Fifth Annual Fall For Dance Festival Will Run 9/17-27

The fifth annual Fall for Dance Festival will run from September 17 – 27, 2008, showcasing 28 national and international companies and choreographers in six unique programs (four programs will be repeated).  All tickets will once again be $10 for all seats.

The 2008 Festival will feature a wide range of dance styles and traditions, ranging from hula and tap to Indian Odissi and Thai Khon, as well as ballet and modern dance companies from across the United States and around the world, many appearing in New York for the first time. Exciting young companies and choreographers include Ayodele Casel & Sarah Savelli, Keigwin + Company, The Lombard Twins, Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, Richard Siegal and Kate Weare.

International companies and artists include Richard Siegal/The Bakery of Paris; [bjm_danse] Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal; BeijingDance / LDTX of China; Compañia Nacional de Danza, Artistic Director Nacho Duato of Spain; Hofesh Shechter Company of Israel and the UK; LAFA & Artists Dance Company of Taiwan; Louise Lecavalier of Canada; The Lombard Twins of Argentina; Madhavi Mudgal of India; The National Ballet of Canada; Pichet Klunchun Dance Company of Thailand, Talia Paz of Israel and Sharon Wray from the UK.

Acclaimed American companies and choreographers include Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Garth Fagan Dance, The Gentlemen of Hälau Nä Kamalei, Houston Ballet, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Oregon Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Shen Wei Dance Arts and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet.

New York City Center resident companies will be represented by American Ballet Theatre and Paul Taylor Dance Company.

MORPHOSES/THE WHEELDON COMPANY

October 1 – 5, 2008

New York City Center will present the second annual season of Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, featuring works by Artistic Director Christopher Wheeldon, including a U.S. premiere co-commissioned by New York City Center and Sadler's Wells Theatre, London.  Also featured will be a U.S. premiere of a new work by Canadian choreographer Emily Molnar as well as works by Lightfoot León and Sir Frederick Ashton. The company will perform to live music each evening including performances with a full orchestra

comprised of members of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Leading dancers from major U.S. and European  ballet companies will once again join the company, including Tyler Angle, Leanne Benjamin, Gonzalo Garcia, Craig Hall, Maria Kowroski, Edwaard Liang, Tiler Peck, Teresa Reichlen, Edward Watson, Wendy Whelan and others.

ON THE TOWN

November 19 – 23, 2008

On The Town, the first Broadway musical written by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, with original choreography by Jerome Robbins, will open the 2008-2009 Encores! season as part of the city-wide Leonard Bernstein 90th Birthday Celebration. On The Town, based on a concept by Jerome Robbins, was inspired by Robbins' 1944 ballet, "Fancy Free." Set in wartime 1944, On The Town is the story of Three Sailors' adventurous 24-hour leave in New York City.

 
RIOULT

April 14 – 19, 2009

Rioult will return to the Joyce Theatre with the World Premiere of The Great Mass, a full-evening work for ten dancers set to Mozart's Mass in C Minor. Pascal Rioult's work intends to reflect the transcendental spirituality surrounding Mozart's masterpiece.  This program will alternate with pieces from the company's repertory.

SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS

January 7 – 10, 2009

Shen Wei Dance Arts will follow the excitement of Shen Wei's participation as principal choreographer of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, with a New York season location to be announced.  The company will hold its second Kennedy Center Residency in Washington, DC on October 29 and 30, and will tour across the country and Canada as follows:  Swarthmore College: Swarthmore, PA (October 24); Reynolds Theater, Duke University (January 24); Ottawa, Canada (March 17); La Jolla, CA (March 21); SUNY Purchase University: Purchase NY (March 27 & 28); Santa Fe, NM; (March ) and Atlanta, GA (April 3).

DV8 PHYSICAL THEATRE - World Premiere Dance

September 26 and 27, 2008

Dartmouth College's Hopkins Center for the Arts will be the site of the North American premiere of To Be Straight With You, the latest work by the acclaimed UK-based performance group DV8 Physical Theatre. In its 22 years, the company has produced 15 dance/theater pieces that have toured internationally, and five award-winning films for television. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews of people throughout the UK, To Be Straight With You incorporates dance, text, animation and film to explore issues of gender and sexuality as they relate to culture and religion. At Dartmouth, DV8's performances are part of a week-long residency that will include a panel discussion about faith and sexuality, featuring DV8 Artistic Director Lloyd Newson. In addition, Hopkins Center—in partnership with Montclair State University, and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill—has received funding from the British Council for the Arts to create a website for international dialogue related to the company's tour. The site, which will be active from September through mid December, is intended to provide audience members—particularly students, from both the US and UK—meaningful, safe-space access to their peers' responses to the theatrical work.

Paul Taylor – World Premiere Dance

April 7, 8, 9, 2008

Dartmouth College's Hopkins Center for the Arts will present the world premiere of a new work, co-commissioned by the center, by living treasure of American dance, Paul Taylor. The recipient of a multitude of awards for his decades of contributions -120 dance pieces, performed in more than 60 countries -Taylor and his Company will spend a week at the college, giving master classes, visiting classes, and performing for area school groups. Their Hopkins Center program will also include the Taylor classics Images (1977), set to works by Debussy, and Esplanade (1975), a ravishing, exuberant piece set to Bach violin concertos.  The Taylor commission is a fitting follow-up to the center's 2007 co-commission of another dance legend, Merce Cunningham—the highly successful XOVER, which incorporated work by Cunningham's late artistic associates composer John Cage and painter Robert Rauschenberg.

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