Anna Thérèse Witenberg: Heat
Heat by Anna Thérèse Witenberg
Original music by Jack Whitescarver
Performed by Josie Bettman, Rachel Gill, Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Jack Whitescarver
Styled by Dylan Keoni
Lights by Cameron Barnett
Stage Design by Lorenzo Bueno
Having first premiered in a sold out run in September at Pageant, Heat returns as a new adaptation for Kestrels.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 5th, 6th and 7th at 8pm
Sunday, December 8th at 5 pm
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"“Heat” is an electrifying dance performance..." PURPLE MAGAZINE
From Anna:
Heat is about the deep love and envy I have for the dancers I spend my life with in the studio. The obsession that always mixes with jealousy; a competition turned sensual and fluid. Studying each other's bodies closely; memorizing every groove of her foot, knowing exactly how she will strike her jump, how she will prep her turn, watching her for hours on end; staring, touching, feeling. Wishing to be her; wanting to be better than her. The deep intimacy that is knowing your dance partner's rhythms, instincts, smells. I've spent my whole life in a dance studio doing this and will continue to do so for the rest of my living days.
Two-day Technique Laboratory with Joanna Kotze
Two-day Technique Laboratory with Joanna Kotze
A chance for advanced dancers to go deeper into stretch and placement, phrase-work, making considerations, and performance practices
Saturday, November 23rd & Sunday, November 24th
10:30am--2:30pm both days
Sliding scale: $64-$100 for the two-day workshop.
This workshop is currently at capacity. Please fill out this FORM to join the waitlist. We'll email you if any spots open up. If you have any questions about the workshop or payment options, please email joanna.kotze@gmail.com
(*My strong preference is that you come for both days. If this is impossible for you, please email me at joanna.kotze@gmail.com to discuss.)
https://www.joannakotze.com/teaching
No Furniture: Suite For a Loft Theater by Lavinia Eloise Bruce
Featuring Time Wharp performing the album "Spiro World" live, as well as dancers Arzu Salman, Cullan Powers, Ella Dawn W-S, and Julia Antinozzi.
No Furniture originally premiered October 2023 in a loft apartment in South Street Seaport, yielding praise from peers and critics alike and inciting a joyful afterparty on its closing night. This year, choreographer Lavinia Eloise Bruce is adapting the work to fill the larger space of Kestrels. This process of adaptation entails a more rigorous & expansive approach to the movement material, an even deeper collaboration with Time Wharp (aka Kaye Loggins), and perhaps even the addition of a new section—stay tuned ;)
“No Furniture: Suite for a Loft Apartment,” by Lavinia Eloise Bruce. Formal and ferocious…deserves another run.” -Gia Kourlas, New York Times. And Hear it is!
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: November 20th, 21st, and 22nd,
All shows at 8pm.
Come for a drink before the show and stay for one after! House opens 30 minutes before show-time.
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Amanda Hameline: PARTY DISH
PARTY DISH. Want to throw a party but short on time? Linguini with clam sauce is the dish for you! Amanda makes this Italian classic available for any weeknight celebration by falling back on canned clams and a good attitude. Not eating carbs anymore? Don't worry about it! The dish is very fragrant so you can just smell it. Wondering about the connection between tinned fish and 19th century military history? You've come to the right place! Just sit back and relax.
Party Dish is a solo performance that mourns, ridicules and celebrates the joys, necessity and pain of consumption. It's a rambling lecture given by an unstable dinner host. It's a party.
Choreographed, written and performed by Amanda Hameline
Projection Design by Jace Weyant
November 14th+15th, 7:30
$50 - Dinner and Reserved Seat
$25 - General Admission
$15 - Early Bird Discount
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Beth Graczyk: Unstable States: Shell(ter) works-in-progress sharing
Unstable States: Shell(ter) works-in-progress sharing
Join us for an evening of in-process sharing of a new dance-theater work, featuring sculptures made from bio-based materials.
This is a slow, evolving process, built on shifting states—unstable and under continual experimentation. In this moment, Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, Beth Graczyk, and Leah Wilks navigate the dynamics of autonomy and togetherness in performance. They calibrate to states of heightened attention, engaging with bio-based materials in unusual phases of transformation. What does it mean to attempt to prolong the life of things on the verge of decay—pressing into matter and feeling its resistance? How does a visceral exchange with forgotten or discarded materials, like eggshells—a potent symbol of transformation—prompt reflection on origins and unfolding journeys, where body and material might converge and evoke their own cycles of disintegration and renewal?
Directed by Beth Graczyk
Sound by Aaron Gabriel
Performed by Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, Beth Graczyk & Leah Wilks
November 7th+8th at 8pm
$10
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Gwendolyn Knapp: Record Ephemera
Record Ephemera is an evening length choreographic premiere by Gwendolyn Knapp, made in collaboration with Angel Acuña, Tim Bendernagel, Miriam Gabriel, Amelia Heintzelman, Stevie Knauss (performers), and Lavinia Eloise Bruce (sound). This dance, developed over the course of a year and a half long process, enacts a live transcription from photographs, rehearsal notation, and video documentation. Record Ephemera attempts to ask: can you give time a body?
Choreographed by Gwendolyn Knapp in collaboration with the dancers
Performed by Angel Acuña, Tim Bendernagel, Miriam Gabriel, Amelia Heintzelman, and Stevie Knauss
Sound by Lavinia Eloise Bruce
Thursday October 31st through Sunday November 3rd, 2024.
Thursday through Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 5pm
Come for a drink before the show and stay for one after! House opens 30 minutes before show-time.
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Ariel Lembeck: TRYHARD
TRYHARD is a new evening-length work by Ariel Lembeck. It is a dance drenched in sound and light. It collages the body into images and makes space for obsession to come through. It is a practice in exposing a forbidden sense of self and allowing it to grow inside the room. It is about becoming and letting go and the endless search for who we are and what we want to be.
Choreographed and Performed by: Ariel Lembeck
Sound Design by: Angel Zinovieff
Lighting Design by: Cameron Barnett
Premiering Friday and Saturday October 18th + 19th at 7:30pm and Sunday October 20th at 5pm.
Come for a drink before the show and stay for one after! House opens 30 minutes before show-time.
www.ariellembeck.com IG @ariel_lembeck
Authentic Movement class
Authentic Movement Practice, Tuesdays 10-12pm.
No prior experience with Authentic Movement or dance necessary. Class size limited, please pre-register HERE. Katie Workum and when we are lucky Darrin Wright will facilitate.
First class Tuesday, March 5th.
Signup sheet HERE Walk-ins are welcome, but there is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended. $15
Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body. It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment.
Choreographic Nerve
Do what you want, but breathe. Weekend workshop led by Julie Mayo
August 17+18
11-4 (with time for heavy snacking)
(both days commitment required)
$80
Deadline to register is July 17
This weekend workshop is for dance and theater artists with (a little or a lot of) experience in choreographic and improvisational practices who want to experiment in an intimate group setting. How can we resist the known, the probable, and the practical and imbue our practicing and performing with our individual mysteries, intuitions and imaginations?
SIGN UP and MORE INFORMATION HERE
juliemayo.com
WOMEN IN MOTION present: SYMARA SARAI I want it to rain inside
Wednesday July 24th
7:30pm
From the artist: "I want it to rain inside" is an exploration of the complexities of black queer femininity and the magic of its vulnerability, with this solo I continue to investigate the nexus between the parallels of black queer imagination and anarchy. You will see the space transformed into a topia of my choosings, an invitation into a practice of authentic autonomy. I transform perceptions of failures into successes and invite present negotiations as a way to engage with infinite possibilities.
Collaborative Feminist Structures for Dance and Performance
Workshop led by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
July 23-25, Monday &Tuesday , 10am-1pm
Daily drop-in is great. Feel free to show up at the door without reservation.
$20 or $35 for both. Pay what is good for you. NOTAFLOF.
This collaborative feminist workshop series explores improvisation practices of non-hierarchy and reciprocal recognition. It is open to all, no matter your experience with movement, dance, or performance. Each person will have agency to choose what they do with their body in each class. Come for all of the classes or just one, this workshop is designed to be emergent and exploratory. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Email lieber.molly@gmail.com or eleanorangelyn@gmail.com to reserve a spot
Photograph: Maria Baranova, Dancers: Oren Barnoy, Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Eleanor Smith, Work: Durational Duet by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Full Moon Breathwork with Jo Warren
July 21st is a Full Moon in Capricorn - it's also known as the "Buck Moon" and is considered a time of growth, renewal and regeneration, as bucks shed their antlers each year and start the process of growing new ones.
In-person Breathwork adds a whole new layer of collective experience and can be incredibly potent and powerful for moving through stuck patterns that feel hard to navigate on your own. We can feed off the energy of the group to move things we can't always move alone! Not to mention Kestrels is a beautiful space and feels like a perfect container to hold this work.
Come breathe, shed, grieve, pray, rage, fortify, reignite, integrate, dream, hope, thaw, share in community and find new access points to love, to resistance and to action.
Full details:
July 21st 6pm-8pm
- This session will take place in-person at Kestrels in Gowanus. Full address will be sent once payment is received
- Sliding scale $30-60*
*no one will be turned away for lack of funds - please reach out if cost is prohibitive
* free for Palestinian/Black/Indigenous folks and anyone who identifies as a QTBIPOC
*You can use this helpful tool to determine where you land on the scale. -
- I ask that participants take a rapid test the day of the workshop in order to keep each other safe!
- More information will be provided to those who register
No experience necessary - all are welcome!!
Come deepen a pre-existing practice or learn something new!!
Spread the word to those who may be interested!!
If you'd like to sign up, you can venmo me at Joanna-Warren-1 or use paypal with the email jowar123@gmail.com. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions, feedback or clarification :)
State of Making
Choreographic Workshop led by Juliana May
July 15-19
Monday-Friday
10am-3pm
$200
please email jfmdances@gmail.com
In this week intensive the conversation is the score and each person is empowered to let the flow of ideas and problems work themselves through the dancing itself. I tell people to work faster, keep reaching, and keep working to stay as close as possible. Dancing is the frame and symbol of the process and we keep doing it to stay as involved as possible. Struggle is a vibrant part of any process in the willful strangling of ideas and structures and the thrust of interpersonal shit....but there are also just fast momentary choices and all of a sudden you are on the other end and you can always cut it. We are learning to stand up more firmly in the choice and just as easily let it go. Perfect is not just the enemy of the good but it is also the enemy of flow and failure and embarrassment. www.maydance.org
Studio Showing: New Works Amelia Heintzelman and Vita Taurke
Saturday June 29th
8:00pm
Amelia Heintzelman with Dorothy Carlos
Dramaturgical support by Sophia Parker
Language development by Tess Michaelson
broken symmetries and nervy, expansive landscapes
&
Vita Taurke
Performed by Angelina Hoffman and Ella W-S
Music by Tommy Martinez
a ghostly fairytale of a dance
PEPTALK: so long so long
PEPTALK is a dance project created by Marin Day and Maddie Hopfield. They performed an excerpt of their latest work so long, so long at The Brick as part of ?!: New Works, and are bringing the evening-length version to Kestrels June 6-9! In so long, so long Marin and Maddie use movement and voice to create functionless machines, craft physical love letters, and chase their wandering minds as they remember a decade of disjointed fantasies and failures.
Thursday-Sunday June 5-9th, 7:30pm, except Sunday 5PM matinee
Michelle Boulé Workshop: ONE dance
MICHELLE BOULÉ is an award-winning Dance Artist, Healer, and Transformational Coach who uses depth, intuitive insights, and passion to guide her students towards their unique mastery. The work begins with self-Awareness to align with one’s own Inner Authority, so that “life” movement (aka creative expression, decision-making, and leadership) comes with confidence and ease.
Michelle was based in NYC for 21 years, where she danced primarily with Miguel Gutierrez, John Jasperse, Deborah Hay, and John Scott, and where her work was presented by Issue Project Room, Danspace, River to River, The Chocolate Factory, The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Met Breuer, amongst others.
She brings the same creativity, embodiment, passionate devotion, and meticulous attention to mindset that created her international dance career, to help usher her students through profound transformation. With nearly 30 years of practice in somatic therapies, energy medicine, mindset psychology, and spirituality, the heart of her work is LOVE.
Now and Then: Mariana and Katie
Mariana and Katie share an evening of reimagined solos.
AND WE ARE: having met in 2013-ish as Chez Bushwick AIRS. Little did we know then that we were simultaneously beginning new ways to make work and honor the dances that lived inside our bodies. And now we are here, turned around so much that we found each other 10 years down the road. We have deepened and returned to our dances in ways that fit who we are now. We have our stories to tell and these bodies to move. AND THIS IS: Mariana reinterprets a dance that she made a decade ago. She upholds the improvisatory and lyrical qualities of the work, two essential elements of her research since. Within her current—older yet newer—body, she’s chasing after the remnants of something that’s aged well over time. MEANWHILE: Katie re-works a solo made in 2022 newly titled We Must Take the Canoe. This piece marked a return to set work after a 10 year departure into Authentic Movement and improvisational forms. She wades deep into historical fantastical scenarios, American myths of pioneering and conquest, personal and imagined anecdotes to construct a self.
Saturday and Sunday May 18+19, 5PM
$20 suggested donation.
Flesh House
FLESH HOUSE A new dance PREMIERE by Molly Poerstel
Tuesday-Saturday, February 20th-24th 2024. 7:30pm
Three veteran dance performers Monte Jones, Molly Poerstel, and Eleanor Smith inhabit the rooms of Kestrels by exposing personal mythologies, old truths, and interlapping experiences. TICKETS
Monster Mourning
Dance Theater by Weena Pauly and Katie Workum, with live music by Annie Hart
Weena and Katie traverse the long tethers of time through shaken-up fantasy worlds, characters built from their lacking and over-ing, and through the filtered groundwater of their kinship of the last 25 years. They concoct forgotten tales of vaguely euro-lineages and fables into a disjointed present. They navigate connection steeped in inherited competitions and codes of femaleness, while time traveling their own ages and bodies through their love language of hair-braiding and awkward clog dancing. Monster Mourning includes live music by the multi talented musician and composer Annie Hart.
APAP show Sunday January 14th, 2024 at 3:00 with reception immediately following
AfterPAP shows Friday and Saturday Jan 19th+20th, 2024 7:30pm
Nicole Mannarino
10 Seconds til Midnight
Artistic Direction, Choreography, and Performance by: Nicole Mannarino
Choreography and Performance By: Ariel Lembeck, Belinda Ju, Laura Witsken, Reché Nelson, Samira Mendoza, & Tanasha G
Juliana May is teaching class
Juliana May will be teaching class Mondays and Wednesdays Sept 18-Oct 4, 2023. 10-12pm
Choreographic Idiom Drop in Class Series
reserve a spot by emailing jfmdances@gmail.com
Maya Lee-Parritz
The American Sun
Thursday-Saturday June 8th-10th and Friday+Saturday 16th+17th, 2023
This work features Tim Bendernagel, Cayleen Del Rosario, Rachel Gill, Gwendolyn Knapp, Patty Lin, Owen Prum, and Anna Therese Witenberg, with additional music by Russell O'Rourke and photographic set by Sadaf Azadehfar.
Please pay at the level you are able--all proceeds go directly to the artists. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds; if you need a further reduced or free ticket, please let me know (no questions asked). TICKETS
Monster Mourning
Weena Pauly and Katie Workum present their dance theater duet Monster Mourning.
Music and live instrumentation by Annie Hart. Set design by Darrin Wright.
Thursday-Saturday May 18-20th
Wednesday+Thursday Mat 24+25th