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Some Dance This Week ~

4/2/2019

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PictureAyodele Casel Photo: Patrick Randak, courtesy of Capezio
Ayodele Casel
Various NYC Venues
April 3 - 14

As part of their 75th Anniversary Season, New York City Center expands its mission making the performing arts even more accessible to all with the launch of “City Center On the Move,” featuring dance in five New York City boroughs, and lead by Bronx-born choreographer, teacher, and tap artist Ayodele Casel in a performance entitled Rooted.
 
“City Center partnered with the NYC Parks Arts, Culture & Fun to select five tour stops (in addition to City Center's own studios) from among their citywide recreation centers—sharing the arts with the broadest possible cross-section of New Yorkers.  Beginning Wednesday, April 3, at the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn, this inaugural tour of all five boroughs will engage communities with world-class dance through a series of free interactive performances featuring Bronx-born choreographer, teacher, and tap artist Ayodele Casel in a performance entitled Rooted. A frequent City Center collaborator (¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival, Fall for Dance Festival, Encores! Off-Center) and 2017 recipient of the “Hoofer Award,” Casel will be joined by special guest Grammy Award winner Arturo O’ Farrill (¡Adelante, Cuba! Festival), dancers Luke Hickey (Fall for Dance Festival) and Andre Imanishi, bass player Amanda Ruzza, and O’Farrill’s son Zack O’Farrill on drums. Each performance will include live music and dancing with audience participation throughout. The two-week tour will culminate at City Center’s own Studio 5 (130 W 56th Street) on Sunday, April 14," notes the release.   All performances are free and open to the public. Find out more here
 
Nicky Paraiso
La Mama
March 22 – April 7
In the world premiere of Paraiso’s now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories, he dives into a “…deep exploration of [his] life, investigating aging, identity, sexuality, class and race,” according to the release.  Paraiso is joined by choreographer/dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio in performance and as collaborators. The work is directed by John Jesurun.  Find out more here
 
Martha Graham Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
April 2–14
The "EVE Project," the Company’s season theme, celebrates female empowerment, the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and focuses on both historical and contemporary ideas of the feminine. Featured are the world premiere of Deo by Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith, the New York premiere of Untitled (Souvenir) by Pam Tanowitz, drawing on some of Graham’s dances, including The Legend of Judith (1967) and Dark Meadow (1946). Also on the program is Annie-B Parson’s I used to love you, based on Graham’s 1941 comic ballet Punch and the Judy, Lucinda Childs’s Histoire, (1999). Works by Graham on the program are: Chronicle (1936), Herodiade (1944), Secular Games (1962), not been seen in decades, Errand into the Maze (1947), and El Penitente (1941), plus repertory favorites on special nights.  Find out more here

Kota Yamazaki
New York Live Arts
April 3 – 6
Yamazaki/Fluid Hug-Hug premieres Darkness Odyssey Part 3: Non-Opera, Becoming, the final installment of his “…dance celebrating the bridge between "this self" and "the other self,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Natalia Osipova & David Hallberg
New York City Center
April 3 – 6
In this program of classic and contemporary works, Osipova reunites with Hallberg in the US premiere of Valse Triste by Alexei Ratmansky, and will also dance Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading. Contemporary dancer Jonathan Goddard will join Osipova in the US premiere of Flutter by Ivan Péréz, and Jason Kittelberger joins her Roy Assaf’s Six Years Later.  Find out more here
 
Lauren Bakst
The Chocolate Factory
April 3 – 6
In More Problems with Form, Bakst oscillates “…between the live and the pre-recorded…[and] moves her voice and her “I” around. The work includes many multiples of Lauren, sometimes played by herself and sometimes by others in a series of videos featuring her fellow group therapy members, her lover, and her mother,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
Mark DeGarmo Dance – Salon Performance Series – Various Artists
April 4
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center
For this 9th season of DeGarmo’s Salon Performance Series, where works-in-progress and original songs-in-progress are presented.  The Series continues with Kiran Rajagopalan & Antonio Ramos with Mark DeGarmo.  Find out more here
 
Heidi Latsky Dance
Spitzer School of Architecture Gallery
April 4 – 5
This free event invites audiences to experience a “…connection with the living sculptures and performance,” accordign to the release.  Find out more here
 
Kyle Abraham/A.I.M
NYU Skirball
April 4 – 6
Abraham, in collaboration with his company, A.I.M returns to New York with the acclaimed evening-length, 2011 work, Live! The Realest MC, after a year and a half of international touring.  Inspired by both the story of Pinocchio and an early solo titled, Inventing Pookie Jenkins, Live!... “…takes a darkly humorous approach to gender roles and masculinity in the black community and the quest for acceptance in the world of hip-hop celebrity,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Omari Mizrahi
Gibney
April 4 – 6
Senegalese-born dancer, Mizrahi will perform his new work-in-progress, Crossroads as part of Gibney’s “New Voices Spotlight” series. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
The Kitchen
April 5 – 6
This edition of “Dance and Process” will again feature new works after a ten-week group process of sharing work and receiving feedback.  Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen are the facilitators.  Featured artists are mayfield brooks, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Stacy Grossfield, and Christopher Unpezverde Núñez.  Find out more here

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Flushing Town Hall
April 7
For their sixth installment of “CrossCurrent,” the Company will feature excerpts of works-in-progress: Bamboo Rap, a collaboration between Nai-Ni and several hip-hop artists including Kwikstep, Rockafella, and DJ Cool-V from New York and Newark, NJ; and Chinese rap artists Xing Ye Ma and Yuchen Jin from Beijing. Nai-Ni Chen plans to use this newly mixed vocabulary to tell the story of the Chinese American immigration. Find out more here

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    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

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