Saturday, March 14, 6-8pm, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company Apprentices, premiered Go!, a durational dance choreographed for the opening of Pause at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Atlanta.  The dance for six, which featured dance majors at Kennesaw State University, was in continuous performance for the two-hours of the opening.

Featuring over sixty multimedia works from local and nationally-acclaimed artists, including Merce Cunningham, Andy Warhol, Dawoud Bey, Kehinde Wiley and Rineke Dijkstra, Pause focuses on contemporary ideas of stillness and artists’ attempts to change or slow time. Themes of death, time, ethnicity, gender, class and identity emerge from portraits and figures that suspend animation, stop, withdraw and interrupt the flow of movement.

Exhibition highlights include:

• Andy Warhol – Sleep, a 50-minute excerpt of the five hourlong anti-film depicting Warhol’s sleeping friend, John Giorno, who is suspended by seeming stillness. Giorno’s sleep is punctuated by micro-movements for the patient viewer/voyeur.

• Jeroen Eisinga – Springtime, a black-and-white film recording Eisinga’s foray into “bee-bearding.” After a caged queen bee is placed below Eisinga’s chin, 150,000 bees engulf him over the course of 19 minutes.

• Christina A. West– Pause, a larger-than-normal figure of unnatural color is positioned mid-gesture. While appearing to be frozen in time and space, movement is projected onto the figure’s eyes to simulate the animation of the inanimate.

• George S. Whiteley, IV– Daguerreotypes and tintypes from the 1800s are exhibited from the vast collection of Atlanta-based photography expert George S. Whiteley. The ten portraits in Pause, selected to represent how photography broke down class barriers, depict post-mortem subjects and a head and neck brace used to resist movement during long exposure.

ITE’s 2nd Annual Contemporary Dance Festival, March 11-15, will bring together some of NYC’s most talented emerging and established choreographers for an immersive focus on contemporary concert dance. The festival will feature two world premieres, a New York premiere, as well as six works-in-progress and re-staged pieces.  DGDC’s acclaimed solo Mapping will be performed Thursday, March 12 by the choreographer.

ITE will present solos, duets, and trios from Stephanie Batten Bland, Sidra Bell, MADboots (Jonathan Campbell, Austin Diaz), Joe Celej, LoudHoundMovement (Brendan Duggan, Mallory Lynn), Davalois Fearon, Lane Gifford, Daniel Gwirtzman, Francesca Harper, Thomas House, Christina Noel & the Creature, Danielle Russo, David Norsworthy, Jenny Rocha, Sydney Schiff, Steps Ensemble (Bradley Shelver), Nelly Van Bommel, and Andre Zachery.

Festival Ticket Link

VENUE INFORMATION
Shetler Studios and Theatre is located at 244 West 54th Street between Broadway & 8th Avenue, New York. All ITE Spring Festival performances will take place in Theatre 54 on the 12th floor. It is accessible by Subway: 1, N, Q, R, B, D, E, C

Additional performance of Mapping March 21, 2015–Charlotte, NC

8pm
Booth Playhouse
130 N. Tryon St.

The ninth Charlotte Dance Festival will be held at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center’s Booth Playhouse and the Patricia McBride and Jean Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance.  13 professional companies and over 100 performers will take to the stage and the studio to share their artistry.  Join us for the events below and much more that you can view on our website.  www.charlottedancefestival.org  Tickets can be purchased HERE.

The Company has been awarded a residency through the City University of New York (CUNY) Dance Initiative, a program providing rehearsal and performance space to New York City choreographers and dance companies.  In its second year, CDI opens the doors of CUNY campuses to New York City choreographers and dance companies by assisting the colleges […]

The Company’s beloved Encore enters its eighth year in active repertory.  Since its premiere at New York’s Joyce SoHo in 2007, there has never been a year when the work has not been performed, and by multiple companies, not only by DGDC.  It was prescient of The New Yorker to write at that time: “Encore […]

For Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, fall’s curriculum covers a range of stimulating projects, in academia, the professional field and the general community. It is the diet we follow and love, what keeps us in prime shape. October 17-18 DG participates in the Tennessee Association of Dance’s annual Tennessee Dance Festival, Chattanooga, TN October 23-26 DGDC […]

The ORACLE World Premiere May 30, May 31, June 1, at BAM Fisher. Read all about the performance on our ORACLE page.  

The last film of The Brazil Series is the rollicking fun Rock The Boat. Classical, improvisational and hip-hop forms blend into a picnic of delights when this seaman’s obsession with dance animates a series of empty boats.  Watch it HERE on our Fifteen Anniversary Page.

It’s a crab’s world after all. Daniel Gwirtzman and filmmaker Rafael Silva de Carvalho collaborated on Crab World, a two-minute film shot on location in Misericordia, Bahia, a tiny village on the island of Itaparica, across the Bay from Salvador. Watch the film HERE!

With wit, great will and a cast of Brazilian dancers of diverse backgrounds, Daniel leads the enthusiastic literally into the streets of  Salvador da Bahia, the former capital of Brazil.   Filmed at the time of historic protests this film is a peaceful response to the violent uprisings.  In the heart of Afro-Brazil, just blocks […]

Pier (2014), a dance-for-camera film created in Bahia, captures the perfect symbiosis of elements: a clear day during the heavy rainy season with good light at high tide. In Bahia surprises abound and when the elements conspired the collaborative team ran.  Click HERE to watch the humorous, sensory 4-minute video.