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Meet the artists and choreographers for CounterPointe 2018
This Spring, Norte Maar brings forth CounterPointe 6, a collaboration between seven female dance makers and seven female visual artists. Meet the artists involved.
Watch Ashley Bouder, principal dancer with NYCB, deliver inspiring statement about women in the dance world.
It was our distinct pleasure to have Ashley Bouder, principal dancer of New York City Ballet, join our growing list of dance luminaries that have included Karole Armitage, Antonia Franceschi, Claudia Jeschke, Kat Wildish, Gabrielle Lamb, and Kathryn Posin, lead a talk back with choreographers and their collaborating artists following the Saturday, April 8 performance of CounterPointe. Watch her introductory statement here!
NM Announces the collaborative ballet line up for CounterPointe 2016
This Spring Norte Maar's 4th Annual CounterPointe Series is all about collaboration with the work of seven female dance makers paired with seven visual artists on stage April 8-10 in downtown Brooklyn's Actors Fund Arts Center.
Call for women choreographers for 4th annual CounterPointe
Norte Maar announces a call for choreographers for its 4th Season of CounterPointe
NM's CounterPointe returns: new choreography by women for pointe
Coming this April, Norte Maar in collaboration with Brooklyn Ballet presents CounterPointe, the annual curated performance series featuring women choreographers making new work on pointe. CounterPointe is an annual performance series dedicated to presenting the latest experimental, innovative, risk-taking choreography that shows a depth of investment in ballet by women dance makers working with the pointe shoe. Investigating new and old territory the series highlights new work, opening up discussion, and creating a forum for women, young or old, emerging or established, to take risks.
NM announces call for CounterPointe3!
Norte Maar in collaboration with Brooklyn Ballet opens a call for CounterPointe3 the returning performing series featuring emerging and established women choreographers making new work for pointe.
To be a Lady... extended through March 22.
Due to the overwhelming public response to this exhibition, Norte Maar in collaboration with 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, is pleased to announce the extension of this historic show, To be a Lady: forty-five women in the arts, through March 22, 2013.1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery1285 Avenue of the Americas (btwn 51st+52nd Str), New YorkDirections: B/D/F/M to 47-50 Strs/Rockefeller Ctr, B/D/E to 7th Ave, 1 to 50th StrHours / Admission: Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm / Free
To be a Lady: an exhibition featuring forty-five women in the arts.
NEW YORK CITY, September 2012--Norte Maar and the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery announce the exhibition To be a Lady: Forty-Five Women in the Arts, on view at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery from September 24, 2012 through January 18, 2013. A reception, open to the public, will be held on Monday, September 24 from 6-8pm.Curator Jason Andrew brings together forty-five artists born over the last century who happen to be women. Striking examples by historic protagonists, Alma Thomas, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Lenore Tawney, Louise Bourgeois and Grace Hartigan set the stage for an exhibition designed to challenge and reshape the meaning of the word lady.