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Sun 1st
MRPJ Issue 47 Release Party
Movement Research
BKSD is Hosting the Movement Research Performance Journal issue #47 Release Party!
SUNDAY
November 1
6-9pm
Brooklyn Studios for Dance
210 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
COVER ARTIST: REGGIE WILSON
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: MIANA JUN
MRPJ#47 Editorial Team:
Editor-in-Chief Moriah Evans
Senior Editor Buck Wanner
Managing Editor Lauren Bakst
Graphic Design David Knowles
Cover Artist Portfolio Editors…
Sundays on Broadway, September 27-December 6
Free series, presented by Cathy Weis Projects
Cathy Weis Projects announces the fall 2015 season of Sundays on Broadway, an ongoing series featuring film screenings, performances, discussions, and all manner of gatherings on Sunday evenings at WeisAcres in SoHo. Events will take place September 27–December 6, at 6pm, and are free and open to the public.
The fall 2015 series will feature the films Hangman Takuzo by Yasuko Yokoshi and The Legend…
Butoh classes New York with Vangeline
Vangeline Theater
Butoh is an avant-garde performance art form which originated in Japan in the 1950’s. Vangeline’s Butoh classes incorporates Japanese Butoh, Bio-energetics, core energetics, elements of Noguchi…
Beverly Blossom Memorial Gala
SENSEDANCE & Henning Rübsam present:
The BEVERLY BLOSSOM MEMORIAL GALA on November 1 is a tribute with guest stars from around the country to the late “doyenne of robust eccentricity” on the very anniversary of her passing. A kaleidoscope of Blossom’s best work is shown on this exciting program. Renowned solo artists Douglas Nielsen and Betsy Fisher will perform Losing You and Blossom’s signature solo Dad’s Ties respectively.…
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Mon 2nd
FALL/WINTER PROGRAMS
DEF DANCE JAM COMMUNITY
Celebrating life, challenge and different-ABILITIES for 22 Years!!!
JOIN THE MIXED-ABILITY, INTER-GENERATIONAL COMMUNITY OF ARTIST, IN CREATIVE FELLOWSHIP ... FROM 3 to 103YRS OLD. ALL ARE WELCOME!
A COMMUNITY OF INCLUSION FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH AND WITHOUT –“different-ABILITIES."
TRAINING IN DANCE, THEATER, MUSIC, WRITING, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE, CHOREOGRAPHY, REPERTORY AND PERFORMANCE
SOME…
OPEN CLASS AT BAX WITH ANGEL KABA HIP-HOP AND KA'FRICAN (AFRO URBAN DANCE)
Dance To The People
This Open Class with Angel Kaba is part of the Dance Teacher Workshop by Dance To The People, hosted by BAX Brooklyn Arts Exchange as a part of the Creating Space Program. Funded in large part by the Lambert Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation. Creating Space provides opportunities to support and develop artists of all races, backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and aestethic…
Beginner West African
Ailey Extension
Instructor: Maguette Camara, Vado Diomande , Yah'Ya Kamate
A high-spirited, high-powered rhythmic dance experience for anyone who loves to dance.
Absolute Beginner Ballet with Kat Wildish
Gibney Dance Union Square
This class is for the beginners or for dancers who want to refine their technique at a basic level.
~~Sign up Kat's monthly newsletter here: http://katwildish.com/page7/
And There was Morning - new works by Henning Rübsam
SENSEDANCE
Three world premieres make up the SENSEDANCE program of AND THERE WAS MORNING, which is also the title of Rübsam’s newest collaboration with composer Beata Moon. Both Juilliard graduates celebrate an artistic partnership that dates back to 1992 with this colorful and exuberant exploration of sound and movement. Composer Ricardo Llorca’s Combat Del Somni will be performed live by famed pianist…
$10 Trial Tango Class.
Strictly Tango NYC
Introductory Tango Lesson
Every Monday and Thursday at 7pm and every Saturday at 2pm, we offer a taste of tango for total beginners for just $10. You will get a 55 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.
At the end…
Contemplative Dance Practice
Brooklyn Studios for Dance
7:00pm-9:00pm Contemplative Dance Practice with Zena Bibler
$5
Contemplative Dance Practice, facilitated by Zena Bibler, is a three part session formally divided between seated meditation, personal attunement (warmup), and improvised movement in a group. CDP was developed at Naropa University by Barbara Dilley, who has been practicing and studying meditation in the Shambhala tradition of Chögyam…
8:00pm
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Movement Research
Karen Bernard, Marcos Duran Performance Group, Erica Ricketts, seymour::dancecollective
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 3rd
FALL/WINTER PROGRAMS
DEF DANCE JAM COMMUNITY
Celebrating life, challenge and different-ABILITIES for 22 Years!!!
JOIN THE MIXED-ABILITY, INTER-GENERATIONAL COMMUNITY OF ARTIST, IN CREATIVE FELLOWSHIP ... FROM 3 to 103YRS OLD. ALL ARE WELCOME!
A COMMUNITY OF INCLUSION FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH AND WITHOUT –“different-ABILITIES."
TRAINING IN DANCE, THEATER, MUSIC, WRITING, AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE, CHOREOGRAPHY, REPERTORY AND PERFORMANCE
SOME…
Modern Dance Class at Green Space
Green Space
Modern Dance at Green Space
Tuesdays 6:30-8pm
Open Level
Drop-In Cost: $20
14 Class Series: $250
September 15 – December 15, 2015
Instructor: Valerie Green
Hawkins-Based Modern Dance Class
Dance class at Green Space gives students the opportunity to work on
body strength and alignment in a fun and supportive dance environment.
Come and dance with intelligence, clarity, and…
Adult Pointe Class
Peridance
Pointe with Kat Wildish serves students at all levels of pointe technique, from beginners in their first time up in the shoes to seasoned professionals maintaining fundamentals. Starting with an intense barre warm-up series to strengthen deep muscles in the legs and feet, the class progresses slowly to center work and variation practice. A different piece of classical repertoire will be taught and…
7:00pm
Audition Lab with Casting Director Todd Thaler
Atlantic Acting School
An exclusive opportunity for the serious actor to experience casting sessions with a professional Feature Film and Television Casting Director, Todd’s class sharpens and improves an actor’s on-camera acting skills, starting with demystifying the audition process. Todd’s extensive and impressive credits as a casting director in addition to his years teaching and coaching actors makes this class…
And There was Morning - new works by Henning Rübsam
SENSEDANCE
Three world premieres make up the SENSEDANCE program of AND THERE WAS MORNING, which is also the title of Rübsam’s newest collaboration with composer Beata Moon. Both Juilliard graduates celebrate an artistic partnership that dates back to 1992 with this colorful and exuberant exploration of sound and movement. Composer Ricardo Llorca’s Combat Del Somni will be performed live by famed pianist…
Pilates
New York Theatre Ballet
Taught by Amanda Treiber, principal dancer with NYTB, this gentle Pilates class is designed to build strength, coordination, and flexibility while gaining the understanding of the muscles used and the technique of the exercises.
Drop in - $12
10 Class Card - $100
BalletNext at New York Live Arts
BalletNext
BalletNext at New York Live Arts
October 27-November 7, 2015
12 Performances | 5 Works | 3 Premieres
Program A highlights include the premieres of "Don't Blink" the next collaboration from Michele Wiles and flex dancing pioneer Jay Donn and Brian Reeder's "Strange Flowers," a flirtatious trio set to the music of Jean Philipe Rameau, as well as the return of "Ushuaia" by Michele Wiles. As…
Garth Fagan Dance
The Joyce Theater
The Fagan aesthetic—“balletic rigor and precision in conjunction with a desultory looseness of body and unbridled bursts of energy” (The New York Times)—is on display when the company returns to The Joyce with a terrific program of new pieces by Garth Fagan and Norwood Pennewell and some of Fagan’s best work throughout the years: Passion Distanced, from 1987; No Evidence of Failure, from…
Barre A Terre Classes
Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama
Find your inner-strength; develop & improve alignment and technique; explore and learn how to efficiently use your body and your energy in a healthy way as instruments of your expression.
Through this class, you can increase flexibility and strength, overcome physical difficulties and incorrect posture, and acquire physical awareness to help prevent injuries. Open to all levels of experience.
Advanced Beginner Ballet w. Kat Wildish
Peridance
Visit http://www.peridance.com/openclasses.cfm for more details
or email hope@katwildish.com
~~Over three decades of teaching, Kat Wildish has developed a distinctive, systematic, and highly effective approach to dance education. In her beginner & intermediate technique classes, correct placement is the root of Kat’s pedagogy. She gives a long barre and her entire syllabus is constructed to demand…
Movement in the Moment: A Dance Improv Series with The Lovelies
The Lovelies
Movement in the Moment: A Dance Improv Series at Mark Morris Dance Center
Come play with us. Move freely. Compose dance in the moment with live musicians.
In this after work, no stress improv class, fun exercises and loose structures help you cultivate your unique voice as a moving body and artist. Move from your deep impulses with clear and bold choices. As we all build solo material, we will work…
Scaffold Room
The Kitchen
April Matthis, Roderick Murray, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marina Rosenfeld, Mike Taylor,Philip White, and Ralph Lemon. Organized by Tim Griffin and Matthew Lyons.
October 30–December 5, Tuesday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 11-6pm. Free.
Opening reception: Friday, October 30, 6-8pm
Ticketed performances: November 3–7 and November 9–10, 8pm and November 10, 2pm
Tickets $20
Scaffold Room is made…
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Wed 4th
6:00pm
Skinner Releasing Technique™ (Introductory level) with Karl Anderson
Movement Research
SRT facilitates an enhanced awareness of our creativity. This imagery-based Somatic experience intuits ease and healing. Through improvisation and play, 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 explore the limitlessness of their multi-dimensional aliveness. SRT makes for a…
Happy Hour
Monica Bill Barnes & Co.
HAPPY HOUR
In their new weekly dance show, Happy Hour, performers Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass trade their signature sequins and feather headdresses for a pair of everyday men’s suits. Framed by the casual aesthetics of office parties and the inherent failure of karaoke nights, they are two female performers playing the most familiar male characters. Happy Hour invites audiences to have…
Take a FREE stress-relief movement class!
Full Force Dance Repertory
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 90% of all illnesses are stress related. Not only is stress dangerous, but it can disrupt and cause serious harm to your body.
Have any stress you want to relieve? Then come and take Full Force's stress relief movement class!
Date: Wednesday, November 4th & Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Place: Bailey's Cafe
324…
2hours Int. Ballet with Kat Wildish
Gibney Dance Union Square
Kat Wildish
Kat Wildish grew up in Tampa, Florida, but she shot from the beach to the balletic big time at the age of 15, when she toured the southern United States as a member of Ballet Gala, on stage with such superstars as Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Cynthia Gregory, and Fernando Bujones. She received further training—on a two-year full scholarship from the Ford Foundation—at the nation’s…
And There was Morning - new works by Henning Rübsam
SENSEDANCE
Three world premieres make up the SENSEDANCE program of AND THERE WAS MORNING, which is also the title of Rübsam’s newest collaboration with composer Beata Moon. Both Juilliard graduates celebrate an artistic partnership that dates back to 1992 with this colorful and exuberant exploration of sound and movement. Composer Ricardo Llorca’s Combat Del Somni will be performed live by famed pianist…
Intermediate/Advanced Tahitian Dance Classes
Ori Manea Tahitian Dance School
Ori Manea Tahitian Dance School offers New York City's most authentic Tahitian dance classes and workshops. All of our classes and workshops are led by Tehani Benjamin of Tahiti Ora, one of Tahiti's most renowned dance companies.
To join this class you must have some experience in hula or Tahitian dance. We'll also be offering introductory workshops in October for students trying Tahitian…
Two World Premieres Ballets Choreographed by Troy Schumacher
BalletCollective
BalletCollective
To Present
Two World Premieres Ballets
Choreographed by Troy Schumacher
Season Features
Music by Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Mark Dancigers
Performed Live by Hotel Elefant
New Collaborations with Photographers Paul Maffi and Dafy Hagai
November 4 and 5, 2015 at NYU Skirball Center
BalletCollective will present two world premieres ballets by Troy Schumacher on November 4 and…
BalletNext at New York Live Arts
BalletNext
BalletNext at New York Live Arts
October 27-November 7, 2015
12 Performances | 5 Works | 3 Premieres
Program A highlights include the premieres of "Don't Blink" the next collaboration from Michele Wiles and flex dancing pioneer Jay Donn and Brian Reeder's "Strange Flowers," a flirtatious trio set to the music of Jean Philipe Rameau, as well as the return of "Ushuaia" by Michele Wiles. As…
Garth Fagan Dance
The Joyce Theater
The Fagan aesthetic—“balletic rigor and precision in conjunction with a desultory looseness of body and unbridled bursts of energy” (The New York Times)—is on display when the company returns to The Joyce with a terrific program of new pieces by Garth Fagan and Norwood Pennewell and some of Fagan’s best work throughout the years: Passion Distanced, from 1987; No Evidence of Failure, from…
The AFROFUTURISM Series
Renegade Performance Group
“Join us November 4-7 for the first Renegade Performance Group Brooklyn season
of the AFROFUTURISM Series, a dynamic performance project that investigates the
presence of Blackness into and beyond 21st Century techno-culture, art and society
through contemporary dance in a digital landscape! AFROFUTURISM as a movement
expresses new and progressive narratives, ideologies and symbols representative…
LEIMAY LUDUS: Community Class
LEIMAY
Led by LEIMAY ensemble member Andrea Jones, the LEIMAY Ludus Community Class is a donation based drop-in class. This class is accessible to everyone and no dance or movement training is necessary. Please note: this is not a performance oriented class.
LEIMAY has been investigating and exploring a variety of exercises which aid in the conditioning of a loose and fluid body. Through these exercises…
Scaffold Room
The Kitchen
April Matthis, Roderick Murray, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marina Rosenfeld, Mike Taylor,Philip White, and Ralph Lemon. Organized by Tim Griffin and Matthew Lyons.
October 30–December 5, Tuesday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 11-6pm. Free.
Opening reception: Friday, October 30, 6-8pm
Ticketed performances: November 3–7 and November 9–10, 8pm and November 10, 2pm
Tickets $20
Scaffold Room is made…
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Thu 5th
6:00pm
Open Level Modern Class
Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance
From 6 - 7:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, our adult classes are ideal for both the first time mover as well as returning students to dance. In a relaxed and encouraging environment, students explore Paul Taylor’s style and choreography through basic modern exercises and movement phrases. Single-class drop-ins for $17 are welcome.
Time Steps Workshop!
The American Tap Dance Foundation
Learn & practice a variety of classic, rhythm, and original time steps!
Special Rep Class taught by Susan Hebach
Thursdays Nov. 5, 12, 19 & Dec. 10, 17
6:15-7:45pm
For Beginning level & up
Learn the basic time steps associated with Broadway, and move on through traditional hoofing time steps, and learn the formula to build your own unique time steps.
Price: $96 for 6 weeks
or
$16 per…
Tango in the Castle
Strictly Tango NYC
Tango in the Castle
TANGO IN THE CASTLE fuses the gothic ambience of Morningside Castle with the rousing passion of tango. VIP guests will enjoy an elegant light buffet of hors d'oeuvres and rich desserts with live music by Pedro Giraudo. Following the reception all ticket holders will enjoy a stage performance by the world-renowned dancers Leandro Caparelli y Rocio de los Santos and the singer…
Beginner West African
Ailey Extension
Instructor: Maguette Camara, Vado Diomande , Yah'Ya Kamate
A high-spirited, high-powered rhythmic dance experience for anyone who loves to dance.
CLASS WITH Justin Cabrillos
Chez Bushwick Studio
In this class you will practice presence and breathing to prepare the body to construct physical and energetic landscapes. You will use memory, breath, and meditation to generate and discover familiar and unexpected states through which the body can move and vibrate in multidimensional ways.
This class is open to all who want to share a space of attentiveness.
Justin Cabrillos is performing as part…
Flamenco Cuadro Class
La Conja Flamenco
Flamenco Cuadro Class with La Conja & Pedro Cortes
learn from 2 Master Teacher in Flamenco
Cuadro Class will work on all the different forms in Flamenco & how they work together.
This Class is for Dancers, Guitarist, Singers, Cajon Players,
Flamenco Cuadro Class with La Conja & Pedro Cortes
La Conja Flamenco
Flamenco Cuadro Class with La Conja & Pedro Cortes
This class is for Dancers, Guitarist, Singers, Cajon players
we will cover all of the different styles in Flamenco & the Structure
Of Flamenco, & how it all works together. You will be learning from 2 Master
Teachers, La Conja, Flamenco Dancer/Singer & Pedro Cortes, Flamenco Guitarist & Composer
Odissi Beginner/Intermediate Workshop
Lotus Music & Dance
Odissi Beginner/Intermediate Workshop
with Bani Ray
Tuesdays 7:30pm-9pm
October 13th – December 15th
$360 full session
$40 each drop in session
* Please note this is a bare foot class
Experience the traditional elements of the Dev Prasad Das School of Odissi dance. This workshop is open to everyone. In the first half hour students will work on the basic movements of Odissi dance. In the last hour…
Two World Premieres Ballets Choreographed by Troy Schumacher
BalletCollective
BalletCollective
To Present
Two World Premieres Ballets
Choreographed by Troy Schumacher
Season Features
Music by Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Mark Dancigers
Performed Live by Hotel Elefant
New Collaborations with Photographers Paul Maffi and Dafy Hagai
November 4 and 5, 2015 at NYU Skirball Center
BalletCollective will present two world premieres ballets by Troy Schumacher on November 4 and…
BalletNext at New York Live Arts
BalletNext
BalletNext at New York Live Arts
October 27-November 7, 2015
12 Performances | 5 Works | 3 Premieres
Program A highlights include the premieres of "Don't Blink" the next collaboration from Michele Wiles and flex dancing pioneer Jay Donn and Brian Reeder's "Strange Flowers," a flirtatious trio set to the music of Jean Philipe Rameau, as well as the return of "Ushuaia" by Michele Wiles. As…
Barre a Terre
Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama
Find your inner-strength; develop & improve alignment and technique; explore and learn how to efficiently use your body and your energy in a healthy way as instruments of your expression. Through this class, you can increase flexibility and strength, overcome physical difficulties and incorrect posture, and acquire physical awareness to help prevent injuries. Open to all levels of experience.
Advanced Beginner Ballet w. Kat Wildish
Peridance
Visit http://www.peridance.com/openclasses.cfm for more details
or email hope@katwildish.com
~~Over three decades of teaching, Kat Wildish has developed a distinctive, systematic, and highly effective approach to dance education. In her beginner & intermediate technique classes, correct placement is the root of Kat’s pedagogy. She gives a long barre and her entire syllabus is constructed to demand…
The AFROFUTURISM Series
Renegade Performance Group
“Join us November 4-7 for the first Renegade Performance Group Brooklyn season
of the AFROFUTURISM Series, a dynamic performance project that investigates the
presence of Blackness into and beyond 21st Century techno-culture, art and society
through contemporary dance in a digital landscape! AFROFUTURISM as a movement
expresses new and progressive narratives, ideologies and symbols representative…
Scaffold Room
The Kitchen
April Matthis, Roderick Murray, Okwui Okpokwasili, Marina Rosenfeld, Mike Taylor,Philip White, and Ralph Lemon. Organized by Tim Griffin and Matthew Lyons.
October 30–December 5, Tuesday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 11-6pm. Free.
Opening reception: Friday, October 30, 6-8pm
Ticketed performances: November 3–7 and November 9–10, 8pm and November 10, 2pm
Tickets $20
Scaffold Room is made…
Garth Fagan Dance
The Joyce Theater
The Fagan aesthetic—“balletic rigor and precision in conjunction with a desultory looseness of body and unbridled bursts of energy” (The New York Times)—is on display when the company returns to The Joyce with a terrific program of new pieces by Garth Fagan and Norwood Pennewell and some of Fagan’s best work throughout the years: Passion Distanced, from 1987; No Evidence of Failure, from…
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