Choreographic Investigation Course Now Available

Designed to meet the needs of emerging dancemakers who seek structure and encouragement in their choreographic development. It is a unique vocational-training program, providing creative freedom, community, artistic opportunities, and the chance to study composition, make work, and gain practical career-enhancing knowledge from working artists in the New York dance scene and abroad. The CIC’s goal is to provide affordable practical and artistic training, serving artists wanting a comprehensively structured program culminating in a certificate of completion. The program features :

• Composition Courses

• Monthly Lectures

• Choreolab

• Opportunities for Mentorship

CIC Schedule

CIC Fees

Application Process:

Submit a brief biography and artist statement highlighting your background and relevant experiences. Tell us why you are interested in participating and specify the goals you hope to accomplish during the course. You will be contacted with an interview slot after your application is received.

Click here for application form

Application due date for our next CIC program: Wednesday, January 25, 2012

For More Information Click Here

What Our Team is Saying...

"Working with LOVE|FORTÉ A COLLECTIVE has been a blessing.  Instead of working from an egotistical point of view, Nia and Marjani facilitate work that pushes the boundaries of what dance is, what it looks like, and how dance interacts with our lives.  It's truly a collective between the audience, performers, students, and artists involved." (Autumn Scoggan, Administrative Assistant).

 www.bethaniehines.com

"Working with LOVE|FORTÉ is a gift. I am honored to share in their vision to produce powerfully authentic and heartfelt work. They provide enrichment to our community, while inspiring artists and audiences to think outside of the box.  LOVE|FORTÉ is a new and necessary force to watch for.” (Dawn Robinson, Development Consultant).

Message From our Co-Founder Nia Love

As I move through this time  as a hue-man being making dances and thinking of the world through that type of lens, I am constantly reminded that I am a free thinker, full of possibility, able to illuminate my deepest thoughts and aspirations. I am also humbled by the idea that each year I live no matter how much or little I have "succeeded" in my craft, there is always one time or another that reminds me that I am forever evolving forever raising and falling, shifting and converging, yielding and fast-forwarding, balancing and multitasking at every corner at every bend in the road.

 My motherhood and arthood meet and clash, suspend, fed each other and redefine perspectives and truths at the weight of the others reality.... and I am humbled!!!!
My days as a choreographer/teacher are filled with thoughts about power and the maintenance of balance and blissfulness in the face of brute speed. I am trying to overstand how to continue to do my work  even if no one really cares that I do the work

....I am continuously reminded that the work is important not because the media or other people for that fact accept it or not but that I do the work because I need to do it and  as long as I have breath in my body... I will do it and see this battle over!

NEW CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday              Wednesday         Thursday           Saturday
7:30-9:30pm       7:30-9:30pm       7:30-9:30pm     12-2pm
(Marjani)             (Nia)                  (Both)                (Nia)
*starts Jan '11

all  classes are taught at Dance New Amsterdam

Photos from DanceNOW Joe's Pub Performance

Who is LOVE|FORTÉ?

LOVE|FORTÉ A COLLECTIVE is the creative marriage of Marjani Forté and Nia Love.  We've connected in our commitment to social and politically conscious art making that connects the human experience through time. 

We are in the development of work that demonstrates our:

●unique approach to “re-defining the Performance Experience”

●our varying and collective perspective as artists of successive generations

●our commitment to the PROCESS of art making via Improvisational-based Performance

● and finally our equal commitment to Research and Embodied Memory as source material