Ryan Seaton and dancers in rehearsal at Irondale. Photo: Audrey Collette Joanna Kotze
The Space at Irondale February 9–12
Kotze premere's 'lectric Eye, the new evening length dance that "...responds to collective and personal loss and isolation and draws attention to the human body’s potential for persistence, resistance, and power. ‘lectric Eye uses the connection between music and movement to push physical and sonic limits, both as a collective and as individuals," according to the release. The collaborators are: Wendell Gray II, Molly Heller, Symara Johnson, Joanna Kotze, and Ryan Seaton with Mary Lyn Graves, Ani Javian, Ariel Lembeck, Jordan Lloyd, Jennifer Nugent, Devin Oshiro, Ambika Raina, Ariana Speight, Marion Spencer, and Hsiao-Jou Tang. Lighting by Kathy Kaufmann. Costumes by Christian Joy. On Saturday, February 12 there is the option to live stream the performance from anywhere in the world. Find out more here
NewDance Group
Virtual (American Dance Guild)
January 31 - February 27
New Dance Group: Voices for Change, will feature four programs and will feature works made by artists of the legendary New Dance Group Studio, as produced and recorded by the Guild at The New Dance Group Gala Retrospective Performance on July 11, 1993. New Dance Group was a modern dance collective, inspired by the political movements which seized Manhattan in the early 1930s. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
(Virtual) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
February (all month)
See Ailey's Revelations as part of the month-long offerings at Lincoln Center online series. Watch/Find out more here
Donald Byrd/Spectrum Dance Theater
(In-Person) The Alexander Kasser Theater
February 10-13
The Seattle-based company comes to New Jersey with the dance theater work Strange Fruit “… Byrd’s personal response to the legacy of lynchings as a form of racial terrorism.” Byrd explains, “For 100+ years, there’s been no acknowledgement for the most part about these lynchings. It’s a little bit like those people have not been buried. We are offering a prayer up to them. To their memory.” Find out more here
Pam Tanowitz Dance
(In-Person) BAM
February 10-12
Tanowitz's Four Quartets, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem of the same name will be presented with a score by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho played live by The Knights, paintings by Brice Marden and Kathleen Chalfant will perform the text live. Find out more here
The LayeRhythm Experiment & Guests
(In-Person) 92nd Street Y
February 11
This evening of improv dance, music and spoken word poetry from the collective, features Mai Lê Hô – Dance; Tatiana Desardouin – Dance; Lex Sadler – Bass; Simone Acosta – Keyboard; Jharis Yokley – Drums; Nasiyr Abdullah aka Osyris Antham – MC; Malik Burke aka Malik Work – MC. Find out more here
New York City Ballet
Virtual
January 27 - February 27
The season will include works by Justin Peck, Jamar Roberts, Pam Tanowitz, Kyle Abraham and more. Find out more here
Boston Ballet: Mikko Nissinen, Lia Cirio, Shantell Martin, and Melissa Toogood
(In-Person) Guggenheim
February 13
Dancers from the Company, as part of the Works & Process at the Guggenheim series, Boston Ballet’s ChoreograpHER program which celebrates "innovative women across creative fields," will perform excerpts from the program’s new commissions by Cirio, Martin, Peck, Schreier, and Toogood. Find out more here
Sankofa Danzafro
(In-Person) Joyce
February 15-20
The Colombia-based company brings Accommodating Lie, an evening-length work by Rafael Palacios, that “…seek to dismantle stereotypes about and around the black body through a series of emotional solos and duets,” according to the release. Find out more here
Bill T. Jones & Yvonne Rainer
(Virtual) New York Live Arts
February 17
NYLA presents the return of Bill Chats featuring historic dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and writer, Rainer in conversation with Live Arts Artistic Director Jones. The conversation will be moderated by Patricia Hoffbauer. Find out more here
The Space at Irondale February 9–12
Kotze premere's 'lectric Eye, the new evening length dance that "...responds to collective and personal loss and isolation and draws attention to the human body’s potential for persistence, resistance, and power. ‘lectric Eye uses the connection between music and movement to push physical and sonic limits, both as a collective and as individuals," according to the release. The collaborators are: Wendell Gray II, Molly Heller, Symara Johnson, Joanna Kotze, and Ryan Seaton with Mary Lyn Graves, Ani Javian, Ariel Lembeck, Jordan Lloyd, Jennifer Nugent, Devin Oshiro, Ambika Raina, Ariana Speight, Marion Spencer, and Hsiao-Jou Tang. Lighting by Kathy Kaufmann. Costumes by Christian Joy. On Saturday, February 12 there is the option to live stream the performance from anywhere in the world. Find out more here
NewDance Group
Virtual (American Dance Guild)
January 31 - February 27
New Dance Group: Voices for Change, will feature four programs and will feature works made by artists of the legendary New Dance Group Studio, as produced and recorded by the Guild at The New Dance Group Gala Retrospective Performance on July 11, 1993. New Dance Group was a modern dance collective, inspired by the political movements which seized Manhattan in the early 1930s. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
(Virtual) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
February (all month)
See Ailey's Revelations as part of the month-long offerings at Lincoln Center online series. Watch/Find out more here
Donald Byrd/Spectrum Dance Theater
(In-Person) The Alexander Kasser Theater
February 10-13
The Seattle-based company comes to New Jersey with the dance theater work Strange Fruit “… Byrd’s personal response to the legacy of lynchings as a form of racial terrorism.” Byrd explains, “For 100+ years, there’s been no acknowledgement for the most part about these lynchings. It’s a little bit like those people have not been buried. We are offering a prayer up to them. To their memory.” Find out more here
Pam Tanowitz Dance
(In-Person) BAM
February 10-12
Tanowitz's Four Quartets, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem of the same name will be presented with a score by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho played live by The Knights, paintings by Brice Marden and Kathleen Chalfant will perform the text live. Find out more here
The LayeRhythm Experiment & Guests
(In-Person) 92nd Street Y
February 11
This evening of improv dance, music and spoken word poetry from the collective, features Mai Lê Hô – Dance; Tatiana Desardouin – Dance; Lex Sadler – Bass; Simone Acosta – Keyboard; Jharis Yokley – Drums; Nasiyr Abdullah aka Osyris Antham – MC; Malik Burke aka Malik Work – MC. Find out more here
New York City Ballet
Virtual
January 27 - February 27
The season will include works by Justin Peck, Jamar Roberts, Pam Tanowitz, Kyle Abraham and more. Find out more here
Boston Ballet: Mikko Nissinen, Lia Cirio, Shantell Martin, and Melissa Toogood
(In-Person) Guggenheim
February 13
Dancers from the Company, as part of the Works & Process at the Guggenheim series, Boston Ballet’s ChoreograpHER program which celebrates "innovative women across creative fields," will perform excerpts from the program’s new commissions by Cirio, Martin, Peck, Schreier, and Toogood. Find out more here
Sankofa Danzafro
(In-Person) Joyce
February 15-20
The Colombia-based company brings Accommodating Lie, an evening-length work by Rafael Palacios, that “…seek to dismantle stereotypes about and around the black body through a series of emotional solos and duets,” according to the release. Find out more here
Bill T. Jones & Yvonne Rainer
(Virtual) New York Live Arts
February 17
NYLA presents the return of Bill Chats featuring historic dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and writer, Rainer in conversation with Live Arts Artistic Director Jones. The conversation will be moderated by Patricia Hoffbauer. Find out more here
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