Dance Ambassador” Awardee dancer, teacher, director, filmmaker Christine Dakin (2023).

ABOUT MARK DeGARMO DANCE
Founded in 1987, Mark DeGarmo Dance is a nonprofit organization working from Studio Theater 310 at The Clemente Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side since 2001 that educates New York City communities and children; creates, performs, and disseminates original artistic and scholarly work; and builds intercultural community through dance arts. MDD commits its resources to serving anti-racism, social justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and sovereignty across multiple fronts through dance arts in NYC, USA, and internationally.
ABOUT MARK DeGARMO
Mark DeGarmo, PhD, BFA is a New York City-based transcultural transdisciplinary dancer/performer, choreographer, writer, researcher, and Founder, Executive & Artistic Director of Mark DeGarmo Dance. Honors and awards include Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship (Peru), Martha Hill Dance Fund Mid-Career Award (USA), USA Department of State American Cultural Specialist Award (Ecuador), and The White House Millennium Artist Program supported by The National Endowment for the Arts (USA).

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Our programs are supported, in part, by private funds from Amazon Smile, Jody and John Arnhold, Francis & Benjamin Benenson Foundation, The Benevity Community Impact Fund, Bernheim Foundation,
The Cashin Family Fund, Pamela and Dawn Deardon, Lindley DeGarmo & Sarah Finlayson Charitable Trust, Marianne Egri and David Thomas, Friends of Mark DeGarmo Dance, Goldman Sachs, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Hershkowitz Family Giving Fund, Andrew & Ellen Jenkins Charitable Trust, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, The Ruth & Seymour Klein Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Network for Good; and by public funds from National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera, District 2, Manhattan; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York City Department of Education; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.