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“A landmark documentary...delineates how virtuosity becomes identity”
- Debra Cash, NPR/WBUR

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NYC SESSIONS & PARTIES

 as per Bravo LaFortune

SESSIONS
All sessions five dollars ($5), unless otherwise noted

MONDAY:
ObsessionNYC
Dance New Amsterdam (280 Chambers Street, at Broadway)
Manhattan, NYC
8:30-10:30pm

Preview (The New Yorker)

01/25/12

The New Yorker calls Check Your Body at the Door the "most important" film of the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center.

THE NEW YORKER
Goings On About Town

Published: January 30, 2012

“DANCE ON CAMERA”

Basics: Dance

04/17/95

“Dancing,” says Brahms La Fortune, architect and clubhead, “is like breathing. First you breathe, then you dance.” Movement is fundamental for all of us. Without it, we die. If movement is the body’s survival tool, it is also the soul’s salvation.

“A Basic of Life” by Sally Sommer

Dance/USA Journal
Spring 1995

“Dancing,” says Brahms La Fortune, architect and clubhead, “is like breathing.  First you breathe, then you dance.”

Movement is fundamental for all of us.  Without it, we die.  If movement is the body’s survival tool, it is also the soul’s salvation.  Altered states are caused by the physical repetitions that produce the enkephalins and endorphins that abolish pain and promote ecstatic highs.

Review (NPR/WBUR)

05/09/11

Other observers have been able to convey hip hop and house dance's enviable virtuosity. But it has took Sally's Sommer's patient commitment to delineate the way virtuosity becomes identity.

NPR/WBUR

Published: May 9, 2001

"Check Your Body at the Door - Rough Cut (54 minutes) Film"
Review by Debra Cash

August 1999

CYB Project & Film
Dancers
August 1999
08/01/99

Sally Sommer and Brahms "Bravo" LaFortune moderate a workshop as part of Central Park's Summer Stage series: "Breaking' It Down: Modern Dance from the streets".

1998

CYB Project & Film
1998
02/01/98

David Neumann's 'Appropriate Behavior' performed at Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) with Archie Burnett and Brahms "Bravo" LaFortune.

May 1997

CYB Project & Film
Dancers
May 1997
05/01/97

David Neumann's 'Appropriate Behavior' performed at PS 122 with Archie Burnett and Brahms "Bravo" LaFortune (also performed in  1998 at DTW)

May 5-6 1995

CYB Project & Film
Dancers
May 5-6 1995
05/01/95

National Students Association of Vienna presents "New York meets Vienna" Club Dance and Street Styles Performance and Party in Vienna, Austria.  Sally Sommer and dancers attend with DJ Lil' Louie Vega.

Winter 1994/1995

Winter 1994/1995
12/01/94

Photo Shoot for Dance Ink featuring Asia Moon, Archie Burnett, Barbara Tucker, Bravo LaFortune and Willi Ninja.