Current events:
Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition March 18-23, 2019 200+ dancers, from 20 countries around the world, will come to New York to dance, in both classical and contemporary styles, for medals, scholarships, and company contracts. Judges will once again include Andris Liepa, Charles Jude, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, New Jersey Ballet's Paul McRaeand other international dance figures. And congratulations to Valentina Kozlova on being named by the Carnegie Corp. as a 2018 Distinguished Immigrant. |
SOKOLOW THEATRE/DANCE ENSEMBLE in "I'm not here to be polite"
March 21-24 The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble presents "I'm not here to be polite" (taken from Anna Sokolow's remark "I'm not here to be polite, I'm here to tell the truth"). Veteran dancers will be joined by a new generation of Sokolow dancers in Sokolow's 1968 "Steps of Silence" and "Three Poems" (1973). Also on the program is Valerie Bettis' famed 1943 solo "The Desperate Heart," and works by Jim May and Robert Cleary. |
Pentacle Series at the Rubin Museum
starts March 27
March 27: Zvi Gotheiner Dance Company |
Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company
March 28 & 29 at 7:30 PM; March 31 at 3 PM
Lori Belilove and company celebrate Isadora Duncan with three salon performances of Duncan dances to music by Chopin, Gluck, and Brahms, played live. A wine and cheese reception follows each performance. |
Loretta Thomas' Moving Visions
April 4, 5, 6 at 8 PM
A program of new dances by Loretta Thomas and Catherine Gallant, and historical dances by Isadora Duncan. Performed in collaboration with Ensemble 212 Chamber Orchestra, Yoon Jae Lee, conductor. |
New York Scandia Symphony
Thursday April 11 at 8 PM
Conductor Dorrit Matson conducts the New York Scandia Symphony in music by Carl Nielsen (his Overture to "Maskarade" and Symphony No. 5) and Finnish clarinetist/composer Bernhard Crusell's Clarinet Concerto Opus 5 featuring Steven Hartman, clarinet. |
MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET
April 11 & 12 (6:30 & 8:30 daily)
A tribute to composer Ursula Mamlock in the historic Fifth Avenue townhouse, Choreography by Magloire, Rebecca Walden, and Mara Driscoll; performed by New Chamber Ballet with the Momenta String Quartet and guest soloists. |
NEWSTEPS
April 11-13 at 7:30 PM
Chen Dance Center presents newsteps: a choreographers series, its semi-annual emerging choreographers presentation. Selected through an open audition by judges H.T. Chen, Rosalind Newman, Walter Rutledge, Elizabeth Keen, and Lance Westergard are choreographers Annie Heath, Mat Elder, Spencer Weidie, Erin Bryce Holmes, Tanner Ryan, and Aaron Girard. |
MARK DeGARMO DANCE FOR DANCE ANNUAL BENEFIT
Wednesday April 17, 6:30 to 9 PM
Mark DeGarmo Dance honoros Nia Imani Franklin, Miss America 2019, with its inaugural Arts Education Advocate Award 2019 at its annual fundraising gala. Ms. Franklin, who will also perform at the event, is a classically trained singer and a passionate supporter of the arts and arts education.. The festive evening also include a student performance, drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and a silent auction. MC is comedian Nat Towsen. |
VALENTINA KOZLOVA DANCE CONSERVATORY
April 20, time t.b.a.
The annual performance by Kozlova's Dance Conservatory, now located in a luxurious facility in Norwalk, Ct. Program will feature original works along with excerpts from the classics. |
Soaking WET
May 16-19
programs t.b.a. |
Dance Parade
May 18
The Parade in 2018 took place on a rainy windy day in NYC, but the thousands of participants, in over 80 different styles of dance, paraded joyously in the rain - as we know, the dancers always come through!!! Hoping for better weather this year for Dance Parade. |
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CHRISTOPHER CAINES DANCE
May 18, May 23, and June 1, all at 8 PM
Three programs with the world premiere of Christopher Caines Dance in Caines' "listen our loud / move to keep things whole." Programs also includes works by David Parker and Amber Sloan, who will also dance James Waring's solo "12 Objects from Tender buttons." |
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MIMI GARRARD and AUSTIN SELDEN
Sunday May 26, 7 PM
Mimi Garrard Dance Company returns to NYLA with dancer/choreographer Austin Selden, former member of Shen Wei Dance Company, for a program of three premieres of dance, live and on film. |
LIMON DANCE COMPANY
May 29-June 2
The Company, under artistic director Colin Connor, returns to the Joyce with classic works by Jose Limon, including his Psalm and The Moor's Pavane, as well as new works. |
LYDIA JOHNSON DANCE
June 5-7
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Eliot Feld Kids Dance June 6-9 The whiz-kids, all trained at Feld's tuition-free school, return in a repertory of works by Feld and guest choreographers created especially for young dancers. |
MIRO MAGLOIRE NEW CHAMBER BALLET
June 7 & 8
Works by Magloire, Gabrielle Lamb, and Constantine Baecher. |