Current Season
Calendar of Choreography, Exhibitions and Performances by Armitage Gone! Dance.
DARE TO DANCE LIVE FESTIVAL - Jersey City
April 26, May 2, 9, 16, 2020
Mana Theater - New show each week
The Dare to Dance Live Festival, curated by choreographer Karole Armitage, celebrates the rich dance landscape in the Tri-State area. It will feature artists working in contemporary forms, ballet, modern, street and tap, plus folk and classical dances from Asia, Africa and the Americas.
In addition to showcasing the work of guest performers, the festival will include new works and repertory by Mana resident artist, Armitage Gone! Dance (AG!D). One-upping the madcap tradition of Christmas in July, AG!D and guests will offer a sneak preview of scenes from its forthcoming Nutcracker, which updates the classic to a coming of age story of a young girl as she discovers the outside world in dance from Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Mana Theater @ Mana Contemporary
888 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306
(PATH to Journal Square)
All shows are free with RSVP and open to the public.
Saturday, April 26, 2020 at 1:30pm and 4:30pm
Two festival performances are 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.
Exact program TBA
RSVP for a Dare to Dance Festival show > Forthcoming
A free shuttle service is offered from Milk Studios in Manhattan to Mana from 12:30pm-7:30pm, every half hour in both directions. More info here > Forthcoming
Saturdays: May 2, 9, 16, 2020 at 4:30pm
Exact program TBA
RSVP for a Dare to Dance Festival show > >
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
May 27-31, 2020. Baryshnikov Arts Center
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.
Exact line up and schedule tba. 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.
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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