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Some Dance This Week(end) ~

10/25/2017

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Apollo’s Breakin’ Convention Festival – Various Artists
Apollo Theater
October 27 - 28

In Collaboration with London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre, the global hip-hop dance theatre festival Breakin’ Convention will feature an appearance by hip hop legend Biz Markie as co-host, plus performances by: Dynamic Rockers (USA), Havoc and Klassic (USA), Popin' Pete (USA), Rep Your Style (USA), Protocol Dance Company (UK), Salah (France), Soweto Skeleton Movers (SA), Yeah Yellow (France), Bwreakfast Club from Litefeet Nation (USA), and Passionfruit Dance Company (USA).host one of the biggest and most elite dance competitions in the underground hip-hop community called Battlefest at the Apollo.  This competition brings dancers from all over the nation to participate in an intense show off of skill and technique.   “ This year’s festival will also directly address several pressing issues that are part of America’s current sociopolitical landscape through performances and accompanying events, with highlights including an artist talk with dancers Jon Boogz and Lil Buck centered on dance as a tool for social justice and prison reform,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
American Ballet Theatre
David H. Koch Theater
October 18 – 29
In addition to the long list of works for the season, the season ends with Counterpoint for Philip Johnson by Benjamin Millepied, “…an ode to the theater’s architect, is set to Nagoya Marimba by Steve Reich and features 24 dancers from American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
nicHi douglas
JACK
October 19 – 28
In Black Girl Magic Show!, “…an absurdist dance theatre lecture by playwright/performer nicHi douglas on Black female identity…[douglas]… Utilizing African Diasporan histories, Black feminist theory, and a lot of stuff …to unpack, re-pack, and de-pack the Black female experience in America as witnessed by one Black woman - The Professor,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Cynthia Oliver
BAM/Fisher
October 25 – 28
Oliver’s world-premiere Virago-Man Dem “…explores both the overt and unspoken expressions of black masculinity through movement, spoken word, and original visual projections from the collaborative entity Black Kirby,” notes the release. The work is based on the lives of its African-American and Afro-Caribbean performers Duane Cyrus, Jonathan Gonzalez, Niall Noel Jones, and Ni’Ja Whitson, and shifts from their specific experiences to broader cultural perspectives. Read an interview with Oliver here.  Find out more here
 
ODC/Dance
BAM/Harvey Theater
October 25 – 28
At BAM ODC/Dance with founder Brenda Way and co-artistic director KT Nelson use British land artist Andy Goldsworthy’s work as a “…foundation for a meditation on the destructive and generative process of creation,” in boulders and bones. Find out more here
 
Compagnie Maguy Marin
The Joyce Theater
October 25 – 29
The French-based Compagnie Maguy Marin brings the U.S. premiere of  BiT, and evening-length “…confrontational piece exploring violence…[and]…features six dancers who carve through the space alternating between ecstatic celebration and a frenzied scurry,” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
New York City Center
October 26 – November 5
Bourne’s new adaptation of the legendary Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film set to a new score arranged by New Adventures Associate Artist Terry Davies, plus Ashley Shaw, who originated the role of Victoria Page, and New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns, debuting as a guest star with the company, alternate in the role. American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Marcelo Gomes and New Adventures dancer Dominic North share the role of composer Julian Craster, and Sam Archer is Boris Lermontov, the iconic Svengali-like impresario.  Find out more here
 
Gibney Dance Company
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
October 26 – 28
The Company will offer the New York premiere of Gina Gibney’s Drafting Foresight and the premiere of PASTORAL by Shannon Gillen of VIM VIGOR DANCE COMPANY.   Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Peter Norton – Symphony Space
October 28
In an evening titled "AGES OF ENCHANTMENT: JPA Cultural Repertoires 2017," celebrating traditional Japanese performing and folk arts, featured will be dance styles of Iwami Kagura and Nihon Buyo, a world-acclaimed Bunraku puppet troupe and a fashion show of wedding kimonos.  Find out more here  
 
Karole Armitage/Armitage Gone! Dance
La Mama
October 27 - 29
Halloween Unleashed: Dancing Bones, Tasting Darkness and the Skeleton Within, is a subversive comedy designed to spook adults and families in a live action rendition of Disney’s 1929 animated masterpiece, The Skeleton Dance. Combined with images from the wild, capricious street theater of Haitian carnival, Halloween Unleashed offers punk attitude and visual high-jinx, in a dance where bones dance alone, shoes fly off feet, and skeletons turn into musical instruments. Find out more here
 
10 Hairy Legs
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center/ The Hudson Valley's Cultural Park for Dance
October 28
The Company will dance Randy James' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe based upon the classic C. S. Lewis “Noveland,” plus Trouble Will Find Me by Doug Elkins.  Find out more here
 
Sundays on Broadway – Various Artists
Cathy Weis Projects/WeisAcres
October 29
Sundays on Broadway, a free and intimate, ongoing series featuring performances, film screenings and discussions, presented by the Cathy Weis Projects at WeisAcres, continues with “Shared evening: Dean Moss, Fast Forward, Ishmael Houston-Jones.”  Find out more here 


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    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

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