November 11: What's on this Week:

November 12
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Milka Djordjevich, Emily Faulkner and Michou Szabo take part in this week's installment of this long-running series of new works. At 8pm.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South at Thompson Street

November 12
Batsheva Dance
Batsheva Dance Company's Artistic Director and world-renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin presents the first detailed public presentation of Gaga —Naharin's revolutionary movement language. Naharin works with Batsheva dancers to demonstrate this multi-textured style of moving, which has become an international myth in the dance world. Former New York Times chief dance critic Anna Kisselgoff moderates a discussion in this rare demonstration prior to the company's BAM engagement. At 5pm and 7:30pm.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
212-423-3634

November 12
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Milka Djordjevich, Emily Faulkner and Michou Szabo take part in this week's installment of this long-running series of new works. At 8pm.
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South at Thompson Street

November 12
Batsheva Dance
Batsheva Dance Company's Artistic Director and world-renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin presents the first detailed public presentation of Gaga —Naharin's revolutionary movement language. Naharin works with Batsheva dancers to demonstrate this multi-textured style of moving, which has become an international myth in the dance world. Former New York Times chief dance critic Anna Kisselgoff moderates a discussion in this rare demonstration prior to the company's BAM engagement. At 5pm and 7:30pm.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
212-423-3634

November 12-January 8 (opened October 15)
Men at Dance from Noh to Butoh
"Men at Dance–from Noh to Butoh", a photography exhibition by Miro Ito, is a visual representation of the dichotomy that characterizes Japanese performing arts of the past and present. Ito’s 50 photographs focus on two distinct forms of Japanese dance – Noh and Butoh – capturing the intrinsic qualities of each form, establishing a unique relationship between them. Noh, a traditional dance form, began in the 14th Century, whereas Butoh is a modern form, characterized by a subversion of conventional notions of dance.  Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 11-6pm, Monday, Thursday at 12-8pm, Saturday at 10-6pm.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
111 Amsterdam Avenue, at 65th Street
212-870-1630

November 12-January 30 (opened October 31)
Lincoln Kirstein: Alchemist
At his centennial, cultural institutions around New York City are celebrating writer, poet, and arts patron Lincoln Kirstein and his impact on American culture. Lincoln Kirstein: Alchemist focuses on the five dance companies he founded – the American Ballet, Ballet Caravan, American Ballet Caravan, Ballet Society, and the New York City Ballet. Each was, in its own way, experimental and pushed the edges of American culture and society. He brought choreographers together with young artists and composers, leading to masterpieces as different as Billy the Kid, Concerto Barocco, The Seasons, and Orpheus. Among the designers whose art is featured are Cecil Beaton, Aline Bernstein, Isamu Noguchi, Tchelitchew, and Ben Shahn, whose designs for the unproduced Tom are on display. The exhibition also recognizes Kirstein's role in the founding of the Library's Dance Collection, now the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday at 11am-6pm, Monday, Thursday at 12-8, Saturday at 10-6.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
111 Amsterdam Avenue, at 65th Street
212-870-1630

November 12-21 (opened October 22)
New York Butoh Festival
The third New YorkK Butoh Festival, with one month of performances and workshops by renowned butoh artists from around the world. Venues for performances and workshops include DTW, Noguchi Museum, the CAVE, and Japan Society. See www.nybf.caveartspace.org/ for locations.

November 13
Body Blend
Alison D'Amato, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Jin Ju Song and Tamara Yadao present works. At 8pm.
Dixon Place
258 Bowery between Houston and Prince Streets, second floor
212-219-0736

November 13, 15-17
Batsheva Dance Company
Whether hurtling through space or assuming a precarious balance, the members of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company are exquisitely attuned to one another. This quality was front and center in choreographer Ohad Naharin's affecting "Mamootot" (2005 Next Wave Festival), and is even more pronounced in "Three", an expansive three-part work that reveals the dancers’ kinetic gifts. At 7:30pm.
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn
718-636-4100

November 13-25
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson's Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns, with its unique blend of electrifying physicality, passion, and virtuosity. Highlights will include a new production of "Pretty Gritty Suite", Rhoden's sassy 2005 hit to the music of Nina Simone. "The Peace Project", a collaborative new work directed by Rhoden, features a duet with the illustrious Carmen deLavallade and Desmond Richardson and choreography from rising stars within the company. Tuesday-Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm and 7:30pm.
Joyce Theater
8th Avenue at 19th Street
212-242-0800

November 14-17
Faustin Linyekula
Dance Theater Workshop, in association with BRIC Arts | Media | Brooklyn, brings Faustin Linyekula to New York City for the first time. A dancer and choreographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Faustin creates potent work dealing with identity and the relationship between art and society. His work, "Festival of Lies", takes place amidst a festive party atmosphere in which food and drinks are served and a live band plays. Recorded speeches are heard offering promises and excuses, given by generations of world leaders. Performers compete to tell their stories as they create, destroy, and re-create labyrinthine landscapes of fluorescent lights, electrical cords, broken dolls, political flyers, and other urban detritus. At 8pm.
BRICstudio
BRIC Arts | Media | Brooklyn
647 Fulton Street, 2nd Floor
212-924-0077

November 14-18
Pennsylvania Ballet
Pennsylvania Ballet returns to New York City Center for the first time in twenty years with two dynamic programs. The first features live orchestra in a riveting new "Carmina Burana" choreographed by the company’s own Matthew Neenan. The second program features works by Balanchine, Neenan, and Val Caniparoli’s vibrant "Lambarena", a celebration of African and classical music and dance. Wednesday-Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm.
New York City Center
130 West 56th Street
212--247-0430

November 15-17
Beppie Blankert Danceconcerts
Two pioneers of the Dutch modern dance movement, Beppie Blankert and Bianca van Dillen collaborate to create "Oak Sacre", a dance concert inspired by the compositions of Igor Stravinsky and Johann Sebastian Bach. Actually two distinct works paired together, "Oak Sacre" demonstrates a new artistic development for the choreographers. Van Dillen, mainly known for her abstract dance pieces, now tackles narrative in Sacre, giving a new twist to the themes of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." At 8:30pm.
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
131 10th Street
212-674-8112

November 16-17
Gesel Mason Performance Projects
DC–based Gesel Mason Performance Projects presents "NO BOUNDARIES: Dancing the Vision of Contemporary Black Choreographers." This unique solo project, created and performed by Gesel Mason, features choreography and video dialogue by several of the nation's leading contemporary African-American choreographers, including Bebe Miller, Donald McKayle, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Andrea Woods and David Rousseve. At 8pm.
Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street
212-431-9233

November 16-18
Chen & Dancers
H.T. Chen and his 12-member company will premiere Chen's "Big Brother," inspired by recent real-life stories of Chinese-Americans put on trial or imprisoned for alleged espionage. A world of distrust, secrets, and "big brother" watching in this work that includes commissioned poetry by Peter Gregutt, and the experimental jazz music of Stewart Wallace (composer of the 1995 opera Harvey Milk). Friday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2:30pm.
LaMaMa E.T.C.
74A East 4th Street
212-475-7710

October 18-21
Splice: Alexandra Beller/Dancers & Adele Myers and Dancers
In this shared program, Alexandra Beller presents the premiere of a new company work, "what comes after happy", challenges the American obsession with happiness, deconstructing self-help manuals, spiritual guidance, and children's television in an effort to find out why we must be so happy.
Combining humor with robust athleticism and social commentary, Adele Myers transforms the theater with her dance for six women into an intimate and accessible space. Myers' satirical premiere of "Is That All There Is", exposes the cracks of the happily-after-after, pushing the performers to extremes and asking, Do you lose it, or keep it together? Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm.
Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd Floor, entrance on Chambers Street
212-625-8369

- compiled from official sources