Baryshnikov Arts Center announced its fall dance season today and it looks great!

PIERRE RIGAL

Press

September 10-12, 2009

Thu and Fri at 8 PM, Sat at 2 PM & 8 PM

Tickets: $20

Howard Gilman Performance Space

French choreographer and performer Pierre Rigal returns to the Baryshnikov Arts Center inPress, a virtuosic solo dance work set within a human-sized box, exploring the confines of the body and mind.

Press is “…extraordinarily beautiful…sophisticated, underplayed and astonishing all at once.”

–The Australian

LUCY GUERIN INC.

Corridor

September 16-20, 2009

Wed at 6:30 PM & 8:30 PM, Thu at 8:30 PM, Fri at 6:30 PM & 8:30 PM,

Sat at 6:30 PM & 8:30 PM, Sun at 5 PM

Tickets: $15

Howard Gilman Performance Space

Baryshnikov Arts Center, in partnership with Dance Theater Workshop, presents the U.S. premiere of Corridor, an intimate and rigorous dance piece that investigates the human body as a transmitter and receiver of information through a variety of media.

“Corridor is a fascinating exploration of the contingencies of communication and the evolution of meaning.”

–Theater Notes

MEG STUART / DAMAGED GOODS

Auf den Tisch! / On the Table!

Co-presented by Performa and the Baryshnikov Arts Center for Performa 09

November 6-7, 2009

Fri and Sat at 7:30 PM

Tickets: $20

Studio 6A

Auf den Tisch! is a dance project by Meg Stuart in which a changing cast of performers, thinkers, writers, singers, musicians, actors, and dancers meet at an oversized conference table, which becomes a platform for action and reflection.

DEBORAH HAY, IF I SING TO YOU

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YVONNE RAINER, SPIRALING DOWN

Co-presented by Performa and the Baryshnikov Arts Center for Performa 09November 17-19, 2009

November 17-18, 2009

Tue-Thu at 7:30 PM

Tickets: $25

Howard Gilman Performance Space

In If I Sing To You, dancers transcend the structure that is imposed by choreography to create self-regulated movement sequences with ever changing patterns, contexts, and combinations.

Spiraling Down draws inspiration from a variety of sources—newspaper photos, soccer moves, old movies, classic modern dance, ballet, Steve Martin, 19th-century actress Sarah Bernhardt, even Rainer’s own disinterred dances from the 1960s—which come together to create an eerie resonance that is both melancholic and unpredictable.