Mark your calendars for October 2024! The Amsterdam News has just released their highly anticipated Dance Calendar, packed with amazing performances and events
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THe Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC), at the Joyce from October 1–6, kicks off this month’s calendar. Recognized for “championing a movement legacy rooted in the African-American experience,” the company has two works by Black choreographic voices on a triple bill. Ray Mercer’s “This I Know for Sure” captures the spirit of creation between choreographer and dancers, while Rennie Harris’s “Jacob’s Ladder” pays homage to painter Jacob Lawrence and his portrayals of Black life in America. The third work is a restaging of Paul Taylor’s “Esplanade” and positions DCDC as the first African American dance company to add this 1975 iconic work to its repertoire. “Part of the beauty of dance is it’s held in the vessel of the dancers,” said Chief Executive & Artistic Director Debbie Blunden-Diggs. “For me, it broadens the scope of who DCDC is as a repertory African-American dance company.”
For more information, visit https://www.joyce.org
Also this month
October 6: Stop by the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) Open House for a fun-filled day featuring free dance classes for all ages and levels, including ballet, African, Salsa, and Jazzercise. Enjoy special highlights such as a Ballet Master Class led by DTH School Director Tai Jimenez, studio tours, and a presentation by the DTH Company. With face painting, crafts, and snacks, there’s something for everyone to enjoy as DTH celebrates its vibrant legacy.
For more information or to RSVP, visit www.dancetheatreofharlem.org.
October 9–13: The Joyce presents the U.S. debut of Botis Seva and his company Far From The Norm in an evening-length, multimedia, hip hop dance theater work, “BLKDOG,” “that reveals the fine line between self-discovery and self-destruction,” according to the release.
For more information, visit https://www.joyce.org.
October 10–12: At Danspace Project, Niall Jones will present a new work, titled “JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson,” described as “…a site breach, a collapsing of memories, sensations, and bodily coordinates—a dance and its noises, moving from one place to another operating, in parts, as a system of continuous retrieval.”
For more information, visit https://danspaceproject.org.
October 20: As part of CPR’s OPEN-AiR program, Ariana Speight, a 2024 Artist-in-Residence, will present “cocoon,” a work in development that “…journeys through metamorphosis defined as a transformative transition and is a continual introduction to the inner workings of self through the shifting of form,” according to the release.
For more information, visit www.cprnyc.org.
October 22: As part of the OPEN AiR series at CPR, the 2024 Artists-in-Residence Rebecca Patek, Alex Rodabaugh, and Anh Vo offer “Endless Holes,” a shared evening of new work.
For more information, visit www.cprnyc.org.
October 23–27: Former Ballet Nacional de España principal dancer Sergio Bernal and his company bring their first evening-length work, “A Night with Sergio Bernal,” to the Joyce.
For more information, visit https://www.joyce.org.
October 25: From South America, the all-male Argentinian dancing-and-drumming troupe MALEVO, under choreographer/dancer Matias Jaime, makes its NJPAC debut with a combination of Malambo (the traditional folk dance of Argentine Gauchos), flamenco, and synchronized percussion.
For more information, visit https://www.njpac.org/event/malevo/.
October 25: As part of the OPEN LAB series at CPR, Yanira Castro continues the aural archiving project “a canary torsi’s multisite, multi-format” public art project “Exorcism = Liberation,” in conjunction with an installation, on view through November 6.
For more information, visit www.cprnyc.org.
October 30–November 2: After 30 years, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company returns to BAM’s Next Wave with “Still/Here,” the controversial 1994 multimedia dance theater work. Created during the AIDS epidemic, one of the most contentious and terrifying periods of U.S. history, “Still/Here” breaks boundaries between the personal and the political, exemplifying a form of dance theater that is uniquely American.
For more information, visit https://www.bam.org.
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