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
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
January 7-February 24 (opened November 20)
New York City Ballet
Repertory returns to New York State Theater as New York City Ballet's winter season gets going with a week of three programs: Peter Martins' "Romeo + Juliet"; "Dance for Joy" made up of Jerome Robbins' "Brandenburg" and "The Concert", Christopher Wheeldon's "Carousel (A Dance)" and "Zakouski" by Martins; and "Jewels" by George Balanchine. 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 8
Dance Conversations at The Flea
A free monthly dance performance series featuring news works and lifely talk. This week, moderator Christopher Williams welcomes performances by
compani javedani, Rebecca Lazier, Austin McCormick, and Claire Porter. At 7pm.
The Flea Theater
41 White Street, between Broadway and Church
212-645-6462
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. Monday at 12-8pm.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
111 Amsterdam Avenue, at 65th Street
212-870-1630
January 8-20
Parsons Dance
Parsons Dance is internationally acclaimed for movement so vivid, raucous, and mesmerizing that even the audience barely has a chance to catch its breath. With more than 70 works in its repertoire, Parsons Dance presents 10 of its greatest hits. Enjoy 20 years of American dance in two artistic, athletic, and entertaining programs, both of which include David Parsons' signature stroboscopic masterpiece, "Caught." Tuesday-Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm and 7:30pm.
Joyce Theater
8th Avenue at 19th Street
212-242-0800
January 9-13
Where the Music Lives
Mentored by Gregory Hines, choreographer and director Andrew J. Nemr takes you on a musical journey rediscovering the power of melody and the impact of rhythm. Experience the art of tap dance for the 21st Century. A seven piece band fronted by five dancers present tap dancing like you've never heard it and music like you've never seen it. Wednesday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm.
Julia Miles Theater
424 West 55th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues
212-757-3900
January 10-12
Vision Festival Dance & Music Collaborations
Three nights of Vision Festival Dance and Music Collaborations. Each evening features three different eclectic groups of cutting edge dance and an all music set by the musical stars of AvantJazz. At 7:30pm.
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, at 95th Street
212-864-5400
January 10-20
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Cedar Lake's Winter Season 2008 features "Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue", a world premiere by choreographer Crystal Pite, the US premiere of "Rite" by Stijn Celis, as well as "Symptoms Of Development" by Jacopo Godani. At 8pm.
Cedar Lake
547 West 26th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues
212-868-4444
January 11
RoseAnne Spradlin
n order to increase visibility for artists and their work, Dance Theater Workshop remounts three acclaimed, distinctive works during the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Members Conference, a national and inter-national gathering of artists, presenters, and producers. "Survive Cycle" investigates transformations of the psyche in tandem with those of the physical body. At 4:30pm and 7:30pm.
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues
212-924-0077
January 11-12
First Weekends
In this new performance and discussion series, Ryan Migge, Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance, and Kriota Willberg present works. At 8pm.
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange
421 Fifth Avenue, at 8th Street
718-832-0018
January 11-12
LEVYdance
San Francisco-based, LEVYdance returns to Joyce SoHo with two premieres: "Nu Nu", a pop dance explosion and "Bone lines", a striking collaboration with high-fashion designer Colleen Quen, industrial designer Rick Lee and avant-garde composer Keeril Makan, set to music recorded by the Kronos Quartet. The company will also reprise "Falling After Too" (2002), a choreographic collaboration between Mr. Levy and guest choreographer Darrin Wright. Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm.
Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street
212-431-9233
January 11-13
Moeno Wakamatsu
Dance artist Moeno Wakamatsu performs the world premiere of her newest work, Printemps Futile (Futile Spring). At 8pm.
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
123 4th Avenue, 2nd FL
212-352-3101
January 12
Vicky Shick
In order to increase visibility for artists and their work, Dance Theater Workshop remounts three acclaimed, distinctive works during the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Members Conference, a national and inter-national gathering of artists, presenters, and producers. "Plum House (A Cartoon)" creates a world of claustrophobic busyness. At 4:30pm and 7:30pm.
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues
212-924-0077
January 12
Moiseyev Dance Company
Honored as Russia’s official “State Academic Ensemble of Popular Dance” and acclaimed throughout the world as the greatest of all folk dance groups, Moiseyev Dance Company returns to the U.S. and to Brooklyn Center to present an array of exuberant traditional dances. At 8pm.
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
2900 Campus Road
Brooklyn
718-951-4500
January 13, 14
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
- compiled from official sources
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