Fluid Spiral at New York Live Arts Rebecca Patek

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Michael Helland kicks off the thirtieth Performance Mix Festival with RECESS: DANCE OF LIGHT (photo by David Gonsier)

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand St. at Pitt St.
June half-dozen-11, free – $20
212-598-0400
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The thirtieth Performance Mix Festival returns to its original home this calendar week, presenting more than three dozen emerging and midcareer dance artists and companies in 15 events at the Abrons Arts Center, celebrating the past while looking toward the time to come. Focusing on experimental, multidisciplinary works, the festival has also been held at such locations as Dixon Place, the Joyce SoHo, Here, and Dance Theater Workshop. The 2016 edition of PMF opens June half-dozen with Michael Helland's site responsive i-human being alive-sculpture show RECESS: Dance of Lite, which promises to "recharge your batteries and gainsay the symptoms of neoliberal fatigue." On June 7, "Path Breakers Create Always-Evolving Worlds of Operation" consists of Michael Freeman'southward It's not that I have anything against living…, Headlong and the Anarchism Group's Magic Wand, an excerpt from James & Jen | McGinn & Once more'southward a Gram & a Gone, and Johanna S. Meyer's piece of work in progress Handbuilt. On June 8, the costless "Edgy NYC" brings together feminist operation and video by Susana Cook, Jess Dobkin, Rebecca Patek and T. L. Cowan & Jasmine Rault equally Mrs. Trixie Cane & Her Handsome Cellist, and festival founder and director Karen Bernard. On June 9, "Typography, Images, Landscape, Heightened Drama" pairs Jil Guyon's Desert Widow with GREYZONE's Drift. On June 10, "Three Artists…Three Fantastical/Fanciful Perspectives on Functioning" comprises Melinda Band and Renée Archibald's Renée vs the Rectangle, Paula Josa-Jones | Operation Works' Speak, and Patti Bradshaw and Valerie Striar's Flowers in Space. The festival concludes June 11 with "Iii Genres of Improvisation: Contact Improvisation, Spontaneous Connections: Improvised Music, and Raise the Hoof: Tap," with Patrick Crowley, Carly Czach, Rob Flax, Elise Knudson, Tim O'Donnell, and Sarah Immature (contact improvisation), David Garland, Anaïs Maviel, and Roxane Butterfly (improvised music), and Jane Goldberg, Max Pollak, Brinae Ali, and Jennifer Vincent (tap). Among the other performers over the course of the festival are LAVA, Yasuko Yokoshi, Rachel Thorne Germond, Arthur Avilés, Emily Wexler, and Louise Moyes and the Daly Collective, who will deliver a free excerpt from If a Place Could Be Made: Kitty and Daniel Daly of St. Mary'due south Bay Newfoundland, Had 12 Children, 6 of Whom Were Very Tall and Half dozen of Whom Had Achondroplasia, or Dwarfism.

Adrienne Truscott moves from her solar day chore at the Kitchen to live performance at Abrons Arts Centre in …TOO FREEDOM…

Abrons Arts Center and other venues
466 Grand St. at Pitt St.
January 9-nineteen, $xx
212-598-0400
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Jan in New York Metropolis is a veritable feast of live performance festivals, including PS 122'due south Coil, the Public'southward Nether the Radar, Hither's Prototype, and Winter Jazzfest. Over at Abrons Art Center, American Realness will exist celebrating its 5th ceremony with seventeen new movement-based shows and encore presentations as well as several off-site events. Tina Satter'due south House of Dance (also part of Coil) follows a tense tap-dance contest. Ishmael Houston-Jones and Emily Wexler squad up for the globe premiere of thirteen Beloved Songs: dot dot dot, which involves deconstructing romantic lyrics by Bryan Adams, Mary J. Blige, Ja Rule, Stephen Merritt, Nina Simone, Madonna, and others. Miguel Gutierrez explores gay sex activity and lost dearest in the intimate myendlesslove. Eleanor Bauer combines text, music, and movement in Midday and Eternity (The Time Piece); she'll too lead the "Dancing, not the Dancer" class and host the anything goes Bauer Hour on January 19. Choreographer Juliana F. May and dancers Benjamin Asriel, Talya Epstein, and Kayvon Pourazar explore the physical and emotional naked body in Commentary=not matter. The Kitchen house manager Adrienne Truscott delves into day jobs and artistic creativity in . . . Too Freedom . . . , which also features Neal Medlyn, Gillian Walsh, Laura Sheedy, and Mickey Mahar. Lucy Sexton (the Factress), Anne Iobst (the Naked Lady), Scott Heron, and DANCENOISE join forces for Dissipated Heroes: An Evening of Legendary New York. Moriah Evans and Sarah Beth Percival play with human-connection tropes in Out of and Into (8/viii): Stuff. Medlyn's King concludes his seven-office foray into iconic stars, this time taking on Michael Jackson. And Melinda Ring's Forgetful Snow and Roseanne Spradlin'southward Indelible Disappearance — A Thought non a Title will exist presented together for free on January 12.

Moriah Evans and Sarah Beth Percival squad upwards in OUT OF AND INTO (8/8): STUFF for American Realness festival

As well on the schedule are Adam Linder'due south Cult to the Congenital on What, Michelle Boulé's Wonder (Boulé will likewise lead a "Persona & Functioning" course on January 17), Rebecca Patek'due south ineter(a)nal f/ear, Jillian Peña's Polly Pocket, and Dana Michel's Yellow Towel. The festival heads to MoMA PS1 on Jan x-12 for Mårten Spångberg's four-and-a-half-hr La Substance, but in English and to MoMA's main Midtown location on Jan 15-16 for Eszter Salamon'south Trip the light fantastic toe for Zippo, based on John Cage's Lecture on Nix. In add-on, in that location will be art exhibits throughout Abrons (Sarah Maxfield's "Nonlinear Lineage: Over/Heard," Ian Douglas's "Instant Realness," Medlyn and Fawn Krieger's "The POP-MEDLYN Hall of Fame," and Ann Liv Young's interactive "Sherry Art Fair"), and Coil, Nether the Radar, Prototype, and American Realness will be copresenting complimentary alive concerts every night from Jan 9 to 19 in the Lounge at the Public Theater, including Invincible, Christeene, Ethan Lipton, Heather Christian & the Arbonauts, Sky-Pony, Timur and the Dime Museum, the Middle Church Jerriesse Johnson Gospel Choir, M.A.K.U. Audio System, DJ Acidophilus, and Nick Hallett, Space Palace, and Woahmone DJs.

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