Current Season
Calendar of Choreography, Exhibitions and Performances by Armitage Gone! Dance.
HEAD TO HEEL DANCE FESTIVAL - Jersey City, NJ
April 26, May 2, 9, 16, 2020 - POSTPONED
Mana Theater - New show each week
The Head to Heel Dance Festival, curated by choreographer Karole Armitage, celebrates the rich dance landscape of the Tri-State area. It features artists working in contemporary dance, street, and tap and includes folk and classical dances from Asia, Africa and the Americas. Featuring four different programs with 75 dance artists and Mana's resident Company, Armitage Gone! Dance.
Mana Theater @ Mana Contemporary
888 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306
(PATH to Journal Square)
Saturday, April 26, 2020
Held in conjunction with Mana’s Annual Spring Open House, a day when the entire Jersey City campus is filled with programs showcasing the range of artists working at Mana.
2:00pm-2:20pm - Reza Farkhondeh - Performance Art with Dance
2:30pm-4:00pm DANCE FESTIVAL Perfomrance 1
4:30pm-6:00pm DANCE FESTIVAL Performance 2
AGD - Beautiful Monster/Louis - Contemporary Dance
Nia Reid-Allen - African Solo
Nimbus Danceworks - Avenoir - Contemporary Dance, Choreography
Yoshito Sakuraba
Yusaku Komori - Music Slave - Freestyle Solo
Jahod Silver - Black Lotus - Contemporary Solo
AGD - Rewriting Beethoven - Contemporary Pointe
Vidhya Perunal – Bharatanatyam Solo
Guillermo Rios - Raíces de mi patria – Panamanian Folk Dance
A free shuttle service is offered from Milk Studios in Manhattan to Mana from 12:30pm-7:30pm, every half hour in both directions.
Saturday: May 2 4:30-6:00pm
Dan Mitra -Contemporary Tap
AGD - Beautiful Monster - Contemporary Dance
Evelyn Tejada - Imposible Explicar - Contemporary Dance
Ian Spencer Bell - Split - Contemporary Dance
Bani Ray - Kirwani Pallavi - Odissi solo
Hyun Kim - Contemporary Dance based on ancient Korean form
AGD - From Head to Heel - Contemporary Dance
Segunda Quimbamba - Puerto Rican Diaspora
$10 tickets
Come early for a free 3pm tour of Mana’s exhibitions (meet at the entrance by the Security Desk).
Saturday: May 9 - 4:30-6:00pm
Caroline Montes – Transterpretations - Contemporary dance using structures of Indian Classical dance
NiNi Dongnier – A contemporary solo based on in-depth research of Chinese Dance and the Art Forms
AGD - From Head to Heel - Contemporary Dance
Sarita Apel and Andres Bravo - Danzarín - Tango
Misaki Hayama - Touryanse - Contemporary Dance
Chloe Markewich/The Lattice Collective - Side Line - Contemporary Dance
AGD - The Hot Seat - music on personal phones - Contemporary Dance
Renata Skobo - Unicode - Contemporary Serbian Cabaret
$10 tickets
Come early for a free 3pm tour of Mana’s exhibitions (meet at the entrance by the Security Desk).
Saturday: May 19 - 4:30-6:00pm
Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeonwing Dance – Trampled Rose - Contemporary Dance
AGD - Rewriting Beethoven - Contemporary Pointe
Carlos Fittante and Nani Devi - Oleg Tambulilingan (Love Dance of the Bumblebees) - Balinese Classical
Teresa Fellion/BodyStories – Excerpt from Reeling Healing KoDaFe – Contemporary Dance
AGD - The Hot Seat - music on personal phones - Contemporary Dance
Charly Santagado - Conjoined - Contemporary Dance
AGD - Louis - Contemporary Dance
Deepa Devansana - Tarana- confluence of cultures – Kathak Solo
AGD - Nutcracker: Grandfather, Battle, Snow - Contemporary Dance
$10 tickets
Come early for a free 3pm tour of Mana’s exhibitions (meet at the entrance by the Security Desk).
WOMEN/CREATE: A Festival of Dance - NY NY
June 16-20, 2020. New York Live Arts
Women choreographers are the pioneers of contemporary dance and WOMEN / CREATE! – A Festival of Dance reconnects with those roots to present a season of strong works by visionary female choreographers.
AG!D will present new work.
YOU TOOK A PART OF ME - NY, NY
Megumi Eda Photo Julieta Cervantes
Back by Popular Demand
YOU TOOK A PART OF ME returns following its acclaimed, sold out season at Japan Society.
You Took a Part of Me is a mysterious and hypnotic display of erotic entanglement and unresolved attachment. Modeled after Noh, an ancient, ritualized Japanese form of dance theater, You Took a Part of Me depicts a woman’s ghost as she revisits her past to reckon with life’s complexities finding peace at last, through a liberated mind. The lead role, by Armitage’s longtime collaborator, Megumi Eda, highlights sinuous, erotic movement executed with ferocious intensity in a dream-like state to commissioned music by Reiko Yamada.
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Composer: Reiko Yamada
Costume Design: Peter Speliopoulos
Hair Design: Danilo
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Megumi Eda, Sierra French, Alonso Guzman, Cristian Laverde-Koenig
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS – NY, NY
You Took a Part of Me
October 23, 25-26, 2019 7:30
219 W. 19 St, New York, NY 10011
Box office 212-924-0077 Tickets
Megumi Eda Photo Julieta Cervantes
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Noh, the oldest continuingly performed theatrical form on the planet, is a rigorous, ritualistic form of dance theater. Like many American artists including Bob Wilson and Bill Viola, Noh’s dreamlike exploration of time, memory, and the gaps that give the audience room to invest their own imagination, has played an important role in Armitage’s practice.
You Took A Part of Me, is performed by three dancers, a transformer known as a koken and a musician. Using various dance vocabularies that adhere to the austerity and minimalism of Noh, the dancers conjure up the past using calligraphic, sinuous movement based on the curvilinear paths of classical Japanese calligraphy. The dance gradually becomes thorny, ugly, as limbs are locked into contorted entanglements; knots from which there is no escape and no definition of individuality, but which remain erotically charged. In a puppet-like sequence, every gesture is initiated and controlled without physical contact. Though it all feels like a dream, the rhythm accelerates and the haunting ceases. The journey concludes in a liberated mind, true to Noh form.
The performance area consists of 3 locations - two of which are in the midst of the audience. The first is the “Mirror Room”, or kagami-no-ma, traditionally a room where the performers look into a mirror, put on their mask and, through intense concentration, transform. This room is never seen by Noh audiences, however in You Took A Part of Me, it will be used as a place of visible transformation. Connecting the Mirror Room to the stage is the hashigakari, or runway. Most of the action takes place on a wooden stage rising a few inches above the larger proscenium area.
You Took a Part of Me is made in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, Helen F. Whitaker Fund & Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Additional funding provided by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation and The Armitage Foundation New Works Fund.
MARC JACOBS FASHION WEEK- NY, NY
February 12, 2020
Park Avenue Armory
mix it up - dancers and models
PHILIP GLASS - THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Crested Butte, CO
July 5, 2019 7:30 Center for the Arts
Glass's epic multimedia work - part opera, part theatre, part ballet - tells the story of pioineering photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
Fingernoise [a chamber orchestra]
Erik Christian Peterson, conductor
Karole Armitage, choreographer
Featuring dancers Joshua Eguia, Chanmee Jeong and Isaac Kerr.
PAINTING FOR PERFORMANCE - SAN ANTONIO, TX
SEPT. 12 - DEC. 8, 2019. SET & COSTUME EXHIBITION - MCNAY ART MUSEUM
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