David Thomson in "Go Forth Performance" Photo: Maria Baranova Kaneza Schall
Governor’s Island
June 16 – 18
Schall’s Go Forth Performance “Draw[s] inspiration from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, GO FORTH is a performance and photo installation that considers how we create space in our lives for the presence of the absent. Burial is proposed not as erasure but as offering restitution and performing rites. The 3,000-year-old funerary text is approached as an ancient performance score: excavating the spells and incantations to create a series of burial vignettes, fragments of translation, memory and imagination. Photographic funerary murals usher the audience into a mythological underground landscape. Galvanized by the intimate relationship between black people and death around the world, GO FORTH paves way for its audience to reflect on their individual and collective mourning processes,” according to the release. RSVP required. Find out more and RSVP here
OUT LIKE THAT! FESTIVAL
BAAD!
June 2 -22
The OUT LIKE THAT! Festival at BAAD! brings "...a fierce line-up of dance, theatre, literature, documentary film and wonderful performances featuring queer artists from the Bronx and beyond," notes the release. Featured will be Kharis Collins, Michael Bishop, Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Jessica Danser, Davi, Shiloh Hodges, Matthew Perez and Randy Reyes and more. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater
June 8 – 19
The Company returns for their two-week spring engagement which includes the world premiere of Deep by Mauro Bigonzetti and Untitled America: Second Movement by Kyle Abraham. The season will also include Ronald K. Brown’s Open Door, new productions of Robert Battle’s The Hunt and Ulysses Dove’s Vespers and more. Find out more here
American Dance Institute Festival – Various Artists
The Kitchen
June 9 - 25
The American Dance Institute (ADI) Festival’s inaugural New York season continues at The Kitchen with Jane Comfort & Company’s You Are Here, June 16-18; CHROMATIC, from Susan Marshall, Composer Jason Treuting and Visual Artist Suzanne Bocanegra, June 23-25; and Jack Ferver’s I Want You to Want Me, June 30 – July 2. Find out more here
Monte/Molissa/Margo/Muller - LIVE!
New York Live Arts
June 14 - 18
Be there when Elisa Monte, Molissa Fenley, Margo Sappington and Jennifer Muller join forces in Monte/Molissa/Margo/Muller - LIVE! with a cast of 25 dancers for shared performances featuring five works each evening, including three premieres. “The Four M’s,” as they call themselves, “…are all at the height of their careers, each offering a powerful and original voice,” according to the release. Elisa Monte Dance will premiere DEXTRA DEI, Molissa Fenley and Company will premiere THE THIRD COAST, plus MALI –The Third Coast (parts 1 and 2) and Mali (part 8) of Water Table. Sappington brings ENTWINED (to wind or twist together), and Jennifer Muller/The Works will premiere WORKING TITLE. Find out more here
Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks
Roulette
June 14 – 16
Chuma’s Dead End – Don’t Let me Down π=3.14… continues "…uses dance and musical improvisation to relay the true story of Faati, a refugee smuggled from Damascus to Berlin,” notes the release. Find out more here
Jessica Lang Dance
June 14 – 19
The Joyce Theater
In honor of the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Jessica Lang Dance will present the NY premiere of Sweet Silent Thought, plus other works by Artistic Director Jessica Lang. Find out more here
Teresa Fellion Dance and Bryn Cohn + Artists (BC+A)
Gibney Dance Center
June 16- 18
Fellion and Cohn will present HOME in a collaborative evening drawing “…upon ritualistic and traditional processes to elucidate the concept of home through interpersonal encounters, environments and the pursuit of self and collective understanding,” according to the release. Find out more here
WHITE WAVE Dance – Various Artists
92nd Street Y
June 17 – 19 & 25 - 26
Led by choreographer Young Soon Kim, the 10thAnniversary Wave Rising Series will feature works by Rebecca Bryant Danceworks, Ariel Rivka Dance, Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company, Chien-Ying Wang & Paul C. Ocampo , WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, Azul Dance Theatre, Carolyn Dorfman Dance and more. Find out more here
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance – Various Artists
June 17 – July 8
Bryant Park
Produced with Inception to Exhibition (ITE) and curated by ITE Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher, the Festival features 12 companies over four Fridays including: Alia Kache/Kachal Dance, BARKIN SELISSEN PROJECT and LaneCoArts (June 17); 277 Dance Project, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance and Amy Marshall Dance Company (June 24); WILLYLAURY&CO, BARE Dance Company and Seán Curran Company (July 1); Black Boys Dance Too, Adam Barruch / Anatomiae Occultii and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance (July 8). Find out more here
Rakia Seaborn
June 19 and July 23
The Garden + The Roof at Wulff House + Secret Locale, Details Forthcoming, Password: glitter!
Seaborn documented 2015 in movement, text and sound, compiling a year’s worth of material into a digital catalogue and created a dance work in three chapters. Find out more here
Governor’s Island
June 16 – 18
Schall’s Go Forth Performance “Draw[s] inspiration from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, GO FORTH is a performance and photo installation that considers how we create space in our lives for the presence of the absent. Burial is proposed not as erasure but as offering restitution and performing rites. The 3,000-year-old funerary text is approached as an ancient performance score: excavating the spells and incantations to create a series of burial vignettes, fragments of translation, memory and imagination. Photographic funerary murals usher the audience into a mythological underground landscape. Galvanized by the intimate relationship between black people and death around the world, GO FORTH paves way for its audience to reflect on their individual and collective mourning processes,” according to the release. RSVP required. Find out more and RSVP here
OUT LIKE THAT! FESTIVAL
BAAD!
June 2 -22
The OUT LIKE THAT! Festival at BAAD! brings "...a fierce line-up of dance, theatre, literature, documentary film and wonderful performances featuring queer artists from the Bronx and beyond," notes the release. Featured will be Kharis Collins, Michael Bishop, Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Jessica Danser, Davi, Shiloh Hodges, Matthew Perez and Randy Reyes and more. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater
June 8 – 19
The Company returns for their two-week spring engagement which includes the world premiere of Deep by Mauro Bigonzetti and Untitled America: Second Movement by Kyle Abraham. The season will also include Ronald K. Brown’s Open Door, new productions of Robert Battle’s The Hunt and Ulysses Dove’s Vespers and more. Find out more here
American Dance Institute Festival – Various Artists
The Kitchen
June 9 - 25
The American Dance Institute (ADI) Festival’s inaugural New York season continues at The Kitchen with Jane Comfort & Company’s You Are Here, June 16-18; CHROMATIC, from Susan Marshall, Composer Jason Treuting and Visual Artist Suzanne Bocanegra, June 23-25; and Jack Ferver’s I Want You to Want Me, June 30 – July 2. Find out more here
Monte/Molissa/Margo/Muller - LIVE!
New York Live Arts
June 14 - 18
Be there when Elisa Monte, Molissa Fenley, Margo Sappington and Jennifer Muller join forces in Monte/Molissa/Margo/Muller - LIVE! with a cast of 25 dancers for shared performances featuring five works each evening, including three premieres. “The Four M’s,” as they call themselves, “…are all at the height of their careers, each offering a powerful and original voice,” according to the release. Elisa Monte Dance will premiere DEXTRA DEI, Molissa Fenley and Company will premiere THE THIRD COAST, plus MALI –The Third Coast (parts 1 and 2) and Mali (part 8) of Water Table. Sappington brings ENTWINED (to wind or twist together), and Jennifer Muller/The Works will premiere WORKING TITLE. Find out more here
Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks
Roulette
June 14 – 16
Chuma’s Dead End – Don’t Let me Down π=3.14… continues "…uses dance and musical improvisation to relay the true story of Faati, a refugee smuggled from Damascus to Berlin,” notes the release. Find out more here
Jessica Lang Dance
June 14 – 19
The Joyce Theater
In honor of the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Jessica Lang Dance will present the NY premiere of Sweet Silent Thought, plus other works by Artistic Director Jessica Lang. Find out more here
Teresa Fellion Dance and Bryn Cohn + Artists (BC+A)
Gibney Dance Center
June 16- 18
Fellion and Cohn will present HOME in a collaborative evening drawing “…upon ritualistic and traditional processes to elucidate the concept of home through interpersonal encounters, environments and the pursuit of self and collective understanding,” according to the release. Find out more here
WHITE WAVE Dance – Various Artists
92nd Street Y
June 17 – 19 & 25 - 26
Led by choreographer Young Soon Kim, the 10thAnniversary Wave Rising Series will feature works by Rebecca Bryant Danceworks, Ariel Rivka Dance, Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company, Chien-Ying Wang & Paul C. Ocampo , WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, Azul Dance Theatre, Carolyn Dorfman Dance and more. Find out more here
Bryant Park Presents Modern Dance – Various Artists
June 17 – July 8
Bryant Park
Produced with Inception to Exhibition (ITE) and curated by ITE Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher, the Festival features 12 companies over four Fridays including: Alia Kache/Kachal Dance, BARKIN SELISSEN PROJECT and LaneCoArts (June 17); 277 Dance Project, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance and Amy Marshall Dance Company (June 24); WILLYLAURY&CO, BARE Dance Company and Seán Curran Company (July 1); Black Boys Dance Too, Adam Barruch / Anatomiae Occultii and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance (July 8). Find out more here
Rakia Seaborn
June 19 and July 23
The Garden + The Roof at Wulff House + Secret Locale, Details Forthcoming, Password: glitter!
Seaborn documented 2015 in movement, text and sound, compiling a year’s worth of material into a digital catalogue and created a dance work in three chapters. Find out more here
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