The New York Jazz Choreography Project at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
On Sunday, February 9, 2014, Jazz
Choreography Enterprises (JCE) took the New York Jazz Choreography Project to
the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House as part of the Second Sundays Performance
Series. The series provides high quality, affordable live performances for the
community served by the Neighborhood House on the Upper East Side and Roosevelt
Island, though all are welcome to attend.
For this program, JCE Artistic
Directors Marian Hyun and Merete Muenter assembled a group of choreographers
from their previous shows:
Jessica Black
Tony Fraser and Jaime Shannon
Marian Hyun
Joyce King
Christopher Liddell
Luigi
Cat Manturuk
Sue Samuels
Alan Spaulding
The Jazz Project was held in the
auditorium at the Neighborhood House at 331 East 70th Street. The
performance was an hour long, and there were 12 pieces in a variety of jazz
dance genres, including swing, musical theater, and contemporary. Following the
performance, there was a question and answer session in which audience members
could ask the dancers and choreographers about their work.
This performance was well attended
and enthusiastically received by the audience members, many of whom are on
fixed incomes or are low-wage earners. Thanks to a generous grant from the MCC
Community Benefit Festival Grant Project and the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce,
JCE was able to pay its choreographers for their wonderful work, which was
enjoyed by many who might not otherwise be able to afford to attend a live
performance. We at JCE are grateful to MCC for giving us the opportunity to
keep jazz thriving in our community!
This program was made possible
in part by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.
All of JCE's programs are made possible in part by contributions from
its corporate sponsors, the Long Island Development Corporation and Salon Ishi.
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