My August Dance Calendar for AmNews
​Featured: Battery Dance Festival - August 13 - 19

D’Oro Dance Ensemble
Kumble Theatre
August 5
For one-night-only, D’Oro Dance Ensemble will present a mix of dance, music, poetry and storytelling to celebrate Jamaica’s 55th Independence with special guests: Braata Folk Singers, Black River High, Seaview ECI, Green Ishand High and Portmore Dance Theatre Company.  Find out more here
 
Malpaso Dance Company
The Yard
August 2 & 5
Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company returns to The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard with works by artistic director, Osnel Delgado, Aszure Barton and Ronald K. Brown with special live music guests Arturo O’Farrill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble.  Find out more here 
 
Doug Varone and Dancers
Jacob’s Pillow
August 2 – 6
Celebrating 30 years, the program will include Varone in the world premiere solo Nocturne(s), a companion piece to a solo for himself set to Chopin's Nocturne #8 in D Flat Major, Opus 27, #2 thirty years ago.  Also on the program is Varone's Boats Leaving, ReComposed.  Find out more here 
 
Chloe and Maud Arnold
Hearst Plaza
August 4
As part of Lincoln Center’s Out of Door Festival at, the sister act, choreographers, tap dancers Chloe and Maud Arnold bring their New York crew Apartment 33 to Hearst Plaza for a night of footwork and artistry.  The Manhattan Camerata opens the evening with its “Tango Fado Project, “featuring Portuguese- American fado singer Nathalie Pires.  Find out more here
 
 

It’s Showtime NYC
Battery Park
July 29 – August 25
Dancing in the Streets and It’s Showtime NYC continue to bring dance to the parks, celebrating “…the finest in New York City street culture…with… great moves, great dancers, great music, great family fun.   It’s Showtime NYC! celebrates New York City street culture and provides performance and professional development opportunities to street and subway dancers.  Find out more and join the program here
 
Ballet Festival
The Joyce Theater
July 18 – 29
The two-week festival of ballet showcasing some of America’s contemporary companies and choreographers with Joyce commissions, closes with performances by Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. The Festival is co-curated by Curatorial Associate John Selya.  Find out more here 
 
South Street Seaport Museum and Kinesis Project
South Street Seaport
July 27 & 30
The South Street Seaport Museum and Kinesis Project dance theatre come together in Secrets and Seawalls  “… an evening of dance in two distinct acts. Inspired by storms and disruption...Melissa Riker, in collaboration with architect Lee H. Skolnick, FAIA, uses methods of dance and architecture to explore vulnerability, power, and how each are revealed,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
“Vineyard Pride” – Various Artists
Martha’s Vinyard – The Yard
July 28 – 29
For this celebration, the impressive lineup includes: “Voices Of Inclusion” (Including State Rep Dylan Fernandes);  Lmno3;  and Dj Vyagra Fallz In The Pride Dancehall (Public Dancing Allowed!).  Find out more here
 
Lincoln Center out of Doors – The Paul Taylor Company & Heidi Latsky
Damrosch Park Bandshell/Hearst Plaza
July 28 – 29
The Paul Taylor Dance Company (July 28) returns to Damrosch Park to perform one of its signature pieces, Company B, originally set to a recording by the Andrews Sisters, this performance will feature the New York vocal trio, Duchess, plus the South African jazz singer Vuyo Sotashe.  Also on the program is Taylor’s Airs.  Heidi Latsky (July 29) will present On Display, her latest performance installation which  features a range of performers “…questioning ingrained expectations of who gets to be “onstage” and mainstream culture’s narrow definition of beauty,” according to the release.  Find out more here 
 
Dance Visions
Cedarmere
July 29
Under the direction of Beth Jucovy, Dance Visions honors the works of legendary choreographer Isadora Duncan as well as works inspired by the Duncan aesthetic.  The site-specific work will be shown after a guided tour of the preserve.  Find out more here
 
Ballet Hispanico
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
July 26 – 30
The program features the Pillow-commissioned and flamenco-inspired Línea Recta by Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Eduardo Vilaro's Danzón, and El Beso by Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano. Find out more here 

Co-presented by Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA) in collaboration with the National Double Dutch League ™

In an attempt to bring back black and brown communities full force to Lincoln Center and reclaim a cultural space left vacant since the end of an annual city-wide competition in the early 80s, Women of Color in the Arts, in association with the National Double Dutch League, presents "‘Til The Street Lights Come On," a two-day event at Lincoln Center Out of Doors highlighting the urban tradition of #doubledutch and celebrating the #womenofcolor that helped pioneer the sport and set its course to becoming an international phenomenon influencing both art and culture.

The weekend features demonstrations, jump-ins, panel discussions, a film screening and exhibition, a culminating concert showcasing Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen, and the seminal competition, the Double Dutch Summer Classic. All programs are FREE and open to the public. No RSVP required.

FEATURED PROGRAM
Saturday, July 29th at 2:00pm
The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

Living Legacy: Double Dutch's Impact on the Arts and NYC
An intimate discussion with some of NYC’s most dynamic artists and      
cultural purveyors about the influence of double dutch on the arts and the city of New York

Panelists:
Rokafella (pioneering b-girl, Co-Founder of Full Circle Productions)
Mikki Shepard (Former Executive Producer of The Apollo)
Theresa Ruth Howard (Founder of Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet)
moderated by Kaisha S. Johnson (WOCA Founding Director)

Find out more here 

Just three week before Wassaic Project's August Festival

Get ready for two days of dance and film (free!), culminating with live music at The Lantern 
(ticketed) on Saturday evening (8/12). 

Friday, August 11, 6:30pm–9pm - Saturday, August 12, 1pm–11pm
Maxon Mills/Luther Barn/The Lantern

RSVP/Tickets
                     

MetLiveArts presents SBDNY
The Met Breuer
New York City
July 28 & 29, 2017

MetLiveArts presents an eight-week summer series of edgy, timely, and pointedly political performances and films at The Met Breuer. Theater of the Resist takes its name from an art-making technique in which the artist applies a layer of material to "resist" the medium, thus generating negative space in which to create. This series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "The Body Politic: Video from The Met Collection," on view at The Met Breuer from June 20 through September 3, and was programmed in collaboration with musician and political journalist Kali Holloway. Featured artists include Sidra Bell Dance New York.

Sidra Bell Dance New York
The Met Breuer
945 Madison Ave

New York City
Friday, July 28, 2017 6-8pm
Saturday, July 29, 2017 6-8pm

The performances are free with Museum admission, but advanced registration is recommended.

Find out more here
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​Victory Dance – Various Artists
The Duke on 42nd Street
July 13 – August 3
For the fourth year, Victory Dance again offers a series that includes free performances for New York City students and so much more for regular dance lovers. There are two programs which will feature performances by Doug Varone and Dancers, Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, Buglisi Dance Theater, Decadancetheatre and Preeti Vasudevan’s Thresh, New York City Ballet principal dancer Amar Ramasar Heidi Latsky and Bill Shannon. Find out more here 
 
Beth Gill
The Yard
July 13 – 15
In Brand New Sidewalk, Beth Gill teams up with composer Jon Moniaci and lighting designer Thomas Dunn and four dancers to “…explore themes of alienation, erasure, fantasy and power through the lens of abstraction,” in the new work, “Brand New Sidewalk,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Angela’s Pulse – Various Artists
Bronx River
July 15
Angela’s Pulse brings Building a Better Fishtrap will join the Bronx River Alliance for the Celebration of River House, "the greenest building in the South Bronx." Come celebrate with us as we share a site-responsive work created for the occasion.  Find out more here
 
Chuck Wilt / UNA Projects
Jack Crystal Theater
July 14 - 15
Wilt’s UNA Projects will present Deserts, a compilation of works comprised of four pieces, Atacama, Bronco, Cadet and Fatima, together they “…explore human connection within imagined desert landscapes. Atacama is an ensemble work featuring seven guest performers alongside the company,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Dance-Mobile-Various Artists
Various Venues
July 15 – 27
The annual summer series, dance-mobile which offers free outdoor performances in parks throughout the will feature Gina Gibney Company, Kinesis Project and lead Class in the Grass. Find out more here 
 
Paul Taylor 2
The Yard
July 17
Taylor 2, the second company to the Paul Taylor Company will present three Taylor works: Dust, Piazzolla Caldera and Images.  Find out more here 

Davalois Fearon Dance
The Met Breuer
July 7 – 8
Artistic director, Davalois Fearon will present the multimedia dance work, Time to Talk, featuring music composed and performed live by instrumentalist Mike McGinnis.  “Rooted in research on American history, dance history, racial identity formation, and systemic racism. Time To Talk is inspired by Fearon’s own experiences of overt racial bias within academia and the dance world. The piece uses dynamic fluid dance from multiple genres, live music, poetry, and visual art as tools to bring attention to inequalities within the dance field and society at large,” notes the release. Fearon adds, “Time to Talk aims to encourage and inspire people to take action against injustice, and asking the audience members to question how they may be knowingly or unknowingly contributing to maintaining social norms that support a status quo of inequity,” says Fearon. Time to Talk is part of the Theater of the Resist summer performance series.  Also on the program is hip-hop poetry trio from The Mighty Third Rail, and rap artist Zebra Katz, aka Ojay Morgan.  Advanced registration is recommended. You can register online at www.davaloisfearon.com.  Find out more here 
 





​Pam Tanowitz Dance
The Yard
July 6-  8
Tanowitz will share the evening-length work, New Work for Goldberg Variations created with pianist Simone Dinnerstein which deconstructs “…classical, formal, and traditional movement vocabularies…” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Wave Rising Series
92nd Street Y
July 7 – 15
Fifteen choreographers come together over two weekends in four programs.  On the program will be: Oniin Dance Company, Mei Yamanaka, LaneCoArts, Miki Ohara, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, Kaoru Ikeda/MoustacheCat Dance, tedted Performance Group, Monteleone Dance, Tina Croll + Company, and more.  Find out more here 
 
INSITU Site-Specific Dance Festival - Various Artists
Western Queens waterfront
July 8 – 9
KINEMATIK Dance Theater presents Long Island City's first two-day, outdoor site dance festival at four LIC waterfront parks and featuring site-specific dance works by 24 New York City-based choreographers.  Participating artists are: BS Movement, Christopher Unpezverde Núñez, Grounded View, Jody Oberfelder Projects, Loni Landon Dance Project, Movement of the People Dance Company, Only Child Aerial Theatre, The Blue Bus Project/Annalisa Iadicicco and Tyler Gilstrap, The Equus Projects/OnSite NYC, and more.  Find out more here

Miki Orihara
La Mama
June 30 – July 2
Former dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Orihara will premiere the second incarnation of her multi-media work, evening-length solo work, In the Box 2 (ITB2)  “… Using cutting edge animations and projections from Japan…[and]…juxtaposing three-dimensional sounds and images with the flesh and bones of a dancer and her moving shadow.” "ITB2 follows the 2015 premiere of ITB which explored the paradox of “Where Technology Meets the Body” inspired by Schrödinger‘s cat (quantum mechanics).  ITB2 picks up where its predecessor left off and opens the book of our lives in a paradoxical nature. [Finally] ITB2 explores human nature by mixing the human body with technology,” explains Orihara.  Find out more here
 
Abraham.in.Motion
The Kitchen
June 29- July 1
Kyle Abraham’s dance company, Abraham.in.Motion closes the Lumberyard in the City festival - Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) with the premiere of DEAREST HOME “…an interactive dance work developed in a multi-year process, focused on Loving and Longing and Loss,” according to the release.   Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Prismatic Park/Madison Square Park
June 13 - October 8
Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, Netta Yerushalmy, and Jodi Melnick will rehearse, have workshops, and perform amongst Josiah McElheny's outdoor public art project - prismatic glass-tile sculptures, in in full view of the public.  Find out more here
 
Bryant Park Presents Contemporary Dance – Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 16 – 30
The Contemporary Dance series curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, paired with the ballet performances curated by Donna Salgador returns with a lineup that includes: CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, Island Moving Company and Thomas/Ortiz Dance (June 30). Find out more here 
 
David Michalek/Yvonne Rainer
Danspace Project
June 23 – July 1
The film, “SlowDancing/TrioA” by artist Michalek, in collaboration with choreographer, Rainer, “… seeks to create an unusual motion picture record of Rainer's iconic dance-work, Trio A, which she created in 1966,” notes the release.  There is a cast of 46 dancers includes original dancers Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, Stephen Petronio, Richard Move, David Thomson, Wendy Whelan and younger generations of dancers, many of whom are students of the original dancers. "   This video installation will be open to the public  and admission is free. RSVP is recommended.  Find out more here
 
Momix
The Joyce Theater
June 27 – July 16
After more than a decade, Moses Pendleton’s Momix dance company returns with the Opus Cactus program in two Acts, described as “…a celebration of the landscape of the American Suthwest, utilizing Pendleton’s signature illusionistic style,” according to the release.  Find out more here  
 
Jody Oberfelder
New York Live Arts
June 28 – July 1
Choreographer and dancer  Oberfelder, who created 4Chambers, “…a dance about the human heart,” will premiere The Brain Piece, to celebrate the brain’s “…neuroplasticity, [and] the ability to form connections,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
The Performance Project
University Settlement
June 29 – July 1
The Performance Project will present Ai Dance Theater’s Them, “…a multi-media dance performance conceived and directed by Janet Aisawa featuring dances with Yuko Takebe’s film, "Shadows of Hiroshima," according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Dixon Place
June 29 – June 30
For the 5th year, artistic director, Jessica Chen curates TRANSLATE (voices of dance) bringing new choreography by new artists to Dixon Place.  Find out more here 
 
Laura Peterson
Judson Church
June 29 – July 1
Choreographer and visual artist Peterson “…examines the eponymous FAILURE  in the context of both personal and national experience of America, circa 2017,” notes the release.  Find out more here