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BAM partners with Rambert Dance Company for the real-time, live-stream world premiere of Draw From Within
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) partners with Rambert Dance Company to present the forthcoming real-time, live-stream world premiere performances of Wim Vandekeybus’ Draw From Within. The show will be streamed direct from Rambert’s London studios and performed across time zones for international audiences. The newly commissioned production is currently underway and is being created while adhering to the latest UK health guidelines to ensure the company’s safety. Using all of the company’s spaces from the loading bay to the studios to the corridors and even the roof, Draw From Within will be performed live in the Rambert building and streamed in real-time to ticketed audiences around the world. The new work will be broadcast to NYC audiences via Rambert’s new cross-platform web application Rambert Home Studio at 8 pm EST on September 26, 2020. Live performances are also scheduled for audiences in Seoul, South Korea on September 24 and the UK on September 25.
English National Ballet announced its revised plans for Autumn 2020
English National Ballet announced its revised plans for Autumn 2020, as the Company’s previously scheduled performances have been cancelled due to the continuing impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic. An exciting new digital season of short works for camera from choreographers including Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Yuri Possokhov, Arielle Smith and ENB Associate Choreographer Stina Quagebeur will be created, rehearsed, and performed by Company dancers in English National Ballet’s studios within COVID secure guidelines. This marks the first time Cherkaoui and Smith have created work for ENB’s main Company, and the first time Possokhov has created work for a UK Company.
M.A.D.D. Rhythms presents the 2020 Virtual Chicago Tap Summit
M.A.D.D. Rhythms and Harold Washington Cultural Center are proud to present this year’s Chicago Tap Summit October 2nd-4th, now held virtually, with respect to CDC guidelines for social distancing during the COVID-19. The Chicago Tap Summit (CTS) is an annual celebration of the Tap art-form.
D.C.'s Chamber Dance Project Reaches Beyond the Stage for a World Premiere Dance Film Collaboration "A Single Light”
Chamber Dance Project, Washington's premier contemporary ballet company, presents New Works 2020 (& beyond). Chamber Dance Project reaches beyond the stage-and the expected-to present virtual performance events that showcase our artists with exciting new dimensions of innovation and intimacy.Following the success of a July 31 screening of new works created in four cities across America, another free screening of a world premiere dance film collaboration, A Single Light, will take place online on September 24, 2020.
HEREafter, an immersive theatre production, returns for Episode 2
Prepare to be swept into a powerful multi-sensory experience when HEREafter, an immersive theatre production, returns for Episode 2, after premiering Episode 1 to sold out audiences in fall of 2019 in Atlanta GA. This one-of-a-kind production engulfs the audience in the story of a family thrown into chaos after the death of their matriarch. The performance runs from Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 13th, 2020.
Deeply Rooted Launches 25th Anniversary Season
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT), which diversifies the aesthetics of contemporary dance by uniting modern, classical, American, and African-American traditions in dance and storytelling, announces initial plans for Deeply 25: Beyond Dance, a celebration of the company’s 25th anniversary season including local, national, and international events. The season officially launches Saturday, October 17 from 7 to 8:30 p.m with “Deeply 25: Beyond Dance...The Celebration Begins,” a virtual fundraiser featuring a reflective, cinematic history of DRDT, with video highlights of company performances and interviews that illuminate the company’s founding and inspiration, its evolution to the present, and its plans for the future under new artistic leadership.
Keep on dancing with these online ideas
We've put together this list of dance activities that you can do from home or in the garden if you can! Take care of your mental health & wellbeing during these testing times and keep dancing! We will get through this together!
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