​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

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Summer Dance Intensive Audition Tour

Register Online
Upcoming Audition Tour Dates
 
New York, NY – Feb 15, 2020
Miami, FL – Mar 20, 2020
Bowling Green, KY – Mar 21, 2020
Chicago, IL – Mar 28, 2020

For more information visit https://deeplyrooteddancetheater.org/summer-dance-intensive/ 

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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H.T.CHEN & DANCERS

Latest News & Events

• OVERVIEW
• LATEST NEWS & EVENTS

URGENT MESSAGE
Thank you all for your concern.
On the eve of January 23, 2020 a 3-alarm fire, which escalated to 5-alarm, tore through 70 Mulberry Street, home to Chen Dance Center. The top half of the building collapsed and the remainder is water and smoke damaged. 
The historic building, formerly PS 23, is home to numerous cultural and social service organizations including ours, Chen Dance Center. 
All of our on-site programs have been put on hold until we are able to build next steps. For over 40 years, Chen Dance has been dedicated to serving the Asian-American and dance communities through arts education. 

At a time like this, we ask for your help to get back on our feet. Please help us spread the word by sharing this with your community.
For those able to help us at this difficult time, your support is greatly appreciated.
We are only reachable by email if you need to contact us, we do not have access to our telephone lines.

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.

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