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 Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Nai-Ni Chen and Dancers
Month of May The Maplewood Township, South Orange Village, SOMA Cross Cultural Works and the AAPI Community come together to recognize and celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. These organizations stand in solidarity, the focus is on education, healing and creating joy as we honor the richness and diversity of Asian and Pacific Islander cultures with an exciting lineup of family oriented activities and programs. The South Orange Performing Arts Center will share Chen’s Awakening free on demand throughout the Month of May. Highlights include Chen’s Truth Bound, Introspection, Luminescence, and Shadow Force. Find out more here AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS March 1-June 27 At Performance Space New York, members of AFROFEMONONOMY who have collaborated in different configurations come together for the first time as a group to celebrate each other’s work. This exploratory collaboration happens with Black femme theatermakers Lileana Blain-Cruz, Charlotte Brathwaite, Eisa Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Ayesha Jordan, Joie Lee, April Matthis, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Karen Robinson, Kaneza Schaal, and others. Find out more here Ailey All Access March 17 – June 24 Join the Ailey All Access web page and get real-time access to many Ailey classics, favorites and more. Find out more here Stefanie Batten Bland May 3 - 17 Baryshnikov Arts Center continues their digital performance series with Batten Bland’s Kolonial, created in collaboration with installation artist Conrad Quesen and inspired by the colonial exposition parks of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean during the 1810s–1940s. Find out more here Limón Dance Company May 6-19 On demand, at The Joyce, the Limón Dance Company continues to honor the legacy of its co-founder with revivals of his works featuring The Moor’s Pavane (1949) and There Is a Time (1956) plus more. Find out more here Various Artists May 11-15 NYLA’s Live Ideas presents The Motherboard Suite “… a suite of music by musician, poet, actor Saul Williams directed by Bill T. Jones, performed by Williams, his musical collaborators and features six choreographers - Maria Bauman, Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forté-Saunders, d. Sabela grimes, and Shamel Pitts. Find out more here Various Artists May 12 - 23 The 2021 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival will feature works by Morgan Bullock (US), Gerald Casel (US), Daudi Fayar (Kenya), BamBam Frost (Sweden), and John Scott (Ireland). The two-week festival will also feature works by New York-based artists Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum, J. Bouey, Jasmine Hearn, Tiffany Mills, Ricarrdo Valentine, and Sugar Vendil. Performances will be streamed live from La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre and Downstairs Theatre, with additional performances outdoors at Downtown Art for limited, in-person audiences. Find out more here Ballet Hispánico May 13, 20 & 27 A live stream of Ballet Hispánico’s En Familia, a virtual performance narrated by Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro showcasing excerpts from the company’s repertoire – Con Brazos Abiertos and Club Havana. The performance will be followed up by a Q&A featuring some Ballet Hispánico artists and educators. Find out more here. Various Artists May 15 At BAAD!, the virtual version of the Boogie Down dance compilation will feature performances by Argelia Arreola, Marsi Burns & Tamara Strang, Mira Göksel, Callie Hatchett, Nadia Khayrallah, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Aya Saotome and Bombazo Dance Co.! Find out more here Leslie Cuyjet, Kennis Hawkins, and Alex Rodabaugh May 15 - 16 The Kitchen's 2020 "Dance and Process" recipients will offers an in-person afternoon of dance - This is A Dance - at Queenslab. Find out more here  We’re bringing free arts back to our parks and plazas! We are thrilled to announce applications are now open for GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC. This new fund, created by a coalition of partners, will support NYC artists, arts and cultural groups, and community-based, volunteer organizations by providing micro-grants and subsidized production support to produce local arts events in their communities.
Thanks to generous support from the New York Community Trust and Con Edison’s Arts Al Fresco Series, this fund will ensure that New York City’s most under-resourced communities will have access to free live performances in neighborhood parks, plazas, and community gardens this summer and fall. Applications are open now through Friday, May 28th at 12:00PM. For updates on the fund or to attend our digital information session on May 18th, sign up here. Find out more here  Stefanie Batten Bland Stefanie Batten Bland
May 3 - 17 Baryshnikov Arts Center continues their digital performance series with Batten Bland’s Kolonial, created in collaboration with installation artist Conrad Quesen and inspired by the colonial exposition parks of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean during the 1810s–1940s. Find out more here AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS March 1-June 27 At Performance Space New York, members of AFROFEMONONOMY who have collaborated in different configurations come together for the first time as a group to celebrate each other’s work. This exploratory collaboration happens with Black femme theatermakers Lileana Blain-Cruz, Charlotte Brathwaite, Eisa Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Ayesha Jordan, Joie Lee, April Matthis, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Karen Robinson, Kaneza Schaal, and others. Find out more here Ailey All Access March 17 – June 24 Join the Ailey All Access web page and get real-time access to many Ailey classics, favorites and more. Find out more here Trisha Brown Dance Company April 29 - May 12 At the Joyce, the digital program will feature works Brown’s Geometry of Quiet (2002), the program will also include newly recorded performances of Locus Trio (1980), Watermotor (1978) and The Decoy Project from Glacial Decoy (1979). Dind out more here. Omari Wiles’ Les Ballet Afrik May 4 & 6 Wiles will present a live performance of New York Is Burning to honor the thirtieth anniversary of the film “Paris is Burning,” made during a 2020 Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. Find out more here Limón Dance Company May 6-19 On demand, at The Joyce, the Limón Dance Company continues to honor the legacy of its co-founder with revivals of his works featuring The Moor’s Pavane (1949) and There Is a Time (1956) plus more. Find out more here Various Artists May 6 DanceNow has released Chapter 6 featuring commissioned works by Sarah Chien, Kayla Farrish, and Joshua L. Peugh and archival works by John Heginbotham and Paula Josa-Jones. The Watch Party happens on Zoom. Find out more here Hope Boykin May 7 The Living Gallery at Gibney, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Senior Curatorial Director of Gibney brings educator, creator, mover, and motivator, Boykin to the virtual space. Find out more here Alice Sheppard/Kinetic Light May 11 ALL ARTS will present the new docu-dance film One + One Make Three created by Sheppard, Kinetic Light’s Artistic Director, and directed by Katherine Helen Fisher of Safety Third Productions during a bubble residency at Z Space in San Francisco. Find out more here Various Artists May 11-15 NYLA’s Live Ideas presents The Motherboard Suite “… a suite of music by musician, poet, actor Saul Williams directed by Bill T. Jones, performed by Williams, his musical collaborators and features six choreographers - Maria Bauman, Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forté-Saunders, d. Sabela grimes, and Shamel Pitts. Find out more here BAAD!’s OUT LIKE THAT FESTIVAL (June 2021)
DANCE COMPILATION CONCERT - BAAD! - Outdoor Event CALL FOR ARTISTS! OUT LIKE THAT DANCE COMPILATION CONCERT Saturday, June 19th, 8pm ET If you’re Trans, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Questioning, Two-Spirited, In the light, Intersex, Asexual, and anything else we may have missed out, this CALL IS FOR YOU! BAAD! is seeking eight (8) Queer & Out choreographers to present 5-7 minutes of their choreographic work for BAAD!’s Out Like That Festival on Saturday, June 19th, 8pm ET. This dance compilation will be presented as an outdoor event at BAAD!’s backyard stage, with audience members physically distant. BAAD! will compensate each choreographer $125 along with 5 hours of free rehearsal space leading up to the presentation. Please note: Due to social distancing guidelines, dance pieces are limited to solos and duets. BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance creates, produces, presents, and supports the development of cutting edge and challenging works in contemporary dance and all creative disciplines which are empowering to women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community. TO SUBMIT: Email Programming Associate, Gerard Minaya, at gerard@baadbronx.org by June 1st, 2021. Submissions are accepted on a first come, first served basis and will continue until all spots are filled.  The South Chicago Dance Theatre is a traditional repertory company hosting its annual audition this June via a preliminary virtual submission and an in-person audition for select applicants. A virtual audition is available upon request.
The company is hiring professional artists as well as accepting dancers between the ages of 18-24 into its Emerging Artist Program. SCDT’s diverse repertoire encompasses renowned contemporary choreographers and a preservation program for historic dance work. The company tours nationally and internationally and there are also a myriad of opportunities for dancers who are interested in both teaching and facilitating community-based work. To learn more, visit southchicagodancetheatre.com!   Various Artists
April 30 & May 1 At SOPAC seven local New Jersey artists are will share works in“Capturing the Moment: A Showcase of New Jersey Choreographer Fellows,” ia two-part, pre-recorded event. Featured will be the awardees of the 2020 Choreography Fellowship: Erin Carlisle Norton (Montclair), Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde (Teaneck), Pallavi Degwekar-Shaikh (Dayton), Tsai His Hung (Woodridge), Robert Mark Burke (Jersey City), Barkha Patel (Guttenberg), and Nai-Ni Chen (Englewood Cliffs). Interviews conducted by dance critic and journalist Robert Johnson. Find out more here AFROFEMONONOMY // WORK THE ROOTS March 1-June 27 At Performance Space New York, members of AFROFEMONONOMY who have collaborated in different configurations, gathered and celebrated each other’s work—come together for the first time as a group. This exploratory collaboration happens with Black femme theatermakers Lileana Blain-Cruz, Charlotte Brathwaite, Eisa Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Ayesha Jordan, Joie Lee, April Matthis, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Stacey Karen Robinson, Kaneza Schaal, and others. Find out more here Ailey All Access March 17 – June 24 Join the Ailey All Access web page and get real-time access to many Ailey classics, favorites and more. Find out more here Ballet Hispánico April 27 - May 1 The Company will present CARMEN.maquia as part of a 3-part streaming experience hosted by the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. Find out more here Trisha Brown Dance Company April 29 - May 12 At the Joyce, the digital program will feature works Brown’s Geometry of Quiet (2002), the program will also include newly recorded performances of Locus Trio (1980), Watermotor (1978) and The Decoy Project from Glacial Decoy (1979) find out more here. Ephrat Asherie April 15 – 29 On demand, choreographer Asherie’s Odeon, a hybrid layering of breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue made with her brother, jazz pianist Ehud Asherie plus other live musicians and a cast of dancers returns on the Joyce Theatre’s streaming series. Find out more here |
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AuthorI am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning. I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program. I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications. Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me." |
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