Stefanie Batten-Bland is the Artistic Director of Company SBB.  Company SBB creates performances rooted in community. Past awards and honors include the 2016 Jerome Robbins Award, 2015 Kevin Spacey Foundation Artists Choice Award, 2014/15 Alvin Ailey Foundation New Directions Choreography Lab Fellow, 2014 Joffrey Ballet Choreographer of Color.

Stefanie Batten Bland’s Company SBB & BSA present PATIENT(CE), an interdisciplinary work inspired by father daughter conversations between Company SBB founder and controversial composer and film maker Ed Bland. This creation examines the structure of jazz with its formal emphasis on the eternal present. Through a collaboration with futuristic jazz ensemble Burnt Sugar the Arkestra
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The Art Gallery of Ontario is located on Dundas Street in the heart of the city of Toronto. Walking distance from Yonge-Dundas Square, the Toronto Eaton Centre and Chinatown, the AGO is easy to plan into your itinerary. As the cultural centre of Canada, the city of Toronto is one of the most diverse and
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Presented by Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Geri Fallo & the City of Hoboken this will be the 24th edition of the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival. There will be two stages of live music with Overlake, The Karyn Kuhl Band featuring Syd Straw, The Demolition String Band, Glenn Morrow’s Cry for Help, Mike Daly & The
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Provocative, prodigal darling of the dance world, Stefanie Batten Bland began her career in New York City, crossed the Atlantic and took roots in Europe for more than a decade, and then returned to Manhattan to lead her troupe, SBB Company, to dizzying heights of inventiveness. Since founding the ensemble in 2008 in France, the
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“On the borders between Sardinia and Jazz” Festival performs the XXXII edition it’s a yet another expression of love, towards the contemporary language of music and, in particular, of jazz. The Festival will have the intact strength and the attitude that has always characterized this event : “the curiosity”. It starts from the past, that
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This being the tres Thursday in a row … you know the dealio … 6pm Doors with Happy Hour raging till 8pm 7-7:20 DJ Spirithood 7:20-7:50 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 8-8:50 – Avram Fefer’s Rivers On Mars featuring Greg Tate 9-9:50 – D Max’s Terrestrial Reset 10-11 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 11-11:30 – #Moist Paula
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6:30 PM Doors with Happy Hour going till 8pm 7-7:20 DJ Spirithood 7:20-7:50 Burnt Sugar Arkestra 8-8:50 –  JS Williams’ Altered Progression 9-9:50 – Brian Tate’s Shrine for the Black Madonna 10-11 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 11- Midnight – DJ Spirithood Any trouble staying toasty … head to the BSA “Smokehouse and we’ll roast ye!

Doors @ 6:30pm ( Happy Hour goes till 8pm!!! ) 7-7:20 DJ Spirithood 7:20-7:50 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 8-8:50 – Digital Diaspora featuring Mikel Banks 9-9:50 – Luqman Brown’s Dope Sagittarius 10-11 – Burnt Sugar Arkestra 11-11:30 – #Moist Paula & #J.Speck’s #The GPS 11:30- Midnight – DJ Spirithood Having trouble staying warm … head
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A bit about Gavin Brown Enterprise:  The gallery was established by Gavin Brown in 1994 on Broome Street, in the west Soho neighborhood of New York City.  The inaugural Broome street exhibition was by the British artist Steven Pippin. Pippin transformed the gallery space into a camera obscura, and in doing so quickly established the
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