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past events

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July Events

(Date headings are color- coded to match event types)

Below is a highlight of upcoming events. Bring friends and family! All ages’ welcome.

AIE programs

Learn more about our ongoing Arts In Education (AIE) workshops and performances.

July.9.10

Pat Cannon’s Foot & Fiddle Dance Company’s salute to the 4th of July in All American – Stars & Stripes at YMCA of Greater New York – Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 99 Meserole Avenue.

July.18.10

Harlem Blues and Jazz Band at Dana Discovery Center (inside Central Park)- 110th Street between Lenox & 5th Ave. Info/Directions: (212) 860-1370 or 718-638-4878.

August.6.10

African-Caribbean Dance Company Something Positive at the YMCA Bronx, NY. 2 Castle Hill Avenue, Bronx NY Info. & Directions: www.ymcanyc.org.

August.8.10

Afro-Caribbean Dance Company Something Positive at Dana Discovery Center (inside Central Park)- 110th Street between Lenox & 5th Ave. Info/Directions: (212) 860-1370 or 718-638-4878.

August.28.10

Señor Lucky Blues Band at NYPL, Andrew-Heighskell Braille & Talking Book Library, 40 West 20th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. Info. & Directions: 212-206-5452.

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Circuit Productions Inc. (CPI) is supported, in part, with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

*Rhythm Journeys: Masters of World Music and Dance, was made possible with funds provided by New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, provided additional support to Circuit Productions, Inc.

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For press and publicity please contact:
Serena Rockower, Bookings/ Outreach at Circuit Productions, Inc.
TEL: 718.638.4878
or EMAIL us at
circuit635(at)earthlink.net

News and Press

July 2010 | Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, New York, July 1, 2010 – Circuit Productions, Inc. kicks off its annual free summer concerts with its 2010 Tap and Jazz Masters – Tap, Jazz and All that Blues Series. The seieswill be presented at sites throughout the city including Central Park’s Harlem Meer, the YMCA of Greater New York at sites in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and the Andrew Heighskell Braille and Talking Books Center at New York Public Library. All shows will be free to the public. The series pays tribute to the legendary artists and seminal artists who created America’s jazz and urban blues. Information on some of these programs is as follows:
Pat Cannon Foot & Fiddle Dance Company Friday, July 9, 2010, 10:30 am-1:00 pm
YMCA-Greenpoint
Info/Directions: 347.223.8369or 718-638-4878 Come celebrate the 4th of July with Pat Cannon Foot & Fiddle Dance Company’s
“All American – Stars & Stripes” offers a dazzling blend of traditional dance and music including clogging, tap, square dance, and Irish Step Dance. Foot & Fiddle’s dancers and musicians provide the historical interconnection between traditional American dances and their multicultural origins in the European, African and Native American cultures.

Harlem Blues and Jazz Band featuring, vocalist Ruth Brisbane Sunday, July 18, 2010, 2:00-4:00 pm
Dana Discovery Center (inside Central Park)- 110th Street between Lenox & 5th Ave.
Info/Directions: 36 W 110th St, New York - (212) 860-1370 or 718-638-4878

Come hear the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band - the world's most authentic swing band. It stars 6 veteran jazz and blues musicians, whose roots reach to the classic period of the 20's and the 30's. Some of these "originals" actually "jumped" at the Woodside and "stomped" at the Savoy with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, "Fats" Waller, Louis Armstrong, and other jazz greats. On tour since 1976, the group has been called "a national treasure."

April 2010 | Brooklyn, NY

Circuit Productions, Inc. and Park Slope community partners present World Beat: A Study of Diverse Cultures in NYC through Dance and Music

Citations awarded by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to four Park Slope partners for the community collaboration of “World Beat”

Next two programs at Camp Friendship are on April 22nd featuring poet, Gary Glazner; and June 14th featuring African dance and drumming

Read the Press Release
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March 2010 | Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn, New York – March 1, 2010. Serena Rockower, Director of Marketing and Outreach at Circuit Productions, Inc., announced the upcoming presentation of Rhythm Journeys: Masters of World Music and Dance.

Come celebrate Latin jazz with Juan Ma Morales and Sonido Costeño at the Bronx Library Center on Saturday March 13, 2010 from 2:30pm – 3:30pm. ( 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx NY 10458 Additional Info: 718- 579-4238 )

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February 2010 | Brooklyn, NY

Arts-in-Education Programming

Brooklyn, New York – February 1, 2010. Serena Rockower, Director of Marketing and Outreach at Circuit Productions, Inc., announced the upcoming presentation of World Beat: A Study of Diverse Cultures in NYC through Music and Dance. The following program is part of Circuit’s arts-in-education programming. If you would like details on attending these Arts Education and other cultural programs please call us at 718.638.4878

Come celebrate Black History Month with the exuberant dancing and drumming of Africa and the Caribbean. Members of the Charles Moore Dance Theatre - Jerbean Gilkes and “Sanga of the Valley” - will be presenting a lively interactive performance of Afro-Caribbean dance and percussion.

Thursday, February 11, 2010.
Workshops from 9:30 am - 11:00am
Site: Park Slope Senior Citizens Center
463A 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11215
Info/Directions: 718.638.4878.

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Executive Director's Corner

Dear Friends,

As those rock and roll songs used to blare from our radios, "We're having a heat wave… "Summer's here and the time is near, for dancing in the streets" and "roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer — the time for pretzels and green tea and Circuit's two concert series: "Rhythm Journeys" and "Tap, Jazz and All that Blues!" As always events will take place throughout the five boroughs and beyond. Don't miss the legendary Harlem Blues and Jazz Band featuring blues vocalist, Ruth Brisbane in the 2010 Harlem Meer Performance Festival at the idyllic Dana Conservancy Center. Also appearing at the same site is Something Positive — a Caribbean music/dance experience and Sounds of Deliverance - the best in gospel. For Circuit’s Rhythm Journeys and Tap and Jazz Master’s schedules please check our website.

Swing to the beat until we meet!

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In Memoriam

Ernest Brown

Susan Goldbetter, Executive Director of Circuit Productions, Inc. had the pleasure of working as a producer with "Cook and Brown" during live performances;
"Dancing All Over the World" (1989 Museum of Natural History), video documentary "Cookie's Scrap Book", (1986) and mulit-media exhibits (after Charles Cook's death) at Brooklyn's Central Library, (1992), Metro Tech (1993), and The Museum of the City of New York (1994-95).

Ernest "Brownie" Brown brought joy to thousands of people. He will be sorely missed!

Read The New York Times article about Ernest Brown

Special Programs

Featured Artists

This fall and Winter jazz greats Sarah McLawler and Fred Staton performed for audiences in hospitals, nursing homes and rehab centers throughout the city. On November 24th and 28th they appeared in two special Brooklyn program at Garden of Eden and Mermaid Manor for drug treatment clients. Read more about these great performers.

Arts-in-Education (AIE) Programs

Circuit Productions can foster collaborations between schools and some of New York City's most engaging arts professionals, as well as train educators to work more effectively with existing school artist-in-residencies. Our program offerings include: Lectures and Workshops, Assembly Programs, Artist Residencies and Staff Development.

Email or call us at 718-638-4878 to explore the different ways American art forms can be integrated with your History, Arts or Language programs.

Ongoing Exhibitions: Cookie's Harlem

Cookie's Harlem - A Tap Dancer's World, is a collection from the legendary tap stylist Charlie "Cookie" Cook. The exhibit preserves a vibrant moment in the history of jazz and lends itself to adaptation to specific sites.

Download an article about the exhibit published from the magazine "On Tap".