Wolcott & Keigwin in "Places, Please!" Photo: Whitney Browne Larry Keigwin and Nicole Wolcott
Joe’s Pub at The Public
January 11 & 14
DANCE NOW’s encore presentation of Places Please!, an evening-length duet created and performed by longtime collaborators of Keigwin and Walcott KEIGWIN + COMPANY happens during the APAP season. “Places Please! is a zany trip with Keigwin and Wolcott through the final moments before the curtain goes up. The audience becomes privy to the anxiety and playfulness of life behind the scenes as if observing from backstage. The program celebrates and extends the creative relationship that served as KEIGWIN + COMPANY’s foundation during its burgeoning years. Presented as dreamscape and sonic collage, the work explores the parallel and intersecting paths of a dynamic creative process and relationship,” according to the release. Find out more here
Jim Findlay
The Kitchen
January 9 - 13
Findlay and a host of impressive collaborators come together for the premiere of Electric Lucifer "...an electronic rock opera about suffering and redemption based on the 1970s concept albums of the late Canadian electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack," notes the release. Created and directed by Findlay, there is music and lyrics by Bruce Haack, musical adaptation and additional original music by Philip White, choreography by Raja Feather Kelly, set and video design by Jeff Sugg and Findlay, lighting design by Masha Tsimring, costume design by Enver Chakartash and Carter Kidd, sound design by Philip White, and dramaturgy by Ian Belton. The cast features Okwui Okpokwasili as The Electric Lucifer, Robert M. Johanson as Jesus, Brendan Connelly as the Archangel Gabriel, and Seth Braley, Nikki Calonge, Jake Denney, Amy Gernux, and Cyrus Moshrefi as Lucifer’s “Silverheads.” The band includes Connolly, Shayna Dunkelman, Nathan Koci, and Lester St. Louis. Find out more here
American Dance Platform
The Joyce Theater
January 9 – 14
For the now annual Festival, featured will be Caleb Teicher & Company, BODYTRAFFIC, Jessica Lang Dance, Backhausdance, PHILADANCO!, Hālau O Kekuhi, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater and Trinity Irish Dance Company. This year’s Festival is curated by Christine Tschida, Director of Northrop at the University of Minnesota. Find out more here
Works & Process at The Guggenheim – Ryan McNamara
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Rotunda
January 10 -12
An encore of Battleground, a “…one-of-a-kind "Cosplay-Battle-Ballet" made in and for the museum's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed theater…[with]… Three squads of performers-the Red Choir Loft, the Green Balcony, and the Blue Stage-battle for dominance with audience members acting as embedded witnesses,” notes the release. Find out more here
“Coil Festival” 2018 – Various Artists
P.S. 122
January 10 - February 4
Performance Space 122, known as “…the birthplace of contemporary performance…returns to its legendary home in the East Village, under the leadership of new Executive Artistic Director Jenny Schlenzka, after nearly six years presenting new works in partnership with venues across New York City,” with the 13th and final “Coil Festival,” according to the release. The month-long Festival will feature works by Dean Moss/Gametophyte Inc., David Thomson, Heather Kravas and more. Find out more here
Fridays at Noon – Various Artists
92nd Street Y
January 12 - 13
Celebrating Israel’s 70th anniversary, themed as “Out of Israel,” and now in its eighth season, the program will feature Itzik Galili and Roy Assaf in work performed by Troy Ogilvie, a solo by dance artist Roni Chadash and DANAKA collective new works. Find out more here
Dig Dance Weekend Series –Various Artists
92nd Street Y
January 12 -13
The 92Y Artists in Residence (AIR) program will present a selection of works by 2017-18 AIR recipients
Joanna Kotze, Kensaku Shinohara, Pam Tanowitz and Larissa Velez-Jackson along with Jillian Peña, Kensaku Shinohara, Pam Tanowitz and Larissa Velez-Jackson along with Jillian Peña and Yin Yue. Find out more here
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
New York City's City Center Studio 4
January 13 – 14
The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will present A Quest for Freedom in collaboration with the Korean American classical music group The Ahn Trio. Limited tickets are available. Find out more here
Camille A. Brown’s: The Gathering
Gibney Dance
January 14
Brown’s “The Gathering” returns serving “…as an open forum for intergenerational black female artists to support one another and to advocate for greater cultural equity and acknowledgement in the contemporary dance world,” notes the release. Attendees must RSVP. Find out more here
Works & Process at The Guggenheim – Various Artists
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Rotunda
January 14 - 15
Works & Process series brings back Jodi Melnick's commissioned work, One of Sixty-Five Thousand Gestures/NEW BODIES. “This workweaves together dance, spoken text, and moderated discussion with live music, featuring New York City Ballet dancers Jared Angle, Sara Mearns, and Gretchen Smith, with harpsichord by composer György Ligeti, violin by composer Heinrich Biber, and commissioned music by Robert Boston,” notes the release. Find out more here
“American Realness” – Various Artists
Various Venues
January 9 – 16
The now 9 year-old series was created by Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor in partnership with Abrons Arts Center. Gibney Dance recently joined the presenting team. Featured will be encore engagements with works by: Ishmael Houston-Jones & Miguel Gutierrez with Nick Hallett and Jennifer Monson’s, Variations on Themes from “Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd;” Mariana Valencia’s ALBUM; Nora Chipaumire’s #PUNK; jumatatu m. poe and Donte Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You: A Study (2013/2016) and Let ‘im Move You: This Is a Success (2016); Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s, Séancers; and Adrienne Truscott’s THIS. An equally impressive list or premieres will include: Moriah Evans’ Figuring; Marissa Perel’s (do not) despair solo; Rosy Simas’ We Wait In The Darkness; NIC Kay’s lil BLK and so much more. Find out more here
Some APAP SHOWCASES this week:
Live Artery @ New York Live Arts -
Sidra Bell - RSVP - sidra@sidrabelldanceny.org
Pentacle
Peridance
Booking Dance
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