Welcome to ArtsAhimsa
March 10, 2022
Bohemian National Hall
José White/ Arr. Moshe Knoll
"La Bella Cubana: Habanera"
Pedro Ruiz, choreographer
Elisa Toro Franky, dancer
Leonel Linares, dancer
Laura Jean Goldberg, violin
Moshe S. Knoll, piano
March 10, 2022
Bohemian National Hall
Dvorak
Piano Trio in E Minor, Op.90 ("Dumky")
1. Lento maestoso--Allegro quasi doppio movimento
2. Poco adagio-- Vivace non troppo--Vivace
3. Andante-- Vivace non troppo--Allegretto
4. Andante moderato--Allegretto scherzando--Quasi tempo di marcia
5. Allegro
6. Lento maestoso
Laura Jean Goldberg, violin
Kate Dillingham, cello
Anna Royzman, piano
December 17 and 19, 2021
Tenri Cultural Institute and The Culture Lab
David Karp/ arr. by Benjamin Loeb
"Homesick"
Anonymous poem from Terezin
Laura Virella, mezzo soprano
Maiko Sasaki, clarinet
Kate Dillingham, cello
Anna Royzman, piano
NY Artist Collaborators
Pedro Ruiz
Master Choreographer
Pedro Ruiz is a celebrated choreographer and internationally recognized dancer. Ruiz is the recipient of The Bessie Award, the Choo-San Goh Award, The Cuban Artist’s Fund Award and The Joyce Foundation Award. The FBI honored Ruiz for his Public Service during 2012’s Hispanic Heritage Month. Mr. Ruiz has performed at the White House for several presidents. In 2010, Ruiz founded The Windows Project—a groundbreaking cultural exchange program celebrating the art of dance between the U.S. and Cuba. Ruiz has been the subject of two PBS documentaries: Pas de Deux (part of the “In The Life” series), and Coming Home, a PBS documentary nominated for a NY Emmy Award. Ruiz’s highly successful ballet, Club Havana was featured in Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance. And Ruiz’s celebrated poetic duet, Lasting Embrace, premiered in the US in July 2016 at the Dancers Responding to AIDS Dance Festival on Fire Island. In 2019 under the auspices of the ¡Cuba Aquí! Festival, the Ballet Contemporáneo de Camagűey from Cuba made its American debut at Hunter College’s Kaye Playhouse on March 13th bringing a joyful, exuberant program of three dances by their Cuban-American artistic director Pedro Ruiz.
For more information, visit www.thewindowsproject.org.
Ballet Contemporaneo de Camaguey Cuba Season in New York City 2017
The Windows Project - Pedro Ruiz - Camaguey, Cuba
Kate Dillingham
Artistic Director
Kate Dillingham is a cellist, recording artist, and proponent of music of living composers who enjoys a multifaceted career on varied frontiers of the musical world. She has performed concertos in musical capitals from Salzburg to Moscow and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and The MET Museum. Ms. Dillingham has driven innovation in the composition and performance space, commissioning contemporary works and collaborating with other artists in original multimedia events premiered at a number of festivals including the Queens New Music Festival (NY), of which she was Executive Director from 2017-2021. “We, the whole people” (QNMF 2020), in celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment received funding from NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs and Queens Council on the Arts. She has produced and recorded audio/video projects with international orchestras and soloists, is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY’s) and serves as President of the Violoncello Society of New York (VCS). Kate is Artistic Director of ArtsAhimsa: Music for Peace, a network of artists working to promote non-violence through affirmative power of the Arts. A skilled teacher and inventor, she founded MyBlueSkies.net; an online platform for musicians to connect, teach, and live-stream in high quality audio/video. Kate is both architect and facilitator of ideas, passionate, and engaged in the full spectrum of music.