Friday, August 2, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 3, 8:00 pm
MONICA BILL BARNES COMPANY
Luster and Suddenly Summer Somewhere

Luster
Luster premiered at The American Dance Festival in July 2012. Featuring themes of endurance and triumph, this duet highlights autobiographical moments of the performers, who are entering their tenth year of dancing together.

Suddenly Summer Somewhere
Two small women stand on top of a dining room table. In silence, carefully navigating the table top, they send silverware crashing to the floor. Simultaneously hilarious and painful, Suddenly Summer Somewhere explores how the passage of time affects the collective lives of two people. Music is by Rodgers/Hammerstein, Cavanaugh/Morgan/Stock, Porter, Cahn/Van Heusen, Warren/Dubin, Rodgers/Hart, Sinatra/Aznavour

Both pieces were choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes and performed by Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass

“Suddenly Summer Somewhere barrels along once it hits the floor, a thing of manic, mugging grins; lumbering embraces; and big, juicy syncopated sprints through space that seems to have just opened out. Suddenly love has pushed through zany, witty pratfalls for the body and the soul.” - Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

“Barnes (is) one of the wittiest young choreographers around.” – The Village Voice

“Barnes has made zippy and understated magic.” – The New Yorker

Tickets: $30/$25 members/$18 students

Click here for Monica Bill Barnes Company website

Friday, August 16, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 17, 8:00 pm
PEARSONWIDRIG Dancetheater
Ordinary Festivals and other works
Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, artistic directors of PearsonWidrig Dancetheater since 1987, have gained an international following for work that transforms the familiar into the mysterious, the subversive, and the intimate. Creating and presenting "American dance theater at its funniest and most compelling” [Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland], they have toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and New Zealand.

Set to the enchanting folk music of pre-war Italy Ordinary Festivals is a piece for 300 oranges, 7 performers, and 2 knives that “pushes the rituals of a traditional community over the edge into mysterious, subversive, and often funny acts.” (The Village Voice).

“Most amazing! Most enjoyable!” - The New York Times

“Contagiously joyful.” - Dance Magazine

Tickets: $30/$25 members/$18 students

Click here for PearsonWidrig Dancetheater website

Sunday, August 18, 2:00 pm
DANCE OMI @ PS21
Critical Response to Dance Omi Works-in-Progress
Dance Omi Director Christopher K. Morgan will facilitate a showing of works-in-progress by dance artists in residence at Dance Omi for the 2013 session. Using his extensive experience with the Liz Lehrman’s Critical Response Process, Morgan will facilitate an exchange between the artists and the audience.

PS21 is delighted to be collaborating with its neighbor and fellow arts organization in Columbia County. Since 2005, the Dance Omi International Dance Collective has brought together ten accomplished dance artists from around the world for three weeks of creative exchange each summer. The emphasis is not a performance product; rather, a gently facilitated process of experimentation and collaboration. Christopher Morgan is the Artistic Director of Christopher K. Morgan and Artists, a contemporary dance company in residence at City Dance in Bethesda, MD and the Alden in McLean, VA.

A reception for the dance artists will follow the showing.

Admission is FREE.

Click here for the Dance Omi webpage

Friday, August 23, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 24, 8:00 pm
RUBBERBANDANCE GROUP
in Gravity of Center
Choreographer and dancer Victor Quijada founded RUBBERBANDance Group (RBDG) to create an exploratory base where he could mix his several influences to create a contemporary style that blends the spontaneity and exuberance of hip hop with the refinement of classical dance. This style incorporates theatrical interpretation, improvisational approaches, film, and impromptu performance.

In Gravity of Center, Victor Quijada contains the ferocity of hip hop in a refined choreographic language. Between dynamic rhythms and physical prowess, the company’s unique vocabulary is the epicenter of this creation. Gravity of Center explores the way that each being is both at the center of the world and orbiting around others. Interdependence is obvious and struggles are inevitable. The five dancers – a family, a nomadic tribe or an entire people – interweave, fight, crave and hustle in an astonishing fluidity of action.
2010 PS21 PHOTOS

“…exciting, seemingly improbable fusion of hip hop, ballet and modern dance.” - Los Angeles Times

Tickets: $30/$25 members/$18 students

Click here for the RubberbanDance website

Friday, August 30, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 31, 8:00 pm
PARSONSDANCE
PS21 is delighted to once again welcome Parsons Dance back to the Tent. This season Parsons will present new works including Nascimento Novo as well as some perennial favorites. Parsons Dance, an internationally renowned contemporary dance company under the artistic direction of dancer/choreographer David Parsons, tours nationally and internationally and maintains a repertory of more than 80 works choreographed by David Parsons.
2012 PS21 PHOTOS  2011 PS21 PHOTOS

“...scrumptiously entertaining, and always imaginative...” – Dance Review, Jan 2013

Tickets: $40/$35 members/$25 students

Click here for Parsons website