The 2010 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival is less than two months away!

Friday, Feb 26 – Sunday, March 28

Celebrating 75 Years of Dance at 92Y: Premieres and Revivals by Veterans and New Faces: Horse’s Mouth, Limon, Doug Varone, Molissa Fenley, Yoshiko Chuma and More

This year, the 92nd Street Y brings the Festival home to its beautiful Buttenwieser Hall in celebration of 75 years of dance at 92Y. In the historic, high-ceilinged room where countless choreographers, performers, teachers and students have studied, rehearsed and performed since 1934, 92Y presents five weeks of world premieres and major revivals.  The five-week Festival embodies this year’s anniversary theme — Past-Future-Now – by acknowledging previous Festival artists and welcoming new ones.
 
WEEK ONE, Fri Feb 26 & Sat Feb 27 at 8 pm; Sun Feb 28 at 3 pm: We kick off with a new production of THE HORSE’S MOUTH, the documentary dance-theater piece created by Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham. Over 75 artists, all of whom have performed, taught, rehearsed or studied at the 92nd Street Y, tell their stories – some funny, some thoughtful, some poignant – of working and dancing here. Each of the three 92Y Festival performances will have different casts. Among those performing are Larry Keigwin, Suki John, Ze’eva Cohen, Gus Solomons, Jr., Bill Young and Charles Reinhart.

WEEK TWO, Fri Mar 5 & Sat Mar 6 at 8 pm; Sun Mar 7 at 3 pm: For the Festival’s second week, we invite back THE LIMÓN COMPANY, which was 92Y’s company-in-residence in the mid 1970s. José Limón had a special history with 92Y; his classic work, The Moor’s Pavane, had its New York premiere here. His company continues to flourish, and for the Festival presents two major Limón revivals – La Malinche and There Is a Time, along with four classic works from artists associated with the company: excerpts from Anna Sokolow’s Rooms, excerpts from Donald McKayle’s Heartbeats and two solos by Daniel Nagrin, Dance in the Sun and Spanish Dance.

WEEK THREE, Fri, Mar 12 & Sat Mar 13 at 8 pm; Sun Mar 14 at 3 pm: DOUG VARONE and Dancers performed in the very first Harkness Dance Festival in 1994, and they are now 92Y’s company-in-residence. For the Festival, Varone presents an evening of world premieres he calls Related/Unrelated, featuring the work of three choreographers whose work he’s excited about. All three have danced with Varone’s company, but each is very different from Varone, and from each other. Daniel Charon presents two new works, A Place Between Places and Snapshots of a Past. Gwen Welliver unveils the first of a series of dances concerned with the effects of drawing in performance – Portraits 1-3. And Nancy Bannon shows a new theatrical piece, Drinking Ink.  

WEEK FOUR, Fri, Mar 19 & Sat Mar 20 at 8 pm: Sun Mar 21 at 3 pm: YOSHIKO CHUMA AND THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS performed in the Harkness Dance Festival in 1995 and 2001. This year, Chuma brings a world premiere, Hold the Clock, as well as new works by other artists she admires – Ursula Eagly, Rie Ono and Jon Kinzel. Chuma’s new dance reflects the extensive work she has done in Eastern Europe since the Berlin Wall fell (she was the first US choreographer invited to work in Budapest). These performances are presented as part of Performing Revolution in Eastern and Central Europe, a festival coordinated by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

WEEK FIVE, Fri Mar 26 & Sat Mar 27 at 8 pm: Sun, Mar 28 at 3 pm: MOLISSA FENLEY is one of the most original and distinctive artists in contemporary dance (and, like Chuma, a 1995 Harkness Dance Festival veteran). Returning to 92Y, she brings with her several friends – Nora Chipaumire, Paz Tanjuaquio and Penny Hutchinson. All four are presenting world premieres. Fenley is showing Double Beginning and a new work, 94 Feathers. Chipaumire’s presents a to-be-named duet. Tanjuaquio shows a film she created earlier this year and a new dance called The Divide. And Hutchinson shows a repertory work, Rhubarb Crisp, and a new one, Standing Anywhere.

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Topics: Anna Sokolow, Bill Young, Buttenwieser Hall, Charles Reinhart, Daniel Charon, Daniel Nagrin, Donald McKayle, Doug Varone, Gus Solomons, Gwen Welliver, Harkness Dance Festival, Horse’s Mouth, Jamie Cunningham, Jon Kinzel, Jr., Larry Keigwin, Limon, Molissa Fenley, Nancy Bannon, Nora Chipaumire, Paz Tanjuaquio, Penny Hutchinson, Rhubarb Crisp, Rie Ono, Suki John, The Limón Company, The Moor’s Pavane, Tina Croll, Ursula Eagly, Yoshiko Chuma, Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks, Ze’eva Cohen

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