Javier Ninja Photo: Ian Douglas Houses Without Masters
Danspace Project
March 26
For this party/celebration of PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets curated by Claudia La Rocco, “…dance artist who’ve engaged in exchanges across ballet, modern and postmodern dance… Danspace [invited these] singular dance innovators from diverse genres to perform throughout the evening,” notes the release. There will be performances by Jean Butler, Chrybaby Cozie, Michelle Dorrance, Javier Ninja, New York Theatre Ballet's Elena Zahlmann performing James Waring's An Eccentric Beauty Revisited (inspired by Nijinsky's Le Dieu Bleu) and Larissa Velez-Jackson & Yackez. DJ Douze offers dance music for the evening. Find out more here
Blance Street Productions
Dixon Place
March 24
In Flight “…three glamorous flight attendants guide the audience through a series of stories that highlight a conflicted reconciliation between cultural past and modern identity,” notes the release. Find out more here
NYC10 Dance Initiative
Dixon Place
March 25
For this dance project designed by “NYC Dance Week,” 10 emerging dance companies are given up to 10 minutes to showcase their work. Some featured artists are: Carlos Garland, emiMOTION, Infringed, Javier Padilla, Locavulary De Sign and more. Find out more here
Ballet West
The Joyce Theater
March 25-29
Making its Joyce debut, Ballet West will perform a mixed-program of premieres by Val Caniparoli, Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan and Helen Pickett. Find out more here
Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and Peter Sellars
Park Avenue Armory
March 25-April 4
Park Avenue Armory commissioned flex dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and visionary director Peter Sellars to create a work that evolves the tradition of flex, the Brooklyn-born street dance, the result is FLEXN. Find out more here
Maya Ciarrocchi & Kris Grey
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performance Lab
March 25-28
See this collaboration between video artist Ciarrocchi and visual/performance artist Grey, Gender/Power (composition II) where their “…immersive installation activated by performance, sound, and video poses questions about the dynamics of power in relation to gender. Find out more here
Annie Wilson
JACK
March 26-28
Lovertits is a burlesque-postmodern-dance-theater-bad-improv performance by Philly favorite Wilson. Find out more here
Ani Taj and The Dance Cartel
New York Live Arts
March 27-28
Taj and The Dance Cartel launches the 2015 Studio Series showings in the Third Floor Studios with an in-progress showing of their newest project, Drive-In. Find out more here
Bedford-Stuvyesant Y Students
BAM Fisher
March 26
Thirteen young and gifted students performs with BalletNext artistic director Michele Wiles and Brooklyn flex dance king Jay Donn in YNext, a special evening that jointly benefits the Y and BalletNext youth education programs. Find out more here
J CHEN PROJECT
Ailey Citigroup Theater
March 26-27
Artistic director Jessica Chen premieres the evening-length work Never was Broken: a dance through life and death and life “…inspired by life, miracles and reflections after suffering a near fatal car accident in 2012 that rendered her into a 13 day coma after 8 hours of brain surgery,” notes the release. Find out more here
TAKE Dance
Schimmel Center/Pace University
March 26-28
Artistic Director and Founder, Takehiro Ueyama celebrates the company’s 10th anniversary with the world premiere of the evening-length work There and Here with live music performed by Japanese musician, composer, and producer, Kato Hideki. Find out more here
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet
Symphony Space
March 27-28
The Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, under artistic directors Kirkland and Michael Chernov presents a Marius Petipa double bill with Harlequinade and Cavalry Halt. Find out more here
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Centenary Stage Company
March 28
Nai-Ni Chen brings some of their signature and newer works including Calligraffiti to Centenary Stage Company's “Dance Festival 2015” in Hackettstown, New Jersey. Find out more here
Danspace Project
March 26
For this party/celebration of PLATFORM 2015: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets curated by Claudia La Rocco, “…dance artist who’ve engaged in exchanges across ballet, modern and postmodern dance… Danspace [invited these] singular dance innovators from diverse genres to perform throughout the evening,” notes the release. There will be performances by Jean Butler, Chrybaby Cozie, Michelle Dorrance, Javier Ninja, New York Theatre Ballet's Elena Zahlmann performing James Waring's An Eccentric Beauty Revisited (inspired by Nijinsky's Le Dieu Bleu) and Larissa Velez-Jackson & Yackez. DJ Douze offers dance music for the evening. Find out more here
Blance Street Productions
Dixon Place
March 24
In Flight “…three glamorous flight attendants guide the audience through a series of stories that highlight a conflicted reconciliation between cultural past and modern identity,” notes the release. Find out more here
NYC10 Dance Initiative
Dixon Place
March 25
For this dance project designed by “NYC Dance Week,” 10 emerging dance companies are given up to 10 minutes to showcase their work. Some featured artists are: Carlos Garland, emiMOTION, Infringed, Javier Padilla, Locavulary De Sign and more. Find out more here
Ballet West
The Joyce Theater
March 25-29
Making its Joyce debut, Ballet West will perform a mixed-program of premieres by Val Caniparoli, Nicolo Fonte, Matthew Neenan and Helen Pickett. Find out more here
Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and Peter Sellars
Park Avenue Armory
March 25-April 4
Park Avenue Armory commissioned flex dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and visionary director Peter Sellars to create a work that evolves the tradition of flex, the Brooklyn-born street dance, the result is FLEXN. Find out more here
Maya Ciarrocchi & Kris Grey
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performance Lab
March 25-28
See this collaboration between video artist Ciarrocchi and visual/performance artist Grey, Gender/Power (composition II) where their “…immersive installation activated by performance, sound, and video poses questions about the dynamics of power in relation to gender. Find out more here
Annie Wilson
JACK
March 26-28
Lovertits is a burlesque-postmodern-dance-theater-bad-improv performance by Philly favorite Wilson. Find out more here
Ani Taj and The Dance Cartel
New York Live Arts
March 27-28
Taj and The Dance Cartel launches the 2015 Studio Series showings in the Third Floor Studios with an in-progress showing of their newest project, Drive-In. Find out more here
Bedford-Stuvyesant Y Students
BAM Fisher
March 26
Thirteen young and gifted students performs with BalletNext artistic director Michele Wiles and Brooklyn flex dance king Jay Donn in YNext, a special evening that jointly benefits the Y and BalletNext youth education programs. Find out more here
J CHEN PROJECT
Ailey Citigroup Theater
March 26-27
Artistic director Jessica Chen premieres the evening-length work Never was Broken: a dance through life and death and life “…inspired by life, miracles and reflections after suffering a near fatal car accident in 2012 that rendered her into a 13 day coma after 8 hours of brain surgery,” notes the release. Find out more here
TAKE Dance
Schimmel Center/Pace University
March 26-28
Artistic Director and Founder, Takehiro Ueyama celebrates the company’s 10th anniversary with the world premiere of the evening-length work There and Here with live music performed by Japanese musician, composer, and producer, Kato Hideki. Find out more here
Gelsey Kirkland Ballet
Symphony Space
March 27-28
The Gelsey Kirkland Ballet, under artistic directors Kirkland and Michael Chernov presents a Marius Petipa double bill with Harlequinade and Cavalry Halt. Find out more here
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Centenary Stage Company
March 28
Nai-Ni Chen brings some of their signature and newer works including Calligraffiti to Centenary Stage Company's “Dance Festival 2015” in Hackettstown, New Jersey. Find out more here
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