Melanie Greene
Brooklyn Studios for Dance
May 16 – 17
Greene will premiere the evening-length version of Sapphire, a work that has been brewing for the past three years.  Says Greene, “Sapphire continues to grow, deepen, ask new questions, and reveal new discoveries.” Greene’s Sapphire “…is a time traveling golden goddess moving through moments that police and celebrate the essence and experience of Black women in the United States. Told through an Afro-futuristic lens, this non-linear narrative displays humanity canvassed in an evolving constellation of identity,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
La Mama Moves! – Various Artists
La Mama
April 26 – May 26
The month long series, La Mama Moves! returns with an international lineup that includes Gruppo Nanou, Colleen Thomas, Mia Habib, Yin Mei Dance, Hari Krishnan/inDANCE, Bobbi Jene Smith, Dan Safer, Sin Cha Hong and Jesca Prudencio.  Find out more here
 
Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer
Danspace Project
May 16 – 17
In fall 2017, almost six decades after meeting, Forti, Paxton, and Rainer came together at Danspace Project for Tea for Three, an evening of improvisation and interaction – their first New York collaboration as a trio. Danspace Project welcome the trio back for two evenings of performative readings. Find out more here
 
Parsons Dance
The Joyce Theater
May 14 – 26
In their season dedicated to the late Paul Taylor, the company will stage Taylor’s Runes (1975) in which Artistic Director, David Parsons danced as a soloist in the Taylor Company.  Also on the program is the premiere of Trey McIntyre’s Eight Women, plus Parsons’ Nascimento and Caught.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
West End Theatre
May 16 – 19
As part of the “Soaking Wet Series” curated by David Parker, and his company The Bang Group, featured will be Ellis Wood, Erika Batdorf and Kate Digby.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
BAAD!
May 17
“The Boogie Down Dance Series,” BAAD!’s signature month-long celebration of dance, continues with Michiyaya Dance and Mx Oops (May 17),  “Dancin’ In The Bronx” with choreographers Tadashi Kato, John Kovach, Moriah Ella Mason, Cynthia Paniagua, Margia Shriti, and Rourou Ye. (May 18), and the screening of “Bronx Gothic” by writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili (May 21).  Find out more here 
 
Gillian Walsh
Performance Space New York
May 17 – 19
Walsh’s Fame Notions, “…a meditation on the American dancer, is presented as part of the No Series—comprised of works that locate power and creativity in refusal,” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Cathy Weis’ “Sundays on Broadway”
May 19
Weis’ "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions continues with Andrea Kleine, Bessie McDonough-Thayer, and Leslie Satin in a “Shared evening” curated by Vicky Schick.  Find out more here
 
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Ellis Island
May 19
The National Park Service in partnership with Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will present the Ellis Island Asian American Heritage Festival featuring works by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company plus, Guru Akhilandeshwari .V and Chetan Hebbar, Kindling Sindaw, Hālau Hula O Na Mele 'Āina O Hawaii' in traditional works.  Find out more here
 
SoloDuo Dance Festival
Dixon Place
May 19 – 20
For the 4th annual White Wave SoloDuo Dance Festival, featured will be 29 national and international choreographers including Qijundai Liu, Jo Davila, Jin-Wen Yu Dance, MVment, Tomomi Imai & Dancers, FUSE Dance Company, Corian Ellisor, VTDance/Vincent E. Thomas, Molly Huey and Olivia Nellis, Monica Farnè Dance Company, Park MiNa Dance Company, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, and many more.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Mabou Mines
May 19 – 20
In Warm Line, created and performed by Hannah Mitchell and directed and choreographed by Lisa Fagan, “…a daughter attempts to rekindle the warmth and exuberance of her mother’s life. [In]…a foggy and laughter-rippled homage to a life lived in service of others and in search of connection…” notes the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Movement Research at Judson Church
May 20
Don’t miss this free, on-going, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: La Mujer Maravilla Project, ILIANA OLALDE , Inés Terra , Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya.  Find out more here

Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT)
Ailey Citigroup Theater
May 2 – 3
For its sixth season, and for their series entitled “Spirit of Now,” DBDT showcases three New York premieres plus iconic works of Elisa Monte & David Brown and Christopher L. Huggins. The premieres are: Juel D. Lane’s Ghost mix of modern, African, hip hop, and jazz styles “…tackles the haunting effects of holding onto something that no longer exists;” Tommie-Waheed Evans’ Bodies as Site of Faith and Protest draws on “…physical language through dance set to iconic speech excerpts by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Claude Alexander III, and Alexander’s Face what’s facing you! promises a “…soul-stirring exploration of how challenges to one’s spirit can make one victorious,” according to the release. Huggins’ dedicated Essence to the spirit of DBTS’s Founder Ann Williams and other women in his life who have “inspired me with their strength, passion, humor, commitment, and unconditional love.” Absolute Rule, Monte and Brown closes the program. Find out more here

La Mama Moves! – Various Artists
La Mama
April 26 – May 26
The month long series, La Mama Moves! returns with an international lineup that includes Gruppo Nanou, Colleen Thomas, Mia Habib, Yin Mei Dance, Hari Krishnan/inDANCE, Bobbi Jene Smith, Dan Safer, Sin Cha Hong and Jesca Prudencio.  Find out more here 

Mark DeGarmo Dance – Salon Performance Series – Various Artists 
May 2
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center
For this 9th season of DeGarmo’s Salon Performance Series, where works-in-progress and original songs-in-progress are presented.  The Series continues with Gina Bonati and Ara Fitzgeral.  Find out more here

Jasmine Hearn and Tatyana Tenenbaum
Danspace Project
May 2 - 4
Choreographers Hearn and Tenenbaum, with Danspace Project Associate Curator Lydia Bell organized “collective terrain/s,” a collective research process on the relationship between voice and the body. Hearn premieres "you think you fancy a performance project using sound and movement from family, community, and elders, and Tenenbaum Tidal a collision of our future bodies with song," according to the release. Find out more here  

Jonathan González
Abrons Arts Center
May 2 – 4
González premieres Lucifer Landing II which “draws intersections between black life and current geopolitical movements to imagine lateralized intimacy on a damaged planet,” notes the release, at Abrons Arts Center.  Find out more here 

Gibney Dance Company
Gibney
May 2 – 4
The Company’s upcoming EMERGE program features new works by Chanel DaSilva, Bobbi Jene Smith and Micaela Taylor.  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Harlem Stage
May 2 – 4 & 9 – 11
The long-running series E-Moves which celebrates twenty years of dance, will feature works by FLUXX and Omari Mizrahi/Les Ballet Afrik, It’s Showtime NYC, Joseph Webb and Barédu Ahmed aka Long Arms (L.A.), plus pop-up performers Sun Kim, Cein Lockefeller, Soraya Lundy and Tweet Boogie. Find out more here
 
Raphael Xavier
New York Live Arts
May 3
In a studio showing, as part of New York Live Arts’ Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program, Xavier will present the new evening-length, Sassafrazz. Find out more here
 
Various Artists – “In Conversation with Merce”
NYU Skirball
May 3 – 4
This celebration of Cunningham’s legacy curated by Rashaun Mitchell, a former Merce Cunningham Dance Company dancer and a Trustee of the Merce Cunningham Trust, brings choreographers Moriah Evans, Mina Nishimura and Netta Yerushalmy together.  The choreographers will offer “…experiments that draw connections of lineage to the celebrated choreographer,” notes the release.  Additionally, select pieces by Cunningham will be performed by  Shayla Vie Jenkins and  Keith Sabado. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
BAAD!
May 4
“The Boogie Down Dance Series,” BAAD!’s signature month-long celebration of dance returns with an evening of club, house and street dance, followed by a dance party curated by Rokafella of Full Circle (May 4).  The series continues with Michiyaya Dance and Mx Oops (May 17),  “Dancin’ In The Bronx” with choreographers Tadashi Kato, John Kovach, Moriah Ella Mason, Cynthia Paniagua, Margia Shriti, and Rourou Ye. (May 18), and the screening of “Bronx Gothic” by writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili (May 21).  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Roulette
May 6 – 8
In “Three Shared Evenings of Work: Hillary Clark/Oren Barnoy/Leslie Cuyjet,” choreographers Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith curate evenings of movement-based performance featuring work by performers/choreographers Clark, Barnoy and Cuyjet as part of Roulette’s ongoing “[DANCEROULETTE] New Movement Series, focused showcasing experimental work in dance and choreography. This three-day series features two performances per night, each with a unique approach to artistry, composition, and movement,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Cathy Weis’ “Sundays on Broadway”
May 5
Weis’ "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions continues with Allegra Fuller Snyder and Laurel Atwell in a “Shared evening” curated by Jon Kinzel.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Movement Research at Judson Church
May 6
Don’t miss this free, on-going, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: David Appel , MarinaLaRivera , Pele Bauch and Nora Sharp.  Find out more here

The Francesca Harper Project
Rubin museum
May 8
The Francesca Harper Project is featured this week as part of the Rubin Museum of Art's partnership with Pentacle, the site-specific series with works that reflect the theme of “Power – Within and Between Us”, which the Rubin will explore through exhibitions and programs all year long. Find out more here

Various Artists
Cathy Weis’ “Sundays on Broadway”
April 28
Weis’ "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions continues with Eva Karczag and Vicky Shick, plus Weis on this program described as “An evening with a solo that feels like a duet and a duet that feels like a solo.”  Karczag and Shick return to “Sundays on Broadway” to present a reworking of their duet, your blue is my purple. Karczag and Shick are longtime colleagues dating back to the 1980s in the Trisha Brown Company. “To this day, they are often mistaken for each other on the street and even on stage. In this duet, they continue to investigate their curiosities, similarities, and differences.  Weis performs Jury Duty. As she moves onstage, Weis tells stories about being called for jury duty and describes what it’s like for her to move through the world. A live image of Weis is projected behind her, adding a new layer of meaning to her musings,” according to the release.  This “Shared evening” is curated by Weis.  Find out more here
 
Maria Valencia
The Chocolate Factory Theater
April 18 – 27
Created and performed by Valencia, Bouquet “examines authorship within the premise of transmission, relation, alliance and ensemble. Her body is the main archive as she quotes dances by Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown, Frank Conversano and nia love, as well as Eurhythmics and Garifuna dance forms…[and]… invites the audience to traverse a dense field of collective reference,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Tendayi Kuumba and Samita Sinha
Danspace Project
April 25 – 27
Choreographers Jasmine Hearn and Tatyana Tenenbaum, with Danspace Project Associate Curator Lydia Bell organized “collective terrain/s,” a collective research process on the relationship between voice and the body.  Kuumba and Sinha performs in the first of this two-week event.  Hearn and Tenenbaum will present works May 2 – 4.  Along with performances by Hearn, Tenenbaum, Kuumba and Sinha, there will be a workshop led by the collective, and a launch party (April 26).  Find out more here
 
ZviDance
Joe’s Pub
April 25 - 26
ZviDance's On the Road, by artistic director, Zvi Gotheiner, “inspired by Jack Kerouac’s novel of the same title, is a multimedia dance piece that contemplates the upheaval of the 1960's and that generation's startling notions of social rebellion,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Yanira Castro
New York Live Arts
April 26
Castro will offer a studio showing of her work, Last Audience, a piece made with the audience, as part of New York Live Arts’ Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program. Find out more here
 
Nimbus
BAM Fisher
April 26 – 28
Under artistic director, Samuel Pott, Nimbus will premiere Pott’s Hollow Square and Dawn Marie Bazemore’s The After Party, plus repertory works Dew Point 68, by Darshan Singh Bhuller and Glare From These Horizons by Pott.  Find out more here
 
La Mama Moves! – Various Artists
La Mama
April 26 – May 26
The month long series, La Mama Moves! returns with an international lineup that includes Gruppo Nanou, Colleen Thomas, Mia Habib, Yin Mei Dance, Hari Krishnan/inDANCE, Bobbi Jene Smith, Dan Safer, Sin Cha Hong and Jesca Prudencio.  Find out more here
 
Dancing The Gods – Various Artists
Symphony Space
April 27 – 28
The program will include performances by Kalanidhi Dance in Kuchipudi dance-theatre, Sujata Mohapatra & musicians in Odissi.  Rajika Puri opens each evening with a slide lecture on what makes a great Indian dancer. Find out more here
 
Lotus Music & Dance
George Washington Educational Campus
April 28
Lotus Music & Dance will present the third annual “World Dance Passport,” this year’s title is World Dance Passport: Let the World Come to You through Dance! On the program is Flamenco y Sol with Sol “La Argentinita”, Ajna Bollywood Dance and Lamine Thiam – Senegalese Dance and Drumming.  This is a FREE event. Find out more here
 
“Works & Process at the Guggenheim” – Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
April 28 – 29
The performing arts series at the Guggenheim, presents a dance and costume commission by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung with new choreography by Christopher Williams and Netta Yerulshamy in collaboration with NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World's exhibition, Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes.  Find out more here

Various Artists – Merce Cunningham Celebration
The Joyce Theater
April 17 – 21
As part of the international celebration of the life and work of Merce Cunningham which takes place during the week that Cunningham—born April 16, 2019—would have celebrated his 100th birthday, The Joyce Theater brings together three companies Compagnie CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston from France, Utah’s Ballet West and The Washington Ballet to perform works by Cunningham.  Angers/Robert Swinston performs Suites for Five, Ballet West presents Summerspace, and The Washington Ballet Duets—all performed with live music. Having begun in the fall of 2018, and continuing throughout this year, the Merce Cunningham Centennial unites artists, companies, and cultural and educational institutions around the world in a multifaceted display and celebration of the dance legend’s vital impact. Find out more about the Joyce performances here.  Click here for the International calendar of events.

Antonio Ramos/Antonio Ramos & the Gangbangers
Rubin museum
April 24
Ramos & the Gangbangers featured this week as part of the Rubin Museum of Art's partnership with Pentacle, the site-specific series with works that reflect the theme of “Power – Within and Between Us”, which the Rubin will explore through exhibitions and programs all year long. Find out more here
 
Maria Valencia
The Chocolate Factory Theater
April 18 – 27
Created and performed by Valencia, Bouquet “examines authorship within the premise of transmission, relation, alliance and ensemble. Her body is the main archive as she quotes dances by Alvin Ailey, Trisha Brown, Frank Conversano and nia love, as well as Eurhythmics and Garifuna dance forms…[and]… invites the audience to traverse a dense field of collective reference,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Hot Brown Honey
NYU’s Skirball
April 19 – 20
This “…riotous celebration of Hip-Hop politics, dance, comedy, circus, striptease and song…is set in a dazzling beehive with lighting, music and costume to rival Beyoncé at Madison Square Garden,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Movement Research at Judson Church
April 22
Don’t miss this free, on-going, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Oluwadamilare Ayorinde , Janeill Cooper , K.Go , Ye'ela Wilschanski.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Performance Space
April 11 – 14
Arika, Performance Space New York and the Whitney Museum invited artists Alice Sheppard, Amalle Dublon, Jerron Herman, Carolyn Lazard, Park McArthur, and Constantina Zavitsanos to imagine together what a festival organized by and for disability communities would look like, composed through friendship and solidarity, one that could be simultaneously social and art-based - the result is I wanna be with you everywhere, described as “a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wants to join in a series of programs that refuse policies of individuation and inclusion in favor of (and in the flavor of) whatever disability aesthetics has in bodymind.”  I wanna be with you everywhere honors disability aesthetics and disability justice while extending the theme of Performance Space New York’s “No Series.” The festival celebrates the world-making and experimentation that comes from refusing both exclusion and inclusion. At the same time, this gathering is propelled by a refusal of the separation that ableism imposes, starting from the belief and desire that access is a shared commitment to each other.

Alice Sheppard says of the process and the program that process created, “These artists are leaders in their fields and their thinking, pushing new boundaries—and people you felt like you could sit and talk and share your heart with; that was critical, both to the experience we were having and for that experience to guide the festival itself.” Find out more here
 
Stephen Petronio Company
NYU Skirball
April 11 – 13
For the fifth season of "Bloodlines," Stephen Petronio Company will debut Merce Cunningham’s Tread (1970) as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial.  Also on the program is Coverage (1970) by Rudy Perez, one of the singular artists of color of the Judson Dance Theatre. Petronio’s American Landscapes, a new work for the entire company, with “…a series of shifting pastoral, emotional, and social “kinetic canvases” that reflect the complicated beauty and roiling histories of the United States of America,” according to the release, rounds out the program. Find out more here
 
Davalois Fearon Dance
Rubin museum
April 10
Davalois Fearon Dance is featured this week as part of the Rubin Museum of Art's partnership with Pentacle, the site-specific series with works that reflect the theme of “Power – Within and Between Us”, which the Rubin will explore through exhibitions and programs all year long. Find out more here
 
Dance Theatre of Harlem
New York City Center
April 10 – 13 (no performance on 4/11)
In celebration of their 50th anniversary, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) returns to New York City Center (April 10 - 13) offering a mixed bill of classics and repertory favorites.  The lineup pays homage to the classics and highlights works by the co-founder, Arthur Mitchell: The Greatest, Creole Giselle (Mr. Mitchell’s interpretations of the classic ballet, set in Louisiana), Bach Passacaglia (danced by students of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School), and Tones II, which Mr. Mitchell was setting on the company at the time of his passing.  Also included in the lineup is resident choreographer Robert Garland’s Return, and Nyman String Quartet #2; plus Geoffrey Holder’s masterwork Dougla, revived last season by the DTH Company.  A special opening night performance and “Vision Gala” will honor the legacy of Mitchell with revivals of timeless works by revered choreographers including Louis Johnson’s Forces of Rhythm, George Balanchine’s Agon, and John Taras’ Firebird, Mitchell’s The Greatest and others.  Several special guests have been invited to dance some of these works are including Ashley Murphy, former DTH company member currently with The Washington Ballet, former DTH Principal dancer Paunika Jones, and Brooklyn Mack.  Post-performance conversations with artistic director Virginia Johnson and founding Dance Theatre of Harlem company members are also scheduled. Find out more here
 
Faye Driscoll
Peak Performances
April 11-14
Choreographer, performer, and director Driscoll brings the final installment in her three-part work, Thank You For Coming: Space “…both an intimate shared performance (audience capacity is set at approximately 60) and a liberatory ritual that confronts life’s most notable transition,” according to the release. Here, Driscoll is alone with the audience and constructs a temporary world—upheld by pulleys, ropes, and the weightiness of others—to invoke the sensations of absence.  Find out more here
 
Newsteps: a choreographers Series – Various Artists
Chen Dance Center
April 11 – 13
The semi-annual emerging choreographer’s series returns with six choreographers selected through an open audition by a panel of dance leaders.  Featured are: Annie Heath, Mat Elder, Spencer Weidie, Erin Bryce Holmes and Tanner Ryan.  Find out more here
 
Ursula Eagly
Danspace Project
April 11 – 13
In the premiere of her latest work, Our Epithelium, Eagly builds on years of research using psycho-social material through Group Dynamics and Visual Sensitivity. “I know most people will have to look up the word ‘epithelium,’ and I like that,” says Eagly. “It requires engagement, like the work itself. Our Epithelium is a piece for a large cast and a small audience, with two performances per evening at 8pm & 9pm. Find out more here

The People Movers
Brooklyn Studios for Dance
April 11 - 13
The People Movers’ choreographer and artistic director Kate Ladenheim and performer–designer Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs collaborates on OH, CELINE MAGNUM OPUS: A Desert Reflowering – a multidisciplinary evening of solo performance combining theater, dance, and scenic installation and an on-depth look at their heroine’s journey.  Find out more here
 
New Chamber Ballet
German Academy
April 11 – 12
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet will present works by Magloire, Rebecca Walden and Mara Driscoll in Stray Bird, a site-specific evening of dances to music by Ursula Mamlok, and a tribute to the late composer, featuring live music by the Momenta String Quartet. This is a FREE event, but RSVP required.  Find out more here
 
Kelly Bartnik
Gibney Dance
April 11-13
Bartnik will premiere Fuck/Love: The Poetics of Adoration “an exploration of the emotional disconnect between physicality and language” as part of Gibney's Spotlight Artist programming, notes the release. Find out more here
 
It’s Showtime NYC!
The Met
April 12
The dancers of “It’s Showtime NYC!” continues their regular presentations at The Met combining hip-hop and the age of chivalry matching freestyle dance with knights in armor. This series is commissioned by MetLiveArts in collaboration with The Met's Arms and Armor department and the urban dance organization Dancing in the Streets of the South Bronx. Find out more here
 
Karole Armitage - Armitage Gone! Dance
Japan Society
April 12 - 13
Armitage’s You Took a Part of Me, “inspired by the 15th-century noh play “Nonomiya,” in which the ghost of one of Prince Genji’s jealous lovers from The Tale of Genji returns to the world of the living… explores erotic entanglement, unresolved attachments and the search for harmony, all of which are hallmarks of mugen noh, or a play that features a ghost or spirit” according to the release.  Find out more
here
 
Dances Patrelle
New York Live Arts
April 12 – 14
For their spring 2019 season, on the program is the world premiere of Francis Patrelle's The American Dream: It's Only Business, Madame X (1999), featuring New York City Ballet principal dancers Abi Stafford and Ask la Cour: American Overture (2007), a solo piece set to a Leonard Bernstein score and performed by Reed Tankersley of the Twyla Tharp Company.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Movement Research at Judson Church
April 15
Don’t miss this free, on-going, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Paul Singh / Singh & Dance , Sarah A.O. Rosner , Te Ao Mana and Cathy Weis. Find out more here

 Desire: A Sankofa Dreama work-in-progress by Maria Bauman-Morales/MBDance

Friday & Saturday
April 5 – 6 @ 7:30 pm

Desire: A Sankofa Dream is a multi-disciplinary, site-responsive artwork centered on imagination and consent as mechanisms of survival which must be practiced rigorously.

The piece – which takes place inside a kaleidoscope – includes dancing, original text, art installation, and music. Desire: A Sankofa Dream is a sprawling fantasy, spilling out across several rooms and spaces throughout the BAX building. Witness-participants (audience members) travel at leisure from space to space to experiment with how their imagination and desires shift the kaleidoscope. (Note: some seating will be available.) Creator Maria Bauman-Morales is joined by Sharon Bridgforth as dramaturg for this work. The performance collaborators are Jasmine Hearn, Audrey Hailes, J. Bouey, Angie Pittman, Kayla Hamilton, Denise Shu Mei, and Ebony Golden with rehearsal assistance from Courtney J. Cook.

** The entrance for this showing is on 8th Street, not the normal front door entrance on 5th Avenue. **
General Seating, Sliding Scale: $20 / $15 / $10

(Choose the ticket price that best fits your budget.)

Find out more here

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Company SBB - Stefanie Batten Bland

Saturday, April 6th @ 7:00 pm
Martha's Vineyard PAC

Walls and borders.
Open (with love). Closed (with a vengeance).

The 2019 Winter Yard ends with COMPANY SBB STEFANIE BATTEN BLAND in ‘Welcome . . .’, (pictured below)
a dance-theater meditation on what makes (or denies) a public space open to all comers. With graffiti help by island students and adults!

Find out more here

My AmNews 2019 April Calendar

Featured:
Dance Theatre of Harlem
New York City Center
April 10 - 13

Find out more here

Ayodele Casel
Various NYC Venues
April 3 - 14
As part of their 75th Anniversary Season, New York City Center expands its mission making the performing arts even more accessible to all with the launch of “City Center On the Move,” featuring dance in five New York City boroughs, and lead by Bronx-born choreographer, teacher, and tap artist Ayodele Casel in a performance entitled Rooted.
 
“City Center partnered with the NYC Parks Arts, Culture & Fun to select five tour stops (in addition to City Center's own studios) from among their citywide recreation centers—sharing the arts with the broadest possible cross-section of New Yorkers.  Beginning Wednesday, April 3, at the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn, this inaugural tour of all five boroughs will engage communities with world-class dance through a series of free interactive performances featuring Bronx-born choreographer, teacher, and tap artist Ayodele Casel in a performance entitled Rooted. A frequent City Center collaborator (¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival, Fall for Dance Festival, Encores! Off-Center) and 2017 recipient of the “Hoofer Award,” Casel will be joined by special guest Grammy Award winner Arturo O’ Farrill (¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival), dancers Luke Hickey (Fall for Dance Festival) and Andre Imanishi, bass player Amanda Ruzza, and O’Farrill’s son Zack O’Farrill on drums. Each performance will include live music and dancing with audience participation throughout. The two-week tour will culminate at City Center’s own Studio 5 (130 W 56th Street) on Sunday, April 14," notes the release.   All performances are free and open to the public. Find out more here
 
Nicky Paraiso
La Mama
March 22 – April 7
In the world premiere of Paraiso’s now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories, he dives into a “…deep exploration of [his] life, investigating aging, identity, sexuality, class and race,” according to the release.  Paraiso is joined by choreographer/dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio in performance and as collaborators. The work is directed by John Jesurun.  Find out more here
 
Martha Graham Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
April 2–14
The "EVE Project," the Company’s season theme, celebrates female empowerment, the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and focuses on both historical and contemporary ideas of the feminine. Featured are the world premiere of Deo by Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith, the New York premiere of Untitled (Souvenir) by Pam Tanowitz, drawing on some of Graham’s dances, including The Legend of Judith (1967) and Dark Meadow (1946). Also on the program is Annie-B Parson’s I used to love you, based on Graham’s 1941 comic ballet Punch and the Judy, Lucinda Childs’s Histoire, (1999). Works by Graham on the program are: Chronicle (1936), Herodiade (1944), Secular Games (1962), not been seen in decades, Errand into the Maze (1947), and El Penitente (1941), plus repertory favorites on special nights.  Find out more here

Kota Yamazaki
New York Live Arts
April 3 – 6
Yamazaki/Fluid Hug-Hug premieres Darkness Odyssey Part 3: Non-Opera, Becoming, the final installment of his “…dance celebrating the bridge between "this self" and "the other self,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Natalia Osipova & David Hallberg
New York City Center
April 3 – 6
In this program of classic and contemporary works, Osipova reunites with Hallberg in the US premiere of Valse Triste by Alexei Ratmansky, and will also dance Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading. Contemporary dancer Jonathan Goddard will join Osipova in the US premiere of Flutter by Ivan Péréz, and Jason Kittelberger joins her Roy Assaf’s Six Years Later.  Find out more here
 
Lauren Bakst
The Chocolate Factory
April 3 – 6
In More Problems with Form, Bakst oscillates “…between the live and the pre-recorded…[and] moves her voice and her “I” around. The work includes many multiples of Lauren, sometimes played by herself and sometimes by others in a series of videos featuring her fellow group therapy members, her lover, and her mother,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
Mark DeGarmo Dance – Salon Performance Series – Various Artists
April 4
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center
For this 9th season of DeGarmo’s Salon Performance Series, where works-in-progress and original songs-in-progress are presented.  The Series continues with Kiran Rajagopalan & Antonio Ramos with Mark DeGarmo.  Find out more here
 
Heidi Latsky Dance
Spitzer School of Architecture Gallery
April 4 – 5
This free event invites audiences to experience a “…connection with the living sculptures and performance,” accordign to the release.  Find out more here
 
Kyle Abraham/A.I.M
NYU Skirball
April 4 – 6
Abraham, in collaboration with his company, A.I.M returns to New York with the acclaimed evening-length, 2011 work, Live! The Realest MC, after a year and a half of international touring.  Inspired by both the story of Pinocchio and an early solo titled, Inventing Pookie Jenkins, Live!... “…takes a darkly humorous approach to gender roles and masculinity in the black community and the quest for acceptance in the world of hip-hop celebrity,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Omari Mizrahi
Gibney
April 4 – 6
Senegalese-born dancer, Mizrahi will perform his new work-in-progress, Crossroads as part of Gibney’s “New Voices Spotlight” series. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
The Kitchen
April 5 – 6
This edition of “Dance and Process” will again feature new works after a ten-week group process of sharing work and receiving feedback.  Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen are the facilitators.  Featured artists are mayfield brooks, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Stacy Grossfield, and Christopher Unpezverde Núñez.  Find out more here

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Flushing Town Hall
April 7
For their sixth installment of “CrossCurrent,” the Company will feature excerpts of works-in-progress: Bamboo Rap, a collaboration between Nai-Ni and several hip-hop artists including Kwikstep, Rockafella, and DJ Cool-V from New York and Newark, NJ; and Chinese rap artists Xing Ye Ma and Yuchen Jin from Beijing. Nai-Ni Chen plans to use this newly mixed vocabulary to tell the story of the Chinese American immigration. Find out more here