Gotham Arts Exchange Presents Gotham Dance Festival, 5/30-6/10

Gotham Dance Festival returns for two weeks, presenting five programs that feature the work of more than ten choreographers, including a program celebrating the choreographic work of American women, both established and emerging talents. May 30-June 10, 2012 at The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue. Tickets are $10-$39 and are available at 212-242-0800 or joyce.org.

Brian Brooks MOVING CO. | WED MAY 30, 7:30pm | THU MAY 31, 8pm | FRI JUN 1, 8pm

Week One begins with Brian Brooks Moving Company returning to Gotham Dance Festival with the premiere of BIG CITY, a work that examines the concept of rebuilding after a destructive event. 

PETER QUANZ / JODIE GATES | SAT JUN 2, 8pm | SUN JUN 3, 2pm 

Peter Quanz introduces two crafted ballets for The Joyce Theater debut of his company, Q Dance. Luminous (2010), and In Tandem, a work originally commissioned by Guggenheim Works & Process. Q Dance shares the program with former Joffrey and Forsythe ballerina, Jodie Gates, who brings her boldly poetic choreography in a program featuring premieres by two American dance companies. Embellish, danced by Colorado Ballet, is a deconstructed neoclassical work, and BalletX dances Off Limits, a contemporary work that explores intimate tangled passages. 

WORKING WOMEN (One Night Only!) | TUE JUN 5, 7:30pm 

Gotham Arts Exchange celebrates the choreographic work of American women. The program will include new works and audience favorites from Pam Tanowitz (world premiere); Kate Weare (The Light Has Not The Arms to Carry Us); Camille A. Brown (solo from Mr. Tol E. Rance); Carolyn Dorfman (Keystone); Loni Landon (world premiere); Jodie Gates (duet from Off Limits); and a special presentation from Monica Bill Barnes (excerpt from The Snow Globe Show). More details to come.

BODYTRAFFIC | WED JUN 6, 7:30pm | THU JUN 7, 8pm

BODYTRAFFIC brings to The Joyce a trio of new works by distinctive global choreographers. Barak Marshall, who tracks between Israel and the West Coast, provides a world premiere, as does The Bakery's Richard Siegal, right out of Paris and London. Belgian choreographer Stijn Celis's eerie outing, Fragile Dwellings, inspired by homelessness and delivered within artist Erwin Redl's incandescent light installation, rounds out the evening. 

GALLIM DANCE | FRI JUN 8, 8pm | SAT JUN 9, 8pm | SUN JUN 10, 2pm

Gallim Dance, the high-voltage, New York-based company of choreographer Andrea Miller, is returning to The Joyce after its sold-out run in August 2010. Miller, an alumnus of Ohad Naharin's Ensemble Batsheva, has been creating an award-winning body of exuberant and captivating work since founding Gallim Dance in 2007. Miller now presents her newest creation, a world premiere that explores the boundaries between art and the artist. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Brian Brooks Moving Company creates highly physical performances that reach international audiences. Brooks amplifies the energy and design of his dances with sculptural installations that encompass both stage and audience, whimsically embracing the architectural aspects of choreography and performance. Within these dynamic and autonomous worlds, Brooks creates virtuosic physical situations that test the body's limits. Since its first tour in 2002, the company has enjoyed engagements at Dance Theater Workshop, Wesleyan University, SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara, Alfred University, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, Central Park Summerstage, Symphony Space and the 92nd Street Y Harkness Festival, American Dance Festival, Vanderbilt University, North Carolina State University, The Egg, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and Gotham Dance Festival at The Joyce Theater. Their work is beginning to emerge in Asia and Europe with recent presentations at prominent international dance festivals. www.brianbrooksmovingcompany.com

Jodie Gates has been working professionally at the highest level in the dance world for over twenty-five years. She has worked with the Joffrey Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet and Miami City Ballet among others. She has danced as a principal ballerina with the Joffrey Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and as an international guest artist. Now a recognized international choreographer, she has most recently created works for the Staatsballett Berlin in Germany in 2008, and received the Altria Fellowship from American Ballet Theatre and choreographed for ABT II in April 2009. Jodie has also recently choreographed for Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Washington Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, BalletX, CorbinDances, BackhausDance, and several other companies nationally. www.jodiegates.com/

Peter Quanz performed with the Stuttgart Ballet and has been a free-lance choreographer since 2002. Peter has choreographed for dance companies, opera and theatre, and has created ballets for some of the world's leading ballet companies. He has had commissions from the Mariinsky Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Royal Ballet (Linbury Theatre), Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, the National Ballet of Cuba, and the National Ballet of Canada. He created In Tandem for the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series. Peter founded Q Dance/Quanz Danse in 2010 to provide an opportunity to collaborate with a small group of exceptionally talented artists and to allow him to create his own programs. The company has close associations with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and will have a Joyce Theatre season in 2012 in New York City. http://www.peterquanz.com

BODYTRAFFIC is a non-profit dance company that was founded by Lillian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett in December 2007. In the company’s short history, BODYTRAFFIC has performed at numerous dance venues in Los Angeles, including the Aratani/Japan America Theatre, the Brand Library, CalArts, the Alex Theater, the Colburn Dance Institute, the Edye Second Space, the Ford Theatre, Glorya Kaufman Hall, the Kodak Theatre, the Saban Theatre and the Wadsworth Theatre. Outside of LA, the company has presented their work at Laguna Dance Festival and New York Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2010, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance presented BODYTRAFFIC at Theatre Artaud’s Z Space in San Francisco. BODYTRAFFIC’s expanding repertory includes works by Lillian Barbeito, Sarah Elgart, Alex Ketley (San Francisco), Barak Marshall (LA/Tel Aviv), Andrea Miller (New York), Laura Gorenstein Miller, Guy Weizman & Roni Haver (The Netherlands), and Stijn Celis (Switzerland). www.bodytraffic.com

GALLIM DANCE is a New York-based contemporary dance company dedicated to creating and performing original work by Andrea Miller, nurturing the careers of young artists, andstimulating the imagination of a diverse international audience. Miller’s work embodies fearless physicality grounded by deep humanity expressed through the madness and joy of the imagination. Award-winning choreographer, Andrea Miller, established Gallim Dance in 2007 in New York City. In 2009, Miller was selected for Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch”. The company has gone on to present throughout the US, Canada, Russia, and Europe. Miller has been awarded the 2009 Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship in Choreography, 2010Princess Grace Foundation USA Works in Progress Award, Youth America Grand Prix award for Emerging Choreographers, and the Mariam McGlone Choreographers Award from Wesleyan University. Miller is the 2012 recipient of the Joyce SoHo residency and the inaugural artist in residence at New York City Center. www.gallimdance.com

GOTHAM ARTS EXCHANGE, INC. (Producer). GOTHAM DANCE FESTIVAL is produced by Gotham Arts Exchange an organization set up to provide services to the New York dance community. Founded in 2001, the organization is led by Ken Maldonado, Producer & Director and Burke Wilmore, Associate Producer. Gotham Arts Exchange has been presenting dance companies in shared weeks at The Joyce Theater since 2006.Previous engagements have included Paradigm and Battleworks (2006), Battleworks and Keigwin + Company (2008), Nicholas Leichter Dance and Keigwin + Company(2009), Camille A. Brown/Andrea Miller with Kate Weare/Monica Bill Barnes (2010), the two-week Gotham Dance Festival (2011, 2012) and the annual FOCUS, the newest and most ambitious project to date. FOCUS is an exciting week-long performance and showcase initiative that is aimed at promoting American dance to the national and international community during APAP. The second edition, FOCUS 2013 will be at The Joyce Theater (Jan 8-13), Skirball Center (Jan 12 & 13), New York City Center (Jan 11-14) and at a fourth venue, soon to be announced.

GOTHAM DANCE FESTIVAL would not be possible without the valuable partnership of The Joyce Theater and with the support of Linda Shelton, executive director and Martin Wechsler, director of programming. Gotham Dance Festival is made possible in part through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Presenting Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street), NYC

May 30 - June 10, 2012

Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30pm 

Thursday - Saturday at 8pm

Sunday at 2pm

Tickets are $10-$39.

Call JoyceCharge: 212-242-0800 or online at joyce.org.

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