Patricia Hoffbauer's Dances for Intimate Spaces and Friendly People
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
September 30-Oct 3

Not only will Hoffbauer take over four studios (Studios B, C, D & E ) and the audience will move from one to the other, the cast features many who have not danced in quite some time including: Alyssa Alpine, Jonathan Gonzalez, Peggy Gould, Kareem Alexander Hewitt, Ellie Kusner, Vincent McCloskey, Mor Mendel, Sharon Milanese, Yvonne Rainer, Sara Rudner, Keith Sabado, George Emilio Sanchez, David Thomson, Jennifer Way.  Find out more here

Patricia Hoffbauer
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
September 30-October 3
Hoffbauer’s Dances for Intimate Spaces and Friendly People “…is a series of duets, trios, and quartets presented simultaneously as installations in various Gibney Dance studios.  An accompanying exhibition of video and writings presents a visual record of the work’s creation, contextualizing the involved artists’ process in relationship to post/modern dance history,” according to the release.  Hoffbauer works with long-time collaborators writer George Emilio Sanchez, video artist Peter Richards, designer Liz Prince, and a multi-generational cast—Alyssa Alpine, Jonathan Gonzalez, Peggy Gould, Kareem Alexander Hewitt, Ellie Kusner, Vincent McCloskey, Mor Mendel, Sharon Milanese, Yvonne Rainer, Tom Rawe, Sara Rudner, George Emilio Sanchez, David Thomson, and Jennifer Way, to create, “…a constellation of performative vignettes exploring the internal politics of art making,” notes the release.  The Gallery Exhibition runs from through October 9.  Find out more here  

Batsheva – The Young Ensemble/Batsheva Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
September 29-October 4
The debut of Batsheva-The Young Ensemble, part of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, under the artistic direction of choreographer Ohad Naharin will perform an all new version of the parent company’s 2000 work of repertory highlights, Decadance.  Find out more here   

Heidi Latsky: ON DISPLAY
Lincoln Center’s - David Rubenstein Atrium
October 1
A site-specific work that celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), ON DISPLAY is a movement installation for diverse members of the community. This event is free and seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.  Find out more here      

Hank Smith’s "The Story of Tap, 2015"
Dixon Place
October 3
An evening of conversation and dance, celebrating the art of tap dance. The Story of Tap, 2015 – originally presented as a six evening series in 1998 and 2005 – returns to Dixon Place for one night. Find out more here   

Raja Feather Kelly I the feath3r theory
JACK
October 1-3
This new ensemble piece for nine dancers by Feather Kelly, Another 37 Reasons To Cry (a Warholian production) “…follows a Warholian approach to form, using movement that is highly demanding physically, and at the same time unedited, raw, and true-to-life. Kelly takes inspiration from film noir to create a work that is dark, minimalist, mysterious and cinematic,” notes the release. Find out more here 

New York Theatre Ballet
Danspace Project
October 1-3
New York Theatre Ballet returns with Legends & Visionaries 2015, part of programming that “…brings fresh insight to classic revivals paired with the modern sensibilities of both established and up and coming choreographers,” notes the release. Find out more here    

Alessandro Sciarroni
New York Live Arts
October 1-3
One of Europe’s new artists, Italian performer, choreographer and director Sciarroni makes his New York City debut with Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow? as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s “Crossing the Line festival.”  Find out more here   

Dance on the Greenway
IKEA Brooklyn - Erie Basin Park
October 3
This free festival of site-specific dance and performance features works by Paloma McGregor/ Angela’s Pulse, Audrey Elaine Hailes, Juson Williams and more. (Rain Date: Sunday October 4th).  Find out more here  

Pentacle/FALL FURTHER IV
Dixon Place
October 4  
Pentacle, one of New York's dance management  agencies for over 30 years, presents it’s annual fall showcase featuring Gallery artists:  Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co., danceTactics Performance Group, Dante Brown | Warehouse Dance, Indah Walsh Dance Company, and Lorraine Chapman The Company (LCTC).  Find out more here    

Voices & Visions Contemporary Performance Workshops
Ailey Citigroup Theater
October 4-November 1
For the fourth consecutive year, the Ailey Extension welcomes Voices & Visions Contemporary Performance Workshops designed for advanced beginner students who want to develop their technique and versatility.  Find out more here 

Please join us on
 Sunday, October 4, 2015 @ 
New York Live Arts 
5pm - 7pm
219 west 19th St. 
between 7th & 8th Ave 
New York,  NY 10011
First come, first served

special thanks to New York Live Arts for donating the space for the event

Making Moves Dance Festival
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
September 26  

This free, outdoor performance features: Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Ballet Inc., Brother(hood) Dance!, Christian von Howard, 
Erin Carlisle Norton, Maxine Steinman and Paige A. Steward.  Find out more here

[DANCEROULETTE] - Sound + Movement - Various Artists
Roulette
October 26-28
This series includes performances by BOOMERANG, Greg Saunier, Adam Tendler, Poor Remy, KJ Holmes, and Patricia Parker, among others. Find out more here 

Nine Recipients Receive Funding to Continue Their Critical Work In
Sustaining the National Infrastructure of the Dance, Jazz, Theatre and Presenting Fields


The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) announced today the nine organizations receiving a combined total of $2.268 million through its Core Support for National Organizations grants program. Since 2007, this program has funded organizations deemed critical to the health of the contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and/or presenting fields across the country.

Recognizing that the state of performing arts in the United States depends upon the strength of both individual artists and arts organizations, DDCF remains committed to supporting organizations whose activities bolster the national infrastructure of the arts. Grantees consist of national organizations that have a prior funding relationship with the foundation and whose applications could clarify their multi-year organizational objectives, a plan for achieving them and benchmarks against which progress toward them could be measured.

“While we often fund new projects or activities, our Core Support initiative recognizes the irreplaceable value of the ongoing programs and services these organizations provide, such as leadership training, conferences, publications or research,” said Ben Cameron, program director for the Arts at DDCF. “Grants to these national organizations ultimately contribute to the better health of dance companies, theatre companies, jazz ensembles and presenters throughout the country. We are delighted to support these nine important organizations through two-year grants designed to support both short- and long-term needs.

The recipients of DDCF’s 2015 Core Support for National Organizations are:

• Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Washington, D.C.) with a grant of $360,500;
• Chamber Music America (New York, NY) with a grant of $150,000;
• Creative Capital (New York, NY) with a grant of $250,000;
• Dance/USA (Washington, D.C.) with a grant of $220,000;
• Emerson College Department of Finance for Center for the Theater Commons (Boston, MA) with a grant of $121,980;
• Fractured Atlas (New York, NY) with a grant of $470,000;
• National New Play Network (Washington, D.C.) with a grant of $26,000;
• National Performance Network (New Orleans, LA) with a grant of $200,000;
• Theatre Communications Group (New York, NY) with a grant of $470,000.

DDCF’s Core Support for National Organization is one of two complementary initiatives the foundation pursues as part of a larger goal to strengthen the national sector of the performing arts. The Fund for National Projects is the related initiative that specifies national arts projects for direct support, and its recipients were announced on September 3, 2015.

About the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) is to improve the quality of people’s lives through grants supporting the performing arts, the environment, medical research and child well-being, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke’s properties. The Arts Program of DDCF focuses its support on contemporary dance, jazz and theatre artists, and the organizations that nurture, present and produce them. For more information, please visit www.ddcf.org.

Jeanine Durning
The Chocolate Factory
September 9-26
Durning and many named artists will present the premiere To Being, and the reprise of inging for her month-long season.   Find out more here 

Sam Falls with Hart of Gold and Oldd News
The Kitchen
September 10-October 10
"September Spring," is the first performance-based work by artist Sam Falls, known primarily for work that combines the durational processes of photography with natural phenomena, and is created in collaboration with dancers Hart of Gold (Jessie Gold and Elizabeth Hart).  Find out more here

Miguel Gutiérrez
New York Live Arts
September 9-26
As part of NYLA/FIAF’s “Crossing the Line Festival,” Gutierrez brings the world premiere of Age & Beauty Parts 1-3 from his Age & Beauty series where “…Gutierrez meets mid-life head-on in this wild and ebullient triptych that celebrates queerness, art-making, and mortality. Gutierrez explores the nostalgic past, the prosaic present, and the imagined future of a life in art…” notes the release.  Find out more here  

The Queer New York International Arts Festival (QNYIA)
Abrons Arts Center
September 16-26
Curated and produced by Zvonimir Dobrović (artistic director, Queer Zagreb and Perforations festivals, Croatia), QNYIA presents contemporary performance and visual art that broadens the traditional concepts of queer (in) art. This last week’s lineup includes Bruno Isaković, Kaia Gilje / Lorene Bouboushian, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Michael Breslin and Joshua Monten.  Find out more here

Various Artists                                                                                                             
Movement Research at Judson
September 21
 “A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress,” according to the release, presents their Monday night series with Taja Lindley, Sari Nordman, Jen Rosenblit and David Thomson.  Find out more here 

Camille A. Brown & Dancers
The Joyce Theater
September 22-27
In the company’s first appearance at The Joyce, Brown premieres BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play “…revealing the complexity of carving out a self-defined identity as a black female in urban America.”  Find out more here

Colleen Thomas Dance
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
September 26
As part of Snug Harbor’s “Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS),” Thomas will preview Her(e) Repetitive Blueprint a full length piece that will premiere at the 92nd Street Y in October. Find out more here 

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko | anonymous bodies
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performance Lab
September 23-26
Olawale Kosoko and his company, anonymous bodies, premieres #negrophobia  which “examines the erotic fear associated with the black male body,” according to the release, at.  Find out more here  

                                                                                                                            
K. Kvarnström & Co/Kulturhuset City Theatre Stockholm
BAM Fisher
September 23-26
The Nordic choreographer, Kvarnström, in collaboration with hsi company makes a rare New York appearance with TAPE, where he mixes Baroque music, speech in different languages, dancers applying black duct tape on stage and much more. Find out more here 

DANCE NOW’S ENCORE Performance
Joe’s Pub at The Public
September 24
Fifteen choreographers/dance companies, some from the season and others by invitation, will perform in the ENCORE performance of the 2015 Festival offering new works created for the 2015 festival and some from past seasons.  Find out more here  

Yasuko Yokoshi
Danspace Project
September 24-26
Yokoshi presents the New York premiere of Zero One at Dancespace Project after nearly a ten-year absence.  Identical twin sisters, Manami and Sawami Fukuoka, brings Yokoshi’s blend of traditional Japanese and Western dance to life.  Find out more here  

Soaking WET – Various Artists
West End Theater
September 24-27
The Soaking WET series, curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, opens with different programs: Program A: comedy to Flamenco by Karen Bernard, Marsi Burns & Alice Teirstein, Rachel Cohen, Deirdre Towers (Thursday/Friday/Saturday) and Program B: short works by Janice Rosario and Company (Thursday/Friday/Saturday). Find out more here

The A.O. Movement Collective
Loft 172
September 25-October 10
The Collective will premiere ETLE and the Andres “…a ravenous foray into maximalism—hyper-saturated, queer future-psychedelia—featuring moving bodies, time-travel, possession, absence, presence, glitch theory, feminist revolution, and looping soundscapes (performed live by Idgy Dean, project of Brooklyn-based musician Lindsay Sanwald),” according to the release. Find out more here

STEPS PERFORMANCE LAB SERIES
Steps on Broadway Studio Theater
September 27
Geared at helping artists develop a voice, this evening’s program will feature works by Kate Griffler, Loni Landon, Emery LeCrone, Samuel Kunzman, Andrew Robinson, Laura Hydak, Vanessa Van Wormer, Mael Guivarc'h, Catarino Rago and guests The Steps Repertory Ensemble.  The evening ends with networking and lite fare.  Find out more here 

Join us in celebrating the life of living legend Louis Johnson. The night will be lead by the fabulous Phylicia Rashad with special performances from Melba Moore, Marva Hicks, Philadanco!, The Philadelphia Dance Company, Howard University Department of Theatre Arts, Dance Program, and  Jones Haywood School of Ballet.

Speakers include
Carmen DeLavallade, George Faison, Maurice Hines, and Dr. Glory Van Scott

Join us as we celebrate the living legend Louis Johnson on October 5th in our effort to raise funds to tell his story.

I am reaching out to you in the hopes that you or someone you know with experience in Performing Arts & also someone who can teach Zumba.

I am currently looking to fill 2 positions for our afterschool program at the junior high school I work out of in Washinton Heights.
If you know anyone that might be interested, please have them email me their cover letter/resume at: norkamaya@gmail.com

Thank you!
Norka Nadal