Sidra Bell Dance New York will make its DTW debut with the world premiere of POOL (photo by Jubal Battisti)
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th St. between Seventh & Eighth Aves.
January 18-21, $20, 7:30
212-691-6500
www.dancetheaterworkshop.org
Dance Theater Workshop is hosting an intriguing double bill this week, featuring two world premieres by New York City-based companies. Sidra Bell, who recently said that her work should appeal to fans of Miles Davis, William Carlos Williams, and René Magritte, choreographs dances that combine the deeply personal with the intensely physical. Bell makes her DTW debut with POOL, which deals with the memory of a near drowning. Utah-born Juilliard graduate Andrea Miller, who established Gallim Dance in 2008, is presenting the DTW commission FOR GLENN GOULD, inspired by the composer’s two very different versions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations from 1964 and 1981. The January 18 performance will be followed by Coffee and Conversation with DTW artistic director Carla Peterson, while a talk with Dance magazine editor in chief Wendy Perron will take place after the January 21 show.