Limón Dance Company Limón Dance Company
92nd Street Y
February 19-21
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival presents the Limón Dance Company under artistic director Carla Maxwell in one of José Limón’s lost works, Dialogues, which hasn’t been seen since the 1960s. “Dialogues is a dramatic dance based on two pivotal moments in Mexican history involving foreign invaders who seeks to dominate, and the Mexican who defends his soil and his integrity. The first dance takes place in 1520 and tells of a confrontation between a Mexican Emperor and a Spanish conquistador. The second dance takes place in 1867 during the second Franco-Mexican War and depicts a battle of wills between an Austrian Archduke and the Mexican President. First, Dialogues is broken down, and Maxwell discusses the tools and processes used to capture this lost gem, revealing how it relates to Limon’s other works; this is followed by a full performance of the dance,” notes the release. Find out more here
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
New York City Center
February 18 – 20
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo celebrate its 30th anniversary with Cinderella by Jean-Christophe Maillot. This version is said to “…strip the classic fairy tale of its sugar and explores the untold story of Cinderella’s mother, a vision of lost happiness, who returns from the dead in the form of a fairy godmother,” according to the release. Find out more here
Pam Tanowitz Dance
The Joyce Theater
February 17-21
Tanowitz will premieres the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces and brings back Heaven on One’s Head. Find out more here
Sarah Skaggs Dance
Abrons Art Center
February 18 -20
Skaggs’ presents The New Ecstatic 2.0, an evening-length duet created in collaboration with Cori Kresge “…explores the changing nature of ecstatic dance forms. The performance is part of Abrons’ Travelogues dance series, curated by Laurie Uprichard,” notes the release. Find out more here
Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard
The Kitchen
February 18– 20
This collaboration, For Claude Shannon–named after the pioneering theorist of digital computer design—“…uses grammatical dependencies between words in a statement by Shannon to recover a linguistic structure that, in turn, generates inexhaustible possibilities for choreographic sequences. For each performance, dancers must assemble and learn one particular choreographic outcome among the billions possible, notes the release. Find out more here
BAX Upstart Festival
BAX
February 19 - 20
As part of the BAX Upstart Festival, curated by Jillian Peña & Marya Warshaw, featured will be works by Sameena Mitta/MeenMoves, Alicia Raquel, Johnnie Cruise Mercer/ The REDProject, Sara Gurevich, Yaya McKoy, Tanya Marquardt, Mor Mendel, Alexandra Pinel, Ryan Streit and Marissa Brown/Lone King. Find out more here
Susan Vencl
The Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance
February 19-21
Vencl, who began choreographing when she was “…almost old enough to collect Social Security,” brings Long Before Afterward, her dance of sliding movement, sweeping turns and Grecian patterns which play with our perspective in sometimes mathematical ways,” according to the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Greenspace
February 21
“Performers Kristin Clotfelter and Emma Hoette juxtapose intimacy and violence in a surreal structured improvisation of close proximity,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
February 22
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are: Ivy Baldwin, Pepper Fajans, Michael Helland, Nancy Nowacek & Morgan Hille Refakis, Edisa Weeks. Find out more here
92nd Street Y
February 19-21
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival presents the Limón Dance Company under artistic director Carla Maxwell in one of José Limón’s lost works, Dialogues, which hasn’t been seen since the 1960s. “Dialogues is a dramatic dance based on two pivotal moments in Mexican history involving foreign invaders who seeks to dominate, and the Mexican who defends his soil and his integrity. The first dance takes place in 1520 and tells of a confrontation between a Mexican Emperor and a Spanish conquistador. The second dance takes place in 1867 during the second Franco-Mexican War and depicts a battle of wills between an Austrian Archduke and the Mexican President. First, Dialogues is broken down, and Maxwell discusses the tools and processes used to capture this lost gem, revealing how it relates to Limon’s other works; this is followed by a full performance of the dance,” notes the release. Find out more here
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
New York City Center
February 18 – 20
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo celebrate its 30th anniversary with Cinderella by Jean-Christophe Maillot. This version is said to “…strip the classic fairy tale of its sugar and explores the untold story of Cinderella’s mother, a vision of lost happiness, who returns from the dead in the form of a fairy godmother,” according to the release. Find out more here
Pam Tanowitz Dance
The Joyce Theater
February 17-21
Tanowitz will premieres the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces and brings back Heaven on One’s Head. Find out more here
Sarah Skaggs Dance
Abrons Art Center
February 18 -20
Skaggs’ presents The New Ecstatic 2.0, an evening-length duet created in collaboration with Cori Kresge “…explores the changing nature of ecstatic dance forms. The performance is part of Abrons’ Travelogues dance series, curated by Laurie Uprichard,” notes the release. Find out more here
Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard
The Kitchen
February 18– 20
This collaboration, For Claude Shannon–named after the pioneering theorist of digital computer design—“…uses grammatical dependencies between words in a statement by Shannon to recover a linguistic structure that, in turn, generates inexhaustible possibilities for choreographic sequences. For each performance, dancers must assemble and learn one particular choreographic outcome among the billions possible, notes the release. Find out more here
BAX Upstart Festival
BAX
February 19 - 20
As part of the BAX Upstart Festival, curated by Jillian Peña & Marya Warshaw, featured will be works by Sameena Mitta/MeenMoves, Alicia Raquel, Johnnie Cruise Mercer/ The REDProject, Sara Gurevich, Yaya McKoy, Tanya Marquardt, Mor Mendel, Alexandra Pinel, Ryan Streit and Marissa Brown/Lone King. Find out more here
Susan Vencl
The Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance
February 19-21
Vencl, who began choreographing when she was “…almost old enough to collect Social Security,” brings Long Before Afterward, her dance of sliding movement, sweeping turns and Grecian patterns which play with our perspective in sometimes mathematical ways,” according to the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Greenspace
February 21
“Performers Kristin Clotfelter and Emma Hoette juxtapose intimacy and violence in a surreal structured improvisation of close proximity,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
February 22
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are: Ivy Baldwin, Pepper Fajans, Michael Helland, Nancy Nowacek & Morgan Hille Refakis, Edisa Weeks. Find out more here
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