DanceNOW’s annual festival is now in it’s sixteenth season and will be presented from September 8-11, 2010 at DTW. With more choreographers than you can shake a tutu at, it is sure to be a great series of evenings.

Festival Twenty Ten is taking the DanceNOW “less is more” policy to task, challenging Festival participants to create a new work or present a repertory work in seven minutes or less, that offers a concise, clear, and complete artistic statement. The artist that best meets the DanceNOW Challenge will be awarded a week-long residency at Silo at Kirkland Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, along with a $1000 residency stipend, and a paid teaching opportunity at DeSales University, with whom DanceNOW has partnered since 2006 to bring New York City-based choreographer/educators to Bucks County/Lehigh Valley, to teach and perform. The artist will be selected during the Festival by a panel of administrators, educators, and peers. Here’s The Challenge Line-Up!

Wednesday September 8

Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.motion
ad hoc Ballet/Deborah Lohse
The Bang Group/David Parker
Camille A. Brown
The DASH Ensemble/Gregory Dolbashian
Jamal Jackson Dance Company
Kawamura the 3rd
LAYERS/Khaleah London
skybetter & associates
Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre

Thursday September 9

binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga
Erica Essner Performance Co-Op
John Heginbotham
independentdancemaker/Kara Tatelbaum
Roger C. Jeffrey/Subtle Changes
Nicholas Leichter Dance
Inmixedcompany/Maura Nguyen Donohue
John-Mark Owen
Iain Rowe
Amber Sloan

Friday September 1O

Daniel Charon
Jennifer Chin Dance
INSPIRIT
Terra Firma Dance Theatre/Stuart Loungway
Stefanie Nelson dancegroup
Riedel Dance Theater
small apple co/Makiko Tamura
Christopher Williams
Ellis Wood DanceZviDance

Saturday September 11

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
Sara Hook Dances
Malcom Low
Pengelly:Projects
PORTABLES/Claire Porter
Race Dance
Marta Renzi
Singh & Dance/Paul Singh
Misnomer Dance Theater
TAKE Dance/Takehiro Ueyama

All Performances are at 7:30pm at Dance Theater Workshop
September 8–11 [ Wednesday through Saturday ] .
Tickets are $20 in advance/$25 at the door and can be purchased by calling 212-924-0077, or online at dancetheaterworkshop.org.
Dance Theater Workshop is located at 219 West 19th Street [ between 7th and 8th Avenues ] in NYC. Subway: 1 train to 18th Street; A, C, E, L trains to 14th Street/8th Avenue.