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Some Dance This Week ~

10/4/2016

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Picture"Figure a Sea"
Cullberg Ballet
Peak Performances

October 6 - 9

Deborah Hay, a founding member of Judson Dance Theater, choreographed Figure a Sea (US Premiere) set to a score by Laurie Anderson, and performed by 20 dancers of Sweden’s Cullberg Ballet comes to New Jersey. Says Hay, “Figure a Sea is a meditation on seeing. Seeing music, fleeting incidences, synchronicities, copious input points, collectivity, surprise. It is a space for self-reflection: for seeing oneself seeing.”  Pair the 20 dancers with Laurie Anderson’s “…haunting sound scape…” for a curious collaboration described as “60 minutes of purity, beauty and body,” according to the release. Find out more here 

Maria Hassabi
The Kitchen
October 4 – 8
The artist/choreographer Maria Hassabi will present STAGED, part of her on-going “…conversation on the expectations of viewership by prolonging and emphasizing the contours of stillness, while addressing the ways in which dance and the spectacle of performance are presented within the theater space,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Shen Wei Dance Arts
BAM
October 5 – 8
For their BAM debut, Shen Wei Dance Arts will premiere the evening-length work Neither, set to Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett’s “anti-opera” of 1977.  Find out more here
 
Arthur Avilés
BAAD
October 6
As part of BAAD’s BlakTinX performance series featuring art and performance by Black, Latin and other artists of color, BAAD’s Avilés celebrates the 30-year anniversary of Periodic Solution (1986), a solo by Jean Churchill, one of his first dance teachers at Bard College.  Avilés will dance the work, then the movie, a reception and Q&A will follow.  Find out more here 
 
BomPlenazo 2016
Hostos Center for Arts and Culture
October 6-9
For the ninth biennial BomPlenazo 2016 celebration of Afro-Puerto Rican Music & Dance, national, international and intergenerational bomberos and pleneros will take part in performances, workshops, panels and a film.  Find out more here 
 
Caterina Rago Dance Company
New York Live Arts
October 6 – 8
Italian choreographer Rago returns to New York with her company of eight female dancers in the premiere of her full-evening work, Labir Into, named after “labirinto,” Italian for “labyrinth,” and which she “…investigate[s] the challenge of finding your most authentic self,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Cracks of Light - Various Artists
Gibney Dance Center
October 6 – 8
As part of Gibney Dance’s observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Cracks of Light, part of the series of performance works “…created during the journey from struggle to survival,” according to the release.  Each evening features different performances as well as a post-performance discussion and reception.  Performers include: Kimberleigh Costanzo, Sandra Manick and Troy Ogilvie.  Find out more here
 
New York Theatre Ballet
Danspace Project
October 6 – 8
New York Theatre Ballet will present a new installment of its “Legends & Visionaries” series with the world premiere of a yet-to-be named work by Antonia Franceschi set to an original musical score by Claire van Kampen.  The evening will also feature Jerome Robbins' Antique Epigraphs, and Song Before Spring by Zhong-Jing Fang. 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.  The series also promises “try to recover the loss of a generation of mentors, role models, and muses,” says Houston-Jones, “and what effect that absence has had on the current generation of artists.”  The opening events (Oct 6-15) will feature Bill T. Jones, Neil Greenberg, Archie Burnett, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Theodore Kerr, Linda Simpson, Julie Tolentino, Will Rawls, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Darrell Jones, Raja Feather Kelly, Heidi Dorow, Muna Tseng, Lucy Sexton, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Marýa Wethers and Mariana Valencia, “ notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Savion Glover
NJPAC
October 8
For one-evening-only, Glover premieres Chronology of a HooFer, a solo which chronicles his lifework and pays tribute to his mentors.  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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