Stephen Petronio Company
The Joyce Theater
March 28 – April 2
For a third season, Stephen Petronio Company returns with Bloodlines featuring “…a rare opportunity for audiences to see significant works by postmodern instigators who have not only informed Petronio’s creative path, but also defined contemporary dance,” according to the release.  This year chamber works by Yvonne Rainer: Trio A with Flags (1966/1970), Chair-Pillow (1969) and Diagonal (1963); an excerpt from Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations (1986), and Anna Halprin’s 1999 solo The Courtesan and the Crone, performed by Petronio himself will be featured.  Rounding out the program is the world premiere of Petronio’s full-company work Untitled Touch, “…driven by the immediacy of physical contact, the emotional repercussions of skin-to-skin communication and the codes that shape this action,” with an original score by longtime collaborator Son Lux, notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
American Tap Dance Foundation’s Rhythm In Motion
The Duke on 42nd Street
March 29 - April 2
In five days, contemporary tappers from emerging to renowned, will offer six performances.  Included in the lineup are: Chloe Arnold, Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley, Felipe Galganni, Susan Hebach, Kazu Kumagai, Lisa La Touche, Max Pollak, Ana Rokafella Garcia, Leonardo Sandoval, Caleb Teicher, Joseph Monroe Webb & Gabe Winns. Find out more here
 
Yakez (Larissa and Jon Velez-Jackson)
New York Live Arts
March 29 – April 1
Yackez debuts Give It To You Stage, “a large-scale dance musical in two acts featuring their Queer pro-wrestling dance ensemble and a special appearance by older adults from Larissa’s citywide dance-fitness classes, creating a multi-generational interdisciplinary spectacle,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
jenni hong
Green Space
March 31
See hong’s new work Senior Living at Green Space in Long Island City. This is a one-night-only event!
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Ursula Eagly
The Chocolate Factory
March 29 – April 1
The caption for Eagly’s Piece with gaps for each other reads: “This will be like a tower of champagne flutes. But messier. And what’s pouring is something, but not champagne. It’s a delicate operation that’s leaking everywhere. Lots of leaking. What’s going to happen?? Lots of questions, too, and we’ll need your help.” The work is created and performed by  Eagly, Martín Lanz Landázuri, and Kohji Setoh with additional contributions by Madeline Best, Jamie Boyle, Mina Nishimura and Kathy Westwater.  Find out more here


Ailey II
NYU Skirball
March 31 – April 2
Ailey II makes its NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts debut with two programs: “All New” with world premieres: Circular by Jae Man Joo, Stream of Consciousness by Marcus Jarrell Willis, and Sketches of Flames by Bridget L. Moore. The “Contemporary Favorites” program includes the 2016-17 world premiere of Leila Da Rocha’s Meika plus, Jean Emile’s In & Out, Jamar Roberts Gêmeos (Portuguese for twins) and Something Tangible Ray Mercer. Find out more here 
 
Blanca Li
New York City Center
March 31 – April 1
Contemporary dancer-choreographer Blanca Li and Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Maria Alexandrova come together for a new evening-length work by Li, Goddesses and Demonesses, which draws on “…Greek mythology and the contrasting languages of classical ballet and contemporary dance,” notes the release. Find out more here 

Some thoughts on Malpaso Dance Company for AmNews

FROM THE FOLKS AT BAAD!

We here at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance are accepting proposals of your dance or movement oriented performances.

If you are interested in showing a 5 to 7min (less than 10 minutes) work here at BAAD! for our Boogie Down Dance Series let us know what you are up to. 

We will present 8 to 10 choreographers for our

BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES 
Dance & Performance art compilation evening

Any dance style is considered! 
Any movement oriented performance piece is considered!

Just follow the 3 steps provided here

_____________________Your name/email

_____________________A couple sentences on what we will see.

_____________________A video from any medium including your phone.

Here are some specs

BOOGIE DOWN DANCE COMPILATION 
Saturday, May 6th | 8PM
BAAD! 2474 Westchester Ave Bronx NY 10474
212 918 2110

There will be a 20 minute bare bones technical rehearsal (Light and sound) earlier that very day.

If selected we can offer you $125

I do hope you might have a little something to show.

All my appreciation, Arthur
     

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Che Malambo
On Stage at Kingsborough
March 25
Danced solely by men, a Malambo tradition which began in the 17th century as competitive duels, the company of 14 Argentine “gauchos” or cowboys, created by  French director and choreographer Gilles Brinas, will bring “…precision footwork, rhythmic stomping, drumming, singing, and whirling boleadoras (lassos) to the stage,” notes the release.  This will be Che Malambo’s Brooklyn debut.  Find out more here
 
BAAD! ASS Women Festival
The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
March 9 – April 8
The Festival continues with the usual mix of dance, comedy, poetry, music and performance aimed at “…celebrating the empowerment of women through art, culture and performance,” according to the release. Dance events are: (3/18) Maria Bauman and other artists; (4/7-8) Davalois Fearon Dance, plus more. Find out more here 
 
Hamburg Ballet
The Joyce Theater
March 21 – 25
Under director and chief choreographer John Neumeier, for their Joyce debut, the Company will dance Neumeier’s Old Friends, “A collage of ballets featuring 25 dancers,” and the music of Simon and Garfunkel, notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet
GK ArtsCenter
March 23 - 26
For this season, Gelsey Kirkland Ballet will present an evening of works titled “Eternal Spring – The Arrows and Errors of Eros” featuring works by  Leonid Yakobson, Leonid Lavrovsky and Marus Petipa .  Find out more here 
 
Jillian Peña
92nd Street Y
March 24 - 25
The dance and video artist, Peña , “…whose work is primarily concerned with confusion and desire between self and other, and focuses on the most complicated relationship we all have,” according to the release, will premiere Natural Order, created with and performed by Alexandra Albrecht, Leigh Lotocki, Jocelyn Tobias and Madeline Wilcox.  Find out more here 
 
Arch Contemporary Ballet
The Alchemical Theatre Laboratory
March 24 - 26
Artistic Director Sheena Annalise brings the world premiere ballet, INNATE PRISMROSE with light installation artist, Robert Glowacki and "...transforms an unconventional white box theatre with laser shadows to set the tone..." notes the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
March 27
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Hadar Ahuvia, Nora Alami, Miriam Gabriel & Carlo Antonio Villanueva, The Testourmonials Project.  Find out more here 

Against a Hard Surface is a poetic, political dance theatre piece created by theatre director Amir Nizar Zuabi and choreographer Samar Haddad King exploring the long term effects of life under occupation, with an original score by Muqata’a.

A Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre production, Against a Hard Surface will premiere April 29 at the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. Catch a sneak peek of the performance in our trailer!

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Darwin’s theory of evolution explains how organisms adapt to the challenges of a specific habitat. In isolated environments this process is accelerated, as organisms develop skills key for survival. The separation wall cutting off Palestinians from the rest of the world has created such an isolated habitat. In this evening length piece, natural evolution of millions of years is fast-forwarded in a high-pressure ecosystem due unremitting political strain and violence. Against a Hard Surface investigates the mechanisms for survival within a testing ground of human resilience.

Against a Hard Surface is a production of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and supported by the A.M Qattan Foundation/ The Qattan Grant for Performing Arts 2016 and Covillo Lynch Foundation, and co-produced by Sareyyet Ramallah in partnership with the Palestinian Museum.
Header image by Reham Abdelrahman.

ZEST Collective's new ballet is an expression of spiritual courageousness and pays homage to those who've fought sensitively to seek and protect personal liberty.

When:  March 25th @ 8pm
Where:  Ulster Performing Arts Center 601 Broadway 
Kingston, NY 12401

Tickets are $18 - $25, and can be purchased at the door.  
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A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Alzheimer's Association of the Hudson Valley.

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Tickets for Imminence are on sale now!
This program highlights several facets of our transformative work:

• Resident artists: world premiere of Imminence, a new group work by Erin Dillon and Jonathan Howard Katz
• Commissioned guests: returning favorites Reflection and Separate Rooms, from The Portrait Project
• Community: Periapsis Open Series guests from across the NYC dance and music worlds