Grupo de Rua
BAM
October 31—November 2
The 10 male dancers of Brazil’s Grupo de Rua makes their BAM debut with Bruno Beltrão’s street dance, Inoah where the dancers
“…explore urban life at the interface between encounter and confrontation, aggression and exuberance, animosity, bondedness, and common ground. The dancers occupy the mostly dark space with whirling movements, fast kicks, high jumps, and somersaults. Named for a city in Brazil, Inoah is a call for freedom of movement and a creative indictment against its restriction,” according to the release.  Find out more here 
 
Black Grace
The Joyce Theater
October 29–November 3
Neil Ieremia’s New Zealand-based company, Black Grace brings a repertoire of Ieremia’s works, fusing Samoan and Maori movement with contemporary dance. On the program is the U.S. premiere of Kiona and the Little Bird Suite, set to a score of body percussion along with live drumming, singing, and chanting, plus excerpts from recent evening-length pieces, including As Night Falls, and Crying Men. Find out more here 
 
Sam Kim
Danspace Project
October 31–November 2
The Brooklyn-based experimental choreographer, performer, and teacher returns to the Danspace sanctuary with her latest work, Other Animal, “…in which she incorporates media elements into a dance for the first time––animation by celebrated filmmaker Stacey Steers,” notes the release. Find out more here 
 
The Limón Dance Company
Aaron Davis Hall
November 1
City Center for the Arts brings The Limón Dance Company with youth performances and a single evening of dance specifically for the community.  Find out more here  
 
Mark DeGarmo Dance
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
November 1 – 10
Mark DeGarmo is Las Fridas in a 60-minute dance-theater duet inspired by the life and work of Mexican painter and revolutionary, Frida Kahlo. The original cast will perform the piece for the first time in over 3 years in its original, intimate setting. Find out more here
 
J CHEN PROJECT (JCP)
The Ailey Citigroup Theater
November 2
This evening will feature works by JCP’s artistic director, Jessica Chen, and winner of JCP’s CORE Choreography Competition (C3), Michelle Thompson Ulerich. Find out more here 
 
“BlakTinX Performance Series” – Various Artists
BAAD!
November 2–23
The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), some events presented with Pepatian, continues their annual multidisciplinary festival, “BlakTinX Performance Series,” featuring art and performance by Black, Latinx and artists of color.  Still to come is “Souls of our Feet” where eight choreographers share the evening (11/2), Candace Tabbs (11/8-9), Nile Harris (11/15-16), and Joan Bradford (11/22-23).  Find out more here
 
“CrackerJazz” – Various Artists
Birdland Jazz Club
November 3
“CrackerJazz” is based on the 1960 Duke Ellington album “Three Suites,” a jazz interpretation of “The Nutcracker” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, happens at the Birdland Jazz Club, hosted and presented by Mercedes Ellington, artistic director/founder of the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, Inc., and Tony Waag, artistic director of The American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF). Find out more here 
                                                                                                                                  
Sundays on Broadway – Various Artists
537 Broadway
November 3
As part of Cathy Weis’ Sundays on Broadway series, this one curated by Weis, Gregory Corbino, Jennifer Miller, and Lucy Sexton will share the evening’s program.  Find out more here
 
Durgesh Gangani
Goethals Hall
November 4
At Aaron Davis Hall, in partnership with Battery Dance, City Center for the Arts will present an evening of Kathak dance with live musical accompaniment by Dibyarka Chatterjee and Rohan Misra. Find out more here 
 
NEW@Graham
November 5–6
Martha Graham Studio Theater
The series continues with a new work by Troy Schumacher and composer Augusta Read Thomas, commissioned by Peak Performances. Find out more here
 
Ephrat Asherie Dance
The Joyce Theater
November 5-7
For Asherie’s Joyce debut she teams up for the second time with her brother, jazz pianist Ehud Asherie in Odeon blending street and club dances and features seven dancers and four musicians to create a hybrid approach to movement. Find out more here

My November 2019 AmNews Calendar

Featured:
Nia Love @ Gibney
November 7 - 9
Find out more here

FROM THE FOLKS AT SLAM (Christine Chen):

Dear STREB Fans, Families and Friends,

I am extremely honored to be taking the reins as STREB's new executive director, a position I started in late August. In many ways, I feel like I've returned home after spending time leading teams and programs at other arts and cultural organizations, most recently the 92nd Street Y.

STREB has been an inspiration and empowering force in my life over the last few decades - as an audience member, Action Hero, educator, former board member, and as a student - with my husband and son - at the trapeze academy. This fall has been an incredibly exciting time for the company, full of premieres and commissions that took us abroad to Paris, Abu Dhabi and New Jersey, and I've loved seeing our home space at SLAM full of energy and action as all of our classes get started for the season.

I hope you'll join us for our special event on October 28 and at our Home Season which kicks off in November. Thank you for being involved in this exciting organization and I look forward to getting to know you all more!

Sincerely
Christine
(Read a Dance Informa Interview with Christine here)

mayfield brooks
Mount Tremper
October 26
Mount Tremper concludes their summer of promise to support more than 25 artists working in a variety of disciplines for their 2019 Watershed Lab.  Featured on October 26, in partnership with JACK, is mayfield brooks in Letters to Marsha, begun from  “missed connection” with queer ancestor Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson, when mayfield was 21 and Marsha 46,” according to the release. This event is curated by Marýa Wethers.  Participating artists over the series are: Stephanie Acosta, Ballez, Leslie Cuyjet, Jillian Peña, Pourzal and Raha Behnam, David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and more.  Find out more here   
 
William Forsythe
The Shed
October 1 - 25
Forsythe’s A Quiet Evening of Dance “…is an intimate experience for audiences in which choreography is stripped down to its essence…[and] performed by seven former dancers [collaborators] with the Forsythe Company/Ballet Frankfurt: Brigel Gjoka, Jill Johnson, Christopher Roman, Parvaneh Scharafai, Riley Watts, and Ander Zabala. They are joined by Rauf 'Rubberlegz' Yasit, who has developed a unique form of movement taken from b-boying, a style of breakdancing,” notes the release. Also on the program are two reimagined repertory works, Dialogue (DUO2015) and Catalogue (Second Edition).  Find out more here
 
“THE DAY” – Various Artists
The Joyce
October 22 – 27
Cellist Maya Beiser, composer David Lang with dancers Lucinda Childs and Wendy Whelan come together for the New York premiere of THE DAY, the collaborative evening-length work “…examining the way we remember our lives and what happens to our soul and stories when we leave this earthly world behind,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Armitage Gone!
NYLA
October 23 – 26
Karole Armitage’s You Took a Part of Me, inspired by Japanese Noh theater and drawing on Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji “…is an archetypal investigation of a woman revisiting her past situated in a dreamlike state of time and memory,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
“Cracks of Light” – Various Artists
Gibney
October 25 – 26
“Cracks of Light” is part of Gibney's annual observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month with performances by Nana Chinara, Gender/Power, Arielle Rosales, and Sanctuary for Families’ Survivor Leaders.  Find out more here
 
Mette Ingvarsten
NYU Skirball
October 25 - 26
For the U.S. premiere of to come (extended), part of Ingvartsen’s ongoing series, the “Red Pieces,” that deal with the conjuncture of sexual politics, private and public spheres, “…15 performers merge into a collective group, exploring the notion of individual sexual freedom by working on orgiastic relations explores indistinctions between private and public space in regard to sexual representation,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Corona Performing Works
Theatre St. Jean Baptiste
October 26 – 27
The program will feature works by Alessandra Corona, Maiya Redding, Isaies Santamaria Perez, and Manuel Vignoulle in two parts:  Part I with works by Redding, Perez and Corona, and Part 2 features W2! (Women Too!) with works by Manuel Vignouelle.  Find out more here
 
Sundays on Broadway – Various Artists
537 Broadway
October 27
As part of Cathy Weis’ Sundays on Broadway series, this one curated by Adrienne Truscott, Mike Albo, Christen Clifford and Magda San Milan will share the evening’s program.  Find out more here

World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders - Various Artists
Manhattan Movement Arts Center
October 27
Lotus Music & Dance presents “World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders” featuring Dancing Crane Georgian Dance Ensemble and Sonali Skandan/Jiva Dance (South Indian Dance), accompanied by live music. Also scheduled is are pre-performance discussions and demonstrations about the art form.  Find out more here
 
Merce Cunningham Summerspace
New York City Center/Studio 5
October 28
This studio series takes audiences beyond the proscenium for intimate conversations and live performance excerpts from hosted by dance critic and historian Alastair Macaulay. Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace (1958) performed by New York City Ballet in 1966, and now regarded as a masterpiece will be the focus. Macaulay will moderate a conversation with Cunningham stager Jean Freebury with performances by dancers from NYCB. Find out more here
See clips here