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Some Dance This Week ~

11/2/2016

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PictureGina Gibney Dance Photo: Julieta Cervantes
Gibney Dance
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

November 2–12

Gina Gibney, the founder and artistic director of Gibney Dance will premiere her first evening-length work since 2013, Folding In featuring a score by Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir. Folding In is Gibney's "...first [work] to be performed by five members of the newly re-envisioned Gibney Dance Company: Company Director and Associate Artistic Director Amy Miller and Artistic Associates Nigel Campbell, Kassandra Cruz, Devin Oshiro and Brandon Welch. Find out more here 

“Platform 2016: Lost & Found”
Danspace Project
October 6 - November 19
The series which originated with Ishmael Houston-Jones’ rediscovery of writings by choreographer John Bernd who died of AIDS in 1988, continues this week with performances that include Houston-Jones’ reconstructions of works by Bernd.  The series is curated by Houston-Jones and Will Rawls.  Find out more here 
  
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
The Joyce Theater
October 25 – November 6
For this final week, Jones and Company premieres two parts of the “Analogy/Trilogy” series: Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, based on an oral history Jones conducted with 95-year-old Dora Amelan, (part one), and Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist, based on an oral history Jones conducted with his nephew, Lance T. Briggs (part two).  Find out more here 
 
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
November 2 & 4
The all-female troupe under choreographer Surupa Sen, and with the Nrityagram Music Ensemble Ensemble performs as part of Lincoln Center’s “White Light Festival in an evening of Odissi dance, the classical Indian form dating back 2,000 years. Find out more here 
 
Kyle Abraham
BAM Fisher
November 2 – 5
Abraham presents his evening-length Pavement, inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk, John Singleton’s 1991 hip-hop drama Boyz n the Hood, plus black neighborhoods of Pittsburgh where he grew up. Pavement debuted at Harlem Stage in 2012 but was missing key set elements due to Hurricane Sandy.  Find out more here 
 
Jenni Hong & Danny Friedman
Triskelion Arts
November 3
For one-night-only, Hong (dance maker) & Friedman (film maker) will share their dance/multimedia collaboration TREAT YOU BETTER (or: Came Here to Forget).  This performance is part of the 8th annual Collaborations in Dance Festival which runs from November 3 – 6).  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
BAAD!/JACK
November 3 – 5
Two presenting organizations: JACK and BAAD! come together with BAAD!/JACK: A collision of choreographers, Niall Jones and Isabella Diaz representing Brooklyn, and Filip A. Condeescu and Milteri Tucker representing the Bronx.  Find out more here and here  
 
Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC -Various Artists
New York City Center
November 3 – 6
Damian Woetzel’s Vail International Dance Festival comes to New York as the Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC, celebrating Woetzel’s tenth year as artistic director. Feature performers include: Herman Cornejo, Lil Buck, Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles Michelle Dorrance, Keigwin + Company, Matthew Rushing, Fang-Yi Sheu, Alessandra Ferri, Carla Espinoza, BalletX and more.  Find out more here 
 
MAWU: An Urban Dance Company
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture at Hostos Community College
November 4
For one-night-only, and as part of the CUNY Dance Initiative, the all-female dance crew, MAWU will premier Journey into House, dedicated to Marjory Smarth, the late, New York house dancer and their mentor on her 47th birthday. Find out more here  
 
DANCE NOW – Various Artists
Joe’s Pub at The Public
November 4 – 5
The DANCE NOW Fall 2016 “Dance-mopolitan Series” offers performances featuring Chelsea & Magda, Bryan Strimpel and Shaina Branfman, and Raja Feather Kelly/the feath3r theory.  Find out more here 
 
Lincoln Center at the movies- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
November 4
Check local listings
The PBS Arts Fall Festival and Lincoln Center offers a special presentation of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the signature work, Revelations, by founder Alvin Ailey, plus behind-the-scenes performance preparations. 
 
The Vertigo Dance Company
Fairfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts
November 4
Israel’s Vertigo Dance Company brings VERTIGO 20, one of their largest productions for the 12-person cast, which premiered in Tel Aviv. Find out more here 
 
Argentine Tango Company, Estampas Porteñas
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
November 5
Under artistic director Carolina Solas, the ensemble of 25 dancers and musicians will present their newest production, Deseos: Stories of Longing and Desire.  Find out more here 
 
Kathak Dance and World Drums Ensemble
Manhattan Movement Arts Center
November 5
The ensemble comprised of the Indian tabla, African djembe, Spanish cajon, and Indian sitar presents Pradhanica, named for female “leader” or “head,” choreographer, percussionist, and solo dancer Jin Won at.  Find out more here 
 
“Latin American Cultural Week”-Various Artists
November 5 & 19
Various Venues
As part of the and the Tango Music and Dance events on “Shall We Tango,” which runs until November 21, there are classes, workshops, seminars and performances scheduled.  Gabriel Misse & Carla Espinoza Tango Dancers are scheduled to perform.  Find out more here
 
Panel: “Race, Equity, and Otherness in Ballet and Society”
Albertine, the French Embassy’s reading room and bookshop
November 6
Virginia Johnson and Benjamin Millepied come together as part of the five-day free festival (November 2 – 6) co-presented by The Center for Ballet and the Arts with the French Embassy and curated by Ta-Nehisi Coates.  The moderator is Jennifer Homans.  Find out more here 
 
Alethea Pace
BAAD!
November 6
Pace will present her Trying To Sweep Back The Ocean With A Broom, “…an investigation of racial ambiguity and the color line…” according to the release. Find out more here

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    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

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