Marguerite Hemmings Marguerite Hemmings
Baryshnikov Arts Center
February 23
For one-night-only the Jamaican-born, NYC-based risk-taking, dance artist Marguerite Hemmings invites an audience to share in her “…creative processes of and between millennial musicians and dancers, focusing on blending digital and analog, improvisation and pattern, with a heavy centering of dance and music practices of today's African Diaspora,” according to the release. Find out more here
Noche Flamenca
The Joyce Theater
February 13 – 25
Founded by artistic director, Martín Santangelo and acclaimed dancer, Soledad Barrio, Íntimo, Noche Flamenca with and set to original and live music, brings their special brand of flamenco, and promises to explore “…the possibilities and limitations of human relationships,” notes the release. Find out more here
Jennifer Monson
The Chocolate Factory
February 20 – 24
bend the even continues Monson’s “…research into phenomena that exist at the edges of human perception. Accessing new frameworks for emanating presence and animacy through the three mediums of sound, light and movement, the work leaves the audience at the edge of perceptual comprehension,” according to the release. Find out more here
Bebe Miller & Susan Rethorst
New York Live Arts
February 21 – 24
Miller and Rethorst come together for The Making Room “…an investigation into innovative ways of sharing the creative process…each presenting a new work that highlights the process of creating dance. The work’s six dancers—Michelle Boulé, Christal Brown, Sarah Gamblin, Angie Hauser, Bronwen MacArthur, Trebien Pollard, and Miller—weave sequences of events, references, music and relationship through the work, using sound and text as underlying maps of events and situations,” according to the release. Find out more here
Jasmine Hearn & Peggy Robles-Alvarado
BAAD!
February 22
Sharing the evening, choreographer Hearn performs thot, "a solo that sits in darkness. Using acquired memories of lyric and song from car rides to middle school with her sister, she'll listen to shadow, velvet and her own forgetting," while poet Robles-Alvarado reads and performs selected passages from "Ways of Going Home", followed by a discussion. Books are made available to all participants. Find out more here
Brother(hood)! Dance
BRIC House Artist Studio
February 22–23
For their work-in-progress Afro/Solo/Man the co-founders of Brother(hood)! Dance, Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr. and Ricarrdo Valentine, will multimedia, dance, and storytelling “…to engage the audience in a meditation on the identities of Black men in relation to ideas of origins, nourishment, heritage, nature, sexuality, and technology in the 21st century,” notes the release. Find out more here
BS Movement – Shaina Branford & Bryan Strimpel
Triskelion Arts
February 22 - 24
In BECOMING BAIRA (pronounced, bye-RAH and Sanskrit for Brave), the couple continues their journey after the recent duet, FLOYD (July 2017). Find out more here
Dacify That – Various Artists
Caveat
February 24
Dancify That is a dance game show in which contestants compete in taking bizarre videos from the internet and using them for inspiration for dance. This event is hosted by Deborah Lohse and features Jordan Isadore, Raja Feather Kelly, Cori Olinghouse, Ash Yergens, Krista Jansen, CJ Holm, Karilyn Surratt, Sarah Dahnke, Patrick Ferreri, Sam Szabo, Shannon Nash, Sarah Petersiel and more! Dancers will be judged by the very funny Keisha Zollar (Comedy Central, Orange Is the New Black, Funny or Die) and a special guest. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
February 26
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are Laurel Atwell, Jasmine Hearn , Millie Kapp & Matt Shalzi and Shannon Yu. Find out more here
Baryshnikov Arts Center
February 23
For one-night-only the Jamaican-born, NYC-based risk-taking, dance artist Marguerite Hemmings invites an audience to share in her “…creative processes of and between millennial musicians and dancers, focusing on blending digital and analog, improvisation and pattern, with a heavy centering of dance and music practices of today's African Diaspora,” according to the release. Find out more here
Noche Flamenca
The Joyce Theater
February 13 – 25
Founded by artistic director, Martín Santangelo and acclaimed dancer, Soledad Barrio, Íntimo, Noche Flamenca with and set to original and live music, brings their special brand of flamenco, and promises to explore “…the possibilities and limitations of human relationships,” notes the release. Find out more here
Jennifer Monson
The Chocolate Factory
February 20 – 24
bend the even continues Monson’s “…research into phenomena that exist at the edges of human perception. Accessing new frameworks for emanating presence and animacy through the three mediums of sound, light and movement, the work leaves the audience at the edge of perceptual comprehension,” according to the release. Find out more here
Bebe Miller & Susan Rethorst
New York Live Arts
February 21 – 24
Miller and Rethorst come together for The Making Room “…an investigation into innovative ways of sharing the creative process…each presenting a new work that highlights the process of creating dance. The work’s six dancers—Michelle Boulé, Christal Brown, Sarah Gamblin, Angie Hauser, Bronwen MacArthur, Trebien Pollard, and Miller—weave sequences of events, references, music and relationship through the work, using sound and text as underlying maps of events and situations,” according to the release. Find out more here
Jasmine Hearn & Peggy Robles-Alvarado
BAAD!
February 22
Sharing the evening, choreographer Hearn performs thot, "a solo that sits in darkness. Using acquired memories of lyric and song from car rides to middle school with her sister, she'll listen to shadow, velvet and her own forgetting," while poet Robles-Alvarado reads and performs selected passages from "Ways of Going Home", followed by a discussion. Books are made available to all participants. Find out more here
Brother(hood)! Dance
BRIC House Artist Studio
February 22–23
For their work-in-progress Afro/Solo/Man the co-founders of Brother(hood)! Dance, Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr. and Ricarrdo Valentine, will multimedia, dance, and storytelling “…to engage the audience in a meditation on the identities of Black men in relation to ideas of origins, nourishment, heritage, nature, sexuality, and technology in the 21st century,” notes the release. Find out more here
BS Movement – Shaina Branford & Bryan Strimpel
Triskelion Arts
February 22 - 24
In BECOMING BAIRA (pronounced, bye-RAH and Sanskrit for Brave), the couple continues their journey after the recent duet, FLOYD (July 2017). Find out more here
Dacify That – Various Artists
Caveat
February 24
Dancify That is a dance game show in which contestants compete in taking bizarre videos from the internet and using them for inspiration for dance. This event is hosted by Deborah Lohse and features Jordan Isadore, Raja Feather Kelly, Cori Olinghouse, Ash Yergens, Krista Jansen, CJ Holm, Karilyn Surratt, Sarah Dahnke, Patrick Ferreri, Sam Szabo, Shannon Nash, Sarah Petersiel and more! Dancers will be judged by the very funny Keisha Zollar (Comedy Central, Orange Is the New Black, Funny or Die) and a special guest. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
February 26
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are Laurel Atwell, Jasmine Hearn , Millie Kapp & Matt Shalzi and Shannon Yu. Find out more here
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