Company Stefanie Batten Bland + Orlando Hunter
May 14
Actors Fund Arts Center (Brooklyn)
As part of the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center "Peeks series," Batten Bland invite audiences to an open rehearsal for sneak peek at her new work, PATIENT(CE). Some of the process for the work will be shared and she will also discuss goals and outreach for this project. Orlando Hunter will also share the evening. Find out more here
STILL RUNNING:
DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas
New York City-Wide
May 1-18
The three-week series centered on contemporary dance continues with the U.S. premieres by Cédric Andrieux and Christophe Ives, Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, the late Alain Buffard, Ashley Chen, Emmanuelle Huynh, Latifa Laâbissi, Maud Le Pladec (NY premiere), Lyon Opera Ballet, Frédéric Nauczyciel, Thierry Thieû Niang, Pierre Rigal, Christian Rizzo, Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer (Affari Esteri), Claudia Triozzi, Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), and David Wampach. The series is presented by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 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
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
Melinda Ring
The Kitchen
May 8-17
“A triptych composed of two durational performances and an evening-length dance, [Ring’s] Forgetful Snow investigates the transcendent possibilities of body and mind,” according to the release. Find out more here
JOYCE UNLEASHED: A COLLECTION OF THREE ARTISTS THROUGHOUT NYC
SuperGroup and Laurie Berg at Invisible Dog Art Center
MAY 8 – 17
The Joyce Theater’ Joyce Unleashed presents NYC-based Laurie Berg’s The Afterlife and Minneapolis-based SuperGroup’s The Tent Has Been Pulled Down at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center. Find out more here
NEW THIS WEEK:
Rebecca Lazier & Yoshiko Chuma
La MaMa
May 15-18
Lazier will premiere There Might Be Others as part of LaMama Moves! Festival on a shared program with Chuma who will present How To Deliver An Afghan Hat Π = 3.14…Endless Peripheral Border Cont…. Find out more here
Satellite Collective
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Fisher
May 16-17
This collective or 27 artists (choreographers, composers, visual artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, and photographers) will present their “…innovative vision of how art forms align,” according to the release. Choreographers include Manuel Vignoulle, Esme Boyce and more. Find out more here
Performance Lab
Steps on Broadway
May 17
Steps Beyond, a division of Steps on Broadway presents young choreographers Tislarm Bouie, Adrienne Clancy, Sandra Lacy, Alyson Laury, Nicole Philippidis, Jessica Taylor, Jonathan Royse Windham, Teresa Fellion, Sarah Weber-Gallo, Malik Kitchen and Steps Repertory Ensemble under artistic director Bradley Shelver in one evening. Find out more here
Muna Tseng Dance Projects
Riverside Park
May 17 & 24
New York City Parks presents newly commissioned choreography by Tseng engaging with Charles Ginnever’s monumental steel sculptures “Medusa” and “High Rise” overlooking the Hudson River. This free public event is 20 minutes long. Find out more here
Panel: Christine Dakin +
92nd Street Y
May 16
Martha Graham dancer, Dakin will screen her film “La Voz de Cuerpo/The Body Speaks,” “…about the creative life of the dancer and dance’s roots in the natural world,” according to the release. After the film, Heidi Nicole Stoeckley, a former soloist with Graham, will perform Graham’s Lamentation (1930), and Alejandro Chávez, the choreographer and artistic director of the Mexican company, Ciudad Interior, will perform his Séptimo Fragmento (2013). Find out more here
DD Dorvillier + Emmanuelle Huynh + Conversation
Dancespace Project
May 17-June14
Dorvillier’s collaboratively designed Platform entitled PLATFORM 2014:Diary of an Image runs (May 17-June 14) and overlaps with Danspace Project's major collaborations with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy's initiatives ART² featuring contemporary art projects, and is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Ideas, featuring Emmanuelle Huynh (May 15-17). A special Conversation Without Walls entitled “DANSE to Diaries: French Feminisms,” moderated by Jenn Joy between French and U.S. choreographers, artists, and scholars is slated for May 17. Find out more here
DanceAfrica 2014
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
May 18 & 23-26
Under the artistic direction of Dr. Charles “Chuck” Davis (Baba Chuck), DanceAfrica returns to BAM for the 37th year with its traditional Memorial Day weekend of dance, music, film, visual arts, and community events. DanceAfrica 2014 celebrates Africa’s Bantaba (“dancing ground”) and will feature Madagascar for the first time with music and dance ensemble Groupe Bakomanga. Find out more here
Pierre Rigan - compagnie dernière minute
The Joyce Theater
May 13-18
For their Joyce debut Rigal and his company of musicians and dancers will present the U.S. premiere of the evening-length work Micro. Find out more here
Caliince Dance
Martha Graham Studio Theater
May 15-17
Caliince Dance will perform the premiere of Vi la luna al mediodía based on the poem "Clair de Lune" by Paul Verlaine and guest choreographer, Benjamin Gaspard will share his new work, Pieces of evidence. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
May 19
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series with Martín Lanz, laura shapiro/quicksilverdance and Rosy Simas. Find out more here
May 14
Actors Fund Arts Center (Brooklyn)
As part of the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center "Peeks series," Batten Bland invite audiences to an open rehearsal for sneak peek at her new work, PATIENT(CE). Some of the process for the work will be shared and she will also discuss goals and outreach for this project. Orlando Hunter will also share the evening. Find out more here
STILL RUNNING:
DANSE: A French-American Festival of Performance and Ideas
New York City-Wide
May 1-18
The three-week series centered on contemporary dance continues with the U.S. premieres by Cédric Andrieux and Christophe Ives, Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, the late Alain Buffard, Ashley Chen, Emmanuelle Huynh, Latifa Laâbissi, Maud Le Pladec (NY premiere), Lyon Opera Ballet, Frédéric Nauczyciel, Thierry Thieû Niang, Pierre Rigal, Christian Rizzo, Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer (Affari Esteri), Claudia Triozzi, Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), and David Wampach. The series is presented by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 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
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
Melinda Ring
The Kitchen
May 8-17
“A triptych composed of two durational performances and an evening-length dance, [Ring’s] Forgetful Snow investigates the transcendent possibilities of body and mind,” according to the release. Find out more here
JOYCE UNLEASHED: A COLLECTION OF THREE ARTISTS THROUGHOUT NYC
SuperGroup and Laurie Berg at Invisible Dog Art Center
MAY 8 – 17
The Joyce Theater’ Joyce Unleashed presents NYC-based Laurie Berg’s The Afterlife and Minneapolis-based SuperGroup’s The Tent Has Been Pulled Down at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog Art Center. Find out more here
NEW THIS WEEK:
Rebecca Lazier & Yoshiko Chuma
La MaMa
May 15-18
Lazier will premiere There Might Be Others as part of LaMama Moves! Festival on a shared program with Chuma who will present How To Deliver An Afghan Hat Π = 3.14…Endless Peripheral Border Cont…. Find out more here
Satellite Collective
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Fisher
May 16-17
This collective or 27 artists (choreographers, composers, visual artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, and photographers) will present their “…innovative vision of how art forms align,” according to the release. Choreographers include Manuel Vignoulle, Esme Boyce and more. Find out more here
Performance Lab
Steps on Broadway
May 17
Steps Beyond, a division of Steps on Broadway presents young choreographers Tislarm Bouie, Adrienne Clancy, Sandra Lacy, Alyson Laury, Nicole Philippidis, Jessica Taylor, Jonathan Royse Windham, Teresa Fellion, Sarah Weber-Gallo, Malik Kitchen and Steps Repertory Ensemble under artistic director Bradley Shelver in one evening. Find out more here
Muna Tseng Dance Projects
Riverside Park
May 17 & 24
New York City Parks presents newly commissioned choreography by Tseng engaging with Charles Ginnever’s monumental steel sculptures “Medusa” and “High Rise” overlooking the Hudson River. This free public event is 20 minutes long. Find out more here
Panel: Christine Dakin +
92nd Street Y
May 16
Martha Graham dancer, Dakin will screen her film “La Voz de Cuerpo/The Body Speaks,” “…about the creative life of the dancer and dance’s roots in the natural world,” according to the release. After the film, Heidi Nicole Stoeckley, a former soloist with Graham, will perform Graham’s Lamentation (1930), and Alejandro Chávez, the choreographer and artistic director of the Mexican company, Ciudad Interior, will perform his Séptimo Fragmento (2013). Find out more here
DD Dorvillier + Emmanuelle Huynh + Conversation
Dancespace Project
May 17-June14
Dorvillier’s collaboratively designed Platform entitled PLATFORM 2014:Diary of an Image runs (May 17-June 14) and overlaps with Danspace Project's major collaborations with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy's initiatives ART² featuring contemporary art projects, and is part of DANSE: A French-American Festival of Ideas, featuring Emmanuelle Huynh (May 15-17). A special Conversation Without Walls entitled “DANSE to Diaries: French Feminisms,” moderated by Jenn Joy between French and U.S. choreographers, artists, and scholars is slated for May 17. Find out more here
DanceAfrica 2014
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
May 18 & 23-26
Under the artistic direction of Dr. Charles “Chuck” Davis (Baba Chuck), DanceAfrica returns to BAM for the 37th year with its traditional Memorial Day weekend of dance, music, film, visual arts, and community events. DanceAfrica 2014 celebrates Africa’s Bantaba (“dancing ground”) and will feature Madagascar for the first time with music and dance ensemble Groupe Bakomanga. Find out more here
Pierre Rigan - compagnie dernière minute
The Joyce Theater
May 13-18
For their Joyce debut Rigal and his company of musicians and dancers will present the U.S. premiere of the evening-length work Micro. Find out more here
Caliince Dance
Martha Graham Studio Theater
May 15-17
Caliince Dance will perform the premiere of Vi la luna al mediodía based on the poem "Clair de Lune" by Paul Verlaine and guest choreographer, Benjamin Gaspard will share his new work, Pieces of evidence. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
May 19
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series with Martín Lanz, laura shapiro/quicksilverdance and Rosy Simas. Find out more here
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