Helen Simoneau will be among the competitors at A.W.A.R.D. competition at the Joyce SoHo (photo by Jo Grabowski)
Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer St. between Houston & Prince Sts.
November 17-20, $18, 7:00
212-242-0800
www.joyce.org
A far cry from DANCING WITH THE STARS and AMERICA’S GOT TALENT, “The A.W.A.R.D. Show!” returns to the Joyce SoHo this week, with twelve emerging choreographers, selected by a panel that judged them on potential, originality, execution and merit, fighting it out for $10,000; similar competitions are going on at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Dance Affiliates in Philadelphia, the ODC Theater in San Francisco, and On the Boards in Seattle. Founded in 2005, “The A.W.A.R.D. Show!,” which stands for Artists with Audiences Responding to Dance, fosters an intimate dialogue between performer and viewer, as each dancer puts on a twelve-to-fifteen-minute piece, followed by a moderated open discussion and audience vote. The artists and audiences then convene for a postperformance reception where they can mingle and talk more. On Wednesday, the competitors will be Julie Bour (Compagnie Julie Bour), Eunkyungkim (GoGoVertigoat Dance and/or Performance), Yin Yue, and Takehiro Ueyama (TAKE Dance), while Helen Simoneau, Lauri Stallings (gloATLANTA), Aaron McGloin (Aaron McGloin Dance), and Alejandro Chavez (Compañia Ciudad Interior) will go at it on Thursday and Michel Kouakou (Daara Dance), Christopher Williams, Satoshi Haga (binbinFactory), and Roger Celedonio and Esther Mayda (Alma Boliviana) battling it out on Friday. The three winners of each night will be back on Saturday, when the ultimate victor will be decided by a panel of experts.