The Baryshnikov Arts Center has announced its spring 2013 season lineup, a schedule of performance and dance that will focus on new works by choreographers relatively new to the New York scene.
As part of PS122's COIL festival from Jan. 9-12, Emily Johnson and her company, Catalyst, based in Minneapolis, will present “Niicugni,†the second in a trilogy of works â€" the first, “The Thank-you Bar,†premiered in New York last year â€" that relate to Ms. Johnson's Yup'ik Alaskan heritage.
Rashaun Mitchell, the acclaimed alumnus of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, will perform a new work, “Interface,†which will have its world premiere Mar. 14 at the Baryshnikov center, where the piece was developed in residence.
The following month, on April 18-19, Rosie Herrera, an emerging Miami choreographer, will perform the New York premiere of “Dining Alone,†a gustatory dance work co-presented by American Dance Festival and Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
In addition to theatrical pieces based on works by Tolstoy and Beckett, the center, will present, April 3-17, “Kafka's Monkey,†an adaptation by Colin Teevan, in association with the Theater for a New Audience, of Kafka's 1917 short story “A Report to an Academy,†about a newly civilized ape asked by a group of scientists to recount his bestial, pre-verbal past.
