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Some Dance This Week ~

4/25/2018

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Sarah Michelson
Performance Space New York
April 27–May 5 
 

"Michelson has been a defining presence at Performance Space 122 through the years, first as a dancer in the 1990s, then showing her own early work in peer-curated programs like Hothouse, followed by the evening-length pieces Group Experience (2001), Shadowmann Part II (2003), and Daylight (2005), which established her as one of the most original voices of her generation. After a 13-year hiatus, Michelson returns to Performance Space New York with a new piece that considers her own history with the organization, the building, and the community from which her work emanates," notes the release.  Find out more here ​









Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing) – Various Artists

Gibney Dance
April 10 – 28
Curated by Marýa Wethers, week three of the three-week series filled with performances “…intersections and crossroads among Blackness, queerness, and Indigeneity,” concludes with the I Moving Lab, an inter-national, Indigenous, inter-cultural, and inter-disciplinary global arts collective 4/26 – 28.  Find out more here 
 
Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
The Joyce Theater
April 24 – 29
Called one of Europe’s most glorious companies, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève returns with the U.S. premiere of Pontus Lidberg’s evening-length work Une Autre Passion, an “…abstract take on Johann Sebastian Bach's Saint Matthew Passion,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
WestFest Dance – Various Artists
April 26 – 29
West Village – Westbeth
WestFest is a curated festival presenting emerging and established movement artists in the historic Westbeth Artists’ Residence at West Village, NYC. The festival has two distinct programs: WestFest Top Floor and All over Westbeth See the 2018 program and find out more here 
 
Michael Mao Dance
New York Live Arts
April 26 - 28
Choreographer Mao, presents the 25th anniversary season with a program company favorites and guests Virginie Mecene, Kevin Predmore and other artists who are Mao Dance alumni.  Find out more here 
 
Brian Ornoy
JACK
April 26 – 28
Curated by Stacy Grossfield as part of her Images // Landscapes series at JACK, Ornoy premieres a new piece, titled with a symbol, “…his own version of a daily prayer through movement,” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Barbara Mahler & Meghan Frederick/Ethan Woods
Brooklyn Studios For Dance
April 27 - 28
Mahler will perform a solo, followed by the duet when it’s happening performed by Jamie Graham and Trina Mannino. Meghan Frederick (dancer) and Ethan Woods’ (musician), no such thing, will close the program. Find out more here
 
Nuo Spiritual Dance & Art Foundation
Gibney Dance
April 27
For one night only, in preparation for the full-evening work, Nuo Spiritual Dance Series offers a sneak peek at Chinese dancer/choreographer Nuo An’s new “Spiritual Dance” work “Moving Through Tea: Green Tea, Black Tea, and Pu'er Tea.” Find out more here 

MorDance
Aaron Davis Hall
April 27 – 28
Artistic Director, Morgan McEwen of MorDance, celebrate their fifth year will present new and repertory works.  Find out more here 
 
Step Afrika!
Kumble Theater
April 28
Step Afrika! concludes the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College 2017-18 with performances and a Brooklyn residency that also includes weekday educational shows for schoolchildren. Find out more here 
 
Anabella Lenzu
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
April 28
Lenzu presents No More Beautiful Dances, “…a dance/theater piece by which uses spoken word, video projections, and visual art to tell a personal vision of femininity and what it means to be a woman today,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists  
Union Street Dance
April 29
For Underground Movement: Volume 1, curated by Gabrielle Schutz and Eva Dean described as “…an unplugged performance series hosted by Union Street Dance…featured artists for this first round are: Suku Dance Lab, binbinFactory, and Eva Dean Dance in special collaboration with Caroline Partamian.  Find out more here 
 
J Chen Project 
The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater
April 29  
The J Chen Project will premiere “…an experimental live performance, Seasons of Sounds and Movement, part of the second annual Dancing Keys program in collaboration with composer Chris DeAngelis.  Find out more here 
 
“Works & Process”-  Wayne McGregor
Guggenheim Museum
April 29 – 30
As part of the “Works & Process,” the performing arts series, McGregor and members of American Ballet Theatre will present excerpts of the new work AFTERITE “Utilizing Igor Stravinsky's “The Rite of Spring” as inspiration… into the creation of [his] new piece that reconceptualizes the seminal work,” notes the release. Find out more here 

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Something to Watch ~ This Week

4/25/2018

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¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival
April 22 – 28

New York City Center 

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Mainstage performances by Acosta Danza,

Arturo O’Farrill and Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, and special guests
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MBDance April 2018: Artist in Residence Showcase @ BAX - April 27 - 28

4/25/2018

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Maria Bauman - a 2017-2018 Artist in Residence with Brooklyn Arts Exchange, will share her progress on MBDance's latest interdisciplinary work, (re)Source, an investigation-in-process. 

In addition to solo choreographed and improvised dancing, the work includes a visual art landscape Bauman navigates. She dances with, in, through, and in spite of it. It's an abstracted version of a family tree she has been conversing with family members and conducting research to construct.

Of the work she says, “My experience is that we’re all navigating; I certainly am. Whether I am bringing my Blackness across the terrain of conversations on shared and not-shared experiences in our dance field with white colleagues, whether I am using my grandmother’s prayers and my father’s wit as a map to direct my course through Trump’s vision of the U.S., or whether I am sailing over depression and stagnancy with care, I am navigating. And I know I am not the only one moving carefully and without ease over sometimes unexpected terrain.” 


Get your tickets now! Because of the unique set-up, seating is limited.
April 27-28, 2018 | 8:00pm
Brooklyn Arts Exchange

421 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
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TICKETS HERE!


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Deeply Rooted Performs NYC Premiere of Tshabalala's "INDUMBA" ~ April 28-29

4/25/2018

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DEEPLY ROOTED's "INDUMBA" by SOUTH AFRICAN CHOREOGRAPHER
FANA TSHABALALA


BAM/FISHER

APRIL 28 & 29


Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT) returns to New York City in April with the New York premiere of its 2017 evening-length work INDUMBA by acclaimed South African choreographer Fana Tshabalala. Performances take place Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 29 at 3 p.m. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Fishman Space, 321 Ashland Place in Brooklyn. Noted arts professional Baraka Sele participates in a discussion with artists and audience following the April 29 performance.

The program
Originally creating INDUMBA to illuminate the perpetual impact of unresolved apartheid politics in his native South Africa, Fana Tshabalala, artistic director of Broken Borders Arts Project, spent three weeks in residence with DRDT in July 2017 to adapt INDUMBA for an American audience. “Indumba” means African healing hut, promising a work of stirring resilience and reconciliation. Tshabalala noted, “As an artist, I am fascinated by how social politics affect human interaction and spirituality. …I created INDUMBA to provide individuals and communities with opportunities for this important spiritual cleansing through dance.”

DRDT Co-founder and Artistic Director
Kevin Iega Jeff, who founded his first company, JUBILATION! Dance Company, in New York City in 1982, said, “INDUMBA forges an expanded aesthetic direction for the company. We welcome all who wish to come prepared to witness work that is newly found.” 
INDUMBA premiered in December 2017 as part DRDT’s 20th anniversary finale performances, “Deeply Free,” at Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Chicago Tribune dance critic Lauren Warnecke called INDUMBA “unequivocally the dance of the year.”

Read my Dance Magazine preview here

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Tania Isaac & Magdalena Gabri Christa - Painted Bride ~ PA - April 27

4/25/2018

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NJDTE Spring Performance - Saturday, May 12 @ Montclair

4/25/2018

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AUDITION: Martha Graham Dance Company -  May 12-13

4/25/2018

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Martha Graham Dance Company
Auditions May 12-13, 2018,

Pre-Audition Workshop, May 9-11, 2018.


The Company seeks strong dancers with a command of Graham Technique and ballet. Core dancers are guaranteed a minimum of 30 weeks of work per year, and are members of the American Guild of Musical Artists AFL-CIO.
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For more information and to register, visit
marthagraham.org/audition


Pre-Audition Workshop May 9-11Includes classes in Graham Technique™ and Current Company Repertory. For more information, visit marthagraham.org/pre-audition-workshop

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OPPORTUNITY: Application now open for LiftOff Residency - Deadline  ~ June 1st

4/25/2018

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Application now available forLiftOff Creative and Project Development ResidencyAugust 2018The LiftOff Creative and Project Development Residency provides four physical-based performance artists with:
  • A minimum of 30 hours of rehearsal space
  • Two creative and project development feedback sessions facilitated by NDA director Karen Bernard or guest facilitator
There is no fee for the residency.

Apply now!
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Deadline: June 1, 2018
Note:It is mandatory that artists be available for: 
  • An introductory meeting on August 1st
  • Mid-month creative (sharing work) and project development session TBA
  • Creative (sharing work) feedback session on August 31st
Past LiftOff Resident Artists are not eligible.

Apply now
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SMAPA'S Multi-Disciplinary Dance Intensive - August 6 - 24

4/25/2018

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SMAPA'S MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DANCE INTENSIVE (ages 12 + up) 

(August 6 - 24)
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...is designed to give the intermediate to advanced level student exposure to and experience in different dance forms on a weekly basis
  • 3 hour choreography workshops held each Thursday and Friday and led by instructor offer students the opportunity to create movement pieces
  • over the three weeks, this process of creating and collaborating culminates in an informal presentation on Friday, Aug 26th
  • participation in full 3 week program is preferable, but not mandatory
  • only students registered in the final week will participate in the performance
  • each dancer should bring each day: proper dance attire (including knee pads, ballet slippers and jazz sneakers), reusable water bottle AND a passion for dance!
Find out more here

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Some Dance This Week ~

4/18/2018

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Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
April 17 – 22

Celebrating its 50th anniversary with three programs, included will be the world premiere of Lubovitch’s Something About Night, set to choral music by Franz Schubert, Men’s Stories: A Concerto in Ruin (2000), and Little Rhapsodies (2007).  The Company will be joined by the Martha Graham Dance Company in The Legend of Ten (2010), principal dancers from The Joffrey Ballet in Act III of Lubovitch’s Othello, and the George Mason University School of Dance in A Brahms Symphony (1985), seminal works dances in honor of this milestone year. The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company dancers are: Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry, Anthony Bocconi, Nicole Marie Corea, Barton Cowperthwaite, Tobin Del Cuore, Colin Fuller, Reed Luplau, Belinda McGuire, Matthew McLaughlin, Brett Perry, Benjamin Holliday Wardell, and Łukasz Zięba.  Find out more here 
 
Gathering Place: Black Queer Land(ing) – Various Artists
Gibney Dance
April 10 – 28
Curated by Marýa Wethers, week two of the three filled with performances “…intersections and crossroads among Blackness, queerness, and Indigeneity,” continues with jumatatu m. poe, and the I Moving Lab collective, “…who call in the ancestors and create a live offering of embodied rituals informed by ceremonial practices, queer sensibilities, and Indigenous wisdoms, offering the potential for transformation through creative interventions that strive to reorganize our understanding of identity, place, mutuality, and connection, and activate a sense of collective responsibility,” notes the release.  The schedule is as follows: jumatatu m. poe: terrestrial (4/19 – 21); and I Moving Lab: I LAND 2018 (4/26 – 28).  Find out more here 

The Visegrád Group (V4) – Various Artists
NYU Skirball
April 19 – 20
will present the, bringing together some of the boldest dance-makers from The Visegrád Group (V4), a cultural and political alliance will feature performances by Debris Company (Slovakia), Věra Ondrašíková (Czech Republic), Paweł Sakowicz (Poland) and Timothy and the Things (Hungary). Find out more here 
 
New Steps Choreographer’s series – Various Artists
Chen Dance Center
April 19 - 21
newsteps, the semi-annual emerging choreographers series, presented by Chen Dance Center will showcase works by Kate Douglas, Bryndon Cook, Lauren Oliver, Alec Funiciello, and Sophia Zukoski.  Find out more here
 
Fridays at Noon | Merce Cunningham’s Signals
92nd Street Y
April 20
The Stephen Petronio Company will perform Cunningham’s post-modern classic Signals (1970), followed by a conversation with Nancy Dalva (Cunningham Trust Scholar-in-Residence), Rashaun Mitchell (Cunningham dancer) and Douglas Dunn, Valda Setterfield (original cast members.  Find out more here
 
Nimbus Dance Works & Sky Pony
BAM/Fisher
April 21 – 22
Artistic Director, Samuel Pott will premiere Esther an “… interpretation of the complex First Testament heroine,”  with live music by the Brooklyn Indie-Rock band, Sky-Pony, notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Various Artist
Cathy Weis’ “Sundays on Broadway”
April 22
Cathy Weis Projects continues the spring 2018 lineup for "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions.  This Sunday’s shared evening curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones will include works by Laurie Berg with Bessie McDonough-Thayer, Jessica Pretty, and Emily Wexler.  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Judson Church
April 23
Don’t miss this free, on-going, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Julia Gladstone, Maho Ogawa, The Olimpias and Lisa Parra.  Find out more here 

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    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

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