Some Dance This Week ~

dance-mobile Summer 2016
Brooklyn Bridge
July 9 – 30
dance-mobile, the summer outdoor performance series presented by Gibney Dance Center includes performances at Foley Square and Brooklyn Bridge Park! See works by Amy Miller alongside the Yakar Roots and Rhythms Ensemble from Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance, Gibney Dance Company and David Thomson. Find out more here
 
Tap The Yard Festival
The Yard
July 7 – 9
TapTheYard Week2 brings the rhythm-based NYC based group The Bang Group with Turing Tests and Variations (Excerpt), the new work by Caleb Teicher.  Find out more here
 
Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre
New York Live Arts
July 7-9
Czech- born choreographer, Týnek’s New York season features the NYC premiere of Logbook (2013), Romanesco Suite, and Tethered Light.  Find out more here
 
Dance Visions
Sands Point Preserve
July 10
Under the direction of Beth Jucovy, Dance Visions honors the works of legendary choreographer Isadora Duncan as well as works inspired by the Duncan aesthetic. Find out more here
 
CATCH TAKES BASILICA Festival
Basilica Hudson
July 10
Curators Jeff Larson, Andrew Dinwiddie and Caleb Hammons offers up a lineup that includes: Banana, Bag & Bodice, Chelsea & Magda, Heather Christian, Faye Driscoll, James Harrison, Saúl Ulerio and more.  Find out more here
 
Twyla Tharp Dance
The Joyce Theater
July 11 – 23
Tharp’s engagement will include Country Dances (1976), which “…features four dancers who do-si-do through square dance adaptations…The New York City Premiere of Beethoven Opus 130, featuring longtime Tharp dancer Matthew Dibble with the company, and Brahms Paganini from 1980.  Find out more here 
 
Bridgman|Packer Dance
Sheen Center
July 13 – 16
Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, artistic directors of Bridgman|Packer features two works, Voyeur (2012) and Remembering​ What Never Happened (2015), as part of their “Video Partnering”—the integration of live performance and video technology.  Find out more here

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