Emily Coates, photo courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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Kick off the New Year with dance and be the first to see three new performances commissioned by Works & Process on Long Island’s East End at The Church in Sag Harbor, Guild Hall of East Hampton, and The Watermill Center. The inaugural Dance Out East culminates week-long creative residencies, and provides unique insight into the process and preparation of new choreographed works that will sequence into the Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival at the Guggenheim Museum.
Dance Out East: The Scattering by Emily Coates
The Church in Sag Harbor with Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Thursday, January 9th, 6 PM
Dancer and choreographer Emily Coates’s new performance project sources George Balanchine's brief history beyond the metropolis to reflect on how the body and spirit of a choreographer scatters, living on in unexpected places, starting with his arrival in America in 1933. Coates draws upon on her background as a former member of New York City Ballet, and working with Ain Gordon (direction and dramaturgy), Derek Lucci (performer), Charles Burnham (musician-composer), and Melvin Chen (pianist), she and her collaborators collage misplaced and overlooked archival traces and transmissions of Balanchine and related artists into a new whole.
The poignancy of Coates’ residency at The Church responds to the art center’s own embrace of Balanchine’s history. Upon the windows of the building is a likeness of the famed choreographer, featured among a series of portraits known as ‘The Saints of Sag Harbor’ – replacing the stained-glass windows of churches with a series of etchings by artist and The Church co-founder Eric Fischl. These portraits pay homage to icons from Sag Harbor’s vast history of artists and makers who have inspired people the world over -- including Balanchine, whose grave is located in the storied village.
The Scattering is commissioned by Works & Process. This iterative presentation culminates a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at The Church (2025) in Sag Harbor, home to George Balanchine’s grave. The project will continue to be supported with a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at the Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter, New York where Jacques d’Amboise lived for seven decades. Additional developmental support is provided by Jacob’s Pillow, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, and New England Foundation for the Arts Dance Fund.
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Emily Coates has performed internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp and Yvonne Rainer. Career highlights include three duets with Baryshnikov, in works by Erick Hawkins, Mark Morris, and Karole Armitage; principal roles in works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins; Lucinda Childs' seminal solo Carnation; and Rainer's work from 1961 to the present. Her choreographic projects have been commissioned and presented by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Carnegie Hall, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, University of Chicago, Danspace Project (NYT Critic’s Pick 2017, NYT Fall Dance to Watch 2018), Performa (Best Dance 2019, with Yvonne Rainer), and in the 2023 exhibition Hard Return at the Neuberger Museum, among others. Awards and fellowships include the School of American Ballet’s Mae L. Wein Award; BAC's Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship; Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU; Jerome Robbins Dance Division/New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; with support from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Jacob's Pillow, and National Endowment for the Arts. Recently she appeared as a featured dancer in Joan Jonas's video installation To Touch Sound (2024), commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art. She is Professor in the Practice and Director of Dance Studies at Yale University, where she created the dance curriculum. She co-authored Physics and Dance with physicist Sarah Demers (2019), and co-edited Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019 with Yvonne Rainer (2023). emilycoates.art
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A non-profit performing arts organization without walls, Works & Process champions performing artists and their creative process each step from studio to stage. Works & Process platforms artists from the world’s largest organizations and amplifies underrecognized performing arts cultures by providing rare, longitudinal, and fully-funded creative residencies, and commissioning support. Works & Process presents at the Guggenheim Museum, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Each summer Works & Process curates and presents free dance programs with Manhattan West and City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage and NYC Parks. Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” provides artists multi-week residencies with 24/7 studio availability, on-site housing, health insurance enrollment access, industry-leading fees, and transportation to residency partners spanning Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION & TICKETS TO THE ADDITIONAL DANCE OUT EAST EVENTS SEE BELOW:
Music from The Sole’s House is Open, Going Dark (Working Title)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10
7 PM
at GUILD HALL, East Hampton
with Works & Process at the Guggenheim
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Blurring the line between concert, dance, and music performance, Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap’s roots in the African diaspora. Co-founders composer and bassist Gregory Richardson and Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer, draw from Afro-Brazilian, jazz, soul, house, rock, and Afro-Cuban styles. After multiple residencies through the Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence program, and opening the newly renovation Hillarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater at Guild Hall this past summer, see a preview of their newest work, House Is Open, Going Dark* culminating the company’s technical residency at Guild Hall.
Co-Commissioned by Works & Process, Music From The Sole’s new work has been developed in a Works & Process LaunchPAD residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2024) and Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence (2023 and 2025). This new work is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Works & Process, the Joyce Theater Foundation, The Yard, Guild Hall, Dance Place, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and NPN. More information:
npnweb.org. Additional support was provided by the Harkness Dance Foundation, a 2023 Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency at Dance Place, and a 2024 Pillow Lab.
Learn More: Music From The Sole’s 2023 Guild Hall William P Rayner Artist-in-Residence
Djapo by Marie Basse Wiles and Omari Wiles
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11
2 PM
at THE WATERMILL CENTER, Watermill
with Works & Process at the Guggenheim
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West African dance cultural icon Marie Basse-Wiles and her son, Ballroom Icon Omari Wiles (CATS: The Jellicle Ball) co-create Djapo bringing together dancers from the Maimouna Keita School of African Dance (MKSAD), founded by Basse-Wiles, and Les Ballet Afrik, founded by Wiles. For 32 years MKSAD has brought together the African diaspora in an annual conference and Basse-Wiles has trained generations of renown artists whose impact continues to resonate the world over, including tours to Senegal, Mali, Gambia, and Guinea. Her son Omari Wiles has followed in her footsteps while walking to the beat of his own drum, creating AfrikFusion informed by Afro Club Culture, Vogue, and West African dance. See excerpts from this new work that is the continuation of a rich dance history.
Djapo is commissioned by Works & Process and has received Works & Process LaunchPAD residency support at Bethany Arts Community (2024) and The Watermill Center (2025). Djapo is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Ms Jourdois has performed in numerous venues in Europe and in the United States, including Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. As a coach and pianist, she has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Lyric Ryan Opera Center, Chicago Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Washington National Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Saratoga, Rice University, the Chautauqua Institution voice program, the Castleton Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio. She was previously a faculty member at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and at the Manhattan School of Music.
Born in Paris, Ms Jourdois holds degrees from the Conservatoire National de Region de Saint-Maur, the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon, Mannes College, and the Juilliard School and is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera.
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