BAAD!
February 15
The nine choreographers of “Queer Movie Movers” take over BAAD!’s stage with a series of dances set to music from their favorite LGBTQ film that features queer people of color in a positive light. The choreographers are: Aleixa & Molly, Dia Bui, Rodney Brown, Felix Ciprian, Nick Daniels, Frenchy Haynes, Houiea LOVE, Acharo Smith and Tamara M. Williams. Find out more here
Che Malmbo
The Joyce
February 11-16
The all-male dance company filled with Argentinian traditions, bring their percussive dance and music spectacle to the Joyce. Find out more here
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas & Jean-Guihen Queyras:
NYU Skirball
February 13-15
Choreographer De Keersmaeker makes a rare appearance with her Company, Rosas for the North American premiere of Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6Cellosuiten (In the Midst of Life/Bach’s Cello Suites). They are joined by cellist Queyras who will play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites in its entirety to “…capture an affinity between the music and dancers, notes the release. Find out more here
NYTB/Chamber Works
Danspace Project
February 13-15
This season's program includes the world premiere of Robert La Fosse's A Soldier’s Tale and Antonia Franceschi's Uncaged, plus Sir Richard Alston's The Small Sonata, and Pam Tanowitz's Double Andante. Find out more here
Various Artists
Peak Performances
Februaty 14-15
The piano sextet, Grand Band made up of Erika Dohi, David Friend, Paul Kerekes, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore, and Isabelle O’Connell to perform compositions by Eastman, Missy Mazzoli, Kate Moore, and Julia Wolfe, plus an animated film by Joshua Frankel who builds a world of geometry, color, and looping patterns of human bodies created collaboratively with choreographer Faye Driscoll. Find out more here
Various Artists
Park Avenue Armory
February 15
An impressive mix of artists come together for talks and performances and to explore the legacy of the 19th Amendment, 100 years after its ratification. Participants include Deborah Willis, Kathleen Turner and Tantoo Cardinal, Caridad De La Luz “La Bruja,” Martha Redbone, Renee Cox, Karen Finley, De’Ara Balenger and many others. This one-day event marks the beginning of 100 Years | 100 Women, an initiative of Park Avenue Armory, with lead partner National Black Theatre, and nine major cultural institutions including, The Apollo Theater, The Juilliard School, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company, The Laundromat Project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the Moving Image, National Sawdust, New York University (Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture), and Urban Bush Women, who will collectively commission one hundred artists who self-identify as women to respond to this significant anniversary.
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