photos L to R: Molly Poerstel, Brittany Engel-Adams & Annie-B Parson, Artichoke Dance Company
2020 Archive of NYC Canceled
Dance Performances
(performances canceled due to COVID-19 Pandemic)
| Scheduled date | Title of the Work | Choreographer(s) | Company Name (if applicable) | Venue/Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Throughout 2020 | 75th Anniversary Season of the Limón Dance Company | José Limón | Limón Dance Company | Throughout New York City | The Limón Dance Company is in its 75th year. Our season was the beginning of that celebration consisting of his masterworks and works by emerging and world renowned choreographers. |
| March 24, 2020 | A Body in a Garden | Eiko Otake | The Palm House at Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Eiko creates and performs site-specific work as part of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Artists-in-Residence Program. Eiko is interested in exploring the life cycle, climate change, and aging. | |
| June 27, 2020 | A Summer Soirée! | Alison Cook-Beatty | Alison Cook Beatty Dance | Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement | Alison Cook Beatty Dance performs "Messages In Time" and "Whale" with a free pre-show masterclass on stage for children of the community and an after-show reception outside in the amphitheater for all under the stars at Abrons Arts Center for a Summer Soirée all can enjoy. |
| March 2020 | Accidental Suite | Kyla Barkin & Aaron Selissen | Barkin/Selissen Project | Riverside Church | An expanded version of the viewers' choice film from 2019's “Titles Project,” an open-access online film series, "Accidental Suite" is a dance meditation on connection. Featuring 9 dancers and an original score by Zac Selissen, "Accidental Suite" evokes chance encounters, near misses, and the magnetic push and pull of relationships. In these deeply alienating times, it taps into the most essential of human needs: relating to one another. |
| October 3rd, 8pm October 4th, 5pm October 10th, 8pm October 11th, 5pm | Artists In Motion 2020 | Alison Cook-Beatty, Michael Kerr, Moriah Markowitz, Brenda Neville, Natalie Flynn, Meagan Ahern, Olivia Passarelli, Robyn Goulette, Brenda Neville, Mary Katherine Conaway, and Kitty Lunn | Alison Cook Beatty Dance | Salvatore Capezio Theater Peridance Capezio Center | ARTISTS IN MOTION 2020 was anticipated to be the 2nd annual performance series, produced by Alison Cook Beatty Dance. Featuring two world premieres by Ms. Cook- Beatty, 11 selected guest choreographers, dancers and musicians. In two different programs across four nights, dancers from around the country will join Alison Cook Beatty Dance to present reflections on universal aspects of humanity. |
| June 4th, 5th & 6th, 2020 | ASSEMBLY | Lindy Fines | GREYZONE | The Flea Theater | ASSEMBLY continues GREYZONE’s years-long investigation of the transformational power of inherited movement traditions and the creation of self within community. Melding and reconfiguring phrases from the company’s respective dance backgrounds, ASSEMBLY asks how we might honor our individual and collective pasts while forging rituals not yet imagined. |
| Fall 2020 | BABYLIFT | Anh Vo | n/a | Target Margin Theater | Named after a 1975 mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the U.S., resulting in a plane crash that killed 78 of those children, BABYLIFT confronts the afterlives of the Vietnam War (a.k.a. the Resistance War Against Imperialist America) |
| June 23-25 | Bottomfeeder | Molly Poerstel | Abrons Arts Center | Bottom feeder explores the disintegration and arrival of theatrical troupes, with the over arching goal of offering power to performers and audiences. In the bare walls of Abrons Arts Center underground theater we offer a vulnerable dance where we endeavor to show an unfiltered viewpoint into the work of our bodies, by placing our audiences inside our dances. Here, all materiality, architecture, objects, narration, abstraction, viewer and performer exist together in spherical orb of impressions and recollections which breeds within our collective consciousness. | |
| March 26,27,28, 2020 | can I have it without begging | Megan Williams | Megan Williams Dance Projects | Danspace/ Community Acess | can I have it without begging is a dance and live music event for 10 dancers, 5 musicians and 12 singers centered around the newly commissioned and catalogued music of composer Eve Beglarian. |
| March 14, 2020 | CORNER LAUNCH | Douglas Dunn | Douglas Dunn + Dancers | Douglas Dunn Studio | CORNER LAUNCH, 25-minute, 9-dancer dance, music Norman Westberg live, made to celebrate March 2020 launch at Douglas Dunn's Studio of the new book Corner, a uniquely designed volume with film stills by Gibson + Recoder and photographs by Paula Court that documents Dunn’s restaged performance of his 1973 work, Time Out. Texts by Dunn, Gibson + Recoder, and Brice Brown. |
| June 2020 | Graham 2 Season | Martha Graham | Graham 2 | Martha Graham Studio Theater | Graham repertory that was planned included: Restaging of Night Chant (Full ballet), Solo Deep Song, Solo Specter from Chronicle, Steps in the Street, and others |
| November 3 2020 | Hand Dance | Brittany Engel-Adams, Annie-B Parson | Works & Process at the Guggenheim | "Hand Dance" is a dance film commissioned by The Guggenheim Works and Process made in collaboration with David Lang, Annie-B Parson, Brittany Engel-Adams, and Ron Erlih. Moved by their premiere date, the eve of election 2020, the group wanted to reflect this precipice. David Lang’s song employs a line about the working class from a Bernie Sanders’ speech, and in Lang’s hands, the text reads like an aspirational koan. The song inspired an intimate hand dance set in Ron and Brittany's kitchen in Brooklyn. Throughout the film, hands sourced from public data sets are overlaid on top of Brittany’s hand gestures, suggesting a larger world beyond their home. | |
| May 13-16, 2020 | Iron Jane | Donna Uchizono | Donna Uchizono Company | Baryshnikov Arts Center | With a cast of four dancers and music by Okkyung Lee, the rigorous and detailed choreography of Iron Jane unfolds its tough exterior, gradually revealing a new intimacy |
| April 19, 2020 | Just Gowanus | Lynn Neuman | Artichoke Dance Company | Albee Square | A folk dance for a resilient future. |
| June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2020 | Just Gowanus | Lynn Neuman | Artichoke Dance Company | Multiple locations in Gowanus Brooklyn | Site performances in various locations in Gowanus bringing audiences into dialogue with New York City's first named Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency, combined with a environmental justice walking tour and interactive experiences. |
| June 9-14, 2020 | Latido | José Maldonado | Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana | Joyce Theater | LATIDO is the latest work for Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana choreographed by José Maldonado, whom The New York Times praised for “bursts of brilliance and uncommon invention.” LATIDO, meaning “beat”, explores rhythms that connect us all – from the heartbeat that sustains life, to the dynamic web of rhythms that ground and unify flamenco artists. |
| March 19-21, 2020 | learning to see in the dark | Gabriella Carmichael | Gibney Work Up 6.0 | ‘learning to see in the dark’ is a solo study in undoing pain. It honors femme power and the moments that make us feel brave. | |
| 2021 is our 35th year and we would have been bringing people together, if 2020 was not so brutal on the performing, video, visual artists associated with us. We opted out of a celebration although it is a milestone year due to the health and well being of our artists. We also scrambled | Micro Museum® | Kathleen Laziza | Laziza Electrique Dance | Micro Museum at 123 Smith St Brooklyn | I choreographed for Laziza Electrique Dance from 1980 - 2014. However, MICRO MUSEUM® is my biggest artistic accomplishment because it is the dance of life in a game of chance. My method for composing art is to move people to participate by bringing together user-friendly interdisciplinary ideas to reflect the powerful feelings that come out during community building. |
| 5/22/2020 | National Tap Dance Day Celebration | Anthony Lo Cascio | #Taplife Hero Foundation | Forest Park Band Shell | A Collaborative National Tap Dance Day Celebration featuring live musicians, professional performers and dance students gathering to share their love and appreciation of tap dance. |
| 3/27/20, 3/28/20 and 3/29/20 | New Voices in Live Performance: the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal | benedict nguyễn | n/a | CPR-Center for Performance Research | From March 27-29, 2020, benedict nguyễn curates the corpus is exquisite, the equinox is vernal (ceev), a mini weekend-long residency at CPR for movement makers Malcolm-x Betts and Ogemdi Ude, with support by Stephanie George. As the next iteration of Nguyen’s platform, soft bodies in hard places, ceev falls just eight days after the vernal equinox and the beginning of Aries season (#ariesszn) on March 19. Ogemdi Ude and collaborators continue research for Dig/Hear/Sing/, an investigation into the histories, memories, and identities of the Black Diaspora. Malcolm-x Betts and collaborators furthers work on Midnight Glow: Kinfolk, a collaborative performance work exploring the ideas around ancestry, lineage, breathe and process around collecting gathering to inform cultural or communal knowledge. Astrologer and dramaturg Stephanie George will provide astrological contexts for these artists’ work. |
| April 23, 24 & 25 (2020) | New Voices Spotlight: Can We Dance Here? | Soles of Duende / Amanda Castro, Arielle Rosales, Brinda Guha | Soles of Duende | Gibney | With Can We Dance Here?, the three storytellers explore the concept of permission and trust as they journey towards their individual and collective freedoms. An enticing evening of rhythmic exchange including live music (by prominent NYC live artists) and rooted improvisation, this trio brings the audience on a journey to the revelation of pure freedom as three strong women taking the floor…and making NOISE. |
| December 3, 4, 5, 2020 | Pandora's Cake Stain (1996 revival) | Sally Silvers | Sally Silvers & Dancers | Roulette Inermediaum | An imaginary meeting between wars of real-life Italian photographer Tina Modotti and the adventures & tragedy of the German Lulu from Alban Berg's opera (1928-35): they conduct science projects, visit Mexico, and go for a swim updated for #MeToo |
| 5/19/2020 | Performance Studio Open House: demetries morrow, Naomi Elena Ramirez, and Manhattan Special NYC | demetries morrow, Naomi Elena Ramirez, and Manhattan Special (Dakota Bouher and Abbey McBride) | N/A | CPR-Center for Performance Research | Curated by Remi Harris, featuring demetries morrow, Naomi Elena Ramirez, and Manhattan Special (Dakota Bouher and Abbey McBride). Serving as an incubator for the creation of new work, CPR – Center for Performance Research invites the public into the artistic process through Performance Studio Open House, a monthly series of informal works-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year. Each installment is curated by a distinct CPR staff member or affiliate, and features a diverse group of choreographers and dancers from CPR’s community of renters. The series is free to the public, who are invited to share feedback in post-show conversations. |
| 3/24/2020 | Performance Studio Open House: Rebeca Medina, Mor Mendel, and lisa nevada | Rebeca Medina, Mor Mendel, and lisa nevada | N/A | CPR-Center for Performance Research | Curated by Tatyana Tenenbaum, featuring Rebeca Medina, Mor Mendel, and lisa nevada. Serving as an incubator for the creation of new work, CPR – Center for Performance Research invites the public into the artistic process through Performance Studio Open House, a monthly series of informal works-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year. Each installment is curated by a distinct CPR staff member or affiliate and features a diverse group of choreographers and dancers from CPR’s community of renters. The series is free to the public, who are invited to share feedback in post-show conversations. |
| May 22, 2020 | Quilt/Intersection | Lynn Parkerson, collaborating choreographer Julia Gleich | Brooklyn Ballet | Roulette, as part of the Vision Festival | A dance based on an improvisational score, integrated with set choreography for ballet and hip hop dancers. The music is an original recorded soundscape combined with live cello and percussion. |
| April 17, 18, 19, 25, and 26, 2020 | Real+Surreal | Anna Sokolow | Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble | Mark O'Donnell Theater | The program was to pair Anna Sokolow's "Rooms" with "Magritte, Magritte." "Rooms," Sokolow’s groundbreaking 1955 masterwork, examines the psychic isolation and unfulfilled desires of characters isolated in their small, city apartments. In her 1970 multi-media work, "Magritte, Magritte," Ms. Sokolow created an extraordinary surrealist dance-theater piece that brings Belgian artist René Magritte's images into action. |
| July 11th, 2020 | Residency at the Society for New Music | Alison Cook-Beatty | Alison Cook Beatty Dance | Cazenovia Opera House | Alison Cook Beatty Dance was going to be in residency at Society for New Music teaching masterclasses and performing at The Cazenovia Opera House at Cazanovia College. The program was going to be performed with live music; "Tintinnabuli", Song Of Thunder", and "Messages In Time". |
| May 2020 | Salon Series - Isadora Duncan Birthday Event | Lori Belilove | Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company | The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation & cooperating studio spaces | For the month of May 2020, Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company had several performances planned aligned with workshops/intensives to celebrate Isadora's Birthday. The performances would have created work for 7 dancers, and guest dancers - and the workshops and intensives were open to the public and also would have culminated in a performance. |
| 4/9/2020-4/11/2020 | Spring Movement 2020 | Jessica Nicoll & Laura K. Nicoll Kalliope Piersol MOLLY&NOLA Oluwadamiare (Dare) Ayorinde Sadi Mosko Valerius Productions | N/A | CPR-Center of Performance Research | Spring Movement is part of a biannual festival presented by CPR, featuring work by local and international emerging and established choreographers. This season’s installment will highlight 6 performance makers. Artists will present works-in-progress, finished pieces, and premieres of dance, theater, or performance, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations with filmmakers, musicians, and visual artists. |
| May 16, 2020 | The 15th Annual Dance Parade & Festival | 1000+ artists | Dance Parade | Broadway, Astor Plaza & Tompkins Sq Park | Dance Parade of 10,000 dancers followed by a 5 stage festival |
| 4/30/2020 | The Dance Union LIVE | N/A | The Dance Union | CPR-Center for Performance Research | The Dance Union podcast captures timely and ephemeral conversations within dance communities to insight more transparent discourse in the field. Hosts and dance artists J. Bouey and Melanie Greene invite guests to chat and kiki about their experiences in dance with explicit consideration to center the voices of people marginalized by race, gender identity, economic status, sexuality, age, physical abilities, and spiritual practices. The Dance Union Podcast celebrates equity and inclusion by cultivating space to build relationships, strategies, and sustainability practices to not only survive but thrive in the dance world. |
| JUNE 6 & 7, 2020 | The night that you stopped acting/ La noche que dejaste de actuar | Anabella Lenzu | Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama | La Mama Moves Festival | The night that you stopped acting/ La noche que dejaste de actuar, confronts the absurdity and irony of life, while being an artist and a spectator in today’s world. The work reflects Anabella Lenzu’s my experience as a Latina/European artist living in New York and comes from a deep examination of my motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant. |
| May 2020, Oct 2020 and again Oct 2021 | through the mirror of their eyes AND I hunger for you | Kimberly Bartosik | Kimberly Bartosik/daela | Black Mountain College Museum & Design Center; Bratislava in Movement Festival | "though the mirror of their eyes" brims with compassion and violence. The piece begins inside of a storm. A crowd of children runs through. They know which way to go: they are the bearers of direction. The work is infused with reminders of time, its wild rush forward, its holding patterns, and our abilities to navigate pathways of destruction and renewal. |
| April 15 | Tribute to Dave Brubeck | Janis Brenner | Janis Brenner & Dancers | Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater | Commissioned work for the Centennial Celebration of Dave Brubeck and annual Gala for Jazz at Lincoln Center, the dance work was specifically being created to Brubeck's iconic "Unsquare Dance" to be played by the JLC Orchestra. It incorporated movement moments of tribute to Murray Louis as well, as it was Mr. Louis who created "Four Brubeck Pieces" in 1984 of which Janis Brenner was an original cast member. That work toured the world with both the Murray Louis Dance Company and the Dave Brubeck Quartet for many years. |
| April 22, 2020 | Water Dances | Lynn Neuman | Artichoke Dance Company | Ringling Museum | Created for the gardens of the Ringling Museum, this work reflects on the energetic nature and power of water and Florida's future in relation to climate change. |
| April 16-17, 2020 | Where-How-Why Trilogy | Janis Brenner | Janis Brenner & Dancers | LaGuardia Performing Arts Center | A series of connected solos, both virtuosic and introspective, that in subtle ways explore questions of place, relevance and reasons for continuing on an artistic path. Where-How-Why Trilogy premiered at The Judson Church in NYC in December 2012. |
Featured project:
Kimberly Bartosik
“through the mirror of their eyes”
“though the mirror of their eyes” brims with compassion and violence. The piece begins inside of a storm. A crowd of children runs through. They know which way to go: they are the bearers of direction. The work is infused with reminders of time, its wild rush forward, its holding patterns, and our abilities to navigate pathways of destruction and renewal.
“Our May 2020 tour to Black Mountain College Museum and Design Center was to present “I hunger for you.” When that was cancelled we rescheduled for Oct 2021 with “through the mirror of their eyes” Due to high covid in the region, that tour was cancelled as well. We were able to reschedule the tour to Bratislava and will be presenting the work this October.”
photo: Maria Baranova