Mina Nishimura Photo: Hazuki Aikawa Mina Nishimura
Danspace Project
February 1 - 3
Tokyo-born and New York-based choreographer and performer Nishimura returns to Danspace Project after her last commission in 2015, Celery of Everything. For her return, she will premiere Bladder Inn (and X, Y, Z, W) performed by Nishimura with Martita Abril, Jonathan Burkland, Lydia Chrisman, Samuel Hanson, Suiso Ogawa, Ilana Stuelpner, and Niko Tsocanos, and “…created in conversation with an original text of the same title, developed by Nishimura with the intention of finding languages that evoke specific internal landscapes while investigating the space between meanings and symbols. The work invites both audiences and performers to consider peripheral spaces of architecture, perception, and sound specific to the architecture of St. Mark's Church. "The specific architecture of St. March Church will contain the work in the physical space and protect performers from wandering away," explains Nishimura. Blurring the boundaries between inner and outer space, visible and invisible presences, and images and abstract forms, Bladder Inn (and X, Y, Z, W) hosts what Nishimura calls "a slippery journey and fleeting fantasy of wandering bodies," according to the release. Find out more here
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
The Joyce Theater
January 30 – February 4
For their Joyce Theater debut, the French-based contemporary/hip-hop dance group, Compagnie Hervé KOUBI under French-Algerian dancer and choreographer Koubi, with a mix of dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, will present the New York premiere of Koubi’s evening-length, What the Day Owes to the Night (2013). Find out more here
David Thomson
Performance Space New York
January 31 – February 4
As part of the newly named “Performance Space New York” Thomson premieres he his own mythical beast described as “A meditation on the mythologies and contradictions of identity, race, gender, and the black body in post-modern American culture,” according to the release. Find out more here
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Peak Performances
February 1 – 4
Brown & Dancers continues the 2017-2018 season of works by women with ink, the final installation in her dance trilogy about culture, race, and identity, which began in 2012 with Mr. TOL E. RAncE and continued in 2015 with BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play. Find out more here
Amirov Dance Theater
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
February 1 – 3
For her first self-produced show, Alexandra Amirov will present Citizens Of Here And Elsewhere looking at “…origin, identity, culture, and dance,” notes the release. Find out more here
Soaking Wet – Various Artists
West End Theater
February 1 - 4
Curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, with associate producer Dylan Baker, the series returns with two different programs of premieres by Angharad Davies, Aviva Geismar, Victor Lozano, Jody Sperling, and Katy Orthwein, with guest Elizabeth Keen. Find out more here
Thunderbird Native American Dancers
Theater for the New City
February 2 – 11
The Company will offer a “Pow Wow” and concert performances for all ages. Though not recommended for babies and children under five, what is promised is the opportunity y to experience traditional music, dancers and stories of the Native Peoples of North America. Find out more here
Jack O’Brien and Justin Peck
Guggenheim Museum
February 4
As part of the “Works & Process” performing arts series, O'Brien and Peck join forces for a look at the Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical Carousel which returns to Broadway for the first time in decades with choreography by New York City Ballet's Peck and direction by O'Brien. Find out more here
“Under Exposed” – Various Artists
The Kitchen
February 6
In the on-going series curated by Doug Post, “…emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles,” notes the release. The lineup includes Melissa West, Breaktime, Juan Michael Porter II and Jesse Obremski. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Kitchen
February 6
For the fifth L.A.B. (“language,” “art,” “bodies”) series at The Kitchen, featured will be Marianna Ellenberg, Marguerite Hemmings and Anaïs Maviel, gathered to “…unpack ambiguous vocabularies in contemporary art by responding to them both in conversation and artworks revolving around the term relation,” notes the release. This season draws from Édouard Glissant’s 1990 book, Poetics of Relation. This event is Free! Find out more here
Danspace Project
February 1 - 3
Tokyo-born and New York-based choreographer and performer Nishimura returns to Danspace Project after her last commission in 2015, Celery of Everything. For her return, she will premiere Bladder Inn (and X, Y, Z, W) performed by Nishimura with Martita Abril, Jonathan Burkland, Lydia Chrisman, Samuel Hanson, Suiso Ogawa, Ilana Stuelpner, and Niko Tsocanos, and “…created in conversation with an original text of the same title, developed by Nishimura with the intention of finding languages that evoke specific internal landscapes while investigating the space between meanings and symbols. The work invites both audiences and performers to consider peripheral spaces of architecture, perception, and sound specific to the architecture of St. Mark's Church. "The specific architecture of St. March Church will contain the work in the physical space and protect performers from wandering away," explains Nishimura. Blurring the boundaries between inner and outer space, visible and invisible presences, and images and abstract forms, Bladder Inn (and X, Y, Z, W) hosts what Nishimura calls "a slippery journey and fleeting fantasy of wandering bodies," according to the release. Find out more here
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
The Joyce Theater
January 30 – February 4
For their Joyce Theater debut, the French-based contemporary/hip-hop dance group, Compagnie Hervé KOUBI under French-Algerian dancer and choreographer Koubi, with a mix of dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, will present the New York premiere of Koubi’s evening-length, What the Day Owes to the Night (2013). Find out more here
David Thomson
Performance Space New York
January 31 – February 4
As part of the newly named “Performance Space New York” Thomson premieres he his own mythical beast described as “A meditation on the mythologies and contradictions of identity, race, gender, and the black body in post-modern American culture,” according to the release. Find out more here
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Peak Performances
February 1 – 4
Brown & Dancers continues the 2017-2018 season of works by women with ink, the final installation in her dance trilogy about culture, race, and identity, which began in 2012 with Mr. TOL E. RAncE and continued in 2015 with BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play. Find out more here
Amirov Dance Theater
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
February 1 – 3
For her first self-produced show, Alexandra Amirov will present Citizens Of Here And Elsewhere looking at “…origin, identity, culture, and dance,” notes the release. Find out more here
Soaking Wet – Various Artists
West End Theater
February 1 - 4
Curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, with associate producer Dylan Baker, the series returns with two different programs of premieres by Angharad Davies, Aviva Geismar, Victor Lozano, Jody Sperling, and Katy Orthwein, with guest Elizabeth Keen. Find out more here
Thunderbird Native American Dancers
Theater for the New City
February 2 – 11
The Company will offer a “Pow Wow” and concert performances for all ages. Though not recommended for babies and children under five, what is promised is the opportunity y to experience traditional music, dancers and stories of the Native Peoples of North America. Find out more here
Jack O’Brien and Justin Peck
Guggenheim Museum
February 4
As part of the “Works & Process” performing arts series, O'Brien and Peck join forces for a look at the Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical Carousel which returns to Broadway for the first time in decades with choreography by New York City Ballet's Peck and direction by O'Brien. Find out more here
“Under Exposed” – Various Artists
The Kitchen
February 6
In the on-going series curated by Doug Post, “…emerging, up & coming contemporary choreographers who are refining/defining their distinctive styles,” notes the release. The lineup includes Melissa West, Breaktime, Juan Michael Porter II and Jesse Obremski. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Kitchen
February 6
For the fifth L.A.B. (“language,” “art,” “bodies”) series at The Kitchen, featured will be Marianna Ellenberg, Marguerite Hemmings and Anaïs Maviel, gathered to “…unpack ambiguous vocabularies in contemporary art by responding to them both in conversation and artworks revolving around the term relation,” notes the release. This season draws from Édouard Glissant’s 1990 book, Poetics of Relation. This event is Free! Find out more here
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