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Fri 1st
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Asia Society
Kick off your weekend and celebrate the start of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a night at the museum — along with dancing, live music, street food, and more. Join us on Friday, May 1 from 6:00-9:00 pm at Asia Society headquarters on Park Avenue and 70th Street for festivities including:
MUSIC by Vietnamese-American DJ George Pihlgren
DANCING with NYC Bhangra
FREE MUSEUM TOURS of Buddhist…
Talk on Dance’s Repertoires: Transmission and Reenactment
with Linda Shelton, Executive Director, Joyce Theater; Yorgos Loukos, Director, Lyon Opera Ballet; Lance Gries, freelance dancer, choreographer, representing the Trisha Brown Dance Company; Trajal Harrell, artist-choreographer.
In conjunction with Lyon Opera Ballet's presence at the Joyce Theater, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy will host a talk on Dance’s Repertoires, Transmission…
7:00pm
Barnard/Columbia Dances at Miller Theatre
Barnard College
Friday, May 1 – Saturday, May 2, 7:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. Saturday)
The Barnard College department of dance presents three world premieres along with a revival of Gloria, staged by Marjorie Folkman ’91, and performed with live music conducted by Gail Archer, director of the Barnard/Columbia Chorus. The two day event includes works by John Heginbotham, a longtime member of the Mark Morris Dance Group;…
Steps Repertory Ensemble Spring Season
Steps Repertory Ensemble
Steps Repertory Ensemble will present three different programs of dances by Mike Esperanza, Francesca Harper, Jae Man Joo, Lar Lubovitch, and company artistic director Bradley Shelver, featuring two world premieres. The Ensemble, the resident company of Steps on Broadway, commissions choreographers, both established and emerging, to create new works and to restage repertory.
Night ( Thyestes 2.0)
The New Stage Theatre
Theater for the New City, in association with The New Stage Theatre Company, is presenting the world premiere of "Night (Thyestes 2.0)" by Charles L. Mee, directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth, from April 24 to May 10, 2015. The piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. Charles L. Mee imagined his play, "Night (Thyestes 2.0)," as a dance theatre piece with some…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL AT THE MARTHA GRAHAM THEATER
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | TOP FLOOR
April 30-May 3, 8PM (Thursday-Sunday). Four shared evenings of dance in the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune, 11th floor. $20
The starlit Martha Graham Studio at Westbeth offers two performance programs over four nights. All artists will present up to 10 minutes of original dance, in a shared evening format. Estimate run time: 1hr / no intermission
On Thursday, April…
curators: Jeanine Durning, Iréne Hultman, David Thomson
Food for Thought
Admission for Food for Thought is just $5 plus 2 cans of food*; or $10! No advance reservations.
Food for Thought presents multiple artists over one weekend with a different guest curator each evening.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30: This is not the end: an evening with the 2013-2015 Movement Research Artists-in-Residence curated by JEANINE DURNING
Featuring Ivy Baldwin, Whitney Hunter, Sam Kim, Joanna…
8:00pm
Premiere of "Fracture"
Matthew Brookoff Dance Repertory Company
Choreographer Matthew Brookoff presents his company in the world premiere of "Fracture," a neo-classical ballet to a commissioned score by young composer Brad Crane, along with "In Love Again," a charmer to four great songs by Rodgers and Hart; and "Lyrical Male Suite #1: Songs of Love and Solitude." Dancers are Josh Christopher, Barton Cowperthwaite, Holly Curran, Jehbreal Jackson, Temple Kemezis,…
Avant-Garde-Arama: MAYDAY!
Abrons Arts Center
On loan from Performance Space 122
A tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Abrons’ Playhouse, this edition of Avant-Garde-Arama features artists who have helped to build the legacy of 21st Century performance, along with their picks for the next generation of groundbreaking, edge cutting, legacy making artists.
Friday May 1: Hosted by Penny Arcade and Erin Markey
Saturday May 2: Hosted by Carmelita…
8:00pm
RIOULT Dance NY Announces 2014-15 Tour
RIOULT Dance NY
RIOULT Dance NY, a leading American modern dance company with a classic sensibility, announces it’s 2014-15 Tour Schedule with 22 performances in 16 cities throughout the U.S. and abroad. The season will include a broad range of dances including mixed repertory programs as well as The Ravel Project (Home Front, Wien, Prelude to Night, Bolero); Bach Dances (Views of the Fleeting World, City, Celestial…
Bloowst windku
Rebecca Davis
HERE presents Bloowst windku
By Rebecca Davis
A HERE Resident Artist Production
April 29-May 9 at 8:30pm
Tickets $20
Bloowst windku [bloom-twist-windmill-haiku] is an hour-long performance for three dancers in which sound, light, and movement are compositional equals. Within a glowing room constructed from hundreds of used security envelopes collected over three years, the familiar is rendered…
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Sat 2nd
It's Showtime NYC!
It's Showtime NYC!
WHERE Battery Park, New York, NY
WHEN on Saturdays through June 27th, 2015
WHAT Legal performance opportunities for street and subway dancers and free weekly public performances
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Come see NYC’s most talented hip-hop and street dance crews perform every Saturday through June from 12PM to 4PM at Battery Park.
‘It's Showtime NYC’ is a pilot program that provides legal…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL / ALL OVER WESTBETH
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | ALL OVER WESTBETH
May 2 & 3 at 2 pm. 2 days of site-specific performances. Guided Tours Every 15 Minutes, all tours start in Westbeth Courtyard. Last Tour departs at 3:30PM. FREE EVENT
This walking tour led by Westbeth residents will share a series of short, site-specific live performances all over the iconic artsts’ residence—courtyard, basement, rooftop, studios and stairwells. …
20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
STEELEDANCE
STEELEDANCE 20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Featuring:
Devastating Beauty (world premiere)
Music mixed by: DJ Heinz
Costumes by: Nadia Tarr
Lighting: Brant Murray
Performed by: Zoë Blake, Hollis Bartlett, Jake Bone, Carolyn Cryer, Chris Coates, Meredith Fages, Marc Mann, Amber Morgan, Donnell Oakley, Tamora Petitt-Hendry, Yarden Raz, Jordan Risdon, Alex Dean Speedie, Elizabeth Steele, Oliver Steele, Teri…
Steps Repertory Ensemble Spring Season
Steps Repertory Ensemble
Steps Repertory Ensemble will present three different programs of dances by Mike Esperanza, Francesca Harper, Jae Man Joo, Lar Lubovitch, and company artistic director Bradley Shelver, featuring two world premieres. The Ensemble, the resident company of Steps on Broadway, commissions choreographers, both established and emerging, to create new works and to restage repertory.
"Giselle" Suite - Face to Face Serie
Ajkun Ballet Theatre
Virtuoso, mysterious, gentle, and melancholy, Giselle is an intoxicating immersion in the romantic era. Restaged by Leonard Ajkun after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot to the score of Adolphe Adam, the supernatural touch and lightness of the Wilis, and the splendid sophistication of Albrecht, Giselle makes even the music palpitate with her. The Face to Face series affords the audience a close-up to the…
Night ( Thyestes 2.0)
The New Stage Theatre
Theater for the New City, in association with The New Stage Theatre Company, is presenting the world premiere of "Night (Thyestes 2.0)" by Charles L. Mee, directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth, from April 24 to May 10, 2015. The piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. Charles L. Mee imagined his play, "Night (Thyestes 2.0)," as a dance theatre piece with some…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL AT THE MARTHA GRAHAM THEATER
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | TOP FLOOR
April 30-May 3, 8PM (Thursday-Sunday). Four shared evenings of dance in the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune, 11th floor. $20
The starlit Martha Graham Studio at Westbeth offers two performance programs over four nights. All artists will present up to 10 minutes of original dance, in a shared evening format. Estimate run time: 1hr / no intermission
On Thursday, April…
curators: Jeanine Durning, Iréne Hultman, David Thomson
Food for Thought
Admission for Food for Thought is just $5 plus 2 cans of food*; or $10! No advance reservations.
Food for Thought presents multiple artists over one weekend with a different guest curator each evening.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30: This is not the end: an evening with the 2013-2015 Movement Research Artists-in-Residence curated by JEANINE DURNING
Featuring Ivy Baldwin, Whitney Hunter, Sam Kim, Joanna…
YoungArts@BAC: Dance, Music, Theater + Voice Performance Directed by Jay Scheib
YoungArts New York
Come marvel at a dance, music, theater and voice performance by the next Ricky Ubeda, Jennifer Koh, Kerry Washington and Chris Young (all YoungArts Alumni). The multidisciplinary performance directed by theatre and opera director Jay Scheib is one of four public events during YoungArts New York, an annual week long program that supports more than 100 emerging artists (ages 15-18) from the tri-state…
8:00pm
Premiere of "Fracture"
Matthew Brookoff Dance Repertory Company
Choreographer Matthew Brookoff presents his company in the world premiere of "Fracture," a neo-classical ballet to a commissioned score by young composer Brad Crane, along with "In Love Again," a charmer to four great songs by Rodgers and Hart; and "Lyrical Male Suite #1: Songs of Love and Solitude." Dancers are Josh Christopher, Barton Cowperthwaite, Holly Curran, Jehbreal Jackson, Temple Kemezis,…
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
Avant-Garde-Arama: MAYDAY!
Abrons Arts Center
On loan from Performance Space 122
A tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Abrons’ Playhouse, this edition of Avant-Garde-Arama features artists who have helped to build the legacy of 21st Century performance, along with their picks for the next generation of groundbreaking, edge cutting, legacy making artists.
Friday May 1: Hosted by Penny Arcade and Erin Markey
Saturday May 2: Hosted by Carmelita…
Spring for Isadora!
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company
We invite you to a party with performances by
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company,
celebrating Isadora Duncan's 138th birthday
Saturday, May 2, 2015, 8:00 p.m.
at Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
141 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
$50 General Admission
BUY NOW
$25 Children (12 and under)
BUY NOW
*Limited seating capacity*
Pre-paid reservations…
Bloowst windku
Rebecca Davis
HERE presents Bloowst windku
By Rebecca Davis
A HERE Resident Artist Production
April 29-May 9 at 8:30pm
Tickets $20
Bloowst windku [bloom-twist-windmill-haiku] is an hour-long performance for three dancers in which sound, light, and movement are compositional equals. Within a glowing room constructed from hundreds of used security envelopes collected over three years, the familiar is rendered…
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Sun 3rd
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL / ALL OVER WESTBETH
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | ALL OVER WESTBETH
May 2 & 3 at 2 pm. 2 days of site-specific performances. Guided Tours Every 15 Minutes, all tours start in Westbeth Courtyard. Last Tour departs at 3:30PM. FREE EVENT
This walking tour led by Westbeth residents will share a series of short, site-specific live performances all over the iconic artsts’ residence—courtyard, basement, rooftop, studios and stairwells. …
Other Myths / Jonah Bokaer / Lightbox
Chez Bushwick / Jonah Bokaer
Other Myths by choreographer Jonah Bokaer offers intercultural myths and histories which expand our understanding of dance.
Bokaer turned to mythology from other cultures, partly because abstract dance in the United States and Western Europe has resisted the use of mythology in recent decades – often effacing cultures whose story-telling remains marginal, or under-represented. The five dancers have…
Night ( Thyestes 2.0)
The New Stage Theatre
Theater for the New City, in association with The New Stage Theatre Company, is presenting the world premiere of "Night (Thyestes 2.0)" by Charles L. Mee, directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth, from April 24 to May 10, 2015. The piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. Charles L. Mee imagined his play, "Night (Thyestes 2.0)," as a dance theatre piece with some…
YoungArts New York | Jazz, Music + Voice Performance Directed by Christian Hebel
YoungArts New York
Come see a performance by the next jazz, music and voice stars following in the footsteps of Terence Blanchard, Jennifer Koh, and Chris Young (all YoungArts Alumni). This multidisciplinary performance directed by Wicked Concertmaster Christian Hebel is one of four public events during YoungArts New York, an annual week long program that supports more than 100 emerging artists (ages 15-18) from the…
Murray Louis: From the Horse's Mouth
Abrons Arts Center
From the Horse's Mouth celebrates Murray Louis, dancer, choreographer, teacher, mentor, and overall force of nature, who with Alwin Nikolais helped to shape the heart and history of dance at Henry Street Settlement. Twenty-five outstanding dancers, choreographers, critics, and friends of all ages and traditions will share their stories of Murray through their own unique styles of dance. Conceived…
3:00pm
Murray Louis: From the Horse's Mouth
Abrons Arts Center
From the Horse's Mouth celebrates Murray Louis, dancer, choreographer, teacher, mentor, and overall force of nature, who with Alwin Nikolais helped to shape the heart and history of dance at Henry Street Settlement. Twenty-five outstanding dancers, choreographers, critics, and friends of all ages and traditions will share their stories of Murray through their own unique styles of dance. Concieved…
6:00pm
Performance in Central Park, NEXT WEEKEND!
Private Event Performance
Dancers needed for an independent performance next weekend in Central Park!
I am an independanct performer/choreographer here in the city and I am choreographing a flash mob type performance in Central Park for next Sunday, May 5th.
The commitment will entail:
2 short rehearsals- Friday May 1st (afternoon, time tbd) and Saturday May 2nd (evening, time tbd) and then the event Sunday at 6pm.…
Other Myths / Jonah Bokaer / Lightbox
Chez Bushwick / Jonah Bokaer
Other Myths by choreographer Jonah Bokaer offers intercultural myths and histories which expand our understanding of dance.
Bokaer turned to mythology from other cultures, partly because abstract dance in the United States and Western Europe has resisted the use of mythology in recent decades – often effacing cultures whose story-telling remains marginal, or under-represented. The five dancers have…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL AT THE MARTHA GRAHAM THEATER
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | TOP FLOOR
April 30-May 3, 8PM (Thursday-Sunday). Four shared evenings of dance in the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune, 11th floor. $20
The starlit Martha Graham Studio at Westbeth offers two performance programs over four nights. All artists will present up to 10 minutes of original dance, in a shared evening format. Estimate run time: 1hr / no intermission
On Thursday, April…
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
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Mon 4th
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
8:00pm
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Movement Research
Ivy Baldwin**, Vanessa Justice, Mina Nishimura**, Vicky Shick***
A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons. Movement Research at the Judson Church supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
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Tue 5th
Danspace Project 40th Anniversary Gala honoring EIKO OTAKE & WENDY WHELAN
Danspace Project 40th Anniversary Gala
Danspace Project's 40th Anniversary Gala honors Eiko Otake & Wendy Whelan, two trailblazing women of contemporary performance.
Eiko Otake for her quiet fearlessness, as one half of Eilo & Koma for four decades, and now as a solo performer in the Body in Places project.
Wendy Whelan for her ferocious grace, as a star dancer with New York City Ballet for three decades, and now as she travels…
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
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