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JOYCE SOHO PRESENTS AN IMPRESSIVE LINE-UP OF ARTISTS DURING ITS SPRING/SUMMER ’12 SEASON
Through July 29, 2012

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
2011-2012 Season: Dance
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 world dance series. Since the inception of the dance series in 1966, more than 175 regional, national and international companies have premiered new works. This season showcases four international dance companies: Compañía Flamenca José Porcel, National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica, Red Star / Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble, and Moscow Festival Ballet. These companies reflect the artistic excellence and cultural diversity to which Brooklyn Center is dedicated.

Tickets: Free to $45
Online orders: www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org
Box Office: (718) 951-4500, Tuesday - Saturday, 1pm - 6pm

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
Walt Whitman Theatre
2900 Campus Road, Brooklyn
2/5 trains to Brooklyn College/Flatbush Avenue

FLAMENCO GALA: CARMEN CORTÉS, RAFAELA CARRASCO, OLGA PERICET
March 1, 2012 8:00pm
New York City Center

Three of flamenco's leading female dancers – Carmen Cortés, Rafaela
Carrasco and Olga Pericet – share the stage in a virtuosic dance
display ranging from the Gypsy roots of flamenco to contemporary
innovations. Cortés, one of the great names in flamenco, has been
celebrated worldwide for her performances of flamenco puro; Rafaela
Carrasco has become an important figure in the new generation of
flamenco dancers and choreographers; and Olga Pericet has created a
sensation in flamenco circles in recent years and is considered one of
the most outstanding dancers of the young generation.
Tickets start at $35

Box office: 212.581.1212
http://www.nycitycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=6264

New York City Center | 130 West 56th Street

The Martha Graham Dance Company
March 13-18, 2012
The Joyce Theater

The Martha Graham Dance Company (Janet Eilber, Artistic Director; LaRue Allen, Executive Director) will have a special engagement at The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street) NYC; March 13-18, 2012. Inner Landscape, the latest offering in the company's innovative series of thematic performances including contextual media and narration, features the acclaimed Graham psychological works in which she laid bare the human psyche. There will be two programs (A & B tba) presented by the company as well as a Family matinee show. New works by Lar Lubovitch and Yvonne Rainer premiere on March 13 and 15. Program A: Tuesday-March 13 at 7:30pm, Friday-March 16 at 8:00pm, Sunday-March 18 at 7:30pm; Program B: Thursday-March 15 at 8:00pm, Saturday-March 17 at 8:00pm, Sunday-March 18 at 2:00pm; and the Family Matinee: on Saturday-March 17 at 2:00pm. Complete programs to be announced soon.
As part of the Graham Company’s annual commissioning of new work, these renowned choreographers will each create a Lamentation variation for the Company. The Lamentation Variations is a project started by the Company in 2007 in order to honor the victims of 9/11. Choreographers are invited to create a short work in their own style inspired by a film of Graham dancing her signature solo, Lamentation. Each artists is given specific guidelines and limited rehearsal time. The Lubovitch and Rainer Variations will join variations by Richard Move, Larry Keigwin, Aszure Barton, all created in 2007, and by Bulareyaung Pagarlava created in 2009. A different combination of three variations will be performed on each program at the Joyce. The Rainer Variation is a duet titled “Lamentable.” Lubovitch will create his variations for the Company in late February.

Ticket prices at The Joyce: $19, $35 and $59 (Prices subject to change based on demand) through JoyceCharge (212) 242-0800 and www.joyce.org.

The Joyce Theater | 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street) NYC

2012 MarthA Graham Dance Company Gala
March 14 2012 @ 7pm
New York City Center
Dinner and Dancing Follow at the Russian Tea Room

The Martha Graham Dance Company will honor Lee and Marvin Traub at their annual gala on March 14. The evening will include a performance at New York City Center (131 West 55 Street) with dinner and dancing following at The Russian Tea Room (150 West 57 Street).

The program features international ballet superstar Diana Vishneva’s New York debut of Errand into the Maze. Also performing, for the first time in two years with the Graham Company, is the brilliant Fang-Yi Sheu in the powerful lead role in Chronicle

The event’s honorary chairs include Khalid Al Tayer, Arnold Aronson, Jim Gold, Michael Gould, Lester Gribetz, Brendan Hoffman, Leonard Lauder, Ralph Lauren, Scott and Laura Malkin, Dawn Mello, Ira Neimark, Steve Sadove, Mortimer Singer, Burt Tansky and Diane Von Furstenberg.

“The Friends of Vishneva Committee” is chaired by Princess Kristina Kovalenko and includes Joan T. Ades, Theresa Khawly, Andrew D. Stone.

The Gala Committee includes LaRue & Archibald Allen, Peter Allstrom, Helen & Bob Bernstein, Edward & Magda Bleier, Amy & Philip Blumenthal, Audra & Eric Cohen, Janet Eilber & John Warren, Neila Fortino, Beau Gage, Edythe & Mike Gladstein, Inga & Frank Golay, Patricia & Bernard Goldstein, Laura Gordon & Michael Mishik, Sharon King Hoge, John & Bernice Keller, Adam & Lindsay Klein, Deborah Kramm-Baiz, Peggy Lyman Hayes & Richard Hayes, Mr. & Mrs. Richard LeFrak, Judy Lerner, Lorraine & John Oler, Judith & Herbert Schlosser, Margaret Sharkey, Paul Szilard, Ronald Windisch & Janice Stanton, Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Traub, James Traub & Elizabeth Easton, Lee & Marvin Traub, Peggy Traub & Phyllis Dicker and Inger K. Witter.

Individual tickets are $600, $800, $1,200 and $2,500. Tables (of 10) are $8,000, $12,000, and $25,000.

Please contact Suzanne Flanagan at sflanagan@marthagraham.org for tickets and gala information.

New York City Center | 131 West 55 Street
The Russian Tea Room | 150 West 57 Street

Coming Soon

ANANIASHVILI – RATMANSKY Ballet Gala
Saturday, May 5th, 7:30pm
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center

The world-famous Prima Ballerina, NINA ANANIASHVILI performs three ballets by the acclaimed choreographer, ALEXEI RATMANSKY, Bolshoi Theatre, Artist in Residence at American Ballet Theatre. The performance includes principal dancers from State Ballet of Georgia, accompanied by Russian Musicians performing three ballets: "Charms of Mannerism," "Bizet Variations" and "Dreams About Japan." Other star dancers from Russia and Georgia are featured. Music is provided by musicians from the BOLSHOI ORCHESTRA. Ms. Ananiashvili has been a legendary star of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Kirov Theatre, New York City Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, London Royal Ballet, Houston Ballet and leading theatres around the world, and became one of the most beloved ballerinas of American Ballet Theatre.

"Ananiashvili…was emotionally, technically and stylistically absolutely marvelous. She is one of the great Giselles of our time..."
---Clive Barnes, New York Post

Tickets: $35 - $150. Please visit www.intlconcerts.org or call (646) 383-7972 for more information or to book a VIP reception package.

Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center | 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
(Columbus Ave. & 65th St.)
New York, NY 10023

CAPEZIO Celebrates 125 Years Of Excellence
Monday, APRIL 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm
New York CITY CENTER

Capezio celebrates 125 years of excellence with this one-night only special show on Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (btwn. 6th and 7th Ave) NYC. A glorious production highlighting some of the magical history of Capezio with numerous dance legends and stars of stage and screen saluting this milestone. The show is conceived and directed by Ann Marie DeAngelo. Some ofd the proceeds from the event will benefit: BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS, AMERICAN TAP DANCE FOUNDATION and also the NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE.
Capezio has served the world and dance/entertainment community for 125 years. This SENSATIONAL! HISTORIC! Event will present the best of the best in a cavalcade of American dance and entertainment - reflecting how Capezio as been an integral part of the history of dance / entertainment in America. The program of dance and song will present numerous genres, styles and mediums of performance!

Tickets starting at $45 will be available. For Tickets and Information: CAPEZIO at 125years@capezio.com.

New York City Center | 131 West 55th St
New York, NY 10019

Corella Ballet Castilla y Leon
Tues & Wed 7:30 ppm
Thu & Fri 8 pm
April 17-20, 2012
New York City Center

Spain's Corella Ballet returns to New York City Center for a second
engagement following several successful U.S. tours, this time
presenting Clark Tippet's "Bruch Violin Concerto," Christopher
Wheeldon's "For 4," and the world premiere of "Pálpito", a
full-company ballet by Nuevo Ballet Espanol Artistic Directors Angel
Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez. In the vein of Solea, the
flamenco-inflected ballet that was the hit of the company's 2010 City
Center season, the work fuses classical ballet and traditional Spanish
dance.

Tickets start at $25
Box Office: 212.581.1212
http://www.nycitycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=6429

New York City Center | 131 West 55th St
New York, NY 10019

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