After a three-year hiatus from live performance, DANCE NOW (DN) will return to Joe’s Pub, September 6-9, 2023. Celebrating its 20th annual season at Joe’s Pub, DN resumes its place right after Labor Day, kicking off the fall New York City dance season. DN will present in its traditional festival-like format, placing young, established and mature voices side by side to offer 5-minute or less bite-size gems. Reimagining the new and evolving needs of today’s dance artists and their audiences, post the pandemic in a ‘new and now’ moment, DN returns in 2023 as DANCENOW / NOW to feature a presentation of all new works, commissioned from a diverse roster of 25 artists. The four-day run will offer two different programs of 11 artists each night, hosted by Deborah Lohse as TruDee.

The season will include a promotional film, The Dandelion Project, created by Katherine Helen Fisher and Shimmy Boyle of Safety Third Productions. The film will tell the story of the DN community during these past three years as COVID scattered and reseeded them across the country, and the globe, affecting their careers, creative process, and lifestyles.

DANCENOW / NOW Programs
Hosted by TruDee (Deborah Lohse)
The Dandelion Project: A film by Katherine Helen Fisher and Shimmy Boyle of Safety Third Productions

Wed, Sep 6: Program A
Ballez Company/Katy Pyle
doug elkins choreography
Orlando Hernández
Dual Rivet- Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith
Jamal Jackson Dance Company
Cori Marquis
Portables/Claire Porter
Amber Sloan 
The Bang Group
Nicole Wolcott

Thur, Sep 7: Program B
BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY / Shaina and Bryan Baira 
binbinFactory /Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa
Jane Comfort and Company
Dual Rivet- Chelsea Ainsworth and Jessica Smith
Khaleah London / Layers 
Tsiambwom M Akuchu
doug elkins choreography
More Fish / Doron Perk 
Subject: Matter
Nicole Vaughan-Diaz
Megan Williams Dance Projects

Fri, Sep 8: Program A
Ballez Company/Katy Pyle
Sarah Chien 
Cori Marquis
Mark Gindick
Orlando Hernández 
Jamal Jackson Dance Company
Portables /Claire Porter
Amber Sloan 
The Bang Group
Jane Comfort and Company
Nicole Wolcott
TAKE Dance

Sat, Sep 9: Program B
BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY / Shaina and Bryan Baira 
binbinFactory /Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa
Sarah Chien
Mark Gindick
Khaleah London / Layers
Tsiambwom M Akuchu 
More Fish / Doron Perk 
Subject: Matter
Nicole Vaughan-Diaz
Megan Williams Dance
TAKE Dance

This presentation is made possible with support from: NYSCA, DCA, SVOG, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Sid/Rose Fund and The Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

Executive Artistic Director: Robin Staff
Founding Director: Tamara Greenfield
Production Manager and Lighting Designer: Mandy Ringer with Randi Riveria

Thumbnail photo credit: Steven Pisano
Header photo credit: Effy Grey

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