2014 DANCENOW Joe's Pub Festival
Company:
Joe's Pub
DANCENOW Joe’s Pub Festival
September 3–6, 2014
Encore Performance on September 13, 2014
New York, NY, June 16, 2014 – DANCENOW is pleased to announce the lineup for the 2014 DANCENOW Joe’s Pub Festival. An eclectic annual showcase, the 2014 festival will feature works by forty choreographers over four evenings from September 3 to 6, with an encore performance on September 13. The exciting lineup of artists features many fan favorites, including festival veterans and returning artists, alongside rising stars and festival newcomers. 2014 marks the 19th annual season of the DANCENOW Festival.
A testing ground for the development of new work, the DANCENOW Joe’s Pub Festival centers around a unique challenge for artists: to create a clear and complete artistic statement of five minutes or less for the specifics of the stage at Joe’s Pub. Audiences select the work of one artist/Challenge winner each night to receive a weeklong creative residency at DANCENOW Silo on Kirkland Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. DANCENOW’s producers and advisors will select one additional artist whose work overall best meets the DANCENOW Challenge to receive a $1,500 development stipend and a weeklong creative residency at DANCENOW Silo on Kirkland Farm. The top ten audience favorites, including the five Challenge winners, will be featured in the encore program on September 13.
2014 DANCENOW Joe’s Pub Festival Lineup/Performance Schedule:
Wednesday, September 3
The Bang Group
Tze Chun Dance Company
Jane Comfort & Company
Mark Dendy Projects
Gibney Dance
Jamal Jackson Dance Company
LEDA
Chelsea Murphy and Magda San Millan
Skybetter & Associates
Amber Sloan
Thursday, September 4
277Dance Project
binbin Factory
Nicole Bindler & Gabrielle Revlock
Dance Cartel
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Jennifer Edwards/Jen Ed Productions
Lawrence Goldhuber/BIGMANARTS
Harlem Dance Club
Bryan Strimpel
Verlezza Dance/Sabatino Verlezza
Friday, September 5
Adam Barruch Dance
Bridgman|Packer Dance
thefeath3rtheory/raja feath3rkelly
Jordan Isadore
Loni Landon
Malcolm Low
RG Dance Projects: Ruben Graciani
Steeledance
Take Dance
WonderTwins
Saturday, September 6
Banana Peel Dance/Aaron Draper
Gerald Casel Dance
Li-Chiao-Ping Dance
Katherine Helen Fisher Dance
Heidi Latsky Dance
Deborah Lohse/Cori Marquis/Donnell Oakley
Pengelly Projects/Fritha Pengelly
Claire Porter’s PORTABLES
Jessy Smith & Alberto Denis
Zvidance
All shows start at 7pm. Tickets are $15 in advance/$20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased by calling 212-967-7555, online at www.joespub.com, and in person at The Public Theater box office from 1pm to 6pm. Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th Street and Astor Place). Subway: N/R trains to 8th Street/NYU or 6 train to Astor Place.
About DANCENOW
DANCENOWNYC is produced by directors Robin Staff, Sydney Skybetter, and Tamara Greenfield.
Since launching at Joe’s Pub in 2003, DANCENOW’s programming at the Pub has defied the standard and embraced the space’s limitations as a powerful source of creativity. By encouraging artists to think outside the box and utilize this unique space, DANCENOW has created an inspiring platform for dance. Over the past several years, DANCENOW has produced numerous critically acclaimed works at Joe’s Pub including Doug Elkins’ Fräulein Maria, David Parker’s ShowDown and Misters and Sisters, Nicholas Leichter’s The Whiz and 20/20, Kyle Abraham’s Heartbreaks and Homies, Nicole Wolcott and Vanessa Walters’ Alley of the Dolls, Camille Brown’s One Second Past the Future, Monica Bill Barnes’ Snow Globes, Takehiro Ueyama’s Somewhere Familiar Melodies, and Claire Porter’s SEN-TENCE.
DANCENOW’s mission is to support new dance innovators and to connect audiences to these artists. DANCENOW builds relationships with dance makers at varying stages of their development in an effort to move their artistic careers forward. Without a performance venue of its own to maintain its endeavors, and an office that exists only online, DANCENOW has learned how to do more with less and to embrace limitation as a powerful source for creativity. This policy is key to DANCENOW’s sustainability as well as its artistic vision.
Now in its 19th year of promoting New York City artists, DANCENOW has deepened the connections between its New York City programming (DANCENOW Joe’s Pub – The Festival and Dancemopolitan Commissioned artist Series, and DANCENOW Raw) and its Pennsylvania-based programming (DANCENOW Silo and DANCENOW SteelStacks, a new presenting platform). Through this expanded programming, DANCENOW gives across-the-board assistance to its artist base, while offering audiences from New York City to Bucks County/Lehigh Valley new and exciting artistic experiences. For more information, visit dancenownyc.org and silokirklandfarm.dancenownyc.org.
DANCENOWNYC is supported, in part, with funds from the Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Media contact: Janet Stapleton – 212-633-0016 / stapleton.janet@gmail.com.
Image: Rooster and Snowball by Jennifer Jones from DANCENOW 2013.
