Caedra Scott-Flaherty

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A moment in Roy Assaf’s A Couple, excerpted from his evening-length work Figure No. 16 (2020). Courtesy Gibney CompanyGibney Company is back at the Joyce Theater. The dance troupe, founded in 1991 in New York City by artistic director and CEO Gina Gibney, is a creation-based repertory company, meaning it focuses on commissioning new works from emerging and renowned choreographers while also presenting Gibney’s work.

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The site-specific performance leads small audiences through the Schwarzman Building, guided by music and live storytelling via headphones. NYPL/ Jonathan BlancLunchtime at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building has gotten a little wild. Dance troupe Monica Bill Barnes & Company, whose motto is “bringing dance where it doesn’t belong,” is presenting a new site-specific dance-theater work, Lunch Dances, that travels throughout the library and was inspired by its vast collection.

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With Jennifer Homans, Dance History Is Getting a New Chair, and a Seat at NYU’s Liberal Arts Table Jennifer Homans has been named the inaugural Van Cleef & Arpels Chair in the History of Dance at New York University’s College of Arts & Science.

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New York City’s East 4th Street between the Bowery and 2nd Avenue has been taken over by dance. The 2025 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, which runs through May 4 in the venue’s four performance spaces, presents eleven shows featuring twenty emerging and veteran, local and international artists ranging in age from their 20s to their 80s. There will be dance-theater works and a mobile dance opera, post-modern, percussive, ballet, Indonesian and contemporary dance styles.

1 month ago | observer.com | Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Lloyd Knight and Xin Ying. Photo by Steven Pisano“There are so many little deaths,” wrote American modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, “those moments of doubt, loneliness, fear… moments when one ceases to be for a short time.