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Hervé KOUBI's What the Day Owes to the Night, which is being performed at The Joyce Theater this winter. Photo by Nathalie Sternalski.
Catch new works from NYC Ballet, Camille A. Brown, American Ballet Theatre principal Herman Cornejo and more
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There's a whirlwind of dance this winter, including New York City Ballet's exciting new season, troupes from around the globe at The Joyce, a new work from four-time Tony nominee Camille A. Brown, and landmark anniversary seasons from Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE and Urban Bush Women.
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New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Midtown
Runs January 10-19. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Aakash Odedra, the evocative British-born South Asian choreographer, does not appear in this piece and yet it's a profoundly personal work. Co-choreographed with Lewis Major, Little Murmur vividly conveys Odedra's experiences as a young boy navigating the world with dyslexia. Striking video projections and a mesmerizing sound score support a sole dancer in this compelling depiction of neurodiversity. Aimed at ages 7 and up and running only 40 minutes, the show includes free pre- and post-performance activities that invite families to dig deeper into the piece's themes. Part of the Under the Radar fest.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs January 14-19.
Ronald K. Brown's distinctive style blends African influences with contemporary moves that are danced to an invigorating mix of music. For his troupe's 40th anniversary, EVIDENCE performs four works on alternating triple bills, including a reimagining of Serving Nia, a piece Brown created in 2001 for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as a follow-up to his acclaimed Grace, which is also part of this Joyce program.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Runs January 17-18. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
If you've craving ballet, this program blends classical showpieces with contemporary short works, including two of Christopher Wheeldon's finest duets. Dancers include American Ballet Theatre's Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside, former ABT principal Xiomara Reyes, and artists from The Houston Ballet, The Royal Swedish Ballet and Ballet de Catalunya.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs January 21-26. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
This enterprising Havana-based company makes a welcome return to The Joyce with a quartet of works, three of which are by Cuban choreographers. Artistic director Osnel Delgado has choreographed a fresh duet in which he also dances, and his fellow Cubans Susana Pous and company member Esteban Aguilar also contribute new works. Company mainstay Indomitable Waltz, created for Malpaso in 2016, rounds out the program, which is danced entirely to live music.
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David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza at 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue in Lincoln Square
Runs January 21-March 2.
NYC Ballet packs a lot into six winter weeks, including innovative new works and intriguing reassessments of classics. Justin Peck's world premiere Mystic Familiar features an original commissioned score by Dan Deacon. Alexei Ratmansky crafts his eighth ballet for the troupe, a reinvention of Marius Petipa's 19th-century classic Paquita that incorporates a 1951 George Balanchine pas de trois set to portions of the Léon Minkus score. The ever-popular Firebird returns along with an all-Stravinsky program, and throughout there's a generous mix of works by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Christopher Wheeldon, whose charming Carnival of the Animals features John Lithgow as the narrator. A two-week run of Swan Lake closes out the season.
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La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Runs January 24-26. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
In honor of the Lunar New Year, this 10-member troupe presents two classics by its late founder, H.T. Chen, that pay tribute to the tight-knit Chinatown community. The 1993 work Opening the Gate explores the challenges and eventual transcendence of life on this plain. Excerpts from Mott Street celebrate the spirit of Chinatown, drawing on oral histories of the neighborhood's residents.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs January 28-February 2
French-Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi's all-male troupe members display fearless athleticism as they perform his thrilling blend of martial arts, capoeira, contemporary dance and hip-hop moves. His What the Day Owes to the Night, inspired by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra's novel of a similar name, is a very personal work that draws on Koubi's discovery of his Algerian roots and a trip to his ancestral homeland.
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Perelman Performing Arts Center, 251 Fulton Street at the intersection of Vesey and Greenwich Streets in the Financial District
Runs February 5-8
As part of Urban Bush Women's multifaceted 40th anniversary celebration, the venerable company offers this ambitious new work conceived, directed and co-choreographed by founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Inspired by Zollar's Kansas City youth, the work uses song, dance and storytelling to conjure the powerful love story of two Black folks finding their way during the Great Migration. Vincent R. Thomas co-choreographs and Craig Harris composed the music.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs February 5-9
Long before she began collecting Tony Award nominations (her talent is currently on display in Broadway's Hell's Kitchen and Gypsy), Camille A. Brown founded a contemporary dance company to showcase her spellbinding choreography that draws on African diaspora traditions and explores aspects of Black culture and history. Her new work I AM is a celebration of Black joy inspired by a storyline in HBO's too-brief series Lovecraft Country and the beat of the movie Drumline. Deah Love Harriott, Juliette Jones, Jaylen Petinuad and Martine Wade provide the original music.
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Kaufmann Concert Hall at 92NY, 1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street on the Upper East Side
Runs February 8
In Downtown to Uptown. Past to Forward, veteran modern dance choreographer David Dorfman celebrates his longstanding connection with 92NY by reviving works he's performed at the venue: Lightbulb Theory and Impending Joy, both from 2004, and Approaching Some Calm (2005), a duet performed by Dorfman and Lisa Race. Can't make it in person? The program will be available to stream online from February 9 to 14.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
February 12-16
Choreographer Akram Khan is an adventurous cross-cultural explorer, drawing on his training in Kathak, a traditional Indian style, as well as contemporary dance. In this new work, GIGENIS: The generation of the Earth, he honors and interacts with a variety of classical Indian dance artists, celebrating their collective love of the genre. Khan performs alongside Kutiyattam artist Kapila Venu, Bharatanatyam soloists Mavin Khoo and Mythili Prakash, and the Bharatanatyam duo Vijna Vasudevan and Renjith Babu.
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Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street between Rivington and Delancey Streets on the Lower East Side
Runs February 13-14
Young Soon Kim's WHITE WAVE Dance invites a wide array of choreographers to present their solos and duets during three different programs in this ninth annual fest. Local talents share the stage with artists from around the country as well as dance-makers from England, Israel, China and Italy.
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BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place in Fort Greene
Runs February 13-15
The Brooklyn-based Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet marks a major milestone with Remembering, a multimedia meditation that puts an African lens on America's bloody history, specifically the Middle Passage, slavery and emancipation. A fusion of movement, images, spoken word and African drumming.
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NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South in the West Village
Runs February 14-15
Florentina Holzinger's work is provocative. She explores beauty as well as chaos, and the production guidance for the New York premiere of TANZ warns of "explicit nudity, blood, needles and hooks, and self-harming body acts." The culmination of a trilogy, TANZ features 11 women performers ranging in age from 30 to over 80 as they delve deep into the limits of the human body, exploring themes of strength, vulnerability and the relentless pursuit of perfection.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs February 18-23
As adventurous and magnetic a performer as ever, American Ballet Theatre principal Herman Cornejo conceived this project, which resurrects a long-lost proposed work from 1917 that choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky never realized due to his mental illness. More than a century later, Cornejo has brought a version of the ballet's story—inspired by the Guarani legend of the mystical Urutau bird—to the stage. The work features choreography by Anabella Tuliano, an original score by Luis Maurette "Uji" and Noelia Escalzo, and the dance troupe Grupo Cadabra alongside Cornejo.
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