Choreographer Blondell Cummings Will Discuss Her Works
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, November 10
Brooklyn, N.Y. – In its fall film series on dance, Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus will present the multitalented artist, Blondell Cummings, in “An Artist’s Diary on Collaboration.” The choreographer will share excerpts from two dance performance works made for the camera, “Chicken Soup,” and “100% Cotton/Natural Fiber,” and discuss her collaborative process.
The event will take place on Wednesday, November 10, at noon, in the Spike Lee Screening Room (LLC 122), as part of the Dance Department’s free “Afternoons at LIU” concert series.
Celebrating 25 years as a cross-cultural artist, Cummings is a director/choreographer, performing artist, educator/activist, and the artistic director of Cycle Arts Foundation, a multi-disciplined arts cooperative. She has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Cummings has created over 50 solo and group works including “The Art of War,” “The Ladies and Me,” “Food For Thought,” “Like Family,” “Women in the Dune” and “Cycle.” Among her numerous honors are awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Harkness Center for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, and Guggenheim and Robert Rausenberg fellowships.
She has been featured in Self Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and American Dance Festival’s African-American Genius in Dance. “Rhythms, Rituals, Feeding My Spirit” is her current collaborative project with several museums. A facilitator of the Boomer Project, a think tank focusing on community, work, relationship and democratic issues, she is currently developing a dance/theater/video project based on human rights.
The Dance Department of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus developed its “Afternoons at LIU” series of dance concerts more than a decade ago to make dance artists accessible to students and the public. The department offers a B.F.A. in Dance, with concentrations in performance and choreography.
For more information, call Noel Hall at (718) 488-3355.
Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 31,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 12,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.
