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Excellence Showcased at the 24th Annual Mayor's Arts Awards
Excellence Showcased at the 24th Annual Mayor's Arts Awards
By Larry Saxton
WASHINGTON INFORMER Staff Writer
Thursday, 26 March 2009 08:33
The 24th Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards held in the concert hall at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts began with a performance of “The Drum Unites Us” composed and arranged by Ulysses Owens, Jr. and choreographed by C. Brian Williams and Jakari Sherman. This dance and musical arrangement gave the audience a glimpse of just how international the arts scene is here in Washington, DC: the Washington Korean Dance Company, the O’Neill-James Irish Steppers, the Silk Road Dance Company, Step Afrika, Urban Artistry, and Beat Ya Feet Kings all dancing to the beat of the African drumming by KanKouran West African Dance Company and the Caribbean sound of the Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Band. Culminating the program was a rap song, “Welcome to DC,” by DC’s own Mambo Sauce as young people from City of Peace DC held up signs from every DC neighborhood, made by the Barry Farms Youth Arts Council.
The Mayors’s Arts Awards are the highest honor conferred by the District of Columbia on DC artists, arts organizations, and arts patrons who have demonstrated excellence in their area of expertise.(click on link for more)
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Fancy Feat: The Metro DC Dance Awards
by Lisa Traiger
''The opening quartet of companies, neatly tied together by Helanius Wilkins's direction, featured 11 brilliantly costumed dancers of the Silk Road Dance Company in ''Raqs-i-Peri,'' a traditional Persian dance about fairylike creatures whose undulating arms, torsos and hips enchant mortals.''
See complete review at this link:
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PRESS RELEASE: Dance Concert Celebrates Bollywood
June 20, 2009, 8:00 PM
Harmony Hall Regional Center
10701 Livingston Road
Fort Washington, Maryland
Tickets: $20 general admission;
$15 students, seniors, and groups.
Order by phone: 301-203-6040
Dance Concert Celebrates Bollywood
Fort Washington, MD. All the color and glitter of the Indian film industry will light up Harmony Hall on Saturday, June 20, at 8 PM, at the ''Hooray for Bollywood'' dance concert. The evening performance, presented by Silk Road Dance Company and guest artists, will pay homage to the vibrant dance sequences so popular in Indian movies like the recent Academy Award winning film ''Slumdog Millionnaire.''
The evening program will visit some of the subjects most common in Indian film choreographies, depicting a variety of human emotions and experiences -- from flirtatious and funny to poignant and touching, from spiritual and devotional, to joyous and uplifting. Richly costumed, the dances feature music from beloved films like ''Lagaan,'' ''Asoka,'' ''Bombay,'' ''Bride and Prejudice'' and others.
Silk Road Dance Company will be joined by guest artists Jayantee Payne and Ahmad Maaty and members of Ensemble Mumtaz and the Good Karma Bollywood Dance Team. Highlights will include a Rajastani folk dance, a visit to a magical temple, a romantic boat ride, a candlelight ritual and -- of course -- a wedding party.
The term ''Bollywood'' refers to India's enormous film industry that is located in Bombay (now known as ''Mumbai.'') Al
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Silk Road Dance Company Article in the DC Examiner
‘Axis of Evil’ dancers come to D.C. cultural ground zero
Nov 20, 2007 by Harry Jaffe
The DC Examiner
WASHINGTON - I’m not sure where President George Bush was noon last Wednesday, but I do know where he should have been — watching lovely women performing seductive, might I say entrancing, dances from the part of the world he keeps threatening.
Dressed in flowing silk dresses, flickering with sequins, ringing with tiny bells, the dancers stooped and twirled and mimicked the making of silk in their native lands in and around Persia — what we now call Iran.
“We call ourselves the ‘Axis of Evil’ dance company,” artistic director Laurel Victoria Gray told the noontime crowd that had come to see her troupe. Around 150 people sat in the brand new Sidney Harman Center on F Street for the first Happenings at the Harman.
Laurel Gray was joking, of course. Gray’s group is the Silk Road Dance Ensemble, an award-winning, tiny company based in Washington. But her dancers do perform pieces from lands along the ancient Silk Road, from China to Europe. These lands might be better called Bloody Road these days; they cut through Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq.
All joking aside, the dance ensemble’s appearance last week at the Harmon was a sort of cultural explosion in downtown Washington, thanks to the expanded Shakespeare Theatre. Last month, the theater company opened its new Harman Center for the Arts, around the corner from its original Lansburgh Theatre. This month
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Silk Road Dance Company at the Annual Turkish Festival
Turkish Delights
October 6, 2008
Silk Road Dance Company at the Annual Turkish Festival
Photo by Nick Gingold
from the George Washington University Hatchet
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Silk Road Dance Company to Perform at the Annual Turkish Festival
October 4, 2008
Silk Road Dance Company to Perform at the Annual Turkish Festival
FESTIVAL: The Annual Turkish Festival Turkish coffee. That's what drew our attention to this family festival celebrating dance, music, art and, yes, the coffee culture of Turkey. Set for tomorrow at Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, the festival will feature a Turkish coffeehouse; a bazaar with scarves, shawls and jewelry; performances by the Silk Road Dance Company and the Balkanics and more. Nosh on kebabs and pastries, and if you drink at the coffeehouse, fortunetellers will even read your coffee grinds for a glimpse of your future. Free. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Freedom Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 13th and 14th streets. http://www.turkishfestival.org.
Washington Post Excerpt
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Washington Times Spotlights Legends of the Silk Road
Spetember 28, 2008
Fall '08: Varied fare from smaller troupes
The Washington Times spotlighted Silk Road Dance Company's fall premiere of Legends of the Silk Road in a preview of upcoming concerts for the 2008 Fall dance season.
Washington Times
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