Photo: Meg Goldman Dances for a Variable Population
WEST HARLEM PIERS PARK- 125th Street and the Hudson River
June 20-21
SOLSTICE STEPS - With a cast of 50 dancers, ranging in age from 25-85, Dance For A Variable Population's (DVP) continues its mission to “…promote strong and creative movement among adults of all ages and abilities.” Solstice Steps will be presented as part of Riverside Park’s “Summer on the Hudson” series Harlem Dances and will feature a premiere by Founder and Artistic Director Naomi Goldberg Haas, plus works by invited guest choreographers and performers including George Faison, Sandra Genter, Walter Rutledge, Robin Williams, Dyane Harvey, Loretta Abbott and Dudley Williams. “Solstice is the longest day of the year—an opportunity to take in the past, sit with our thoughts and celebrate. It is a pause before embarking on the second half of the year and is semi-‐sweet,” explains Naomi Goldberg Haas. “Solstice Steps directly reflects the elements of this season—a look back in time and a celebration of age and evolution.” Find our more here
Morgan Thorson
Chocolate Factory Theater
June 18-21
Thorson’s “…YOU slowly composes itself from an ensemble movement practice that mediates human connection and togetherness for everyone in the room,” according to the release. Collaborators are Thorson, Genevieve Muench, Max Wirsing, Emma Barber, Jessica Cressey and Lenore Doxsee. Find out more here
STEPS REPERTORY ENSEMBLE
Ailey Citigroup Theater
June 19-20
Steps Beyond presents the Steps Repertory Ensemble and guests in "Celebrate Dance," an evening of works by William Forsythe, Francesca Harper, Elisa Monte and company artistic director Bradley Shelver. Plus guest dancers from Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Sidra Bell Dance NY. Find out more here
Jill Sigman
Danspace Project
June 19-21
In her new work (Perma)Culture, performed by an ensemble of eight, Sigman “…explores the connection between movement systems and systems in nature,” according to the release. Find out more here
WHITE WAVE Dance
BAM Fisher
June 19-22
Choreographer Young Soon Kim presents the premiere of the full-length work Eternal NOW, accompanied by a live score from composer Marco Cappelli. Eternal NOW is the culminating work from being selected for BAM’s 2013/2014 Professional Development Program (PDP), a collaborative program provided by BAM & the Kennedy Center’s DeVos Institute of Arts Management. Find out more here
Elke Rindfleisch/Sarah Weber Gallo
Roulette
June 19-20
This Dance Is Nonfiction is “…the first work Rindfleisch and Weber Gallo have made together since the former forayed to Berlin in 2008,” according to the release. Find out more here
Carmen DeLavallade
Jacobs Pillow
June 20-22
Dance icon, Carmen DeLavallade returns to Jacob’s Pillow and opens the 2014 Festival with As I Remember It, a new solo mixing story, memoire and her life’s experience on stage. DeLavallade holds the distinction of the longest Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival performing career on record, having made her Pillow debut with Lester Horton Dance Theatre in 1953 and performing at the Festival as recently as 2004 (with Paradigm), she now extends that record by another decade. Find out more here
Anna Sperber
BAX
June 20
BAX Artist in Residence (2013-2014) Sperber presents EVERY ROOM IS OPEN (work in progress). Find out more here
Jamie Watkins, Annalisa Ledson & Lori Parquet
Dixon Place
June 21
For the new dance theatre work UNSEX ME HERE, the “…wicked ladies from William Shakespeare's plays…fuses electric scenes with dance, while erasing the moral and sexual lines drawn between beauty and the grotesque,” according to the release. Find out more here
A.O. Movement Collective
Abrons Art Center
June 21
Performers from the A. O. Movement Collective’s ETLE UNIVERSE performs at ROVE (formerly RoofTop Dance) in a site-specific, participatory performance experience involving time-travel and feminist rebellion. Find out more here
Sorry I Missed Your Show: Marathon
Gibney Dance
June 21
A mini-festival of dance (on) film and more with selected screenings and special guests including Sarah Holmes’ New Ambition (2013, excerpt), Excerpts of The Gleaners and I, a documentary by Agnès Varda, & selections of Big Dance Theater’s Comme Toujours Here I Stand with guests Annie-B Parson & Sylvie Vitaglione, Jon Kinzel’s Someone Once Called Me A Sound Man (2013, excerpt), A special Denzel mash-up by niv Acosta, and Check your Body at the Door, a documentary by Sally Sommer, Charles Atlas & Michael Shwartz, starring Willi Ninja and Archie Burnett, with special guest Archie Burnett. Find out more here
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