New Victory Slates Free VICTORY DANCE Series

This July, The New Victory Theater will present its fourth season of Victory Dance, the theater's initiative to provide FREE dance performances to kids in New York City day camps, school and youth programs over the summer.

For four weeks from July 10 - August 4, 2017, Victory Dance will feature a cross-section of highly accomplished and internationally recognized New York-based dance companies who perform a range of movement styles including hip-hop, contemporary, Indian classical dance and traditional African dance. Like The New Victory Theater, each company hopes to inspire young people to embrace the art form.

Victory Dance consists of two unique programs which, this year, will include the following dance companies or soloists: Bill Shannon, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Decadancetheatre, Doug Varone and Dancers, Heidi Latsky Dance, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, and Preeti Vasudevan's Thresh with New York City Ballet's Amar Ramasar.

Every performance will feature a 90-minute program including a Talk-Back led by a New Victory Teaching Artist. Also, between each dance, a Teaching Artist will share more about the company, choreographer or the dance, providing insight into each work. Through the post-show discussions, New York City kids will have the opportunity to engage with choreographers and dancers, and the creators will also learn more about how their work affects young people.

Victory Dance is designed to serve New York City students enrolled in NYC Department of Education summer school enrichment programs, such as Summer Arts Institute, subsidized day camps and social service agencies. These students attend daytime performances free of charge and also receive free dance-related workshops led by professional Teaching Artists before and after their visit to the theater. Summer school instructors also receive free New Victory School Tool Resource Guides, which encourage further exploration of the art form in the students' day-to-day curriculum.

This summertime program, which reaches more than 3,500 NYC kids, mirrors the education programs The New Victory Theater provides to nearly 36,000 students throughout each school year. The New Victory Theater looks forward to sharing live performances on stage, exploring the art form in classrooms and building relationships that will have an impact on NYC kids from summer to summer.

Each week, Victory Dance will feature daytime performances free of charge for Victory Dance Summer Education Partnership students. Additionally, one evening performance per week will be made available to the general public at $10 per ticket.

Each 90-minute program includes a Talk-Back led by a New Victory Teaching Artist. All programs are subject to change.

---

Program A: July 10-21

School/Day Camp Performances: July 10-14 at 11am and July 17-21 at 11am

Public Performances: July 13 & July 20 at 7pm

Doug Varone and Dancers Lux by Doug Varone

Buglisi Dance Theatre To The Spirit of Enheduanna by Jacqulyn BuglisiPrelude by Donlin Foreman

Bill Shannon Maker Moves by Bill Shannon

Decadancetheatre The Cage by Decadancetheatre

Program B: July 26-August 4

School/Day Camp Performances: July 26-28 at 11am and July 31-August 4 at 11am

Public Performances: July 27 & August 3 at 7pm

Preeti Vasudevan's Thresh (with Amar Ramasar)

Me...You (An excerpt from Études) by Preeti Vasudevan and Amar Ramasar

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Why You Follow by Ronald K. Brown

Preeti Vasudevan's Thresh Boxed by Preeti Vasudevan

Heidi Latsky Dance An excerpt from STAMPedTIME by Heidi Latsky

---

Click here for an overview of Victory Dance. All performances of Victory Dance will take place at The Duke on 42nd Street (229 West 42nd Street).

Victory Dance Education Partnerships are available free of charge to New York City day camps and school programs. For more information, contact Education_Tickets@newvictory.org.

Tickets for public performances of Victory Dance are $10 and are available online (NewVictory.org) and by telephone (646.223.3010) beginning April 27.

The New Victory Theater brings kids to the arts and the arts to kids as New York City's premier theater devoted to the highest quality performing arts for kids and families. Serving the city in all its diversity, The New Victory Theater on 42nd Street presents theater, dance, circus, opera and music from around the world at affordable ticket prices. In addition to its public performances, the New Vic is also the largest provider of live performance to NYC school kids, serving 40,000 students in grades PreK-12 from more than 200 schools, after school programs and day camps each year. The New Victory Theater's contributions to the cultural landscape of the city have been honored by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award; a national Arts Education Award from Americans for the Arts; and a Drama Desk Award for "providing enchanting, sophisticated children's theater that appeals to the child in all of us, and for nurturing a love of theater in young people."

Founded in 1990, The New 42nd Street is an independent nonprofit organization charged with the continuous cultural revival of 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. Committed to the transformational power of the arts, The New 42nd Street builds on the foundation of seven historic theaters to make extraordinary performing arts and cultural engagement part of everyone's life. The New 42nd Street fulfills this purpose by ensuring the ongoing vibrancy of 42nd Street's historic theaters; maintaining and fully using the New 42nd Street Studios and The Duke on 42nd Street to support performing artists in the creation of their work; and through The New Victory Theater, New York's premier theater for kids and families.