VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center
January 28 – 30

Shannon Gillen, artistic director for Vim Vigor Dance Company, presents the world premiere of Separati by Gillen in collaboration with the performers, and set to an original scores by Martin Durov in collaboration with Gillen.  According to the release, “Separati enters the turbid psychic space of highway travel and anonymous companionship…[where]…caught up at a midway point, five characters travel through the past, present and dark hallucinatory projections of the future.”  Featured are: dancers - Jason Cianciulli, Martin Durov, Laja Field, Lavinia Vago, and Emma Whiteley; costumes by Joey Blaha; set design by JC Machine and Tool company, and lighting design by Barbara Samuels. Find out more here 
 
Tricia Brown Dance Company
BAM
January 28 – 30
TBDC concludes their three-year retrospective “Proscenium Works, 1979—2011” with three of Brown’s iconic, postmodern masterpieces--Set and Reset which premiered at BAM in 1983 , PRESENT TENSE (2003), and Newark (Niweweorce) (1987). Find out more here 
 
Robert Ashley + Steve Paxton
The Kitchen
January 28 - 30 & February 4 - 6
This duo will present the world premiere of Quicksand, an opera-novel for music, dance, and light, composed from a novel of the same name by the late Ashley. The work is divided into three acts of 16 scenes with choreography by Paxton.  Find out more here 
 
Matthew Westerby Dance
Triskelion Arts
January 30 - 31
On a shared bill with Emily Craver & the Little Streams, Westerby, in collaboration with the performers, will present their latest work, Strata.  Find out more here
 
Randy James’ 10 Hairy Legs
NJPAC
January 30 – 31
The all-male dance company, 10 Hairy Legs, with invited female guest artists premieres James’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe inspired by C. S Lewis’ novel, in a “…classic story, set in the fictitious Narnia, [and] features Lewis’ characters – the heroine Lucy and her brother Edmund, The White Witch, The Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, Nymphs, a host of Angry Birds, The Giant and of course Aslan The Lion,” according to the release. Find out more here 

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
January 31
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company returns to Brooklyn in an all-new celebration of Chinese arts and culture commemorating the Year of the Monkey, a year characterized by cleverness, curiosity, and playful mischief. Find out more here 

Some thoughts on Urban Bush Women in Walking With 'Trane for AmNews 

Some thoughts on Souleymane Badolo's Yimbegre for AmNews

Friday, February 19 and Saturday, February 20 

The Upstart Festival ushers in fresh talent with an intriguing festival of performances. It gives creators of dance, theater and performance works, with no more than three years of experience showing their work in New York City, an opportunity to show work and facilitate networking opportunities that pave the way for fruitful artistic careers. Participating artists have access to developmental support and resources for their work through showings, feedback sessions, and roundtable discussions.

Originally the brain-child of Shannon Hummel (former BAX Artist In Residence), the festival is currently curated by dance/video artist and former BAX Artist In Residence Jillian Peña and Founding & Executive Director, Marya Warshaw.

Friday Night 
Sameena Mitta/MeenMoves  
Alicia Raquel  
Johnnie Cruise Mercer/ The REDProject 
Sara Gurevich 
YaYa McKay

Saturday Night 
Tanya Marquardt
Mor Mendel 
Alexandra Pinel 
Ryan Streit  
Marissa Brown/Lone King

For more information, visit:
events.bax.org/upstart-festival-2016 
 
To view a list of past Upstart Festival artists, visit: 
events.bax.org/professional/upstart-festival/past. 

​​​BAX is asking artists to submit a Letter of Intent to be selected to submit a full proposal for the Artist in Residence program.The Letter of Intent can only be submitted online no later than Friday March 4, 2016 at 5:00pm. All applicants will be notified by March 14, 2016.
Applicants selected to submit a full proposal will be asked to respond to  additional questions and provide work samples. All materials will be due by April 4, 2016 at 5:00pm. Finalists will be notified by April 22, 2016 and invited to interviews that will take place week of April 25, 2016. Final notification will be on or before May 9, 2016.

Selected artists are provided with a base for development over a one year period (with a possible extension of another full year). BAX will consider original work only, not the re-staging of existing work. BAX is deeply invested in developing original voices and work that explores new ground.The residency will include premiere or work in progress performance of work created at BAX.

Space Grant Program
The Space Grant Program is designed to give Brooklyn & Queens based dance, theater and performance artists the opportunity to create new work in a setting that is conducive to working deeply and exploring new territory.

BAX offers two different types of Space Grants. Grant #1 (Summer) is a work period, Grant #2 (Fall) includes a performance component. Both Space Grants include 100 hours of free rehearsal space. Summer space grantees will participate in a show & tell Tuesday August 9 7-9 p.m. showing 5-10 minutes of work developed and participating in a conversation with other space grantees, Executive Director Marya Warshaw and BAX staff. Fall Space Grantees will have an interim showing Saturday November 5 from 2-4 p.m.

For more information about the Artist in Residence program and application process, visit artistservices.bax.org/artist-residence-loi.

For more information about the Space Grant program and application process, visit artistservices.bax.org/2016-space-grant-application. 

There will be an informational session provided to answer any questions about the Artist in Residence and Space Grant programs as part of BAX's annualArtist Services Day on Sunday February 7, 2016. The session will run from 11:30am - 12:30 . Artistic/Executive Director Marya Warshaw will be present to offer insight and answer specific queries.
To learn more about Artist Services Day, visit artistservices.bax.org/2016-artist-services-day.

For any additional questions please contact artistservices@bax.org

Open Call for Socially Engaged Dance Artists -
One of the first new initiatives [Dancing in the Streets] will launch this year will be long-term artist residencies in Mott Haven and the South Bronx. We are keen to nurture deep and ongoing relationships between dance artists and residential communities, developing regular creative practice experiences for all ages. If you are a dance artist living or working in the Bronx, and would like to work extensively in community settings then please get in touch. I would love to see how we might be able to work with you. You can reach me at simon@dancinginthestreets.org.

RE-ENGAGING OUR CORE – UBW RETURNS TO BROOKLYN FOR IT’S 16TH SLI!
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July 22- 31, 2016

You, Me, We –
Understanding Internalized Racial Oppression and How it Manifests in Our Artistic Community

Application Opens February 5

After moving our Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) to New Orleans in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, UBW is coming home to Brooklyn!  July 22 – 31, 2016. UBW often uses the movement metaphor of Core & Distal to talk about our dance practice as well as our community engagement practice.  As we teach in our Entering, Building and Exiting Community (EBX) workshop, engaging our core—our own bodies, identities and communities—is essential for maintaining clarity and stability as we engage the distal—other bodies, identities and communities. This return to Brooklyn signals an opportunity for us at UBW to strengthen and re-engage our core arts community of NYC. 

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