Marjani Forté-Saunders + Everett Saunders
Abrons Art Center
October 6 - 8
Forté-Saunders and Saunders will present PROPHET a 4 year archival, research, & multi-genre storytelling project on the life-journey of a Lyricist. Manifesting as a Performance Work, an Ethnographic Memoir, an Experimental Film, and Album, Prophet...illuminates the distinctive practices, systems, philosophies, and political ideologies that have shaped Hip Hop’s Emcee/Lyricists. Prophet also traces the evolution from Emcee to Lyricist and invites audiences to enter a world of mindpower, bravery, self-determination, and triumph––facets of the artist’s quest for self-realization. Using text, sound, film, and performance, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist makes its own imaginative and embodied contribution to the scholarly, civic, and ancient legacies of radical Black expression. Find out more here
Malpaso Dance Company
The Joyce
October 4-9
Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company returns to New York with a program that includes woman with water by Mats Ek, Elemental by Robyn Mineko Williams, plus more. Find out more here
Constanza Macras/Dorky Park
BAM
October 5-8
Berlin-based Argentinian choreographer Macras offers Open for Everything, giving attention to "...the most misunderstood and mistreated groups in Europe—the Roma. Mixing music, dance, storytelling...it offers a reflection of the diverse paths taken by Romani people in a borderless but still nationality-bound Europe." notes the release. Find out more here
Yvonne Rainer
New York Live Arts
October 5 -8
New York Live Arts and Performa co-present the world premiere Rainer’s “HELLZAPOPPIN’: What about the bees?” A work for nine performers that reflects on America’s ongoing reckoning with systemic racism. Rainer has announced that this would be her “last dance.” Find out more here
Triskelion Arts/Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute
Triskelion Arts
October 6-8
For this collaboration, the companies will present the world premiere of The Slowest Wave, combining butoh and neuroscience. Find out more here
Various Artists
Arts On Site
October 7
For the MADE BY WOMEN festival, presented by Dual Rivet, featured will be works by Dual Rivet, Rachel Lockhart, Courtney Conovan, DoubleTake Dance, Joelle Santiago, Larissa Leung, Mayu Nakaya. Find out more here
Ishmael Houston-Jones
Virtual/Black Diaspora
October 8
Houston-Jones will be the guest for this Black Diaspora event. These events are open to a Black- or Afro-Latinx-identifying audience only. RSVP and find out more here
LaTasha Barnes
The Joyce
October 11-16
LaTasha Barnes’ The Jazz Continuum which "...centers the prolific artistry of Jazz music and dance as a cornerstone of Black American dance forms," according the release, will feature an intergenerational and multi-disciplinary cast of Black dancers and musicians. Find out more here
GrahamaDeconstructed
Martha Graham Studio Theater
October 11–12
The evening will focus on the geometry of Diversion of Angels (1948) made in order to appreciate the complex play of memory and emotion embedded in its design. Using danced excerpts as illustration, Janet Eilber will dissect the intricate structure of this dance. Find out more here
Beau Bree Rhee
The Kitchen (at Chelsea building)
October 12 & 20
Beau Bree Rhee’s Shadow of the Sea a “dance poem” that begins by coalescing the shadows of historic and future waters. Find out more here
Abrons Art Center
October 6 - 8
Forté-Saunders and Saunders will present PROPHET a 4 year archival, research, & multi-genre storytelling project on the life-journey of a Lyricist. Manifesting as a Performance Work, an Ethnographic Memoir, an Experimental Film, and Album, Prophet...illuminates the distinctive practices, systems, philosophies, and political ideologies that have shaped Hip Hop’s Emcee/Lyricists. Prophet also traces the evolution from Emcee to Lyricist and invites audiences to enter a world of mindpower, bravery, self-determination, and triumph––facets of the artist’s quest for self-realization. Using text, sound, film, and performance, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist makes its own imaginative and embodied contribution to the scholarly, civic, and ancient legacies of radical Black expression. Find out more here
Malpaso Dance Company
The Joyce
October 4-9
Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company returns to New York with a program that includes woman with water by Mats Ek, Elemental by Robyn Mineko Williams, plus more. Find out more here
Constanza Macras/Dorky Park
BAM
October 5-8
Berlin-based Argentinian choreographer Macras offers Open for Everything, giving attention to "...the most misunderstood and mistreated groups in Europe—the Roma. Mixing music, dance, storytelling...it offers a reflection of the diverse paths taken by Romani people in a borderless but still nationality-bound Europe." notes the release. Find out more here
Yvonne Rainer
New York Live Arts
October 5 -8
New York Live Arts and Performa co-present the world premiere Rainer’s “HELLZAPOPPIN’: What about the bees?” A work for nine performers that reflects on America’s ongoing reckoning with systemic racism. Rainer has announced that this would be her “last dance.” Find out more here
Triskelion Arts/Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute
Triskelion Arts
October 6-8
For this collaboration, the companies will present the world premiere of The Slowest Wave, combining butoh and neuroscience. Find out more here
Various Artists
Arts On Site
October 7
For the MADE BY WOMEN festival, presented by Dual Rivet, featured will be works by Dual Rivet, Rachel Lockhart, Courtney Conovan, DoubleTake Dance, Joelle Santiago, Larissa Leung, Mayu Nakaya. Find out more here
Ishmael Houston-Jones
Virtual/Black Diaspora
October 8
Houston-Jones will be the guest for this Black Diaspora event. These events are open to a Black- or Afro-Latinx-identifying audience only. RSVP and find out more here
LaTasha Barnes
The Joyce
October 11-16
LaTasha Barnes’ The Jazz Continuum which "...centers the prolific artistry of Jazz music and dance as a cornerstone of Black American dance forms," according the release, will feature an intergenerational and multi-disciplinary cast of Black dancers and musicians. Find out more here
GrahamaDeconstructed
Martha Graham Studio Theater
October 11–12
The evening will focus on the geometry of Diversion of Angels (1948) made in order to appreciate the complex play of memory and emotion embedded in its design. Using danced excerpts as illustration, Janet Eilber will dissect the intricate structure of this dance. Find out more here
Beau Bree Rhee
The Kitchen (at Chelsea building)
October 12 & 20
Beau Bree Rhee’s Shadow of the Sea a “dance poem” that begins by coalescing the shadows of historic and future waters. Find out more here
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