Dance List 5
Welcome to the first Dance List of 2024! I’m running a day behind schedule here because I’ve been recovering from Covid (my first time) and everything is taking just a little longer than normal, ya know? It’s really going around again, so please be safe out there. (I am doing fine and grateful to have had a relatively mild case.)
This list begins where the previous one left off and continues through the last full week of February. For events taking place through Jan. 28, see the website version of Dance List 4, which includes a few things that didn’t make it into the email version.
By the way, if you ever notice something missing from Dance List that you think should be on here, just let me know and I’ll add it to the website version. I include events that I learn about via press releases, social media, miscellaneous emails, word of mouth, and a bit of “research” (a.k.a. clicking around the internet), but there’s also plenty going on that I don’t know about. That’s why I call Dance List “extensive, not comprehensive,” but I’m happy to make it more comprehensive with your help. To alert me to an upcoming show, write to me at danceletter@substack.com, or just reply to this email. (A heads up that I tend not to list student recitals or showcases.)
Also, a correction to Dance List 4: I accidentally listed Luke Murphy (choreographer of Volcano) as Luke Hickey — who is also a dancer and choreographer, but not the same one. My apologies to both Lukes (and to you, dear readers) for the mixup.
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 sections: performances (week by week) followed by a roundup of dance-related events like screenings, talks, and exhibitions.
* = free, suggested donation, or sliding-scale ticket options
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.
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(Updated 2/15/24 at 10:30 p.m.)
Performances
Week of Monday, Jan. 29
*Jan. 29: Movement Research at the Judson Church (Alex Romania, Yacine Fall, Glenn Potter-Takata, and Stacy Lynn Smith) at Judson Memorial Church
Jan. 30-Feb. 4: Music from the Sole, I Didn’t Come to Stay at the Joyce Theater
Jan. 31-Feb. 3: Molissa Fenley and Company, “From the Light, Between the Lamps” at Roulette
Feb. 1-3: Andros Zins-Brown, duel H at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church
*Feb. 3: The New Series: Alvin Singleton’s Argoru I-IX, choreographed and directed by Caili Quan for the Juilliard School, at the Chelsea Factory
*Feb. 3-4: Martha Friedman and Susan Marshall, Two Person Operating System Type 2 at the Kitchen
Through Feb. 4: Great Jones Repertory, Aristotle Thinks Again (choreographed / directed by Dan Safer; co-created with maura nguyen donohue, John Maria Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, Kim Savarino, and Marcus McGregor) at La MaMa
Through March 3: New York City Ballet winter season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Jan. 30, Feb 3: “Tribute to Robbins” (Jerome Robbins, Fancy Free, In the Night, The Four Seasons)
Jan. 31, Feb. 3: “Wheeldon + Martins + Peck” (Christopher Wheeldon, Polyphonia; Peter Martins, Barber Violin Concerto; Justin Peck, The Times Are Racing)
Feb. 1, 2, 4: “New Combinations” (Justin Peck, Rotunda; new Tiler Peck; Alexei Ratmansky, Odesa)
Week of Monday, Feb. 5
Feb. 5-10: Taylor Mac, Bark of Millions (choreography and co-direction by Faye Driscoll) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Feb. 6-7: NEW@Graham with Jamar Roberts at Martha Graham Studio Theater
Feb. 6-10: Philadanco! (works by Christopher Rudd, Ray Mercer, Tommie-Waheed Evans, and Christopher Huggins) at the Joyce Theater
Feb. 9: Blind Date: Tiny Conversation Hearts, curated by Lina Azalea Dahbour, at Issue Project Room
Feb. 9-10: Mia Zalukar and Bruno Isaković, Kill B (part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival) at NYU Skirball
Through March 3: New York City Ballet winter season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Feb. 6, 7: “All Balanchine” (The Four Temperaments, Liebeslieder Walzer)
Feb. 8: “New Combinations” (Justin Peck, Rotunda; new Tiler Peck; Alexei Ratmansky, Odesa)
Feb. 9, 10: “Classic NYCB” (George Balanchine, Ballo della Regina; Albert Evans, In a Landscape; Peter Martins, Hallelujah Junction; Jerome Robbins, The Concert)
Feb. 11: Justin Peck, Copeland Dance Episodes
Week of Monday, Feb. 12
Feb. 13-25: Twyla Tharp Dance at the Joyce Theater
*Feb. 15-16: “V E S S E L // F E R M E N T” (curated by Seta Morton) at Pageant (postponed)
Feb. 14-March 3: Jean Butler, What We Hold at Irish Arts Center
*Feb. 15-17: Madeline Hollander, Pentagon Dance (part of Sarah Crowner’s exhibition The Sea, the Sky, a Window) at Hill Art Foundation
Feb. 15, 20-21: Le Patin Libre, Threshold at Bryant Park
Feb. 16: ZCO/DANCEPROJECT, The Memory Variations (presented by CUNY Dance Initiative) at Jamaica Performing Arts Center
Feb. 16-17: Miro Magloire, New Chamber Ballet at Mark Morris Dance Center
Feb. 17: Queer Movie Movers Dance Compilation at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Feb. 17: Raimund Hoghe Company, “An Evening with Raimund Hoghe” (part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival) at NYU Skirball
Feb. 18: Beth Soll & Company, Four Dancers, One Choreographer, and One Musician at the Martha Graham Studio Theater
Through March 3: New York City Ballet winter season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Feb. 13, 17: Justin Peck, Copeland Dance Episodes
Feb. 14: “New Combinations” (Justin Peck, Rotunda; new Tiler Peck; Alexei Ratmansky, Odesa)
Feb. 15: Innovators & Icons (Jerome Robbins, Opus 19/The Dreamer; new Alexei Ratmansky; George Balanchine, Symphony in Three Movements)
Feb. 16, 17: “All Balanchine” (The Four Temperaments, Liebeslieder Walzer)
Feb. 18: “Classic NYCB” (George Balanchine, Ballo della Regina; Albert Evans, In a Landscape; Peter Martins, Hallelujah Junction; Jerome Robbins, The Concert)
Week of Monday, Feb. 19
*Feb. 20-24: Molly Poerstel, Flesh House at Kestrels
Feb. 21: Ballet Hispánico (works by Talley Beatty, Anabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Pedro Ruiz) at the 92nd Street Y
*Feb. 21: Black Aesthetics featuring Dorchel Haqq (curated by Malcolm-x Betts & Arien Wilkerson) at Judson Memorial Church
*Feb. 22-23: Kellian Delice / Kellian Delice & Co. at Pageant
Feb. 22-24: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 at NYU Skirball
Feb. 22-24: Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Deep River at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Lincoln Center
Feb. 22-25: American Dance Guild Performance Festival at Ailey Citigroup Theater
Feb. 24 and 29: Camilo Godoy, renacemos a cada instante at the New Museum
*Feb. 24: DraftWork: Ayano Elson and Iris McCloughan at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church
Feb. 25: Trainor Dance, Fact or Fiction? at the PIT Loft
Through Feb. 21: Le Patin Libre, Threshold at Bryant Park
Through Feb. 25: Twyla Tharp Dance at the Joyce Theater
Through March 3: Jean Butler, What We Hold at Irish Arts Center
Through March 3: New York City Ballet winter season at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Feb. 20, 24: “New Combinations” (Justin Peck, Rotunda; new Tiler Peck; Alexei Ratmansky, Odesa)
Feb. 21: Justin Peck, Copeland Dance Episodes
Feb. 22: “Classic NYCB” (George Balanchine, Ballo della Regina; Albert Evans, In a Landscape; Peter Martins, Hallelujah Junction; Jerome Robbins, The Concert)
Feb. 23, 24, 25: Innovators & Icons (Jerome Robbins, Opus 19/The Dreamer; new Alexei Ratmansky; George Balanchine, Symphony in Three Movements)
Screenings, Talks, Exhibitions, etc.
Jan. 31: “The Dance Historian Is In: ¡Fenomenal!, Rompeforma 1989-1996 with Merián Soto and Viveca Vázquez” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Feb. 4: Second annual AbunDance Awards at the Billie Holiday Theatre
Feb. 9-12: Dance on Camera Festival 2024 at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Lincoln Center
Feb. 22: Camilo Godoy, Open Rehearsal and Dialogue at the New Museum (note: I’ll be taking part in this conversation with Camilo and Luis Rincón Alba)
Through Feb. 3: Charles Atlas and Merce Cunningham, Coast Zone (part of Seasonal Affective) at 80WSE Gallery
*Through Feb. 4: Ligia Lewis, study now steady at CARA, with live studies Thursdays-Sundays
*Through March 2: Madeline Hollander, Entanglement at Bortolami
*Through March 16, “Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900-1955” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
p.s.
For Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” feature, a January tradition, I wrote about two artists who have really been leveling up in recent years: Kaitlyn Sardin (who will be dancing in Jean Butler’s What We Hold at Irish Arts Center) and Sydnie L. Mosely, the founding executive and artistic director of SLMDances. Read about them here!