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Gallim Dance Brings Youthful Exuberance to PS21

(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company Gallim Dance brings its inventive combination of quick wit, movement, introspection, youthful exuberance, and technical virtuosity to PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century on Friday and Saturday, August 14 and 15, 2015, at 8pm. Gallim will be performing two pieces by company founder, artistic director and choreographer…

Brian Sanders JUNK to Open Chatham Dance Festival at PS21

(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – The month-long Chatham Dance Festival at PS21 kicks off with Brian Sanders JUNK on Friday and Saturday, August 7 and 8, at 8pm. Known for their ingenious use of found objects and clever inventions, this Philadelphia-based company bridges the gap between dance and physical theater. “I love dance as much as everything…

Anna Rogovoy Named Choreographer at BCP

(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – The multi-talented Anna P. Rogovoy will be a guest choreographer for the Berkshire Choreography Project’s 2015 Residency at Berkshire Pulse. The two-week residency takes place August 10-22, 2015. There will be two informal showings of the work produced during the residency, on August 21 at 7pm and on August 22 at 6:30pm. These…

KEIGWIN + COMPANY Brings Diverse Dance Program to MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Dance ensemble KEIGWIN + COMPANY will bring a mixed program of high art and pure entertainment, featuring a variety of diverse contemporary works that embody the company’s signature wit, broad musicality, and profound emotional capacity, to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Saturday, April 11, at 8pm and Sunday, April…

ZviDance Previews New Work at Kaatsbaan

(TIVOLI, N.Y.) – ZviDance concludes its residency at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center on Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 7:30pm with a work-in-progress showing of “Escher/Bacon/Rothko,” set to premiere in at New York Live Arts in Manhattan in June 2015. ZviDance, a company comprised of athletic and lyrical dancers, blends contemporary aesthetics with lush, full-bodied movement.…

Stephen Petronio Offers Preview of World Premiere at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli

(TIVOLI, N.Y.) – The Stephen Petronio Company will perform its new two-part work, “Locomotor/Non Locomotor,” at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center on Saturday, March 28, 2015, at 7:30 pm, one week before its official world premiere at New York City’s Joyce Theater. Last year’s dance, “Locomotor,” cast the virtuosic dancers careening forward and backward through time…

Choreographer Lucinda Childs Revisits ‘Available Light’ at MASS MoCA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Lucinda Childs, one of the most celebrated choreographers of the modern era, revives Available Light, her seminal 1983 collaboration with composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry, with three intimate, work-in-progress showings in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7, 2015, at 8 pm,…

Noche Flamenca Presents ‘Antigona’ at Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Noche Flamenca, one of the most authentic flamenco companies in the world today, will present “Antigona” at the Mahaiwe on Friday, January 23, 2015, at 8pm. This new evening-length work based on Sophocles’ ancient Greek heroine combines live music, song, and dance, bringing the fiery, expressive nature of flamenco to one…