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  eVENTS


Premiere Performances of "Burrow"

 from Bardos Ballet Theater



Architecture & dance converge this Spring in Burrow, a new performance happening from choreographer Cynthia Anne Stanley & architect Maria Sieira. Witness 12 women (& me) emerge from a mirage of World War II era styles & sounds. Watch them construct, inhabit, & disassemble dwellings both primal & domestic. Burrow is an exciting new work that explores the role of women as architects of society while honoring those that waited on the home front during WWII.
Burrow debuts in a series of FREE dance sneak-attacks in select NYC parks.
Be part of the surprise!
SAVE THE DATES!
Mark your calendars, bring a picnic & enjoy a world of 1940's music & dance.

Sunday, MAY 19th, Foley Square Fountain, 7pm

Friday, MAY 24th, Fort Greene Park Steps, 7pm

Sunday, JUNE 2nd (2 performances!)
Somewhere in Manhattan, 11am
Somewhere in Brooklyn, Early Evening



April 28, 2013
and
May 18, 2013  /  1 - 7pm

Debut Performances from
The Shakedown Dance Collective

Premiere of "Ain't No Thing"


Image By Bonny Kahane

A new highly inclusive, non-competitive dance collective, The Shakedown has been born to share the joy of dance with people of ages & backgrounds. As professional dancers, Deborah Lohse & I saw a need for the general public to have the physical & emotional benefits of dance as well as the rush of performance. Famed dance presenter, the Joyce Theater, believed this to be true & gave us an 8 week residency. The New York Dance Parade agreed as well so The Shakedown is already slated for 2 upcoming performances. The new group will debut their new dance piece, Ain't No Thing, described as an exercise in effortless, groovy joy.

Sunday, April 28, 2013  Saturday, May 18, 2013
International Dance Day Gala Dance Parade New York 
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, NY   Broadway / Tompkins Square Park
7pm  1pm – 7pm
$10 - $100  FREE (General Public) $50 (Grandstand) 
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS  RSVP: Barbara@DanceParade.org


September 30  /  2pm  &  4pm

West Coast Premiere of
"Le Grand Continental"


On September 30th 2012, White Bird will present the West Coast Premiere of Le Grand Continental by Montreal-based choreographer Sylvain Emard. 160 dancers of all creeds, shapes & ages will take over Portland's Pioneer Square to perform an ambitious, wildly creative, 30 minute line dance.
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Avenue,
Portland, OR 97204

View PRESS RELEASE          PRESS LINK


June 22, 23 & 24  /  7pm

   U.S. Premiere of "Le Grand Continental"

The River To River Festival & Joyce Theater join forces to present the U.S. Premiere of Montréal choreographer Sylvain Émard’s Le Grand Continental. Combining festive line dancing with the fluidity & expressiveness of contemporary dance, Le Grand Continental brings together 160 New Yorkers of all ages & backgrounds to perform this ecstatic contemporary line dance.
South Street Sea Port
89 South Street
New York, NY 10038

PICKED AS ONE OF THE "BEST MOMENTS IN DANCE 2012"


May 25 & 26  /  8pm

Work-In-Progress Showing of "HOME / MADE"

In this exclusive work-in-progress showing by Mary Ann Wall's Red Wall Dance Theatre, HOME/MADE explores obligatory middle American gender roles for men & women, human connections & of course, feminine hygiene.
 
 LIU / Pratt Building, #602  TICKETS: Free!
 Brooklyn, NY 11201
  RSVP: maryann.wall@gmail.com


 

April 12 & 13, 2012  /  8pm

New York Premiere of "Bowel Movement"


  Image By Jeanette Vidalia

Triskelion Arts' 3rd Annual Comedy in Dance Festival / Brooklyn, NY

Bowel Movement is a satirical ballet designed to confront one of the last taboos of man, shit. In this nightmarish dreamscape, we follow a very refined lady as she battles her darkest fear, her own excrement. Horror, humor, wild theatrics, silent movie era kitsch, you truly don’t want to miss this one. Remember, behind even the nastiest crap is a good man or woman- or at the very very least, a great show. (part of the evening length work Bathroom Follies)

 Triskelion Arts Complex
 		 TICKETS: $15
triskelionarts.org
Brooklyn, NY 11249  RESERVE: info@triskelionarts.org

View PRESS RELEASE          PRESS LINK

BOWEL MOVEMENT TRAILER!


October 21 & 22, 2011  /  8:30pm

Premiering "Mixed Marriages"


Image By Andrae Gonzalo
In Mixed Marriages, lovers & collaborators of 8 years, Project Runway Designer Andrae Gonzalo & Choreographer Jamie Benson use juxtaposition to exploit the arc of their relationship, dramatizing everything from their servant origins (rich/poor) to their long distance relationship (NY/LA).
Highways Performance Space
 		TICKETS: $20
1651 18th Street
 		highwaysperformance.org
Santa Monica, CA 90404
 		RESERVE: (310) 315-1459

PRESS LINK
 

 Sunday, March 6, 2011  /  8pm

 Premiering "Mass Transit"


Image By Emily Marchand
The Bootleg Theater presents Jamie Benson & Andrae Gonzalo's Mass Transit, a wildly theatrical, 40-minute performance installation directly inspired by real life Metro happenings. Through overlapping vignettes of dance, gesture, noise, and movement, Benson's hybrid-brand of choreography infuses classic & barbaric dance techniques with a vaudevillian performance shtick to create a bastardized Broadway experience.
Bootleg Theater TICKETS: $18
2220 Beverly Boulevard bootlegtheater.org/dance.html
Los Angeles, CA 90057 RESERVE: (213) 389-3856



January 22 & 23, 2010  /  8:30pm

Workshop of "Point B"

Image By Stacey Adams
In a frenzied exercise of physical & emotional stamina, Jamie Benson introduces a new infectious dance solo called Point B. Inspired by Rudy Perez’s choreographic process of incorporating the use of space, focus, energy along with the bare experience of movement, Benson adds a linear emotional context in order to further dissect jazz and modern dance forms.
Highways Performance Space
 		TICKETS: $20
1651 18th Street
   highwaysperformance.org
Santa Monica, CA 90404
RESERVE: 310-453-1459



January 10, 2010  /  4pm

Performing "Whoosh"
LA Improv Dance Festival / Electric Lodge / Venice, CA

DANCE IN LA REVIEW - By Anna Reid
(2nd Paragraph / psst- she didn't love the Perez work but liked my Itch Solo!)
 

June 6, 2009  /  8pm

Tribute to Rudy Perez
Premiering "Surrender Dorothy"



Surrender Dorothy, the new work by famed post-modern choreographer Rudy Perez, is a collaboration between Liquid Skin Ensemble and members of the Rudy Perez Ensemble. One of the co-founders of New York's experimental Judson Dance Theatre, a coterie of artists who would define boundary-breaking "downtown" aesthetics in 1962, Perez continues to chart an unwavering course where pedestrian moves transcend the mundane to reveal bold, deep ideas.
Luckman Fine Arts Complex TICKETS: $30
5151 State University Drive  luckmanarts.org
Los Angeles, CA 90032-8116  RESERVE: (323) 343-660

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