8 Performances Heating Up Stages This January
Festivals, revivals, premieres, tours—the weather might be chilly, but performance calendars are anything but this January.
Festivals, revivals, premieres, tours—the weather might be chilly, but performance calendars are anything but this January.
This month’s performance calendar packs some serious punch, with a landmark anniversary, a jazzy new Broadway production, and a bevy of premieres examining deep questions about humanity and society. Here’s what grabbed our attention.
Sadler’s Wells East is due to open later this year in London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, site of the 2012 Olympic Games. The 550-seat auditorium, which sits opposite the Olympic Stadium (now home to West Ham United football club), will be the fourth stage programmed by Sadler’s Wells, the U.K.’s leading contemporary-dance house.
Brand-new works and U.S. premieres fill February’s jam-packed performance calendar. Here’s what we want to catch most.
Choreographer Andrea Miller is known for works that stretch the body to extremes and portray a community on the edge.
A long-awaited world premiere, a festival filled with experiments, two New York City mainstays and a trio of new works tackling environmental issues head-on—there are a lot of performances to be excited about this month, and our top picks are just the tip of the iceberg.
British dance artist Jules Cunningham’s latest work, how did we get here?, explores the memories and emotion held in the bodies of its three performers: Cunningham themself, Harry Alexander and—wait for it—Spice Girl Mel C.
A plethora of premieres and a pair of limited engagement touring appearances add up to a packed dance calendar, from coast to coast and even across the pond. Here’s what has us most intrigued.
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