New York based contemporary dance company, ZviDance, now in its 25th year, has appointed a new executive director, Allen Maniker M.D.

Until recently the Chairman of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Maniker will assume the role of Executive Director in June of this year after the successful tenure of the outgoing Nikki Chalas. Dr. Maniker holds a BFA in dance from Juilliard and formerly performed with Bat Dor of Israel, the Sophie Maslow Dance Company, and the Joyce Trisler DansCompany. He obtained his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan and completed his training in Neurosurgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He will work with ZviDance and the Board of Directors to build and maintain its performance and fundraising agenda. Mr. Gotheiner, having just completed a Juilliard commission, as well as company performances at MassMoCA, and Pace University, will show the company at BAM, Jacobs Pillow, and the American Dance Festival in the coming months.

ZviDance brings its audiences a passionate vision of community in a modern age. A collaborative alliance among artists, the company's stirring work celebrates diversity by melding movement genres into the distinct dance vocabulary, which is provocative both in form and in subject matter. Led by Israeli-born Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner, the company is shaped by a synergistic model of creation, involving the ensemble and designers from the initial research phase, pushing the methodology and ethics of a creation process within an interdisciplinary format.  

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 15 -20, 2016: CHAIRS at University of Washington

June 17, 2016: Chair Duet as part of the Wave Rising Series at 92Y Harkness Dance Center 

July 18 - 24, 2016: Escher/Bacon/Rothko at Jacob's Pillow

Summer 2016: Zvi Gotheiner teaches at Impulstanz and Cullberg Ballet

September 9 - 10, 2016: World Premiere of On The Road, at American Dance Institute

November 30 - December 2, 2016: NY Premiere ofOn The Road as part of the Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music