Dance List 14
Greetings from the thick of the fall dance season — and election season. Do you have a plan to vote? It’s a busy time on many fronts, and I keep getting an alert that this post is approaching “too long for email,” so I’m going to dive right in.
A few notes for navigating this list:
The events are listed in order of opening date. Where listed as “through” a certain date, the event has already opened.
The list has two main sections: performances (week by week) followed by a roundup of dance-related screenings, talks, and exhibitions.
* = free event (note: this no longer indicates sliding-scale or suggested donation events, just free ones!)
The information below is current as of the last time I checked, but things can change, and while I strive for accuracy, I will inevitably make a few mistakes. Please visit the event websites for up-to-date details and full date/time info.
When I have work/news of my own to share, you can find it at the end under p.s.
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Dance List Highlight: Rainer x2
As you browse this month’s list, you might notice that Yvonne Rainer, who turns 90 in November, has not one but two live events coming up this week. The first is at Judson Memorial Church, Oct. 29-30, where she’ll perform what she’s calling the final version of Trio A, bringing the iconic dance back to the site of its 1966 premiere, home to so much of her early work as a founding member of Judson Dance Theater. The program also includes a screening of her 2002 film After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid and a new work, Rainer Dreams, with choreography by Emily Coates, Irene Hultman, and Emmanuèle Phuon. Then, on Nov. 3, the laid-back series Sundays on Broadway, curated this season by Cathy Weis and Malcolm-x Betts, hosts a screening of Rainer’s 1980 feature-length film Journeys from Berlin/1971 at Weis’s SoHo loft, followed by a conversation with the artist. Links to more info below. [Note: Both of these events were postponed; the evening at Judson Church has been rescheduled for Thursday, Nov. 21.]
Updated 11/13/24 at 1:22pm ET
Performances
Week of Monday, Oct. 28
*Oct. 28: Movement Research at the Judson Church feat. Helen Yung, Juliet Paramor with Avery Gerhardt, Steffanie B Paul and Kevin Lo, and Betsy Miller Dance Projects feat. Marin Day and Lindsey Jennings, at Judson Memorial Church
Oct. 29-30 [postponed until Nov. 21]: Yvonne Rainer: A Program of Film and Choreography, hosted by Judson Commons, at Judson Memorial Church
Oct. 29-Nov. 3: Garth Fagan Dance in works by Garth Fagan, Norwood Pennewell, and Natalie Rogers-Cropper, at the Joyce
Oct. 30-Nov. 2: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Still/Here at BAM
Oct. 31-Nov. 3: Gwendolyn Knapp, Record Ephemera at Kestrels
Nov. 1-2: Netta Yerushalmy, MOVEMENT at NYU Skirball
Nov. 1-3: Matthew Rushing, Sacred Songs: A Journey of the Spiritual, part of Edges of Ailey, at the Whitney
Nov. 1-24: STREB Extreme Action, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME at STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM)
Nov. 2: David Cartahena Lee, Resonance: An Immersive AAPI Dance Experience at We Are Here
Nov. 2: MeenMoves and Guests, Moving the Ballot, at 92NY
Nov. 2: Moving Forward and Gianna Burright + Artists at Arts on Site
Nov. 2-3: Huang Yi, Ryoichi Kurokawa, and Tong Yang-Tze, Ink at Rose Theater, Lincoln Center
Nov. 3: Bridget Cronin and Guests at Arts on Site
Through Nov. 3: American Ballet Theatre fall season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Week of Monday, Nov. 4
*Nov. 4: Movement Research at the Judson Church feat. Neil Greenberg & Paul Hamilton, Antonio Ramos, and Samantha Lysaght, at Judson Memorial Church
Nov. 5-10: Limón Dance Company in works by José Limón, Doris Humphrey, and Kayla Farrish, at the Joyce
Nov. 5-24: Paul Taylor Dance Company fall season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
*Nov. 6: Black Aesthetics feat. Kashia Kancey, curated by Malcolm-x Betts and Arien Wilkerson, at Judson Memorial Church
Nov. 6-23: UNDOXX: a series for untangling censorship, curated and organized by zavé martohardjono, Maya Simone Z., and Jamie Chan, at JACK
Nov. 7: Leila Lois and Hussein Smko, When fire meets mountain at CPR
Nov. 7: Yang Sun & Poets, The Stranger (work in process) at Hi-ARTS
Nov. 7-8: Cayleen Del Rosario, Now and at The Hour of Our Death at Pageant
Nov. 7-8: Beth Graczyk, Unstable States: Shell(ter) works-in-progress sharing at Kestrels
Nov. 7-9: Yusha-Marie Sorzano, This World Anew, part of Edges of Ailey, at the Whitney
Nov. 8: Sunhi Willa Keller at Arts on Site
Nov. 8-9: Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction, Frontera at BAM
Nov. 8-9: Maima: The Water Spirit, presented with Pepatián’s Dancing Futures Residency, at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (and online)
Nov. 8-9: Ismaël Mouaraki / Destins Croisés, Le sacre de Lila, part of L’Alliance New York’s Crossing the Line festival, at New York Live Arts
Nov. 8-9: VALLETO, Eternal Bonds at CPR
*Nov. 9: Bebe Miller Company, open rehearsal of Vespers, Reimagined (2025) at Danspace Project
Nov. 10: Rachael Lieblein-Jurbala Dance Works at Arts on Site
Nov. 10: Sundays on Broadway: Daniel Lepkoff & Sakura Shimada, Julie Mayo, and Wonderful Cringe at WeisAcres
Through Nov. 24: STREB Extreme Action, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME at STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM)
Week of Monday, Nov. 11
*Nov. 11: Movement Research at the Judson Church feat. Nora Alami, Luxury Bones, and Iris McCloughan, at Judson Memorial Church
Nov. 12: Graham + Halston: The Original Celebrity Collaboration at Martha Graham Studio Theater
Nov. 13: Graham + Noguchi: The Essentials of American Modernism at Martha Graham Studio Theater
Nov. 13-16: Levi Gonzalez, Hoary at the Chocolate Factory
Nov. 13-17: Andrea Miller / GALLIM, WONDERLAND at the Joyce
Nov. 14-15: Amanda Hameline, PARTY DISH at Kestrels
Nov. 14-15: Omar Román de Jesús / Boca Tuya at 92NY
Nov. 14-16: Wally Cardona with Jonathan Bepler, a plump single-color bulb, or a dance at New York Live Arts
Nov. 14-16: Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Prairie Dawn at Roulette
Nov. 14 and 16: Ralph Lemon, Tell it anyway, part of Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon, at MoMA PS1
Nov. 15: Babou Sanneh / RareBreed Productions, presented with Pepatián’s Dancing Futures Residency, at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Nov. 15-16: Carmen Caceres / DanceAction, The Price is Right (De-Valued) at CPR
Nov. 15-16: kamrDANCE, The Mercy Velvet Project at Arts on Site
Nov. 15-16: Take Root: Quilt Collective and Pele Bauch Performance at Green Space
Nov. 16: CATCH 77 at the Invisible Dog
*Nov. 16: Dances for a Variable Population, REVIVAL 8: Then & Now at Ailey Citigroup Theater
Nov. 16: Bill T. Jones, Memory Piece: Mr. Ailey, Alvin… the un-Ailey?, part of Edges of Ailey, at the Whitney
Nov. 16: TWIN SNAKES, presented by Immediate Medium, at Collapsable Hole
*Nov. 16: Gillian Walsh, Activations: Friday Night Lights, presented by Dia: Chelsea, at Chelsea Park soccer field
Nov. 17: Fertile Ground New Works Showcase feat. Jesse Arnst, Isabella Berenstein, Libby McKenzie & Mikayla Bunn, Emily & Emory, Harper Foote, and Synergy, at Green Space
Nov. 17: Anabella Lenzu / DanceDrama, Listen to Your Mother film premiere and performance at CPR
Nov. 17: Solos & Duets: A shared program of works by Louise Benkelman, Alexis Carpenter, Brush/McGrath (works), and Amber Sloan at Arts on Site
Nov. 17: Sundays on Broadway: Deborah Hay, Tess Dworman, and Arien Wilkerson at WeisAcres
Through Nov. 23: UNDOXX: a series for untangling censorship, curated and organized by zavé martohardjono, Maya Simone Z., and Jamie Chan, at JACK
Through Nov. 24: STREB Extreme Action, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME at STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM)
Through Nov. 24: Paul Taylor Dance Company fall season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Week of Monday, Nov. 18
Nov. 18: Movement Research at the Judson Church feat. Kayla Hamilton, Paloma McGregor, Imogene Williams, and Fabio Tavares, at Judson Memorial Church
Nov. 18: Tango Essence with Pedro Giraudo's Tango Quartet presented by Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Nov. 19-Dec. 1: Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce
Nov. 20: Black Aesthetics feat. Stacy Lynn Smith, curated by Malcolm-x Betts and Arien Wilkerson, at Judson Memorial Church
Nov. 20-22: Lavinia Eloise Bruce, No Furniture: Suite For Kestrels at Kestrels
Nov. 20-24: Ailey II: Harmonic Echo, part of Edges of Ailey, at the Whitney
Nov. 21 [rescheduled date]: Yvonne Rainer: A Program of Film and Choreography, hosted by Judson Commons, at Judson Memorial Church
Nov. 21-23: Ayano Elson + Wendell Gray II: A shared evening at Danspace Project
Nov. 21-23: Tushrik Fredericks and Rebecca Margolick, to begin with no end., at Triskelion
Nov. 21-24: Dances We Dance, ACQUA at Martha Graham Studio Theater
Nov. 22-23: Miro Magloire / New Chamber Ballet, STARGAZING at Mark Morris Dance Center
Nov. 22-23: Kenia Rosete Dance and Meagan Woods at Arts on Site
Nov. 22-23: Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! an opera in three acts at the Chocolate Factory
Nov. 22-24: Dorrance Dance, The Nutcracker Suite at New York City Center
Nov. 22-24: Douglass Dunn and Christopher Williams, Salon Lute at Douglas Dunn Studio
Nov. 23: Imani Gaudin / gaudanse, presented with Pepatián’s Dancing Futures Residency, at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Nov. 23: Marija Krtolica, Parrhesia at CPR
Through Nov. 23: UNDOXX: a series for untangling censorship, curated and organized by zavé martohardjono, Maya Simone Z., and Jamie Chan, at JACK
Through Nov. 24: STREB Extreme Action, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME at STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM)
Through Nov. 24: Paul Taylor Dance Company fall season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Screenings, Talks & Exhibitions
*Oct. 30: The Dance Historian Is In: Sekou McMiller on Mambo Dance at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (and online)
*Starting Nov. 1: vAL, STAGED, a digital presentation from Baryshnikov Arts
*Nov. 2: 50 Forward: “The Future Is…” Gathering at Danspace Project
Nov. 3: Sundays on Broadway: Yvonne Rainer, Journeys From Berlin/1971 (screening and discussion) at WeisAcres
Nov. 14: Becoming Giulia, directed by Laura Kaehr, at Metrograph, followed by a discussion with Kaehr, Kyle Bukhari, Nicole Duffy, Marina Harss, and me :)
*Nov. 14: Works & Process: West African Dance to AfrikFusion — Intergenerational Stories with Marie Basse-Wiles & Omari Wiles at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
*Nov. 14-March 24: Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
Nov. 15 (in-person) and Nov. 16-Dec. 1 (streaming): Everything You Have Is Yours, directed by Tatyana Tenenbaum, part of DOC NYC, at Village East Cinema
*Nov. 20: The Dance Historian Is In: Carlota Santana and K. Meira Goldberg on Spanish Dance to Flamenco 1894-2024 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (and online)
Through Dec. 7: Annie-B Parson: Cartography of a Dance (exhibition with conversation on Nov. 23) at Argosy Book Store
Through Dec. 31: Dance to Belong: A History of Dance at 92NY, curated by Jessica Friedman and Ninotchka Bennahum with Jeanne Haffner, at Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, 92NY
*Through Jan. 6: Gillian Wearing, Dancing in Peckham at MoMA PS1
Through Jan. 26: Gabrielle Lansner, I AM NOT OK, part of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
Through Feb. 9: Edges of Ailey at the Whitney
*Through March 1: The Joffrey + Ballet in the U.S. at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
p.s.
For the NYT, I reviewed D.D. Dorvillier’s Dance is the archeologist, or an idol in the bone. at the Chocolate Factory. And last week, I had the pleasure of joining Charli Brissey’s Research in Action class in the University of Michigan’s MFA dance program (via Zoom). Many thanks to Charli for the invitation and the students for their questions and insights.