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Paul Taylor Dance Company's Jessica Ferretti in Jody Sperling's Vive La Loie! Photo by Whitney Browne.
Catch Paul Taylor Dance Company, Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet and more
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It's almost time for all those Nutcrackers! But before the holiday dance season kicks in after Thanksgiving, there are some exciting nonseasonal choices, including Paul Taylor Dance Company's extended run at Lincoln Center, the long overdue return of the Dutch National Ballet, Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet set to an orchestral version of The Who's 1973 concept album and many excellent troupes at The Joyce.
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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 November 4-23. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
The eminent Paul Taylor Dance Company settles in at Lincoln Center for three weeks, with the excellent Orchestra of St. Luke's providing live music. The lineup features a dozen works by the namesake choreographer, including favorites such as Esplanade, Company B and Sunset along with less familiar offerings like his poignant Beloved Renegade, the complex and haunting Speaking in Tongues and his final opus Concertiana. There are world premieres from the troupe's two resident choreographers, Lauren Lovette and Robert Battle, and Hope Boykin's How Love Sounds will receive its New York debut. That's just a taste of the jam-packed run, which includes Family Express Saturday matinees on November 15 and 22.
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BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place in Fort Greene
Runs November 5-8.
Multitalented choreographer, songwriter and designer Juliana F. May, known for creating layered, elaborate works inspired by challenging personal experiences, makes her BAM debut with Optimistic Voices. In this full-evening piece, she explores the conflicts between eroticism and domesticity, supplying the movement, the songs and even the set design.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs November 5-9.
Andrea Miller's intrepid nine-member company GALLIM returns to The Joyce for the world premiere of Mother, a surreal and intensely personal work that draws on ancestral inheritance, generational evolution and her own experience as a mother. Miller's frequent collaborators provide the music, by Frédéric Despierre, and eye-popping costumes, by Orly Anan.
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The Mark O'Donnell Theater, 160 Schermerhorn Street between Smith and Hoyt Streets in Downtown Brooklyn
Runs November 7-9.
Notable New York Theatre Ballet dancer Amanda Treiber launches her namesake company with the world premiere why I can't come to the phone..., a collection of vignettes inspired by the experiences of her ensemble, which includes New York City Ballet soloists Harrison Coll and Victor Abreu. Also on the lineup, MADERA (wood), a piece about regeneration developed during the pandemic shutdown. The evening features music by Chilean composer Manuel Figueroa-Bolvarán and Philip Glass performed live by Figueroa-Bolvarán and NYC Ballet pianist Michael Scales
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SLAM (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics), 51 North 1st Street, between Kent and Wythe Avenues in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Runs November 7-30. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Elizabeth Streb's fearless and acrobatic troupe tackles one of the choreographer's seminal works, Into Thin Air. Last performed two decades ago, this high-flying piece takes place on one of her custom-made contraptions: a trampoline anchored between two tall scaffolds with retractable ramps and suspended parallel bars. Marvel at daring feats of movement on a program that also includes four other thrilling pieces for Streb's so-called "Action Heroes."
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs November 11-16.
For decades, the innovative Rennie Harris has expanded the reach and possibilities of hip-hop and other street dance genres. He brings his vibrant, Philadelphia-based ensemble back to The Joyce with the New York premiere of American Street Dancer, which traces the lineage of various regional styles, including Detroit's Jitting, Chicago's Footwork and Philly's GQ. A live hip-hop orchestra of bucket drummers, beatboxers and a deejay supply the soundtrack and special guests such as tap luminary Ayodele Casel and hip-hop legend Akim Funk Buddha join in the fun.
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NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South in the West Village
Runs November 13-15. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
This dazzling dance-theatre piece from Wim Vandekeybus' boundary-pushing Belgian troupe Ultima Vez reinvents ancient myths through exhilarating movement and projections. Dancers are pushed to the limit in this visceral and provocative multimedia work.
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Powerhouse Arts, 322 Third Avenue between Carroll and 3rd Streets in Gowanus, Brooklyn
Runs November 13-16.
Israel-born, London-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter recently had pieces performed in NYC by Paris Opera Ballet and the Martha Graham Dance Company. For the inaugural Powerhouse: International, an ambitious, multidisciplinary festival, he brings his namesake troupe to Brooklyn to present Theatre of Dreams, which explores the complexity of the subconscious mind. As usual, Shechter composed his own score to go with his singular choreography.
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92NY, 1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street on the Upper East Side
Runs November 14-15.
In the world premiere Late Bloomer, French-Canadian choreographer Hélène Simoneau explores belonging, shunning and the choices we make that lead to connection… or not. Award-winning composer Angélica Negrón supplies the score.
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The Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street between New York and Brooklyn Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant
Runs November 14-15.
Ronald K. Brown founded his Brooklyn-based troupe EVIDENCE four decades ago and he's marking that milestone in the historic Billie Holiday Theatre, his creative home base and the arts center where he took his first dance classes as a child! The two-day celebration features excerpts from some of Brown's most acclaimed works performed by company members and guest artists, as well as a community dance class and a conversation with dance historian Sandra L. Burton.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Runs November 14-16.
The Who's iconic 1973 album Quadrophenia was turned into a cult movie in 1979. A half century later, it's been transformed into a large-scale ballet. After an acclaimed run in London and a UK tour, this dance-theatre work about Jimmy, a troubled young mod navigating the social upheaval of the 1960s, comes to NYC. Choreographed by Paul Roberts and directed by Broadway stalwart Rob Ashford, it features Matthew Bourne company dancer Paris Fitzpatrick as Jimmy and screen star Ansel Elgort in his professional dance debut as The Godfather. They'll be performing to Rachel Fuller's orchestral version of Pete Townshend's landmark score, which was recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs November 18-30.
Still going strong after three decades, Complexions Contemporary Ballet champions bold, athletic choreography and dancers. Founded by former Alvin Ailey stars Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the company returns to The Joyce with three programs featuring a trio of world premieres. Rhoden's Imagine Joy is set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings; Houston Thomas' Young Lovers features the music of Jeff Buckley and Tarika Blue; and I Got U by the troupe's own Joe González is performed to an eclectic soundscape. Additional works by Rhoden round out the lineup, including the company premiere of Midnight Riff, his tribute to groundbreaking women in jazz.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Runs November 20-22.
It's hard to believe that a company as highly regarded as the Dutch National Ballet hasn't performed a major NYC showcase in 40 years! That's being rectified this month with a pair of programs at City Center featuring nine ballets that demonstrate the range of the troupe's repertory. Several well-known choreographers (Jerome Robbins, Alexei Ratmansky, Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, company artistic director Ted Brandsen) are represented alongside newer voices such as Mthuthuzeli November and Wubkje Kuindersma. Two of its most high-profile dancers are Olga Smirnova and Jacopo Tissi, Bolshoi Ballet luminaries who left Russia because of the country's war with Ukraine. They will perform Robbins' celebrated Other Dances to Chopin piano selections.
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NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South in the West Village
Runs November 21-22.
Jack Ferver's dance-theatre piece My Town, commissioned by NYU Skirball, is a riff on Thornton Wilder's landmark play Our Town that draws on the artist's own experience of growing up queer in rural America. The scenic design, music and video are all by Jeremy Jacob.
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Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue between Rockwell and Ashland Places in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Runs November 21-22.
Choreographer Miro Magloire sets his intimate classical dances to a wide range of sensitively chosen scores, often collaborating with the composers himself. For this evening titled Azalea, he presents five works in the round danced to live music by up-and-comers, including a world premiere set to Didi Gu's Undercurrent for violin and piano.
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