The Joyce Theater
October 8–20
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company celebrates its 45th anniversary with two premieres, Vez (working title), a reimagining of Fandango (1989), with a newly commissioned score by Randall Woolf plus selections from the company’s extensive repertoire. All programs will feature live music. Find out more – www.joyce.org.
David Dorfman Dance
BAM Harvey Theater
October 16—19
David Dorfman Dance returns to BAM with the premiere of Come, and Back Again, an evening-length that explores love, vulnerability and mortality. Come, and Back Again features five dancers—including Dorfman—and five musicians playing music by Atlanta-based band Smoke. Find out more www.bam.org
Miguel Gutierrez
Abrons Arts Center, Underground Theater
October 16-19
Gutierrez’s myendlesslove is “…not quite a solo performance about sex, desire and objectification that incorporates movement, video and music. It is about love, sex and desire…” notes the choreographer. Find out more www.abronsartscenter.org
Charlotte Vincent’s
Peak Performances
October 17-20
British choreographer Charlotte Vincent’s Motherland (U.S. premiere) “…dismantles the dream that modern women can have it all. Applying equal doses of humor, emotion, and intellect expressed through an integration of live music, movement, spoken word and song,” notes the press release. Find out more www.peakperfs.org.
INTERMEZZO Dance Company
92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center
October 18-20
The new ballet company, INTERMEZZO Dance Company, founded by American Ballet Theatre soloist Craig Salstein, announces its debut season with world premiere ballets to live music by The Wyrick Quartet led by Eric Wyrick, concertmaster of the New Jersey Symphony. Find out more www.intermezzodancecompany.org.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Oct 19 - 20
De Keersmaeker and her Belgium-based company Rosas return to BAM with the premiere of two works,
En Atendant & Cesena. The works are said to be “Grounded in the 14th-century polyphonic vocal style known as ars subtilior,” and will be performed live. “In En Atendant, De Keersmaeker explores the transition from twilight into night, as eight bodies cluster, disperse, and reconnect…” “In Cesena, a new day dawns as 19 dancers, dressed casually in sneakers, inscribe their movements on a circle of sand. With references to the bubonic plague and a bloody medieval massacre by papal legate in the northern Italian city of Cesena,” notes the press release. Find out more www.bam.org.