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Some Dance This Week ~

12/5/2016

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PictureAAADT in Abraham's "Untitled America" Photo: Paul Kolnik
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
New York City Center
November 30 – December 31
For week two of their annual New York City Center five-week season, AAADT, under artistic director, Robert Battle will premiere Kyle Abraham's Untitled America, "A three-part suite [that] shines a light on the lasting impact of the prison system on African-American families and individuals...developed over three seasons and features haunting interviews by those impacted by incarceration," according to the release. Other premieres for the season includes: Ailey dancer Hope Boykin's r-Evolution, Dream; Johan Inger's Walking Mad (2001) a Company premiere, plus new productions by Billy Wilson (The Winter in Lisbon - 1992) and Mr. Ailey (Masekela Language -1969). Other season highlights include the Family Matinee Series which runs every Saturday afternoon, plus the Christmas Eve, Christmas night and New Year’s Eve performances. Find out more here
 
The Lucinda Childs Dance Company
The Joyce Theatre
November 29 – December 11
Slated for week two is an encore presentation of Ms. Childs’ signature 1979 evening-length work Dance, last presented at The Joyce Theater in 2010. Specially commissioned score by Philip Glass and the original film décor by Sol LeWitt, in which the work’s original dancers are projected in perfect synchronization with the live dancers on stage. Find out more here 
 
KineticArchitecture Dance Theatre
Dixon Place
December 2 - 17

The transgender performance artist, choreographer and storyteller Arrie Davidson completes the two-week run of the Dixon Place commissioned work, Wonder/Through the Looking Glass Houses which  “… skewers the tales of Lewis Carroll and creates a world of reflection and taboo transformation…” according to the release. Find out more here 
 
The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Aljira: A Center for Contemporary Art
December 7
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will dance in response to Aljira's current exhibit - Zachary Fabri: From the Wolf to the Fox. The event is free and open to the public. Space is limited.  Please RSVP to 973-622-1600
 
Jamal Jackson Dance Company
The Dumbo Loft
December 7 – 8
In the premiere of The Temple, Burn it Down, featured this season in Jamal Jackson Dance Company are sculptures, body paint costumes and live music.  Find out more here
 
H.T. Chen & Dancers
Chen Dance Center
December 8
Chen & Dancer appears in one of their “Teahouse Performances” with works “…informed by Chinese history and culture,” notes the release.  Teahouse events are curated programs that provide both food for thought and refreshments.  Find out more here 
 
Xaviera Simmons
The Kitchen
December 8 – 9
Simmons builds on her CODED project with a “…new movement-based performance that mines art-historical, online, and archival images—as they relate to queer history, homoerotic imagery, and landscape, as well as Jamaican dancehall culture—to map new conceptual territory,” according to the release.  Find out more here 
 
Oren Barnoy + Naomi Elena Ramirez
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
December 8 - 10
As part of the ever-growing series, DoublePlus built by invited curators, Barnoy and Ramirez shares the split-bill evening.  The curator is luciana achugar.  Find out more here
 
Bill Young/Various Artists
100 Grand
December 8 – 11
Presented nearly 30 years ago, Young brings back Interleaving, “…a major work he created to inaugurate a new artist-loft/dance-space on Grand Street in December 1986,” notes the release.  A large cast of dancers include Oluwadamilare Ayorinde, Gary Champi, Erin Dowd, Lauren Ferguson, Cori Kresge, Gabrielle Revlock, Jamie Scott, Darrin Wright and more.  Find out more here 
 
The Construction Company/Various Artists
University Settlement
December 9 – 10
On the program titled “The Dance Gallery,” featured are works by Janet Aisawa, Jeffrey Bauer, Mei-Yin Ng, Linda Seifert/Peter Kiszka and Beth Soll are featured.  Find out more here  
 
Sonya Tayeh
New York Live Arts
December 9 – 17
Tayeh’s evening-length original work, you’ll still call me by name, “…an emotionally charged dance-symphony that explores a mystifying, complex and jagged relationship between a mother and daughter,” according to the release, will receive its New York City debut. Find out more here 

Batotu Yetu 
Aaron Davis Hall- Marian Anderson Theater
December 10
For their holiday celebration, Batoto Yetu (Swahili for "Our Children") brings African dance, music, and folklore to audiences of all ages. Find out more here 
 
The 59th Annual Dance Magazine Awards
New York Live Arts
December 12
This year'shonorees are former dancer and current dance educator Carolyn Adams, dance historian and scholar Lynn Garafola, choreographer Lar Lubovitch, and New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck.  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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