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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.
Coming
Soon
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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