From Lee & Saar:We will be starting the 2nd round of creation workshop at Gibney dance on October 7th, every friday from 10-12.
Find out more here We have started to work on the musical “The Bands visit” at the Atlantic Theater, Please come to see it in previews in November. Find out more here Have a great year. Lee and Saar he Work Up 3.0 application opens Monday at 9:00 am! Work Up puts ideas on stage, supporting the development of emerging dance and performance artists whose work demonstrates risk, relevance, and research. Apply to share your work in the third season of Work Up, happening in April 2017! Work Up artists each present their work in two shared evenings and receive a $1,000 performance fee, 30 hours of granted rehearsal space, and administrative support. The application submission period opens Monday, October 10 at 9:00 am. Review the guidelines and start working on your application now! We will accept the first 100 applications submitted. Submission Period opens Monday, October 10 at 9:00 am. Application available online here. My AmNews 2016 October Dance Calendar Featured: DANSPACE PROJECT'S PLATFORM 2016: LOST & FOUND October 6 - November 19 Cullberg Ballet Peak Performances October 6 - 9 Deborah Hay, a founding member of Judson Dance Theater, choreographed Figure a Sea (US Premiere) set to a score by Laurie Anderson, and performed by 20 dancers of Sweden’s Cullberg Ballet comes to New Jersey. Says Hay, “Figure a Sea is a meditation on seeing. Seeing music, fleeting incidences, synchronicities, copious input points, collectivity, surprise. It is a space for self-reflection: for seeing oneself seeing.” Pair the 20 dancers with Laurie Anderson’s “…haunting sound scape…” for a curious collaboration described as “60 minutes of purity, beauty and body,” according to the release. Find out more here Maria Hassabi The Kitchen October 4 – 8 The artist/choreographer Maria Hassabi will present STAGED, part of her on-going “…conversation on the expectations of viewership by prolonging and emphasizing the contours of stillness, while addressing the ways in which dance and the spectacle of performance are presented within the theater space,” notes the release. Find out more here Shen Wei Dance Arts BAM October 5 – 8 For their BAM debut, Shen Wei Dance Arts will premiere the evening-length work Neither, set to Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett’s “anti-opera” of 1977. Find out more here Arthur Avilés BAAD October 6 As part of BAAD’s BlakTinX performance series featuring art and performance by Black, Latin and other artists of color, BAAD’s Avilés celebrates the 30-year anniversary of Periodic Solution (1986), a solo by Jean Churchill, one of his first dance teachers at Bard College. Avilés will dance the work, then the movie, a reception and Q&A will follow. Find out more here BomPlenazo 2016 Hostos Center for Arts and Culture October 6-9 For the ninth biennial BomPlenazo 2016 celebration of Afro-Puerto Rican Music & Dance, national, international and intergenerational bomberos and pleneros will take part in performances, workshops, panels and a film. Find out more here Caterina Rago Dance Company New York Live Arts October 6 – 8 Italian choreographer Rago returns to New York with her company of eight female dancers in the premiere of her full-evening work, Labir Into, named after “labirinto,” Italian for “labyrinth,” and which she “…investigate[s] the challenge of finding your most authentic self,” notes the release. Find out more here Cracks of Light - Various Artists Gibney Dance Center October 6 – 8 As part of Gibney Dance’s observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Cracks of Light, part of the series of performance works “…created during the journey from struggle to survival,” according to the release. Each evening features different performances as well as a post-performance discussion and reception. Performers include: Kimberleigh Costanzo, Sandra Manick and Troy Ogilvie. Find out more here New York Theatre Ballet Danspace Project October 6 – 8 New York Theatre Ballet will present a new installment of its “Legends & Visionaries” series with the world premiere of a yet-to-be named work by Antonia Franceschi set to an original musical score by Claire van Kampen. The evening will also feature Jerome Robbins' Antique Epigraphs, and Song Before Spring by Zhong-Jing Fang. Find out more here Platform 2016: Lost & Found – Various Artists Danspace Project October 6 – November 19 The eleventh edition of the Platform series at Danspace Project, titled Platform 2016: Lost & Found, will present over 80 artists in 28 events, including performances, conversations, a zine project, a print catalogue, film screenings, and a vigil. The six-week long event curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls will examine the impact of AIDS on generations of artists. The series also promises “try to recover the loss of a generation of mentors, role models, and muses,” says Houston-Jones, “and what effect that absence has had on the current generation of artists.” The opening events (Oct 6-15) will feature Bill T. Jones, Neil Greenberg, Archie Burnett, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Theodore Kerr, Linda Simpson, Julie Tolentino, Will Rawls, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Darrell Jones, Raja Feather Kelly, Heidi Dorow, Muna Tseng, Lucy Sexton, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Marýa Wethers and Mariana Valencia, “ notes the release. Find out more here Savion Glover NJPAC October 8 For one-evening-only, Glover premieres Chronology of a HooFer, a solo which chronicles his lifework and pays tribute to his mentors. Find out more here Deborah Hay, Laurie Anderson and Sweden’s Cullberg Ballet in Figure a Sea Vimeo - trailer with text by Gia Kourlas Thank goodness that dance comes in many forms. Thank goodness too that there are many options for audiences to view dance. In the two-week (September 23 – October 1) run of Jennifer Monson/iLAND: in tow (premiere), both audience and performers were given all kinds of options. For in tow, Monson invited 10 artists from different decades, different disciplines and those with different aesthetics to be part of the on-going process in developing in tow. The final product—was always, in essence, unknown. Like the on-going and ever-evolving process, neither the make-up of the audience nor the performance was pre-determined; each evening was different. Those performing were called collaborators and include: Monson, Susan Becker, DD Dorvillier, Niall Jones, Alice MacDonald, Carol Mullings (lights), Valerie Oliveiro, Zeena Parkins (sound design), nibia pastrana santiago, Angie Pittman and (part of the process but not performing) Rose Kaczmarowski and David Zambrano. Sure enough, there were questioning faces all around, but the collaborators gave the event life. One evening went like this: the audience arrives and the collaborators casually greet their friends with hugs and chat until the lights lower and it was time to switch into performance mode. The space, St. Mark’s Church, had a rack of clothes (or costumes) in one corner, old-fashioned cassette players near the alter, a harp, different shaped objects in the main space, and a grouping of what turns out to be electronic equipment for sound designer in another area. Once activities began, there was a lot happening and not happening at the same time, objects were moved from here to there, clothes were taken off, tossed to the side or put on, bodies collided and movement would result, and so on. Most satisfying was listening to Parkins shift the atmosphere with her pointed sound scape and watching how Monson and Dorvillier, long-time collaborators, connect from far across the room. At the open discussion afterwards Monson shared that she is thankful that in this open forum, there is no judgement. Beyond the satisfying unknown, and though the history of what this work is built on is understood, there is some thought that lingers around privilege and opportunity.
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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." |