The ever-provocative Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company will present the world premiere of Jones’s full-evening
work, “Blind Date” at the Alexander Kasser Theater
in Montclair, NJ, September 21, 23 & 24. Asking hard, sensitive
and often subtle questions about patriotism and its function in
an increasingly dangerous world, the dance uses a spectacular
design by the Jones's company's creative director Bjorn Amelan,
projected film images by Peter Nigrini, lighting by Robert Wierzel
and an original score by Daniel Bernard Roumain. REUNION ANEW Garth Fagan Dance returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Rose Theater this fall, November 9–13, where one of the
highlights is a revival of Fagan’s full-evening classic
“Griot New York.” The original Marsalis score will
be played live by the Wynton Marsalis Septet. “Griot”
will be performed one night only: November 9. It will be followed,
November 10–13, by a world premiere set to music by jazz
violinist Billy Bang, and hits from repertory by the Tony Award-winning
choreographer. Stay tuned for more details. EASTWARD HO! Pilobolus and MOMIX alums Jamey Hampton and Ashley
Roland, who take great joy in creating works brimming with wit
and surprise, head east with their small troupe, BodyVox, to play
The Joyce Theater, November 15–20. They will present the
New York premiere of “a thousand little cities.” Joined
by six dancers, visual artist and writer Tad Savinar, filmmaker
Mitchell Rose and animator Jerome Unterreiner, Hampton and Roland
pack “cities” with 14 mini-works that evoke a rollicking
journey across America. To ensure its changing sense of place,
the music alternates between John Adams, Tom Waits, Aphex Twin,
Edgar Meyer and U2. TREINTA Y CINCO CANDELAS This is a banner year for Ballet Hispanico, which
will be celebrating its 35th anniversary in a big way: First,
with a two-week season at The Joyce Theater, November 29–December
11, highlighted by the world premiere of Alexandre Magno's "The
Red Guitar," a Brazilian look at the Orfeo and Eurydice myth.
The company’s second New York season takes place April 21
& 22 at Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where it will
present another world premiere by Magno, this time performed to
live music by the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill.
Additionally, the company performs as part of Evening Stars, September
14, and at Queens Theatre in the Park, October 29 & 30. Another
piece of birthday news: In October (date TBA), it will celebrate
the “top-off” of its brand new building on 90th Street
between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves. A CANADIAN VISIT Compagnie Marie Chouinard will return to The Joyce
Theater, December 13–18, as part of the Canadian troupe’s
first full-out U.S. tour. Two New York premieres are on the boards.
“Chorale,” with choreography and vocals by Chouinard,
is alternately humorous, exuberant and erotic in spirit. In “Étude
no. 1,” a five-part solo, Lucie Mongrain dances in steel-tipped
shoes across a blue, amplified rectangle that covers the stage.
Both dances are set to original music by Louis Dufort, a frequent
collaborator since 1998. The Company will also be seen as part
of “Fall for Dance” at City Center on October 2. ATLANTIC CROSSING London’s Richard Alston Dance Company celebrates
its return to The Joyce Theater, February 14–19 with a spectacular
show of New York premieres set to music by a diverse group of
composers. “Gypsy Mixture” is a street party filled
with exhilarating dancing to Balkan gypsy music remixed by an
international bevy of DJs. In dramatic contrast is Alston’s
“Fever,” set to Monteverdi madrigals and suggesting
the sensuality and golden warmth of the Italian spirit. Also on
the program is “Such Longing,” a wistful, gently melancholy
dance performed to the lyrical Chopin Nocturnes and Etudes played
live at The Joyce by pianist Jason Ridgway. CLASSICAL ROYALTY Calendars should be marked now for the New York
premiere of “Kings of Dance,” a one-of-a-kind program
featuring the best male dancing on the international ballet circuit.
Ethan Stiefel and Angel Corella of American Ballet Theatre, Johan
Kobborg of the Royal Danish Ballet and Nikolay Tsiskaridze of
the Bolshoi Ballet will perform together for the first time in
a new Christopher Wheeldon ballet. To make the shows even more
international, there will also be solo works by Nils Christe,
Tim Rushton, Stanton Welch and Roland Petit. PIROUETTE À LA YOGA James Sewell makes unusual demands on his Minneapolis-based
ballet company. Witness the three New York premieres scheduled
for James Sewell Ballet’s Joyce season, April 4–9.
Choreographed in collaboration with his dancers, Sewell’s
“Involution” draws on yoga and Qigong to explore the
flow of energy through the body to suggest an evolution toward
the unification of a splintered group. The music is by Thomas
Newman. Accompanied by Franz Schubert’s “Sonata for
Arpeggione and Piano in A minor,” Sewell’s “Anagram”
is structured as a series of sections connected through improvisation.
And then there is the mystery ballet, “The Guy Noir Ballet”
in which Sewell merges text with movement, with Garrison Keillor
narrating the story of his detective Guy Noir. The accompanying
music is a jazz score. Where To Go: Alexander Kasser Theater is located
north of the intersection of College Avenue and Red Hawk Road
on the campus of Montclair State University, which is at Valley
Road and Normal Avenue, in Montclair, NJ. Tickets are available
at the box office, online at www.montclair.edu/kasser or by calling
973-655-5112.
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