Dale Brauner: News

What's on this week:

January 28
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Gerald Casel, Alex Escalante, Margaret Morris, and Christopher Williams
present works this week in the latest installment of this long-running series. At 8pm.
Movement Research at the Judson Church
55 Washington Square South at Thompson Street

January 29-February 1
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Inspired by Chinese calligraphy and traditional dances that trace back to Genghis Khan, The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company fuse the dynamic freedom of American modern dance with the grace and splendor of Asian art. Tuesday-Thursday at 10am and 11:30am, Friday at 8pm.
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, Queens
718-482-5151

January 29-February 3
Toronto Dance Theatre
Christopher House's "Timecode Break" is a dance for the 21st century — about time, presence, and the ephemeral beauty of the body. Choreographed simultaneously for stage and screen, it integrates razor-sharp dancing with gorgeous video images to create a brave new kinetic landscape. Dancers are pushed to the edge in lightning-fast unison, fierce counterpoint, and powerful solos, while dancing in partnership with their digital selves in a seamless choreography of control and abandon. Time freezes, reverses, and shatters into fragments. Slashing jumps, sudden falls, and brilliant footwork coexist with moments of exquisite stillness. 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

What's on this week:

January 21 (opened January 20)
Works & Process: Ballet in Sneakers
Two soloists from the New York City Ballet re-imagine Jerome Robbins’s "Ballet in Sneakers" as seen on film in "NY Export: Opus Jazz (1958)." The film’s creators, Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi, explore the dance/film genre with dancers from NYCB performing live excerpts. At 7:30pm.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
212-423-3634

January 22-30 (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

What's on this week:

January 14 (opened January 13)
Works & Process: Frederic Franklin
Frederic Franklin
Sun and Mon, Jan 13 and 14 @ 7:30 PM
Frederic Franklin discusses his extraordinary career—from performing with the legendary Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo to restaging classic works for American Ballet Theatre. The evening features a performance by Julie Kent, and a special highlight of Franklin coaching students from ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and ABT II. At 7:30pm.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
212-423-3634

January 14
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Amanda Drozer, Antonietta Vicario, Nina Winthrop, and Yasuko Yokoshi present works this week in the latest installment of this long-running series. At 8pm.
Movement Research at the Judson Church
55 Washington Square South at Thompson Street

January 14, 15
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People
"Everyone" is about the world right now, and right now, and right now. Nothing, everything, interesting, boring, failure, success, anywhere, nowhere, perfect, mess, you, me, "Everyone." Monday at 7:30pm, Tuesday at 4:30pm, 7:30pm.
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues
212-924-0077

What's on this week:

January 7
Water Flowing Together
In a joint presentation, the New York City Ballet, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Dance Films Association presents the New York premiere of "Water Flowing Together", a cinematic portrait of former NYCB Principal Dancer Jock Soto. Exploring both his Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican roots, as well as his career as one of the ballet world's most gifted and celebrated dancers, this is an intimate, moving profile of an artist and a man. A conversation with Jock Soto and filmmaker Gwendolen Cates will follow the screening. At 6:30pm.
New York State Theater
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
63rd Street and Broadway
212-870-5570

January 7-19
Dance On Camera Festival
Dance On Camera Festival is the oldest dance film festival in the world that sparked an explosion of activity. Co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996, DOCF celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. See www.dancefilmassn.org for theaters and times.

January 7-30 (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