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Some Dance This Week ~

10/11/2018

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nora chipaumire
The Kitchen
October 11 -13

Three parts come together in one evening as Chipaumire brings to life #PUNK 100%POP *NIGGA, the "live performance album inspired by chipaumire’s formative years in Zimbabwe during the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. Each section explores distinct sonic ideologies—punk, pop, and Congolese rumba—confronted and celebrated through the artists Patti Smith, Grace Jones, and Congolese vocal performer and animator (atalaku) Rit Nzele. chipaumire moves through these three, distinct sonic and visual landscapes as part of her continued investigation of portraiture and self-portraiture, biography, subjecthood, liberation, and independence," according to the release. The performance is presented as part of the "Crossing The Line Festival," produced by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) NY.  Find out more here
 
Quadrille/Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
September 24 – October 13
Concluding "NY Quadrille," the three-week long engagement conceived & curated by choreographer Lar Lubovitch will be Donna Uchizono Company with a world premiere March Under and Empty reign.  The entire program included John Jasperse Projects, A.I.M., Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener and Beth Gill Find out more here 
 
Fall for Dance Festival
New York City Center
October 1 – 13
The annual two-week festival at New York City Center which brings dance to many for just $15, closes this week with performances by Acosta Danza, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and more.  Find out more here
 
Juliana F. May
Abrons Arts Center
October 9 – 20
May’s new evening-length work, Folk Incest, “…looks at unconscious motivations and defensive operations such as hypervigilance in an effort to lament, re-perform, and admonish various systems of oppression that silence and make bodies invisible,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Jennifer Nugent & Paul Matteson
New York Live Arts
October 10 - 13
In their first full evening length show since 2006, another piece, Nugent and Matteson offers an “…exploration of the body’s boundaries and the charged space between them,” and features lighting by David Farri, notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Lucy Guerin
BAC
October 11 – 13
Melbourne-based choreographer Guerin returns to NYC with the U.S. premiere of Split, “…a work in which two dancers -- one clothed and one unclothed -- are framed by ever-diminishing dimensions of space and time with escalating intensity,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Eleanor Bauer
Danspace Project
October 11 – 13
Bauer works with "...the frictions, collisions, translations, love affairs, and gaps between dance and language," for the U.S. premiere of A lot of moving parts, her first solo work created in 2009, according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Gibney’s “Cracks of Light” – Various Artists
Gibney
October 11 – 13
This series of performance works co-presented by Sanctuary for Families and is part of Gibney’s annual observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The program will also present special performances by Nana Chinara and Truthworker Theatre Company.  Find out more here
 
The 2018 Dumbo Dance Festival – Various Artists
Gelsey Kirkland ArtsCenter
October 11 – 14
Young Soon Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) will present four days of dances by 70 companies from New York and around the world including: Carmelo Segura Dance Company (Spain), Augusto Soledade Brazzdance (FL), Jennifer Muller | The Works (NY), Ballet Clasico Alina Abreu (Dominican Republic), Buglisi Dance Theatre (NY), WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (NY) and more.  Find out more here
 
Dancers from It's Showtime NYC!
The MET
October 12
The dancers of It’s Showtime NYC and many other hands have come together to present a series of “Dance Battles” at The Met.  MetLiveArts in collaboration with The Met's Arms and Armor department commissioned the program along with South Bronx's Dancing in the Streets urban dance organization.  Find out more here
 
Spark Dance Forum
The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center
October 12 – 13
For their 6th annual performance forum, featured will be: Spakejunk dance; Whitney Glandon, Martha Brim & Jodie Berman; The Moving Architects; Counter Tides Dance; Dani Cole; Copy That Dance; Caitlin Javech; Marty Butler & Maddie Anderson.  Find out more here
 
“Soundstep” – Various Artists
 Brooklyn Studios For Dance
October 12 – 13
“Soundstep” is an annual residency and performance pairing four composers with four choreographers to create new collaborative works developed at BKSD over a two month period. Featured will be: Daniel & Juan Pablo Siles + Marion Spencer; Monte Weber + Jordan Demetrius Lloyd; Viola Yip + Sydnie L. Mosley; and Sofy Yuditskaya + Pepper Fajans.  Find out more here
 
Kimberly Bartosik
Lumberyard
October 12 – 13
In I hunger for you, Bartosik “…looks deeply into the heart of the impulse to lose oneself in ecstasy, ritual, desire, and searching, riding an edge of barely controlled abandon and vibrating stillness,” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Tere O’Connor
NYU Skirball
October 12 – 13
O’Connor’s Long Run (2017) which “…pushes the emotional content of movement to new physical extremes, allowing time-based elements to become external forces,” will be danced by Simon Courchel, Marc Crousillat, Eleanor Hullihan, Emma Judkins, Joey Loto, Silas Riener, Lee Serle and Jin Ju Song, notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Robert Battle’s New Directions Choreography Lab @ The Alvin Ailey Foundation – “Choreography Unlocked Festival”
Ailey Citigroup Theater
October 12 – 14 & 26 – 28
The Alvin Ailey Foundation celebrates the 60th anniversary of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater by continuing the direction of the New Directions Choreography Lab, created by Robert Battle in 2011.  For this first “Choreography Unlocked Festival,” at the, there will be performances by New Directions alumni Camille A. Brown, Juel D. Lane, and Netta Yerushalmy; master choreographer workshops, led by Robert Battle, Stefanie Batten Bland, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar; a discussion on how institutions can nurture new voices, moderated by Robert Battle with panelists Rennie Harris, Thelma Golden and Darren Walker; and more. The New Directions Choreography Lab continues for an eighth year, assisting choreographers in developing their craft by granting resident fellowships to four emerging and mid-career artists. This year’s fellows and mentors are Kyle Marshall and Rennie Harris; Davalois Fearon and Gus Solomons, Jr.; Yusha Sorzano and Charmaine Warren; and Bryn Cohn and Joanna Koetze.  Find out more here
 
Eryc Taylor Dance New Choreographer Grant (ETD/NCG) – Various Artists
Martha Graham Studio Theater
October 13  
The 2018 winners, Jordan Ryder, Kanon Sapp and Melanie Ramos, will present new works through this program for young, aspiring NYC-based choreographers.  Find out more here
 
World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders – Various Artists
Manhattan Movement Arts Center

October 14
For the 3rd annual Festival, presented by Lotus Music & Dance, featured will be performances of Baharata Natyam in the style of T. Balasaraswati, Katak in the style of Pandit Birju Maharaj and more.  Find out more here
 
Kyle Marshall Choreography (in process)
AUNTS x Open House @ MANA Contemporary - Jersey City
October 14
FREE RSVP and find out more here
 
Nai- Ni Chen Dance Company with Akhilandeshwari Vasudevamurthy
White Eagle Hall of Jersey City Theatre Center
October 14
The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will open this new 2019 season with a theme of collaboration and outreach, especially with other diverse, immigrant women choreographers from Asia.  The first major event of the Company will be a celebration of the Moon, a collaboration with the Jersey City arts venue, the White Eagle Hall of the Jersey City Theatre Center that opened in 2013, and have been one of the most popular spots for dance in the diverse city.  The Moon, in Asian traditions, represents the power of the feminine, the family and a source of healing and strength. The concert at the White Eagle Hall will emphasize on these qualities that women bring to the world.  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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