Frédéric Nauczyciel Frédéric Nauczyciel
Julie Meneret Contemporary Art
May 3-5
Frédéric Nauczyciel will present The Fire Flies [Baltimore / Paris], a solo show at Julie Meneret Contemporary Art inspired by voguers of Baltimore and Paris. For Nauczyciel, “…voguing is a subculture that brings a radical understanding to performance and performativity,” according to the release. This exhibition will include large and medium format Ilfochrome photography, video installations, and performances. Find out more here
Nauczyciel performs as part of the three-week series presented by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy titled DANSE, a multifaceted initiative centered on contemporary dance. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more about the entire festival here
The Limón Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
April 29-May 4
Two masterworks by founder, Mexican choreographer Limón, Mazurkas (1958) and Psalm (1967), plus the world premieres of She Who Carries the Sky by dance icon Dianne McIntyre for Roxane D'Orleans Juste on the occasion of her 30th anniversary with the company as principal dancer and Associate Artistic Director, plus the full company work, Nocturnes for Ancestors by Sean Curran. The season will be dedicated to Alan Danielson, a colleague and School Director of the Limón Institute, who died earlier this year. Find out more here
Shen Wei Dance Arts
April 29-May 4
Judson Memorial Church
The Judson Memorial church is transformed with the return of Wei’s re-imagined 2005 work MAP, plus a yet to be titled solo by Wei. Find out more here
Miguel Gutierrez
Whitney Museum of American Art
April 30-May 4
Gutierrez and Mickey Mahar performs Age & Beauty Part 1:Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/ as part of the 2014 Whitney Biennial “…the first of a new suite of queer pieces…” notes the press release. Fine out more here
Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy
Baryshnikov Arts Center
May 1-2
Exemplars of Odissi, one of India’s classical dance forms, Sen and Satpathy of Nrityagram Dance Ensemble will present the U.S. premiere of Songs of Love and Longing choreographed by Sen. Find out more here
Alain Buffard
New York Live Arts
May 1–3
Buffard’s Baron Samedi a “…carnival figure and voodoo master of ceremonies… plays a point of departure in this choreographic opera…” according to the release. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet
The Chocolate Factory Theater
May 1–10
Vigier and Apertet “…question norms that govern public space in order to reveal interpretations,” according to the release, in the U.S. premiere of (les gens d'Uterpan) - Topologie. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Francesca Harper
Susan Batson Studio Theater
May 2-18
Harper celebrates the life of her mother Denise Jefferson (1944–2010) in The Look of Feeling true stories told through dance and song. Find out more here
Panel: “In Good Company”
Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater
May 2
Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director of Dance Theatre of Harlem moderates with guests Abdul Latif, Camille A. Brown and Sean Curran to talk about their training and how it shapes their work. Find out more here
JERSEY MOVES! Festival of Dance
NJPAC
May 3
Jersey dance artists including Maurice Chestnut, Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, Cleo Mack Dance Project, American Repertory Ballet, Clair Porter and Timothy Kochka round out the second evening of JERSEY MOVES! Festival of Dance. Find out more here
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud
The Kitchen
May 3–5
In altered natives’ Say Yes to Another Excess – Twerk, Bengolea and Chaignaud “…skim the line between popular and concert dance, drawing on their immersion in club culture from London to New York,” notes the release. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Panel: Fridays at Noon
92nd Street Y
May 2
Liz Gerring curates a program of works by her friends Keely Garfield and Stephen Petronio, as well as a work-in-progress of her own. This event will be streamed live. Find out more here
Christian Rizzo
Florence Gould Hall / French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
May 2-3
Turkish immigrant Kerem Gelebek joins Rizzo who investigates the notion of exile in his solo sakınan göze çöp batar (an overprotected eye always gets sand in it). This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer (Compagnie Affari Esteri)
The Club at La MaMa
May 2–4
Presented as part of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, Russon and Tuizer will premiere Embrace, a look at how “…two men face each other constrained in their search for different forms of identification, according to the release. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Kuniko Kato and Megumi Nakamura
Japan Society
May 2-3
Japanese artists musician Kato, and dancer Nakamura, come together for Project IX – Pleiades, “…a multimedia work delivered through live performance and a state-of-the-art sound/projection installation,” according to the release. Find out more here
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2014
The Club at La MaMa
May 2 – May 25
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, featuring over 50 emerging and seasoned choreographers will share works by Ashley Chen (France), Cedric Andrieux & Christophe Ives (France), Yoshiko Chuma, Emmanuelle Huynh (France), Chase Brock, Miki Orihara & Guests and many more. Find out more here
THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES
The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance
May 3-31
This annual festival features “home grown” dances from the Bronx including works by Esteban Arana & Leticia Pliego, Renardo Domeico-Grays VISIONS Contemporary Ballet, Sage Rivera, Awilda Rodríguez-Lora, and many more. Find out more here
Randy James’ 10 Hairy Legs
Crossroads Theatre
May 4
James’ all male dance company, 10 Hairy Legs, will feature all ten of the company members in the premiere and reimagined version of Friends of Dorothy by David Parker originally created in 2003 for Jeff Kazin and himself for their company The Bang Group. Find out more here
Julie Meneret Contemporary Art
May 3-5
Frédéric Nauczyciel will present The Fire Flies [Baltimore / Paris], a solo show at Julie Meneret Contemporary Art inspired by voguers of Baltimore and Paris. For Nauczyciel, “…voguing is a subculture that brings a radical understanding to performance and performativity,” according to the release. This exhibition will include large and medium format Ilfochrome photography, video installations, and performances. Find out more here
Nauczyciel performs as part of the three-week series presented by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy titled DANSE, a multifaceted initiative centered on contemporary dance. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more about the entire festival here
The Limón Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
April 29-May 4
Two masterworks by founder, Mexican choreographer Limón, Mazurkas (1958) and Psalm (1967), plus the world premieres of She Who Carries the Sky by dance icon Dianne McIntyre for Roxane D'Orleans Juste on the occasion of her 30th anniversary with the company as principal dancer and Associate Artistic Director, plus the full company work, Nocturnes for Ancestors by Sean Curran. The season will be dedicated to Alan Danielson, a colleague and School Director of the Limón Institute, who died earlier this year. Find out more here
Shen Wei Dance Arts
April 29-May 4
Judson Memorial Church
The Judson Memorial church is transformed with the return of Wei’s re-imagined 2005 work MAP, plus a yet to be titled solo by Wei. Find out more here
Miguel Gutierrez
Whitney Museum of American Art
April 30-May 4
Gutierrez and Mickey Mahar performs Age & Beauty Part 1:Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/ as part of the 2014 Whitney Biennial “…the first of a new suite of queer pieces…” notes the press release. Fine out more here
Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy
Baryshnikov Arts Center
May 1-2
Exemplars of Odissi, one of India’s classical dance forms, Sen and Satpathy of Nrityagram Dance Ensemble will present the U.S. premiere of Songs of Love and Longing choreographed by Sen. Find out more here
Alain Buffard
New York Live Arts
May 1–3
Buffard’s Baron Samedi a “…carnival figure and voodoo master of ceremonies… plays a point of departure in this choreographic opera…” according to the release. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet
The Chocolate Factory Theater
May 1–10
Vigier and Apertet “…question norms that govern public space in order to reveal interpretations,” according to the release, in the U.S. premiere of (les gens d'Uterpan) - Topologie. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Francesca Harper
Susan Batson Studio Theater
May 2-18
Harper celebrates the life of her mother Denise Jefferson (1944–2010) in The Look of Feeling true stories told through dance and song. Find out more here
Panel: “In Good Company”
Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theater
May 2
Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director of Dance Theatre of Harlem moderates with guests Abdul Latif, Camille A. Brown and Sean Curran to talk about their training and how it shapes their work. Find out more here
JERSEY MOVES! Festival of Dance
NJPAC
May 3
Jersey dance artists including Maurice Chestnut, Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, Cleo Mack Dance Project, American Repertory Ballet, Clair Porter and Timothy Kochka round out the second evening of JERSEY MOVES! Festival of Dance. Find out more here
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud
The Kitchen
May 3–5
In altered natives’ Say Yes to Another Excess – Twerk, Bengolea and Chaignaud “…skim the line between popular and concert dance, drawing on their immersion in club culture from London to New York,” notes the release. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Panel: Fridays at Noon
92nd Street Y
May 2
Liz Gerring curates a program of works by her friends Keely Garfield and Stephen Petronio, as well as a work-in-progress of her own. This event will be streamed live. Find out more here
Christian Rizzo
Florence Gould Hall / French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)
May 2-3
Turkish immigrant Kerem Gelebek joins Rizzo who investigates the notion of exile in his solo sakınan göze çöp batar (an overprotected eye always gets sand in it). This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer (Compagnie Affari Esteri)
The Club at La MaMa
May 2–4
Presented as part of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, Russon and Tuizer will premiere Embrace, a look at how “…two men face each other constrained in their search for different forms of identification, according to the release. This production is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas. Find out more here
Kuniko Kato and Megumi Nakamura
Japan Society
May 2-3
Japanese artists musician Kato, and dancer Nakamura, come together for Project IX – Pleiades, “…a multimedia work delivered through live performance and a state-of-the-art sound/projection installation,” according to the release. Find out more here
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2014
The Club at La MaMa
May 2 – May 25
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, featuring over 50 emerging and seasoned choreographers will share works by Ashley Chen (France), Cedric Andrieux & Christophe Ives (France), Yoshiko Chuma, Emmanuelle Huynh (France), Chase Brock, Miki Orihara & Guests and many more. Find out more here
THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES
The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance
May 3-31
This annual festival features “home grown” dances from the Bronx including works by Esteban Arana & Leticia Pliego, Renardo Domeico-Grays VISIONS Contemporary Ballet, Sage Rivera, Awilda Rodríguez-Lora, and many more. Find out more here
Randy James’ 10 Hairy Legs
Crossroads Theatre
May 4
James’ all male dance company, 10 Hairy Legs, will feature all ten of the company members in the premiere and reimagined version of Friends of Dorothy by David Parker originally created in 2003 for Jeff Kazin and himself for their company The Bang Group. Find out more here
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