Dance Now Viewing Party, DFD Turns 5, and Meet the Inagural Class of DFD Mentees!

Dance Now
Virtual Viewing Party

Njeri Rutherford in A Little Power Inside and Between

​SEE THE FALL ON-DEMAND PROGRAM PERFORMANCES
Featuring short dance works by The Davis Sisters, Davalois Fearon, Paul Singh, Rourou Ye, Audrey MacLean, and The Bang Group.

Join us for a virtual viewing party on November 4th!

For $15.00, you’ll receive access to all the above works, or for $50.00 you can view the entire season, including the Winter and Spring On-Demand Programs and the in-person DN Family Reunion. Proceeds directly support the artists.

More info coming soon!
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DFD Birthday Benefit

Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Argenis Apolinario; Andrew Lee; Nan Melville courtesy of the artist and Rossi & Rossi Gallery; Anya Kress; Jasmine Murrell; Argenis Apolinario⁠

SAVE THE DATE! Join us Wednesday, November 17, 2021, at 6 pm for the DFD 5 year anniversary celebration. Hosted by the Davalois Fearon Dance Team via our Virtual Theatre this birthday party event will feature excerpts of select works, giveaways, dance party, and more! You can register for a DFD Birthday celebration here.

Mentorship Program
Meet the Inaugural Group!

INTRODUCING the first class of DFD mentees!!
Read more about this incredible group on our website

The Davalois Fearon Dance (DFD) Arts & Social Justice program is designed for college students and recent graduates to develop the community, resources, and skills necessary to navigate and combat racial and social justice issues in the field of dance. The 3-month pilot program will be for an invited cohort. It is designed to give participants an overview of race-related to the dance world and academia, the business side of dance, and arts and social justice best practices.  As a part of this program, students will directly interface with DFD’s social justice initiative, Time to Talk Initiative, which in conjunction with the choreographic work, provides the community with resources and ways to take immediate and long-term action. ​

THANK YOU FOR COMING!!

Photo by Tony Turner

What an amazing event!! A HUGE thank you to Davalois Fearon, Ayanna Heaven, Mike McGinnis, Ryan Greenidge, Agyei Philip, Rasaan Green, and Careitha Davis for contributing their talent, creativity, time, and energy to bring this event to the community! Thank you to the Stephen Petronio Company for commissioning Finding Herstory and PLG Arts for presenting Finding Herstory. We also want to recognize and thank Davalois Fearon, Anya Kress, Tess Montoya and Njeri Rutherford of DFD and Rina Kleege and Hollis Headrick of PLG Arts for collaboratively producing and managing Music and Dance at Parkside Plaza from start to finish! Thank you to the Green Arts for providing production support, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Tony Turner for documentation, and to all of our funders and supporters who made this event possible!

We are so grateful to everyone who came out and danced with us! Thank you to our audience plants, Careitha Davis, Caleb Dowden, Danion Lewis, and Tess Montoya for helping to get our community dancing together! Shout out to our lovely and supportive Pentacle friends who showed out! And to the amazing human who spontaneously stepped up to help keep the flow of the show going! You are all the reason we do what we do!

What's Next:

Dance Now Fall On-Demand Viewing Party
November 4, 2021 at 7PM EST
$15.00 for the Fall program, or $50.00 for the entire season
All available works will be captioned
More details here

DFD Turns 5 - Virtual Birthday Celebration
Wednesday, November 18th @ 6pm
Join us for excerpts of select works, giveaways, a dance party, and more!
​Register via the Virtual Theater

Four Artists’ Movement Through Time:
A Pentacle Legacy Conversation
Monday, November 29th
7:00pm-7:45pm
RSVP for the FREE online event here
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DFD Commission Initiative - Virtual Premiere
12/3 Details coming soon!

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COVID-19 is still here

DFD, along with everyone else, has been affected by the coronavirus. We have been to pooling our resources together to stay afloat, and help the dance community and society. Here are some ways you can help! 
 
Help DFD: Become a monthly Davalois Fearon Dance donor or make a one-time donation here. 

Donate Blood: The New York Blood Center is still in urgent need of blood donations. You can learn more and sign up to donate here.

Get tested: Look up your local testing availability and get tested to help stop the spread!
NYC Vaccinations
NYC Testing
NYC Antibody Testing
NYC Testing and Tracing

Reach out to us with other ways in which you are helping out your local community. We would love to hear what you are doing, to continue pooling these ideas and get as many people helping as possible!