Rennie Harris’s Alvin Ailey commission HOME examines the AIDS crisis in a positive way (photo by Paul Kolnik)
City Center
131 West 55th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
Tickets go on sale Sunday, September 8, 11:00 am
Festival runs September 25 – October 5, $15 (plus free shows September 16-17 in Central Park)
212-581-1212
www.nycitycenter.org
The Fall for Dance Festival turns ten this year, celebrating a decade of providing low-priced tickets to performances at City Center by emerging and established companies from around the world. Tickets go on sale Sunday, September 8, at 11:00 in the morning, and at $15, they’re gonna sell out fast, so don’t hesitate. This year’s lineup includes three festival commissions: an untitled world premiere pairing New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns and Dutch National Ballet principal dancer Casey Herd, choreographed by Justin Peck and with a live piano score composed by Mark Dancigers; Ballet Hispanico’s Sombrerísimo, choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa; and an untitled piece by the Royal Ballet choreographed by Liam Scarlett and with a live score composed by Arvo Pärt. Program One (September 25-26) features Richard Alston Dance Company’s The Devil in the Detail, with live Scott Joplin music, a tango by Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión, the Mearns/Herd piece, and DanceBrazil’s Fé do Sertão. Program Two (September 27-28) consists of Nrityagram’s Vibhakta, choreographed by Surupa Sen, 605 Collective’s Selected Play, HeadSpaceDance’s Light Beings, choreographed by Mats Ek and set to music by Jean Sibelius, and Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Gloria, choreographed by Robert Garland to music by Francis Poulenc. Program Three (September 30 – October 1) comprises American Ballet Theatre’s The Moor’s Pavane: Variations on a Theme of Othello, choreographed by José Limón, Colin Dunne’s The Turn, Ballet Hispanico’s Sombrerísimo, and Introdans’s Sinfonía India, choreographed by Nacho Duato.
Elizabeth Streb’s HUMAN FOUNTAIN should make a big splash as part of free Fall for Dance presentation at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Program Four (October 2-3) includes Dorrance Dance’s SOUNDspace, choreographed by Michelle Dorrance, Doug Elkins Choreography, etc.’s Mo(or)town/Redux, the Royal Ballet’s untitled world premiere, and one more to be announced. And Program Five (October 4-5) brings together Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Sadler’s Wells London’s Faun, BODYTRAFFIC’s o2JOY, choreographed by Richard Siegal, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo’s Black Swan Pas de Deux, choreographed by Marius Petipa, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Home, choreographed by Rennie Harris. The Fall for Dance Festival actually kicks off with two special free performances September 16-17 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park presented by the Public Theater and featuring the New York City Ballet’s Red Angels, choreographed by Ulysses Dove, Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Esplanade, Ronald K. Brown / Evidence’s Upside Down, and Streb Extreme Action Company’s Human Fountain. Tickets for those two shows will be distributed the day of the event at the Delacorte and via virtual ticketing.