Current Season
New York Live Arts: New York, NY
Live Season: March 16-19, 2022 7:30pm
A PANDEMIC NOTEBOOK
Karole Armitage presents A Pandemic Notebook, a collection of world premieres with her company Armitage Gone! Dance. An intimate look at Armitage’s creative, cinematically driven explorations over the past 18 months, A Pandemic Notebook is the company’s final season presenting new work by Armitage before it transitions to a new mission – with Armitage herself taking the stage with NYCB legend Jock Soto.
The program opens with a diptych, Beautiful Monster and Louis. Inspired by Luchino Visconti’s film La Strega Bruciata Viva (The Witch Burned Alive) and Roberto Rossellini La Prise de Pouvoir par Louix XIV (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV), as well as Trump’s presidency, the two works look at how celebrity and fashion can distract from the manipulation of power. Music for the dances is by Michael Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Thomas Adès, and David T. Little.
The second section of the program illuminates connections between film and live dance for the stage. Two world premieres, adapted from works originally created for the screen, are juxtaposed with two selections from Armitage’s screen series, Under the Dancer, which captures the body from extraordinary angles and perspectives, often with surreal distortions.
In Time/Times, an homage to slow cinema, Armitage performs for the first time since 1989, dancing with former New York City Ballet Principal Jock Soto in his first NYC appearance since 2005. They’ll present live excerpts from the film, framed by on-location stills from the remote wilderness.
A real-time experiment, 6 Ft. Apart rigs the dancers with visible wires and devices – iPhones and accelerometers, a type of on-body sensor – that trigger sound in relation to motion.
The program closes with Marc Jacobs, with the dancers in fantastical outfits from the eponymous designer’s Fall’21 collection. Set to Native American saxophonist and composer Jim Pepper’s Goin’ Down to Muskogee, it is a celebration of bouncing back and Armitage’s long-standing connections to the fashion world.
Run time: 75 minutes, no intermission Tickets
Boston Dance Theatre: Boston, MA
The Carol Kaye Project. Rehearsal: Fall 2021. Projected premiere in Boston: Fall 2022.
Rave Introdans,The Netherlands
January – April, 2022
Jan 22 Arnhem 19:30
Jan 23 Arnhem Jan 23 14:30
Jan 29 Amersfoort 19:00
Jan 30 Nijmegen 14:00
Feb 4 Eindhoven 19:30
Feb 12 Doetinchem 19:30
Feb 13 Breda 15:00
Feb 17 Deventer 19:00
Feb 18 Haarlem 19:00
Feb 20 Utrecht 14:00
Feb 26 Zwolle 14:30
March 2 Den Haag 14:30
March 6 Apledoorn 14:30
March 9 Amsterdam 16:00
March 13 Arnhem 14:30
March 17 Tiburg 19:30
March 19 Hengelo 19:30
New York Live Arts: New York, NY
October 18- 22, 2021 FILM PROJECTS
Armitage is continuing to develope new works created specifically for the screen, combining dance, visual art, fashion and cinematic techniques to reveal the body from new perspectives.
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