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Dyane Harvey
Pomare Technique
Biography:
Dyane Harvey is a founding member and assistant to director Abdel R. Salaam of Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Company; a 42-year-old Harlem based company whose mission is the empowerment of our audiences through relevant works of art some of which respond to the call to preserve our planet. Harvey, a 2019 BESSIE nominee for Best Revival of Eleo Pomare’s ‘HEX’, earned the 2017 BESSIE for Performance in Dance Africa’s/Abdel R. Salaam’s BESSIE Award Winning Outstanding Production of the Year, the Woman of Distinction Award (from the Harlem Arts Alliance and the Harlem Chamber of Commerce), the Walk A Mile In Her Shoes Award (from the Hempstead African- American Museum), the Dance for Life Award (from Better Family Life, a cultural, educational, financial empowerment organization based in St. Louis, Missouri), three AUDELCO Awards, the Monarch Merit Award, the Black Theatre Award, and the Goddesses and Gurus Award. Concert dance experiences include Joan Miller’s Dance Players, the Eleo Pomare Dance Company, George Faison’s Universal Dance Experience, Otis Sallid’s New Art Ensemble, Jelon Vieira’s Dance Brazil and the Trinidad Repertory Dance Theatre. Founder of Ma’at Pilates, she is also a dance educator at Princeton and Hofstra Universities. The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of Lincoln Center Library has chronicled her life path through interview recordings in the Oral History project. Commercial credits include: “Free to Dance” (PBS Special), “The Wiz” (Broadway/film), and “Timbuktu!” (Broadway), “Spell #7”, “Ailey Celebrates Ellington” (CBS Special), and internationally in the Paris Company of “Your Arms Too Short To Box With God Ase to All who have come before.Class Description:
As founding member and assistant to choreographer/director Abdel R. Salaam, Dyane has the opportunity to witness, process, and take part in the ever evolving choreographic matrix that is Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. A hybrid fusion of the movement forms of West Africa, the African Diaspora, ballet, Limon, Horton and Graham, the company uses these languages to empower its audiences and continue to bring awareness to the fragile environment we all inhabit. Eleo Pomare, Dyane dance mentor, instilled the value of technical embodiment: USING technique to investigate the myriad ways of bodily expression. He was the Master of sculptural exploration. We will experience both styles through the study of phrases found in existing choreography.