2012-2013 Season
2012-2013 Season
VILLA PANTELLERIA - PALERMO, ITALY
September 3 - 7, 2012: Workshop
September 8, 2012: Gala Parco Villa Pantelleria featuring excerpts from Ligeti Essays and Three Theories.
Palermo in Danza
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER HARVARD – CAMBRIDGE, MA
September 1 – 30, 2012
Karole Armitage choreographs Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi, Direction Rebecca Taichman. A Co-Production with Yale Repertory Theatre.
YALE REPERTORY THEATRE - NEW HAVEN, CT
October 26 – November 17, 2012
Karole Armitage choreographs Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi, Direction Rebecca Taichman. A Co-Production with American Repertory Theater
THE CHINATI FOUNDATION - MARFA, TEXAS
November 1 - 17, 2012: Armitage Gone! Dance Residency
November 18, 2012 at 7pm: Informal Performance
Armitage has been honored as a Chinati Artist in Residence. AG!D will be in residence to develop at new work, Fables on Global Warming with composer Corey Dargel and Visual Director, Doug Fitch. Fables on Global Warming is a ‘performance art musical’ about sustainability based on traditional animal fables from around the globe. The hour-long work for 8 dancer and 3 musicians explores the connections between humans and animals, culture and nature, science and art.
SKIRBALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS - NEW YORK, NY
January 12, 2013 at 8pm
Armitage Gone! Dance Performance -Quantum Section of Three Theories
ALVIN AILEY DANCE CENTER- NEW YORK, NY
January 13, 2013 at 11am
Armitage Gone! Dance APAP Performance in Studio 1C
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS - NEW YORK, NY
January 31 - February 2, February 5 - 9, 2013 at 7:30pm
Armitage Gone! Dance – WORLD PREMIERE - Mechanics of the Dance Machine
Post Show talk Feb. 1: "Dance and Fashion" – Karole Armitage, Alba Clemente, Peter Speliopoulos
Post Show talk Feb. 6: "Sustaining A Career In Dance" – Karole Armitage, Elise Monte, Stephen Petronio
“Fiercely pure…she presents the performers as molten steel cooling into stunning shapes, yet also reminds us that they are not clones of a technique but individuals, with minds, moods and imperfections of their own.”
The Village Voice
Hailed by some critics as an heir to both George Balanchine and Merce Cunningham, Karole Armitage returns to Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts for the first time since the premiere of her groundbreaking work, Drastic-Classicism (1981).
For her 2013 premiere, Mechanics of the Dance Machine, Armitage is exploring a new form of presentation. The audience is invited on stage with the dancers to see movement from novel points of view and to participate in the performance itself by following light cues indicating where to walk or stand. Those who prefer to sit can reserve seats and will see evolving checkerboard patterns rich in geometrical design with dancers moving thorough unconventional frames and oddly shaped spaces.
Mechanics of the Dance Machine alternates between fierce dance and metaphors of intimacy and its unfinished business. Armitage will continue mixing pointe work and non-pointe work with fractal geometry (the shape of mountains and clouds), improvisation, and contemporary practices in a hybrid performance with music by composer, Gabriel Prokofiev, a dance, grime, electro and hip hop producer trained in classical composition. (Gabriel is the grandson of Sergei Prokofiev.) Using material from Prokofiev’s Concerto for Turntable and Orchestra, and nostalgic fragments of Bach, Armitage and dancers explore a new framework for expressive movement suffused with eroticism, fertile impurities, improper hybrids and unexpected idiosyncrasies.
SPRING DANCE FESTIVAL PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - PRINCETON, NJ
February 22, 2013: Performance 8pm
February 23, 2013: Performance 2pm and 8pm
February 24, 2013: Performance 1pm
Karole Armitage and former Armitage Gone! Dance member Leonides Arpon set an excerpt from Connoisseurs of Chaos on Princeton students. Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center
MANA ARTS CENTER - JERSEY CITY, NJ
March 4 – March 16, and March 25 - April 2, 2013: Armitage Gone! Dance Residency
AG!D will be in residence to develop the second chapter of Fables on Global Warming with composer Corey Dargel and Visual Director, Doug Fitch. Fables on Global Warming is a ‘performance art musical’ about sustainability based on traditional animal fables from around the globe. The hour-long work for 8 dancer and 3 musicians explores the connections between humans and animals, culture and nature, science and art.
SKIDMORE COLLEGE - SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
March 18- March 23, 2013: Armitage Gone! Dance Residency
March 23, 2013: Informal Performance
AG!D will be in residence to further develop the second chapter of Fables on Global Warming with composer Corey Dargel at Skidmore College. Fables on Global Warming is a ‘performance art musical’ about sustainability based on traditional animal fables from around the globe. The hour-long work for 8 dancer and 3 musicians explores the connections between humans and animals, culture and nature, science and art.
MANA ARTS CENTER - JERSEY CITY, NJ
Audition for Armitage Gone! Dance Company Members
Saturday September 22, 2012
AG!D is seeking male and female dancers for the 2012-2013 season. Women who work on point should bring point shoes. (Pointe is not essential.) Employment begins immediately or in December 2012 or in Spring 2012. Please bring a photo, resume and audition form stapled together to the audition. You must have the right to work legally in the US. We cannot obtain working visas.
The audition will take place from 11am -5pm:
Mana Arts Center
888 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ
Path train to Journal Square
MANA ARTS CENTER - JERSEY CITY, NJ
Professional Project Student Audition
Saturday October 6, 2012
AG!D will conduct a three week intensive professional project from January 7-26, 2013. The focus of the workshop is on technique and the creative process. A select number of up to four students will be offered a paid position with the company during its New York Season from January 28 – February 9, 2013 at New York Live Arts in Manhattan. A maximum of 20 students will be admitted to the Professional Project. Please bring a photo, resume and audition form stapled together to the audition.
The audition will take place from 11am -5pm:
Mana Arts Center
888 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ
Path train to Journal Square
MANA ARTS CENTER - JERSEY CITY, NJ
March 4 – March 16, and March 25 - April 2, 2013: Armitage Gone! Dance Residency
AG!D will be in residence to develop the second chapter of Fables on Global Warming with composer Corey Dargel and Visual Director, Doug Fitch. Fables on Global Warming is a ‘performance art musical’ about sustainability based on traditional animal fables from around the globe. The hour-long work for 8 dancer and 3 musicians explores the connections between humans and animals, culture and nature, science and art.
CENTER FOR THE ARTS, WESELEYAN UNIVERSITY-MIDDLETOWN, CT
AG!D will perform as part of Wesleyan University's 14th Annual DanceMasters Series. The DanceMasters Weekend is one of the most anticipated dance events in the Northeast.
Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 8pm
SKIDMORE COLLEGE - SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
March 18- March 23, 2013: Armitage Gone! Dance Residency
March 23, 2013: Excerpts from Work in Progress
AG!D will be in residence to further develop the second chapter of Fables on Global Warming with composer Corey Dargel at Skidmore College. Fables on Global Warming is a ‘performance art musical’ about sustainability based on traditional animal fables from around the globe. The hour-long work for 8 dancer and 3 musicians explores the connections between humans and animals, culture and nature, science and art.
THE KAUFFMAN CENTER - KANSAS CITY, MO.
May 3-12, 2013
Karole Armitage choreographs a world premiere for the Kansas City Ballet, her second commission for the company featuring live music by jazz saxophone great, Bobby Watson.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS - LAWRENCE, KS.
May 19, 2013
Karole Armitage receives an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts in the commencement ceremony.
THE SALVATORE CAPEZIO THEATER AT PERIDANCE - NY, NY
June 1-2, 2013
The Joffrey Ballet School Performance Company joins the Joffrey Jazz Ensemble to perform an excerpt from Armitage's Itutu.
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC, AVERY FISHER HALL - NEW YORK, NY
June 27, 2013: 7:30pm
June 28 - 29, 2013: 8pm
Karole Armitage choreographs Le Baiser de la Fée and Petrushka for New York City Ballet principle dancers, Sara Mearns and Amar Ramasar.
