Fadi Khoury’s
​FJK DANCE
Hudson River Museum
July 14
FJK Dance will preview the new multimedia performance and art installation UnTold which “…layers ancient Middle Eastern aesthetics with contemporary ballet and ballroom movements, while incorporating sculpture and graphic design. The work aims to shed light on the hidden beauty of Middle Eastern culture, at a time when stereotypes govern our perceptions. Inspired by Arabic poetry, Al Mu’alaqat (المعلقات) (a set of seven poems) is transformed into projections and theater sets. The designed Arabic written words dance and interconnect with the performers on stage,” according to the release.  This is free event.  Find out more here https://www.hrm.org/summer_amphitheatre.html
 
Batsheva – The Young Ensemble
The Joyce
July 10 – 22
Returning to The Joyce for the first time since 2015, and closing a two-week run, Batsheva – The Young Ensemble, under artistic director Ohad Naharin, will perform Naharin’s Virus (2002), which “…employs Naharin’s smooth, seductive, and infectious aesthetic, based on Gaga, the revolutionary movement language he created in the 1990s.  Find out more here
 
Rebecca Stenn
Gowanus Loft
July 12 – 15
Choreographer/dancer Rebecca Stenn and photographic artist/creative director George Del Barrio began their collaboration almost 20 years ago with a series of photographs. Their work together has since grown and flourished and manifests itself now with the creation of Elusive Bird, the final portion of their trilogy of evening length performances at Gowanus Loft. Find out more here
 
Lucinda Childs Dance Company
July 12 - 13
Rose Theater
Not seen in New York since 1983, Childs’ Available Light “…offers prismatic views of the intersection between dance, music, and architecture…arranges and rearranges her dancers in the three-dimensional space of Frank Gehry’s stark, split-level set, creating kaleidoscopic textures that echo the restless phase shifts, ambient washes, and fractured fanfares of John Adams’s work for synthesizer and recorded brass, Light Over Water,” according to the release.  There will be a pre-performance talk with Lucinda Childs and Martin Wechsler on Friday, July 13 at 6:15 pm in the Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Studio.  Find out more here

Bridgman|Packer Dance
Lumberyard Contemporary Performing ARts
July 13-14
BridgmanIParker brings Truck ”…an innovative performance that takes place inside a 17-foot U-Haul truck,” according to the release, continuing the Lumberyard Contemporary Arts’ inaugural festival’s “Under Construction” series. Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer are the artistic directors of Bridgman|Packer Dance.  Find out more here

Various Artists 
Bryant Park Stage
June 22 – July 29
As part of the "Bryant Park Picnics" program, the “Contemporary Dance Series” curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, the lineup includes: Tina Croll + Company, Kate Weare Company, KineticArchitecture Dance, Bryn Cohn + Artists, and Diva Dance (July 13), and Hope Boykin Dance, Julia Ehrstrand, Gabrielle Lamb, and Earl Mosely Institute of the Arts (July 20).  Find out more here

Batsheva – The Young Ensemble
The Joyce
July 10 – 22
Returning to The Joyce for the first time since 2015, and for two weeks, Batsheva – The Young Ensemble, under artistic director Ohad Naharin, will perform Naharin’s Virus (2002), which “…employs Naharin’s smooth, seductive, and infectious aesthetic, based on Gaga, the revolutionary movement language he created in the 1990s. An exploration into the boundaries of language, the piece is set to a unique soundtrack that includes classical music and recorded text from Offending the Audience, as well as original music by Karni Postel, and several adaptations of traditional Arabic music by Habib Alla Jamal and Chama Khader,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Caleb Teicher & Company
The Yard
July 5 – 6
As part of The Yard’s 6th annual "TapTheYard: A Vineyard Festival of Rhythm and Beats," Caleb Teicher & Company returns with Meet Ella and Small and Tall.  Find out more here

Stephen Petronio Company
Hudson Hall
July 6 – 8
For their Hudson debut, the Company will perform Petronio’s newest work, Hardness 10, an excerpt from Underland (2003), Bud Suite (2006), plus a revival of Steve Paxton’s Excerpt from Goldberg Variations (1986).  Find out more here
 
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
Prospect Park Bandshell
July 6
Included in the outdoors lineup of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, Les Ballet Jazz de Montréal will present Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me, a homage to Leonard Cohen’s songs, choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Ihsan Rustem.  Find out more here
 
STREB Extreme Action Company
Lumberyard
July 6 - 8
Continuing the Lumberyard Contemporary Arts’ inaugural festival’s “Under Construction” series, STREB will present SEA, “… a wild kaleidoscope of action and music, with human bodies careening through, around, and above invented hardware accompanied by local guest DJs and STREB’s resident DJ and emcee,” according to the release. Find out more here
 
The Bang Group
The Yard
July 7
The Bang Group returns to The Yard for their 6th annual "TapTheYard: A Vineyard Festival of Rhythm and Beats" with A Mouthful of Shoes. Find out more here
 
The American Tap Dance Foundation’s (ATDF) – NYC Tap Festival
Various Venues
July 7 – 13
For the 18th year, the NYC Tap Festival returns with the week-long celebration of performances, workshops, film screenings and award presentations.  Tap Dance Awards (July 10), ATDF Hoofer Award, the Tap Preservation Award and “Rhythm in Motion Concert Performance” (July 11), all under the direction of Tony Waag.  Artists included in the celebration are: Jared Grimes, Ralph Brown, Brinae Ali, Chloe Arnold, Christina Carminucci, Michelle Dorrance, Felipe Galganni, Ana Rokafella Garcia, Delores Sanchez and more. Find out more here

My AmNews 2018 July Calendar

Featured:
American Tap Dance Foundation's The New York City Tap Festival - July 7 to July 13. 

Ishmael Houston-Jones, Chris Cochrane, and Dennis Cooper
Performance Space New York
June 21-28
Performance Space New York’s “East Village Series,” “the first themed series under the leadership of Executive Artistic Director Jenny Schlenzka, has reexamined the audacious origins of the organization and the communities that formed around it. In 1986, choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones, composer/guitarist Chris Cochrane, writer Dennis Cooper, and an ensemble of dancers performed the first full version of THEM, an unblinking interdisciplinary work of scored improvisational dance, spoken text, and guitar, at what was then Performance Space 122. Audiences were presented not only with an unapologetic and nuanced depiction of gay male sexuality, but also confronted with a chillingly coded vision of the horrors of the AIDS epidemic. Performance Space brings Houston-Jones, Cochrane, and Cooper back into the renovated space for a timely remounting of the work that concludes the East Village Series, June 21-28. The cast also includes Alvaro Gonzalez Dupuy, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Michael Parmelee, Jeremy Pheiffer, Kensaku Shinohara, Michael Watkiss, and Hentyle Yapp.,” notes the release.  Find out more here https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/them/
 
Various Artists
Danspace Project
May 31- June 29
Concluding Danspace Project’s seminal series, “Food For Thought” where canned goods are collected and donated to The Momentum Project “…which provides nutritious communal meals and supportive services to any person in need in New York City, especially those living with HIV/AIDS or other chronic illness,” two more evenings are planned. June 28 – curated by Indah Walsh with Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts, Pamela Pietro, and vis-á-vis, and June 29 – curated by Katy Pyle with Deborah Lohse, Stevie May, and Mei Yamanaka.   Find out more here 
 
Ballet Festival – Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
June 26 – July 7
This annual Festival returns, featuring contemporary ballet companies including: Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami (June 26), Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY (June 28), BalletX (June 30), Ashley Bouder Project (July 2), Barak Ballet (July 6).  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Mott Haven Bar & Grill
June 26
As part of BAAD!’s “TransVisionaries Performance Series,” closing night  event features actors, movement artists and writers - Zave Martohardjono, Sparklez Catiriana Reyes, Tamara Williams, and Kit Yan, with Michael Michelle Lynch as emcee.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Bryant Park Stage
June 22 – July 29
As part of the "Bryant Park Picnics" program, the “Contemporary Dance Series” curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, will offer four Friday evenings of modern dance.  The lineup includes: Mindy Jackson, NOW Dance Project, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (June 29), Tiffany Mills Company, Monteleone Dance, and Steps Summer (July 6), Tina Croll + Company, Kate Weare Company, KineticArchitecture Dance, Bryn Cohn + Artists, and Diva Dance (July 13), and Hope Boykin Dance, Julia Ehrstrand, Gabrielle Lamb, and Earl Mosely Institute of the Arts (July 20).  Find out more here 
 
Susan Marshall & Collaborators
La Mama Downstairs
June 27 – 28
PROTOTYPES, “a collection of short form works, a dozen dances carried from idea to completion in a brief period of time. The dances are collective brainstorms, sudden flashes of inspiration, wacky ideas, experiments in ways of working and collaborating. The evening includes eight dances by Susan Marshall with various collaborators, and dances by Luke Miller, Denisa Musilova, and Raven White.  Find out more here
 
Dorrance Dance
Prospect Park Bandshell
June 28
For one-night-only, as part of the annual series, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Michelle Dorrance (Dorrance Dance), Derick K. Grant, Toshi Reagon (BIGLovely), and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards performs.  This is a free event.  Find out more here
 
Ninja Ballet
The Secret Theatre in Long Island City
June 28 - July 1
Choreographer and artistic director Shoko Tamai and her Company of dancers and martial artists brings their new work MA, (Japanese for negative space) with live music. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Dixon Place
June 29 – 30
Curated by artistic director Jessica Chen of J CHEN PROJECT, “TRANSLATE (voices of dance),” the annual choreographers’ festival returns with workshops, salon-styled discussions, improv jams and more.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Various Venues – The Catskills
June 29 – September 2
For the inaugural summer season of “Under Construction” features premieres, developed with support from LUMBERYARD, by Urban Bush Women, d. Sabela grimes, and John Jasperse, as well as acclaimed works by STREB Extreme Action Company, Bridgman|Packer Dance, Jodi Melnick; Ishmael Houston-Jones; and Savion Glover with Marcus Gilmore.  Find out more here

Tess Dworman
Snug Harbor
June 30
As part of Snug Harbor's "PASS Series," Dworman will present Harsh Digital Two-Second Silence, "...an improvised performance by artist Tess Dworman that utilizes movement, acting, and sound," notes the release.  Find out more here

SIDRA BELL DANCE NEW YORK | NYC SEASON 2018

June 28, 29, 30 @ 7:30pm, July 1 @ 2pm

Opening Night Fête: Pre-Show June 28th 6pm- New York Live Arts Lobby
New York Live Arts

219 West 19th Street, NYC

Sidra Bell Dance New York presents a new work, F R I C T I O N (prequel)with longtime collaborator and composer Juilliard trained Alexey Gorokholinsky who will perform live with the company. F R I C T I O N is paired with the critically acclaimed work garment (Director's Choice) which premiered at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, PA in 2014 and was named #1 in Contemporary Dance by the Pittsburgh Examiner.

Join us for a special opening night party pre-show. Tickets are $75 for an evening of cocktails that includes a ticket to the performance.

TICKETS

Various Artists
Bryant Park Stage
June 22 – July 29
As part of the "Bryant Park Picnics" program, the “Contemporary Dance Series” curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, will offer four Friday evenings of modern dance.  The lineup includes: Graham 2, Eryc Taylor Dance, AThomasProject, and Harlem School of the Arts (June 22 ), Mindy Jackson, NOW Dance Project, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (June 29), Tiffany Mills Company, Monteleone Dance, and Steps Summer (July 6), Tina Croll + Company, Kate Weare Company, KineticArchitecture Dance, Bryn Cohn + Artists, and Diva Dance (July 13), and Hope Boykin Dance, Julia Ehrstrand, Gabrielle Lamb, and Earl Mosely Institute of the Arts (July 20).  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Various Venues
June 15 – 24
The always-free “River To River Festival” continues with It’s Showtime NYC (6/18 – 22) on the steps of the Federal Hall, an evening of salsa with Los Hacheros (6/23), and Naomi Goldberg Haas and visual artist Laura Nova (June 22 & 24).  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
June 19 – 23
As an official partner with Pride Week, the Joyce joins New York City’s annual LGBTQ Pride festivities by presenting two queer contemporary dance companies, MADBOOTS DANCE and Sean Dorsey Dance.  Find out more here
 
Leimay Ensemble
New York City College of Technology
June 20 – 21
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya and the LEIMAY Ensemble will present LEIMAY Unplugged, a companion to an earlier work, BECOMING Pentology.  Find out more here
 
Vencl Dance
Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
June 21-23
Vencl will offer Critical Junctures, an evening of contemporary dance with music by Arlene Sierra.  Find out more here
 
Molissa Fenley and Company
Danspace Project
June 21 – 23
In collaboration with percussionist Frank Cassara and violist Ralph Farris, Fenley will present an evening of dance and live music, with scores by four contemporary composers. The program features four dances from Fenley’s Water Table, three of which are New York premieres. The program also includes a new configuration of Fenley’s 1979 work Mix. Find out more here
 
Choreoquest Afro Pas De Deux Festival
RestorationART
June 22 – 23
The Festival returns with works by Davalois Fearon, Germaul Barnes, Angel Chinn, Rosamund S. King, Sekou McMiller, Johnnie Mercer, Edisa Weeks and Nathan Trice to again “…explore the complex and artificial binaries of gender, sexuality, nationality and more,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Lawrence Goldhuber | Erick Montes
BAAD!
June 22
As part of BAAD!’s “Out Like That” series, Goldhuber and Montes, alums of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, brings Goldhuber’s Apple v. Oranges Montes’ Otherwise to BAAD!  Find out more here

Catherine Cabeen and Kristina Berger
Pangea
June 22 -23
Glitter in the Gutter, is the title given to Cabeen and Berger’s “…intimate evening of bawdy dance-theater...” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Various Artists - Angela’s Pulse
The Bronx River
June 23
The annual one-day-only event, created through collaboration with artists and community members, Paloma McGregor’s iterative Fishtrap project; rooted in the reclamation of her 92-year-old father’s vanishing fishing tradition titled “Building a Better Fish trap” returns.  Made in collaboration with Angela’s Pulse and New York Live Arts, audiences will again be taken “…by boat on a 1.5-mile stretch of the once embattled waterway.” Tickets must be purchased in advance.  Find out more here
 
NIC Kay
BAM/Fisher
June 23
"EVERYBOOTY 2018" descends on BAM this Pride weekend for “…a four-floor, more-is-more art party with the glitteriest critters of the queer art and nightlife worlds,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
New York Live Arts
June 24
The HOUSE PARTY  “…a building wide and sidewalk celebration in the historic gayborhood, Chelsea, just blocks from the pride march," notes the release, happens for one-day-only. Find out more here
 
Various Artists – “A Day of Healing and Movement”
JACK
June 24
JACK partners with healing practitioners from MINKA Brooklyn, plus dance artists RAKIA! and Marguerite Hemmings for a day of healing and movement as part of their Reparations365 series, exploring distributive justice for Black Americans.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Dixon Place
June 24 - 25
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company presents the 3rd Annual “SoloDuo Dance Festival” featuring 28 dancemakers from the New York Metro area, across the U.S., Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico, Japan and Korea.  Find out more here

“Jersey New Moves Festival” – Various Artists
NJPAC
June 15
For one-night-only, emerging New Jersey choreographers will be presented in the third annual edition of "Jersey (New) Moves! featuring Joe Monteleone, Barkha Patel, Daniel Padierna, Nijawwon Matthews, and Stephanie Nerbak.  Find out more here
WOMEN / CREATE! – A Festival of Dance. 
New York Live Arts
June 12 – 16
Initially curated by Jennifer Muller of Jennifer Muller/The Works, for the 7th season, Armitage Gone! Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, and Jennifer Muller/The Works pioneers of contemporary dance come together for WOMEN / CREATE! - A Festival of Dance reconnects with those roots to present a season of strong works by four visionary female choreographers.  Find out more here

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Lincoln Center
June 13 – 17
Led by artistic director Robert Battle, AAADT returns for their annual Lincoln Center season with three programs: “Celebrate Women” with works by Jessica Lang, Judith Jamison, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar; “Ailey, Then & Now,” with works by Talley Beatty, Battle; and “Musical Icons,” with works by Jamar Roberts, Twyla Tharp and Battle.  Each evening will close with Mr. Ailey’s signature work, Revelations.  Find out more here 
 
Susan Rethorst with Gregory Holt and Gabrielle Revlock
June 13–15
Roulette
In Stealing from Myself, Rethorst creates a dance pulling from her last 30 years of dance making. Find out more here
 
Joan Jonas
Danspace Project
June 14 – 16
For her U.S. premiere, Jona will present Moving Off the Land, an “…immersive lecture-performance drawing from literature, mythology, and the artist's collections of sketches and notes on the sea,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Bryce Dance Company
Gibney
June 14-16
The Company will premiere Moving Memory, “… exploring how identity, internal narrative and relationships inevitably change as memory becomes fragmented, altered or lost,” according to the release.”  Find out more here 
 
“River To River Festival” – Various Artists
Various Locations
June 15 – 24
The always-free “River To River Festival” boasts a lineup that includes It’s Showtime NYC (6/18 – 22) on the steps of the Federal Hall, and an evening of salsa with Los Hacheros (6/23).  Also on the program is Catherine Galasso’s (June 15-17), Enrico D. Wey (June 15-17), Cori Olinghouse (June 16-17), and Naomi Goldberg Haas and visual artist Laura Nova (June 22 & 24).  Find out more here
 
Douglas Dunn + Dancers
The Yard
June 14 & 16
From Dunn’s 5-decade as a dancemaker which launched in the early 1960’s, today, his Company will present Tandem, “a new sixty-minute dance that imagines a wide space as if the viewer is looking out over a savannah,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Nik Kay
The Whitney
June 15
In collaboration with Discwoman, the Whitney Museum celebrates Pride and the LGBTQ community with NIC Kay in “…a performance that considers the Ru Paul quote, “If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
“Out Like That! 2018” – Various Artists
BAAD!
June 14 - 16
Antonio Ramos/Antonio & The Gangbangers will premiere Las Que No Son Bellas son Hermosas (Those Who Aren’t Beautiful are Gorgeous), danced with Saul Ulerio, Awilda Rodriguez-Lora and Marielys Burgos (6/14 & 6/15). Dance Films Association and Baad! team up for a free outdoor screening of “LGBTQ-themed thought-provoking, sexy/sensual dance films especially curated by BAAD’s own Arthur Aviles and Joseph Hall with Marta Renzi of DFA. Filmmakers in attendance include: Winnie Cheung, Jasmine Hearn, Jason Rodriguez, and Rami Shafi,” notes the release (6/16).  Find out more here