Happy New Year! - My 2013 List of All Things Dance

Season of Cambodia's "A Bend in the River"

Gabrielle Salvatto of Dance Theatre of Harlem

Some Performances of Note:–  

• Via Katlehong Dance - Peak Performances at Montclair State University
  
•  “Season of Cambodia - a Living Arts Festival” – around New York
  
• The return of Dance Theatre of Harlem – Kudos to Virginia Johnson
  
• Stephen Petronio’s Like Lazarus Did (LLD4/30) at The Joyce
  
• Elizabeth Streb’s FORCES
  
• Cynthia Oliver and Souleymane Badolo - shared program at NYLA
  
• William Forsythe’s Sider at BAM
  
• New York City Ballet’s medley of George Balanchine works titled “Black and White” at Lincoln Center
  
• Nora Chipaumire’s rite riot - FIAF’s Crossing The Line Festival
  
• Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company’s A Rite at BAM 
  
• Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance Company’s Fold Here - Peak Performances at Montclair State University.
  
• Bouchra Ouizguen’s Ha!  at NYLA
  
• Angelin Preljocaj’s  And then, one thousand years of peace at BAM
  
• Akram Khan’s Desh at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theatre
  
• Ronald K. Brown’s Four Corners – The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
  
• The Apollo Theatre’s James Brown: Get On The Good Foot, A Celebration In Dance
  
• Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker’s En Atendant and Cesena  at BAM
  
• Patricia Hoffbauer’s Para-Dice (Stage 2) at Danspace Project
  
• Will Rawl’s The Planet-Eaters at The Chocolate Factory
  
• Susan Marshall & Company’s >II Play/Pause at BAM
  
• Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group in Moses(es) at BAM

Some Performers of Note: –

• Eddie Taketa and Hsiao-Jou Tang - Doug Varone and Dancers
  
• Gabrielle Salvatto - Dance Theatre of Harlem
  
• Ebony Williams and Vânia Doutel Vaz - Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
  
• Nicholas Sciscione – Stephen Petronio Company
  
• Annique Roberts – Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
  
• Leslie Kraus – Kate Weare Company
  
• Rebecca Serrell-Cyr – Donna Uchizono Company 
  
• Rena Butler and Chalvar Monteiro – Kyle Abraham in Motion
  
• Some Ladies of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Jacqueline Greene, Belen Pereyra,  Ghrai DeVore, Megan Jakel and Demetia Hopkins
  
• Some Men of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Matthew Rushing, Daniel Harder, Jeroboam Bozeman and Michael Francis McBride
  

Very Special Moments –

• Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) said goodbye to the dance world 
  
• Ntozake Shange and Dianne McIntyre sharing moments of times together at Barnard College 
  
• The Joyce Theater for bringing Monica Bill Barnes & Company to Lincoln Center
  
• Sadly, Dance New Amsterdam closed its doors
• Sadly, Benoit Swan Pouffer leaves Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
  
• Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s revival of D-Man in the Waters with past company members at The Joyce
  
• Fall For Dance brings dance back to The Delacorte in Central Park hosted by The Public Theater 
  
• My interview with Ayodele Casel (http://www.charmainewarren.com/1/archives/06-2013/1.html )and 
  
• My interview with Nora Chipaumire – (http://www.charmainewarren.com/1/category/previews/2.html)
  
• Bill T. Jones and Gregory Vuyani Moqoma in conversation at The National Black Theatre
  
• Lisa Race in a solo and a beautiful duet with David Dorfman - Dorfman’s Come, and Back Again at BAM
  
• Ronald K. Brown and Annique Roberts in a tender duet as part of Brown’s On Earth Together  at BRIC
  
• Cynthia Oliver and David Thomson in Tere O’Connor’s Bleed
  
• Natalie Green, Jodi Melnick and Donna Uchizono in short Tahitian temper – Donna Uchizono Company at NYLA
  
• Kyle Abraham receives McArthur Genius Award - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYDI8dncbjw
  

(See YouTube link of Kyle talking about the McArthur...)

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