Miguel Gutierrez Photo: Paula Lobo Miguel Gutierrez
The Chocolate Factory
January 9 – 19
Including himself, Gutierrez brings together six Latinx performers – Alvaro Gonzalez, John Gutierrez, Xandra Ibarra, Nibia Pastrana Santiago, and Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez for his new work, This Bridge Called My Ass– “…an elusive choreography of obsessive and perverse action within an unstable terrain of bodies, materials and sound. A formal logic binds the group and propels them to create a constantly transforming world where their togetherness retains autonomy to complicate the idea of identity. Clichéd Latin-American songs and the form of the telenovela are exploited to show how familiar structures contain absurdity that reveal and celebrate difference,” notes the release. Find out more here
Cuba Festival – Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
January 9 – 20
The Cuba Festival returns to The Joyce Theater with performances from: Malpaso Dance Company in Ohad Naharin’s Tabula Rasa, plus repertory including Fielding Sixes with choreography by Merce Cunningham (1/ 9 – 1/13); contemporary works from LOS HIJOS DEL DIRECTOR, under choreographer and founder George Céspedes (1/15 7 1/16); and flamenco from Compañía Irene Rodríguez (1/18 – 1/20). Find out more here
Martha Graham Dance Company
Martha Graham Studio Theater
January 15 - 16
For their recurring series, GrahamDeconstructed, this month’s focus is the partnership between Graham and sculptor-designer Isamu Noguchi, and two of their collaborations, Herodiade (1944) and El Penitente (1940). The evening will include a rehearsal run-through of both works introduced by a conversation about the Graham/Noguchi collaboration. Find out more here
Nederlands Dans Theater 2
New York City Center
January 16 – 19
NDT2, under the artistic direction of Paul Lightfoot, begins their 2019 U.S. tour in New York with two works by Sol León and Lightfoot, plus American premieres by Marco Goecke and Edward Clug. Find out more here
Works & Process – Various Artists
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
January 18 - 20
For this on-going series, featured will be choreography of Light by Brandon Stirling Baker, Jamar Roberts with Sarah Daley, Patricia Delgado, and Taylor Stanley, plus Houston Ballet's Sylvia by Stanon Welch. Find out more here
The Moving Memory Project
Aaron Davis Hall
January 23
This one-evening-only performance, A, MY NAME IS… with choreography by Stefanie Nelson and inspired by a family experience with dementia, is the official launch of THE MOVING MEMORY PROJECT, “a new festival devoted to memory and forgetting co-curated by Nelson and the bestselling author David Shenk (The Forgetting),” according to the release. Find out more here
The Chocolate Factory
January 9 – 19
Including himself, Gutierrez brings together six Latinx performers – Alvaro Gonzalez, John Gutierrez, Xandra Ibarra, Nibia Pastrana Santiago, and Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez for his new work, This Bridge Called My Ass– “…an elusive choreography of obsessive and perverse action within an unstable terrain of bodies, materials and sound. A formal logic binds the group and propels them to create a constantly transforming world where their togetherness retains autonomy to complicate the idea of identity. Clichéd Latin-American songs and the form of the telenovela are exploited to show how familiar structures contain absurdity that reveal and celebrate difference,” notes the release. Find out more here
Cuba Festival – Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
January 9 – 20
The Cuba Festival returns to The Joyce Theater with performances from: Malpaso Dance Company in Ohad Naharin’s Tabula Rasa, plus repertory including Fielding Sixes with choreography by Merce Cunningham (1/ 9 – 1/13); contemporary works from LOS HIJOS DEL DIRECTOR, under choreographer and founder George Céspedes (1/15 7 1/16); and flamenco from Compañía Irene Rodríguez (1/18 – 1/20). Find out more here
Martha Graham Dance Company
Martha Graham Studio Theater
January 15 - 16
For their recurring series, GrahamDeconstructed, this month’s focus is the partnership between Graham and sculptor-designer Isamu Noguchi, and two of their collaborations, Herodiade (1944) and El Penitente (1940). The evening will include a rehearsal run-through of both works introduced by a conversation about the Graham/Noguchi collaboration. Find out more here
Nederlands Dans Theater 2
New York City Center
January 16 – 19
NDT2, under the artistic direction of Paul Lightfoot, begins their 2019 U.S. tour in New York with two works by Sol León and Lightfoot, plus American premieres by Marco Goecke and Edward Clug. Find out more here
Works & Process – Various Artists
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
January 18 - 20
For this on-going series, featured will be choreography of Light by Brandon Stirling Baker, Jamar Roberts with Sarah Daley, Patricia Delgado, and Taylor Stanley, plus Houston Ballet's Sylvia by Stanon Welch. Find out more here
The Moving Memory Project
Aaron Davis Hall
January 23
This one-evening-only performance, A, MY NAME IS… with choreography by Stefanie Nelson and inspired by a family experience with dementia, is the official launch of THE MOVING MEMORY PROJECT, “a new festival devoted to memory and forgetting co-curated by Nelson and the bestselling author David Shenk (The Forgetting),” according to the release. Find out more here
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