Jennifer Harrison Newman Jennifer Harrison Newman
BAAD!
April 28 - 29
In making The Geneva Project, choreographer/dancer Newman’s “…immersive multimedia dance installation named after Geneva Varner Clark, Ms. Newman’s great-aunt…[is]…Inspired by photographs of Clark and her family on their Depression-era South Carolina farm that Ms. Newman found in the Library of Congress. Newman team[ed] up with director Charlotte Brathwaite, composer Justin Hicks, installation artist Abigail DeVille, polymath projection designer Paul Lieber and lighting designer Tuce Yasak, to conjure ghosts from the past and create a ritual of collective ancestral legacy that grapples with displacement, race, class and sex in an ever-changing, uncertain and distinctly American landscape,” according to the release. This work is co-presented by BAAD! and 651 ARTS. Find out more here
Jimena Paz
The Chocolate Factory
April 21-30
In making Yellow, created and performed by Paz in collaboration with Ralph Lemon and Vicky Shick, says Paz, "We have been working with the idea of "foreignness" and how each artist interprets that word in her/his own making/practice.” Find out more here
Okwui Okpokwasili
New York Live Arts
April 19 – 22 & 26 – 29
In collaboration with director and visual designer Peter Born, Okpokwasili will premiere Poor People’s TV Room “…informed by two historic incidents in Nigeria: The Women’s War of 1929, a resistance movement against British colonial powers, and the Boko Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls that launched the Bring Back Our Girls movement,” notes the release. Find out more here
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
The Joyce Theater
April 26 – 30
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s celebrates their 20th anniversary with three New York premieres including Cayetano Soto’s Huma Rojo, Alejandro Cerrudo’s Silent Ghost, and Eudaemonia by Cherice Barton. Find out more here
Various Artists
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
April 27 – 30
Live Arts Bard presents “We’re Watching, An Exhibition Of New Performance Works About Surveillance,” with new works by Big Art Group, Annie Dorsen, Hasan Elahi, Michelle Ellsworth, John Lucas, Claudia Rankine, Will Rawls, Samuel Miller and Alexandro Segade. Find out more here
Various Artists
Theatre at the 14th Street Y
April 27 – 30
The on-going series "From The Horse’s Mouth" conceived and directed by Tina Croll & Jamie Cunningham, celebrates Indian dance in America. Curated by Rajika Puri dubbed the “doyenne of Indian dance in NYC,” the lineup will include performances by over 25 dancers, musicians, historians and choreographers of Indian dance will participate, ranging from pioneers to the current generation of dancers, exploring a range of Indian dance forms. Find out more here
James Sewell Ballet
NYU Skirball
April 28 – 30
In Sewell’s Titicut Follies: The Ballet, (world premiere), he draws inspiration from Frederick Wiseman’s 1967 documentary "Titicut Follies." Find out more here
Various Artists
92nd Street Y
April 28
In one evening, for 92Y’s “DIG DANCE Moving Forward: Women Ballet Choreographers East and West East and West,” featured are: Gemma Bond Dance, Lydia Johnson Dance, Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, and Kate Thomas, Ballet Neo, New York City, Dalia Rawson, formerly of Ballet Silicon Valley, San Jose, and Kathryn Roszak, Artistic Director of San Francisco Bay area based Danse. Find out more here
New York Theater Ballet (NYTB)
Schimmel Center
April 28 - 29
NYTB presents their “Uptown/Downtown/Dance” program which will include a yet-untitled world premiere from Martin Lawrance, Zhong-Jing Fang’s Painted Within (world premiere), a restaging of resident choreographer Edward Henkel's ReVision (1986), Short Memory by Pam Tanowitz plus more. Find out more here
CoreDance Contemporary
The Actors Fund Arts Center
April 28 – 30
For the evening-length program, Framework, the Company will premiere Surface & Skin. Find out more here
Jeanette Stoner & Dancers
Stoner Loft
April 29 – May 2
Stoner will present the world premiere of Into and repertory works. Find out more here
DanceTheYard
Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center
April 29
The Company, co-directors: Jessie Keller and Alison Manning with Benjamin Cheney, Leah Crosby, Danielle Doell, Chloe Jones, Holly Jones, Zach Khoo, and Kimberly Murry who grew up “…in the wilds of Chilmark,” will present atlas, “Blue of Distance” (film by Danielle Mulcahy) and Vantage Point. Find out more here
Lys Obsidian
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
April 29
As part of Snug Harbor's monthly Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS), Obsidian will present “Kala Lolo…three vignettes: Hatchet, a collaboration with poet Rachel Therres, Things Kept Secret, a solo dance regarding the policing of female-born bodies, and an untitled collaborative piece with performance artist Crux Rhodes,” according to the release. Find out more here
Sara Rudner, Vicky Shick and Jodi Melnick
WeisAcres
April 30
Cathy Weis Projects continues the spring 2017 lineup for "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions with Rudner, Shick and Melnick. For this shared evening the choreographers “…will present their recent findings as a trio after decades of mutual admiration and support,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
May 1
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are Kim Brandt, Lisa Parra, Renegade Performance Group/André M. Zachery and Alex Romania. Find out more here
BAAD!
April 28 - 29
In making The Geneva Project, choreographer/dancer Newman’s “…immersive multimedia dance installation named after Geneva Varner Clark, Ms. Newman’s great-aunt…[is]…Inspired by photographs of Clark and her family on their Depression-era South Carolina farm that Ms. Newman found in the Library of Congress. Newman team[ed] up with director Charlotte Brathwaite, composer Justin Hicks, installation artist Abigail DeVille, polymath projection designer Paul Lieber and lighting designer Tuce Yasak, to conjure ghosts from the past and create a ritual of collective ancestral legacy that grapples with displacement, race, class and sex in an ever-changing, uncertain and distinctly American landscape,” according to the release. This work is co-presented by BAAD! and 651 ARTS. Find out more here
Jimena Paz
The Chocolate Factory
April 21-30
In making Yellow, created and performed by Paz in collaboration with Ralph Lemon and Vicky Shick, says Paz, "We have been working with the idea of "foreignness" and how each artist interprets that word in her/his own making/practice.” Find out more here
Okwui Okpokwasili
New York Live Arts
April 19 – 22 & 26 – 29
In collaboration with director and visual designer Peter Born, Okpokwasili will premiere Poor People’s TV Room “…informed by two historic incidents in Nigeria: The Women’s War of 1929, a resistance movement against British colonial powers, and the Boko Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls that launched the Bring Back Our Girls movement,” notes the release. Find out more here
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
The Joyce Theater
April 26 – 30
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s celebrates their 20th anniversary with three New York premieres including Cayetano Soto’s Huma Rojo, Alejandro Cerrudo’s Silent Ghost, and Eudaemonia by Cherice Barton. Find out more here
Various Artists
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
April 27 – 30
Live Arts Bard presents “We’re Watching, An Exhibition Of New Performance Works About Surveillance,” with new works by Big Art Group, Annie Dorsen, Hasan Elahi, Michelle Ellsworth, John Lucas, Claudia Rankine, Will Rawls, Samuel Miller and Alexandro Segade. Find out more here
Various Artists
Theatre at the 14th Street Y
April 27 – 30
The on-going series "From The Horse’s Mouth" conceived and directed by Tina Croll & Jamie Cunningham, celebrates Indian dance in America. Curated by Rajika Puri dubbed the “doyenne of Indian dance in NYC,” the lineup will include performances by over 25 dancers, musicians, historians and choreographers of Indian dance will participate, ranging from pioneers to the current generation of dancers, exploring a range of Indian dance forms. Find out more here
James Sewell Ballet
NYU Skirball
April 28 – 30
In Sewell’s Titicut Follies: The Ballet, (world premiere), he draws inspiration from Frederick Wiseman’s 1967 documentary "Titicut Follies." Find out more here
Various Artists
92nd Street Y
April 28
In one evening, for 92Y’s “DIG DANCE Moving Forward: Women Ballet Choreographers East and West East and West,” featured are: Gemma Bond Dance, Lydia Johnson Dance, Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, and Kate Thomas, Ballet Neo, New York City, Dalia Rawson, formerly of Ballet Silicon Valley, San Jose, and Kathryn Roszak, Artistic Director of San Francisco Bay area based Danse. Find out more here
New York Theater Ballet (NYTB)
Schimmel Center
April 28 - 29
NYTB presents their “Uptown/Downtown/Dance” program which will include a yet-untitled world premiere from Martin Lawrance, Zhong-Jing Fang’s Painted Within (world premiere), a restaging of resident choreographer Edward Henkel's ReVision (1986), Short Memory by Pam Tanowitz plus more. Find out more here
CoreDance Contemporary
The Actors Fund Arts Center
April 28 – 30
For the evening-length program, Framework, the Company will premiere Surface & Skin. Find out more here
Jeanette Stoner & Dancers
Stoner Loft
April 29 – May 2
Stoner will present the world premiere of Into and repertory works. Find out more here
DanceTheYard
Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center
April 29
The Company, co-directors: Jessie Keller and Alison Manning with Benjamin Cheney, Leah Crosby, Danielle Doell, Chloe Jones, Holly Jones, Zach Khoo, and Kimberly Murry who grew up “…in the wilds of Chilmark,” will present atlas, “Blue of Distance” (film by Danielle Mulcahy) and Vantage Point. Find out more here
Lys Obsidian
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
April 29
As part of Snug Harbor's monthly Performing Arts Salon Saturdays (PASS), Obsidian will present “Kala Lolo…three vignettes: Hatchet, a collaboration with poet Rachel Therres, Things Kept Secret, a solo dance regarding the policing of female-born bodies, and an untitled collaborative piece with performance artist Crux Rhodes,” according to the release. Find out more here
Sara Rudner, Vicky Shick and Jodi Melnick
WeisAcres
April 30
Cathy Weis Projects continues the spring 2017 lineup for "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions with Rudner, Shick and Melnick. For this shared evening the choreographers “…will present their recent findings as a trio after decades of mutual admiration and support,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
May 1
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are Kim Brandt, Lisa Parra, Renegade Performance Group/André M. Zachery and Alex Romania. Find out more here
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