Jun
16
to Jul 3
Nov
12
to Nov 13
Connecticut College Site Visit
Stefanie will be visiting Connecticut College to workshop “Coup d’Espace”, and lead a series of immersive workshops.
Oct
24
9:00 AM09:00
Brown University Site Visit
Stefanie will be visiting Brown University on Thursday, October 24th to host a physical theatre workshop, exploring themes of immersive experiences.
Oct
18
to Oct 26
Tufts University Site Visit
Company SBB will be heading to Tufts University for a site visit! Stefanie will lead an immersive theatre workshop on Friday, October 25th. Company SBB artist AJ Guevara will be workshopping “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner” with students from the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies for their Fall Concert.
Jun
10
to Jun 28
CONCRETE - Immersive Theatre Intensive
Housed on the campus of Montclair State University, CONCRETE is a three-week intensive that explores the hyphenated genre of dance-physical theatre and how these techniques function inside kinesthetic awareness in immersive theatre settings. This proximity research recognizes and interrogates the cultural biases housed inside of nearness and the relationship between spectator and performer.
This three-week intensive facilitates career development and connects professional and pre-professional dance artists to current directors and makers inside the US and international physical and immersive theatre scenes.
Transformative, rigorous, and challenging, CONCRETE is meant for professionals and college students 18 years and older. It includes exposure to clowning, partnering, ensemble-devising, voice in movement, material/prop approaches, performer perception in physical space, and interrogating the cultural biases housed inside proximity-based performance. The culmination of the three weeks will apex with a fully immersive production that ensures a ten to twenty performer/spectator ratio. Tuition includes tickets to see two theatrical experiences from Emursive Productions.
Jan
14
7:00 PM19:00
Works & Process at The Guggenheim
See highlights from Company SBB/Stefanie Batten Bland’s Embarqued: Stories of Soil in a shared program that includes dancer Lloyd Knightand (Martha Graham Dance Company) with a look at his new solo and in-process collaboration with choreographer Jack Ferver and filmmaker Jeremy Jacobs. Stefanie will participate in a post-performance discussion with all of the artists, moderated by Jerome Robbins Dance Division Curator Linda Murray. Full Program details here.
Oct
14
4:00 PM16:00
Prelude Festival - Artist Talk
A chat and conversation between Frank Hentscker and Stefanie Batten Bland about proscenium, immersive performance, and all the in-betweens in our new covid making times.
Free etnry, open to all.
Oct
6
7:30 PM19:30
Sep
22
7:00 PM19:00
KOLONIAL Film Screening at Southampton Arts Center
Film screening of KOLONIAL followed by a conversion with Stefanie Batten Bland.
Tickets available on Southampton Arts Center’s website.
Check out Broadway World’s feature on the event!
Jul
3
6:00 PM18:00
Jun
28
to Jul 1
Jun
27
9:00 AM09:00
Jun
10
12:00 PM12:00
May
20
7:30 PM19:30
KOLONIAL Screening Black Arts Movement
Inspired, imagined, and curated by Harlem Stage Associate Artistic Director/Artist-in-Residence, Carl Hancock Rux, the Black Arts Movement Conference is a three-day event featuring a keynote address by poet, music critic, and arts administrator A.B. Spellman. The conference includes panels, discussions, essays, and performances, featuring pioneers and visionary artists including Nona Hendryx, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Threadgill, Stew, Toshi Reagon, and more, as well as a closing-night concert co-presented with Park Avenue Armory, curated by Carl Hancock Rux, Tavia Nyong’o, and Vernon Reid, with contributions by Carrie Mae Weems and Stefanie Batten Bland.
May
15
to May 18
American Dance Festival's Movies by Movers Presents: KOLONIAL
Shorts Program #2. Mon. May 15 at 7:00pm & Thu. May 18 at 4:30pm.
Screening at the Chelsea Theater in Chapel Hill, NC.
Follow link below for tickets.
May
12
to May 13
Apr
13
to Apr 15
Harlem Stage - Black Arts Movement: Examined Part VI - Dance
For over 20 years, Harlem Stage’s signature dance series, E-Moves, has brought together phenomenal choreographers, artists, musicians, and dancers of color to showcase their choreographic visions and pull audiences into an exploration of movement and message. The Black Arts Movement: Examined series inspires this year’s program, curated by Jerome Robbins Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Harlem Stage alum Stefanie Batten Bland, and will feature works in conversation with the Black Arts Movement.
Join us for an evening showcasing choreographers experimenting with and responding to the legacy of the past while creating dances that lean into the future.
Supported, in part, by the Mellon Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and Harkness Foundation for Dance.
Black Arts Movement: Examined is supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Mar
31
to Apr 1
Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts presents Look Who's Coming to Dinner at NBPAC
Performances: Friday, March 31 & Saturday, April 1 @ 7:30 PM
Follow link below for tickets
Jan
14
to Jan 15
Celebrity Series of Boston
Performances of Look Who’s Coming to Dinner.
Saturday, Jan 14th @ 8pm & Sunday, Jan 15 @ 3pm.
For more information & tickets, follow link below:
https://www.celebrityseries.org/productions/stefanie-batten-bland-company/
Nov
1
to Nov 5
Embarqued at BAM
Performances to take place November 1-5, 2022 in the Fishman Space at BAM Fisher.
For more information & tickets, follow link below:
Jul
23
to Jul 24
Embarqued at Bates Dance Festival
Outdoor installation performances will be held at Simard-Payne Park on Saturday, July 23rd & Sunday, July 24th at 7:30 PM.
For more information & tickets, follow link below:
Jul
11
to Jul 16
NCC Akron
Gallery Museum Installation & Embarqued Performance/Research Residency at the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron.
For more information follow link below:
Jun
28
to Jul 2
Vineyard Arts Project Residency
Embarqued residency at Vineyard Arts Project in Martha’s Vineyard.
No public performances.
Apr
29
6:00 PM18:00
Dancing about Architecture: Navigating Symbolic Racism in Theater, Sport, and Culture
A conversation between Choreographer/Director Stefanie Batten Bland, Assistant Professor Montclair State University, Dr. Neftalie Williams, Visiting Fellow of Race, Culture & Community, and Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies Yale University.
Led by Jennifer Newman Artistic Director of the Schwarzman Center Yale University.
For more details, follow link below:
Apr
15
to Apr 16
Duke Performances - Embarqued World Premiere
Performances Friday, April 15th at 8PM & Saturday, April 16th at 8PM. Performances held at the Reynolds Industries Theater on Duke University’s West Campus.
For more information and tickets, follow link below:
Mar
30
1:00 PM13:00
Art Yard Residency & Embarqued Previews
Preview performances to take place Wednesday, March 30 at 1:00 PM & 7:30 PM. An artist talk with Stefanie Batten Bland follows the evening performance.
Registration is free; doors open 30 minutes before performance start time.
Please follow link below for more information:
Jan
14
6:00 PM18:00
NeueHouse KOLONIAL Screening
Film screening of “KOLONIAL” and discussion with the Director/Choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland and Cinematographer/Director Jean-Claude Dhien, moderated by Paul Sigh (Baryshinokov Arts Center Associate Presenter).
Produced by Mikhail Baryshnikov, the dance-cinema film KOLONIAL unites choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland , artist Conrad Quesen, Costume designer Shane Ballard, make-up artist Damian Monzillo, composer Grant Cutler, and Photographer Jean Claude Dhien together in a COVID futuristic installation. This collaboration stirs the many emotions of isolation, entrapment, extreme loneliness, desire to touch, to reach out, to escape, to be free of bonds that restrict life. The film compares the bondage of colonialism with the imposed bonds of the pandemic.
https://rsvp.neuehouse.com/kolonial
Nov
4
to Nov 7
Look Who's Coming to Dinner at Peak Performances
Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, the work pays tribute to those who paved the way toward acceptance in love and life. Set around a transformative dinner setting, seven dance-theatre artists excavate interlaced universal traumas through imagery and ritual as they seek a seat at the table.
Performances:
Thursday, November 4, 2021 @ 7:30pm
Friday, November 5, 2021 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, November 6, 2021 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, November 7, 2021 @ 3:00pm
Photo by Carlos Cardona
Aug
3
7:00 PM19:00
Look Who's Coming to Dinner at Lincoln Center Hearst Plaza
As part of RESTART Lincoln Center Company SBB will perform their critically acclaimed dance-theatre piece for one night.
Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, the work pays tribute to those who paved the way toward acceptance in love and life. Set around a transformative dinner setting, seven dance-theatre artists excavate interlaced universal traumas through imagery and ritual as they seek a seat at the table.
Photo by Carlos Cardona
Jun
17
to Jun 18
Embarqued - Work in Progress Performances at The Yard
Embarqued, an installation based dance-theatre work, centers around a performative shipmast that invites reflection and reveals post-colonial foundations and mythology. Interrogating existing relationships to memorials, we call up our African ancestral stories integral to making our history united, enabling us to viscerally and holistically connect our country both forwards and backwards in space and time and through soil itself.
Company SBB will be in residence at The Yard from June 1- 21, 2021. Work in progress performances will be June 17-18, 2021 with a rain date on June 19, 2021.
Photo by Sally Cohn
May
11
5:00 PM17:00
In Conversation: Stefanie Batten Bland with Eva Yaa Asantewaa
The Spring 2021 season of premieres commissioned by BAC includes a series of live-streamed talks with the artists about their projects and creative processes.
In conjunction with the premiere of Kolonial, choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland talks with writer and curator Eva Yaa Asantewaa.
Batten Bland and Yaa Asantewaa first connected through engagements with Gibney Dance, where Yaa Asantewaa currently serves as Senior Director of Curation and Editorial Director.
Kolonial is available to watch free, on demand May 3-17, Monday at 5PM ET until Monday at 5PM ET.