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Some Dance This Week(end)~

6/29/2017

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PictureOrihara's "In the Box" Photo: Yoji Kawada
Miki Orihara
La Mama
June 30 – July 2

Former dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Orihara will premiere the second incarnation of her multi-media work, evening-length solo work, In the Box 2 (ITB2)  “… Using cutting edge animations and projections from Japan…[and]…juxtaposing three-dimensional sounds and images with the flesh and bones of a dancer and her moving shadow.” "ITB2 follows the 2015 premiere of ITB which explored the paradox of “Where Technology Meets the Body” inspired by Schrödinger‘s cat (quantum mechanics).  ITB2 picks up where its predecessor left off and opens the book of our lives in a paradoxical nature. [Finally] ITB2 explores human nature by mixing the human body with technology,” explains Orihara.  Find out more here
 
Abraham.in.Motion
The Kitchen
June 29- July 1
Kyle Abraham’s dance company, Abraham.in.Motion closes the Lumberyard in the City festival - Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) with the premiere of DEAREST HOME “…an interactive dance work developed in a multi-year process, focused on Loving and Longing and Loss,” according to the release.   Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Prismatic Park/Madison Square Park
June 13 - October 8
Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, Netta Yerushalmy, and Jodi Melnick will rehearse, have workshops, and perform amongst Josiah McElheny's outdoor public art project - prismatic glass-tile sculptures, in in full view of the public.  Find out more here
 
Bryant Park Presents Contemporary Dance – Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 16 – 30
The Contemporary Dance series curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, paired with the ballet performances curated by Donna Salgador returns with a lineup that includes: CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, Island Moving Company and Thomas/Ortiz Dance (June 30). Find out more here 
 
David Michalek/Yvonne Rainer
Danspace Project
June 23 – July 1
The film, “SlowDancing/TrioA” by artist Michalek, in collaboration with choreographer, Rainer, “… seeks to create an unusual motion picture record of Rainer's iconic dance-work, Trio A, which she created in 1966,” notes the release.  There is a cast of 46 dancers includes original dancers Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, Stephen Petronio, Richard Move, David Thomson, Wendy Whelan and younger generations of dancers, many of whom are students of the original dancers. "   This video installation will be open to the public  and admission is free. RSVP is recommended.  Find out more here
 
Momix
The Joyce Theater
June 27 – July 16
After more than a decade, Moses Pendleton’s Momix dance company returns with the Opus Cactus program in two Acts, described as “…a celebration of the landscape of the American Suthwest, utilizing Pendleton’s signature illusionistic style,” according to the release.  Find out more here  
 
Jody Oberfelder
New York Live Arts
June 28 – July 1
Choreographer and dancer  Oberfelder, who created 4Chambers, “…a dance about the human heart,” will premiere The Brain Piece, to celebrate the brain’s “…neuroplasticity, [and] the ability to form connections,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
The Performance Project
University Settlement
June 29 – July 1
The Performance Project will present Ai Dance Theater’s Them, “…a multi-media dance performance conceived and directed by Janet Aisawa featuring dances with Yuko Takebe’s film, "Shadows of Hiroshima," according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Dixon Place
June 29 – June 30
For the 5th year, artistic director, Jessica Chen curates TRANSLATE (voices of dance) bringing new choreography by new artists to Dixon Place.  Find out more here 
 
Laura Peterson
Judson Church
June 29 – July 1
Choreographer and visual artist Peterson “…examines the eponymous FAILURE  in the context of both personal and national experience of America, circa 2017,” notes the release.  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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