Carmen deLavallade Carmen deLavallade
Baryshnikov Arts Center
February 19-25
This intimate portrait of dance icon and actress Carmen de Lavallade spans an unparalleled six-decade career working with luminaries Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Josephine Baker, Alvin Ailey, and many others. In the N.Y. Premiere of Ms. de Lavallade’s solo performance, poignant movement, film, and storytelling weave an unforgettable memoir about her venerable life on stage.
See my interview with Carmen de Lavallade for BAC Stories and AmNews
Panel: “U.S.-Cuba Policy: The Artist Perspective”
New York City Center
February 18
Arts professionals will discuss how evolving relations between the United States and Cuba will affect the arts and cultural exchanges between the two countries. The panel includes Eduardo Vilaro, artistic director of Ballet Hispanico; Rachel Weingeist, an independent curator who has engaged with the visual arts community in Cuba; and Pedro Ruiz, the recently appointed associate artistic direction of Endedans – The Contemporary Ballet of Camagūey. The conversation will be moderated by Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, a leader in Cuban arts advocacy and a program director at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Find out more here
New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB)
New York Live Arts
February 18-21
As part of the series Legends & Visionaries 2015, NYTB will premiere works by Nicolo Fonte, Pam Tanowitz, a revival of Merce Cunningham's trio Cross Currents, staged by Jennifer Goggans, and Keith Michael's The Alice-In-Wonderland Follies. Find out more here
A BAILAR: DANCE AT THE CENTER
New York City Center
February 18-22
City Center's A Bailar: Dance at the Center Festival - A Three-Week Festival of Latin Dance will feature Cuban dance company Ballet Rakatan in its U.S. debut with Havana Rakatan. A series of events including the panel discussion (see February 18), lessons in Mambo, Salsa and other dance styles plus Cuban Drumming will be offered. Find out more here
HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?
Roulette
February 19
For one-night-only, Wendell Cooper and a selection of artist will present HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?: Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera Screening & Performance "A multipart film that reimagines the traditional opera to pose a central question: “What happens to the black body when it is haunted by a ‘blackness’ outside of it?”. Find out more here
Will Rawls with Kaitlyn Gilliland
Danspace Project
February 19-21
Curated by Claudia LaRocco as part of Danspace Project's Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, Gilliland (formerly of New York City Ballet) and Rawls will present material based on LaRocco's prompt to have an exchange. Find out more here
FJK Dance
The Graduate Center at CUNY
February 20
In an attempt to foster understanding and positive relationships though dance, the Consulate General of Lebanon in New York and the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center will present FJK Dance in A Fusion of Culture and Dance. ADMISSION FREE. Find out more here
Adam Barruch
92nd Street Y
February 20-22
Barruch kicks off the 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Festival with the New York City premiere of Belladonna, "...his haunting re-interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” with longtime collaborator Chelsea Bonosky (Sleep No More)." Find out more here
Symposium: Dance/NYC
Gibney Dance Center
February 22
Dance/NYC will host its sixth annual 2015 Symposium where they will "…rise together…and dive deep into questions of cultural equity, resilience, technology and private sector practices.” Find out more here
Panel: Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues
New York Live Arts
February 22
NYLA’s newest conversational series that “…engages participants in active listening, constructive discourse and action planning,” begins now and will continue for three months. All sessions will be moderated by Piper Anderson. Find out more here
Steps Beyond Foundation and REVERBDANCE
Steps Studio Theater
February 22
Steps Beyond Foundation and REVERBdance will join forces to present a new program on its Performance Lab Series “…continuing its mission to encourage and provide performance opportunities to both emerging and established choreographers.” Find out more here
Digital Dance Festival
New York Live Arts
February 23-28
NYLA’s Digital Dance Festival will feature niv Acosta; the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Elena Demyanenko and Dai Jian. Performances are viewed online and tickets are pay what you wish. Find out more here
Baryshnikov Arts Center
February 19-25
This intimate portrait of dance icon and actress Carmen de Lavallade spans an unparalleled six-decade career working with luminaries Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte, Josephine Baker, Alvin Ailey, and many others. In the N.Y. Premiere of Ms. de Lavallade’s solo performance, poignant movement, film, and storytelling weave an unforgettable memoir about her venerable life on stage.
See my interview with Carmen de Lavallade for BAC Stories and AmNews
Panel: “U.S.-Cuba Policy: The Artist Perspective”
New York City Center
February 18
Arts professionals will discuss how evolving relations between the United States and Cuba will affect the arts and cultural exchanges between the two countries. The panel includes Eduardo Vilaro, artistic director of Ballet Hispanico; Rachel Weingeist, an independent curator who has engaged with the visual arts community in Cuba; and Pedro Ruiz, the recently appointed associate artistic direction of Endedans – The Contemporary Ballet of Camagūey. The conversation will be moderated by Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, a leader in Cuban arts advocacy and a program director at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Find out more here
New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB)
New York Live Arts
February 18-21
As part of the series Legends & Visionaries 2015, NYTB will premiere works by Nicolo Fonte, Pam Tanowitz, a revival of Merce Cunningham's trio Cross Currents, staged by Jennifer Goggans, and Keith Michael's The Alice-In-Wonderland Follies. Find out more here
A BAILAR: DANCE AT THE CENTER
New York City Center
February 18-22
City Center's A Bailar: Dance at the Center Festival - A Three-Week Festival of Latin Dance will feature Cuban dance company Ballet Rakatan in its U.S. debut with Havana Rakatan. A series of events including the panel discussion (see February 18), lessons in Mambo, Salsa and other dance styles plus Cuban Drumming will be offered. Find out more here
HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?
Roulette
February 19
For one-night-only, Wendell Cooper and a selection of artist will present HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?: Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera Screening & Performance "A multipart film that reimagines the traditional opera to pose a central question: “What happens to the black body when it is haunted by a ‘blackness’ outside of it?”. Find out more here
Will Rawls with Kaitlyn Gilliland
Danspace Project
February 19-21
Curated by Claudia LaRocco as part of Danspace Project's Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, Gilliland (formerly of New York City Ballet) and Rawls will present material based on LaRocco's prompt to have an exchange. Find out more here
FJK Dance
The Graduate Center at CUNY
February 20
In an attempt to foster understanding and positive relationships though dance, the Consulate General of Lebanon in New York and the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center will present FJK Dance in A Fusion of Culture and Dance. ADMISSION FREE. Find out more here
Adam Barruch
92nd Street Y
February 20-22
Barruch kicks off the 92nd Street Y’s Harkness Dance Festival with the New York City premiere of Belladonna, "...his haunting re-interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” with longtime collaborator Chelsea Bonosky (Sleep No More)." Find out more here
Symposium: Dance/NYC
Gibney Dance Center
February 22
Dance/NYC will host its sixth annual 2015 Symposium where they will "…rise together…and dive deep into questions of cultural equity, resilience, technology and private sector practices.” Find out more here
Panel: Open Spectrum Critical Dialogues
New York Live Arts
February 22
NYLA’s newest conversational series that “…engages participants in active listening, constructive discourse and action planning,” begins now and will continue for three months. All sessions will be moderated by Piper Anderson. Find out more here
Steps Beyond Foundation and REVERBDANCE
Steps Studio Theater
February 22
Steps Beyond Foundation and REVERBdance will join forces to present a new program on its Performance Lab Series “…continuing its mission to encourage and provide performance opportunities to both emerging and established choreographers.” Find out more here
Digital Dance Festival
New York Live Arts
February 23-28
NYLA’s Digital Dance Festival will feature niv Acosta; the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Elena Demyanenko and Dai Jian. Performances are viewed online and tickets are pay what you wish. Find out more here
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