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Emerging Commissioned New Jersey Choreographer New Jersey Dance School Performing Company New Jersey Professional Company New York Professional Company Martha Graham Dance Company/Studio Series Graham Studios December 13–14 The NEW@Graham designed to introduce audiences to the Company’s newest commissions, vis-à-vis a sneak-peek of a work before its premiere, continues with choreographer Annie-B Parson’s new work, inspired by Graham’s 1941 comic ballet Punch and the Judy. A conversation with artistic director janet Eilber follows. The Company will premiere the final work during its Joyce Theater season, under the theme of Sacred/Profane, in February 2017. Find out more here The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) New York City Center November 30 – December 31 For week three of their annual New York City Center five-week season, AAADT, under artistic director, Robert Battle on the bill is an evening dedicated to long-time choreographer Ronald K. Brown (12/14) featuring Brown’s Grace, Ife/My Heart and Ailey dancers Matthew Rushing and returning for this occasion, Renee Robinson. The week also includes Ailey favorites and so much more. Find out more here Leslie Cuyjet + Lela Aisha Jones | FlyGround Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center December 15 – 17 As part of the ever-growing series, DoublePlus built by invited curators, Barnoy and Ramirez shares the split-bill evening. The curator is luciana achugar. Find out more here KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre Dixon Place December 2 - 17 The transgender performance artist, choreographer and storyteller Arrie Davidson completes the two-week run of the Dixon Place commissioned work, Wonder/Through the Looking Glass Houses which “… skewers the tales of Lewis Carroll and creates a world of reflection and taboo transformation…” according to the release. Find out more here Sonya Tayeh New York Live Arts December 9 – 17 Tayeh’s evening-length original work, you’ll still call me by name, “…an emotionally charged dance-symphony that explores a mystifying, complex and jagged relationship between a mother and daughter,” according to the release, will receive its New York City debut. Find out more here Reggie Wilson and his Fist & Heel Performance Group BAM December 14 – 17 Choreographer Wilson with his Company will premiere of CITIZEN “…inspired by the histories of iconic African-Americans––including Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and W.E.B DuBois––who faced prevalent contradictions and adversity in relation to their civic duties and artistic aspirations...” according to the release. Find out more here Various Artists Triskelionarts December 16 – 18 On “The Split Bill” program where emerging and mid-career artists get to share an evening, and later at least two are given the opportunity for a shared or solo run in the Muriel Schulman Theater as part of Triskelion Arts Presents' 2017-2018 Season, this season’s lineup includes: Janice Rosario and Company and Mariam Dingilian (12/15); Mariam Dingilian and LanDforms (12/16); Kyle Marshall Choreography and Janice Rosario and Company (12/17); and LanDforms and Kyle Marshall Choreography (12/18). Find out more here Hip Hop Nutcracker NJPAC December 17 The contemporary version of the timeless holiday classic with performances by MC Kurtis Blow plus dancer, a DJ, a violinist and more returns to NJPAC. Find out more here Forces of Nature Dance Company NJPAC December 17 Under artistic director and choreographer Abdel R. Salaam, Forces of Nature Dance Company brings their annual A Kwanzaa Celebration to NJPAC with special guests Les Nubians as part of NJPAC's Kwanzaa festivities. Find out more here Oyu Oro Afro Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble Aaron Davis Hall- Marian Anderson Theater December 17 – 18 Joined by visiting Cuban artists, Oyu Oro Afro Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble brings Siete Mares “…Inspired by the mythology from Yoruba stories…” choreographed and directed by Dany's "La Mora" Perez, according to the release. Find out more here From the folks at Danspace Project: On the occasion of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)'s acquisition of Simone Forti's Dance Constructions (1961), Danspace Project announces a collaboration with MoMA's Department of Media and Performance Art on an unprecedented research residency. The Simone Forti Research Residency is intended to provide an opportunity for Forti to work closely with groups of dancers and teachers in order to communicate her practice to new generations of performers and participants. The Simone Forti Research Residency is co-organized by Danspace Project and the Department of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art. Read more here EYE ON DANCE presents their spotlighting artists' series focusing on the creative embodiment of racial symbols and systematic prejudice in their art. Please join the conversation. We hope to see you there.
“Sorry I Missed Your Show” presents EYE ON DANCE The Arts of Identity Politics: EMBRACING RACIAL AND CULTURAL IDENTIES IN THE ARTS Featuring EOD Video Guests: Marlies Yearby and Laurie Carlos Thursday, Dec. 15 from 6pm – 7:30pm FREE *Space is limited. Please RSVP here Date: Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 at 6:00pm FREE Location: Gibney Dance Center (280 Broadway) Enter 53A Chambers Post Screening Dialogue with Yearby and Cynthia Oliver moderated by Celia Ipiotis EOD TV Episode #315 (recorded in 1991) Topic: Seeking African-AmericaValues:Embracing Racial and Cultural Identities Moderator and Curator: Celia Ipiotis Video Guests: MARLIES YEARBY, choreographer of Rent Laurie Carlos, performance artist, writer, director Talk: How artists maintain and develop a racial identity in the face of institutionalized racism and integrate voice, drumming, and movement in African art versus the separation of similar elements in Eurocentric art. Dance Excerpts: Urban Bush Women’s “Praise House” (from a film by Julie Dash), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s “Monkey Dances,” and Yearby’s “Pushing Through a Tight Place.” Post Video Screening Dialogue Moderated by Celia Ipiotis Panelists: Mariles Yearby Cynthia Oliver, choreographer and Graduate Program Director, University of Illinois A BIOGRAPHY OF Bruce Hawkins - A Theater Arts Honors graduate of Morgan State College, Bruce received the AUDELCO Black Theater Achievement Award for Outstanding Male Musical Theater Performance for his song and dance work in the New Federal Theater production of Melvin Van Peebles' musical play about Bessie Smith, "The Champeen' ". He was also featured in "Golden Boy" at the Billie Holiday Theater, toured the US with Cab Calloway in his "Cotton Club Revue" and played the Scarecrow in the touring company of "The Wiz". Bruce danced in six New York based Black dance companies and traveled and taught dance working personally with many renowned choreographers and instructors. His international dance travels took him to Africa, Japan, Europe, Alaska, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom. Before he retired from dancing in 1995, Bruce eventually ended up teaching for several years on the professional dance faculty of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He has also taught ballet, modern and jazz dance internationally and has graced the staff as an adjunct professor of dance and guest artist at SUNY Purchase, New York University, Adelphi University, Lehman College for the Performing Arts and The University of Washington. Bruce continues to work as an actor/model and published book author primarily in New York and sometimes, Los Angeles. He attributes his career in the theater to the nurturing and training he received as a student and dancer at Clark Center for the Performing Arts. Read more about Mr. Hawkins here and here The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) New York City Center November 30 – December 31 For week two of their annual New York City Center five-week season, AAADT, under artistic director, Robert Battle will premiere Kyle Abraham's Untitled America, "A three-part suite [that] shines a light on the lasting impact of the prison system on African-American families and individuals...developed over three seasons and features haunting interviews by those impacted by incarceration," according to the release. Other premieres for the season includes: Ailey dancer Hope Boykin's r-Evolution, Dream; Johan Inger's Walking Mad (2001) a Company premiere, plus new productions by Billy Wilson (The Winter in Lisbon - 1992) and Mr. Ailey (Masekela Language -1969). Other season highlights include the Family Matinee Series which runs every Saturday afternoon, plus the Christmas Eve, Christmas night and New Year’s Eve performances. Find out more here The Lucinda Childs Dance Company The Joyce Theatre November 29 – December 11 Slated for week two is an encore presentation of Ms. Childs’ signature 1979 evening-length work Dance, last presented at The Joyce Theater in 2010. Specially commissioned score by Philip Glass and the original film décor by Sol LeWitt, in which the work’s original dancers are projected in perfect synchronization with the live dancers on stage. Find out more here KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre Dixon Place December 2 - 17 The transgender performance artist, choreographer and storyteller Arrie Davidson completes the two-week run of the Dixon Place commissioned work, Wonder/Through the Looking Glass Houses which “… skewers the tales of Lewis Carroll and creates a world of reflection and taboo transformation…” according to the release. Find out more here The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art December 7 Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will dance in response to Aljira's current exhibit - Zachary Fabri: From the Wolf to the Fox. The event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please RSVP to 973-622-1600 Jamal Jackson Dance Company The Dumbo Loft December 7 – 8 In the premiere of The Temple, Burn it Down, featured this season in Jamal Jackson Dance Company are sculptures, body paint costumes and live music. Find out more here H.T. Chen & Dancers Chen Dance Center December 8 Chen & Dancer appears in one of their “Teahouse Performances” with works “…informed by Chinese history and culture,” notes the release. Teahouse events are curated programs that provide both food for thought and refreshments. Find out more here Xaviera Simmons The Kitchen December 8 – 9 Simmons builds on her CODED project with a “…new movement-based performance that mines art-historical, online, and archival images—as they relate to queer history, homoerotic imagery, and landscape, as well as Jamaican dancehall culture—to map new conceptual territory,” according to the release. Find out more here Oren Barnoy + Naomi Elena Ramirez Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center December 8 - 10 As part of the ever-growing series, DoublePlus built by invited curators, Barnoy and Ramirez shares the split-bill evening. The curator is luciana achugar. Find out more here Bill Young/Various Artists 100 Grand December 8 – 11 Presented nearly 30 years ago, Young brings back Interleaving, “…a major work he created to inaugurate a new artist-loft/dance-space on Grand Street in December 1986,” notes the release. A large cast of dancers include Oluwadamilare Ayorinde, Gary Champi, Erin Dowd, Lauren Ferguson, Cori Kresge, Gabrielle Revlock, Jamie Scott, Darrin Wright and more. Find out more here The Construction Company/Various Artists University Settlement December 9 – 10 On the program titled “The Dance Gallery,” featured are works by Janet Aisawa, Jeffrey Bauer, Mei-Yin Ng, Linda Seifert/Peter Kiszka and Beth Soll are featured. Find out more here Sonya Tayeh New York Live Arts December 9 – 17 Tayeh’s evening-length original work, you’ll still call me by name, “…an emotionally charged dance-symphony that explores a mystifying, complex and jagged relationship between a mother and daughter,” according to the release, will receive its New York City debut. Find out more here Batotu Yetu Aaron Davis Hall- Marian Anderson Theater December 10 For their holiday celebration, Batoto Yetu (Swahili for "Our Children") brings African dance, music, and folklore to audiences of all ages. Find out more here The 59th Annual Dance Magazine Awards New York Live Arts December 12 This year'shonorees are former dancer and current dance educator Carolyn Adams, dance historian and scholar Lynn Garafola, choreographer Lar Lubovitch, and New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck. Find out more here Something to Watch ~ This Week (Kyle Abraham's premieres "Untitled America" @ Ailey - 12/7)12/5/2016 Joanna Mendl Shaw continue her "Dance Differently" series with - Continuing Research - The Breaking Ring Dec 5th - Dec 7th Vimeo 3-Day Session - $100 Single Class - $35 Register HERE jmsnyc@aol.com |
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AuthorI 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." |