Nimbus Dance Works announces spring/summer 2018 season

JERSEY CITY – Nimbus Dance Works will bring world premiere new dance, acclaimed repertoire, and family performances to world-renowned venues, local communities, colleges, high schools, and elementary schools, throughout New Jersey and on tour across New York and New England, for its spring and summer 2018 season.
“For Nimbus, dance has always been about connection and impact,” says Artistic Director Samuel Pott. “We couldn’t be more pleased to be bringing this approach, and an exceptional selection of dance including three world premieres, to diverse communities through New Jersey and the northeast this Spring and Summer.”
On Feb. 25, Nimbus presents From Brasil with Luv and Other Dances from Around the World, a brand new narrated dance celebrating Brazilian culture based on the Chinese fable “The Empty Pot”, co-directed by Chazz Giovanni Bruce and Elena Valls (formerly of Nimbus Dance Works and Sleep No More); and Samuel Pott’s classic solo, Letter Home, recalling a WWII soldier’s experience onboard a ship in the Pacific.
Nimbus continues the season with performances at the New Jersey High School Dance Festival on March 10, and an evening of mixed repertory at The Sitnik Theater at Centenary College in Hackettstown on March 25, where the company will preview its upcoming season at BAM Fisher.
In early April, Nimbus tours to Vermont, hosted by the Putney School for the 7th annual residency and performance.
The centerpiece of Nimbus’ Spring 2018 season is the company’s April 21-22 NYC season at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Nimbus presents the long-awaited world premiere of Esther, by Samuel Pott, with live music by Brooklyn indie-rock band, Sky-Pony. Additional premieres include: Tie the Not by veteran Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancer Vernard Gilmore, and Fractured Time by Darshan Singh Bhuller (choreographer of audience favorite: Mapping). Also, revisit Samuel Pott’s “gorgeous” and “exquisite” (BroadwayWorld) Surface Tension, part of the Nimbus’ 2016 NYC season named “Best of 2016!
Also at BAM Fisher, Nimbus presents the work of seven NJ and NY-based choreographers on April 21 at 2 p.m. featuring Nimbus2 in a world premier by Nimbus Company Dancer, Justin Keith Perez.
On May 5, Nimbus performs at South Orange Performing Arts Center, in recognition of Artistic Director Samuel Pott’s 2017 New Jersey State Arts Council Choreography Fellowship.
May 18th and 19th, Nimbus presents the 6th cycle of “OFFLINE,” a performance of choreography by emerging to mid-career choreographers curated by Keith Thompson and featuring Nimbus2 in choreography by Nimbus Dancer Justin Keith Perez.
Nimbus brings back the classic “Memo,” a piece which incorporates a cast of community dancers in a poignant exploration of collective and personal memory for outdoor performances at Jersey City’s Owen Grundy Pier (July 19th) and Secaucus’ Buchmuller Park (date TBD). The company will bring Memo and other favorites to the Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor, Maine on Aug. 4.
Nimbus Dance Works’ Spring 2018 educational assemblies include: Black Lives Matter performance/assembly at Manhattan Country School (NYC), performances at three Newark schools in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Agency Educational Foundation’s Youth Dance Program, and additional school performances in Cresskill, East Brunswick, and four Jersey City schools.
For more information on Nimbus Dance Works, Nimbus’ Spring/Summer season events, and to buy tickets, please visit: https://www.nimbusdanceworks.org/events/.