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Wed 1st
10:00am
Advanced/Professional Ballet Class

Advanced/Professional Ballet Class

New York Theatre Ballet
Following a Cecchetti Syllabus, NYTB's open classes for adult dancers offer advanced training for professional dancers and supplemental basic technique for ballet and modern dancers.  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!

 
10:00am
Gallim Dance Open Classes

Gallim Dance Open Classes

Gallim Dance
Internationally-renowned contemporary dance company Gallim Dance offers a range of weekly classes for all experience levels, from beginners to professional dancers. Experience Gallim Dance's immersive movement and process, and the vibrant creative voice of its Artistic Director, Andrea Miller.   COMPANY CLASS Every Monday & Wednesday | 10 - 11:15 AM Classes begin Wednesday, September 3, 2014…

 
10:00am

Advanced Professional Ballet

Janet Panetta

 
10:00am

Luis Lara Malvacías (Morning Class)

Movement Research
This class offers an open space to observe and experience our own particularity and range of mobility, and fine tune our own needs. Through directed exercises, we’ll focus on the breath, internal structure, weight, and the body’s articulations and organization. At the end of the class a phrase is provided as a frame for processing the information provided. My class is influenced by my many years…

 
10:00am

Adult Open Ballet Class

Astoria Fine Arts Dance
$15 drop-in class at Astoria Fine Arts Dance

 
10:30am
Twyla Tharp Dance Open Company Class

Twyla Tharp Dance Open Company Class

Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation
Twyla Tharp Dance Daily Open Company Class  10:30-12:00 at DANY Studios (305 West 38th St. NY NY 10018) For more infomation, visit our website www.TWYLATHARP.org or our TWYLA THARP facebook page  

 
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
9:00am
Pilates Reformer Class

Pilates Reformer Class

Elite Body Pilates
Open small group Pilates Reformer classes www.EliteBodyPilates.net info@EliteBodyPilates.net 212-717-1302

 
10:00am

Barbara Mahler-Klein Technique™

Movement Research
We are not just a body or a mind. We are unique individuals with spirit and intelligence. The work we do in class engages us in a process to facilitate change. We work to right the pelvis on top of the legs, to free the upper body and spine to move with ease and expression. We work on the level of the bone, to let go of unnecessary tension, and habits which hold our bodies and minds in misalignment…

 
10:00am

Vicky Shick (Morning Class)

Movement Research
Class begins with systematically readying our bodies and minds for full-out and detailed dancing. Our goal is to increase awareness, articulation, technical facility and focus. The warm-up is simple and straightforward with an emphasis on alignment, physical mechanics, and space for sensation and feedback from our bodies as we work collaboratively to arrive at dancing. In doing phrase work, we hone…

 
10:00am

Adult Open Ballet Class

Astoria Fine Arts Dance
$15 drop-in class at Astoria Fine Arts Dance

 
10:30am
$10 Ballet Class at Gallim

$10 Ballet Class at Gallim

Gallim Dance
  Internationally-renowned contemporary dance company Gallim Dance offers a range of weekly classes for all experience levels, from beginners to professional dancers. Gallim has teamed up with ballet teacher, Ellie Kusner, to offer an affordable and challenging Ballet class for pre-professional and professional dancers.  Ellie Kusner is a Bessie Award winning performer currently teaching various…

 
10:30am
Twyla Tharp Dance Open Company Class

Twyla Tharp Dance Open Company Class

Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation
Twyla Tharp Dance Daily Open Company Class  10:30-12:00 at DANY Studios (305 West 38th St. NY NY 10018) For more infomation, visit our website www.TWYLATHARP.org or our TWYLA THARP facebook page  

 
12:00pm
 
6:00pm

Open Level Modern Class

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Come explore Paul Taylor’s style and choreography through basic modern exercises and movement phrases in our OPEN LEVEN CLASS. Ideal for both the first time mover as well as returning students to dance. Brilliant dancer and Paul Taylor Dance Comapny alumn, Amy Young, teaches Thursday nights! 

 
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
10:00am
Advanced/Professional Ballet Class

Advanced/Professional Ballet Class

New York Theatre Ballet
Following a Cecchetti Syllabus, NYTB's open classes for adult dancers offer advanced training for professional dancers and supplemental basic technique for ballet and modern dancers.  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!

 
10:00am

Advanced Professional Ballet

Janet Panetta

 
10:00am

Luis Lara Malvacías (Morning Class)

Movement Research
This class offers an open space to observe and experience our own particularity and range of mobility, and fine tune our own needs. Through directed exercises, we’ll focus on the breath, internal structure, weight, and the body’s articulations and organization. At the end of the class a phrase is provided as a frame for processing the information provided. My class is influenced by my many years…

 
10:00am

Adult Open Ballet Class

Astoria Fine Arts Dance
$15 drop-in class at Astoria Fine Arts Dance

 
10:30am
Twyla Tharp Dance Open Company Class

Twyla Tharp Dance Open Company Class

Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation
Twyla Tharp Dance Daily Open Company Class  10:30-12:00 at DANY Studios (305 West 38th St. NY NY 10018) For more infomation, visit our website www.TWYLATHARP.org or our TWYLA THARP facebook page  

 
11:00am

Ballet Academy East Announces Addition of Dance for People with Parkinson’s

Ballet Academy East & Dance for PD®
Ballet Academy East is proud to announce the addition of a dance class called Dance for PD® for people with Parkinson’s this fall on Fridays from 11:00-12:15pm at Ballet Academy East, 1651 Third Avenue, NYC.  Dance for PD classes, developed collaboratively by Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, are currently offered at Mark Morris Dance Center, The Juilliard School, and at…

 
12:00pm
 
4:00pm

Feldenkrais Method® with Jimena Paz

Movement Research
Experience the Feldenkrais Method® through a series of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® classes. The Feldenkrais Method® studies the works of our nervous system and our ability to recognize and create movement patterns that are both more efficient and more pleasant. The method emphasizes awareness, distribution of effort/action through the whole self, expanding self-perception and our ability…

 
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
8:15am
Nassau Coliseum Performance Opportunity- Registration begins now!

Nassau Coliseum Performance Opportunity- Registration begins now!

Alex Ray Studios Inc.
As the NY Islanders prepare to host their last season on Long Island, Alex Ray Studios Inc. has been asked to perform during their last home game event at Nassau Coliseum. We are currently enrollling students for our ballet and lyrical/ contemporary program for students from the ages of 3-22yrs.    Ballet I (3-5 yrs.) Ballet II (6-9 yrs.) Lyrical I (10-13 yrs.) Lyrical II (14-17 yrs.) Lyrical…

 
10:00am

RIOULT Dance NY introduces New Modern Classes for Dancers

RIOULT Dance NY
RIOULT Dance NY, a leading American modern dance company with a classic sensibility, introduces new modern classes for young Dancers, ages 10-14.  Classes offered will range from Advanced Beginner-Intermediate Modern Class.  The Fall Semester classes will run October 4-January 17 on Saturdays from 10am-12pm at Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue (b/t 35th & 36th Streets).  Tuition is $540 per semester. …

 
10:00am
NEW MODERN CLASSES FOR YOUNG DANCERS!

NEW MODERN CLASSES FOR YOUNG DANCERS!

RIOULT Dance NY
These  classes  are designed  to  introduce  our  new  students  and  advance  our returning  students  to  fundamental modern technique  and vocabulary, including  the  elements  of  "contraction  and  release". During the course of the semester, students will experience,  study,  and  explore the  rhythmical  diversity  and power  of  music,  through their movement.…

 
10:00am
Pilates Tower Class

Pilates Tower Class

Elite Body Pilates
Open classes for small groups on Pilates Tower equipment www.EliteBodyPilates.net info@EliteBodyPilates.net 212-717-1302

 
11:00am

The Athletics of Intimacy, Improvisations

Movement Research
Classes combine skills and applications of Body-Mind Centering® systems and patterns of development and evolution, practices of Contact Improvisation, and tunings of somatic approaches within solo, duet (strong emphasis on partnering) and ensemble dancing. I am interested in the very physical, sensorial and imaginative, and in discovering new challenges and risks within our movement, of both body…

 
1:00pm

5-6 year old Pre-Ballet Class

Young Performers Dance Academy
This is for the youngest of our Young Performers. The Youngest Performers Pre-Ballet Class is for 5-6 year olds.  This class introduces dance movement through creative movement exercises, while promoting imagination, coordination, balance, musicality and rhythm. This class is designed to be fun and playful while preparing your child with the fundamentals of ballet and dance.  Classes are held every…

 
1:45pm

5-6 year old Pre-Ballet Class

Young Performers Dance Academy
This is for the youngest of our Young Performers. The Youngest Performers Pre-Ballet Class is for 5-6 year olds.  This class introduces dance movement through creative movement exercises, while promoting imagination, coordination, balance, musicality and rhythm. This class is designed to be fun and playful while preparing your child with the fundamentals of ballet and dance.  Classes are held every…

 
2:00pm
$10 Tango Trial

$10 Tango Trial

Strictly Tango
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. It is a lot of…

 
3:00pm
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…

 
3:30pm
Adult Pointe Class

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…

 
3:45pm

Raqs Sharqi-belly dance classes

TORKOMADA, Inc.
Ongoing Raqs Sharqi/Middle Eastern dance classes on Saturdays in Astoria, NY 11103. Spread the joy and happiness of MIDDLE EASTERN AND NORTH AFRICAN DANCE. To your community, family and friends by learning…

 
4:00pm
Luminata

Luminata

West Harlem Art Fund
Luminata: It is our light Choreographers: Ellen Maynard and Autumn Scoggan Location:  Under The Viaduct at 125th Street and 12th Avenue near the West Harlem Piers Performers: Ellen Maynard, Autumn Scoggan, Madeline Irmen, Quentin Burley, Emily Jones, Theresa Elwell, Melanie Gallo, Erin Kerr, Ava Untermeyer, Jazmine Dugall Synopsis: This group dance will occur at sunset; and as the afternoon sun…

 
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
2:00pm
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…

 
2:00pm

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…

 
4:00pm
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…

 
4:00pm
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…

 
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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