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Elsie Management Artist Performances & Events
New York City, Jan 2010

To rsvp for these events, please contact Anna Amadei, Contracts Manager, at annaa@elsieman.org or 718.797.4577.

Sat, Jan 9, 9:30-10:45AM
Elsie Management Dance Showcase
at New York City Center Black Box Studio 4
130 West 56th btwn 6&7 Aves, Manhattan

Ballet Memphis (9:30-9:45am)
With music by Kirk Whalum, Jane Comfort creates a work rooted in the perseverance, hope, and soul of gospel for the dazzling classically trained dancers of Ballet Memphis. 10/11 NDP Touring Subsidy Available

Brian Brooks Moving Company (9:45-10:00am)
Brooks presents a peek at his newest dance, MOTOR, featuring five daredevil performers propelled by an electro-punk score.

nicholas leichter dance (10:00-10:15am)
After the stunning success of the "dance phenomenon" Killa (offoffoff.com), Nicholas Leichter and performer/composer Monstah Black team up again for The Whiz. Inspired by the famous musical, Leichter and Black mash up the music and movement of House, Funk, R&B to create a 21st century version.10/11 NDP Touring Subsidy Available

Jane Comfort and Company (10:15-10:30am)
Comfort salutes Barbie's 50th birthday with Beauty, a dancetheater work exploring the notion that the beauty ideal presented to women by our culture and media is impossible to achieve. The underlying message is: Buy this and look like me. "Unsettingly evocative" (The New York Times)

Dendy Dancetheater (10:30-10:45am)
Mark Dendy celebrates his return with the restaging of "Afternoon of the Faunes" from Dream Analysis (1998). Inspired by a section of Nijinsky's diary, this duet for two men walks the tightrope between madness and genius that was the tragedy of Nijinsky's life.

Sat, Jan 9, 8-10pm
Dance Gotham
at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place, btwn West 3rd & 4th Streets, Manhattan

Brian Brooks Moving Company (8:25-8:40pm)
Brooks presents a peek at his newest dance, MOTOR, featuring five daredevil performers propelled by an electro-punk score. "Smart and utterly pretentious heroes, they make your eyes water and your spirit soar." (The Village Voice). With Zia Artists dance companies

Sun, Jan 10, 3-3:30pm
STAM-PEDE
Thank You, Gregory! -a tribute to the legends of tap
at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, Manhattan
30 minute excerpt as part of this two-hour percussive dance showcase

Staged and scripted by Tony Waag (Tap City and the American Tap Dance Foundation) and directed by Ann Marie DeAngelo, Thank You, Gregory! features eight of today's best tappers with live pianist accompanied by projections of film and stills from tap's rich history. "This is a joyful celebration of that amazingly varied, soul-stirring thing called rhythm..."(The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Mon, Jan 11, 10am-1pm
Zia Artists/Elsie Management Joint Dance Showcase
at New York City Center Black Box Studio 4
130 West 56th btwn 6&7 Aves, Manhattan

Dendy Dancetheater (10-10:15am), nicholas leichter dance (10:30-10:45am) Brian Brooks Moving Company (11-11:15am) & Jane Comfort and Company (11:45am-NOON) with Zia Artists Management dance companies

Sat-Sun, Jan 9-10, Sat (6pm), Sun (5pm)
Yanira Castro’s Dark Horse/Black Forest
at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place, btwn West 3rd & 4th Streets, Manhattan
LOCATION: Women’s Restroom, Lower Lobby (35 minutes)

Dark Horse/Black Forest is intensely performed love story presented in the most intimate of spaces - a bathroom. In this work, the audience is privy to an emotional and private exchange between a couple that ends in a formal, sensual dance.. Reservations required, each performance is limited to 10 people. Luke Miller and Darrin Wright perform Sat, Heather Olson and Jospeh Poulson perform Sun.

Th-Sun, Jan 7-16, (Full season, Dec 24- Jan 16)
Noche Flamenca, full-evening performance
Th, Jan 7, 8pm| Fri, Jan 8, 7 & 10pm| Sat, Jan 9, 5 & 8pm| Sun, Jan 10, 5pm| Tue-Th, Jan 12-14, 8pm| Fri, Jan 15, 7 & 10pm| Sat, Jan 16, 5 & 8pm
at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher Street, Manhattan
btwn Bleecker St & Bedford in the West Village

The award winning and globally renowned Noche Flamenca delivers authentic flamenco featuring an ensemble of singers, guitarists, and dancers, including Bessie award-winning Soledad Barrio. Known for their authentic, gritty, and passionate performances, Noche Flamenca embodies the intimate, unadulterated fire of flamenco.
10/11 NDP Touring Subsidy Available

Th, Jan 7 – Sun, Jan 17
The National Theater of the United States of America’s Chautauqua!
Th, Jan 7, 9:30pm| Sat, Jan 9, 7pm| Tues, Jan 12, 9:30pm| Th-Sat, Jan 14-16, 9:30pm| Sun, Jan 17, 3pm
Under The Radar Festival at The Public, Newman Theater
425 Lafayette Street, just south of East 8th Street, Manhattan

The Obie and Spalding Gray award-winning National Theater of the United States of America presents Chautauqua! -- an ensemble theater play illuminating the dynamic culture of New York City and The Public Theater's rich history. This evening of entertainment and education re-invents the American phenomenon of the Chautauqua circuit into the present day. Special guests and performers TBA. "The NTUSA turn the Chautauqua lectures -- this bizarre footnote in American History -- into a timely, beautiful meditation on the relationship between the arts, urbanity, community, and economics" (The New Yorker)

Wed, Jan 13, btwn 10-11:30am
Noche Flammenca -- ISPA Pitch Session
The Times Center, 242 West 41st St, btwen 7 & 8 Aves

Artistic Director, Martin Santangelo, will introduce "La Strada," a narrative work told through the flamenco genre, based on the story scripted and made famous by Fellini in his film of the same name. "La Strada" will feature the celebrated Soledad Barrio as Gelsomina and a bi-lingual actor as the Master of Ceremonies (the narrator). You must be registered for the NYC ISPA Congress in order to attend this session.



 





 
   
       
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