LINDA DIAMOND & COMPANY

LINDA DIAMOND & COMPANY is an award winning 501c-3 not-for-profit Modern dance group. Its mission is to provide live dance performances of multicultural and visual arts themes to audiences of all ages in order to promote awareness and better understanding through the universal language of dance. 

Our company is a vibrant combination of international and American dancers whose varied backgrounds provide a richness and diversity to the works. Through the versatility of their individual training these professionals demonstrate a colorful tapestry of Diamond's choreography. Excitement and enthusiasm are evoked in the audience as a result of the dancers' immersion in the works.

Linda Diamond & Company has performed in a wide variety of venues and is adaptable to many settings. Performances include Lincoln Center Outdoors Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council summer events, Staten Island Making Waves Festival (on the Staten Island Ferry), Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, the Woodstock Playhouse & Dutchess Community College (Poughkeepsie).  Visual arts venues include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kleinert James Center ( Woodstock, NY), Phoenix Gallery and Ward Nasse Gallery in Soho, N.Y.  Site specific performances have been at Opus 40 estate (Saugerties, NY), with outdoor sculpture.

In the years that Linda Diamond was the Founder & Artistic Director of Fusion Dance Company, Miami's first professional Modern dance group, the company performed at the University of Miami.  The Percussion Ensemble under Fred Wickstrom at the U. of M. invited her group to perform. When Linda Diamond and Company was established in NYC, the group was invited to perform at Miami Dade South Campus, Miami Chamber Symphony (Burton Dines Conductor), Gusman Hall-Lively Arts Series and for WPBT Television "A Dancer's View of Calder's Universe" (originally created for television under a Fine Arts Council of Florida choreography award).

Performances at Schools and colleges include Miami Northwestern H.S., University of Miami, Barry University, University of Southern Connecticut, Yale University, Learning to Read Through the Arts for the NY Department of Education, New York Foundation for the Arts, Port Washington Schools, East Harlem Performing Arts School, Professional Performing Arts H.S. NYC, Fashion Institute of Technology and the H.S. of Fashion Industries.

Linda Diamond & Company has been honored with choreography awards for the seasonal Woodstock Diamond Dance Festival. Other choreography awards include the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, ITV Dance Film presentation (through NYSCA), Dutchess County Arts Council, Stewarts Shops Foundation, Arts Mid-Hudson Community Grant Award 2022 & 2024, Puffin Foundation, and Choreographer's Award 2022 (Coronavirus assistance grant).

 Linda Diamond & Company repertoire includes 4 works created by the late Anna Sokolow, for whom choreographer Diamond inaugurated a street naming. Mayor Bloomberg approved Diamond's proposal for "Anna Sokolow Way" at 1 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. "A Tribute to Anna Sokolow" was presented at the Lucille Lortel Theatre which included all the works that Anna created for L D & C.  This was followed by the ceremony to unveil "Anna Sokolow Way" by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in 2004.

 In the year 2000 Linda Diamond founded the Woodstock Diamond Sokolow  Dance Theatre to honor the memory of her mentor, the late Anna Sokolow  (1910-2000). L D & CO. presents the seasonal Woodstock Diamond  Dance & Music Festival which includes guest artists representing a  variety of styles including  Classical Indian dance, Flamenco, ethnic  styles and Guest artists in the Modern dance field. 

 Hymn to the Earth, a newly premiered work by Choreographer Diamond, is a work in progress for a film to be created and distributed for free to schools, Senior Residences and Memory Care locations . This outreach is geared towards those who might not be able to attend live performances. We are seeking funding to enhance this work so that it can be available for distribution.

Linda Diamond & Company is a firm believer in providing the art of dance and music for all people and as a source of healing, enlightenment and communication.

Recent works by Linda Diamond (from over lOO created)

Lift Off (Music: Johan de Meij),  Architects of Triumph (Music: Jo Brandenburg),

DanceVisions of Picasso (4 Sections)  1. Guernica (Music: Garry Dial & Manuel de Falla)   2.  Afrocubism (Music: Ray Lema)    3.  Les Saltimbanques (Music: Georges Bizet) 4.  Pic- Assiette (L.A. Guitar Quartet & Manuel de Falla),  Homage to Chagall ( 3 dance sections), A Dancer's View of Calder's Universe (4 sections) Music: Jonathan Kramer, Secret Annexe (Music: George Crumb), Precipice (Music: Christopher Theofanidis), Affinities (Music from Cirque de Soleil),  Mamma Mia (Music: Traditional Sephardic),  Shadoflash (Music:Julie  Andrews sings from The Fantastics), A Journey Through Her Mother's  Heart (Music : Erik Satie & Tom Desisto), Duet Andino (Music: Traditional Music of the Andes), Salidas y Entradas (Music: Tania  Leon), Las Escondidas (Music: Traditional Sephardic), La Prometida ( Music: Traditional Sephardic), Parachute (Music: Bar Scott), Cielo (a tribute to Anna Sokolow) Music: Heitor Villabos, Noble Savage (Music: Jacques Ibert, Paintings: Brian Adam), Elegia / Protesta (Music: Max Lifchitz & Tom Desisto), Wayfarer's Lament (Music: Joan Baez & Bob Dylan), Baez Ballade (Music: Joan Baez), Terra Incognita (Music: Lou Harrison), Beyond Noah's Ark (Music: Joe Pehrson & Peter Griggs), Hernando's Hideaway (Music: Jerry Ross & Richard Adler)

Works in Collaboration with Tom Desisto:

 Cuisine Flambee, Music of the Spheres,  Hymn to the Earth, Swamp, Winds of Change

Works by Anna Sokolow

Amor (Music: David Lanz), Como la Luna y el Sol  (Music: Traditional Sephardic), Una Semana (Music: Traditional Sephardic), Una Semana (Music: Traditional Sephardic), Durme Durme (Music: Traditional Sephardic)

 Our professional group is available for  diverse venues including schools, universities,  concert halls, Senior  residences, art galleries. museums, and international festivals.

For further information contact Artistic Director Linda Diamond at reviewdancing@yahoo.com or 845 679-7757. Diamond is fluent in Spanish & French and can l give dance workshops and lectures in those languages.