Vim Vigor Dance Company Photo: Arnaud Falchier VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center
January 28 – 30
Shannon Gillen, artistic director for Vim Vigor Dance Company, presents the world premiere of Separati by Gillen in collaboration with the performers, and set to an original scores by Martin Durov in collaboration with Gillen. According to the release, “Separati enters the turbid psychic space of highway travel and anonymous companionship…[where]…caught up at a midway point, five characters travel through the past, present and dark hallucinatory projections of the future.” Featured are: dancers - Jason Cianciulli, Martin Durov, Laja Field, Lavinia Vago, and Emma Whiteley; costumes by Joey Blaha; set design by JC Machine and Tool company, and lighting design by Barbara Samuels. Find out more here
Tricia Brown Dance Company
BAM
January 28 – 30
TBDC concludes their three-year retrospective “Proscenium Works, 1979—2011” with three of Brown’s iconic, postmodern masterpieces--Set and Reset which premiered at BAM in 1983 , PRESENT TENSE (2003), and Newark (Niweweorce) (1987). Find out more here
Robert Ashley + Steve Paxton
The Kitchen
January 28 - 30 & February 4 - 6
This duo will present the world premiere of Quicksand, an opera-novel for music, dance, and light, composed from a novel of the same name by the late Ashley. The work is divided into three acts of 16 scenes with choreography by Paxton. Find out more here
Matthew Westerby Dance
Triskelion Arts
January 30 - 31
On a shared bill with Emily Craver & the Little Streams, Westerby, in collaboration with the performers, will present their latest work, Strata. Find out more here
Randy James’ 10 Hairy Legs
NJPAC
January 30 – 31
The all-male dance company, 10 Hairy Legs, with invited female guest artists premieres James’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe inspired by C. S Lewis’ novel, in a “…classic story, set in the fictitious Narnia, [and] features Lewis’ characters – the heroine Lucy and her brother Edmund, The White Witch, The Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, Nymphs, a host of Angry Birds, The Giant and of course Aslan The Lion,” according to the release. Find out more here
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
January 31
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company returns to Brooklyn in an all-new celebration of Chinese arts and culture commemorating the Year of the Monkey, a year characterized by cleverness, curiosity, and playful mischief. Find out more here
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center
January 28 – 30
Shannon Gillen, artistic director for Vim Vigor Dance Company, presents the world premiere of Separati by Gillen in collaboration with the performers, and set to an original scores by Martin Durov in collaboration with Gillen. According to the release, “Separati enters the turbid psychic space of highway travel and anonymous companionship…[where]…caught up at a midway point, five characters travel through the past, present and dark hallucinatory projections of the future.” Featured are: dancers - Jason Cianciulli, Martin Durov, Laja Field, Lavinia Vago, and Emma Whiteley; costumes by Joey Blaha; set design by JC Machine and Tool company, and lighting design by Barbara Samuels. Find out more here
Tricia Brown Dance Company
BAM
January 28 – 30
TBDC concludes their three-year retrospective “Proscenium Works, 1979—2011” with three of Brown’s iconic, postmodern masterpieces--Set and Reset which premiered at BAM in 1983 , PRESENT TENSE (2003), and Newark (Niweweorce) (1987). Find out more here
Robert Ashley + Steve Paxton
The Kitchen
January 28 - 30 & February 4 - 6
This duo will present the world premiere of Quicksand, an opera-novel for music, dance, and light, composed from a novel of the same name by the late Ashley. The work is divided into three acts of 16 scenes with choreography by Paxton. Find out more here
Matthew Westerby Dance
Triskelion Arts
January 30 - 31
On a shared bill with Emily Craver & the Little Streams, Westerby, in collaboration with the performers, will present their latest work, Strata. Find out more here
Randy James’ 10 Hairy Legs
NJPAC
January 30 – 31
The all-male dance company, 10 Hairy Legs, with invited female guest artists premieres James’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe inspired by C. S Lewis’ novel, in a “…classic story, set in the fictitious Narnia, [and] features Lewis’ characters – the heroine Lucy and her brother Edmund, The White Witch, The Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, Nymphs, a host of Angry Birds, The Giant and of course Aslan The Lion,” according to the release. Find out more here
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
January 31
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company returns to Brooklyn in an all-new celebration of Chinese arts and culture commemorating the Year of the Monkey, a year characterized by cleverness, curiosity, and playful mischief. Find out more here
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