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
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
January 24-26
Oni Dance
Led by Artistic Director Maria Gillespie, Los Angeles-based Oni Dance returns to Joyce SoHo to present three NYC premieres. "Saliendo" is a short dance for the camera, co-directed by Gillespie and director of photography, Kristy Tully. A companion piece to "Saliendo", "La Hora de Salir" is a suite of movement installments prying into the psychological and physical mechanics of leaving. "The Splendor of Gretel" features an original music score composed by Ginormous and set design by Michael Berens. "Gretel" is a theatrical departure for Gillespie as she allows fairy tale narrative to unravel under a movable set that also serves as the lighting for the dance. At 8pm.
Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street
212-431-9233
January 22-27
Armitage Gone! Dance
Dubbed the "punk ballerina" by Vanity Fair magazine, Karole Armitage is the only choreographer who has worked with Rudolph Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, as well as Madonna and Michael Jackson. Her work can also be seen in movies by James Ivory and Philip Haas. Known for her collaborations with important contemporary artists, including Brice Marden, David Salle, and Jeff Koons, Armitage brings together significant music, art, and dance to create work that expands our thinking about the dilemmas and beauties of modern life. The Joyce season will feature a world premiere. Tuesday-Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday at 7pm, Friday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7:30pm.
Joyce Theater
8th Avenue at 19th Street
212-242-0800
January 22-February 24 (opened November 20)
New York City Ballet
The winter season continues performances of George Balanchine's "Ballo della Regina", "Bugaku", "La Sonnambula", "Square Dance", and "Prodigal Son"; Jerome Robbins' "Fancy Free" and "The Four Seasons"; Alexei Ratmansky's "Russian Seasons" and more. Tuesday-Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 3pm.
New York State Theater
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
63rd Street and Broadway
212-870-5570
January 23-24 (opened January 16)
Compania TangoX2
Tango X2 and Miguel Angel Zotto celebrate their 20th Anniversary at New York City Center with an exciting new program that brings together traditional Tango Argentino with the unparalleled modernity of Zotto's choreography, and the grandness of live music. Wednesday at 2pm and 7:30pm, Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm and 7pm.
New York City Center
131 West 55th Street
212-581-1212
January 24
Bringing Balanchine to America: Chick Austin and "the Hartford Catastrophe"
A lecture by Eugene R. Gaddis. Presented in conjunction with the "Lincoln Kirstein: Alchemist," an exhibition on display in the Vincent Astor Gallery through January 30, 2008. At 6pm.
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
212-870-1630
January 24-26
Jordan Fuchs
Choreographer Jordan Fuchs presents "Thicket", his third evening-length collaboration of sound and movement with composer Andy Russ. Performed in the round, "Thicket" explores an environment that grows denser with the entanglements of human interactions -- a glance, an embrace, a memory -- as four dancers ply the border between intimacy and abstraction, and between the physical and the ephemeral. Thrust into the dancer's world through the wearing of headphones, the audience becomes an inhabitant of this dynamic, hyper-real and surreal environment, where the visual and aural dislocate. At 8:30pm.
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
131 10th Street
212-674-8112
- compiled from official sources
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