Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
The Joyce Theater
October 27 – 29 &
November 1 – 5
For the first time since 2013, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company returns to The Joyce with its latest evening length works, Analogy/Dora: Tramontane and Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist, “…which comprise the first two parts of the Analogy Trilogy -developed by Bill T. Jones with Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong. Analogy Trilogy is based on oral histories and inspired by W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel The Emigrants. Each piece will be performed in its own program, with each performed seven times over the two-week engagement,” according to the release. Find out more here
Pop Up Gesture Store
1067 PacificPeople
October 29/30 & Nov. 5/6
The brand new Pop Up Gesture Storeshares their “The Fall Political Collection” with Where do I end and where do you begin looking at “…retail experience that probes, investigates, heightens and/or palliates people’s exhaustion, frustration and anxiety in this political season through dance, movement and words. Customers enter Pop Up Gesture Store not to consume goods and services but rather to partake of embodied experiences direct from artist-shopkeepers. Visitors to this “dancing” store select instantaneous live-performances (3′ to 10’in length) from a list of gestures built on movement, touch and words, paying in the store’s own “gesture” currency. Transactions are complete only once patrons reciprocate performances with their own immaterial gestures,” notes the release. Find out more here
Platform 2016: Lost & Found – Various Artists
Danspace Project
October 6 – November 19
The eleventh edition of the Platform series at Danspace Project, titled Platform 2016: Lost & Found, will present over 80 artists in 28 events, including performances, conversations, a zine project, a print catalogue, film screenings, and a vigil. The six-week long event curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls will examine the impact of AIDS on generations of artists. Find out more here
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Rose Theater
October 26 - 27
As part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ “White Light Festival,” Belgian choreographer Larbi Cherkaoui returns to the the Festival with Babel (words), “…a dance performance that explores nationhood, identity, and cross-cultural communication,” according to the release. Find out more here
Julie Mayo
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
October 27 - 29
Mayo will premiere Novatia Tryer which “…embraces the subconscious as a mode of knowing and unpredictability as a means to form,” notes the release. Find out more here
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company
7 Stages Theatre/Atlanta
October 27 - 29
Gwirtzman will present his signature solo Character (2007). Also on the program is Jen MacQueen & Daniel Stefek, Constance 'Echo' Palmer & Tara Cary Stowers and McKinley Vitale. Find out more here
Abarukas
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center
October 28 - 29
Under the direction of Yoshito Sakuraba, the Company will premiere of Sakuraba's Bernadac, plus repertory works: The Master (2014) and No Man is an Island (2016). Find out more here
Kerala Kalamandalam Kathakali Troupe
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
October 28 - 30
As part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ “White Light Festival,” performers from the southern Indian Troupe will present Dussasana Vadhom (“The Killing of Dussasana”) from the Mahabharata. Find out more here
From the Horse's Mouth – Various Artists
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
October 29
Snug Harbor's Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS) which showcases works of performing arts in various stages of development, will present the Staten Island edition of From the Horse's Mouth, created and directed by Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham. The production will take place at the Music Hall on Snug Harbor's 83-acre campus and will feature local dancers including Sheila Rohan, formerly of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Larissa Gonzalez-Schiano, Rosita Roldan, Helen Levin, and Jeannine Otis. This performance is curated by Gabri Christa. Find out more here
Mark Morris Dance Group
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
October 29 & November 3, 5
As part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ “White Light Festival,” the Group will reprise two India-inspired Morris solos, O Rangasayee (1984) and Serenade (2003), plus the 1983 Tamil Film Songs in Stereo Pas de Deux, and the world premiere of Pure Dance Items. Find out more here
BalletCollective
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
October 29 -30
Under director/choreographer Troy Schumacher, the season, titled “What Comes Next,” will feature new collaborations between architects James and Carlos Arnaiz plus composers Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Judd Greenstein. The program will also include Invisible Divide (2015). Find out more here
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Queens Theatre/ Flushing Meadows Corona Park
October 29 - 30
Under Artistic Director, Alberto Lopez Herrera, choreographer-in-residence, Roberto Lara, and music director, George Saenz, the company of 20 dancers and musicians will present Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Find out more here
The Outlet Dance Project’s Day of Dance/Various Artists
The East Gallery/New Jersey
October 30
Day of Dance will feature choreography by Ishita Bhattacharya, Janis Brenner, Harika Chatlapalli, Delhi Dance Theater, Amanda Edwards, Jaclyn Gary, Ariel Grossman, Maré Hieronimus, Laura Katz, Fatima Logan-Alston, Boroka Nagy, Svea Schneider, Blythe Erica Smith, Meggi Sweeney Smith, Maxine Steinman, Kimberly Tate, Harlee Trautman, Blakeley White-McGuire, and Hee Ra Yoo. Find out more here
Discussion with choreographer Jonah Bokaer
Guggenheim Museum
October 31
The series, “Works & Process” presents a discussion with choreographer Jonah Bokaer and excerpts of Rules Of The Game, a new multidisciplinary featuring an original score by Pharrell Williams, arranged, orchestrated, and co-composed by David Campbell. Rules Of The Game will have its New York premiere at BAM's Next Wave Festival from November 10-12, 2016. Find out more here
The Joyce Theater
October 27 – 29 &
November 1 – 5
For the first time since 2013, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company returns to The Joyce with its latest evening length works, Analogy/Dora: Tramontane and Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka The Escape Artist, “…which comprise the first two parts of the Analogy Trilogy -developed by Bill T. Jones with Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong. Analogy Trilogy is based on oral histories and inspired by W.G. Sebald’s award-winning novel The Emigrants. Each piece will be performed in its own program, with each performed seven times over the two-week engagement,” according to the release. Find out more here
Pop Up Gesture Store
1067 PacificPeople
October 29/30 & Nov. 5/6
The brand new Pop Up Gesture Storeshares their “The Fall Political Collection” with Where do I end and where do you begin looking at “…retail experience that probes, investigates, heightens and/or palliates people’s exhaustion, frustration and anxiety in this political season through dance, movement and words. Customers enter Pop Up Gesture Store not to consume goods and services but rather to partake of embodied experiences direct from artist-shopkeepers. Visitors to this “dancing” store select instantaneous live-performances (3′ to 10’in length) from a list of gestures built on movement, touch and words, paying in the store’s own “gesture” currency. Transactions are complete only once patrons reciprocate performances with their own immaterial gestures,” notes the release. Find out more here
Platform 2016: Lost & Found – Various Artists
Danspace Project
October 6 – November 19
The eleventh edition of the Platform series at Danspace Project, titled Platform 2016: Lost & Found, will present over 80 artists in 28 events, including performances, conversations, a zine project, a print catalogue, film screenings, and a vigil. The six-week long event curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls will examine the impact of AIDS on generations of artists. Find out more here
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Rose Theater
October 26 - 27
As part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ “White Light Festival,” Belgian choreographer Larbi Cherkaoui returns to the the Festival with Babel (words), “…a dance performance that explores nationhood, identity, and cross-cultural communication,” according to the release. Find out more here
Julie Mayo
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
October 27 - 29
Mayo will premiere Novatia Tryer which “…embraces the subconscious as a mode of knowing and unpredictability as a means to form,” notes the release. Find out more here
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company
7 Stages Theatre/Atlanta
October 27 - 29
Gwirtzman will present his signature solo Character (2007). Also on the program is Jen MacQueen & Daniel Stefek, Constance 'Echo' Palmer & Tara Cary Stowers and McKinley Vitale. Find out more here
Abarukas
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center
October 28 - 29
Under the direction of Yoshito Sakuraba, the Company will premiere of Sakuraba's Bernadac, plus repertory works: The Master (2014) and No Man is an Island (2016). Find out more here
Kerala Kalamandalam Kathakali Troupe
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
October 28 - 30
As part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ “White Light Festival,” performers from the southern Indian Troupe will present Dussasana Vadhom (“The Killing of Dussasana”) from the Mahabharata. Find out more here
From the Horse's Mouth – Various Artists
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
October 29
Snug Harbor's Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS) which showcases works of performing arts in various stages of development, will present the Staten Island edition of From the Horse's Mouth, created and directed by Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham. The production will take place at the Music Hall on Snug Harbor's 83-acre campus and will feature local dancers including Sheila Rohan, formerly of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Larissa Gonzalez-Schiano, Rosita Roldan, Helen Levin, and Jeannine Otis. This performance is curated by Gabri Christa. Find out more here
Mark Morris Dance Group
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
October 29 & November 3, 5
As part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ “White Light Festival,” the Group will reprise two India-inspired Morris solos, O Rangasayee (1984) and Serenade (2003), plus the 1983 Tamil Film Songs in Stereo Pas de Deux, and the world premiere of Pure Dance Items. Find out more here
BalletCollective
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
October 29 -30
Under director/choreographer Troy Schumacher, the season, titled “What Comes Next,” will feature new collaborations between architects James and Carlos Arnaiz plus composers Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Judd Greenstein. The program will also include Invisible Divide (2015). Find out more here
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Queens Theatre/ Flushing Meadows Corona Park
October 29 - 30
Under Artistic Director, Alberto Lopez Herrera, choreographer-in-residence, Roberto Lara, and music director, George Saenz, the company of 20 dancers and musicians will present Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Find out more here
The Outlet Dance Project’s Day of Dance/Various Artists
The East Gallery/New Jersey
October 30
Day of Dance will feature choreography by Ishita Bhattacharya, Janis Brenner, Harika Chatlapalli, Delhi Dance Theater, Amanda Edwards, Jaclyn Gary, Ariel Grossman, Maré Hieronimus, Laura Katz, Fatima Logan-Alston, Boroka Nagy, Svea Schneider, Blythe Erica Smith, Meggi Sweeney Smith, Maxine Steinman, Kimberly Tate, Harlee Trautman, Blakeley White-McGuire, and Hee Ra Yoo. Find out more here
Discussion with choreographer Jonah Bokaer
Guggenheim Museum
October 31
The series, “Works & Process” presents a discussion with choreographer Jonah Bokaer and excerpts of Rules Of The Game, a new multidisciplinary featuring an original score by Pharrell Williams, arranged, orchestrated, and co-composed by David Campbell. Rules Of The Game will have its New York premiere at BAM's Next Wave Festival from November 10-12, 2016. Find out more here
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