Enjoy this full calendar of dance to welcome the spring. Topping the list is Burkinabe choreographer and performer, Lacina Coulibaly in “Until The Lion Tells the Story,” March 28-30 at New York Live Arts. For Coulibaly, “Until The Lion Tells the Story” is an invitation to embrace the wisdom and knowledge of Africa as an essential part of being in the world, and a reminder that the journey toward renaissance and transformation begins with building one’s inner pyramid. Inspired by Egyptian use of the golden ratio in ancient pyramid construction, Coulibaly engages the similar Fibonacci sequence in which each number in a particular order is equal to the sum of two numbers before it. He uses a bottle of water to construct his own golden ratio rectangle, symbolizing another early practice of water droplets as a form of measurement. The solo performance applies the ideas and writings of Guadeloupean writer, Egyptologist, and classical African mathematics specialist Omotunde Kalala and Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician Cheikh Anta Diop to underscore Coulibaly’s belief that “forgetting or ignoring any aspect of our history leads to a loss of ourselves.” For more information visit https://newyorklivearts.org/event/until-the-lion-tells-the-story/
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Mar. 8-17: New York City Center and Flamenco Festival and will happen throughout New York City for a total of 22 performances in 13 venues and includes more than 100 of Spain’s flamenco dancers and musicians, including the National Ballet of Spain and Olga Pericet to name just a few. For more information, visit https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2023-2024/flamenco-festival/
Mar. 12-24: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to The Joyce with works by Darrell Grand Moultrie, Thang Dao, Rennie Harris, Lar Lubovitch, Rena Butler, and Aszure Barton. For more information, visit https://www.joyce.org/performances/64//hubbard-street-dance-chicago
Mar. 14-15: For Split Bill #42 at The TRISK, Kashia Kancey & Rebecca Margolick share the evening with solos: “I Believed It Too” from Kancey and “Reservoir” from Margolick. For more information, visit https://www.triskelionarts.org/spring-2024/splitbill42
Mar. 14 – Mar. 30: Experience the annual BAAD! Ass Women Festival at BAAD! For more information, visit https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/guggenheim/3515/event/1356475
Mar. 18: Join Kwikstep and Rokafella’s Behind the Groove, a party celebrating all things dance at the Guggenheim Rotunda and the Works & Process series. For more information, visit https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/guggenheim/3515/event/1356475
Mar. 21-23: Stacey Spence will present a new dance in triptych form, “I am, here” (a solo), “Here with us” (a duet), and “Where we find ourselves” (a quartet). For more information, visit https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/ws2024-spence/
Mar. 21-25: The writer, dancer, and experimental filmmaker, Harmony Holiday brings “BLACK BACKSTAGE” which builds upon the artist’s latest book MAAFA, a work that deals with the archetypes and sounds that form in and of the ruins after genocide and displacement, to The Kitchen at Westbeth. For more information visit https://thekitchendev.netlify.app/on-view/BLACK-BACKSTAGE/Mar. 28-30: The duo, Baye & Asa will present and perform their newest work, “4 | 2 | 3,” which focuses on the generational impacts of climate change using the “Riddle of the Sphinx” as an allegorical structure, at Baryshnikov Arts. For more information, visit https://baryshnikovarts.org/performance/baye-asa/