March really crept up on me, and this edition of Dance List is arriving a tad behind schedule, with apologies for the delay. I hope it still comes in handy for your dance-going plans. Thanks as always for reading, subscribing, and spreading the word.
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.
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.
I often add to Dance List as I learn of new events. The latest is on the Danceletter website. To submit an addition or a correction, reply to this email or write to me at danceletter@substack.com. (To keep the workload of this project manageable, I tend not to list student recitals or showcases, as much as I appreciate them!)
When I have work/news of my own to share, you can find it at the end under p.s.
March Highlight: Danspace @ 50
This month’s highlight is actually a multi-month highlight: Danspace Project’s 50th anniversary festival, which continues through June 9, and which I recently wrote about for the New York Times spring arts preview (here’s a gift link). Up next are Donna Uchizono’s Dedications and State of Heads (March 13-15) and Bebe Miller’s Vespers, Reimagined (March 27-29). The photo below is of Uchizono’s first work, Surfacing, which she presented through Danspace’s Community Access program in 1988:
Performances
Week of Monday, March 3
March 3-12: Anne Imhof, DOOM: House of Hope at Park Avenue Armory
*March 4, 8, and 15: Taylor Stanley and Alec Knight, Ephemeral solace (in passing), in response to Nicola Turner’s Fabric of Undoing, at Carvalho Park
March 6-7: Art Bath x 92NY, feat. Xin Ying and Katherine Crockett of Martha Graham Dance Company, John Manzari & Dancers, Joey Arias, Roderick George, Flower Shark, Christopher Williams, and more, part of Harkness Dance Center’s 90th Celebration, at 92NY
March 6-7: Lauren Kravitz and Shantel Prado, Water Work at Pageant
March 6-8: Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin’s MOMO at BAM
March 6-8: Kayla Farrish, Put Away the Fire, Dear at the Chelsea Factory
March 6-8: Kashia Kancey, The Closties Variety Hour at Triskelion
March 6-9: Flamenco Festival, feat. Alfonso Losa & Patricia Guerrero (3/6), Compañía Manuel Liñán (3/7), and Compañía Eva Yerbabuena (3/8-9), at City Center
March 7-9: CounterPointe12, presented by Norte Maar, at the Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund
March 8: Motion/Matter: All-Styles Dance Battle at PAC NYC
March 8-9: Harkness Dance Center – Celebrating 90 Years: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE and Philadelphia’s PHILADANCO! at 92NY
March 9: Fertile Ground New Works Series, feat. ECAT jam w/ aud, Jennifer Neff, Neta-Kinetics, Petra Zanki, and Poetry In Motion, at Green Space
March 9: Beth Soll & Company, Spring Dances at Martha Graham Studio Theater
Through March 9: Germán Cornejo, Tango After Dark at the Joyce
Week of Monday, March 10
*March 10: Movement Research at the Judson Church, feat. Alfonso Cervera and Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Nadia Hannan, and marion spencer & collaborators, at Judson Memorial Church
March 11-16: Gauthier Dance, in works by Sharon Eyal, Eric Gauthier, Ohad Naharin, and Hofesh Shechter, at the Joyce
March 12-16: Twyla Tharp Dance at City Center
March 12-23: Mariana Valencia, Jacklean (in rehearsal) at MoMA
March 13: Sara Jiménez, Variación a Tempo, part of Flamenco Festival NY, at Joe’s Pub
March 13-15: Ellen Cornfield / Cornfield Dance, The Endless Ladder at University Settlement
March 13-15: Makini, TERRESTRIAL: The Sprout at New York Live Arts
March 13-16: Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory, BUNNY BUNNY at the Invisible Dog
March 13-15: Donna Uchizono, Dedications / State of Heads at Danspace Project
March 14-15: Synthesis, guest curated by Miz Jade, at Triskelion
*March 15: Ethan Philbrick, Slow Dances (open rehearsal), in collaboration with Anh Vo, Tess Dworman, Niall Jones, Tara Aisha Willis, nibia pastrana santiago, and Moriah Evans, at the Chocolate Factory
*March 15 (also March 4 and 8): Taylor Stanley and Alec Knight, Ephemeral solace (in passing), in response to Nicola Turner’s Fabric of Undoing, at Carvalho Park
March 16: The StepCrew at Irish Arts Center
Through March 12: Anne Imhof, DOOM: House of Hope at Park Avenue Armory
Week of Monday, March 17
*March 17: Movement Research at the Judson Church, feat. Elliot Reza Emadian, DaEun Jung, and Ke’ron J. Wilson, at Judson Memorial Church
March 18-19: NEW@Graham: Graham and Tech at Martha Graham Studio Theater
March 19: Fast Forward, feat. Breath Dance Project and Petra Zanki, curated by Sangeeta Yesley, at Dixon Place
March 20-22: Sally Silvers, You Better at Roulette
March 20-23: Brooklyn Ballet, Night/Life at the Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund
March 21-22: Dormeshia Tap Collective, Ladies in the Shoe at 92NY
March 21-22: Christy Funsch and Julie Mayo, A Wife in Dance at Kestrels
March 21-22: Ben Green and Ohad Mazor, Display Case at CPR
March 21-April 13: Streb Extreme Action, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME at Streb Lab for Action Mechanics
*March 22: Ralph Lemon, Rant #6, part of Ceremonies Out of the Air, at MoMA PS1
March 23: Works & Process at the Guggenheim: BalletX: Maslow’s Peak by Jennifer Archibald at the Guggenheim Museum
Through March 23: Mariana Valencia, Jacklean (in rehearsal) at MoMA
Week of Monday, March 24
*March 24: Movement Research at the Judson Church, feat. cove barton and felix bryan, Mariam Dingilian, and Aparna Shankar, at Judson Memorial Church
March 25-30: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, in works by Ohad Naharin, FLOCK, Aszure Barton, and Johan Inger, at the Joyce
March 26: 8 in Show, curated by Sangeeta Yesley, at Dixon Place
March 27-28: Ella Dawn W-S at Pageant
March 27-29: Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein, Friday Night Rat Catchers at New York Live Arts
March 27-29: Bebe Miller Company, Vespers, Reimagined at Danspace Project
March 28-29: Amber Sloan, Beautiful Little Weirdos at Kestrels
Through April 13: Streb Extreme Action, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME at Streb Lab for Action Mechanics
Screenings, Talks & Exhibitions
*March 10: Celebrating 90 Years of 92NY Moving Dance Forward at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
*March 18-April 8: ALL ARTS Past, Present, Future dance film festival, feat. Stage Animal by Sara Mearns (directed by Steven Cantor) and Waiting Places by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, premiering on ALL ARTS site and app March 18
*March 22: Jen Rosenblit and Simone Aughterlony, In Our Decline – a symposium, co-presented with CPR, at the Invisible Dog
*March 26: The Dance Historian Is In: Janice Ross on The Hidden Archive of Dancers’ Homes at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (and online)
*Through March 12: Legacy, Lineage and Liberation: An Examination of Urban Bush Women’s Art-Making and Community Organizing Praxis at the Apollo Stages at The Victoria, Frank and Laura Baker Gallery
*Through March 24: Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon at MoMA PS1
p.s.
New from me (with gift links): my story on Danspace Project’s 50th anniversary, for the NYT spring arts preview, and a review of Camille A. Brown’s I AM at the Joyce.