Category Archives: Dance

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Le Petit Mort

There’s some good dance coming your way! Thursday night is the opening of Palissimo dance company’s Le Petit Mort. Zustiak’s world is full of “striving, sweating bodies, but beyond what they actually do lies another, more enigmatic kind of “doing.”” -Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

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Mr Jones Goes to Harlem

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY CHAPEL/CHAPTER TUES-SAT, DECEMBER 5-9, 2006 See the premiere of Chapel/Chapter, a new work by choreographer Bill T. Jones which explores the duality between the sacred and the secular. In his visionary stage design Bjorn Amelan transforms The Gatehouse into

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Traveling Uptown can be Worthwhile

Coming up this week at Juilliard…… always a treat to see the “creme de la creme.” COMPOSERS & CHOREOGRAPHERS … PLUS COMPOSERS & CHOREOGRAPHERS: Alexandra du Bois and Collin Baja Cristina Spinei and Chanel DaSilva Yui Kitamura and Carolyn Rossett Tian Zhou and Kendra Samson

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Put it on your weekend list:

Are you thinking about dance theater? FIVEFOUR is, and they’re puzzling it out with performances at Triskelion Arts this weekend. The evening, shared with Launch Movement Experiment, Anne Zuerner, and Ali Harmer, (who also performs with FIVEFOUR) is mostly a series of duets – often

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Looking for the latest dance news?

If you’ve seen a dance performance at Danspace or DTW, participated in a work-in-progress showing at Dixon Place or Movement Research, or attended just about any performance, showing, panel discussion or party in the “Downtown Dance” community, chances are you’ve rubbed elbows with Doug Post.

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La Mekanica Call for Entries

For Culturebot’s international readership, here’s a call for participants for an international meeting of contemporary dance makers of the mediterranean…. From February 12th until February 18th 2007, La Mekanica (Barcelona) will organize an international meeting of professional contemporary dance makers of the Mediterranean Arab and

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Audition for DV8 in London

Just this in from DV8 in the UK. DV8 Physical Theatre is holding an audition for a new project in 2007 based on ideas around tolerance and intolerance, religion and sexuality We are specifically looking to cast for black and Asian roles. We are seeking

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Sundown by Yoshiko Chuma

“Sundown” by Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks, at Issue Project Room Brooklyn, employs the scenic vistas of the Gowanus Canal. 7-hour site performance with 7 dancers, 7 musicians and 7-foot cubes designed by Ralph Lee WHERE AND WHEN: * Saturday, July 29

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modern garage movement west coast tour

everybody’s favorite all-grrl indie punk dance squad, modern garage movement,(from some of the same girls who bring you the AUNTS dance events) are taking their performance Maynard, to the west coast. According to their myspace site: MAYNARD is flowers in the attic relegated to the

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La MaMa Moves Dance Blast!!

La MaMa prepares to go out dancing. Close to 50 different choreographers and groups perform in six different themed programs – a new project, not short on ambition. Nicky Paraiso and Mia Yoo are co-curators. The four weeks celebrate the close association and mutual influence

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rindfleisch dance

Occasional Culturebot contributor Ryan Tracy is a member of the Collective Opera Company which is currrently working with dancer/choreographer Elke Rindfleisch on a new piece called “Damage”. The NY TIMES calls it “disturbing…sexy and fun.” Ryan says, “The project is the brainchild of Elke Rindfleisch,

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GorillaFEST

GorillaFEST Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Dancers offer a three-night festival in two locations, featuring more than 15 choreographers and 25 performers including Jonah Bokaer, Sharon Estacio, Jane Gabriels, Ermira Goro, Chris Lancaster, Amanda Loulaki, Heather Mcardle, Heather Olson, Pedro Osorio, Joe Poulson, Bryan Kepple, Gary