Anna Sperber Anna Sperber
Gibney Dance
June 3–13
Brooklyn-based Sperber premieres Ruptured Horizon as part of the Inaugural Making Space Season at Gibney. The evening-length work is an investigation of “…how the performers navigate their directional presence while inhabiting and effecting a landscape both imagistic and concrete. Situated in a lighting environment designed to optimize the natural light in Gibney Dance’s studio theater, the work explores the raw beauty of the laboring figure without drama or ornamentation," according to the release. Find out more here
La MaMa Moves!
Ellen Stewart Theatre, The Club, The First Floor Theatre at La MaMa, and La Galleria
May 21-June 21
La MaMa Moves! celebrates its 10th anniversary season, featuring work by Alexandra Beller, Yoshiko Chuma, Anya Cloud & Eric Geiger, Brandon Collwes, Jane Comfort and Company, Junk Ensemble, Jon Kinzel, Stanley Love Performance Group, John Scott, Ani Taj, Thierry Micouin and Gwen Welliver. Find out more here
10 Hairy Legs (corrected)
New York Live Arts
June 11-13
Under artistic director, Randy James, the company of men will present works by Sean Curran, Doug Elkins, Heidi Latsky, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Manuel Vignoulle, Christopher Williams, plus a world premiere by James. Find out more here
Wildcat!
JACK
June 11-13
Wildcat!, an interdisciplinary performance collective formed by choreographer/performers Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Eleni Zaharopoulos and André M. Zachery, will hold an “assembly” with two programs featured: I DO MIND DYING: danse précarité and 3 Meaningful Meditations. Find out more here
Alvin American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
June 11-18
For two-weeks, under artistic director Robert Battle, AAADT returns with repertory works plus Exodus, the world premiere Rennie Harris, the company premiere of Battle’s No Longer Silent, and new productions of Talley Beatty’s Toccata and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison’s “A Case of You” duet from Reminiscin’. Find out more here
ELIOT FELD'S KIDS DANCE
Joyce Theater
June 11-14
The 40 dancers of Eliot Feld's Kids Dance, ages 9 to 14, returns to the Joyce with the premiere of Feld's A Yankee Doodle, last year's premiere, KYDZNY, and Dotty Polkas. Find out more here
Jessica Gaynor Dance
Danspace Project
June 11-13
Jessica Gaynor Dance presents an expanded and re-imagined Free Fall. Find out more here
Yehuda Hyman
The Theater
June 11-13
THE MAR VISTA (premiere), a dance/theater work written and choreographed by Yehuda Hyman in collaboration with the Mystical Feet Company (Ron Kagan, Dwight Kelly, Amanda Schussel and Hyman), as part of NYTF's KulturfestNYC. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Yard
June 12-13
The Yard opens it’s 2015 Yard Arts season with Chelsea and Magda, Amber Sloan and Raphael Xavier on a shared program. Find out more here
The Steps Repertory Ensemble
Kumble Theater at LIU Brooklyn
June 12-13
Under the direction of Bradley Shelver, the Ensemble will present Shelver’s Count Off, to an original score by contemporary composer Tonia Ko, performed live by the Periapsis trio. The full-evening program of collaborative music/dance works will also see dances by Erin Dillon and Hannah Weber. Find out more here
Dance & Process
The Kitchen
June 12-13
Dance and Process, The Kitchen's longest running ongoing series, this year curated by Sarah Michelson with additional advising by Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen, presents works by Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Benjamin Kimitch, Courtney Krantz, and Elizabeth Ward. Find out more here
New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio 5
June 12–13
Miro Magloire presents premieres works for his New Chamber Ballet. Find out more here
DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON®
Inwood Hill Park
June 14
The 13th Annual DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON®: A Native American Festival and Multicultural Celebration, presented by Lotus Music & Dance in collaboration with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, features Manhattan’s only open air pow wow, which is a celebratory gathering of Native American people that will be led by Louis Mofsie and the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers with Host Drums Heyna Second Sons and Silver Cloud. Find out more here
Gibney Dance
June 3–13
Brooklyn-based Sperber premieres Ruptured Horizon as part of the Inaugural Making Space Season at Gibney. The evening-length work is an investigation of “…how the performers navigate their directional presence while inhabiting and effecting a landscape both imagistic and concrete. Situated in a lighting environment designed to optimize the natural light in Gibney Dance’s studio theater, the work explores the raw beauty of the laboring figure without drama or ornamentation," according to the release. Find out more here
La MaMa Moves!
Ellen Stewart Theatre, The Club, The First Floor Theatre at La MaMa, and La Galleria
May 21-June 21
La MaMa Moves! celebrates its 10th anniversary season, featuring work by Alexandra Beller, Yoshiko Chuma, Anya Cloud & Eric Geiger, Brandon Collwes, Jane Comfort and Company, Junk Ensemble, Jon Kinzel, Stanley Love Performance Group, John Scott, Ani Taj, Thierry Micouin and Gwen Welliver. Find out more here
10 Hairy Legs (corrected)
New York Live Arts
June 11-13
Under artistic director, Randy James, the company of men will present works by Sean Curran, Doug Elkins, Heidi Latsky, David Parker, Stephen Petronio, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Manuel Vignoulle, Christopher Williams, plus a world premiere by James. Find out more here
Wildcat!
JACK
June 11-13
Wildcat!, an interdisciplinary performance collective formed by choreographer/performers Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Eleni Zaharopoulos and André M. Zachery, will hold an “assembly” with two programs featured: I DO MIND DYING: danse précarité and 3 Meaningful Meditations. Find out more here
Alvin American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
June 11-18
For two-weeks, under artistic director Robert Battle, AAADT returns with repertory works plus Exodus, the world premiere Rennie Harris, the company premiere of Battle’s No Longer Silent, and new productions of Talley Beatty’s Toccata and Artistic Director Emerita Judith Jamison’s “A Case of You” duet from Reminiscin’. Find out more here
ELIOT FELD'S KIDS DANCE
Joyce Theater
June 11-14
The 40 dancers of Eliot Feld's Kids Dance, ages 9 to 14, returns to the Joyce with the premiere of Feld's A Yankee Doodle, last year's premiere, KYDZNY, and Dotty Polkas. Find out more here
Jessica Gaynor Dance
Danspace Project
June 11-13
Jessica Gaynor Dance presents an expanded and re-imagined Free Fall. Find out more here
Yehuda Hyman
The Theater
June 11-13
THE MAR VISTA (premiere), a dance/theater work written and choreographed by Yehuda Hyman in collaboration with the Mystical Feet Company (Ron Kagan, Dwight Kelly, Amanda Schussel and Hyman), as part of NYTF's KulturfestNYC. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Yard
June 12-13
The Yard opens it’s 2015 Yard Arts season with Chelsea and Magda, Amber Sloan and Raphael Xavier on a shared program. Find out more here
The Steps Repertory Ensemble
Kumble Theater at LIU Brooklyn
June 12-13
Under the direction of Bradley Shelver, the Ensemble will present Shelver’s Count Off, to an original score by contemporary composer Tonia Ko, performed live by the Periapsis trio. The full-evening program of collaborative music/dance works will also see dances by Erin Dillon and Hannah Weber. Find out more here
Dance & Process
The Kitchen
June 12-13
Dance and Process, The Kitchen's longest running ongoing series, this year curated by Sarah Michelson with additional advising by Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen, presents works by Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Benjamin Kimitch, Courtney Krantz, and Elizabeth Ward. Find out more here
New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio 5
June 12–13
Miro Magloire presents premieres works for his New Chamber Ballet. Find out more here
DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON®
Inwood Hill Park
June 14
The 13th Annual DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON®: A Native American Festival and Multicultural Celebration, presented by Lotus Music & Dance in collaboration with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, features Manhattan’s only open air pow wow, which is a celebratory gathering of Native American people that will be led by Louis Mofsie and the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers with Host Drums Heyna Second Sons and Silver Cloud. Find out more here
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