(New York City Center; 131 W 55th St.; 10/01/2009, Tickets: $10)
For ten days every October, The New York City Center hosts an exciting festival full of dance from all over the world. The event features multiple companies to appear side by side in each performance which offers audience members some amazing performances from tap and tango to puppetry and clogging. The festival is also celebrating the eight companies from the Ballets Russes.
The 2009 Fall for Dance Festival also includes eight companies presenting The Ballets Russes interpretations of its works. New York City Center and The New York Public Library will exhibit portions of Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath at New York City Center during the Festival. The Fall for Dance’s annual DanceTalk series will allow audience members to hear about the creative collaborations from the experts themselves during the Ballets Russes era and influences this period in dance has had on today’s artists.
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The venue is better know as simply City Center and is centrally located on 56th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues, just around the corner from Carnegie Hall and just up the block from the OnBoard pick up location.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the Fall for Dance festival is sold out, with returned tickets the only ones available.
Which is too bad, because one of my friends is performing.
Jonathan Turer
typo, sorry: 55th Street
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