News: CUNY Dance Initiative and Mari Meade Dance Collective Announce September Premiere of "immigration stories"
Photo credit: Ben Yannette The CUNY Dance Initiative and John Jay College, in collaboration with Mari Meade Dance Collective/MMDC , have announced the world premiere of immigration stories on Friday, September 13, 2019 at 7:30pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 524 W. 59th Street, NYC. MMDC's residency and performance at John Jay College is part of the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), a program that opens the doors of CUNY campuses to professional choreographers and dance companies; and immigration stories , a series of dances based on true experiences about relocating to the United States, opens up the vastly different paths people take to come this country. What began with a frustrating phone call for choreographer Mari Meade to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has evolved into a full evening of personal stories, music and dance. From a young man who was born in Germany and lived in Ghana before making his way to New York to a Russian wo...