Join us for the premiere of Edible Tales: Ho'okupu (NYC)

ABOUT EDIBLE TALES: HOʻOKUPU <THE OFFERING>

Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu <THE OFFERING> explores cultural heritage, social justice and sustainability through food related topics. Created through community engagement and research, Edible Tales has been developed over the course of 3 years.

What began in the thick of the Pandemic as a virtual community program to stay connected and gain nourishment, the program has developed into a bi-coastal community movement for land stewardship that centers Native Hawaiian and Indigenous practices, food tours that explore the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience, and rituals that strengthen our connections with our ancestors.

We are mixing all the FLAVAHZ from each company member together, serving them up steamed, sautéed, and deep fried.. and with all the rawness. From PRAYER to SOUL FOOD to CELEBRATIONS, Edible Tales: Ho’okupu is a culinary dance journey that puts all of our authentic flavahz on a table that we are building for our collective nourishment.

We invite you to join us on November 18th and 19th for the immersive performance* experience, and taste the soulful flavors in our dances.

*Please consider bringing a non-food altar offering

Following our November 19th matinee performance, Kumu Hula ʻAuliʻi Aweau will host a 30-minute Hula / Oli (chant) workshop that leads into our 14th Anniversary Gala: MANAfest. The workshop is open to all performance and gala guests as a complimentary offering.

ARTISTIC PERSONNEL: Co-Artistic Directors: Linda Kuo & Candice Taylor; Choreographers: Keala Fung, Linda Kuo, Candice Taylor, Marmara Tobal in collaboration with dancers; Dancers: Abril Amparo, Alaina Cota, Keala Fung, Melvin Hsieh, Kingsley Ibeneche, Angela Miller, Litsie Monier, Candice Taylor, Marmara Tobal; Hula & Blessing: ʻAuliʻi Aweau; Original Music by Kingsley Ibeneche, Infinite Ethos: Jermaine Fletcher & Tyreek Jackson; Costumes: Keala Fung, Kauila Kanakaʻole, Linda Kuo, Candice Taylor

Edible Tales is made possible with the support of our funders and supporters:Dance/NYC, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Grange, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, A.R.T NY, The Puffin Foundation, Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities

Join us for the premiere of Edible Tales: Ho'okupu (NYC) followed by the MANAfest Gala celebrating 14 years of Dancers Unlimited.

NYC: Edible Tales Theatrical Premiere

November 18 at 8:00pm

November 19 at 3:00pm*

Ticket: $25

*BUNDLE PRICE AVAILABLE FOR GALA + PERFORMANCE on Nov 19th

ABOUT EDIBLE TALES: HOʻOKUPU <THE OFFERING>

Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu <THE OFFERING> explores cultural heritage, social justice and sustainability through food related topics. Created through community engagement and research, Edible Tales has been developed over the course of 3 years.

What began in the thick of the Pandemic as a virtual community program to stay connected and gain nourishment, the program has developed into a bi-coastal community movement for land stewardship that centers Native Hawaiian and Indigenous practices, food tours that explore the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience, and rituals that strengthen our connections with our ancestors.

We are mixing all the FLAVAHZ from each company member together, serving them up steamed, sautéed, and deep fried.. and with all the rawness. From PRAYER to SOUL FOOD to CELEBRATIONS, Edible Tales: Ho’okupu is a culinary dance journey that puts all of our authentic flavahz on a table that we are building for our collective nourishment.

We invite you to join us on November 18th and 19th for the immersive performance* experience, and taste the soulful flavors in our dances.

*Please consider bringing a non-food altar offering

Following our November 19th matinee performance, Kumu Hula ʻAuliʻi Aweau will host a 30-minute Hula / Oli (chant) workshop that leads into our 14th Anniversary Gala: MANAfest. The workshop is open to all performance and gala guests as a complimentary offering.

ARTISTIC PERSONNEL: Co-Artistic Directors: Linda Kuo & Candice Taylor; Choreographers: Keala Fung, Linda Kuo, Candice Taylor, Marmara Tobal in collaboration with dancers; Dancers: Abril Amparo, Alaina Cota, Keala Fung, Melvin Hsieh, Kingsley Ibeneche, Angela Miller, Litsie Monier, Candice Taylor, Marmara Tobal; Hula & Blessing: ʻAuliʻi Aweau; Original Music by Kingsley Ibeneche, Infinite Ethos: Jermaine Fletcher & Tyreek Jackson; Costumes: Keala Fung, Kauila Kanakaʻole, Linda Kuo, Candice Taylor

Edible Tales is made possible with the support of our funders and supporters:Dance/NYC, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Grange, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, A.R.T NY, The Puffin Foundation, Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities

ABOUT THE HŌʻIKE

Participants from our Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu monthly Hawaiian cultural immersion program share their learning and original performances to honor our connections with each other and the ʻāina.

Attendees are welcome to arrive half an hour early to participate in the interactive dance installations happening during the Hoʻolauleʻa portion of the evening.

TICKETS:

Pay what you can: $10, $20, $30 - seats not guaranteed

*Our MANAFest: Hoʻolauleʻa fundraiser event is 4pm-6pm right before the Hōʻike. Each hoʻolauleʻa ticket includes complimentary admission to the Hōʻike. Please consider purchasing the BUNDLE ticket for maximized fun (and ʻono kine grinds)!

ABOUT EDIBLE TALES: HOʻOKUPU

Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu centers Native Hawaiian wisdom and turn stories about food and ʻāina into community-centered dance exploration, actions and solutions. Our 2023 theme Ho`okupu (to offer, to sprout), explores the reciprocal relationship between giving and receiving, our interconnectedness to each other, and shared pathways to build community resilience and collaboration.

Guided by Kumu Hula ʻAuliʻi Aweau, the 6-month transformative journey features hands-on work on the farm and fishponds, and Hawaiian cultural activies including Hula, oli, kuahu building, lauhala and ʻawa planting.

Mahalo nui loa to our funders and venues

Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu is made possible by funding support from National Endowment for the Humanities, Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, and The Puffin Foundation.

Venues: Papahana Kuaola, Lūluku Farms, Waikalua Loko I`a, the Fukumitsu ohana, and Page Academy of Dance

ABOUT THE HOʻOLAULEʻA

Dancers Unlimited is turning 14, and we canʻt wait to celebrate with you!

From our humble beginning as a free community youth dance program on Furlough Fridays, to touring internationally in China, and now a bi-coastal nonprofit 501(c)3 in Hawaiʻi and NYC, we do it all because OF OUR COMMUNITY - YOU.

The Hoʻolauleʻa celebrates a joyous and successful year of working, dancing and learning together with our community. From mauka to makai, our community has filled us with so much joy and mana.

The event is also a part of our MANAfest campaign: raising $50K for 2024 programming. Your support is crucial for the sustainability of our programs.

The Hoʻolauleʻa features:

1. A MANAfest circle: building shared vision

2. Pupu & Beverages

3. Silent Auction

4. Immersive Dance Installations

5. Special performance by Noelani Love

TICKETS:

TABLE PURCHASE (limit 10 tables): $480 (seats 8; all VIP benefits + guaranteed seats together with discounted ticket price per person). → OUR BEST DEAL! GET A TABLE WITH FRIENDS/ʻOHANA FOR SAVINGS & MORE FUN!

VIP: $80 (preferred seating + gift bag)

General Admission: $50 (open seating)

All ticket types include complimentary admission to the Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu Hōʻike, which follows immediately after the Hoʻolauleʻa:

6:15pm-7:30pm Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu Hōʻike (included in the Hoʻolauleʻa admission)

ABOUT THE HŌʻIKE

Participants from our Edible Tales: Hoʻokupu monthly Hawaiian cultural immersion program share their learning and original performnaces to honor our connections with each other and the ʻāina.

Our Hawaiʻi and NYC companies will be presenting Lawaiʻa and Soul Food from the Edible Tales Excerpts at the opening night of Battery Dance Festival!

Stay tuned for more information, and visit the festival website to learn about all the performances throughout the week!

Culture. Identity. Fashion. Lifestyle. Brought to you by Dancers Unlimited and sponsored by Peridance and VERSD, from May 22nd – May 27th, join us at the Spring Community Week to celebrate AAPI history, culture and more on the dance floor!

As we celebrate culture and identity this year, Dancers Unlimited has invited designer Kauila Kanakaʻole, great-grandson of a legendary Hawaiian family of hula and chant practitioners, to create the story and designs of the fashion show. This show combines fashion and movement to tell a story of a people who are being silenced and lied about, revealing the real truths of where they began and what they stand on.

Fashion and live performance art connect hand in hand in this earnest yet cultural storytelling beginning with the telling of the origins then onto the reclamation and then concluding in which the audience is invited to chant, dance, and feel the vibration of Hawaiian culture as well as how it is connected to the land and space we live on.

Ola Ka Huakaʻihele o Hiʻiaka (Becoming Hiʻiaka)

Saturday, May 27th 8-9:30pm

Peridance Center, Studio 1

CAPACITY IS LIMITED.

Pentacle presents Administrative Service Program Artist Showcase at APAP!

The showcase will take place in-person at City Center Studios in Studio 4, located at 130 W. 56th Street, 4th floor. Please note that, according to New York City Center's COVID-19 protocols, all visitors entering the building must show proof of vaccination and will be required to wear masks.

*Select “Dancers Unlimited” in RSVP Link

Dancers Unlimited performance time slot: 2:45pm - 3:05pm

Join us for our Edible Tales Immersive on-site dance installations + Docuseries Premiere
Pay What You Can for performance + film premiere. $15 minimum donation per plate (Pre-sale required through November 4th.)

November 20th 5-7:00pm
KEY Project
47-200 Waihee Road
Kaneohe, Hawaii, 96744

Performance features:

Immersive installations Stage performance Food provided by Waiahole Poi Factory Edible Tales Docuseries Premiere (partial; full series available on mobile app)

For completely FREE tickets, purchase a VIP ticket to our 13th Anniversary Ho’olaule’a

Edible Tales is made possible by the support of:

Hawaii Council For the Humanities SHARP Grant National Endowment for the Humanities Waiwai Collective

TWO chances to catch our duet, Sisterhood of the Traveling Seeds!!

November 13th, 2022
TWO PERFORMANCES:
3pm & 6pm
Tickets: $18.50

Location: KnJ Theatre at Peridance Center
126 East 13th Street
New York, NY 10003

Join us at our Edible Tales Immersive on-site dance installations at Good Life Garden in Bushwick!

October 23rd 5-7:30pm
Good Life Garden
50 Goodwin Place
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Community Garden founded in 2018

Performance features:

Immersive installations Stage performance Food provided by Chef Lioness Salsa making Competition (register for the competition online; winner receives $250 grocery from sponsor): contest rule and registration will be announced on our website soon

FREE. RSVP recommended.

Thank you to our funders and sponsors for helping to support Edible Tales and this event:

Brooklyn Arts Council, Dance NYC Dance Advancement Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist Residency, Brooklyn Grange, Good Life Garden, VERSD

JOIN US on October 8th at Corlears Hook Park for Not Your Mother’s Pan-Asian Festival Volume 2! Featuring Dancers Unlimited, Sun Kim Dance Theater, Minbuza, Saung Budaya, Kevin Toyo, gorno & suzuki, Kinding Sindaw, and Urvashie Kissoon.

Yong / Zhu (勇/竹. Inspired by part of her parents’ Chinese names: yong (bravery) and zhu (bamboo), the choreographer Linda Kuo created this piece as a duet with her 6-year-old, honoring the legacies of her parents and the values they instilled in her to live and love with the strength and tenacity of the bamboo. The kāʻekeʻeke or Hawaiian bamboo drums are traditionally used in Hula. For this contemporary performance, Kuo uses the bamboos gifted by Uncle Calvin Hoe, a Native Hawaiian master instrument maker.

FREE

Friday Sept 30th, Saturday October 1st

6:30-8pm

Hawaii State Art Museum

Honolulu, HI

The Honolulu Dance Collection happening at HiSAM on Friday 9/10 and Saturday 10/1! This special two-day event was organized by Terry Slaughter to showcase the diverse talents within the state of Hawaiʻi in one location, the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum. Both nights will consist of performances choreographed by local, independent artists and dance companies from the state of Hawaiʻi with the intent of fostering a strong network of performance artists and providing audiences with a multifaceted dance experience. Performances will be connected to the Art in Public Places Collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

FREE + Family-Friendly

Participating companies and choreographers include:
Convergence Dance Theatre @convergence_dance_theatre
Dancers Unlimited @dunyc.hi
Honolulu Zouk @honoluluzouk
IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre @iona360
Jhalak Dance @jhalakdance
Kailua Dance Academy @kailuadanceacademy
Rainbow Fusion Dance Collective
SlaughterHouse Dance
Tau Dance Theatre @taudancetheater

Friday Sept 30th, Saturday October 1st

6:30-8pm

Hawaii State Art Museum

Honolulu, HI

The Honolulu Dance Collection happening at HiSAM on Friday 9/10 and Saturday 10/1! This special two-day event was organized by Terry Slaughter to showcase the diverse talents within the state of Hawaiʻi in one location, the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum. Both nights will consist of performances choreographed by local, independent artists and dance companies from the state of Hawaiʻi with the intent of fostering a strong network of performance artists and providing audiences with a multifaceted dance experience. Performances will be connected to the Art in Public Places Collection of the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

FREE + Family-Friendly

Participating companies and choreographers include:
Convergence Dance Theatre @convergence_dance_theatre
Dancers Unlimited @dunyc.hi
Honolulu Zouk @honoluluzouk
IONA Contemporary Dance Theatre @iona360
Jhalak Dance @jhalakdance
Kailua Dance Academy @kailuadanceacademy
Rainbow Fusion Dance Collective
SlaughterHouse Dance
Tau Dance Theatre @taudancetheater

The International Human Rights Art Festival returns to NYC: December 6 -December 12, 2021 at the Wild Project. Dancers Unlimited will be sharing the stage with other amazing and human-centered dance artists on December 10th.

Dec 10th 7:30PM

Dancers Unlimited: Emotions & Edible Tales: Mana. Emotions is a re-work of our company repertoire in response to the fight for social justice during the pandemic. Edible Tales is a new hybrid work in progress featuring a dance-based documentary film and staged performances. Created through community-centered choreography labs and talk sessions, Edible Tales explores cultural heritage, social justice and sustainability.

TICKETS

Edible Tales: Prayers is performed on the stage at Hawaii Theatre Center, as a part of Phoenix Dance Chamber's "Celestial 21" performance. The streaming of the full show will be available on July 3rd or on-demand. Catch our Hawai'i dancers Danny Wu, Melvin Hsieh, Jerome Mester, and Keala Fung for a performance, exploring ancestral connections through food stories.

“Celestial” was a term used often in 19th Century American media to describe China and Chinese people. Based on the “Celestial Empire,” an old name for imperial China, the word became adopted as a slur used ironically to describe the newly-emigrated Chinese who worked in laundries and other menial jobs. Phoenix Dance Chamber presents Celestial 21 in response to the current and recent climate of racial tension in the United States. This event is bringing together talented Asian American/Pacific Islander artists in a celebration of Chinese heritage and identity with performances by Phoenix Dance Chamber, along with guest performers SheenRu Yong, Dancers Unlimited, Saam Fu Chinese Cultural Arts, and Tau Dance Theater. We have forged new celestial identities but we have not forgotten how we got here.

Tickets (available at https://www.hawaiitheatre.com/upcoming-events/)

$100.00 for Two-Month On-Demand Access
$50.00 for One-Month On-Demand Access
$21.00 for One-Time Livestream Access on July 3, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. PST

In addition to supporting Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists, the Hawaii Theatre Center and the theatre production crew, 20% of ticket sales will be donated to the AAPI Community Fund. Learn more about the fund at https://gofund.me/1764f72f.

Since 2015, DU has presented a split-bill program featuring NYC-based dance companies and emerging choreographers.
This year, we are excited to present the 6th evening program ONLINE via DUTV!
With the convenience of the Internet, you can watch the show ANYWHERE in the world, at your own leisure!

Performances by:
DUNYC
SteLi Dance
William Ervin

Date / Time:
August 19th
7pm-Midnight

$15 or FREE with DUTV Membership
A private Vimeo link will be forwarded to you 1/2 hour before the start time, and you will have 5 hours to watch the full performance at your own leisure.

Spring In-Studio

ANNOUNCEMENT:

SPRING IN-STUDIO IS CANCELED TO KEEP EVERYONE HEALTHY DURING COVID-19 EMERGENCY.

AN ALTERNATIVE DATE FOR THE SHOWCASE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON.

PLEASE KEEP SUPPORTING ARTISTS AND ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AS WE BUCKLE DOWN FOR THE POSSIBLE ECONOMIC IMPACT FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH EMERGENCY.

MAHALO / THANK YOU!

We’d like to invite you to join us for a Studio Showcase as the company & guests perform:
CYPHER: Homecoming Excerpts
New Works In Progress by DU & Guests

$10 General Admission, $5 for #DU2020 Campaign Donors
Light Refreshments & Beverage provided

DUNYC welcomes 2020 with a show-stopping performance at Booking Dance Festival as a part of APAP. The company will perform “reasonsLegacy / Club Heads” at the iconic Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Purchase Tickets HERE.

Coming Soon

Dancers Unlimted Celebrates 10 year anniversary event & Fundraiser, Ho’olauleʻa (‘celebration’)!

Dancers Unlimted began 10 years ago in Honolulu, Hawai’i as free youth classes on Furlough Fridays, when public schools were canceled due to budget cut. Since then the company has served over 3000 dancers, hosted 300 workshops, free classes, and offered dance scholarships for dancers in New York and Hawai’i, taking them internationally to China.

To celebrate, and continue providing for the community while raising funds; DU will kick off this 10 year anniversary with a reception of hors-d'oeuvres, live art, DJ / Party, and a Hula and Hawaiian culture class with special host, Kumu (teacher) Auli’i Aweau.

Our 2019-2020 crowdfunding campaign will be launched the same night, featuring special in-event donation rewards. Your generous support will help us continue planting seeds for another decade of dance-making and global community building. DU hopes to raise $20,000 to 1) unite its NYC and Hawaii dancers in February 2020, 2) continue creating relevant socially conscious work, 3) further develop community partnerships and 4) Keep expanding its international platforms and global creative influence.

The evening will end in a dance cypher, celebrating NYC’s street dance community and pioneers that have shaped our community.

Admissions: minimum $20 donations online or $25 door. SUPPORT & RSVP HERE.

Fall Further VIII Description

Pentacle’s eighth year of Fall Further brings you the work of five female-led dance companies, presenting a bit of everything for the stage—character narratives, multi-disciplinary studies, personal ancestral tributes—and more.

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