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Harlem Stage
May 4-6
love’s multimedia performance work UNDERcurrents come to Harlem Stage as part of the WaterWorks series and asks: “What remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect? and “expore the question through the themes of water and doors, as the point of departure for captive Africans into the Middle Passage is often described as “the door of no return,” notes the release. love explains, “Our aim is an experience of immersion that is, most crucially, felt—where the audience participates in a speculative process in which the submerged gestural and elemental traces of transatlantic slavery are made palpable. This is the core of the new departure of UNDERcurrents: we want to bring the audience fully into this world, we want to reduce the distance between the audience and the performance, taking the audience out to sea, or bringing the sea forth, and from this altered perspective we shift our embodied habits of sensing these foundational conditions of our lived environments and histories.” To create UNDERcurrents, love is working with the dancers Cyan Hunter, Diana Uribe, j. bouey, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Jessica Ziegler, Lela Aisha Jones, Makeda Lily Love-Roney, and Marco Farroni; and with the composer-musicians Antoine Roney, Emanuel Ruffler, Jeremiah Ka’lab, and Kojo Roney, who perform live. Find out more here
Miguel Gutierrez
BAC
May 4-7
Gutierrez’s newest work, I as another is, a duet performed with Laila Franklin “takes place in a future/present dystopia and explores the virtual architecture of memory, what it means to be alongside one another, and how existential despair has come into public view,” notes the release. Find out more here
Tzeni Argyriou’s ANΩNYMO
Peak Performances
May 4 - 7
In this U.S. premiere by Greek artist Argyriou’, ANΩNYMO, takes audiences on "...a journey back to a time before dance was defined by or attached to named individuals, but rather a practice which brought people—and kept communities—together," according to the release. Find out more here
Alma Dance Company
Green Space
May 5 -6
The "TAKE ROOT PRESENTS" includes Alma Dance Company & wonderland wizehart in Womb Creature: "a sonic dance experience of stories screaming to be let out." Find out more here
Autumn Knight
Performance Space New York
May 5 – 12
Performance artist, Knight will present a suite of performances for three weekends described as “an ongoing investigation into the sweetness of nothingness” in NOTHING#122: a bed, according to the release. Part one is a social experiment, transforming the Keith Haring Theatre into a host club. Part two is a choreographic and installation-based work that pares down and formalizes Nothing #122’s approach to intimacy using the bed as a site for all things beginning and ending—where everything and nothing happens. Part three sees Knight alone onstage, responding improvisationally to the space, its architecture, its audience, and more. Find out more here
Various Artists
WeisAcres
May 7
Cathy Weis Projects' Sundays on Broadway events which features new and in-progress works by artists with varied movement practices, K.J. Holmes, dustin maxwell and Anat Shamgar shares this evening of performances. Find out more here
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Chitrasena Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
May 9-12
Both companies come together to share the Odissi classical dance from India and traditional Kandyan dance from Sri Lanka in Āhuti, meaning “offering.” Find out more here
Dancing While Black/Various Artists
Virtual & In-person
May 10 – 13
Join the Dancing While Black community as they continue to celebrate their 10th anniversary with timeless events virtually and in-person with their partners BAAD!, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Find out more here
Kazunori Kumagai
Gibney Dance
May 11-13
Kumagai brings the world premiere of Tap Into the Light with a list of guest artists. Find out more here
Harlem Stage
May 4-6
love’s multimedia performance work UNDERcurrents come to Harlem Stage as part of the WaterWorks series and asks: “What remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect? and “expore the question through the themes of water and doors, as the point of departure for captive Africans into the Middle Passage is often described as “the door of no return,” notes the release. love explains, “Our aim is an experience of immersion that is, most crucially, felt—where the audience participates in a speculative process in which the submerged gestural and elemental traces of transatlantic slavery are made palpable. This is the core of the new departure of UNDERcurrents: we want to bring the audience fully into this world, we want to reduce the distance between the audience and the performance, taking the audience out to sea, or bringing the sea forth, and from this altered perspective we shift our embodied habits of sensing these foundational conditions of our lived environments and histories.” To create UNDERcurrents, love is working with the dancers Cyan Hunter, Diana Uribe, j. bouey, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Jessica Ziegler, Lela Aisha Jones, Makeda Lily Love-Roney, and Marco Farroni; and with the composer-musicians Antoine Roney, Emanuel Ruffler, Jeremiah Ka’lab, and Kojo Roney, who perform live. Find out more here
Miguel Gutierrez
BAC
May 4-7
Gutierrez’s newest work, I as another is, a duet performed with Laila Franklin “takes place in a future/present dystopia and explores the virtual architecture of memory, what it means to be alongside one another, and how existential despair has come into public view,” notes the release. Find out more here
Tzeni Argyriou’s ANΩNYMO
Peak Performances
May 4 - 7
In this U.S. premiere by Greek artist Argyriou’, ANΩNYMO, takes audiences on "...a journey back to a time before dance was defined by or attached to named individuals, but rather a practice which brought people—and kept communities—together," according to the release. Find out more here
Alma Dance Company
Green Space
May 5 -6
The "TAKE ROOT PRESENTS" includes Alma Dance Company & wonderland wizehart in Womb Creature: "a sonic dance experience of stories screaming to be let out." Find out more here
Autumn Knight
Performance Space New York
May 5 – 12
Performance artist, Knight will present a suite of performances for three weekends described as “an ongoing investigation into the sweetness of nothingness” in NOTHING#122: a bed, according to the release. Part one is a social experiment, transforming the Keith Haring Theatre into a host club. Part two is a choreographic and installation-based work that pares down and formalizes Nothing #122’s approach to intimacy using the bed as a site for all things beginning and ending—where everything and nothing happens. Part three sees Knight alone onstage, responding improvisationally to the space, its architecture, its audience, and more. Find out more here
Various Artists
WeisAcres
May 7
Cathy Weis Projects' Sundays on Broadway events which features new and in-progress works by artists with varied movement practices, K.J. Holmes, dustin maxwell and Anat Shamgar shares this evening of performances. Find out more here
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Chitrasena Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
May 9-12
Both companies come together to share the Odissi classical dance from India and traditional Kandyan dance from Sri Lanka in Āhuti, meaning “offering.” Find out more here
Dancing While Black/Various Artists
Virtual & In-person
May 10 – 13
Join the Dancing While Black community as they continue to celebrate their 10th anniversary with timeless events virtually and in-person with their partners BAAD!, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Find out more here
Kazunori Kumagai
Gibney Dance
May 11-13
Kumagai brings the world premiere of Tap Into the Light with a list of guest artists. Find out more here
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