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Winter 2024-August 2024 (PC Mariah Karson). CCBdance Project at Links Hall in 2007.
July 24-27th Cartographies of Movement in Buenos Aires. Dance Studies Association presentation of "Cycles of Growth" screen dance made with Lacina Coulibaly and Jessica Ray to be shown at the Dance Studies Association with a presentation on process.
July 15th-18th IFTR Performance as Research Group sharing of methods in improvisation drawn from two solo works dating 15 years apart in relation to Jewish and African diasporic practices and identities.
June 14th, 15th work "The Stil, The Fleeting" in performance lab 1 with Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts will be shown in Dance Studio 1 theater.
Revised work on La Lune (drafts winter into summer), solo with dramaturgie by Lacina Coulibaly. Music to be announced.
Move to HK January 2023. #jewishgirlsinHK, #screendance #interculturalism #par #dancemaking #improvisation
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Fall 2023
October 5-7 Texas Dance and Improvisation Festival at Texas Women's University-Teacher
Rhythm, Texture, Flow This workshop will explore a layered set of questions that dive deep into swimming with rhythmic patterning, the textures of memory, and finding flows. We will ask questions about moving deeply into nuances occurring at the same time and then also of rupture and slippage. The material will begin with guided work that delves into meditative spaces and then moves into more structural groundedness-Participants will find space to “flow” with each other and separately into accumulations that connect rhythm, texture and flow. Teaching 6th and 7th.
Work on book projects-Movement Research
-selection of the screen dance Cycles of Growth for the Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions, screening September 18th-2nd of October,UK.
-semi-finalist Cycles of Growth for International Moving Film Festival, Iran Nov 21st.
-2+U Shunpike time based artist in residence. Movement research for solo work about Jewish Girls and the moons, current title La Lune.
photo of celia bambara at the silveroom during their block party in a site-adaptive work 2010, Chicago.
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Spring/Summer 2023
-Lacina Coulibaly Residency at CCA in partnership with the CCBdance Project April dates- 12th -15th
Master Class-April 13th in Improvisation at Cornish College of the ArtsOpen to all in the program 1:35-2-55 pm during Somatics, Improvisation, and Healing practice led course at Cornish College of the Arts.
-April 14th 7-8 pm at Art Wall at Cornish College Of the Arts with Celia, Lacina and students site-adaptive scores
-May 3rd at 4pm at Kerry Hall at Cornish College of the Arts will be shown in the afternoon after showings-site adaptive.This will be with Celia and students.
-April 13th Guest Lecture at Yale- Dr. Celia Weiss Bambara will lecture on improvisation and Africanisms in Haiti and the Diaspora.
-BASE Experimental Residency for CCBdance Project May 29th -June 4th
Thursday 1st June evening showing 6 pm
Master Class with Lacina Coulibaly at the MCC May 30th 3-5 pm
This showing will include three screen dances and movement research for a solo and trio project. Residency activities at Cornish College of the Arts and Base Experimental are partially supported by 2022-23 Faculty Development Grant and are in partnership with the Dance Program at Cornish College of the Arts and the CCBdance Project.
#interculturalism residencies contemporary dance improvisation grants#guest lecture#africanist aesthetics improvisation social justice improvisation#experimental art Jewishgirls
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Film Still- “Cycles of Growth” (2022) Lacina Coulibaly and Celia Weiss Bambara in collaboration with David Zoungrana and Jessica Ray.
#african contemporary screen dance listening interculturalism#improvisation scores practiceasresearch
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Summer and Fall 2022
-December 2022, official selection of Cycles of Growth (2022) at Better Earth International Film Festival in categories of performance and experimental short. December 12th showing as an award winner.
-December 2022, official selection of Cycles of Growth (2022) at the Amsterdam Freedom Independent IFF in the category of best experimental short.
-November 18th, 19th showing of new work “Flows” on Cornish Dance Theater with musical composition by Jon Butler in collaboration with students. Show produced and curated by Celia Bambara at the Cornish Playhouse.
-November 3rd official selection of Cycles of Growth (2022) screen dance by Madras Independent Film Festival (Chennai, India).
-October 21st site-adaptive of Flows for CDT at the Benke Gallery with Cornish Dance Theater at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. 12:30-1:30 pm.
-DSA (Dance Studies Association) October 18-22 at Simon Frasier University, “Jewish Choreographers Panel- Practice as Research into Social Activism” with Jessica Roseman and Kristen Smiarowski. Pre-formed panel.
-post production for dance film Lacina Coulibaly, Jessica Ray and Celia Weiss Bambara, “Cycles of Growth” (2022)
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Dance film production Spring 2022 with Celia Weiss Bambara, Lacina Coulibaly, Jessica Ray and Mr. Brown in West Baltimore.
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Visiting Oshun Movement Research With Coppin State University Students with Dr. Celia Weiss Bambara PC CBambara CCBdance Project
-Thank you MSAC for your support in Maryland. Please see http://msac.org/directory/artists/celia-bambara
-This is the 16th year for the CCBdance Project. Celia Weiss Bambara became solo director of the company in 2012 carrying on the work begun with co-founder Christian Bambara during his illness. During this ten year period the company taught and performed in Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, France, Germany, North Carolina, New York, California, Maryland, and Michigan. In 2015, the CCBdance Project became a non-profit in the Ivory Coast as well as a fiscally sponsored entity in the United States. Celia created site dance work, installations, dance films, improvisations, work with students and large scale solo and small ensemble pieces. This spring, celebrating this spirit of resilience and regeneration we will show repertory dance work at Coppin State University in Baltimore and site dance or dance film created by students at Coppin and possible visiting artists. We will also create a new dance film with collaborators and students and some movement research/improvisation as an installation in a parking lot West Baltimore.
May 4th- Showing of student dance work and work set on students, “Let it Flow-Let it Grow” by Cbambara.
May 6th- Studio showing of student work and screening of “Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres” movement research for the solo “Steppin Up.” Co-sponsored by the Title IX Office at Coppin State University.
-Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres Screen Dance is a semi-finalist for the Sydney Indie Short Film Festival.
-Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres Screen is a semi-finalist for the Dubai Independent Film Festival.
-Screen Dance blue, green is selected by the Toronto International Women Film Festival.
April 27th- Dialogue on Improvisation-From Tradition to Contemporary with Lacina Coulibaly. Virtual event co-sponsored by the CCBdance Project 10 am -11 am.
-Screen dance production with collaborators Lacina Coulibaly, Jessica Ray, Jerry Brown, and Coppin Dance Students at CSU as part of DANC 426. Spring production of a dance film with collaborators Lacina Coulibaly and Jessica Ray with Coppin Students.
March 28th-Workshop on African Dance with Lacina Coulibaly co-sponsored by the CCBdance Project. Virtual event through CSU.
March 30th-Performance of student work in library quad and site-dance work set on students by Bambara (in process).
February 4th Screening of Je Te Souhaites Du Bien at Apres, at Screen Dance Istanbul/Dance Camera Pandemania. Official selection.
With gratitude!
-An improvisational installation and dialogue about improvisation may also be improvisationaly made possible.
#msac#interculturalism feminism HBCU resilience sitedance production#dance film screen dance collaboration accumulated improvisations intercultural dialogue
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Film still from blue, green screen dance, press photo 2013 CCBdance Project
Summer and Fall 2021
Informal screening of dance films and CCBdance Project Dance Work in Baltimore Spring 2022.
-October-November Visiting Oshun -Informal Community Site Dance Performances with Coppin Students details to be announced separately on Coppin Social Media through Dance 425, December 3rd showing of “Visiting Oshun” community dance.
-November 19-21 November Body IQ- Somatics Festival in Berlin, Germany, Screening of Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres...-Screening, academic paper delivery on the research process for the movement scores in the film.
-October 28th Curated Virtual Dialogue “African Diasporic Experimental Art- Interdisciplinary Process and Praxis” Through Coppin State University with Helanius Wilkins, Julie Iarisoa, and Jamal Moore. Dance Program and Humanities Department.
-October 14-17 Dance Studies Association screening of Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres on Friday the 15th and Saturday 16th 7:30-9:00-Screendance Screening.
-October 11 Curated dialogue with “Cynthia Oliver and Collaborators- Dance Making and Process”. Virtual dialogue through Coppin State University Dance Program and Humanities Department. 11 am to 12 pm EST.
-October 6-7 Martha’s Vineyard African American Virtual Film Festival. Screening of “Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres”
-June 16th Virtual Showing of 30 minute solo, who fears not death (2021) original sound score by Kimathi Moore. Production and lighting design part of Northern Michigan University’s Couch Show. Lighting design by Dan Zini.
-June 10 Finalist for the Vancouver Independent Film Festival Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres (2020)
-May 21 Screening and Dance Premiere of dance films blue, green (2021), Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres (2020), and excerpt of solo who fears not death (2021) in Marquette, Mi.
#interculturalism#ccbdanceproject Jewish Dance African Dance Contemporary social justice#somatics#praxis#process practice as research
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Spring 2021-News, Updates, Premiers- We are in our 15th Year-
Film Stills-2020. Yacouba Badolo,Celia Bambara, Kayla Hamilton “Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres”
- April 27th BCPS (Baltimore County Public Schools) Virtual Dance Festival, Masterclass in Contemporary Dance For High School Students. Outreach for Coppin State University.
-February 11th Guest Class with Northern Michigan Universitys’ Choir on Performing with the Body and Opening the Body to Sound and Movement.
-Premier of Dance Film and Dialogue About Process February 26th through Coppin State University at 3pm. Link to Film Premier Here
Moderated by Dr. Edwin Hill Professor of French and Francophone Studies, American Studies and Ethnic Studies, USC
-Official selection of Montreal Independent Film Festival, Screening April 20th.
-Completion of blue, green dance film with Loren Earle and Kima Moore.
- Final musical composition production for Who Fears Not Death solo with musician Kimathi Moore.Two versions are being created a 20 minute version with and a 30 minute version with tire props and mise-en-scene.
-Premiere and Informal sharing of two dance films and solo dance work in excerpt. May 21st at 8 pm in a private beach location in Marquette, MI. Invite only for up to 30 people.
Please see trailer below-”Je Te Souhaites Du Bien et Apres...Is This What We are Looking For?”
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Inherited Dreams #1 at INSAAC Abidjan, 2013 With Tche Tche member Flavienne Lago
Je Te Souhaites Du Bien ET Après…Is This What We Are Looking For?Choreography/Direction: Celia Weiss Bambara
Collaborators: Movement: Kayla Hamilton, Yacouba Badolo Videography: Jessica Ray, Ashli Bickford, Loren Earle Original Composition: Abou Bassa, Kimathi MooreVideo Editing: Jessica Ray
This work draws upon scores for an evening length work of the same title. Dance artists Jean-Luc Okou and Momar Ndiaye have assisted in the research process for this work as collaborators.
This contemporary dance project engages the thematic materials of how we treat others in society and suggests perhaps other ways of intertwining our worlds. Very often we say how we wish people well but turn a blind eye to their plight or to the lives of others in general. This work suggests then a way of seeing, hearing and speaking differently so as to break apart established ways of societal blindness or numbness. The work draws upon the ways that we are blind to those around us and presents an observation of the human condition. Due to the pandemic, selected scores from the evening length work, which was slotted to premier in 2020, have been made into a dance film. The CCBdance Project is indebted to our collaborators and mentors as well as to the Maryland State Arts Council. This project has been supported by the Maryland State Arts Council and through residencies at Ecole Des Sables (Senegal), Donko Seko (Mali), and the University of North Carolina, Asheville. Mentors Souleymane Badolo, Germaine Acogny and Kettly Noel have graciously offered feedback at different points in the process. Christian Bambara has also generously offered his support for this new work for the company.
Fall 2020 Celia will be in production for a solo dance film blue, green with Lauren Earle and Kimathi Moore. This work will respond to Celia’s Jewish identity and vision disability. We will adapt the original sound composition to new improvisational scores and somatic studies created in 2020.
This screen dance was researched in sites in Asheville, NC in 2019 and in Marquette, MI in 2020. The original score was created by Kimathi Moore was funded by a University of North Carolina Asheville Teaching Council Award in 2019 for musical collaboration during a production for dance minor students, which drew upon similar thematic materials. In 2020, Celia Weiss Bambara furthered the research process by improvising and engaging in somatic studies in sites in the small peninsula in Michigan where she lived between the ages of 2 and 12 roughly. From the ages of 9-11, approximately, my mother would pack me off to Jew camp in Wisconsin for almost a month. There I lived on a kibbutz for children in army tents. While it was a wonderful experience on many many levels it was also challenging on other levels. Mainly, I was not as sophisticated as the big city Jewish girls. I found refuge though, in the small garden patch, singing everyday, New Hebrew learning, and the lake and in the outdoor temple services. We would sit outside in the woods and listen to lectures on god and nature, ethics, and community. The 11-year-old girl, that is still a part of me, with the long braids and uneven laugh, loved the lectures on Kabbalah and nature and the singing. This dance film working connects me to that partially blind 11 year old and my adult understanding and somatic studies of women’s connections to nature as a place of power, Jewish female identity, African dance practices, Diasporic links and refuge.
Film will be premiered in 2021.
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Many years ago. As the CCBdance Project enters our 15th year of production and growth we are grateful for all of the dance experiences we have had and for the new growth to come as it may.
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Les Navettes Spring 2019 at the BELK Theater UNCA andMoving Voices 2019 PC
Winter/Spring 2020
April 21st, Site-Dance at Coppin State University 3:30-4:30 in the quad in front of Grace Jabobs Building. Baltimore, MD. Rescheduled Spring 2022 as part of DANC 426 production courses. -Put on Hold Due to COVID 19
Showing of Moving Voices with Jana Schmeuck at Movement Research in NYC January 28th, 2020. Coppin Dance Major DeShanay Pollard performed in this event as Ms. Schmeuck was unable to travel.
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Moving Voices Project PC Marquana Burgess Fall 2018 UNC Asheville
Les Navettes at the Carol Belk Theater Spring 2019 UNC Asheville
Summer/Fall 2019
Residency with Jana Schmeuck/Moving Voices Project in East Germany, Presentation in Berlin and Movement Research Teaching.
-Residency at Academie Remsheid November 11th-15th, will teach masterclasses in contemporary dance, creative work on video and film and informal showing of multi-media dance work, Moving Voices #2.
November 15-18th,Presentation of Moving Voices #2 at Body IQ Somatics Festival in Berlin
Workshop on Somatics and Dance Making Methodologies-Moving Voices
Improvisation Gatherings
DSA (Dance Studies Association) Panel Dancing Jewishness, Race and Interculturalism’s Practice as Research at August 8-11th at Northwestern University in Chicago. Fellow presenters Adam McKinney and Selene Carter. Practice as research paper presentation on Jewishness and overlapping diasporas through improvisation.
Art Panel at Revolve Gallery With Cara Hagan and other artists for the My Place, or Yours curated series. June 21st at 6:30 pm.
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PC Sara Forshay, Who Fears Not Death
PC Marquanna Burgess Moving Voices Project in Asheville Co-directed and Co-Choreographed by Jana Schmueck and Celia Weiss Bambara
Spring 2019
Praxis Dialogues-Dialogues on Process and Making in regards to Who Fears Not Death
April 26th. 2018 at 7pm. Showing of Les Navettes created in collaboration with Natalie St. Martin (Korea/USA) and Aminata Traore (Ivory Coast)at the BELK theater at UNC Asheville.
Also showing a new piece blue, green set on contemporary III and repertory students at UNC Asheville in collaboration with local musical composer Kimathi Moore. Composition funded by University Teaching Council grant. Student work generated through Celia’s Advanced Improvisation and Composition class will also be shown.
April 5th at 6pm at Revolve, Artistic Surrogacy Project, My Place or Yours Curated by Cara Hagan in Asheville. Performance of work and showing with collaborators in Ivory Coast and Korea. This solo project was created through 6 months of exchange through Skype, email and google docs in regards to feminism, race, culture, cultural exchange and personal experiences. Please see invitation here
March 13th-15th Hybrid Practices Conference at the University of Malta. Practice as Research Presentation. Improvising Coalitions: Fusional Dance in the Jewish and African Diasporas. As a diasporic Jewish woman I will address how improvisation as a method of movement research that permits the overlap of Jewish and African diasporic practices and coalitions outside of the bounds of language. I will relate this discussion about improvisation and the content of my dance company’s, the CCBdance Project, work to notions of diaspora, displacement and yearning for home.
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May 18th, 2018 Presentation of Work-in-Progress “who fears not death: for my sons father” with musical collaborator Kimathi Moore at Draftwork in a shared show with Celia Weiss Bambara/ Meg Foley curated by Ishmael Houston Jones at Dancespace at St. Marks Church
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teaching movement research, improvisation through CIE Priemier Temps in July 2017 in Dakar Senegal. Photo Credit Elise Fitte-Duval. Celia seated next to Andreya Ouamba
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Who Fears Not Death: For My Sons Father at the Carol BELK theater at UNC Asheville. PC. Joe Bolado. Spring Dance Sharing 2018.
We Fear Not Death: For My Son’s FatherThis solo work asks questions about how we mourn, let go of the fear and stigma surrounding death and locate the edges of how we loose those dear to us. Equally this work asks why some die and others live in Africa. It questions the ways that certain lives are privileged over others. Drawing from Ndedi Okorafor’s textual landscape of post-apocalyptic Africa the work excavates outsiderness, the destabilization and re-centering of self that mourning requires and finding home in one’s own body in order to mourn. The solo dance project is a contemporary dance work that draws upon African and Caribbean movement materials in an experimental dance work that incorporates aspects of theater. The work will be made in collaboration with African American musician Kimathi Moore. This is an important solo work made for the CCBdance Project, as completion of the work will occur during the company’s 13th year of existence. This work will be Celia’s fourth solo work for the company. This work directly engages the thematic material of inter-culturalism as well as the explicit realities of Africa and delves into the disparities of race based inequality on a continental scale through the mourning of life lost.
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