Complexions Contemporary Ballet Photo: Rachel Neville Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce
November 17 – 29
Returning for their annual two week season, in three programs, at The Joyce Theater , Complexions brings five premieres: Strum, Ballad Unto, Chronicle, Cryin’ To Cry Out all by co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden. The company also debuts their “Icon Series” with Imprint/Maya which honors Maya Angelou and features a performance by co-artistic director Desmond Richardson and a special guest. Find out more here
Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, A Dance Company
BRIC
November 12 – 22
BRIC presents resident artist Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, A Dance Company in two programs that draw on two decades or repertory work and also celebrate the Company’s 30th anniversary. Find out more here
Lizt Alfonso Dance
The New Victory
November 13- 29
The 24-member company of dancers and musicians in returns to the U.S at the New Victory with Cuba Vibra! Find out more here
Jean Butler
Danspace Project
November 17 – 21
Danspace Project collaborates with New York’s Irish Arts Center and Dublin’s Project Arts Centre to present the world premiere of Butler’s this is an Irish dance performed with composer/cellist Neil Martin. Find out more here
[DANCEROULETTE] –Various Artists
Roulette
November 17 & 18
Kyli Kleven curates two evenings of the “Lec-Dem” series. Each evening consists of one lec and two dems presented by artists working in and around the realm of contemporary dance.Marissa Perel (lec), Ayano Elson and Millie Knapp (dem) on November 17. And The Bureau for the Future of Choreography ( lec), Jessica Cook and Emily Wexler (dem) on November 18. Find out more here and here
Celebrating Alvin Ailey
92nd Street Y
November 17
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Artistic Director Robert Battle, Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison plus Rehearsal Director and Guest Artist Matthew Rushing and dancer Rachael McLaren join Budd Mishkin to discuss the history of Mr. Ailey and the upcoming season. Find out more here
Twyla Tharp
David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center
November 17 – 22
Tharp concludes her 50th anniversary tour with a double bill of New York premieres: Preludes and Fugues and Yowzie, both works were commissioned in part by The Joyce Theater. In a program note describing the shows, Tharp says: “Simply put, ‘Preludes and Fugues’ is the world as it ought to be, ‘Yowzie’ as it is. The ‘Fanfares’ celebrate both.” Find out more here
Nami Yamamoto + Manami Fukuoka
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
November 18-21
Yamamoto and Fukuoka come together in “DoublePlus: A Split-Bill Evening” curated by Yasuko Yokoshi. This Gibney Dance series “…embraces the artist-as-curator format to present split-bill evenings featuring emerging and under-exposed artists,” notes the release. Find out more here
Personal Effects
Westbeth
November 18 - 19
For Performa 15, Will Rawls’ new solo performance, Personal Effects, takes the history of his dancing as its point of departure, considering the body in motion as both material and message. Find out more here
U-Theatre
BAM/Opera House
November 19-21
Taiwan’s U-Theatre comes to BAM with “…traditional Taiwanese drumming and folk music meld with contemporary dance-theater and martial arts, infusing the performance with reverence and ceremony,” in Beyond Time “…a visual and auditory spectacle that reflects on man’s relationship to the universe,” notes the release. Find out more here
Rajika Puri
Metropolitan Museum of Art
November 20
As part of “Grand Tour Asia,” singer/dancer/storyteller, Puri performs Four Danced Stories. Find out more here
Murray Louis: A Celebration Of The Legendary Choreographer
92nd Street Y
November 20
As part of the “Fridays at Noon” series, a panel discussion includes original dancers in the Murray Louis Dance Company, archival footage and a reading from Louis’s collection of essays, Inside Dance. Find out more here
Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio
November 20 - 21
Magloire will present a new work, plus repertory. Find out more here
Ballet Hispanico
The Apollo
November 20-21
In the same year that they celebrate 45 years of Latin culture through dance, Ballet Hispanico under artistic director, Eduardo Vilaro, come together with The Apollo Theater in co-commissioning the evening-length, world premiere If walls could speak by Brazilian choreographer Frenando Melo. Find out more here
Thomas Adès: Concentric Paths—Movements in Music – Various Choreographers
New York City Center
November 20 – 22
As part of Lincoln’s Center’s “white light festival” choreographers Wayne McGregor, Karole Armitage, Alexander Whitley and Crystal Pite make works celebrating conductor Thomas Ades. Find out more here
Souls Of Our Feet: Blaktino Dance Concert – Various Artists
BAAD!
November 21
This year, BAAD!’s signature compilation dance concert which features a mix of dance styles and talents from the Bronx and beyond, choreographers are Gierre Godley, Jasmine Hearn, Zavé Martohardjono, Angie Pittman, Christopher Rudd, Acharo Smith, Nelida Tirado and Lorenzo Walker. Find out more here
Gamelan Kusuma Laras & Guests
Roulette
November 21
Under the direction of I. M. Harjito the American and Indonesian group offers renditions of traditional Javanese performances on instruments created for the Indonesian Pavilion at the 1964-5 World’s Fair. Find out more here
The Joyce
November 17 – 29
Returning for their annual two week season, in three programs, at The Joyce Theater , Complexions brings five premieres: Strum, Ballad Unto, Chronicle, Cryin’ To Cry Out all by co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden. The company also debuts their “Icon Series” with Imprint/Maya which honors Maya Angelou and features a performance by co-artistic director Desmond Richardson and a special guest. Find out more here
Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, A Dance Company
BRIC
November 12 – 22
BRIC presents resident artist Ronald K. Brown / Evidence, A Dance Company in two programs that draw on two decades or repertory work and also celebrate the Company’s 30th anniversary. Find out more here
Lizt Alfonso Dance
The New Victory
November 13- 29
The 24-member company of dancers and musicians in returns to the U.S at the New Victory with Cuba Vibra! Find out more here
Jean Butler
Danspace Project
November 17 – 21
Danspace Project collaborates with New York’s Irish Arts Center and Dublin’s Project Arts Centre to present the world premiere of Butler’s this is an Irish dance performed with composer/cellist Neil Martin. Find out more here
[DANCEROULETTE] –Various Artists
Roulette
November 17 & 18
Kyli Kleven curates two evenings of the “Lec-Dem” series. Each evening consists of one lec and two dems presented by artists working in and around the realm of contemporary dance.Marissa Perel (lec), Ayano Elson and Millie Knapp (dem) on November 17. And The Bureau for the Future of Choreography ( lec), Jessica Cook and Emily Wexler (dem) on November 18. Find out more here and here
Celebrating Alvin Ailey
92nd Street Y
November 17
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Artistic Director Robert Battle, Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison plus Rehearsal Director and Guest Artist Matthew Rushing and dancer Rachael McLaren join Budd Mishkin to discuss the history of Mr. Ailey and the upcoming season. Find out more here
Twyla Tharp
David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center
November 17 – 22
Tharp concludes her 50th anniversary tour with a double bill of New York premieres: Preludes and Fugues and Yowzie, both works were commissioned in part by The Joyce Theater. In a program note describing the shows, Tharp says: “Simply put, ‘Preludes and Fugues’ is the world as it ought to be, ‘Yowzie’ as it is. The ‘Fanfares’ celebrate both.” Find out more here
Nami Yamamoto + Manami Fukuoka
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
November 18-21
Yamamoto and Fukuoka come together in “DoublePlus: A Split-Bill Evening” curated by Yasuko Yokoshi. This Gibney Dance series “…embraces the artist-as-curator format to present split-bill evenings featuring emerging and under-exposed artists,” notes the release. Find out more here
Personal Effects
Westbeth
November 18 - 19
For Performa 15, Will Rawls’ new solo performance, Personal Effects, takes the history of his dancing as its point of departure, considering the body in motion as both material and message. Find out more here
U-Theatre
BAM/Opera House
November 19-21
Taiwan’s U-Theatre comes to BAM with “…traditional Taiwanese drumming and folk music meld with contemporary dance-theater and martial arts, infusing the performance with reverence and ceremony,” in Beyond Time “…a visual and auditory spectacle that reflects on man’s relationship to the universe,” notes the release. Find out more here
Rajika Puri
Metropolitan Museum of Art
November 20
As part of “Grand Tour Asia,” singer/dancer/storyteller, Puri performs Four Danced Stories. Find out more here
Murray Louis: A Celebration Of The Legendary Choreographer
92nd Street Y
November 20
As part of the “Fridays at Noon” series, a panel discussion includes original dancers in the Murray Louis Dance Company, archival footage and a reading from Louis’s collection of essays, Inside Dance. Find out more here
Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio
November 20 - 21
Magloire will present a new work, plus repertory. Find out more here
Ballet Hispanico
The Apollo
November 20-21
In the same year that they celebrate 45 years of Latin culture through dance, Ballet Hispanico under artistic director, Eduardo Vilaro, come together with The Apollo Theater in co-commissioning the evening-length, world premiere If walls could speak by Brazilian choreographer Frenando Melo. Find out more here
Thomas Adès: Concentric Paths—Movements in Music – Various Choreographers
New York City Center
November 20 – 22
As part of Lincoln’s Center’s “white light festival” choreographers Wayne McGregor, Karole Armitage, Alexander Whitley and Crystal Pite make works celebrating conductor Thomas Ades. Find out more here
Souls Of Our Feet: Blaktino Dance Concert – Various Artists
BAAD!
November 21
This year, BAAD!’s signature compilation dance concert which features a mix of dance styles and talents from the Bronx and beyond, choreographers are Gierre Godley, Jasmine Hearn, Zavé Martohardjono, Angie Pittman, Christopher Rudd, Acharo Smith, Nelida Tirado and Lorenzo Walker. Find out more here
Gamelan Kusuma Laras & Guests
Roulette
November 21
Under the direction of I. M. Harjito the American and Indonesian group offers renditions of traditional Javanese performances on instruments created for the Indonesian Pavilion at the 1964-5 World’s Fair. Find out more here
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