Martha Graham Dance Company The Martha Graham Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
February 14–26
In three programs under the theme Sacred/Profane, classics by Martha Graham and works by four contemporary choreographers, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Annie-B Parson, Pontus Lidberg, and Nacho Duato, are highlighted for this season. Works by Graham include selections from Dark Meadow (1946), Primitive Mysteries (1931), Clytemnestra Act 2 (1958), Diversion of Angels (1948) and Maple Leaf Rag (1990). Also on the program is Pontus Lidberg’s Woodland, Nacho Duato’s Rust, plus works by Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s and Annie-B Parson. Find out more here
Dance Roulette Series
Roulette
FEBRUARY 15 – 18
New Movement Series Curator Jennifer Lafferty convenes contemporary dance’s most exciting players for February’s annual: Abigail Levine, John Hoobyar, Jessie Gold, Rebecca Brooks - (2/15); Marc Crousillat, Maddie Schimmel, Anonymous: Pierre Guilbault And Cori Kresge (2/16); Heather Lang, Marilyn Maywald Yahel, Netta Yerushalmy & Marc Crousillat – (2/17); and Melanie Maar, Emmagrace Skove-Epes, Tatyana Tenenbaum – (2/18). Find out more here
Works & Process Rotunda Project
Guggenheim rotunda
February 16
For the first Works & Process Rotunda Project, “…a new initiative, commissioning site-specific residencies and performances,” with Michelle Dorrance with Nicholas Van Young and a large cast of dancers and musicians in a culminating work after their three-week rotunda residency, according to the release. Find out more here
H.T. Chen & Dancers In A Teahouse Performance
Chen Dance Center
February 16
To celebrate the New Year (Year of the Rooster) Chen Dance Center's Teahouse event will include performances by H.T. Chen & Dancers, and guest artist Ayaka Kamei in traditional, historical, and humorous works. Find out more here
Catherine Tharin Dance
West End Theater
February 16- 19
The Soaking WET dance series, curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, will present Catherine Tharin Dance in a program titled "History Doesn't End," - 4 dances, 2 premieres by Tharin. The four segments that make up the full evening work are Still Center, Dark Moons, You Who Arrived (premiere), and History Doesn't End (premiere), all segments linked in their desire to reveal quiet truths. Find out more here
Umanism – Various Artists
Gibney Dance
February 16 – 18
Italian choreographers Kristian Cellini’s Impossible Love and Guido Tuveri’s Just Joy presented by A Corona Works. Find out more here
Panel – “Dancing the Cold War”
Harriman Institute of Columbia University
February 16 - 18
The three-day international symposium, “Dancing the Cold War” will look at “The Cold War was fought on many fronts, with dance as a powerful weapon in its arsenal. The ballet wars of the 1950s and 1960s…” according to the release. Panelists and moderators include Elizabeth Kendall, Allegra Kent Kay Mazzo (NYCB/Ballets USA), Suzanne Hammons (Joffrey/SFB), Trinette Singleton (Joffrey), Sylvia Waters (Ailey), Linda Hodes (Graham) Carla Maxwell (Limón), Carolyn Adams (Taylor), Rob Kahn (Taylor), Karen Brown (DTH), David LaMarche (DTH), and Charles Reinhart (ADF) in conversation with Lynn Garafola (Barnard) and more. The symposium is free and open to the public. Find out more here
The Joyce Theater
February 14–26
In three programs under the theme Sacred/Profane, classics by Martha Graham and works by four contemporary choreographers, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Annie-B Parson, Pontus Lidberg, and Nacho Duato, are highlighted for this season. Works by Graham include selections from Dark Meadow (1946), Primitive Mysteries (1931), Clytemnestra Act 2 (1958), Diversion of Angels (1948) and Maple Leaf Rag (1990). Also on the program is Pontus Lidberg’s Woodland, Nacho Duato’s Rust, plus works by Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s and Annie-B Parson. Find out more here
Dance Roulette Series
Roulette
FEBRUARY 15 – 18
New Movement Series Curator Jennifer Lafferty convenes contemporary dance’s most exciting players for February’s annual: Abigail Levine, John Hoobyar, Jessie Gold, Rebecca Brooks - (2/15); Marc Crousillat, Maddie Schimmel, Anonymous: Pierre Guilbault And Cori Kresge (2/16); Heather Lang, Marilyn Maywald Yahel, Netta Yerushalmy & Marc Crousillat – (2/17); and Melanie Maar, Emmagrace Skove-Epes, Tatyana Tenenbaum – (2/18). Find out more here
Works & Process Rotunda Project
Guggenheim rotunda
February 16
For the first Works & Process Rotunda Project, “…a new initiative, commissioning site-specific residencies and performances,” with Michelle Dorrance with Nicholas Van Young and a large cast of dancers and musicians in a culminating work after their three-week rotunda residency, according to the release. Find out more here
H.T. Chen & Dancers In A Teahouse Performance
Chen Dance Center
February 16
To celebrate the New Year (Year of the Rooster) Chen Dance Center's Teahouse event will include performances by H.T. Chen & Dancers, and guest artist Ayaka Kamei in traditional, historical, and humorous works. Find out more here
Catherine Tharin Dance
West End Theater
February 16- 19
The Soaking WET dance series, curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, will present Catherine Tharin Dance in a program titled "History Doesn't End," - 4 dances, 2 premieres by Tharin. The four segments that make up the full evening work are Still Center, Dark Moons, You Who Arrived (premiere), and History Doesn't End (premiere), all segments linked in their desire to reveal quiet truths. Find out more here
Umanism – Various Artists
Gibney Dance
February 16 – 18
Italian choreographers Kristian Cellini’s Impossible Love and Guido Tuveri’s Just Joy presented by A Corona Works. Find out more here
Panel – “Dancing the Cold War”
Harriman Institute of Columbia University
February 16 - 18
The three-day international symposium, “Dancing the Cold War” will look at “The Cold War was fought on many fronts, with dance as a powerful weapon in its arsenal. The ballet wars of the 1950s and 1960s…” according to the release. Panelists and moderators include Elizabeth Kendall, Allegra Kent Kay Mazzo (NYCB/Ballets USA), Suzanne Hammons (Joffrey/SFB), Trinette Singleton (Joffrey), Sylvia Waters (Ailey), Linda Hodes (Graham) Carla Maxwell (Limón), Carolyn Adams (Taylor), Rob Kahn (Taylor), Karen Brown (DTH), David LaMarche (DTH), and Charles Reinhart (ADF) in conversation with Lynn Garafola (Barnard) and more. The symposium is free and open to the public. Find out more here
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