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Fri 1st
PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUE class with improv/composition by Jim May
Sokolow Ensemble
Thursdays & Fridays 10:00-12:00 pm
Jim May will give a demanding technical modern dance barre leading to movement through space whose goal is to develop rhythm, style, expression and an ability or knowledge that can be used in creative expression. The class will culminate into improvisational exercise that develop choreographic ideas based on the artistic works and philosophy of Thomas Hard Benton.…
10:00am
Qi Gong: practicing being and seeing with Melanie Maar
Movement Research
In this class I offer space for a self nurturing, awake state, where we can explore and learn about principles of energetic and anatomic dynamics that can benefit people within their own practices and ways. I approach somatic, artistic and psychic as synergetic. We work with methods related to the 5 Element System like Iron Shirt, Sexual Energy Practices and Bagua Circling through image activation,…
10:00am
Juliette Mapp (Morning Class)
Movement Research
The merging of the unconscious life of movement and the conscious attention to physical direction is part of the energizing practice we will explore in each class. We will improvise in order to expand our awareness of breath, weight, tension and release, taking time to notice our body's qualitative presence moment-by-moment. We will follow by dancing within technical forms to expand our range and…
Intermediate ballet class
Joan Liu - dance and wellness & The Ballet Club
These drop-in based classes follow the principles of American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum with modifications to better serve the adult students. Strong emphasis on alignments and clean technique, while giving ample room for artistry to flourish. For those familiar with ABT's NTC, this is an approximately level 4/5 class.
*$17/class, cash only
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Joan Liu started her…
Martha Graham Dance Company Pre-Audition Workshop
Martha Graham Dance Company
PRE-AUDITION WORKSHOP
April 29 - May 1, 2015
(Workshop is not required for audition)
The Martha Graham Dance Company will offer a Pre-Audition Workshop, as well as a Technique Class, before our audition.
Pre-Audition Workshop, Technique Class, and Audition slots are still available for registration.
For more information visit: http://marthagraham.org/audition2015
For additional information…
Humphrey-Weidman classes with Gail Corbin
Sokolow Ensemble
Fridays 12:30-2:00 pm
This class is taught by Gail Corbin, a leading exponent in the technique and repertory of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Come and experience “Fall and Recovery” and explore in depth those principles: weight, suspension, successional flow through Humphrey’s purity of movement in the technique and learn excerpts from both Humphrey and Weidman’s rich and dynamic repertory.…
Dance With Me
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Ages: 18 Months- 2 3/4 years
$10 per session/$90 per 10 class card
NO REGISTRATION FEE REQUIRED
Mexican Folk Dance Workshop
Young Dancers In Repertory's Center for Dance Studies
Celebrating Diversity Through Dance Series continues with a FREE Mexican Folk Dance Workshop, Friday May 1st 6:00 pm at YDR's Center for Dance Studies 5602 5th Avenue Brooklyn
6:00pm
First Fridays! Dance
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Join us for a night of flamenco puro and contemporary dance. Four extraordinary artists from Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca will perform traditional flamenco presenting a range of comedy, joy, and sadness through dance. Artist and choreographer Nia Love will perform her new project entitled Recognize, an exploration of interpersonal relationships, with her young son, virtuoso drummer Kojo Roney.
Free…
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Asia Society
Kick off your weekend and celebrate the start of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a night at the museum — along with dancing, live music, street food, and more. Join us on Friday, May 1 from 6:00-9:00 pm at Asia Society headquarters on Park Avenue and 70th Street for festivities including:
MUSIC by Vietnamese-American DJ George Pihlgren
DANCING with NYC Bhangra
FREE MUSEUM TOURS of Buddhist…
Talk on Dance’s Repertoires: Transmission and Reenactment
with Linda Shelton, Executive Director, Joyce Theater; Yorgos Loukos, Director, Lyon Opera Ballet; Lance Gries, freelance dancer, choreographer, representing the Trisha Brown Dance Company; Trajal Harrell, artist-choreographer.
In conjunction with Lyon Opera Ballet's presence at the Joyce Theater, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy will host a talk on Dance’s Repertoires, Transmission…
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
7:00pm
Barnard/Columbia Dances at Miller Theatre
Barnard College
Friday, May 1 – Saturday, May 2, 7:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. Saturday)
The Barnard College department of dance presents three world premieres along with a revival of Gloria, staged by Marjorie Folkman ’91, and performed with live music conducted by Gail Archer, director of the Barnard/Columbia Chorus. The two day event includes works by John Heginbotham, a longtime member of the Mark Morris Dance Group;…
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:…
AND ALSO this
Chris McMillan
AND ALSO this builds upon a recently choreographed solo by Chris McMillan, Woman in Dress, which utilized somatic practices to explore concepts of external versus internal awareness, and expands on the notion of familiar and unfamiliar terrain. With a cast of three women, AND ALSO this ventures into the topography of the body and of an individual’s mental landscape, with particular attention given…
Steps Repertory Ensemble Spring Season
Steps Repertory Ensemble
Steps Repertory Ensemble will present three different programs of dances by Mike Esperanza, Francesca Harper, Jae Man Joo, Lar Lubovitch, and company artistic director Bradley Shelver, featuring two world premieres. The Ensemble, the resident company of Steps on Broadway, commissions choreographers, both established and emerging, to create new works and to restage repertory.
Night ( Thyestes 2.0)
The New Stage Theatre
Theater for the New City, in association with The New Stage Theatre Company, is presenting the world premiere of "Night (Thyestes 2.0)" by Charles L. Mee, directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth, from April 24 to May 10, 2015. The piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. Charles L. Mee imagined his play, "Night (Thyestes 2.0)," as a dance theatre piece with some…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL AT THE MARTHA GRAHAM THEATER
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | TOP FLOOR
April 30-May 3, 8PM (Thursday-Sunday). Four shared evenings of dance in the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune, 11th floor. $20
The starlit Martha Graham Studio at Westbeth offers two performance programs over four nights. All artists will present up to 10 minutes of original dance, in a shared evening format. Estimate run time: 1hr / no intermission
On Thursday, April…
curators: Jeanine Durning, Iréne Hultman, David Thomson
Food for Thought
Admission for Food for Thought is just $5 plus 2 cans of food*; or $10! No advance reservations.
Food for Thought presents multiple artists over one weekend with a different guest curator each evening.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30: This is not the end: an evening with the 2013-2015 Movement Research Artists-in-Residence curated by JEANINE DURNING
Featuring Ivy Baldwin, Whitney Hunter, Sam Kim, Joanna…
Performs New York City Premiere of NO STANDING ANY TIME
Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble
3 dancers & 3 musicians explore the nocturnal world between dreams. Featuring Grammy-nominated trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans. Choreography by Michele Brangwen, music by Tim Hagans, with sections of movement and music created spontaneously in the moment by all performers. "Inspired & Inspiring" - Ashley Kahn. The program also includes INVITATION where soprano saxophone, dancers, gong, woodblocks,…
8:00pm
Premiere of "Fracture"
Matthew Brookoff Dance Repertory Company
Choreographer Matthew Brookoff presents his company in the world premiere of "Fracture," a neo-classical ballet to a commissioned score by young composer Brad Crane, along with "In Love Again," a charmer to four great songs by Rodgers and Hart; and "Lyrical Male Suite #1: Songs of Love and Solitude." Dancers are Josh Christopher, Barton Cowperthwaite, Holly Curran, Jehbreal Jackson, Temple Kemezis,…
Avant-Garde-Arama: MAYDAY!
Abrons Arts Center
On loan from Performance Space 122
A tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Abrons’ Playhouse, this edition of Avant-Garde-Arama features artists who have helped to build the legacy of 21st Century performance, along with their picks for the next generation of groundbreaking, edge cutting, legacy making artists.
Friday May 1: Hosted by Penny Arcade and Erin Markey
Saturday May 2: Hosted by Carmelita…
FLAMENCO amalgama*
Thalia Spanish Theatre presents Danza España
Thalia Spanish Theatre
presents
DANZA ESPAÑA
Artistic Director YLOY YBARRA, Founder ANDREA DEL CONTE
in
FLAMENCO amalgama*
a collaboration with Omayra Amaya
Amalgama means a mixture of cultures.
An exciting show of traditional and contemporary flamenco music & dance
celebrating the various cultures that come together and are united by FLAMENCO.
April 24 to May 10, 2015
Fridays & Saturdays…
8:00pm
Fitness Instructor
Physique 57 Dubai
Are you passionate about health and fitness and also interested in traveling around the world? Do you have a background in dance? Physique 57 is looking for high-energy, creative and dynamic instructors to join our team in Dubai!
Physique 57 is an internationally renowned ballet-barre based fitness company that has been changing the way people look, feel, and live since 2006. Our program…
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…
Bloowst windku
Rebecca Davis
HERE presents Bloowst windku
By Rebecca Davis
A HERE Resident Artist Production
April 29-May 9 at 8:30pm
Tickets $20
Bloowst windku [bloom-twist-windmill-haiku] is an hour-long performance for three dancers in which sound, light, and movement are compositional equals. Within a glowing room constructed from hundreds of used security envelopes collected over three years, the familiar is rendered…
BEGINNER Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango
This course is meant for people who either never ever danced Tango or took few classes long time ago or took few lessons quite recently but are not sure what they know or if they are ready for next level.
It’s good to take this course to put all your information in order. You gain the necessary vocabulary and learn all the basic movements to be able to easily follow the explanations in Intermediate…
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:…
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Sat 2nd
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…
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…
Martha Graham Dance Company Audition
Martha Graham Dance Company
AUDITION FOR MALE AND FEMALE DANCERS
The Martha Graham Dance Company is seeking strong dancers with a broad range of current performance techniques, ballet as well as the Graham Technique. The Company guarantees 30 weeks of work per year to its core group of dancers. Dancers of the Graham Company are members of the American Guild of Musical Artists AFL-CIO.
You must register to guarantee a place…
It's Showtime NYC!
It's Showtime NYC!
WHERE Battery Park, New York, NY
WHEN on Saturdays through June 27th, 2015
WHAT Legal performance opportunities for street and subway dancers and free weekly public performances
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Come see NYC’s most talented hip-hop and street dance crews perform every Saturday through June from 12PM to 4PM at Battery Park.
‘It's Showtime NYC’ is a pilot program that provides legal…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL / ALL OVER WESTBETH
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | ALL OVER WESTBETH
May 2 & 3 at 2 pm. 2 days of site-specific performances. Guided Tours Every 15 Minutes, all tours start in Westbeth Courtyard. Last Tour departs at 3:30PM. FREE EVENT
This walking tour led by Westbeth residents will share a series of short, site-specific live performances all over the iconic artsts’ residence—courtyard, basement, rooftop, studios and stairwells. …
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…
4:30pm
Workshop with Melinda Ring
Movement Research
Composing Relationships
Not as beginners, but with a beginner’s mind, we’ll examine and question the relationships (actual and conceptual) that we want to manifest in our dances. We’ll work through a variety of exercises to gather compositional tools in how to extend movement from one person to another. Please note: we’ll be working in a territory where lifts occur by happenstance, not design,…
TANGO CLASSES- ADVANCED
Thalia Spanish Theatre
Learn to dance TANGO with award-winning dancers YAISURI SALAMANCA & JOHN HERNAN RAIGOSA!
BEGINNERS: Mondays 7:30-8:30pm
April 6 to June 29, 2015
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ADVANCED: Saturdays 5-6pm
April 11 to June 27, 2015
FEE: $240 for 12 Classes- $25 INDIVIDUAL CLASS
20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
STEELEDANCE
STEELEDANCE 20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Featuring:
Devastating Beauty (world premiere)
Music mixed by: DJ Heinz
Costumes by: Nadia Tarr
Lighting: Brant Murray
Performed by: Zoë Blake, Hollis Bartlett, Jake Bone, Carolyn Cryer, Chris Coates, Meredith Fages, Marc Mann, Amber Morgan, Donnell Oakley, Tamora Petitt-Hendry, Yarden Raz, Jordan Risdon, Alex Dean Speedie, Elizabeth Steele, Oliver Steele, Teri…
AND ALSO this
Chris McMillan
AND ALSO this builds upon a recently choreographed solo by Chris McMillan, Woman in Dress, which utilized somatic practices to explore concepts of external versus internal awareness, and expands on the notion of familiar and unfamiliar terrain. With a cast of three women, AND ALSO this ventures into the topography of the body and of an individual’s mental landscape, with particular attention given…
Steps Repertory Ensemble Spring Season
Steps Repertory Ensemble
Steps Repertory Ensemble will present three different programs of dances by Mike Esperanza, Francesca Harper, Jae Man Joo, Lar Lubovitch, and company artistic director Bradley Shelver, featuring two world premieres. The Ensemble, the resident company of Steps on Broadway, commissions choreographers, both established and emerging, to create new works and to restage repertory.
"Giselle" Suite - Face to Face Serie
Ajkun Ballet Theatre
Virtuoso, mysterious, gentle, and melancholy, Giselle is an intoxicating immersion in the romantic era. Restaged by Leonard Ajkun after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot to the score of Adolphe Adam, the supernatural touch and lightness of the Wilis, and the splendid sophistication of Albrecht, Giselle makes even the music palpitate with her. The Face to Face series affords the audience a close-up to the…
Night ( Thyestes 2.0)
The New Stage Theatre
Theater for the New City, in association with The New Stage Theatre Company, is presenting the world premiere of "Night (Thyestes 2.0)" by Charles L. Mee, directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth, from April 24 to May 10, 2015. The piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. Charles L. Mee imagined his play, "Night (Thyestes 2.0)," as a dance theatre piece with some…
Volunteer Dancers for May Performances
CKDance
We need volunteer dancers, good at modern and hiphop, for 2 dance festivals happening may2 and may16 in Manhattan
The piece is 2mn long, rehearsals are in Brooklyn and Manhattan 3 times this week depending on the group main availability
Please reply asap if interested: cecileklaus@gmail.com
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL AT THE MARTHA GRAHAM THEATER
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | TOP FLOOR
April 30-May 3, 8PM (Thursday-Sunday). Four shared evenings of dance in the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune, 11th floor. $20
The starlit Martha Graham Studio at Westbeth offers two performance programs over four nights. All artists will present up to 10 minutes of original dance, in a shared evening format. Estimate run time: 1hr / no intermission
On Thursday, April…
curators: Jeanine Durning, Iréne Hultman, David Thomson
Food for Thought
Admission for Food for Thought is just $5 plus 2 cans of food*; or $10! No advance reservations.
Food for Thought presents multiple artists over one weekend with a different guest curator each evening.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30: This is not the end: an evening with the 2013-2015 Movement Research Artists-in-Residence curated by JEANINE DURNING
Featuring Ivy Baldwin, Whitney Hunter, Sam Kim, Joanna…
YoungArts@BAC: Dance, Music, Theater + Voice Performance Directed by Jay Scheib
YoungArts New York
Come marvel at a dance, music, theater and voice performance by the next Ricky Ubeda, Jennifer Koh, Kerry Washington and Chris Young (all YoungArts Alumni). The multidisciplinary performance directed by theatre and opera director Jay Scheib is one of four public events during YoungArts New York, an annual week long program that supports more than 100 emerging artists (ages 15-18) from the tri-state…
8:00pm
Premiere of "Fracture"
Matthew Brookoff Dance Repertory Company
Choreographer Matthew Brookoff presents his company in the world premiere of "Fracture," a neo-classical ballet to a commissioned score by young composer Brad Crane, along with "In Love Again," a charmer to four great songs by Rodgers and Hart; and "Lyrical Male Suite #1: Songs of Love and Solitude." Dancers are Josh Christopher, Barton Cowperthwaite, Holly Curran, Jehbreal Jackson, Temple Kemezis,…
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
Avant-Garde-Arama: MAYDAY!
Abrons Arts Center
On loan from Performance Space 122
A tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Abrons’ Playhouse, this edition of Avant-Garde-Arama features artists who have helped to build the legacy of 21st Century performance, along with their picks for the next generation of groundbreaking, edge cutting, legacy making artists.
Friday May 1: Hosted by Penny Arcade and Erin Markey
Saturday May 2: Hosted by Carmelita…
FLAMENCO amalgama*
Thalia Spanish Theatre presents Danza España
Thalia Spanish Theatre
presents
DANZA ESPAÑA
Artistic Director YLOY YBARRA, Founder ANDREA DEL CONTE
in
FLAMENCO amalgama*
a collaboration with Omayra Amaya
Amalgama means a mixture of cultures.
An exciting show of traditional and contemporary flamenco music & dance
celebrating the various cultures that come together and are united by FLAMENCO.
April 24 to May 10, 2015
Fridays & Saturdays…
Spring for Isadora!
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company
We invite you to a party with performances by
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company,
celebrating Isadora Duncan's 138th birthday
Saturday, May 2, 2015, 8:00 p.m.
at Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
141 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
$50 General Admission
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$25 Children (12 and under)
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*Limited seating capacity*
Pre-paid reservations…
Triskelion Arts Presents... B.S. Movement & the feath3r theory
Triskelion Arts
B.S. Movement & the feath3r theory
Saturday and Sunday, May 2 - 3, 2015 at 8pm
at Triskelion Arts’ Muriel Schulman Theater
106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 (Enter on Banker Street)
Tickets: $16, http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1149345
In their newest work, B.S. Movement continues their fascination with the cyclical nature of relationships and living. The work offers the observer…
Bloowst windku
Rebecca Davis
HERE presents Bloowst windku
By Rebecca Davis
A HERE Resident Artist Production
April 29-May 9 at 8:30pm
Tickets $20
Bloowst windku [bloom-twist-windmill-haiku] is an hour-long performance for three dancers in which sound, light, and movement are compositional equals. Within a glowing room constructed from hundreds of used security envelopes collected over three years, the familiar is rendered…
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Sun 3rd
LEIMAY Weekly Performance Lab
leimay
LEIMAY weekly lab is led by artistic director Ximena Garnica and open to performers with keen physical and sensory ability interested in working with LEIMAY and being considered for future projects. It is a donation based drop-in movement exploration based class. Manipulation of space, time and body through the transformation of embodied imagery are a key element in the work of LEIMAY’s performers.
LEIMAY…
AUDITION DANCE'S START UP VI
Leggere Strutture Art Factory
A Professional Program for dancers lasting 8 months for a total of 960h of training from October 2015 to May 2016.
The platform is composed by daily classical and contemporary training, monthly workshops with national and international artist , composition and improvisation work held by the teachers and from the guest artist.
Workshops of this year will be attended by, Eduardo Torroja, Blenard Azizaj,…
Dutch Kills Green
WEST HARLEM ART FUND
Dutch Kills Green is a re-invention of the tour experience. Usually, participants gain knowledge or understanding from a built environment that is privately controlled. The West Harlem Art Fund is offering new experiences in the public realm where people can interact with each other more and connect. The Fleet, in collaboration with the curator Savona, developed six dance videos. The works creatively…
1:30pm
Isadora Duncan: The Body and Spirit in Dance Education
92Y Dance Education Laboratory (DEL)
Learn how Isadora Duncan’s innovative spirit revolutionized dance education in the early 20th century, inspiring subsequent generations.
Experience the Duncan technique and repertoire, guided by experts in the field. Attendance at this workshop enables you to share this important work from dance history with your students in K to 12 and beyond.
Sun, Apr 26 & May 3, 1:30-6:30 pm, 2 Sessions, $185…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL / ALL OVER WESTBETH
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | ALL OVER WESTBETH
May 2 & 3 at 2 pm. 2 days of site-specific performances. Guided Tours Every 15 Minutes, all tours start in Westbeth Courtyard. Last Tour departs at 3:30PM. FREE EVENT
This walking tour led by Westbeth residents will share a series of short, site-specific live performances all over the iconic artsts’ residence—courtyard, basement, rooftop, studios and stairwells. …
Other Myths / Jonah Bokaer / Lightbox
Chez Bushwick / Jonah Bokaer
Other Myths by choreographer Jonah Bokaer offers intercultural myths and histories which expand our understanding of dance.
Bokaer turned to mythology from other cultures, partly because abstract dance in the United States and Western Europe has resisted the use of mythology in recent decades – often effacing cultures whose story-telling remains marginal, or under-represented. The five dancers have…
Night ( Thyestes 2.0)
The New Stage Theatre
Theater for the New City, in association with The New Stage Theatre Company, is presenting the world premiere of "Night (Thyestes 2.0)" by Charles L. Mee, directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth, from April 24 to May 10, 2015. The piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. Charles L. Mee imagined his play, "Night (Thyestes 2.0)," as a dance theatre piece with some…
3:00pm
RIOULT Dance NY at Purchase College
RIOULT Dance NY
RIOULT Dance NY, a leading American modern dance company with a classic sensibility, will perform on Sunday, May 3, at 3:00 pm at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY as a part of The Center’s DANCE Series. Ticket prices are $45 and $55; tickets are available at www.artscenter.org or by calling the box office at 914-251-6200.
The performance will…
YoungArts New York | Jazz, Music + Voice Performance Directed by Christian Hebel
YoungArts New York
Come see a performance by the next jazz, music and voice stars following in the footsteps of Terence Blanchard, Jennifer Koh, and Chris Young (all YoungArts Alumni). This multidisciplinary performance directed by Wicked Concertmaster Christian Hebel is one of four public events during YoungArts New York, an annual week long program that supports more than 100 emerging artists (ages 15-18) from the…
Murray Louis: From the Horse's Mouth
Abrons Arts Center
From the Horse's Mouth celebrates Murray Louis, dancer, choreographer, teacher, mentor, and overall force of nature, who with Alwin Nikolais helped to shape the heart and history of dance at Henry Street Settlement. Twenty-five outstanding dancers, choreographers, critics, and friends of all ages and traditions will share their stories of Murray through their own unique styles of dance. Conceived…
3:00pm
Murray Louis: From the Horse's Mouth
Abrons Arts Center
From the Horse's Mouth celebrates Murray Louis, dancer, choreographer, teacher, mentor, and overall force of nature, who with Alwin Nikolais helped to shape the heart and history of dance at Henry Street Settlement. Twenty-five outstanding dancers, choreographers, critics, and friends of all ages and traditions will share their stories of Murray through their own unique styles of dance. Concieved…
FLAMENCO amalgama*
Thalia Spanish Theatre presents Danza España
Thalia Spanish Theatre
presents
DANZA ESPAÑA
Artistic Director YLOY YBARRA, Founder ANDREA DEL CONTE
in
FLAMENCO amalgama*
a collaboration with Omayra Amaya
Amalgama means a mixture of cultures.
An exciting show of traditional and contemporary flamenco music & dance
celebrating the various cultures that come together and are united by FLAMENCO.
April 24 to May 10, 2015
Fridays & Saturdays…
5:00pm
Sunday Process Lab with Aretha Aoki
Movement Research
The Dancer is a Haunted House
The Dancer is a Haunted House I would like to share some improvisation structures and containers for research that I have found fruitful in making and performing. We will invite the seen and unseen murmurings of past, present, and future to surface in spontaneous dancing, writing, sounding, and speaking--using the principles of automatic writing to structure improvisations…
6:00pm
Performance in Central Park, NEXT WEEKEND!
Private Event Performance
Dancers needed for an independent performance next weekend in Central Park!
I am an independanct performer/choreographer here in the city and I am choreographing a flash mob type performance in Central Park for next Sunday, May 5th.
The commitment will entail:
2 short rehearsals- Friday May 1st (afternoon, time tbd) and Saturday May 2nd (evening, time tbd) and then the event Sunday at 6pm.…
Other Myths / Jonah Bokaer / Lightbox
Chez Bushwick / Jonah Bokaer
Other Myths by choreographer Jonah Bokaer offers intercultural myths and histories which expand our understanding of dance.
Bokaer turned to mythology from other cultures, partly because abstract dance in the United States and Western Europe has resisted the use of mythology in recent decades – often effacing cultures whose story-telling remains marginal, or under-represented. The five dancers have…
WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL AT THE MARTHA GRAHAM THEATER
WestFest Dance
WESTFEST | TOP FLOOR
April 30-May 3, 8PM (Thursday-Sunday). Four shared evenings of dance in the Martha Graham Studio Theater, 55 Bethune, 11th floor. $20
The starlit Martha Graham Studio at Westbeth offers two performance programs over four nights. All artists will present up to 10 minutes of original dance, in a shared evening format. Estimate run time: 1hr / no intermission
On Thursday, April…
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
Triskelion Arts Presents... B.S. Movement & the feath3r theory
Triskelion Arts
B.S. Movement & the feath3r theory
Saturday and Sunday, May 2 - 3, 2015 at 8pm
at Triskelion Arts’ Muriel Schulman Theater
106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 (Enter on Banker Street)
Tickets: $16, http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1149345
In their newest work, B.S. Movement continues their fascination with the cyclical nature of relationships and living. The work offers the observer…
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Mon 4th
mind eraser II
johannes wieland
mind eraser // a three day process orientated text- and movementworkshop
pre-recorded audio files taken from different sources are the point of initiation in this workshop. we will interpret the files and through task experiements, find performative possibilities. how is the message altered when movement becomes a second layer? through re-organization? through looping? the workshop is unbiased…
10:00am
Qi Gong: practicing being and seeing with Melanie Maar
Movement Research
In this class I offer space for a self nurturing, awake state, where we can explore and learn about principles of energetic and anatomic dynamics that can benefit people within their own practices and ways. I approach somatic, artistic and psychic as synergetic. We work with methods related to the 5 Element System like Iron Shirt, Sexual Energy Practices and Bagua Circling through image activation,…
10:00am
Joanna Kotze (Morning Class)
Movement Research
Intended as both laboratory and technique class, we will delve into the design of the body and its potential within a given moment. Through stretch and placement, technique studies, and movement phrases, habits will be discovered, challenged, and seen through a new lens. A concentration on the forces through the legs will lead to finding more range in separate body parts and ways to use weight into…
Advanced Ballet with Kyla Ernst-Alper
Brooklyn AirSpace
Advanced Ballet with Kyla Ernst-Alper at Brooklyn AirSpace
Mondays 10-11:30am
$18/$15 with our Ground Monthly Membership
more info at brooklynairspace.com
12:00pm
Janet Panetta - Ballet for Contemporary Dancer
Movement Research
MON, TUES, THURS, FRI 12-2pm
Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway
$17/class ($120 for an 8-Class Card, valid for one month and for this class only. MR Class Cards not applicable.)
As a veteran of the American Ballet Theatre, Janet Panetta also has a broad experience of contemporary dance forms. She has trained dancers in many of the major American companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York…
Yo-Dan-Nastics™ (blend of yoga, dance, and gymnastics) FREE TRIAL CLASS
Keoni Movement Arts
Yo-Dan-Nastics™ is a unique blend of Yoga, Dance, and Gymnastics that provides a great cross-training workout for the body, mind and spirit. This class begins with a yoga and dance based warmup and builds up to basic tumbling moves. Expand your movement vocabulary to improve your auditions and choreography, and develop calm and concentration to help all areas of your life. 15-class series begins…
6:00 - 7:15pm - LEVEL 1 Milonga
Argentine Tango Classes NYC
We assume you know that in Milongas we actually dance to 3 different musics: Tango, Milonga and Vals. And no - Vals is not a faster and happier Tango. It definitely is faster, and definitely happier, but has its own steps, its own musicality and its own rules.
You have two choices - you can start to learn all 3 types of Tango at the same time. It will be difficult, but rewarding. a??Or: You can start…
ADVANCED Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango
This course focuses primarily on creating the connection between partners, developing, bettering and enhancing your leading and following abilities necessary to improvise the dance. Now when you know most of the letters in alphabet we want you to be able to create words and sentences in a clear manner that your partner is able to understand.
You tango vocabulary will be enriched even more by…
Modern Technique with Jenny Rocha
Brooklyn AirSpace
Modern Technique with Jenny Rocha at Brooklyn AirSpace
Mondays 6:30-8pm
Tuesdays 10-11:30am $18/$15 with our Ground Monthly Membership
more info at brooklynairspace.com
im•pe•tus
Saskia Kivilo
im•pe•tus is an exploration of expressions of dance through various media. It is about what makes us move, and how we express that. It is a celebration of artists who are making dance with a multi-disciplinary approach.
im•pe•tus will feature photography by Saskia Kivilo, videos by Matt Luck and Jenna Maslechko, and choreography by Kelly Browning, Gabrielle Clarke, Saskia Kivilo, Alexa Luke,…
Intermediate Corde Lisse - Aerial Rope
Brooklyn AirSpace
Intermediate corde lisse (aerial rope) classes at Brooklyn AirSpace
Mondays 7-8:30pm with Paul Hawxhurst
$40/class
class is limited to 4 students. sign up at brooklynairspace.com to reserve your spot.
Beginning Aerial Silks
Brooklyn AirSpace
Beginning aerial silks classes at Brooklyn AirSpace
Mondays 7-8pm with Kyla Ernst-Alper
Tuesdays 7-8pm with Shalva Wise
$30/class
class is limited to 6 students. sign up at brooklynairspace.com to reserve your spot
7:20 - 8:35pm - LEVEL 2 Milonga
Argentine Tango Classes NYC
We assume you know that in Milongas we actually dance to 3 different musics: Tango, Milonga and Vals. And no - Vals is not a faster and happier Tango. It definitely is faster, and definitely happier, but has its own steps, its own musicality and its own rules.
You have two choices - you can start to learn all 3 types of Tango at the same time. It will be difficult, but rewarding. a??Or: You can start…
TANGO CLASSES FOR BEGINNERS
Thalia Spanish Theatre
Learn to dance TANGO with award-winning dancers YAISURI SALAMANCA & JOHN HERNAN RAIGOSA!
BEGINNERS: Mondays 7:30-8:30pm
April 6 to June 29, 2015
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ADVANCED: Saturdays 5-6pm
April 11 to June 27, 2015
FEE: $240 for 12 Classes- $25 INDIVIDUAL CLASS
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
8:00pm
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Movement Research
Ivy Baldwin**, Vanessa Justice, Mina Nishimura**, Vicky Shick***
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.
8:40 - 9:55pm - LEVEL 3 Milonga
Argentine Tango Classes NYC
We assume you know that in Milongas we actually dance to 3 different musics: Tango, Milonga and Vals. And no - Milonga is not a faster and happier Tango. It definitely is faster, and definitely happier, but has its own steps, its own musicality and its own rules.
You have two choices - you can start to learn all 3 types of Tango at the same time. It will be difficult, but rewarding. a??Or: You can…
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Tue 5th
Pilates Mat with Amanda MacLeod
Brooklyn AirSpace
Pilates Mat classes with Amanda MacLeod at Brooklyn AirSpace
Tuesdays 8:30-9:30am
Thursdays 8-9am
$16/$13 with our Ground Monthly Membership
more info at brooklynairspace.com
mind eraser II
johannes wieland
mind eraser // a three day process orientated text- and movementworkshop
pre-recorded audio files taken from different sources are the point of initiation in this workshop. we will interpret the files and through task experiements, find performative possibilities. how is the message altered when movement becomes a second layer? through re-organization? through looping? the workshop is unbiased…
Pilates Tower Class
Elite Body Pilates
Open classes for small groups on Pilates Tower equipment
www.EliteBodyPilates.net
info@EliteBodyPilates.net
212-717-1302
10:00am
John Jasperse (Morning Class)
Movement Research
The class will begin with an anatomy focused warm-up, drawn from both traditional and recent techniques, aiming to align and re-pattern the energy flow in the body in order to find support from the floor and our connection into space. We will begin with simple movements, improvisation scores, exercises, and sequences gradually building in complexity. We will learn movement material, some from Jasperse’s…
10:00am
C O R E M O T I O N Inner Structure with Daria Faïn
Movement Research
This class focuses on the inner structure of the body. The foundation of the structural focus is the alignment of the body and its relation to gravity. These principles are put into practice by means of a system of exercises using Qi Gong principles and forms. These exercises include deep release of the abdominal and visceral area with breathing and a simple succession of postures, and movements that…
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 in class engages us in a process that facilitates change. We work to right the pelvis on top of the legs, with the deep connections closest to the bones, and free the upper body and spine to move with ease and expression. Working on the level of the bone, we can let go of unnecessary tensions and habits…
Modern Technique with Jenny Rocha
Brooklyn AirSpace
Modern Technique with Jenny Rocha at Brooklyn AirSpace
Mondays 6:30-8pm
Tuesdays 10-11:30am $18/$15 with our Ground Monthly Membership
more info at brooklynairspace.com
12:00pm
Janet Panetta - Ballet for Contemporary Dancer
Movement Research
MON, TUES, THURS, FRI 12-2pm
Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway
$17/class ($120 for an 8-Class Card, valid for one month and for this class only. MR Class Cards not applicable.)
As a veteran of the American Ballet Theatre, Janet Panetta also has a broad experience of contemporary dance forms. She has trained dancers in many of the major American companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York…
DAMAGEDANCE/Jessica Taylor Master Class at Peridance
Peridance Capezio Center
DAMAGEDANCE Master Class Series I
with Jessica Taylor
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This workshop/audition will be jam-packed with strength and technique, improv, contemporary partnering, and phrasework. Founder and Artistic Director of DAMAGEDANCE, Jessica Taylor has presented work all over New York City and the Midwest, as well as the United Kingdom. You will begin…
Free Open Sessions at the College of Staten Island
Dance To The People
Dance To The People is working on a piece to be presented at the Williamson Theater by next Fall (date TBD). We're holding sessions simultaneously at the College of Staten Island and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. The class section of every session is open to all, the choreography section is for those who would like to commit to a number of meetings in order to be a part of our piece. Please register…
2:00pm
Pilates Mat Class for Dancers with Johanna S. Meyer
Movement Research
This class focuses on clear alignment, stabilizing the hypermobile body and a deep investigation of functional strength for dance. As dancers and somatic movers we need connected, consistent strength and support. We benefit massively from cross training, centering our minds and building an impeccable understanding of our vessel by balancing the extreme ranges of motion we perform on a daily basis.
3:00pm
Irene Dowd: Neuromuscular Preparation for Dance
Movement Research
Irene will teach selections of the material choreographed in response to her interaction with professional dancers and dance teachers in the past as well as new material she is creating now. These choreographies can be used as a very efficient warm-up for dance, as well as a musculo-skeletal conditioning program, neuro-muscular fine-tuning, and mental preparation for the greater awareness and expansiveness…
Danspace Project 40th Anniversary Gala honoring EIKO OTAKE & WENDY WHELAN
Danspace Project 40th Anniversary Gala
Danspace Project's 40th Anniversary Gala honors Eiko Otake & Wendy Whelan, two trailblazing women of contemporary performance.
Eiko Otake for her quiet fearlessness, as one half of Eilo & Koma for four decades, and now as a solo performer in the Body in Places project.
Wendy Whelan for her ferocious grace, as a star dancer with New York City Ballet for three decades, and now as she travels…
6:00 - 7:15pm - LEVEL 1 Tango Vals
Argentine Tango Classes NYC
We assume you know that in Milongas we actually dance to 3 different musics: Tango, Milonga and Vals. And no - Vals is not a faster and happier Tango. It definitely is faster, and definitely happier, but has its own steps, its own musicality and its own rules.
You have two choices - you can start to learn all 3 types of Tango at the same time. It will be difficult, but rewarding. a??Or: You can start…
Hula Mixed Level with Makalina
Lotus Music and Dance
Hula Mixed Level
with Makalina
Tuesdays 6pm -7 pm
Jan 13th - June 2015
Pearl Stuudios
500 8th Avenue 4th Floor
New York New York
8 Class Card : $160 (8 x $20=160)
Single Session - $25
This class will take beginning students through the basic steps and terminology of Hula, the expressive and beautiful dance of Hawai'i. Cultural history and initial movements will be explained the…
6:15pm
Studies Project: Dance and Labor
Movement Research
Organized in dialogue with Movement Research, luciana achugar, Abigail Levine and Kathy Westwater
How is dance labor valued? How has it been valued? How might it be? And how can we affect the value assigned to this labor? These questions will be considered across a spectrum of contexts, including individual and institutional, organized and spontaneous, and historical and anecdotal to explore how performance…
BEGINNER Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango
This course is meant for people who either never ever danced Tango or took few classes long time ago or took few lessons quite recently but are not sure what they know or if they are ready for next level.
It’s good to take this course to put all your information in order. You gain the necessary vocabulary and learn all the basic movements to be able to easily follow the explanations in Intermediate…
Beginning Lyra
Brooklyn AirSpace
Beginning lyra (aerial hoop) classes at Brooklyn AirSpace
Tuesdays 6:30-7:30pm with Kyla Ernst-Alper
$30/class
class is limited to 6 students. sign up at brooklynairspace.com to reserve your spot.
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…
Beginning Aerial Silks
Brooklyn AirSpace
Beginning aerial silks classes at Brooklyn AirSpace
Mondays 7-8pm with Kyla Ernst-Alper
Tuesdays 7-8pm with Shalva Wise
$30/class
class is limited to 6 students. sign up at brooklynairspace.com to reserve your spot
Ori Tahiti
Lotus Music & Dance
Ori Tahiti Mixed Level
with Carol Leogite
Tuesday 7pm-8pm
Starting Jan 20, 2015
Drop in $25
Classcard 8 Sessions - $160 ($20 per class)
This class will teach you the basic movements of Tahitian Ori (dance) with a concentration on the Tahitian Otea(rapid Tahitian Dance style). Students will learn key steps and hand gestures performed to Tahitian drums and songs.
Body Expenditures: Excesses, Depletions, and Smoke Breaks
Abrons Arts Center
Work with performance focusing on bodies under the influence of contemporary labor practices and the hard borders of geopolitics, law, and gender. In this studio-laboratory explore how relevant texts can translate into movement, how arbitrary borders become lived experience, and how work remakes the body. The culmination of this workshop series will be a group performance of the participant’s collective…
7:20 - 8:35pm - LEVEL 2 Tango Vals
Argentine Tango Classes NYC
We assume you know that in Milongas we actually dance to 3 different musics: Tango, Milonga and Vals. And no - Vals is not a faster and happier Tango. It definitely is faster, and definitely happier, but has its own steps, its own musicality and its own rules.
You have two choices - you can start to learn all 3 types of Tango at the same time. It will be difficult, but rewarding. a??Or: You can start…
Tango Teachers Training
Ultimate Tango
If you always dreamed about becoming a teacher, and better yet - Argentine Tango teacher - your time had arrived!
WE ARE LOOKING TO FILL 4 TEACHING POSITIONS at Beginner Level. For that we have created comprehensive Tango Teachers Training meant for those who have teaching charisma, want to spread Tango around and share their Tango passion with the newcomers by introducing them to Tango community.
Tango…
Advanced Lyra (aerial hoop)
Brooklyn AirSpace
Advanced lyra (aerial hoop) classes at Brooklyn AirSpace
Tuesdays 7:45-9:15pm with Jen Kovacs
$40/class
class is limited to 8 students. sign up at brooklynairspace.com to reserve your spot.
Two Premieres by Stoner
Jeanette Stoner and Dancers
Choreographer Jeanette Stoner, known for her very individual sense of dance/theater, often using the spoken word, will present her Jeanette Stoner and Dancers in two world premieres and repertory, performed by an ensemble of artists who have collaborated with Stoner over the years. Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner also returns as company lighting designer. The premieres are "Numinous," a solo for…
INTERMEDIATE Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango
This course furthers your knowledge about basic element of tango and extend your steps vocabulary, that can then used in improvisations. You will learn back and forward crosses, back and forward ochos and the difference between the two, giros to the left and right from front or back ochos, paradas and barridas, plus famous sandwich and mordida steps. The material is presented in very organized…
8:40 - 9:55pm - LEVEL 3 Tango Vals
Argentine Tango Classes NYC
We assume you know that in Milongas we actually dance to 3 different musics: Tango, Milonga and Vals. And no - Vals is not a faster and happier Tango. It definitely is faster, and definitely happier, but has its own steps, its own musicality and its own rules.
You have two choices - you can start to learn all 3 types of Tango at the same time. It will be difficult, but rewarding. a??Or: You can start…
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