Jane Dudley’s HARMONICA BREAKDOWN will be featured at ADG Festival (photo by Irven Lewis)
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
248 West 60th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
February 24-27, $22 (Festival Pass $50, Thursday gala $30)
646-385-8493
www.americandanceguild.org
www.manhattanmovement.com
Founded in 1956 at the 92nd St. Y, the American Dance Guild, originally called the Dance Teachers Guild, has been supporting the art of dance for more than fifty years. This week the organization will be holding its annual ADG Performance Festival at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, consisting of works by more than three dozen emerging and established choreographers. The festivities begin on Thursday night with the opening-night gala “Past to Present,” honoring dancer Jane Dudley, choreographer Paul Sanasardo, and writer and professor Linda Tarnay with an all-star presentation of Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham’s From the Horse’s Mouth, featuring such special guests as Mary Anthony, Janis Brenner, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Diana Byer, Christine Dakin, Carmen deLavallade, Douglas Dunn, Deborah Jowitt, Don Redlich, Gus Solomons jr, and Martine van Hamel. Friday night includes pieces by Michele Cuccaro, Mariah Maloney, Amy Cova, Judith Moss, Bill Evans, and others in addition to a tribute to Dudley with performances of her Time Is Money and Harmonica Breakdown solos and a new work by Sanasardo, who will participate in a postperformance discussion with writer Mark Franko. Saturday and Sunday’s programs include works by Andrew Jannetti, Sally Hess, Hyonok Kim Dance Art, Claire Porter, Linda Lehovec, Kathy Diehl, Einy Am, Rebecca McArthur, and others, with Betsy Fisher performing Mary Wigman’s Hexentanz, Verb Ballet taking on Sophie Maslow’s Dust Bowl Ballads, and encores of Time Is Money and Harmonica Breakdown.