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Wed 1st
6:00pm

Karl Anderson-Skinner Releasing Technique™

Movement Research
Skinner Releasing Technique™ facilitates an enhanced awareness of creativity. This imagery-based movement experience intuits ease and healing. Through improvisation and play, we connect with the energy of others and the universe. We delve deeper inside and shed our notions of style and aesthetics in favor of a more intense personal discovery. Students are encouraged to enter "feeling states" and…

 
6:00pm

Contact Improvisation with Elise Knudson

Movement Research
Contact Improvisation is a partnering dance form. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and supporting weight, expanding range of spatial concentration, lifting, catching and falling all help one move with and through gravity, share weight in motion, and use momentum and flow in physical contact. These weekly classes, open to people of all levels of movement experience,are informed by the individual…

 
6:30pm
1988 5th Annual Bessie Awards on EYE ON DANCE

1988 5th Annual Bessie Awards on EYE ON DANCE

EYE ON DANCE
"Sorry I Missed Your Show" presents a live screening of EYE ON DANCE spotlighting the 1988 5th Annual Bessie Awards Ceremony at BAM. Shot on location, it's loaded with performances by BIll T. Jones (solo), Bill Irwin, Valda Setterfield, Stephanie Skura Co., Ann Carlson, Edwin Lee Tyler, Blue Gene Tyrrany and comments by Bessie Schonberg, David White, Elizabeth Streb, among others. The EOD episode captures…

 
6:45pm
Open Beginner/Intermediate Ballet Class

Open Beginner/Intermediate Ballet Class

New York Theatre Ballet
NEW!  Beginners are welcome to the evening classes and will have the opportunity to work one on one with an assistant.  Classes are taught by a faculty of top professionals. Single Class $15 10 Class Card $130 Welcome to the new neighborhood special... all classes $5! September 15-October 17.

 
7:30pm
Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Big Dance Theater
Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th-century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic collage…

 
Thu 2nd
6:00pm

Contact Improvisation - The Basics with Margaret Paek

Movement Research
Contact Improvisation, initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972, is a dance practice that plays with the physics between bodies and gravity. Using partnering skills such as rolling, releasing, weight exchange, falling, lifting and catching, and expanding range of spatial choice, the practice helps one move within sensation and disorientation, access moveable supports and tune to the use of touch, momentum,…

 
6:00pm
Contemporary Barre Fitness and Adult Ballet Workshop

Contemporary Barre Fitness and Adult Ballet Workshop

Alex Ray Studios Inc. and The Ballet Club NYC
Fallon Alexandria is technically trained in ballet and contemporary movement with 14 years by professionals of Alvin Ailey, ABT, and the Rockettes.  Her goal is to provide people of all ages with the opportunity to have access to exceptional dance and fitness training in a boutique style setting. Each member receives professional hands on guidance in order to reach their optimal capability. Her…

 
6:30pm
GLORIA McLEAN HAWKINS TECHNIQUE CLASSES Tues & Thurs

GLORIA McLEAN HAWKINS TECHNIQUE CLASSES Tues & Thurs

Gloria McLean & Dancers
Gloria McLean teaches Hawkins-Based Modern Dance Technique at Randy Warshaw Studio, 115 Wooster Street between Prince & Spring Tuesdays 6-7:30 and Thursdays 6:30-8  $20/single; $165/10-class card Former lead dancer & rehearsal director with Erick Hawkins from 1982-1993 before his death in 1994, McLean is a major internationally recognized exponent of this important Modern dance legacy. While…

 
6:45pm
Open Beginner/Intermediate Ballet Class

Open Beginner/Intermediate Ballet Class

New York Theatre Ballet
NEW!  Beginners are welcome to the evening classes and will have the opportunity to work one on one with an assistant.  Classes are taught by a faculty of top professionals. Single Class $15 10 Class Card $130 Welcome to the new neighborhood special... all classes $5! September 15-October 17.

 
7:00pm

The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents two residencies as part of the CUNY Dance Initiative

CUNY Dance Initiative
GERALD W. LYNCH THEATER at John Jay College presents two residencies as part of the CUNY Dance Initiative. The first residency with Ephrat Asherie Dance will run from September 18 – October 2, 2014. The second residency with Chloe Arnold's Syncopated Ladies will run from October 27 – November 7, 2014.  Each residency will offer a Master Class to John Jay College students and a free performance…

 
7:00pm
$10 Tango Trial

$10 Tango Trial

Strictly Tango
$10 Tango Trial Every Monday or Thursday at 7pm and every Saturday at 2pm, we offer a taste of tango for totally beginners for just $10. You will get a 45 minute class introducing you to all the basic fundamentals of tango. It is guaranteed you will be dancing at the end of the class. It is a good way to have fun starting out with tango for those that have never danced it before and meet new people.…

 
7:00pm
Soaking WET

Soaking WET

Soaking WET Dance Series
The popular Soaking WET Dance Series returns to the West End Theater with two different programs, October 2-5.  Produced by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group, the series has presented dozens of both emerging and established choreographers and dancers in performances that celebrate the great variety and wealth of talent in the NYC dance community.   October features: Program A: October…

 
7:30pm
Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Big Dance Theater
Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th-century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic collage…

 
7:30pm
QUANTUM

QUANTUM

Gilles Jobin Company
Six dancers perform an ode to subatomic randomness from Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and German visual artist Julius von Bismarck, developed while in residency at the particle physics lab CERN. All tickets: $20

 
8:00pm
Polly Pocket:  Expansion Pack

Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack

Jillian Peña
Dance and video artist Jillian Peña was awarded the Prix Jardin d'Europe Jury Award at the recent ImPulsTanz 2014 festival. With her latest work Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack, Peña takes inspiration from ballet, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and Marxism, in this epic dance drama about artful seduction, role changes, and exclusion. The audience, cast as outsiders, catches a glimpse into the…

 
8:30pm
Soaking WET

Soaking WET

Soaking WET Dance Series
The popular Soaking WET Dance Series returns to the West End Theater with two different programs, October 2-5.  Produced by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group, the series has presented dozens of both emerging and established choreographers and dancers in performances that celebrate the great variety and wealth of talent in the NYC dance community.   October features: Program A: October…

 
8:30pm
Bored House Guests

Bored House Guests

Sara Hook / Paul Matteson
Committed to making the creative process a public forum, Hook and Matteson embarked on the creation of their duet, "Bored House Guests",  with a 30-minute, unplanned improvisation performance at Green Street Studios in Boston last December.  Every ensuing developmental period has culminated in a public showing where they invite audience reactions and ideas about "What's next?" So far the piece…

 
Fri 3rd
6:00pm
6:00 - 7:15pm - LEVEL 1 Argentine Tango

6:00 - 7:15pm - LEVEL 1 Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango Classes NYC
When we begin to learn something new in our life it is only natural that we want to progress as fast as possible. And so it’s quite normal that we skip all the important basics as we are so focused on running through all levels of learning. When we begin we immediately want to be allowed at intermediate level classes, when we are intermediate we want to run to advance classes. What happens is this:…

 
6:00pm

Dance classes

McManus Irish Dance
Irish dance classes for kids 4& older thru adult. Classes in Sunnyside and Manhattan. Email: McManusirishdance@gmail.com For more info or visit: www.McManusIrishDance.com

 
6:45pm
Gibney Dance goes Gaga for Gaga!

Gibney Dance goes Gaga for Gaga!

Gibney Dance at 280 Broadway
Gibney Dance is excited to now be offering Gaga classes at our 280 Broadway location. Gaga/people will be offered every Friday from 6:45-7:45 pm and Gaga/dancers will be offered every Tuesday from 6:45-8:00 pm. Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility…

 
7:00pm
Soaking WET

Soaking WET

Soaking WET Dance Series
The popular Soaking WET Dance Series returns to the West End Theater with two different programs, October 2-5.  Produced by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group, the series has presented dozens of both emerging and established choreographers and dancers in performances that celebrate the great variety and wealth of talent in the NYC dance community.   October features: Program A: October…

 
7:20pm
7:20 - 8:35pm - LEVEL 2 Argentine Tango

7:20 - 8:35pm - LEVEL 2 Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango Classes NYC
When we begin to learn something new in our life it is only natural that we want to progress as fast as possible. And so it’s quite normal that we skip all the important basics as we are so focused on running through all levels of learning. When we begin we immediately want to be allowed at intermediate level classes, when we are intermediate we want to run to advance classes. What happens is this:…

 
7:30pm
Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Big Dance Theater
Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th-century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic collage…

 
7:30pm
QUANTUM

QUANTUM

Gilles Jobin Company
Six dancers perform an ode to subatomic randomness from Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and German visual artist Julius von Bismarck, developed while in residency at the particle physics lab CERN. All tickets: $20

 
8:00pm
Polly Pocket:  Expansion Pack

Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack

Jillian Peña
Dance and video artist Jillian Peña was awarded the Prix Jardin d'Europe Jury Award at the recent ImPulsTanz 2014 festival. With her latest work Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack, Peña takes inspiration from ballet, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and Marxism, in this epic dance drama about artful seduction, role changes, and exclusion. The audience, cast as outsiders, catches a glimpse into the…

 
8:00pm

Mass For The Ballet Homily - Ballet For The Homeless

TheEdwardMorganBallet
BALLET FOR THE HOMELESS PREMIERES OCTOBER 3-5 An awareness performance created by TheEdwardMorganBallet    NEW YORK.  This performance is to raise awareness, through the arts, and educate people about homelessness in New York City. In April 2014, there was an all-time record of 54,000 homeless people, and over 23,000 of them are youth.  “Mass for the Ballet” brings together people from all…

 
8:00pm
SPARK Dance Forum

SPARK Dance Forum

SPARK
SPARK Dance Forum Contact: Kate Bishop & Martha Dobbs, SparkDanceForum@gmail.com Octorber 3rd & 4th 2014 The Actors Fund Arts Center 160 Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 TICKETS: $15 Available at the door or Brown Paper Tickets 2 weeks prior to show. See Facebook/Email for details.    SPARK Dance Forum Sets the Stage for another year of talent and growth SPARK, now in it’s second year,…

 
8:00pm
Launch Movement Experiment & Second Nature

Launch Movement Experiment & Second Nature

Triskelion Arts
TRISKELION ARTS PRESENTS Launch Movement Experiment & Second Nature Friday October 3 at 8pm Saturday, October 4 at 3pm* and 8pm *The matinee performance is a FAMILIES WELCOME show! Tickets: $16* http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/794396 *at FAMILIES WELCOME shows, each regular priced adult ticket admits one free child (under 12.) Each additional child’s ticket is only $5! Launch Movement…

 
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…

 
8:30pm
Soaking WET

Soaking WET

Soaking WET Dance Series
The popular Soaking WET Dance Series returns to the West End Theater with two different programs, October 2-5.  Produced by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group, the series has presented dozens of both emerging and established choreographers and dancers in performances that celebrate the great variety and wealth of talent in the NYC dance community.   October features: Program A: October…

 
8:30pm
Bored House Guests

Bored House Guests

Sara Hook / Paul Matteson
Committed to making the creative process a public forum, Hook and Matteson embarked on the creation of their duet, "Bored House Guests",  with a 30-minute, unplanned improvisation performance at Green Street Studios in Boston last December.  Every ensuing developmental period has culminated in a public showing where they invite audience reactions and ideas about "What's next?" So far the piece…

 
8:40pm
8:40 - 9:55pm - LEVEL 3 Argentine Tango

8:40 - 9:55pm - LEVEL 3 Argentine Tango

Argentine Tango Classes NYC
When we begin to learn something new in our life it is only natural that we want to progress as fast as possible. And so it’s quite normal that we skip all the important basics as we are so focused on running through all levels of learning. When we begin we immediately want to be allowed at intermediate level classes, when we are intermediate we want to run to advance classes. What happens is this:…

 
Sat 4th
5:00pm

Mårten Spångberg-Workshop and Discussions

Movement Research
Workshop October 4, 11, 18  SAT  5-8pm $90 Choreography = Possibility / Dance = Potentiality This workshop - practices and examples, thinking and more examples - zoom in on the 2014 rise of dance “detached” from choreography and signification. A dance produced in a post-critical environment gaining momentum through contemporary phenomena, spiritual practices, digital interfaces and current…

 
7:00pm
Soaking WET

Soaking WET

Soaking WET Dance Series
The popular Soaking WET Dance Series returns to the West End Theater with two different programs, October 2-5.  Produced by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group, the series has presented dozens of both emerging and established choreographers and dancers in performances that celebrate the great variety and wealth of talent in the NYC dance community.   October features: Program A: October…

 
7:30pm
Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature

Big Dance Theater
Astronauts, Bolsheviks, and middle-American families mingle on a stage littered with lawn chairs, telephones, fur coats, and pistols in this collision of early-20th-century Moscow, midcentury Paris, and late-20th-century Houston. Big Dance Theater directors Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar sample fragments of iconic film scripts and novels, divorced from their narrative contexts, to create a kinetic collage…

 
7:30pm
QUANTUM

QUANTUM

Gilles Jobin Company
Six dancers perform an ode to subatomic randomness from Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and German visual artist Julius von Bismarck, developed while in residency at the particle physics lab CERN. All tickets: $20

 
8:00pm
Polly Pocket:  Expansion Pack

Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack

Jillian Peña
Dance and video artist Jillian Peña was awarded the Prix Jardin d'Europe Jury Award at the recent ImPulsTanz 2014 festival. With her latest work Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack, Peña takes inspiration from ballet, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and Marxism, in this epic dance drama about artful seduction, role changes, and exclusion. The audience, cast as outsiders, catches a glimpse into the…

 
8:00pm

Mass For The Ballet Homily - Ballet For The Homeless

TheEdwardMorganBallet
BALLET FOR THE HOMELESS PREMIERES OCTOBER 3-5 An awareness performance created by TheEdwardMorganBallet    NEW YORK.  This performance is to raise awareness, through the arts, and educate people about homelessness in New York City. In April 2014, there was an all-time record of 54,000 homeless people, and over 23,000 of them are youth.  “Mass for the Ballet” brings together people from all…

 
8:00pm
BalaSole Dance Company Presents "Pastiche"

BalaSole Dance Company Presents "Pastiche"

BalaSole Dance Company
BalaSole Dance Company is proud to present this fall its 14th concert season titled "Pastiche." In this concert, 10 dance artists will present new solos inspired by various themes.  Past participants include members of the Limón Dance Company, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Lucinda Childs Dance, Parsons Dance, and Philadanco.  This fall concert will feature solo artists Anastasia Coates, Rebecca Gual,…

 
8:00pm
SPARK Dance Forum

SPARK Dance Forum

SPARK
SPARK Dance Forum Contact: Kate Bishop & Martha Dobbs, SparkDanceForum@gmail.com Octorber 3rd & 4th 2014 The Actors Fund Arts Center 160 Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 TICKETS: $15 Available at the door or Brown Paper Tickets 2 weeks prior to show. See Facebook/Email for details.    SPARK Dance Forum Sets the Stage for another year of talent and growth SPARK, now in it’s second year,…

 
8:00pm
Launch Movement Experiment & Second Nature

Launch Movement Experiment & Second Nature

Triskelion Arts
TRISKELION ARTS PRESENTS Launch Movement Experiment & Second Nature Friday October 3 at 8pm Saturday, October 4 at 3pm* and 8pm *The matinee performance is a FAMILIES WELCOME show! Tickets: $16* http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/794396 *at FAMILIES WELCOME shows, each regular priced adult ticket admits one free child (under 12.) Each additional child’s ticket is only $5! Launch Movement…

 
8:30pm
Soaking WET

Soaking WET

Soaking WET Dance Series
The popular Soaking WET Dance Series returns to the West End Theater with two different programs, October 2-5.  Produced by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group, the series has presented dozens of both emerging and established choreographers and dancers in performances that celebrate the great variety and wealth of talent in the NYC dance community.   October features: Program A: October…

 
8:30pm
Bored House Guests

Bored House Guests

Sara Hook / Paul Matteson
Committed to making the creative process a public forum, Hook and Matteson embarked on the creation of their duet, "Bored House Guests",  with a 30-minute, unplanned improvisation performance at Green Street Studios in Boston last December.  Every ensuing developmental period has culminated in a public showing where they invite audience reactions and ideas about "What's next?" So far the piece…

 
Sun 5th
5:00pm

Sunday Process Lab with Mariana Valencia

Movement Research
My practice of making time-based work integrates but is not limited to: costume, installation, reading, the internet, travel, observation, design, verse and sound. I inlay information and unfold images and movement with a root aesthetic foundation. In this Process Lab we will experiment with some of my techniques to blend words, movement and color, using time as our frame. Please be prepared to observe,…

 
6:00pm
BalaSole Dance Company Presents "Pastiche"

BalaSole Dance Company Presents "Pastiche"

BalaSole Dance Company
BalaSole Dance Company is proud to present this fall its 14th concert season titled "Pastiche." In this concert, 10 dance artists will present new solos inspired by various themes.  Past participants include members of the Limón Dance Company, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Lucinda Childs Dance, Parsons Dance, and Philadanco.  This fall concert will feature solo artists Anastasia Coates, Rebecca Gual,…

 
7:00pm

Mass For The Ballet Homily - Ballet For The Homeless

TheEdwardMorganBallet
BALLET FOR THE HOMELESS PREMIERES OCTOBER 3-5 An awareness performance created by TheEdwardMorganBallet    NEW YORK.  This performance is to raise awareness, through the arts, and educate people about homelessness in New York City. In April 2014, there was an all-time record of 54,000 homeless people, and over 23,000 of them are youth.  “Mass for the Ballet” brings together people from all…

 
7:00pm

WAXworks October 5th Showcase!

Williamsburg Art Nexus
Join us on Sunday October 5th at Triskelion Arts for our next WAXworks showcase!  We're featuring work by: Arielle Petruzzella/Zella Dance cori dances Daniel Flores Dance Carlo Antonio Villanueva Katie Vason Aimee Plauche Sarah Friedland/Motion and Pictures  

 
7:30pm
The Women of Fosse

The Women of Fosse

Steps Beyond
Steps Beyond announces another of its lively and informative Artists Talks with three "Broadway Babies" who can rightly be called "The Women of Fosse" - Diane Laurenson, Dana Moore and Mimi Quillin.   Laurenson and Moore appeared in five Fosse shows between them - Sweet Charity, Fosse, Chicago, Dancin', and Big Deal.   Quillin performed in Sweet Charity and was also assistant to Bob Fosse and…

 
8:00pm
Sundays on Broadway

Sundays on Broadway

Cathy Weis Projects' new, ongoing, free series
Cathy Weis Projects announces thirteen events between September 21 and December 14 in its new, ongoing series Sundays on Broadway.  The series features film screenings, performances, parties, and all manner of gatherings on Sunday evenings.  All events are free and open to the public and take place at 8pm.  The series features five film screenings and discussions, organized by Julie Martin on the…

 

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