Davalois Fearon Dance (DFD)
BRIC
March 5-6
As part of their BRICLAB Residency, DFD will present a work in progress performance of For C.J. made in honor “…Fearon’s nephew, who fell victim to a fatal asthma attack. His passing was tragic and with proper care and treatment, entirely preventable. Urban planning and systemic redlining in government agencies have pushed populations of color to areas that face disproportionate levels of pollution, which results in the asthma hospitalization and death rates among Blacks and Hispanics being 3–5 times those of Whites. The piece features Fearon’s ballet-infused postmodern/Caribbean movement vocabulary; music composed by Mike McGinnis; wearable sculpture, costume, and makeup designed by interdisciplinary artist Jasmine Murrell; and set design by performer/visual artist Myssi Robinson.  For this iteration, Fearon takes her immersive audiovisual experience approach by calling on six live musicians to perform alongside DFD Dancers Morgan Anderson, Njeri Rutherford, and Mikaila Ware,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Ballet Vlaanderen
The Joyce
March 3-7
The Company, also known locally as Ballet Flanders, celebrates its 50th anniversary and in the Joyce season will present Akram Khan’s Kaash, artistic director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun, and Crystal Pite’s Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue.  Find out more here
 
Nederlands Dans Theater
March 4-7
New York City Center
The Dutch company an evening of works by Gabriela Carrizo (The missing door), Marco Goecke (Walk the Demon) and house choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot (Singulière Odyssée ). Find out more here
 
Kimberly Bartosik / daela
NYLA
March 4-7
Bartosik’s through the mirror of their eyes which aims to “…brim with compassion and violence...” is performed by Joanna Kotze, Dylan Crossman, Burr Johnson, and three young performers (Dahlia Bartosik-Murray, Hunter Liss, Winter Willis).  Find out more here
 
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre
Baruch Performing Arts Center
March 5-7
As part of the CUNY Dance Initiative, Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre presents the world premiere of Hindsight, an evening-length work that focuses “…on reflection and memory [and] references motifs and structures…” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Maki Morishita & Tabaimo
Japan Society
March 6-7
Choreographer Maki Morishita and Japanese visual artist Tabaimo come together for the multi-media dance work, Fruits borne out of rust, a solo danced by Chiharu Mamiya.  Find out more here
 
Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Dance Company
Williams Institutional C.M.E
March 8
Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Dance Company shares the afternoon of music and dance with Francisco Mora-Catlett’s New York-based Afro Horn jazz ensemble.  Find out more here
 
Film Premiere - Pearl Primus
92nd Street Y
March 8
Celebrating dance icon, Pearl Primus, the film titled Pearl Primus, Omowale, Child Returned Home will be shown with a live performance with the Something Positive Dance Company, and Panel Discussion with Peggy and Murray Schwartz, Stan Sherer, Paul Dennis (moderator), Mary Waithe, Ninoska M’bewe Escobar.  Find out more here

My AmNews March 2020 Dance Calendar

​Featured:
Okwui Okpokwasili partners with Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace executive director and chief curator, in “PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus”
Danspace Project
February 22 - March 21
​Find out more here

Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
The Joyce
February 18-23
Celebrating their 20th anniversary, the Company will present the New York premiere of Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde (The Barborous Nights; or, The First Dawns of the World) by French and Algerian choreographer Koubi exploring the shared history of the Mediterranean basin.  Find out more here
 
Richard Alston Dance
Peak Performances
February 20-23
After 50 years, the Company will close its doors, and a final American performance will offer three U.S. premieres including Shine On, the last by Alston, plus more.  Find out more here
 
Peter Stathas Dance
Gibney
February 20-22
Strathas will present the world premiere of the solo In the Garden described as an exploration of our life cycle.  Find out more here 
 
Sarah Juli
Dixon Place
February 21-22 & 27-28
Dixon Place and American Dance Festival presents Juli’s new comedic dance-theater work, Burnt-Out Wife, “…her latest feminist solo…Taking on such topics as intimacy, loneliness, monogamy, and other marital taboos,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Florentina Holzinger
NYU Skirball
February 22-23
Holzinger “…combines fin de siècle freak shows with 1960s live art, offering a new perspective on the rupture between high art and entertainment culture…addressing the myth of the supposedly perfect woman, the artist herself,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
HERE
February 23-March 1
For their annual HERE RAW where resident artists get to share their projects, included on this year’s program will include Suzi Takahashi Marie, Gelsey Bell, Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory and many more. Find out more here
 
“Works & Process at the Guggenheim” – Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
February 23
The performing arts series at the Guggenheim presents Artistic Director Angel Corella’s La Bayadère the 1877 tale of love and godly revenge for Pennsylvania Ballet.  Find out more here
 
“Works & Process at the Guggenheim” – Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
February 24
The performing arts series at the Guggenheim presents Caleb Teicher and Lindy Hop dancers.  Find out more here
 
Philadanco!
NJPAC
February 25
As part of their 50th anniversary celebration, Philadanco comes to New Jersey with a program of dances that explore social themes.  Find out more here  

​Various Artists
BAAD!
February 15
The nine choreographers of “Queer Movie Movers” take over BAAD!’s stage with a series of dances set to music from their favorite LGBTQ film that features queer people of color in a positive light. The choreographers are: Aleixa & Molly, Dia Bui, Rodney Brown, Felix Ciprian, Nick Daniels, Frenchy Haynes, Houiea LOVE, Acharo Smith and Tamara M. Williams. Find out more here
 Che Malmbo
The Joyce
February 11-16
The all-male dance company filled with Argentinian traditions, bring their percussive dance and music spectacle to the Joyce. Find out more here
 
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas & Jean-Guihen Queyras:
NYU Skirball
February 13-15
Choreographer De Keersmaeker makes a rare appearance with her Company, Rosas for the North American premiere of Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6Cellosuiten (In the Midst of Life/Bach’s Cello Suites).  They are joined by cellist Queyras who will play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites in its entirety to “…capture an affinity between the music and dancers, notes the release.   Find out more here
 
NYTB/Chamber Works
Danspace Project
February 13-15
This season's program includes the world premiere of Robert La Fosse's A Soldier’s Tale and Antonia Franceschi's Uncaged, plus Sir Richard Alston's The Small Sonata, and Pam Tanowitz's Double Andante. Find out more here

Various Artists
Peak Performances
Februaty 14-15
The piano sextet, Grand Band made up of Erika Dohi, David Friend, Paul Kerekes, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore, and Isabelle O’Connell to perform compositions by Eastman, Missy Mazzoli, Kate Moore, and Julia Wolfe, plus an animated film by Joshua Frankel who builds a world of geometry, color, and looping patterns of human bodies created collaboratively with choreographer Faye Driscoll.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Park Avenue Armory
February 15
An impressive mix of artists come together for talks and performances and to explore the legacy of the 19th Amendment, 100 years after its ratification. Participants include Deborah Willis, Kathleen Turner and Tantoo Cardinal, Caridad De La Luz “La Bruja,” Martha Redbone, Renee Cox, Karen Finley, De’Ara Balenger and many others.  This one-day event marks the beginning of 100 Years | 100 Women, an initiative of Park Avenue Armory, with lead partner National Black Theatre, and nine major cultural institutions including, The Apollo Theater, The Juilliard School, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company, The Laundromat Project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the Moving Image, National Sawdust, New York University (Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture), and Urban Bush Women, who will collectively commission one hundred artists who self-identify as women to respond to this significant anniversary.
Find out more here

Raja Feather Kelly The feath3r theory             
New York Live Arts (NYLA)
February 6
As the 2019–2020 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at NYLA, Kelly and his company, the feath3r theory, will present a work-in-progress showing of his new work, WEDNESDAY where the performers “…search for the true motivations and outcome behind the bank robbery in the 1975 cinematic-drama ‘Dog Day Afternoon…’  dismantle the film by re-centering the story on Liz Eden, for whom the character Leon in the fllm is loosely based, and the reason why the character Sonny conspires to rob a bank: to fund Eden’s sex change [sic]. This dance-theatre speculative documentary WEDNESDAY is a queer-fantasia where music, movement, and speech are inseparable,” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker
The Joyce
February 4-9
The Company returns to the Joyce with Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers), inspired by João Cabral de Melo Neto’s poem of the same name, and exploring the Capibaribe River region in Northeast Brazil and the dry land and riverbed dwellers that water sustains.  Find out more here

Oren Barnoy
Roulette
February 5-7
Barnoy premieres future erasure, "...born out of a desire to craft a daily prayer through movement," notes the release.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Mark DeGarmo Dance Studio Theater
February 6
Mark DeGarmo Dance presents the February 2020 edition of its annual transcultural transdisciplinary “Salon Performance Series” with performances by Catey Clark, Joan Liu, Jill Moshman, and Frances Rosario-Puleo.  Find out more here
 
Batoto Yetu
City College Center for the Arts/Aaron Davis Hall
February 8
For their return to Aaron Davis Hall, Batoto Yetu brings The Life and Spirit of a Warrior Queen: Nzinga Mbandi of Matamba.  Find out more here
 
Karen Bernard
Douglas Dunn Studio
February 6-8
Performance artist and choreographer Bernard will present her new interdisciplinary work, Lakeside, where she “…confronts the memory of trauma and its lasting impact on the body,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
Movement Research at Judson Church
Judson Church
February 10
Don’t miss this free, on-going, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Maura Bailey, Aminah Ibrahim, Athena Malloy and Connor Voss, plus Paige Phillips
Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Dixon Place
February 11
Curated around the theme “The Inner Strength,” the “Fast Forward” series will present Kizuna Dance in Rebirth by artistic director Cameron McKinney, and OCA Dance in Pal’ Monte by Kennyth Montes De Oca.  Find out more here
 
Che Malmbo
The Joyce
February 11-16
The all-male dance company filled with Argentinian traditions, bring their percussive dance and music spectacle to the Joyce.  Find out more here

My AmNews February 2020 Calendar:

Featured:
mayfield brooks
JACK
January 30 - February 1

Much more going on the rest of the month!

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Anna, Darrin, David, Eleanor, jess, Katie, Leslie & Weena:
The Door’s Unlocked
Join us for an immersive, multi-platformed, week-long event with daily rotating performances, hybrid viewing-doing sessions, and other activated public engagements. The dances, the dancers, the actions, the contents of their work will shift day and night, and we invite you inside to warm up and unfold with them. 

Foley Gallery
59 Orchard Street, NYC 10002February 3rd-9th, 2020, dailyMonday through Friday 2pm-10pm | Saturday and Sunday 12pm-9pmReserve tickets HERE | Donation based pricing at door. Cash or venmo accepted

MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY1pm  Round Table Conversations with company members  2-3:30pm  PUBLIC PRACTICE4:30-6pm Company Authentic Movement Practice  6:30pm Company Self Portrait  7:30pm Company Pieces  
SATURDAY 12-2pm  PUBLIC PRACTICE
3-5pm Company Authentic Movement Practice  
5-7pm Two Company Self Portraits  7:30pm  Company Pieces 
SUNDAY12-2pm  PUBLIC PRACTICE3-5pm Company Authentic Movement Practice  5-6pm Company Self Portrait  6:30pm  Company Pieces 

Let’s be clear: This is not a dance piece. This is a conjuring inside a temporariness. This is connecting the dancers with the dance. This is a negotiation of our togetherness. This is entering the unknown without demanding to know. This is Anna Witenberg, Darrin Wright, David Thomson, Eleanor Smith, jess pretty, Katie Workum, Leslie Cuyjet & Weena Pauly and what happens within a multi-year, ritualized gathering of moving, practicing, conversing, eating and making improvised dances again and again and again. It’s in the action, the ritual, the body, the form, the fantasy, the frequency, the space, the shape, the desire, the flow, the memory, the place, the passion, the reach, the imagination, the time, the fluidness, the sameness, the emptying out, the chaos, the chance, the landscape and the returning. Through these kaleidoscoping lenses we reflect our jointed worlds to cultivate meaning and to create new pathways and questions for moving and living in this chaotic world today.

Find out more here 

Various Artists
Gibney
January 30–February 1
The Bang Group’s annual “POP Performance: Women in Motion” returns and will feature commissioned works: The Centaur Show by asubtout (Katy Pyle + Eleanor Hullihan); The Oak and The Willow by Rebecca Stenn; and KALLAX by Same As Sister (S.A.S.)/Briana Brown-Tipley + Hilary Brown-Istrefi.  Find out more here
 
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce
January 21-February 2
Under artistic direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the Company closes out their two-week run with the world premiere of Love Rocks set to works by GRAMMY singer and songwriter, Lenny Kravitz.  Also on the program is BACH 25, WOKE, Essential Parts and more.  Find out more here
 
Dyanne Harvey-Salaam
New York Public Library
January 29
As part of David Vaughn's The Dance Historyan Is In series, Harvey-Salaam will be in conversation with Vaughn, and screen excerpts of some of the works she has done over the years with Eleo Pomare, George Faison, and more. Find out more here

mayfield brooks
January 30-February 1
JACK
In Letters to Marsha and Viewing Hours (a diptych), having missed a connection with queer ancestor Marsha P. Johnson, brooks builds Letter to Marsha on danced and written love notes.  Also on the program is Viewing Hours, which “…takes the form of a wake, with brooks examining perceptions of death and decay…” according to the release. Stacy Grossfield is the curator of “Images//Landscapes,” part of the ongoing “Reparations365” series.  The Producer is Marýa Wethers. Find out more here
 
Sidra Bell Dance New York and Staycee Pearl Dance Project & Soy Sos
GK Arts Center
February 1
Bell, Pearl Dance Project & Soy Sos come together to present a shared program in an evening titled “BIFOLD.”  Find out more here  
 
“Under Exposed” – Various Artists
Dixon Place
February 4
Curated by Doug Post, the series focuses on emerging and up & coming contemporary dance choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive movement vocabulary. Featured will be Amanda Edwards, Jahod Elijah Silver, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, and Leah Tubbs.  Find out more here 
 
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker
The Joyce
February 4
The Company will present Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers), inspired by João Cabral de Melo Neto’s poem of the same name, and explore the Capibaribe River region in Northeast Brazil and the dry land and riverbed dwellers that water sustains.  Find out more here
 
the feath3r theory (TF3T)
New York Live Arts (NYLA)
February 6
As the 2019–2020 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at NYLA, Raja Feather Kelly and his company the feath3r theory will present a work-in-progress showing of his new work, WEDNESDAY where the performers “…search for the true motivations and outcome behind the bank robbery in the 1975 cinematic-drama “Dog Day Afternoon.”  Find out more here

David Neumann and Marcella Murray
Abrons Arts Center
January 15-25
Neumann brings Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed to Abrons Arts Center with co-creator Marcella Murray. This work is created as a “…staged conversation of intimate scale on the set of a TV talk show where they explore and unpack their several-years-long ongoing dialogue about race alongside astronomical questions of scale and time. Mirroring the current societal conversation, in all its hubris, fuckups and wonders, Marcella and David weave personal stories in amongst historical events, scientific uncertainties, live video refuting ideas of scale, and periodic mesmerizing dances. Over-simplification is resisted. Imperfection is a given,” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce
January 21-February 2
Under artistic direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the Company will present the world premiere of Love Rocks set to works by GRAMMY singer and songwriter, Lenny Kravitz.  Also on the program is BACH 25, WOKE, Essential Parts and more.  Find out more here  

Anabella Lenzu and CJ Holm
The Brick
January 21-23
Lenzu and Holm performs as part of the Brooklyn's Exponential Festival in a shared evening. Lenzu will perform her solo No more beautiful dances, and Holm, Becky's Lament.  Find out more here
 
Thunderbird American Dancers Dance
Theater for the New City
January 24 –February 2
For its 45th annual Thunderbird American Dancers Dance Concert and Pow Wow from there will be dances, stories and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions. The event, emceed by Bessie-winner Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago), has become a treasured New York tradition for celebrating our diversity by honoring the culture of our first Americans.  Find out more here
 
Aviva Geismar’s Drastic Action
Green Space
January 24-25
The Company will present four new and recent works by Geismar that explore multiple survival strategies for this moment of overwhelming national and global tension.  Find out more here
 
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
NJPAC
January 25 - 26
The Company will open a public program with dances performed by the Company and special guests Lijun Zhou from the Beijing Dance Academy, and will will also feature musicians from the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York performing on authentic Chinese instruments Pipa, Dizi, Ruan and Erhu. Additionally, there will be a Dragon procession from NJPAC, crossing the Military park and end at Express Newark where the audience is invited to join in a Year of the Golden Rat Banquet: The Feast of the Dragon King. Find out more here