Who: Marc Nuñez and Gotham Dance Theater, Candace Brown and Soul Project Dance
What: World premiere dance works
Where: The Tank’s Proscenium Theater, 312 West 36th St.
When: April 29 – May 13, $35-$50
Why: The Tank’s 2022 Homecoming Season, which began with Miriam Pultro’s rock requiem Glass Town, the Cybertank fiction game Feast, and Ioli Andreadi and Aris Asproulis’s history play Filiki Eteria: The Brotherhood behind the Revolution, continues with a pair of world-premiere dances dealing with crisis, adversity, and recovery.
First up is Gotham Dance Theater’s re:motions, running April 29 to May 8. Directed and choreographed by Marc Nuñez, who founded GDT in 2015 as a contemporary and street dance company dedicated to social involvement and diversity, the piece, a melding of music, movement, and theater, looks at love and loss in a world overtaken by technology; it will be danced by writer Nadia Khayrallah, rehearsal assistants Davonna Batt and Michaela Ternasky-Holland, and Sarina Gonzalez, Celinna Haber, Jasmine Huang, and Stephanie Shin, with spoken-word narration by Lyndsay Dru Corbett.
May 4-13 brings Candace Brown’s While We Wait: A Tale of Fallen Fruit to the Tank’s Proscenium Theater, the evening-length debut from the dancer, teacher, director, and choreographer’s new company, Soul Project Dance. Exploring love and community while inspiring and uplifting both the artists and the audience, the work will be performed by Julia Alaimo, Andrew Mulet, Hamly Tavarez, Jada Clark, Masumi Hambayashi, Byron Tittle, Nicole Cardona, Jackie Torres, Caitlin Marks, Jay Mills, LJ Bologna, and Leah Joy Faircloth.