DOTL's sixth recipient, Amber Sloan will create a new work for final presentation at "Dance on the Lawn: Montclair's Dance Festival (DOTL)" 2020.

On being chosen as DOTL's 2020 recipient Amber says: "I am incredibly honored to be selected as this year's NJ Emerging Commissioned Choreographer. I am grateful for this opportunity to immerse myself in the New Jersey community, meet local artists, build new relationships, and develop and perform my work for the Dance on the Lawn audience."

BIO: Amber Sloan is a choreographer, performer and teacher whose work has been presented by Roulette Theater, Dixon Place, Soaking WET at the West End Theatre, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Spoke the Hub, 92Y, Green Space, Danspace Project, Stuffed at Judson Church/Bailout Theater, Dance Safari, EstroGenius Festival, as well as an 18 year commissioning relationship with DanceNow NYC.  She was a 2015 Schonberg Resident at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard and has received space grants from organizations including Gibney Dance Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Spoke the Hub and Mana Contemporary. As a performer, Sloan has been a member of The Bang Group since 2002, appearing in several prestigious theaters and festivals in both Europe and the United States. She has performed in works by Keely Garfield, Doug Elkins, James Waring, Sara Hook, and Stephan Koplowitz. She teaches dance composition at the Ailey School, serves on the board of Dance Omi International Collective, and co-directs Women in Motion NYC. Sloan holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was honored with the Beverly Blossom/Carey Erickson Alumni Dance Award.

MORE ABOUT Amber:
www.ambersloan.com

NEWS... Dance Theatre of Harlem's Stephanie Rae Williams joins our 2019 lineup.

Read more about our New Jersey and New York lineup
HERE!

Read more about Oluwadamilare 'Dare' Ayorinde, DOTL's 2019 "Emerging Commissioned New Jersey Choreographer" HERE

See you on Saturday, September 7th @ 3-5pm
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
73 S. Fullerton Avenue
Montclair, NJ



Be sure to join us for the after party at
Montclair Brewery where they are making a special brew - "Second Position Session"!

Top Tapper Savion Glover and his 14-year-old son Chaney joined us on Thursday evening, July 25, for a conversation in support of Dance on the Lawn. The “Scenic Summer Gathering” was the fourth in a series of outdoor social events marking DOTL’s Sixth Season Campaign.
 
Savion, who made his mark as the lead in Broadway’s “The Tap Dance Kid,” each summer teaches young students at the NJ Performing Arts Center Arts Intensive Program, where he also serves on the organization’s board. NJPAC will present the students at Glover’s revival of “The Tap Dance Kid” in three days of performances beginning Sept 15.
 
“It’s my duty to tell them what’s outside these walls, and give them permission to be free, that it’s ok,” said Glover. According to Laura Marchese, DOTL Managing Director, “This is why we do arts education." Right now, according to Glover, “I am happy to be figuring out my why.”
 
The evening was a fitting celebration of dance as we gear up for the fall festival in September.  Thank you to our hosts Barbara White and Lennon Register, and to the many DOTL supporters who came to this special event.

~ Adria Rolnik 

Read about the update on our "6 Months to our 6th Season" campaign, including our "Garden Dances," the upcoming "Scenic Summer Gathering" with guest Savion Glover, and more.  

The "Scenic Summer Gathering" with Savion Glover (Thursday, July 25 @ 6-8pm), is our only ticketed event.

$65 Single ~ $100 Couple.

We do hope that you will consider attending and supporting DOTL; your support will go towards artist fees for our exciting 6th season! 

Amid a summer full of activity, we’d like to pause to acknowledge and welcome several funding organizations into the Dance on the Lawn family. 

Our sponsors focus on supporting arts programs with strong community connections. The Dodge Foundation, a key supporter of the arts in New Jersey for nearly 40 years, has a focus on programs with an inclusive mission and an emphasis on the meaningful role that the arts can have in building community. Partners for Health Foundation aims to invest in programs that improve the quality of life in Essex and Passaic Counties. Similarly, BSTV and Investors Bank support community-minded organizations that contribute to civic life in the NJ communities they serve. And in August, we added Montclair Orthodontics to our esteemed list of supporters.

To cap this season’s campaign, DOTL also is a proud recipient of a Masterwork Foundation Community Grant Award. This New Jersey-based organization has been supporting excellence in the arts, particularly music, for more than fifty years and recently announced an expansion of their mission to include funding in all arts disciplines. To celebrate, the Foundation invited artists, arts lovers, and arts supporters to a “re-envisioning” event at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ in March, where DOTL’s 2019 Emerging Commissioned NJ Choreographer, Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde, shared a piece of his work-in-progress. Executive Director Todd Whitley again honored DOTL in June: “Recognizing community-based programming that supports excellence in the arts is what the Masterwork Foundation' s Community Grant Awards are all about. We're pleased to offer our top grant award to Dance on the Lawn, whose generosity and conviction to the arts we admire.”

AND...just before our big event on Saturday, September 7th, Dr. Barnes & Carter, Family Eye Care, Marc Berube, L&B Healthy Pet Markets, Jonathan DeCamp - DeCamp Bus Lines, Egan & Sons, Pub & Kitchen and Stuffed Grass-Fed Burgers joined our DOTL family!

Support from these organizations is an acknowledgement of DOTL’s dedication to enriching our shared communities. In each case, the funders recognized DOTL’s strength as a resource in supporting the local dance community and in making dance performance accessible to all. This recognition also shows how much DOTL has grown since the first festival in 2014. The hard work by DOTL’s many local supporters is raising awareness, helping to ensure DOTL’s presence as the place for dance in Montclair. For this, we’re particularly proud and grateful.