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2007-2008 Fall Performance Calendar

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Dance Theatre X
Sunday, July 20 - 3PM -6 PM
Von King Park | Brooklyn, Tompkins Ave. between Lafayette. & Green Aves


Bold, provocative, and intensely motivated by questions of identity, faith, and ethnicity, Dance Theatre X expresses a visual and soul-stirring journey. With fierce, but poetic movements, tales of the African Diaspora bleed out of dtX’s collective motion. Named one of “25 to Watch” in 2008 by Dance Magazine, Charles O. Anderson and his global troupe of collaborators are considered a tour de force in contemporary
Ticket Price- FREE, Presented by CityParks Dance. For more information go to http://www.cityparksfoundation.org


Von King Park | Brooklyn, Tompkins Ave. between Lafayette. & Green Aves


 

EyeWash *New Amsterdam*
Friday, July 11th. 8PM
Dance New Amsterdam

EYEWASH, the live-mix video series of performances by top New York VJs and Video Artists, continues its 2008 Spring Season with a special performance at Dance New Amsterdam on July 11th, 2008. This event will feature a video and movement collaboration by Video Artists Vanessa Velasquez and Choreographer Pascal Rekoert/Flexicurve, a dance and video piece by Rebekah Kennedy/UrbanWash Dance with VisualHornHonking, audiovisual sets by Canadian VJ Nokami and Amsterdam-based VJ Chaometric with Eyewash house DJ ActivePhaze, and an 8bit music set by gameboy musician Bubblyfish with visualist CHiKA.

http://www.forwardmotiontheater.org/eyewash-new-amsterdam/06/18/2008/

Admission is $8 For venue information call 212.625.8369 or email info@dnadance.org

Dance New Amsterdam| 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Entrance on Chambers


Meet the Makers...Al Maysles and Kristen Nutile present their new documentary
Sally Gross- The Pleasure of Stillness
Thursday, July 24, 2008 6.00 pm
Donnell Media Center Auditorium

Sally Gross- The Pleasure of Stillness is a documentary portrait of the life and work of the critically acclaimed New York based dancer and choreographer, Sally Gross, who has been performing for over 50 years. The film features excerpts from her work as well as interviews with dance critics, collaborators and friends. It tells of her childhood as a daughter of immigrants in the Lower East Side, her training with visionary choreographer Alwin Nikolais at Henry Street Playhouse, and her involvement in the legendary Judson Dance Theater. Now in her seventies, Sally continues to choreograph and perform. Filmmakers Albert Maysles and Kristen Nutile follow this charismatic artist as she embarks on the unpredictable journey of creating a new work.
The screening will be preceded by a live dance performance by Sally Gross, and followed by a short film, Stopped in her Tracks, which features Ms. Gross in performance.

free and open to the public
http://www.nypl.org/events/breventsdetail.cfm?EventID=68591.733247

Donnell Library Center
20 West 53rd Street (across from MoMA)
(212) 621-0619


Readymade Dance Theater Company
PURE
July 17-20
Thursday-Sunday at 7:30 pm
Performance Space 122

PURE, a new dance theater work by Zsolt Palcza, is an excursion into the subterranean currents of the mind.

Three female dancers move through a metaphoric world in a three-sided, 16 x 20 foot white box. Memories slide down walls, emotions twist like oranges, figments jump and hang, thoughts drop like fruit, dreams gasp like mollusks in the sand. The box is bathed in aquatic imagery, giving viewers the feeling of leaving their bodies, suspended in space or floating in water.

Use discount code "M18" for $10 tickets* (reg $20)
Tickets available at ps122.org or call 212.352.3101

Performance Space 122| 150 First Ave at E.9th St.
New York, NY 10009


Thomas/Ortiz Dance Company
Saturday, July 12th at 8pm and Sunday, July 13th at 8pm
Citigroup Theatre at The Joan Weill Center for Dance

New York City . Led by choreographers/co-artistic directors Ted Thomas and Frances Ortiz, the Thomas/Ortiz Dance Company showcases an eclectic collage of the company.s favored pieces during a two-night series at Manhattan.s Ailey Citigroup Theater. Renowned for its .urban athleticism and Latin sensuality,.Thomas/Ortiz Dance examines socially relevant themes through reflective and emotional choreography and heightened musical sensibilities. The program.seven modern works, all heralding both the female and male bodies as their core, range from ebullient and rejoicing to sexually-charged and political:

Frayed Ends (2007), And (2001), Scarred (2007), Reflections (2002), Un-Damely

(2003), Dynamite Walls (2007), and Marked in a Region of No Origin (1997).

General Tickets $20, Students $15
Visit www.smarttix.com to purchase tickets

The Citigroup Theatre at the Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 W. 55th Street at 9th Ave.


 

 

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Battleworks Dance Company
July 29 - August 2
The Joyce Theatre


Battleworks Dance Company presents Reel Time, Juba, Ella, In/Side and Overture:
Celebrating their fifth anniversary, Battleworks Dance Company presents Robert Battle’s strong choreography with vigor and technical virtuosity. Battle’s provocative work runs the gamut from humorous to viscerally jarring, and his dancers “are magnificent, flinging themselves into movement phrases with frenzied energy” (The Boston Globe). The program will introduce New York audiences to Battle’s newest work, Reel Time, a collaboration with composer John King that explores social interactions through the deconstruction of traditional folk dance. Reel Time is based on the form of an Irish jig and will be performed on a raised, square wooden plank floor that amplifies the sounds made by the dancer’s shoes. The program will also include Battle’s Juba, an original commission by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed for the first time by Battleworks Dance Company to a live rendition of John Mackey’s propulsive string and percussion score. With abundant foot stomping and fist slapping, this athletic piece explores the paradox of old ecstatic dancing: the steps are repetitive and evenly paced, but energetically it moves towards a euphoric climax. Completing the evening will be two solos, Ella and In/Side, and the perennial favorite Overture. Ella is a fast and furious tribute to the rhythmic genius of Ella Fitzgerald. Ella’s textured vocals are mirrored by the performer’s physical “scatting.” An abstract, haunting solo, In/Side explores longing and rejection. Grotesque gestures merge with lyrical movement as the soloist wages an internal battle to a score by Nina Simone. In Overture, a personification of grief and despair, the dancers juxtapose angular, violent convulsions against the very soft, sustained, and melodic score by Bach. Performance Schedule: Tuesday, July 29 at 7:30pm, Thursday, July 31 at 8pm; and Saturday, August 2 at 8pm; and Saturday, August 2 at 2pm


Tickets are $34, Joyce Members $26, students and seniors $20. Tickets are available by phone at 212-242-0800 or www.joyce.org.

The Joyce Theater |175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street
New York, NY 10011



 

Keigwin + Company
Elements
July 28 - August 1, 2008
The Joyce Theater

KEIGWIN + COMPANY presents elements:
Widely celebrated for work that is accessible and entertaining while remaining innovative and intelligent, Larry Keigwin and his company of dancers make their Joyce debut with the New York premiere of a work comprising of four suites underscored by a wide variety of music, from classical to hip-hop. Each suite is inspired by one of Nature’s basic building blocks: Earth, Fire, Air and Water. Keigwin applies his signature imagination to loose, multiple interpretations of the elements, bending and twisting them into a sublime movement theater by turns unny, sentimental and paradoxical. Performances are: Monday, July 28 at 7:30pm; Wednesday, July 30 at 7:30pm; Friday, August 1 at 8pm; and a Fun and Fabulous Family Matinee on Wednesday, July 30 at 2pm

Tickets are $34, Joyce Members $26, students and seniors $15, and are available by phone at 212-242-0800 or www.joyce.org.


The Joyce Theater |175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street, NYC.


 

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Sunday, July 27 - 3PM -6 PM
Jackie Robinson Park

With the allure of a singular brush stroke, the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company gently glides across the stage with color, lyricism and the subtle whisper of Chinese tradition. Ms. Chen’s unique repertoire is a seamless blend of ancient rituals and modern concepts, which has earned her multiple accolades over the years. While they have appeared at international festivals in Poland, Korea, and China, the company, in residency at the Harlem School of the Arts, has also been presented by some of the most prestigious concert halls across the United States, from the Joyce Theater in New York to the Cerritos Center in California.
Ticket Price- FREE, Presented by CityParks Dance. For more information go to http://www.cityparksfoundation.org


Jackie Robinson Park | Harlem 147 St. & Bradhurst Ave.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 
 

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