Dance spring: poster of ballets and choreographic performances in New York
'06.03.2023'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
Do you love dance art? We hasten to please you: many dance troupes in New York have prepared new productions this spring. Here are classical ballet, and modern trends, and even folk dances, reports New York Times.
JORDAN DEMETRIUS LLOYD
Like many creative people, choreographer Jordan Demetrius Lloyd has been trying to create work outside the theater for several years. In 2020, he directed the thrilling short film Last Moon in Mellowland. Last summer, his special performance "JEROME" drew crowds of dancers and curious passers-by to the schoolyard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. In his first evening project, Lloyd returns to the theater, taking on a familiar face and trying new directions at the same time. In the play Blackbar in the Basement at the Danspace Project, he and seven dancers develop the ideas of “JEROME”, looking at the characteristics of this holy city center performance venue and the history of the artists who have worked there.
Show dates: March 9-11, Danspace Project, Manhattan.
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KEELY GARFIELD
As a choreographer, Keely Garfield has long blurred the lines between irony and sincerity, absurdity and depth. Her unpredictable works, not afraid of kitsch, are costumed sketches that have room for prayer, feats of endurance and courage that do not hide awkwardness and vulnerability. Garfield is also a yoga teacher, city zen integral therapist, and hospital chaplain. Her new job "Invisible Project" is the first performance in which she openly explores the intersection of her work as a choreographer and her work in the field of wellness, experimenting with ways to dance about endurance, patience, healing and catharsis. The cast is perfect: Opal Ingle, Angie Pittman, Paul Hamilton and Molly Lieber.
Show Dates: March 10-12 at NYU Skirball, Manhattan.
TRISHA BROWN DANCE COMPANY
The question of how to stay relevant haunts every dance company built on the vision of one choreographer. What happens when that person is no more? Six years after the death of postmodernist Trisha Brown, her company commissioned a new production for the first time. They chose Cuban-born Judith Sanchez Ruiz, who was a member of the Brown Troupe from 2006 to 2009. Ruiz combines Brown's sensual understanding of creativity with his bold approach to inventing movement. In addition to Ruiz's "Let's Talk About Bleeding" with a score by Cuban composer Adonis Gonzalez, the Joyce Theater season will feature two collaborations between Brown and sound engineer Alvin Curran - “For MG: The Movie” and "Rogues" (2011). And Ruiz isn't the only fresh voice on the program: Five of the company's eight dancers are newcomers.
Show Dates: May 2-7, Joyce Theatre, Manhattan.
NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE
About ten years ago, Nrityagram - the unsurpassed exponents of the Indian classical form of odissi - came to the Joyce Theater with unexpected guests. They were members of the Chitrasena dance company from Sri Lanka, experts in Kandyan dancing. The joint work of female dancers revealed both the common ancient roots of the two styles and their differences. The more graceful sophistication of Odissi, the more folk vigor of Kandyan. They danced to different drummers and found a new harmony. Both troupes return together to Joyce with a new program "Ahuti" or "Offering". One of the changes is the presence of men who came from the side of Chitrasena - naked, courageous, circling in the air.
Show Dates: May 9-14, Joyce Theatre, Manhattan.
