Dance Now Announces 2017 DANCE NOW Festival, 9/6-9 at Joe's Pub
By: A.A. Cristi Jun. 21, 2017
DANCE NOW is pleased to announce the lineup for the 2017 DANCE NOW Festival. Acclaimed for its adventurous short-takes format, the annual DANCE NOW Festival presents an eclectic array of works by some of today's most exciting dance makers. The 22nd season of this exuberant showcase will feature 40 emerging and established choreographers side by side, including DANCE NOW veterans and festival newcomers. The 2017 festival will take place Wednesday to Saturday, September 6-9, at 7pm, at Joe's Pub at The Public. A special encore performance will be presented on Thursday, September 28, at 7pm.
A testing ground for the development of new work, the DANCE NOW Festival offers a unique challenge for artists: to create a clear and complete artistic statement in five minutes or less for the specifics of the stage at Joe's Pub. The festival producers will select ten artists whose work best meets the festival challenge to participate in the encore performance. The overall challenge winner will receive a $1,500 development stipend and a weeklong creative residency at DANCE NOW Silo on Kirkland Farm in Bucks County, PA.
DANCE NOW Festival tickets are $20 in advance/$25 at the door. Encore tickets are $25 in advance/$30 at door. Tickets can be purchased by phone at 212-967-7555, online at joespub.com, and in person at The Public Theater box office from 2pm to 6pm.
Joe's Pub at The Public is located at 425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th Street and Astor Place).
2017 DANCE NOW Festival Schedule:
Wednesday, September 6
binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa
Jane Comfort & Company
Lawrence Goldhuber/BIGMANARTS
Raja Feather Kelly/The Feath3r Theory
Loni Landon Dance Project
Heidi Latsky Dance
CLeo Mack Dance Project
Amber Sloan
Subject: Matter
TAKE Dance
Thursday, September 7
Christal Brown
Shaina & Brian/BS Movement
The Dash Ensemble
JamAl Jackson Dance Company
Donnell Oakley makes Dances
The People Movers
Claire Porter/PORTABLES
Nicole Wolcott
Wallie Wolfgruber
ZviDance
Friday, September 8
BOOMERANG
The Dance Cartel
Gibney Dance Company
RG Dance Projects - Rubén Graciani
Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works
Kyle Marshall Choreography
Kate Weare Company
Ellis Wood Dance
Saturday, September 9
The Bang Group
Dante Brown Warehouse
BrenDan Drake
Katherine Helen Fisher
LajaMartin
Magda San Millan
Schoen Movement Company
Gus Solomon Jr.
Programs subject to change.
About DANCE NOW
DANCE NOW is produced by directors Robin Staff, Sydney Skybetter, and Tamara Greenfield.
For 22 years DANCE NOW has bent the rules to offer all-inclusive destination events that reveal the bustling energy and innovation of New York City dance makers. Created in 1995 as a program of the Downtown Arts Festival, DANCE NOW launched in 1996 as an independent festival. Without a performance venue, DANCE NOW learned to embrace limitation as a powerful source for creativity. Seeking creative ways to bring dance and community together, DANCE NOW developed partnerships to connect new audiences to innovative dance makers. Presenting dance in venues both traditional and not, DANCE NOW designed all-inclusive destination events for drained swimming pools, firehouses, galleries, and Joe's Pub, where, in 2003 DANCE NOW introduced the Dancemopolitan series. In 2005, DANCE NOW furthered its "less is more" mantra, creating a "challenge initiative" to encourage work marked by brevity, clarity, and effect. This inspired the
commissioning of full-evening works specifically for the Pub, and the merging of all DANCE NOW programs to the Pub in 2011.
DANCE NOW's programming at Joe's Pub has defied the standard and encouraged artists to think outside the box and utilize the unique space, creating an inspiring new platform for dance. In the last decade, DANCE NOW has produced numerous critically acclaimed works at Joe's Pub including Doug Elkins' Fräulein Maria, David Parker's ShowDown, Misters and Sisters, and Head Over Heels, Nicholas Leichter's The Whiz and 20/20, Kyle Abraham's Heartbreaks and Homies, Nicole Wolcott and Vanessa Walters' Alley of the Dolls, Camille Brown's One Second Past the Future, Monica Bill Barnes' Snow Globes, Takehiro Ueyama's Somewhere Familiar Melodies, Claire Porter's Sent-ence, Mark Dendy's NEWYORKnewyork@Astor Place, Ellis Wood's The Juggler of Our Ladies and, most recently, Larry Keigwin and Nicole Wolcott's Places Please!
From a small festival series to four distinct programs, from NYC to Pennsylvania, DANCE NOW presents young innovators and emerging and maturing artists side by side, building relationships at varying stages of development and providing comprehensive assistance to advance creativity and new career paths. DANCE NOW Joe's Pub challenges artists to investigate new directions. DANCE NOW Raw funnels new artists into its programs. DANCE NOW Silo and DANCE NOW SteelStacks provide paid teaching, residencies, and commissioning and performing opportunities through partnerships with DeSales University, Muhlenberg College, Lehigh Valley Charter School, and ArtsQuest at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA.
DANCE NOW is supported, in part, with funds from the Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information, visit dancenownyc.org and silokirklandfarm.dancenownyc.org.
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