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ARTISTS

For Dance Inc provides several services for dance companies. This list does not represent all of the companies that we work with. Below are the Artists we represent for tour bookings.

Roster Artists are For Dance Inc fiscally sponsored artists who can be booked through For Dance Inc’s affiliation with WPO. For booking or more information please contact (212) 233-2323 or email: booking@fordance.org.

 TAP DANCE

Michael Minery’s TAPAHOLICS                        www.Tapaholics.com

Michael Minery, dubbed as “a shuffling Justin Timberlake” CriticalDance.com, leads his company of versatile virtuosos exploding with a raw power and contagious energy. Stunning accapella numbers share the spotlight with musical numbers ranging from Jazz to Disco, Rock to Pop, Classical and even original music by Minery himself. TAPAHOLICS truly has something for everyone “exploring all realms of tap’ by infusing old time tap with fresh and powerful youthfulness.” Best of Manhattan, New York Press.  Michael Minery has established himself as one of the finest tap dancers working today. “He seems to have taken the best from Broadway style, hoofing, and competition tap dancing and blended them to create what we all love to see…” Dancer Magazine.  (9 dancers, 1 actor, 5 musicians, and all live music—$12,000-$20,000)

 

 Michael Minery and Friends                         www.Tapaholics.com

A concert show suitable for venues with smaller budgets that has the same intensity and virtuosity that TAPAHOLICS is known for.

(5 dancers, 1-3 musicians, live and pre-recorded music—$7,000-$12,000).

 

 

CONTEMPORARY DANCE

Synthesis Dance Project    www.synthesisdanceproject.com   

Alternate Contact:(212) 591-1964

Synthesis Dance Project (SDP) challenges the boundaries of concert dance while respecting the integrity of all dance forms. Artistic Director, Tracie Stanfield lends her vision of dance as a unified art form, reflecting one’s personal connection between emotion and movement; the style of work is eclectic and the performance is expert. SDP’s current repertory program explores the struggle between appetite and will, concealing and revealing intentions through dynamic partnering, forceful rhythms and intense gestures. “(SDP exhibits) secure professionalism, strong choreography” Los Angeles Times.  “The pictures developed in the choreography are unparalleled in the industry” A Turner. “One of ‘Nine DanceMakers Making History’” DanceSpirit Magazine. The best in BAREFOOT BALLET!!!!

                                            (6 dancers, $5,000—$12,000)

       

En L’Air Aerial Dance Theatre         www.enlair.org                  

An exciting blend of artistry and athleticism, beauty and raw power. En L'Air is dance in the next dimension, defying the traditional boundaries of dance and space. Kindra Williams never accepted the boundaries imposed on her by traditional dance.  Starting as a dancer, then becoming a gymnast, and then it was off to the circus. Her years touring with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus inspired Kindra to take her dance to the next level (literally). Not content to simply "perform aerial tricks," En L’Air "dances on air." The company is comprised of trained dancers who have joined her on the challenge to dance in the next dimension as she combines dance à terre with dance en l'air.  (5 dancers—$8,000-$12,000)

 

NY Performers’ Project    www.nyperformersproject.org          

An outlet for choreographers and dancers to explore the boundaries of dance movement and to create opportunities for the next generation of dance artists. The Project supports young, promising new talent creating and performing new works. The repertoire is influenced by everything from ballet to modern to jazz and American musical theatre to circus and cutting-edge choreography. The Project is comprised of versatile dancers presenting a diverse repertoire of works. Engagements are flexible  and customized to meet the needs of each community. (6 dancers—$5,000 - $10,000)

 

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Independent Artists

Independent Artists have been chosen to be part of For Dance Inc’s No Strings Representation at the APAP Conferences. Contact these companies directly for booking. 

Click 2006 Independent Artists for more information or visit their websites directly by clicking on artist below

INTEGRATED DANCE

StopGAP Dance Company from England    www.stopgap.uk.com   

 

StopGAP is a vibrant integrated dance company that includes dancers with and without disabilities.

Challenging traditional notions about dance, StopGAP uses each dancer’s physical and intellectual potential as a starting point for creating new work. Their work is empowering, engaging, entertaining,  and accessible, while challenging creative, technical, and artistic complacency.

· “StopGAP is redefining what is possible in the field of integrated dance.” Jo Verrent, ADA, Inc.

· “A wonderfully inspiriational company.” Eckhard Theimann, Director, Woking Dance Festival

· “Remarkable range of styles, witty and challenging.” Gus Garside, National Arts coordinator, MENCAP

· “Dancing that casts a spell.” Kate Castle, Director, Dance South West