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JOSEPH CIPOLLA'S CONFIGURATION DANCE THEATRE and JON LEHRER'S LehrerDance Tuesday March 23, 8 PM, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 St. Two companies headquartered in Buffalo will present works by choreographer Joseph Cipolla (former principal with the Birmingham Royal Ballet), Michael Shannon, Harrison McEldowney, and Victor Kabaniaev, and choreographer Jon Lehrer (former Assistant Director and Resident Choreographer of Giordano Jazz Dance/Chicago).
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skybetter and associates March 25-27, 8 PM, at Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street Reservations: 212-352-3101 Up and coming young dancer/choreographer Sydney Skybetter and his 7-member company will premiere Skybetter's "Pentagony," a 5-part work whose title is drawn from the five semi-autobiographical novels, Pentagonia, of Reinaldo Arenas, whose work is called "beautiful, inspiring, and utterly devastating" by Skybetter. The 5 sections of "Pentagony" are unified in their formal exploration of particular emotional states, and are set to music that includes Dvorak, Gorecki, and Schumann.
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BALLET BUILDERS April 9-11 (Friday & Saturday at 8 PM; Sunday at 3 PM) at Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street A 20th Anniversary Year for New Choreographers on Point, producer of the annual Ballet Builders, founded by Michael Kraus and Ruth Chester. The five choreographers selected for the 2010 season are: Deanna Carter, Assistant Professor in the Dance Dept. of the University of Iowa and resident choreographer for Ballet Quad Cities; David Fernandez performed with ballet and opera companies in Chicago, including Lyric Opera. As a choreographer he was commissioned to create a solo for Joaquin de Luz for the 2009-10 tour of Kings of the Dance; Ja' Malik has created works for North Carolina Dance Theatre 2, Oakland Ballet, and others. He is a recipient of the 2009-2010 Fund for New Work Grant, presented by Harlem Stage; John-Mark Owen danced with numerous companies, including the Nashville Ballet, Ohio Ballet, and American Repertory Ballet; Pedro Ruiz was a longtime principal dancer with Ballet Hispanico, for which he created three works. He has also choreographed for The Joffrey Ballet, Luna Negra, and the New Jersey Ballet.
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LAURA PAWEL DANCE COMPANY April 9-11 at The Flea, 41 White Street In a program entitled "Better Than Being Guillotined and Other Dances," Laura Pawel presents the company's popular "guillotined" piece, "There Might be Mangoes," and the premiere of "Easy for you to say." The program will be dedicated to the late composer Eleanor Hovda, longtime collaborator with Pawel and company.
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SOUND CHECK/AMERICAN TAP DANCE FOUNDATION April 14-18 at Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street Tony Waag's American Tap Dance Foundation presents the second annual "Sound Check," new works in the art of storytelling through tap. Program will feature "The Last Rehearsal Hall," a new work by Brenda Bufalino that joins tappers, Flamenco and Middle Eastern dancers. Also dances by Waag, Harold Cromer, Barbara Duffy and others. Co-directed by Bufalino and Waag, the evening treats the audience to tap dance as music, tap dancers as musicians, and the tap floor as a musical instrument.
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MIRO MAGLOIRE'S NEW CHAMBER BALLET April 17 & 18 at 8 PM in City Center Studio 4, 130 West 56 Street Magloire's company continues its 2009-10 season with a program of works by Deborah Lohse and Magloire (including a premiere). Program will include the premiere of a new work by Emery LeCrone (postponed from February) to music by John Adams.
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SOKOLOW DANCE THEATRE ENSEMBLE April 22-25 at Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street The Company will perform repertory by Sokolow, including the fully reconstructed "Murals," a lost Sokolow work to music by Cesar Chavez.
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REBECCA KELLY BALLET April 22-24, 8 PM, at Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street In an evening titled "Desire," Kelly considers themes surrounding the feelings that drive us toward intimacy, anonymity, or independence. The evening will feature the NY premieres of "Desire," and "Trouve Moi," and a restaging of the 2002 "The Travelers."
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WORDS ON DANCE - CYNTHIA GREGORY INTERVIEWS ELIOT FELD Monday April 26, 7 PM., at Paley Center, 25 West 52nd Street The San Francisco-based Words on Dance, produced by Deborah DuBowy, will have its first live event in NYC when Cynthia Gregory interviews Eliot Feld. Created in 1994, the organization has presented live events and films in SF including Verdy, Villella, Maria Tallchief, Peter Martins, Mark Morris, and Helgi Tomasson, among others.	Eliot Feld
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FELICE LESSER DANCE THEATER May 12-16 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street Lesser will present her company in the satire "Funding the Arts," a spy spoof about the lack of funding for the arts in this country. The event will feature live dance, a spoken script, and delightful video-computer animation. Music is from Swan Lake, Giselle, Coppelia, and other ballet favorites.
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johannes wieland July 8-11 at DTW, 219 West 19th Street wieland, Artistic Director of the resident dance company in Kassel, Germany, will premiere "roadkill," created in Kassel and performed here by two American dancers Eva Mohn and Ryan Mason. Set to an original score by composer Ben Frost, "roadkill" is a duet for a couple stranded on an airplane landing strip.
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TAP CITY (10th Anniversary) July 8-10 (Performances at Symphony Space; Awards at LC Library) July 8 at 7 PM: All Student Showcase July 9 at 8 PM: THE MAIN EVENT! Tony Waag, the Mayor of Tap City, will present a roster of international tappers of all styles, from tap legends to snappy newcomers (at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway) July 10 at 8 PM: Tap City Award Ceremony - live performances, films, awards t.b.a. (at Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPublic Library at LC, 111 Amsterdam Avenue)	Tony Waag
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WORLD DANCE ALLIANCE GLOBAL DANCE EVENT July 12-17 at Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street A gathering of companies from around the world, hosted by World Dance Alliance-Americas, in affiliation with University of Wisconsin-Madison & NYU, Steinhardt, Dance Education Program. Daily performances, workshops, master classes, and panels.
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