Dance Lineup Announced for Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2014, Beg. 7/20
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 25, 2014
From July 20 through August 10, Lincoln Center Out of Doors will offer more than 100 free performances across the Lincoln Center campus. The 44th season of the popular summer festival features premieres and debuts, family programs and a wide range of music and dance events. Dance presentations are listed in chronological and performance order, below. For a complete listing of events, visit: LCOutofDoors.org.
All events are FREE; no tickets required.
TUESDAY, JULY 22
6:30 pm
David Rubenstein Atrium
Film: Passinho Dance Off: The Movie (North American Premiere)
(Emílio Domingos; 2013; Brazil)
Presented in collaboration with Film Society of Lincoln Center
Performance:
Behind the Groove: Welcome Party for A Batalha do Passinho
DJ KS*360 of Full Circle Productions
A Batalha do Passinho is sponsored by the Secretaria de Estado de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro.
Presented in collaboration with Brasil Summerfest.
THURSDAY, JULY 24
7:30 pm
Damrosch Park Bandshell
A Batalha do Passinho (U.S. Debut)
A Batalha do Passinho is sponsored by the Secretaria de Estado de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro.
Presented in collaboration with Brasil Summerfest.
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Artistic Director/Choreographer: Rennie Harris
Program
"Nuttin But A Word"* (2013); including Ambient (2013); "GET IT"* (2012);"CHURCH"* (2012);
Spirit Migrations* (trio) (2013); Students Of The Asphalt Jungle (1995)
*Indicates a N.Y. premiere
FRIDAY, JULY 25
8:30 pm*
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Pam Tanowitz Dance
PASSAGEN
Music by John Zorn with live performance by violinist Pauline Kim Harris
Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
The Spectators (excerpt)
Music by Annie Gosfield with live performance by FLUX Quartet
(*NOTE: time approximate; follows opening concert set at 7:30 by eighth blackbird)
SATURDAY, JULY 26
Family Day
11:00 am-1:00 pm, 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Roslyn and Elliot Jaffe Drive
National Dance Day Celebration
Baby Loves Disco - A Family Dance Party
Led by a DJ, an MC and guest dancers, children (ages 3 and up) and their families will join in with dancing, face painting and more to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this riotous dance party
Presented in association with National Dance Day
Family Day sponsored by Disney
1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Josie Robertson Plaza
A Batalha do Passinho Dance Class
The teenage dancers from Rio's baile funk scene will demonstrate basic moves of this constantly evolving dance form in a casual, family-friendly, participatory workshop and dance party
A Batalha do Passinho is sponsored by the Secretaria de Estado de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro.
Presented in collaboration with Brasil Summerfest.
Family Day sponsored by Disney
4:00 pm
Josie Robertson Plaza
National Dance Day
Group Dance
Presented in Association with the Dizzy Feet Foundation
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
5:00 pm
Hearst Plaza
A Celebration of Jenneth Webster
Music, dance and spoken word tribute to Lincoln Center Out of Door's long-time Director of Public Programming, will include dance performances by Taylor 2; Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks; Elaine Summers; Ologundê; Brooklyn Jumbies; and the Chinese American Arts Council Dancers.
8:30 pm**
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Paul Taylor Dance Company: 60th Anniversary
Fibers (1961)
Aureole (1962).
Piazzolla Caldera (1997) (World Premiere of live collaboration with Pablo Ziegler's New Tango Ensemble; Commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors)
(**NOTE: time approximate; follows opening concert set at 7:30 by Pablo Ziegler's New Tango Ensemble)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
8:15 pm***
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Camille A. Brown and Dancers: Mr. TOL E. RAncE
Camille A. Brown, Director/Choreographer
Music by Brandon McCune, Kurt "KC" Clayton, Jonathan Melville Pratt, and Scott Patterson
Scott Patterson, piano
Talkback session with Camille A. Brown follows the performance
Inspired by Mel Watkins' book, On the Real Side: From Slavery to Chris Rock, Spike Lee's movie Bamboozled, and Dave Chappelle's "dancing vs. shuffling" analogy, this evening-length dance theater work celebrates African-American humor, examines "the mask" of survival and the "double consciousness" (W.E.B. DuBois) of the black performer throughout history and the stereotypical roles dominating current popular black culture.
(***NOTE: time approximate; follows opening concert set at 7 pm by Stew & the Negro Problem)
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6
6:30 pm
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street
Artist Talk
Ranee Ramaswamy, Aparna Ramaswamy and Rudresh Mahanthappa, co-creators of Ragamala Dance's Song of the Jasmine in conversation with Rachel Cooper, Director of Global Performing Arts and Cultural Initiatives, Asia Society
Free admission; no RSVP or tickets required
Presented in association with Asia Society
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7
7:30 pm
Damrosch Park Bandshell
From Chinatown with Love:
Chinese American Arts Council Dancers
Traditional Chinese dance
Presented in association with the Chinese American Arts Council
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
Be/Longing 2 (New York premiere)
Music by Cory Neale
Choreography by Kun-Yang Lin
Singers: Lenny Seidman, Davina Cohen
Philadelphia-based modern dance company founded in New York in 2002 by Taiwanese born, western-trained dancer/choreographer Kun-Yang Lin
Presented in association with the Chinese American Arts Council
Ragamala Dance with Rudresh Mahanthappa
Aparna Ramaswamy and Ranee Ramaswamy, Artistic Co-Directors
Song of the Jasmine (New York Premiere)
Commissioned score, performed live by Rudresh Mahanthappa, saxophone and ensemble
Presented in association with Asia Society
Song of the Jasmine is commissioned by the Walker Art Center (Lead Commissioner and Development Partner); the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Lead Commissioner), through its Advancing the Incubation and Development of New Work in Dance Initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland (Co-commissioner); and Lincoln Center Out of Doors (Co-commissioner). Song of the Jasmine is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New Music/USA's Commissioning Music/USA program, the MAP Fund (supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), and the New England for the Arts' National Dance Project (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).
All events are FREE; no tickets required. Visit LCOutofDoors.org for complete schedule or call 212-875-5766 to request a brochure.
ABOUT LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS: Inaugurated in 1971, Out of Doors began as a small festival of street theater in collaboration with Everyman Theater (co-founded by actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.) Over its 43-year history, Out of Doors has commissioned more than 100 works from composers and choreographers and presented hundreds of major dance companies, renowned world-music artists, and legendary jazz, folk, gospel, blues and rock musicians. It has highlighted the rich cultural diversity of New York City with its annual "La Casita" project which offers poetry and spoken word, along with music and dance performances. Out of Doors has partnered with dozens of community and cultural organizations including the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, Center for Traditional Music and Dance, and the Chinese American Arts Council. Since 2008 the festival has been produced by Lincoln Center's Director of Public Programming, Bill Bragin, with Producer Jill Sternheimer.
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