NYLA
Apr. 6-8 & Apr. 13 - 15
Driscoll presents the world premiere of Weathering, a new multi-sensory flesh sculpture made of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects. "In Weathering, ten performers consisting of dancers, singers, and production crew glacially morph moment to moment on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene. Their voices generate a score that crescendos and resonates as they clutch, careen and cleave, in a space too small to contain them, spilling off the edges. The audience embanks the performers, close enough to smell the sweat and feel the steam of the central, spiraling scenes. The symphonically active, luminously living work is a breathing, leaking, choreography of micro events within a momentum thrusting from what was just below the surface to the immediately, alarmingly, perceivable," according to the release. Sophia Brous is the sound and musical director based in New York and Melbourne. Find out more here.
Miami City Ballet
Guggenheim Museum
Apr. 2
As part of the "Works & Process" program, the Company will present a reimagined return of George Balanchine's 1957 piece, Square Dance through a uniquely Miami lens before the May 12 opening night in Florida. Find out more here
Agnes de Mille Celebration
NYPL
Apr. 2
To honor Agnes de Mille on the 30th anniversary of her passing, The De Mille Working Group will present a public program featuring live performances, panel discussion, and historical film footage. Registration is required. Find out more here
A.I.M.
The Joyce Theater
Apr. 4-9
A.I.M by artistic director, choreographer and curator Kyle Abraham presents a mixed bill led by the world premiere of MotorRover, a duet by Abraham in collaboration with the dancers of A.I.M created in response to an excerpt from Merce Cunningham’s 1972 Landrover, former A.I.M company member Maleek Washington's Uproot: love and legacy, Abraham’s 5 Minute Dance (You Drivin'?) and Bebe Miller solo Rain. Find out more here
Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh
Triskelion Arts
Apr. 6
Laage and Butoh will present Rivers Running Red a homage to the female body and menstruation. Find out more here
Various Artists
La MaMa
April 6-30
For the 18th annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso, featured will be 12 choreographers and companies with varied approaches to performance. The festival opens with the world premiere of Shadowland by Norwegian choreographer Kari Hoaas, the US premiere of Forced Beauty by Norway-based artist, Nela H. Kornetová. Also on the festival's roster is the New York premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s Broken Theater, Kayla Farrish's second iteration of her new group work, Put Away the Fire, dear, plus La MaMa’s resident dance puppet theater company, Loco7's Lunch with Sonia, and so much more. Find out more here