(January 28, 2014) Santa Fe, NM – HaMapah /The Map is a multimedia genealogical dance journey tracing the intersections of dancer Adam McKinney’s African, Jewish, and Native American heritages. The performance will take place Saturday March 22, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday March 23, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at The NDI Dance Barns (1140 Alto St, Santa Fe, NM 87501). Tickets are $5 K-12 students, $10 Artist/Fixed Income, $20 General Admission. For tickets, click Tickets Santa Fe, visit the Lensic Box Office, or call (505) 988-1234.
Created by DNAWORKS co-directors, HaMapah/The Map is conceived and performed by former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancer and current Chair of the Dance department at New Mexico School for the Arts Adam McKinney and directed by internationally known director Daniel Banks. First premiered in 2010, HaMapah/The Map has engaged audiences around the world and, with the gracious support of New Mexico School for the Arts and National Dance Institute-New Mexico, DNAWORKS is thrilled to present the work in its entirety to the Santa Fe community.
HaMapah/The Map weaves contemporary dance with archival material, personal interviews, Yiddish and American songs, and video set to traditional, contemporary, and classical music. In HaMapah /The Map McKinney explores issues of identity, heritage, and ancestry. As part of the program, DNAWORKS Co-Directors McKinney and Banks lead a community dialogue about the audience’s relationship to the core ideas of the piece.
DNAWORKS: Dialogue and Healing through the Arts
In 2006, Adam McKinney and Daniel Banks, Ph.D., co-founded DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization committed to using the arts to catalyze dialogue on social issues important to the communities in which they live and work. DNAWORKS has led programming and workshops across the U.S. and internationally, and has presented HaMapah/The Map at festivals in such locations as Saratoga Springs, NY, Belgrade, Serbia, Spoleto, Italy, and Ourense, Spain. In 2010 HaMapah/The Map received the Presidential Pathfinder Award from the Black Theatre Network.
About Adam McKinney
Adam McKinney (Creator, Performer) is a former member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet. Adam has taught and choreographed in the U.S., Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, the United Kingdom, Ghana, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Palestine, and Israel. Adam holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance with high honors from Butler University, an M.A. in Dance Studies with concentrations in Race and Trauma theories from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at New York University, and is a recipient of the LEAD:NM fellowship. He is currently Chair of the Dance Department at the New Mexico School for the Arts, Santa Fe.
About Daniel Banks
Daniel Banks, Ph.D., (Director) is a theatre director, choreographer, educator, and dialogue facilitator. He has directed at such notable venues as the National Theatre of Uganda (Kampala), The Belarussian National Drama Theatre (Minsk), and the Market Theatre Studio (Johannesburg, South Africa). Daniel has served on the faculties of the Department of Undergraduate Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and the M.F.A. in Contemporary Performance at Naropa University. He is currently on the faculty of the M.A. in Applied Theatre at City University of New York. He is founder of the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative and editor of the critical anthology Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater.