2016-2017 Season
2016-2017
LITTLE SPA THEATER – SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
Witches of Venice
Karole Armitage, Director and Choreographer
Philip Glass, music
Beni Montesor, libretto
Costumes, Martin Lopez
July 5 -July 23, 2016
FESTIVAL AIX EN PROVENCE - FRANCE
Myths and Rituals
Symphony of Winds and Agon
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Igor Stravinsky, music
Karole Armitage, choreographer
Performed by Armitage Gone Dance
July 9, 2016 Grand Théâtre de Provence 8:00
RAVELLO FESTIVAL – RAVELLO, ITALY
American Dream
A tour of the central philosophies and techniques of 20th Century American Dance set into motion by a traditional Native American Plains dance followed with choreography by Alvin Ailey, Karole Armitage, George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Martha Graham, and others.
Karole Armitage, Artistic Director
Featuring New York City Ballet principle dancers Adrian Danchig-Waring and Teresa Reichlen, Alvin Ailey II, Movopolis, Armitage Gone! Dance, Yuskau Komoi, Luke Hickey, Calvin Bahe Smith, Jr., and the Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma.
August 6, 2016 Palco del Belvedere Villa Rufolo
KANSAS UNIVERISITY – LAWRENCE, KS
Beneath Our Feet
Simons Fellow Lecture:
The thoughts, dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, and intuitions that have animated culture since dawn of consciousness are a great legacy.
Karole Armitage talks about the Pawnee, Osage and Kanza Nations from pre-European contact to the 1969 Billboard hit song “Witchi Tai To” in an idiosyncratic look at culture.
November 7, 2016
PERFORMA 17 BIENNIAL – JERSEY CITY, NJ
Virtually There - Armitage Gone! Dance Season
Roya Sachs, Curator
Malfada Millies, Creative Director
Karole Armitage, Choreographer
Charles Derenne, Music
Campana Brothers, Costume design
Kate Gilmore, Set
Heather Rowe, Set
Costume Fabrication, Jon Can Coskunses
Armitage Gone! Dance: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Gabby Grywalski (11/20,21) Cristian Laverde-Koenig (11/19, 20), Izabela Szylinska (11/19, 20), Emily Wagner, Brent Whitney (11/21, 22)
November 19, 20, 21, 22 2016 at Mana Contemporary
NEW WORLD PERFORMANCE HALL - MIAMI, FL
Miami Basle Art Fair
AGD performs with bionic artist, Viktoria Modesta.
November 29, 2016
VICE - MIAMI, FL
Miami Basle Art Fair
AGD performs with bionic artist, Viktoria Modesta.
December 1, 2016
VIDEO SHOOT - Los Angeles, CA
SOUND ART VIDEO SHOOT
A collaboration with deaf sound artist, Christine Sun Kim, choreographer, Karole Armitage, Armitage Gone Dance Company and the LA video production company, Wondos.
An MIT MEDIA LAB production
January 14-15, 2017
MIT MEDIA LAB - Cambridge, MA
WORKSHOP
A workshop at MIT Media Lab: Karole Armitage and theater director Madeline Sayet- Brainstorming/Creative Prompts/Exploratory Time
January 17-20, 2017
MIT MEDIA LAB - Cambridge, MA
OPEN CONVERSATION
Karole Armitage and Tenzin Priyadarshai share thoughts on creativity, meditation, self-awareness, the creative process and neuroaesthetics.
MIT MEDIA LAB 3:30
January 23, 2017
MANA CONTEMPORARY - JERSEY CITY, NJ
CREATIVITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS WORKSHOP
Karole Armitage and Armitage Gone Dance lead an intensive three week workshop for advanced dancers exploring the connection of mind and body while monitoring stream of consciousness observations.
March 6-24, 2017
MANA CONTEMPORARY - JERSEY CITY, NJ
Halloween
Armitage Gone Dance workshop to develop stage production that combines early Disney jerky animation, musical collage, sound effects and puppetry with the disruptive snarl of the Jacmel Haitian Carnival. Gleeful mayhem and fright-night atmospherics - the primal pleasures of childhood and the haunting of adults - collide in a contemporary dance macabre.
April, 2017
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS - NEW YORK, NY
ARMITAGE, BUGLISI, MONTE, MULLER LIVE!
Armitage Gone! Dance presents a preview of a new work and repertoire.
NYLA 219 W. 19 St.
June 13-17, 2017 7:30
$40 General Tickets
$20 Limited Seats
212-924-0077
RAVELLO FESTIVAL – RAVELLO, ITALY
Walls
Armitage Gone Dance creates a world premiere in collaboration with artist, Francesco Clemente who will paint live on stage and Alba Clemente who will design costumes and perform a text.
Villa Rufolo
July 2, 2017
