
Joyce Theater
August 1 – 6
For their inaugural New York City season, ADF will present works by Russian choreographer Tatiana Baganova’s Provincial Dances Theatre and Miami-based Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre. On the program is Herrera’s Various Stages of Drowning, first staged for ADF students in 2009. Remounted on the company for the Joyce season, this “…campy and poignant…[blend of] dance, theater, cabaret, and film,” is now titled Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret. Also on the program and commissioned by ADF, is Herrera’s Carne Viva “…a quartet exploring what it means to believe in magic and how that bleeds into our constructions of spirituality and our understanding of romance,” according to the release. Baganova’s Sepia (2010) originally commissioned for ADF students, and Maple Garden (1999) are also on the program. Find out more here
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
SummerStage
August 6
As part of the SummerStage dance series, artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson and their company Complexions Contemporary Ballet will present several works, including “STRUM.” Jamel Gaines, the artistic director and founder of Brooklyn’s Creative Outlet Dance Theatre will direct a master class. This event is FREE! Find out more here
Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group
The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard
August 8
Co-presented with the MV African American Film Festival, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group will present CITIZEN a “…multidisciplinary work [that] wrestles with the many implicit and explicit challenges, struggles, judgments, and webbing that exists between the anonymity of the individual and the experiences of being a citizen of one’s homeland or one’s adopted homeland,” notes the release. Find out more here