Bill T. Jones News

According to a recent casting notice, the new musical Paradise Square will be holding a developmental lab in New York City this summer.

Equity Gallery is pleased to present 1984, an exhibition of the life works of New York based painter, stage designer, interior designer, and installation artist, Huck Snyder. Most active during the chaotic, eclectic era of the 1980's East Village art scene, Snyder crafted sets for prominent dancers and choreographers such as Bill T. Jones, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Bart Cook. Snyder is best known, however, for his work with frequent collaborator and former partner, the performance artist John Kelly.

New York Live Arts has partnered with Visual AIDS to create a large-scale installation asking "What Is 21st Century Liberation?" in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising and NYC/World Pride for the Live Arts Ford Foundation Live Gallery lobby wall. The installation is produced in conjunction with Visual AIDS' 2019 Pride Broadsheet project, designed by Avram Finkelstein, co-creator of SILENCE=DEATH, and Rodrigo Moreira.

Live Arts Pride 2019: THE HOUSE PARTY - 50 FOR 50 is New York Live Arts' 2nd annual Pride celebration; a building wide and sidewalk multi-genre event in the historic "gayborhood" of Chelsea, just blocks from the Pride March.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton proudly announce a remarkable 2019-20 season featuring a world premiere by Kyle Abraham, a world premiere by Robyn Mineko Williams, audience favorite Decadance/Chicago by Ohad Naharin, and innovative works from Hubbard Street's repertoire by Crystal Pite, Rena Butler, and Peter Chu.

On June 7 and 8 at 6 PM, the legendary Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program at New York Live Arts will showcase the work of the current five selected emerging choreographers: Emma Rose Brown, J. Bouey, Liana Conyers, Collin Ranf, and Dolores (Lola) Sanchez.

In a celebration of Pride Month's 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the 2nd annual 4-Star Solo Show Festival at the Provincetown Theater will feature four star-turn performances that give depth, diversity, and dazzling theatricality to the collective narrative of queer lives since birth of the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement.

LUMBERYARD Center for Film and Performing Arts's summer 2019 season will bring some of New York City's most exciting artists to the organization's state-of-the-art Hudson Valley facility, built just 101 miles from Manhattan to provide a crucial lifeline for the performing arts ecosystem. New American work and the institutions built to present it in NYC are more technologically advanced than ever before; however, there is a critical gap in the system, as artists can no longer transition from studio to theater with only a few days of technical rehearsal, and NYC presenters can't afford to close their doors for extended technical rehearsals.

New York Live Arts' Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program presents a studio showing of new work in development by Abby Z and the New Utility, May 17 2019.

Following the recent announcement of its institutional expansion and revitalization, renowned Brooklyn-based organization 651 ARTS is proud to present the first work in development under its inaugural Creative Director Raelle Myrick-Hodges with Antonio Brown Dance's (ABD) innovative new work Boxed: A Game of Winning & Losing. Part of the organization's Spring 2019 season, Boxed is a work-in-progress created by the emerging and dynamic dance company Antonio Brown Dance led by Artistic Director Antonio Brown - former dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance who went on to form ABD in 2013- and will premiere on May 23rd through May 25th for three performances at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY.

Legendary choreographer, National Medal of Arts (2013) and MacArthur "Genius" Award (1994) recipient, and artistic director of New York Live Arts, Bill T. Jones comes together with equally esteemed poet, essayist, playwright, and editor Claudia Rankine and renowned writer and the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, Tracy K. Smith.

Communitas, the founding production of the award winning Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, returns to Philadelphia for the first time since its premiere -- reimagined and re-envisioned for changed bodies and a changed world. In Communitas, wordless acrobatic encounters tell the story of the founding of society in which all members are equals. Communitas: Five Years Later will run for 10 performances at Funicular Station (416 West Coulter Street) in Germantown from May 16-May 25, with a special encore presentation on May 26th in Penn Treaty Park. Tickets available at almanac.ticketleap.com/communitas-5yl.

An annual interdisciplinary humanities festival, Live Ideas is a high point of the New York Live Arts season. This year's festival, Live Ideas 2019 - AI: Are You Brave Enough for The Brave New World?, presented May 8-12, at New York Live Arts, will offer five days of activity designed to imagine the future and understand the current conversation surrounding artificial intelligence.

New York Live Arts' Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program presents studio showings of new work in development by Yanira Castro, April 26, 2019, and Raphael Xavier, May 3, 2019.

David Parker, curator, and Jeffrey Kazin, producer, announce the May 16-19 performances of Soaking WET, featuring all female casts of creators and performers, led by choreographers Ellis Wood and Kate Digby, and writer Erika Batdorf.  Lighting is by resident Soaking WET designer Jay Ryan.

Dixon Place presents Unfinished: A Way Out, a new dance commission by Heidi Latsky Dance Company featuring collaborators Meredith Fages, Jerron Herman, Jillian Hollis, Heidi Latsky, and Tiffany Geigel.

Venetia Stifler, executive and artistic director of the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, on behalf of the 2019 Ruth Page Award Committee, awarded the 2019 Ruth Page Awards to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its Artistic Director Robert Battle and Chicago Dance History Project and its Artistic and Executive Director Jenai Cutcher. The special event took place Friday, March 8 before the sold-out performance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrating its 60th anniversary as a company and the 50th anniversary of performing at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Ida B. Wells Dr. 

Juilliard presents its Spring Gala on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. The evening celebrates a year of creativity, process, and innovation and will feature highlights from the 2018-19 school year at Juilliard-the first under Damian Woetzel, who in July 2018 became Juilliard's seventh president.

THE 13TH ANNUAL DANCE PARADE A joyous celebration of dance, with over 80 genres of dance and thousands of participants Announcing at 12:45 PM, before the parading begins, a traditional Native American Circle Dance, led by Louis Mofsie of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers

PEN America today announces the full lineup of events for the 2019 PEN World Voices Festival: Open Secrets (May 6-12), focusing on the dissolving boundary between the public and the private in the literary, cultural, social, and political realms.