Houses Without Masters
Danspace Project
March 26

For this party/celebration of PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets curated by Claudia La Rocco, “…dance artist who’ve engaged in exchanges across ballet, modern and postmodern dance… Danspace [invited these] singular dance innovators from diverse genres to perform throughout the evening,” notes the release.  There will be performances by Jean Butler, Chrybaby Cozie, Michelle Dorrance, Javier Ninja, New York Theatre Ballet's Elena Zahlmann performing James Waring's An Eccentric Beauty Revisited (inspired by Nijinsky's Le Dieu Bleu) and  Larissa Velez-Jackson & Yackez. DJ Douze offers dance music for the evening.  Find out more here 

 

Blance Street Productions
Dixon Place
March 24
In Flight “…three glamorous flight attendants guide the audience through a series of stories that highlight a conflicted reconciliation between cultural past and modern identity,” notes the release.  Find out more here 

NYC10 Dance Initiative
Dixon Place
March 25
For this dance project designed by “NYC Dance Week,” 10 emerging dance companies are given up to 10 minutes to showcase their work.  Some featured artists are: Carlos Garland, emiMOTION, Infringed, Javier Padilla, Locavulary De Sign and more. Find out more here 

Ballet West
The Joyce Theater
March 25-29
Making its Joyce debut, Ballet West will perform a mixed-program of premieres by Val Caniparoli, Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan and Helen Pickett.  Find out more here 

Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and Peter Sellars
Park Avenue Armory
March 25-April 4
Park Avenue Armory commissioned flex dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and visionary director Peter Sellars to create a work that evolves the tradition of flex, the Brooklyn-born street dance, the result is FLEXN.  Find out more here 

Maya Ciarrocchi & Kris Grey
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performance Lab
March 25-28
See this collaboration between video artist Ciarrocchi and visual/performance artist Grey, Gender/Power (composition II) where their “…immersive installation activated by performance, sound, and video poses questions about the dynamics of power in relation to gender. Find out more here 

Annie Wilson
JACK 
March 26-28
Lovertits is a burlesque-postmodern-dance-theater-bad-improv performance by Philly favorite Wilson. Find out more here 

Ani Taj and The Dance Cartel
New York Live Arts
March 27-28
Taj and The Dance Cartel launches the 2015 Studio Series showings in the Third Floor Studios with an in-progress showing of their newest project, Drive-In. Find out more here

Bedford-Stuvyesant Y Students
BAM Fisher
March 26
Thirteen young and gifted students performs with BalletNext artistic director Michele Wiles and Brooklyn flex dance king Jay Donn in YNext, a special evening that jointly benefits the Y and BalletNext youth education programs. Find out more here 

J CHEN PROJECT
Ailey Citigroup Theater
March 26-27  
Artistic director Jessica Chen premieres the evening-length work Never was Broken: a dance through life and death and life “…inspired by life, miracles and reflections after suffering a near fatal car accident in 2012 that rendered her into a 13 day coma after 8 hours of brain surgery,” notes the release.   Find out more here    

TAKE Dance
Schimmel Center/Pace University
March 26-28
Artistic Director and Founder, Takehiro Ueyama celebrates the company’s 10th anniversary with the world premiere of the evening-length work There and Here with live music performed by Japanese musician, composer, and producer, Kato Hideki.  Find out more here

Gelsey Kirkland Ballet
Symphony Space
March 27-28
The Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, under artistic directors Kirkland and Michael Chernov presents a Marius Petipa double bill with Harlequinade and Cavalry Halt.  Find out more here 

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Centenary Stage Company
March 28
Nai-Ni Chen brings some of their signature and newer works including Calligraffiti to Centenary Stage Company's “Dance Festival 2015” in Hackettstown, New Jersey.  Find out more here 

Gotham Chamber Opera in a co-production with the Martha Graham Dance Company.

The Tempest Songbook is comprised of incidental music for Shakespeare's The Tempest (composed in 1695 and attributed to Henry Purcell) and Kaija Saariaho's 2004 Tempest Songbook for soprano, baritone and period instrument ensemble, in its U.S. and World Stage premieres. The Tempest Songbook explores the themes of Shakespeare's play, creating a lyrical vision through dance, movement and song. 

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Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues 
Creative Resistance: A Rising Economic Movement
Mar 22 at 5pm
$10 Suggested Donation, Free for members

What did we learn from the Occupy Wall Street movement? How do we imagine operating within a post-capitalist society? Has the middle class disappeared in the United States? Can a feminist ideology disrupt the systemic issues of under-valuation in regards to female and trans identifying individuals and the creative works produced by these artists?

Panel
Moderator: Piper Anderson - Consultant; Arts, Education & Community Engagement
Okwui Okpokwasili - Performer, Actor
Laura Flanders - Host, Producer at GRITtv
Joan Morgan - Scholar, Educator, Author
Seyi Adebanjo - Filmmaker, Queer Activist, Social Justice Practitioner


Featuring an opening performance by Hip-Hop duo Circa '95

ABT Studio Company

The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Studio Company made up of students from the school (ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School) nurtured year-round for a place in the senior company- ABT is a storehouse of talent.  Their annual program, this year at Pace University’s Schimmel Center (March 13), was ambitious, including re-staged works – Marius Petipa's Le Corsaire (excerpts - 1858), Anthony Tudor's Little Improvisations (1953), Merce Cunningham's Duets (excerpts - 1980) and the newer Hush (2004) by Stephen Mills.  These young hopefuls took on these works and captured the essence of the mature themes and styles.  Erica Lall and Garegin Pogossian in Tudor's Little Improvisations danced as if it belonged solely to them, while Breanne Granlund with Aran Bell, Hanna Bassa with Samuel Rodriguez plus Lall with Tyler Maloney offered a delightful rendition of Cunningham’s Duets.  Kudos to the entire cast of students, they are a treasure trove of what is to come.

Manhattan Youth Ballet Workshop

Young, energetic and talented performers abound at Manhattan Youth Ballet Workshop’s annual production, this year (March 15) titled "Stories that Dance: Shakespeare and his Legacy."  Lucky for them, the founder Rose Caiola always imagined the school and performance venue as one - Manhattan Movement & Arts Center.  For this performance students are given the opportunity to work with some of today's in-demand choreographers (Brian Reeder and Clifton Brown), plus they are challenged to perform works by legends in the field (George Balanchine and Marius Petipa).  Reeder's First Touch, a rendition of “Romeo and Juliet,” opened, followed by Balanchine's “A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpt),” then Brown's Ophelia.  Petipa's Le Corsaire closed the program.  The cast of 50+ students were delightful and they delivered.

Ailey II
The Joyce Theater
March 17-22

In their first independent season at The Joyce Theater, the ever-lauded dancers of Ailey II will present two programs of premieres and returning repertory.  Program A includes Dwight Rhoden’s Hissy Fits (2006), Manuel Vignoulle’s breakthrough (world premiere) and Amy Hall Garner’s Virtues (2012). Program B includes artistic director Troy Powell’s The External Knot (2007) plus Katarzyna Skarpetowska’s Cuore Sott’olio (“heart submerged in oil”) (2014) and Jennifer Archibald Wings (2013).  Find out more here 

Joyce UNLEASHED – Various Artists
New York Live Arts
March 17-21
The Joyce goes to New York Live Arts for its “Joyce UNLEASHED” series featuring choreographers Netta Yerushalmy, Hillel Kogan, Yossi Berg and Oded Graf.  Find out more here 

SPLIT BILL Dance
Dixon Place
March 18
Johanna LjungQvist-Brinson / Hanna Q Dance Company will present Realms, then Rebecca Lloyd-Jones and Julia Cavagna  will present Behind the Language on this split bill.  Find out more here 

I AM A BOYS CHOIR
Dixon Place
March 19
Adam Rigg, Chris DeVita and Kate D'Arcus Attwell, members of I AM A BOYS CHOIR will premiere How I Became An Ice Princess. Find out more here 

Rebecca Serrell Cyr
JACK
March 19-21
Bessie-winner Cyr will present her first evening-length work, “…weaving together previous dance investigations, concerned with improvisation within pre-fabricated constructs,” according to the release.  Find out more here

Wendy Osserman Dance Company
Theater For The New City
March 19-22
Osserman and company will premiere Do You Like This Title? Wherein four dancers struggle to be three dimensional in a 2D world and two dimensional in 3D space.  Find out more here

Concha Vargas - Pepe Torres - Gema Moneo - Esperanza Fernandez
The Town Hall
March 20
For one-night-only in Generations of Gypsy Flamenco these artists come together in song and dance.  Find out more here

Laura Pawel Dance Company
The Theater at Chen Dance Center
March 20-21
The Company will premiere Flickers, a full company work to music by Barebones (Gene Caprioglio on guitar and Dr. 88 on harmonica and more.   Find out more here 

Sally Silvers
92nd Street Y
March 20-22
For the final week of 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Festival, Silvers choreography pays homage to the films and motifs of Alfred Hitchcock.  Find out more here 

The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC)
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
March 21-22 
In two programs the NDTC dancers and singers will offer a round of traditional and contemporary works.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Dixon Place
March 22
Presented by SoHa Dance, Harlem Dances: Études and Duets is a series of new works from emerging and established artists that share roots in Harlem.   Featured artists are: Antonio Brown, Sarah Horne, Shantelle C. Jackson and ModArts Dance Collective (MADC) Find out more here

Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
March 23
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Caitlin Cook, Noopur Singha, Betty Skeen, WKcollective/Wanjiru Kamuyu.  Find out more here 

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Flushing Town Hall
March 22
See Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company’s CrossCurrent - A workshop in collaboration with the New Asia Chamber Music Society.  Find out more here

Panel: “Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues”
New York Live Arts
March 22
New York Live Art’s presents Creative Resistance: A Rising Economic Movement, moderated by Piper Anderson, with panelists Laura Flanders of GritTV, feminist scholar Joan Morgan and performer/actor Okwui Okpokwasili. Find out more here

Panel: “Artists Talk”
Steps on Broadway
March 22
The conversations continue with American Dance Machine 21, featuring directors Nikki Feirt Atkins and Margo Sappington, joined by Robert La Fosse, Tome Cousins, and Lars Rosager, along with ADM21 dancers Georgina Pazcoguin, Amar Ramasar, and Jessica Lee Goldyn,  Find out more here