Gallim Dance will present the world premiere of SIT, KNEEL, STAND at the Joyce’s annual Gotham Dance Festival (photo by Franziska Strauss)
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.
May 30 – June 10, $10-$39, 2:00
212-242-0800
www.joyce.org
Organized by the Gotham Arts Exchange, whose motto is “Think • Innovate • Promote • Develop • Produce • Dance,” this year’s Gotham Dance Festival features five programs by emerging, cutting-edge, and established choreographers at the Joyce. The Brian Brooks Moving Company, which made its Joyce debut at the festival last year, returns with the New York premiere of Big City, about destruction and reconstruction, set within a dynamic aluminum installation. On June 2-3, Canadian choreographer Peter Quanz’s Q Dance makes its Joyce debut with the Hong Kong Ballet commission Luminous and the Guggenheim commission In Tandem, set to music by Steve Reich, on a shared bill with two works by Jodie Gates, Embellish performed by Colorado Ballet and Delicate Balance danced by BalletX. On June 5, the Gotham Arts Exchange benefit “Working Women” will celebrate American choreographers Pam Tanowitz, Camille A. Brown, Carolyn Dorfman, Loni Landon, Jane Comfort, Monica Bill Barnes, and Gates with an evening of solos, duets, excerpts, and world premieres. L.A’s BODYTRAFFIC will take over June 6-7 with new works by Barak Marshall and Richard Siegal as well as Stijn Celis’s Fragile Dwellings. The festival concludes June 8-10 with Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance performing the world premiere of the evening-length Sit, Kneel, Stand, which explores artistic barriers and borders, set to original music by Jerome Begin and Christopher Lancaster.