NPN at and around APAP 2023!
January 5, 2023 • 15 minute read
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We’ve compiled a few of the many places that you can see and engage with NPN Partners, artists, board members, staff, and friends. The schedule-at-glance is followed by more information about all projects.
*Please note that events may require registration at the links provided
Schedule-at-a-glance
Streaming on demand
Monday, January 9th, 2023
- 8–9 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
- 7–8 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
- 7–8 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
- 7–8:50 pm Ephrat Asherie Dance, UNDERSCORED @ Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim, 1071 5th Ave.
- 7 pm Mariana Valencia, Jacklean @ Public Theater, Shiva Theater, 425 Lafayette St.
- 8 pm Adil Mansoor Amm(i)gone @ Speyer Hall at University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge St.
Friday, January 13th, 2023
- 7–7:35 pm American Patchwork Quartet and Martha Redbone @ Madison Suite, Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave.
- 7–8 pm Renegade Performance Group / André M. Zachery @ Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St.
- 7–8 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
- 8 pm Adil Mansoor Amm(i)gone @ Speyer Hall at University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge St.
Saturday, January 14th, 2023
- 9:45–10:05 am Ashwini Ramaswamy and Kevork Mourad, Invisible Cities @ City Center, Studio 4, at 130 W 56th St.
- 10:20–10:50 am Yanira Castro / a canary torsi, Thunder & Hymn, NY City Center, Studio 5, 130 W 56th St.
- 11 am Adil Mansoor Amm(i)gone @ Speyer Hall at University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge St.
- 11–11:30 am DANCE IQUAIL!, Public Enemy @ Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St.
- 12–12:30 pm Ananya Dance Theatre, Nün Gherāo @ Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St.
- 4:30–5 pm Ananya Dance Theatre, Nün Gherāo @ Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St.
- 5–5:30 pm STAYCEE PEARL dance project, CIRCLES @ NY City Center Studio 4, 130 W 56th St.
- 5:20–5:40 pm Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, Gloop @ Regence Parlor, 2nd floor, New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas
- 6–7 pm Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, Touch of RED @ New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
- 8 pm MX Oops, UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL @ New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
- 6:30–7 pm Ephrat Asherie Dance, ODEON @ NY City Center Studio 4, 130 W 56th St.
- 7–8 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
Sunday, January 15th, 2023
- 11:30 am–12:30 pm Artist Salon feat. Miguel Gutierrez, Emily Johnson / Catalyst, and Abby Zbikowski @ New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
- 1 pm Mariana Valencia, Jacklean @ Public Theater, Shiva Theater, 425 Lafayette St.
- 2–3 pm Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, BLACK HOLE @ New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St.
- 3–3:45 pm jumatatu m. poe @ New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
- 4–5 pm DANCE IQUAIL! Rain @ Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St.
Monday, January 16th, 2023
- 6–6:45 pm Netta Yerushalmy, MOVEMENT @ New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St.
- 7:30–8:30 pm Shamel Pitts | TRIBE, BLACK HOLE @ New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St.
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
- 7–8 pm Jasmine Hearn, Salt and Spirit @ LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St.
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
- 7–8 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
- 7–8 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
- 8–9 pm Jasmine Hearn, Salt and Spirit @ LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St.
Friday, January 20th, 2023
- 7:30–8:30 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
Saturday, January 21st, 2023
- 7:30–8:30 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
- 2–3 pm Kaneza Schaal, KLII @ Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
Note: We tried to include as many NPN friends as possible, but this list is not exhaustive!
Complete information for all performances
Sean Dorsey DanceTHE LOST ART OF DREAMING
- Streaming on demand January 14–31
- You must pre-register to attend this virtual event
THE LOST ART OF DREAMING is an invitation to embrace expansive imagination, reconnect with longing, connect with joy and pleasure, and propel ourselves toward loving Futures.
THE LOST ART OF DREAMING is a fusion of full-throttle dance, intimate storytelling, intricate costuming, and exquisite queer partnering. . . all performed with Sean Dorsey Dance’s signature technical precision, guts, and deep humanity.
This work premiered in San Francisco in November 2022 and is available for touring beginning in Spring 2023. It tours with a 5-member ensemble of gender-nonconforming, trans and queer dancers, Technical Director, and Wardrobe Supervisor. Work tours with an extensive roster of community-engagement activities.
Dan Froot & CompanyPang!
- Streaming on demand
Pang! is an evening of three short plays based on oral histories of families around the country who are hungering for change. Pang! is stage as live radio theater, with three actors voicing dozens of characters, navigating a forest of microphones, and creating live “Foley” sound effects.
Created and directed by Dan Froot in collaboration with the performers: Natalie Camunas, Christopher Rivas, and Donna Simone Johnson. Music by Robert Een.
Pang! is currently in repertory. There are two touring versions: the full staging travels with a company of 7 and moderate freight; the “unplugged” version travels with a company of 4 and no freight.
Kaneza SchaalKLIIPresented through the Public’s Under the Radar Festival
Dates & Times
- Monday, January 9th, 8–9 pm
- Wednesday, January 11th, 7–8 pm
- Thursday, January 12th, 7–8 pm
- Friday, January 13th, 7–8 pm
- Saturday, January 14th, 7–8 pm
- Wednesday, January 18th, 7–8 pm
- Thursday, January 19th, 7–8 pm
- Friday, January 20th, 7:30–8:30 pm
- Saturday, January 21st, 7:30–8:30 pm
- Sunday, January 22nd, 2–3 pm
Location
- Chelsea Factory, 547 W 26th St.
KLII exorcizes the ghost of King Leopold II through a mytho-biographical performance by theater-maker Kaneza Schaal. Designed and co-directed by Christopher Myers, KLII draws on Mark Twain’s King Leopold’s Soliloquy published in 1905, a fictional monologue written after Twain’s visit to Congo Free State, and Patrice Lumumba’s 1960 independence speech in Congo. Increasingly our demons are invisible, long-hidden racism, misogyny, misinformation, and even the virus. How do we handle these threats which are as central to our everyday life as they are hidden? Schaal and Myers propose an exorcism in theater, starring one of the villains of the 19th century whose actions resonate through the present day.
Ephrat Asherie DanceUNDERSCORED (excerpt)
Date & Time
- Thursday, January 12th, 7–8:50 pm
Location
- Peter B. Lewis Theater at the Guggenheim, 1071 5th Ave. (between 88th and 89th Streets)
Ephrat Asherie Dance in collaboration with NYC club legends Archie Burnett, Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune, and Michele Saunders take audiences on a journey through NYC’s underground dance community. UNDERSCORED was a recipient of lead commissioning and development support by Works & Process for the Fall 2022 world premiere at the Guggenheim with co-commissioners ArtPower at UC San Diego, the Momentary, and the Yard.
*NDP tour support available.
ODEON
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 14th, 6:30–7 pm
Location
- NY City Center Studio 4, 130 W 56th St. (between 6th & 7th Aves.)
Described by The Berkshire Eagle as “real, honest, and breathtaking,” ODEON is a high-energy, hybrid work that layers breaking, hip-hop, house, and vogue to the buoyant score of turn-of-the-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, played live. The second collaboration between sister and brother team Ephrat and Ehud Asherie (choreographer and musical director, respectively), the duo reimagines Nazareth’s signature compositions, noted for melding classical music with popular Afro-Brazilian rhythms. ODEON brings together parts of the extended legacies of street and club styles and remixes them to challenge choreographic contexts.
Mariana ValenciaJacklean
Dates & Times
- Thursday, January 12th, 7 pm
- Sunday, January 15th, 1 pm
Location
- The Public Theater, Shiva Theater, 425 Lafayette St.
Jacklean is an improvisation between choreographer Mariana Valencia and musician Jazmin Romero. A we/us exchange between the artists proposes that the rehearsal process is also the practice of performance. Valencia and Romero create, revise, and surrender to their forms in real time. Jacklean is a performance riff and the path toward a new tableau for improvisation.
Adil MansoorAmm(i)gone
Dates & Times
- Thursday, January 12, 8 pm
- Friday, January 13, 8 pm
- Saturday, January 14, 11 am
Location
- Speyer Hall at University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge St.
Kelly Strayhorn Theater is delighted to collaborate with University Settlement for this special presentation of Adil Mansoor’s solo performance work Amm(i)gone. Mansoor explores queerness, the afterlife, and obligation using Sophocles’ Antigone, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations between him and his mother in a touching performance about love across faith.
Amm(i)gone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is an apology to and from a mother. Since discovering his queerness, Mansoor’s mother has turned towards her faith in an attempt to save her son in the afterlife. In an effort towards healing, Mansoor has invited his mother to join him as dramaturg and co-conspirator. In reading, discussing, and translating various adaptations of the source play, together they mine Greek tragedy, Islamic traditions, and their own memories to create an original performance locating love across faith. Can prayer substantiate care? Can care manifest as artistic methodology and inquiry? Can Mansoor and his mother contend with Antigone’s fate?
American Patchwork Quartet and Martha RedboneAfro-Indigenous & Immigrant Americana
Date & Time
- Friday, January 13th, 7–7:35 pm
Location
- Madison Suite, Hilton Midtown, 1335 6th Ave.
In American Patchwork Quartet (APQ), Grammy-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, three-time Grammy-winning drummer Clarence Penn, Grammy-winning vocalist Falu Shah, and highly acclaimed bassist Yasushi Nakamura showcase the dynamic diversity of contemporary culture by re-imagining timeless songs from America’s past. APQ draws on a repertoire of centuries-old American folk songs that highlight America’s immigrant roots, in performances that make old songs new through creative arrangements that highlight the skills of each member and ask their audiences to reflect on the notion that as Americans we must acknowledge our differences to discover our commonalities.
Martha Redbone is a vocalist/songwriter/composer/educator. She is known for her music gumbo of folk, blues, and gospel from her childhood in coal country Harlan County, Kentucky, infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified New York City. Inheriting the powerful vocal range of her gospel-singing African American father and the resilient spirit of her mother’s southeastern Cherokee/Choctaw culture and heritage, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music. With songs and storytelling that share her life experience as an Afro/Native American woman and mother navigating in the new millennium, Redbone gives voice to issues of social justice, connecting cultures, and celebrating the human spirit.
Renegade Performance Group / André M. Zachery
Date & Time
- Friday, January 13th, 7–8 pm
Location
- Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St.
Brooklyn-based dance company Renegade Performance Group will present two projects created by artistic director André M. Zachery. The first is a five-minute excerpt from the 25-minute piece Webbed Fugues. It is an Afrofuturist ensemble work using the music of Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar, and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, with interactive projections designed by André M. Zachery. The second project is Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends, a multimedia choreographic solo of self-examination on Black masculinity using history, memory, text, poetry, and geography. Both works will be presented at the new 651 ARTS performance center in Brooklyn, NY in 2023.
More info on this Renegade Performance Group / André M. Zachery event
Ashwini Ramaswamy and Kevork MouradInvisible Cities
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 14, 9:45–10:05 am
Location
- City Center, Studio 4, at 130 W 56th St. (between 6th & 7th Aves.)
Ramaswamy collaboratively reimagines Italo Calvino’s metaphysical novel through choreography and projected visuals with interactive illustrations and animation created live by artist Kevork Mourad. Anchored in the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam and collaboratively reinterpreted by dancer/choreographers of four distinct cultural backgrounds and dance lineages (Bharatanatyam, Gaga technique, Contemporary/African Diasporic, and Breaking) this work can be presented as a National Performance Network engagement. Tours with a total of 14.
“Ramaswamy’s imagination united and flourished, making space, not just for more generations but for more ways of thinking.” – The New York Times (Critic’s pick)
Yanira Castro / a canary torsiThunder & Hymn (part of Elsie Management Live Showcase
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 14, 10:20–10:50 am
Location
- NY City Center, Studio 5, 130 W 56th St. (between 6th & 7th Aves.)
Interdisciplinary artist Yanira Castro guides the audience through a set of performance scores from a canary torsi’s award-winning work Last Audience. Enacted by the audience, Thunder & Hymn is an immersive, participatory work that invites the audience into a sensory-rich communal experience, a collective re-imagining of performance as civic ritual.
DANCE IQUAIL!Public Enemy and Rain
Dates & Times
- Saturday, January 14th, 11–11:30 am
- Sunday, January 15th, 4–5 pm
Location
- Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St.
DANCE IQUAIL! will showcase two different works at the Ailey Citigroup Theater as part of a shared showcase with the Dance Manager’s Collective. The Saturday, January 14th performance will showcase an excerpt from Public Enemy. This work—supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Performance Network—explores incarceration as a way to center the humanity of Black men and the Diversity of their humanity. *NEFA’s NDP tour subsidy is still available for immediate bookings of this work. The Sunday, January 15 performance will showcase Rain, a World Premiere also by Dr. Iquail Shaheed.
Ananya Dance TheatreNün Gherāo: Surrounded by Salt (Excerpt)
Dates & Times
- Saturday, January 14th, 12–12:30 pm
- Saturday, January 14th, 4:30–5 pm
Location
- Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W 55th St. @ 9th Ave.
Ananya Dance Theatre will showcase an excerpt from its 2022 production Nün Gherāo: Surrounded by Salt, commissioned by the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Nün Gherāo was created in part during a residency at the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow. Ananya Dance Theatre is a guest artist of the 2023 live showcases presented by the Dance Managers Collective at the Ailey Citigroup Theater. You can also visit them at Booth 302 Americas at APAP!
STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy SosCIRCLES: going in (excerpt)
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 14th, 5–5:30 pm
Location
- NY City Center Studio 4, 130 W 56th St. (between 6th & 7th Aves.)
Layering dance, visual arts, and an original score, CIRCLES: going in presents snapshots of popular culture through Choreographer Staycee Pearl’s lens as a Black woman. With an ensemble of five dancers, CIRCLES: going in is a vibrant and daring path to self-reclamation. The original soundtrack was created by Herman “Soy Sos” Pearl in collaboration with a diverse roster of Black club artists.
More info on this STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos event
Carla Rossi and Pepper PepperJacklean
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 14th, 5:20–5:40 pm
Location
- Regence Parlor, 2nd floor, New York Hilton Midtown, 1335 Avenue of the Americas
Join drag duo Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper for a wellness seminar gone wrong—or right? —when the mushrooms peak. Tackling wellness culture, microdosing, land acknowledgments, and featuring a lipsync on an actively inflating airbed, GLOOP is a gauntlet of spectacularly unhinged drag from two of Portland, Oregon’s most beloved grifters. APAP showcase; representation: Andre Bouchard at Indigenous Performance Productions.
Shamel Pitts | TRIBETouch of RED (excerpt, for presenters only)
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 14th, 6–7 pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
Touch of RED is a new evening-length multidisciplinary performance work that consists of a duet for two men inside a contemporary ring. The work investigates how Black men can allow themselves to soften, even under extreme pressure and heat. The confined space references a futuristic and voyeuristic gladiator entertainment site in which a heat path between the two performers builds, not out of aggression or combat, but within an enhanced electrifying effeminacy that heals. Bold. Boiled. Blood.
*NDP tour subsidies are available for this work for the 23/24 and 24/25 seasons.
Shamel Pitts | TRIBEBLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon
Dates & Times
- Sunday, January 15, 2–3 pm
- Monday, January 16, 7:30–8:30 pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th St.
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE’s evening-length work BLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon is a kaleidoscopic performance art experience using movement, original sound, light projection, and visual art. The piece researches and shares an odyssey in which three Black performers create a trinity of vigor, afrofuturism, and embrace. It is the third multidisciplinary live artwork in Shamel Pitts’ “Black Series.”
MX OopsUnFiNiShEd aNiMaL
Date & Time
- Saturday, January 14th, 8 pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL is a multimedia performance that uses the vibrant aesthetics of queer nightlife culture to reveal how cognitive bias connects us all. This piece tells the story of humanity coming to grips with our collective inheritance, a ramshackle meshwork of cognitive processes evolved to survive, not for self-awareness. An interdisciplinary approach invites the audience to meditate on what might be unfinished about human cognition and how these biases keep us from building a better world together.
Miguel GutierrezEmily Johnson / CatalystAbby Zbikowski, Abby Z and the New UtilityArtist Salon at New York Live Arts
Date & Time
- Sunday, January 15th, 11:30 am–12:30 pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
New York Live Arts will host an Artist Salon with Miguel Gutierrez, Emily Johnson, Milka Djordjevich, and Abby Zbikowski on Sunday, January 16 at 11:30 am in the Live Arts Lobby. Each artist will present excerpts from recently premiered works for 10 minutes, then artists and presenters have space and time to mingle and chat over light refreshments for as long as desired.
jumatatu m. poeLive Artery: jumatatu m. poe
Date & Time
- Sunday, January 15, 3–3:45 pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
For Live Artery 2023, jumatatu m. poe will present transitions into terrestrial, sharing images, video, poetics, and movement reflecting on transitions in artmaking and life. Having completed a 10-plus year cycle of research and performance with collaborator Jermone Donte Beacham through the J-Sette focused Let ‘im Move You series, jumatatu is reflecting on the vastness of the voyage, the depth of the lessons on both being and being with that sprang forth from that intimately collaborative series of processes. Currently, jumatatu’s attention is turned toward nobility and indigeneity in early research for the forthcoming terrestrial project.
Netta YerushalmyMOVEMENT, part of Live Artery
Date & Time
- Monday, January 16th, 6–6:45 pm
Location
- New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St.
MOVEMENT (premiered March 2022 at PEAK Performances) is the new evening-length work from Netta Yerushalmy that synthesizes over one hundred citations from an expansive range of dances across genres and cultures. It is a radical quilt of borrowed material that stretches the idea of pluralism until it almost snaps. The project features a new score by award-winning composer Paula Matthusen, and is performed by dancers hailing from Korea, Senegal, Israel, Taiwan, and across the USA.
Jasmine HearnSalt and Spirit (Out-Front Festival, Pioneers Go East Collective)
Dates & Times
- Tuesday, January 17th, 7–8 pm
- Thursday, January 19th, 8–9 pm
Location
- The LGBT Center, 208 W 13th St.
Salt and Spirit by Jasmine Hearn:
a layering of remembered recipes, unkempt stories, and forgotten adornments.
a dance of many myths
a song for stilling
a bridge between non-linear stories of N I L E and Trinity
It will keep changing.
With performances by Dominica Greene, Jasmine Hearn, Kendra Portier, Marýa Wethers, and Charmaine Warren. With creative support by Nora Alami and Myssi Robinson and sound collaborations with Lily Gelfand and Angie Pittman.
