What's on this week
November 26
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Abigail Levine and Pei-chun Wang, Kathy Ochoa and Wendy Osserman 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 26
Lincoln Center Tree Lighting Ceremony
The 18th annual Lincoln Center Tree Lighting Ceremony will feature excerpts from New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker" with principal dancer Megan Fairchild as the Sugarplum Fairy and soloist Tom Gold as Candy Cane, excerpts from the Metropolitan Opera's Hansel and Gretel; the Hot & Brass Band from New Orleans, and singer Dar Williams. At 5:30pm.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
63rd Street and Broadway
212-870-5570
November 26-December 7
Buglisi Dance Theatre
Experience the inside process of working and rehearsing with Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi and BDT with "Suspended Women Project." Monday-Friday at 4:30pm-7pm, Saturday at 3pm-5pm.
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
212-719- 3301
November 26
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Abigail Levine and Pei-chun Wang, Kathy Ochoa and Wendy Osserman 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 26
Lincoln Center Tree Lighting Ceremony
The 18th annual Lincoln Center Tree Lighting Ceremony will feature excerpts from New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker" with principal dancer Megan Fairchild as the Sugarplum Fairy and soloist Tom Gold as Candy Cane, excerpts from the Metropolitan Opera's Hansel and Gretel; the Hot & Brass Band from New Orleans, and singer Dar Williams. At 5:30pm.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
63rd Street and Broadway
212-870-5570
November 26-December 7
Buglisi Dance Theatre
Experience the inside process of working and rehearsing with Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi and BDT with "Suspended Women Project." Monday-Friday at 4:30pm-7pm, Saturday at 3pm-5pm.
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
212-719- 3301
November 26-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 26-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 27-December 9
Ballet Hispanico
Trumpets wail, hips pop, and eyes smolder: this is the passion of Ballet Hispanico, as it marks its 20th season at The Joyce. Experience the hotbed of the Palladium Ballroom in the intimate setting of The Joyce stage, and be carried away by the live rhythms of the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by Arturo O'Farrill. Ballet Hispanico will reprise repertory favorites by William Whitener and Talley Beatty to the music of Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, and the legends of Latin Jazz. Tuesday-Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday-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 28-December 1
Beth Gill/Daniel Linehan
A shared program between Beth Gill and Daniel Linehan. "Eleanor & Eleanor" is an assignment in aesthetics and a meditation on personal history and mythology. Linehan's new solo, "Not About Everything", re-imagines familiar experiences through a layered structure of intensified physical rhythms and an incessant cyclical use of language. At 7:30pm.
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues
212-924-0077
November 28-December 1
Gina Gibney Dance
"The Distance Between Us" investigates human relationships and how we navigate the distance to another person or another group of people. This evening length dance juxtaposes the complexity and simplicity of how humans bond, and how we come to understand – or at least come to terms with - ourselves and others. At 8pm.
Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 West 55th Street
212-868-4444
November 28-December 1
Pappa Tarahumara
Japanese dance-theater troupe Pappa Tarahumara creates expressive and poignant visual spectacles. Drawing on dreams and memories of his seaside Japanese home, the troupe's artistic director Hiroshi Koike conjures images at once hallucinatory, disturbing, and droll in "Ship in a View." At 7:30pm.
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn
718-636-4100
November 28-December 1
Urban Ballet Theater
Urban Ballet Theater and students from the Abrons Arts Center's dance program perform choreographer Daniel Catanach "Nutcracker in the Lower", which features additional hip hop choreography by Laurie Ann Gibson. Wednesday-Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 3pm and 7:30pm.
Abron's Arts Center
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street at Pitt Street
212-352-1460
November 28-December 31
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The dancers of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater have it all – exquisite technique, breathtaking artistry and passionate spirit. The Company’s 2007 season offers electrifying world premieres by Camille A. Brown and Fredrick Earl Mosley; sumptuous new productions of classic works by Alvin Ailey and Talley Beatty and a company premiere of Robert Battle’s "Unfold." Wednesday at 7pm, Thursday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 3pm and 7:30pm.
New York City Center
130 West 56th Street
212--247-0430
November 29-December 1
Movement Research Fall Festival
Movement Research, one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms, returns to Danspace Project with its annual festival. The Fall Festival focuses on improvisation, combining three evenings of shared performances by acclaimed experimentalists highlighting and juxtaposing their varied investigations into the artistic currents of the form. Festival events will examine the inheritance of improvisation as a contemporary experimental dance practice/performance form. At 8:30pm.
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
131 10th Street
212-674-8112
November 29-December 2
Esse Aficionado
Dance collective Esse Aficionado returns to Joyce SoHo with an evening of choreography by co-founders Gina Graham and Maki Morinoue. The program will include the New York premiere of "The Architect", a sextet by Morinoue with original music by Scott Masoner. Also on the program, the large group work "Fifteen Minutes of Fame", or "Cult", or "One Movement Per Minute" with choreography by Graham and original music by Bill Racine and Gene Park; Grahams's solo Geoffrey Grauer with music by The Flaming Lips. At 8pm.
Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street
212-431-9233
November 29-December 2
everything smaller
"The Map and The Machine" launches us into a world where two brothers simply survive, despite the challenges of daily life. Imagination and unconditional love inform the characters' actions and is the driving energy of the story. Is it courageous to function, quietly coping or can they turn their fears into flight and be able to rise out of the ordinary into the extraordinary? Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm.
Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd Floor, entrance on Chambers Street
212-625-8369
November 29-February 24
New York City Ballet
"Nutcracker" season descends upon the New York City Ballet with a multitude of performances of the George Balanchine classic. Thursday at 6pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 1pm and 5pm.
New York State Theater
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
63rd Street and Broadway
212-870-5570
November 30
Fridays at Noon
Duane Cyrus, Shannon Hummel, Risa Jaroslaw present works in this one-hour, mixed bill event. An audience discussion takes place following each work. At 12pm.
92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center
1395 Lexington Ave
November 30
CorbinDances
Former Paul Taylor dancer Patrick Corbin presents his own troupe. At 1pm.
Paul Taylor Dance Studio
552 Broadway 2nd Floor
212-283-8880
November 30-December 1
Dance and Process
The culmination of an extended group process of sharing work and receiving structured feedback, this evening features three new works by choreographers Kathryn Sanders, Noemi Segarra, and Lise Serrell. At 8pm.
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
212-255-5793
November 30-December 1
New York Theater Ballet
In this Dance on a Shoestring series presentation, two new pieces, choreographed especially for New York Theatre Batllet, will have their premieres on the program. Chase Brock has created a duet for dancers Kyle Coffman and Mitchell Kilby. Marco Pelle, who has created ballets for NYTB in recent years, returns to work with the company on a ballet that features an original score by his brother, Federico Pelle. At 7pm.
The Dance Gallery
30 East 31st Street, 5th floor
212-679-0401
December 2-3
Works & Process: Shen Wei Dance Arts
For the first time, Shen Wei and his company will showcase the full trajectory of the "RE- triptych", a series inspired by Shen Wei’s recent journeys to Tibet and Cambodia as well as his return to China’s Silk Road. Shen Wei’s personal process of renewal and rediscovery foregrounds the deeply personal, transcendent, and far-ranging vocabulary, some of which is revealed as a work-in-progress. Shen Wei and members of his company, Shen Wei Dance Arts, participate in a discussion moderated by Lincoln Center Festival Director Nigel Redden. At 7:30pm.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
212-423-3634
- compiled from official sources
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