Events
News and Upcoming Perfomances
September 2019
Saturday, September 14 at 8pm, we premiere the final iteration of “Pare” at the historic Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, MA.
February 2019
February 21-23 at 8pm: Five College Dance Faculty Concert at Amherst College.
February 2019
February 8 at 4:30pm: Performing at the Mount Holyoke Afire Exhibition Opening at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
February 2019
February 3 at 5pm: Pare at the Finale Performance of the Bodies in Motion Festival at the new Northampton Arts Trust at 33 Hawley.
November 2018
New in November with Hartford Opera Theatre, Hartford, Connecticut. Directed new scenes from Dawn Sonntag’s “Coal Creek.”
November 2018
Mount Holyoke College Fall Faculty Dance Concert. Featuring work by Camille A. Brown, Barbie Diewald, Zoe Henrot, Shakia Johnson, and Marilyn and Sekou Sylla
June 2018
Barbie Diewald was named a 2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Choreography.
May 2018
Barbie Diewald was awarded a 2018-2019 Faculty Research Grant for the development of her work “Pare.”
September 2018
First Draft: Work in Progress Showing of Faculty Research at Mount Holyoke College, in conversation with dance writer and scholar Meredith Bove.
August 2018
In Residence at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Collective Composition Lab for Choreographers and Composers
March 2018
Visiting Artist Residency at the Iron Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
January 2018
Le Nozze di Figaro, produced by PanOpera, marked by first foray into choreographing for the Opera at the historic Academy of Music Theatre, Northampton, Massachusetts.
November 2017
Mount Holyoke College Fall Faculty Concert featuring works by Barbie Diewald, Caroline Fermin, Shakia Johnson, Bebe Miller and Margaret Wiss
March 2017
Barbie Diewald was awarded the New England Dance Fund Grant by the New England Foundation for the Arts. This grant funded a month-long technical residency at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in advance of the company’s premiere of “Eighteen Refrains re: Rhoda.”
July 2017
“Unfinishing” Residency and performance installation with Kate Seethaler at APE Gallery in Northampton.
June 2017
New University Settlement, New York City
New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival 31
New York Premiere of Eighteen Refrains Re: Rhoda at University Settlement as part of the 31st Annual Performance Mix Festival