Free in NYC: Les Ballets Jazz, Abraham.In.Motion, ZviDance

Free shows in NYC this week include:

August 1

Head to Brooklyn to see the explosive ensemble of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal as they perform three works: Benjamin Millepied’s Closer, Wen Wei Wang’s Night Box, and Barak Marshall’s Harry. Prospect Park Bandshell, 8PM, Celebrate Brooklyn!

 

Les Ballets Jazz in Barak Marshall’s
Harry. Photo by Gregory Batardon, Courtesy LBZ.

 

 

August 1

Abraham.In.Motion
performs Pavement, Kyle Abraham’s piece draws inspiration from his childhood in Pittsburgh and the film Boyz n the Hood. Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:30PM, Lincoln Center Out of Doors. (Abraham talks dancemaking in his “Choreography in Focus” here.)

Kyle Abraham (right), with Jeremy Neal, in
Pavement. Photo by Ian Douglas, Courtesy Harlem Stage.

 

 

August 3

ZviDance
unites Israeli and Arab traditions—with images of both protest and prayer—in Zvi Gotheiner’s Dabke. Damrosch Park Bandshell, 7:00PM, Lincoln Center Out of Doors

 

Gotheiner’s
Dabke. Photo by Jacqueline Chambord, Courtesy LC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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