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Company SBB Stefanie Batten Bland - Upcoming Events

CONCRETE Immersive Theatre Intensive
Jun
8
to Jun 20

CONCRETE Immersive Theatre Intensive

CONCRETE is an annual summer intensive in the heart of New York City, in partnership with the La MaMa Theatre, the home of the legendary experimental theatre maker and supporter Ellen Stewart. This intensive explores the hyphenated genre of dance-physical theatre and how these techniques function inside kinesthetic awareness in immersive theatre settings. This proximity research recognizes and interrogates the cultural biases housed inside of nearness and the relationship between spectator and performer. 

This modular intensive facilitates career development and connects professional and pre-professional dance artists to current directors and makers inside the US and international physical and immersive theatre scenes.

Transformative, rigorous, and challenging, CONCRETE is meant for professionals and college students 18 years and older. It includes exposure to clowning, partnering, ensemble-devising, voice in movement, material/prop approaches, performer perception in physical space, and interrogating the cultural biases housed inside proximity-based performance.

The culmination of each of each week will apex with a fully immersive production that ensures a ten to twenty performer/spectator ratio. 

Full-time tuition includes tickets to a NYC immersive performance.

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General application period open through March 31st.
Rolling admissions through May 1st.

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Mar
13
to Mar 14

"CLOSE UP" World Premiere at MIT

Daniel Bernard Roumain and I had a wonderful APAP performance on January 11th, where we brought “CLOSE UP” to Ailey Citigroup Theater. I am thrilled to share that “CLOSE UP” will have its world premiere this March at MIT.

RSVP here for tickets and RSVP.

“CLOSE UP”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 13-14

This new work is a grantee of New Music USA & Gus Solomons Jr. grant from MIT Music & Theatre Arts.
(Photo: Aladina “Nina” Aladro)

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Mar
6
to Mar 7

The Party — Immersive Theatre Experience at Utah State University

Queen Cleopatra and Julius Caesar invite you to THE PARTY.

An immersive theatre experience set in the lavish home of Cleopatra of the 1950s, where the atmosphere buzzes with excitement and anticipation. Ciscero's retirement party is set to be a grand celebration honoring this revered Roman hero while whispers of unrest creep into conversations— rumors of conspiracies and looming dangers infect the happy home…


Guests of the party mingle through Cleo and Caesar’s home blending into scenes of celebration and conspiracy. Limited invitations available with three sessions per evening (~45 minutes). Come dressed to impress.

Friday, March 6th & Saturday, March 7th
7:00PM-9:30PM
Free admission, RSVP required

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Feb
22
2:00 PM14:00

Black Voices in Dance — Steps on Broadway

Annually in February, as well as at various times throughout the year, Steps on Broadway curates a month of classes dedicated to shining a spotlight on Black Voices in Dance, bringing a global dance community to you. These unique opportunities are one of a kind that allow you to take classes in-person and virtually from these master teachers and icons in the dance community.

Join me for an open Immersive Theatre Workshop on February 22nd.

Sunday, February 22nd
2:00PM-4:00PM

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(Photo: Zui Gomez)

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Feb
8
11:00 AM11:00

Yale Schwarzman Center — EveryBody Dances Workshop

EveryBody Dances @ Yale Schwarzman Center brings local and visiting dance artists to our Dance Studio to teach masterclasses in jazz, hip hop, salsa, modern, contemporary, precision dance and more! All community members are welcome.

My workshop, Immersive Physical Theatre, is a rigorous play space for curious makers and performers, seeking to deepen their integrated moving and acting approaches to theatre making. Human and fantastical movement/aural devising in this class will allow artists to approach historical, avant-garde, experimental, body-oriented theatre, socially engaged theatre, and conceptual performance practices from a place of group devising. Special attention to scale for immersive theatre and identity will be addressed to ensure we play our best fiction thanks to its relationship to our reality.

Register here

Sunday, February 8th
11:00AM-12:30PM
Doors open at 10:30am.
This week's workshop is for all levels of dancers age 15+.

(Photo: Zui Gomez)

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Artistry in Rhythm Festival 2025 Miami Dade
Apr
15
to Apr 17

Artistry in Rhythm Festival 2025 Miami Dade

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Miami Dade College  Kendall Campus  Department of Performing Arts and Industries Dance program

Jubilation Dance Ensemble MDC Humanities Edge  The Future of Expression: A Global Stage for Arts, Humanities, and Technology 

Immersive Dance Theater Workshop with Special Guest Artist Stefanie Batten Bland. Wednesday, April 16, 2025 @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Pat and Martin Fine Theater (room M113)

Pat and Martin Fine Theater (room M113)

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Oct
18
to Oct 26

Tufts University Site Visit

Company SBB will be heading to Tufts University for a site visit! Stefanie will lead an immersive theatre workshop on Friday, October 25th. Company SBB artist AJ Guevara will be workshopping “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner” with students from the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies for their Fall Concert.

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CONCRETE - Immersive Theatre Intensive
Jun
10
to Jun 28

CONCRETE - Immersive Theatre Intensive

Housed on the campus of Montclair State University, CONCRETE is a three-week intensive that explores the hyphenated genre of dance-physical theatre and how these techniques function inside kinesthetic awareness in immersive theatre settings. This proximity research recognizes and interrogates the cultural biases housed inside of nearness and the relationship between spectator and performer. 

This three-week intensive facilitates career development and connects professional and pre-professional dance artists to current directors and makers inside the US and international physical and immersive theatre scenes.

Transformative, rigorous, and challenging, CONCRETE is meant for professionals and college students 18 years and older. It includes exposure to clowning, partnering, ensemble-devising, voice in movement, material/prop approaches, performer perception in physical space, and interrogating the cultural biases housed inside proximity-based performance. The culmination of the three weeks will apex with a fully immersive production that ensures a ten to twenty performer/spectator ratio.  Tuition includes tickets to see two theatrical experiences from Emursive Productions.

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Works & Process at The Guggenheim
Jan
14
7:00 PM19:00

Works & Process at The Guggenheim

See highlights from Company SBB/Stefanie Batten Bland’s Embarqued: Stories of Soil in a shared program that includes dancer Lloyd Knightand (Martha Graham Dance Company) with a look at his new solo and in-process collaboration with choreographer Jack Ferver and filmmaker Jeremy Jacobs. Stefanie will participate in a post-performance discussion with all of the artists, moderated by Jerome Robbins Dance Division Curator Linda Murray. Full Program details here.

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KOLONIAL Screening Black Arts Movement
May
20
7:30 PM19:30

KOLONIAL Screening Black Arts Movement

Inspired, imagined, and curated by Harlem Stage Associate Artistic Director/Artist-in-Residence, Carl Hancock Rux, the Black Arts Movement Conference is a three-day event featuring a keynote address by poet, music critic, and arts administrator A.B. Spellman. The conference includes panels, discussions, essays, and performances, featuring pioneers and visionary artists including Nona Hendryx, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Threadgill, Stew, Toshi Reagon, and more, as well as a closing-night concert co-presented with Park Avenue Armory, curated by Carl Hancock Rux, Tavia Nyong’o, and Vernon Reid, with contributions by Carrie Mae Weems and Stefanie Batten Bland.

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Harlem Stage - Black Arts Movement: Examined Part VI - Dance
Apr
13
to Apr 15

Harlem Stage - Black Arts Movement: Examined Part VI - Dance

For over 20 years, Harlem Stage’s signature dance series, E-Moves, has brought together phenomenal choreographers, artists, musicians, and dancers of color to showcase their choreographic visions and pull audiences into an exploration of movement and message. The Black Arts Movement: Examined series inspires this year’s program, curated by Jerome Robbins Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage alum Stefanie Batten Bland, and will feature works in conversation with the Black Arts Movement.

Join us for an evening showcasing choreographers experimenting with and responding to the legacy of the past while creating dances that lean into the future.

Supported, in part, by the Mellon Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and Harkness Foundation for Dance.

Black Arts Movement: Examined is supported by the Mellon Foundation.

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