AMERICAN MASTERPIECES: MOLISSA FENLEY AND DANCERS

Joyce SoHo 155 Mercer St. between Houston & Prince Sts. Through November 7, $22 212-242-0800 www.joyce.org www.molissafenley.com Molissa Fenley had to know she was asking for trouble when she approached five visual artists and asked each of them to create props for a new performance piece. Presented with some very, um, unusual objects, Fenley and […]

AMERICAN MASTERPIECES: MOLISSA FENLEY AND DANCERS

Joyce SoHo 155 Mercer St. November 4-7, $22 212-242-0800 www.joyce.org www.molissafenley.com The Joyce SoHo’s American Masterpieces series continues with the world premiere of Molissa Fenley’s THE PROP DANCES, a work for three dancers, Katie McGreevy, Cassie Mey, and Fenley, divided into five sections, each of which features props created by a different visual artist (to […]

SARA MEARNS: PIECE OF WORK

SARA MEARNS: PIECE OF WORK Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St. March 8-13, $10-$71 212-645-2904 www.joyce.org saramearns.com During the pandemic lockdown, I covered more than a thousand online events created since March 2020. I had many favorite performers over those nearly two years, from actress Kathleen Chalfant and musician Richard Thompson to Arlekin […]

STATE OF DARKNESS AT THE JOYCE

STATE OF DARKNESS Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St. June 16-20, $500-$1,000 for one-to-four-seat pods 212-242-0800 www.joyce.org/state-darkness Last October, the Joyce presented a digital version of Molissa Fenley’s State of Darkness, in which seven dancers performed Fenley’s thirty-five-minute solo onstage, the first shows to take place at the Joyce since the pandemic lockdown […]

GALLIM HAPPY HOUR WITH SARA MEARNS AND ANDREA MILLER

Who: Sara Mearns, Andrea Miller What: Happy hour discussion with cocktail Where: Gallim Dance Zoom and Facebook Live When: Thursday, January 28, free with RSVP, 6:00 Why: New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns had already been a revelation, performing the role of the Swan Queen in Swan Lake, starring in numerous Balanchine ballets, […]

THE TWI-NY PANDEMIC AWARDS (SO FAR): PART II

When I posted the first edition of the Pandemic Awards on July 4, I never expected that on January 1, 2021, we would still be at least six months away from opening venues for live, in-person entertainment. As I wrote then, it would be “the first of hopefully only two This Week in New York […]

STATE OF DARKNESS

Who: Molissa Fenley, Jared Brown, Lloyd Knight, Sara Mearns, Shamel Pitts, Annique Roberts, Cassandra Trenary, Michael Trusnovec, Peter Boal What: Livestreamed performances from the Joyce stage Where: JoyceStream YouTube When: October 24 – November 1, each dance $12, full Choreographers & Cocktails experience $150 per household Why: In 1988, dancer and choreographer Molissa Fenley created […]