Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc.

08/20/2018

Doug and 6 company members - Carolyn, Cori, Donnell, Elias, Eric and Lex - are working hard and enjoying Santa Barbara! Santa Barbara-based collaborators Ted and Jane, lights and costumes respectively, will create a new work for world premiere on September 7th. The amazing Matt Stine is creating a sound score from afar, young Miles Cryer Lee is in tow, and dramaturg Anne Davison is monitoring the action.

DANCEworks is turning 10 in 2018, and what better way to celebrate this milestone than to welcome celebrated choreographer Doug Elkins back to the Lobero to create a new work based on influences from Japanese philosophy and art.

03/01/2018

From drained swimming pools, galleries, firehouses and Joe s Pub at The Public, we have Dared to Imagine and brought you great programming for 23 years! More than two decades ago, DANCE NOW was born out of a pilot program for the Downtown Multi-Arts Festival. During ...

01/19/2018

Doug Elkins will be teaching at the Paul Taylor School all year. Please come take class soon!

http://www.ptamdinfo.org/school/mc-ws/master-classes/🍀👨‍🏫

03/08/2016

http://davidhkochtheater.com/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=4649

Doug's commission for Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance receives its world premiere on Thursday, March 17th. "The Weight of Smoke" is an exploration into the legacy and influence of Paul Taylor's body of work on Doug's own, seeking clues about how time, action, and memory interact in the making of and viewing of dance. The title refers to the opening parable of the film Smoke written by Paul Auster - how does one measure the residue of accumulated experience - "the weight of smoke"?

The Weight of Smoke
Original music by Justin Levine and Matt Stine
Excerpts from George Frideric Handel
Choreography by Doug Elkins in collaboration with the dancers
Assisted by Carolyn Cryer
Costume design by Karen Young
Lighting design by James F. Ingalls

Featuring PTAMD Company of 16

Images Choreography by Paul Taylor | Music by Claude Debussy All two-dimensional friezes, human endeavor frozen in time, and oracular obsolescence. It carries the feel of pottery shards, the dust of the British Museum, the surprise of a fall through the shaft of a buried gravesite in Tuscany where…

09/18/2015

News from the historic Lower East Side of Manhattan.

TAYLOR SCHOOL DIRECTOR: RAEGAN WOOD Two-hour Master Classes on Fridays Oct. 16 – Nov. 20 10:00am – 12:00pm Study with choreographers chosen for the Inaugural Season of Taylor Company Commissions. Larry Keigwin October 16, 23, 30 Doug Elkins November 6, 13, Participate in a vigorous and fun warm-u…

03/12/2015

Fans of Lenny Bruce and Buster Keaton can rejoice: Doug Elkins, "one of the most musical, witty and inventive choreographers of his generation" (Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times), will bring laughter and wittiness to the next Incubator Series at the Mark Morris Dance Center — a two-day intensive for professional and advanced dancers. Register today before it sells out!

March 17 and 18, 12-3PM | $50
Mark Morris Dance Center | 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
For experienced and professional dancers
http://bit.ly/INCUBATORxELKINS

Join Doug Elkins in a class that pays homage to the great masters of modern, hip hop, martial arts, and ballet with a touch of Keaton veering towards Lenny Bruce. Fun and invigorating, this is an opportunity to start something new with Doug who is listening intently to Handel and Solomon Burke these…

02/26/2015

Dear Dance World,
doug elkins choreography, etc., is headed to Babson College to reprise our National Dance Project piece "Hapless Bizarre" and the equally dramatic, though on the other end of the specturm, "Mo(or)town/Redux." We know that the snow and cold have been relentless in the greater Boston area but hope we can bring some love and light to the campus. https://activedata.babson.edu/EventList.aspx?eventidn=6682&view=EventDetails&information_id=28899

01/13/2015

Thank you to friends, family and fans - old and new - who came to see the company perform at The Joyce last week. We were thrilled to back in Chelsea and honored by such positive response. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/arts/dance/doug-elkins-presents-hapless-bizarre.html

Doug Elkins’s troupe is presenting the clownish “Hapless Bizarre” at the Joyce Theater.

01/06/2015

Here is a better link to Doug's season at The Joyce Theater: opening Wednesday, January 7, 2015: http://www.joyce.org/performance/doug-elkins-choreography-etc/ #.VKvjqSujMW9

“One of the most musical, witty and inventive choreographers of his generation,” (The New York Times), Doug Elkins comes back to The Joyce with the New York premiere of HAPLESS BIZARRE, a delightful dance for six performers including a new vaudevillian, which explores the intersections between physi…

01/06/2015

Here is a better link to Doug's season at The Joyce Theater: oper

12/30/2014

MEN'S AUDITION for doug elkins choreography, etc.

WHEN: SATURDAY, January 10, 2015, 1:00-4:00 PM

WHERE: TheatreWorks USA/Chelsea Studios, 151 West 26th Street.

WHAT TO BRING: Please arrive warm and ready to dance. Please wear comfortable clothing and bring knee pads and shoes/sneakers to dance in.

SEEKING: Male dancer for role of IAGO for touring of Elkins’ acclaimed Bessie-nominated MO(OR)TOWN/REDUX.
Must be available for TBD rehearsals in February and out of town travel and performance dates 2/26/15 – 3/1/15 with availability for future touring work this spring, summer, and fall.
Also seeking possible understudies for touring work this spring, summer, and fall.

We require professional, experienced dancers for non-union contract; technically proficient and funky. All rehearsals and touring are paid.

PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE by emailing headshot and resume to [email protected].

PLEASE NOTE: This piece will be performed in rep with the NY premiere of “Hapless Bizarre” at The Joyce Theater on Jan 7 at 7:30PM, Jan 9 at 8PM, and Jan 11 at 2PM and 7:30PM. Tickets available at www.joyce.org. Video of the piece is also available upon request when registering for audition to [email protected].

www.dougelkinschoreography.com

November 24, 2014 The life affirming dance of Russell Maliphant For our next Dance Talks on Monday, Dec 1, Maura Keefe offers some insight on choreographer Russell Maliphant. Read on for her comments and learn more at the Dance Talks. Mapping the history of Russell Maliphant tracks the recent histo…

05/28/2014

doug elkins choreography, etc., is headed west in the morning. This trip, hosted by ODC, marks the San Francisco debut of Doug Elkins in the Bay Area. Friday, May 30th from 10 AM to noon is a master class with Doug and the amazing Meghan Merrill Mullin. And on Saturday, May 31st at 7:30 PM, "Hapless Bizarre" will be presented as part of ODC's Walking Distance Dance Festival. http://www.odcdance.org/event_view.php?param=506. Please come visit and dance with Doug, Cori Marquis, Donnell Oakley, Deborah Lohse, Mark Gindick, Kyle Marshall, and Aaron Mattocks. Costumes by Oana Botez, Hats by Adam Kuchler, Music by Justin Levine and Matt Stine, Lighting Design by Amanda K. Ringger, Dramaturgy by Anne Davison. [Carolyn Cryer, Rehearsal Director and Randi Rivera, Production Manager].

Friday, May 30, 201410:00am-12:00pm$20 fee - register online or call 415-549-8519Pre-registration highly recommended as class size is limited!A self-described ‘magpie’ who likes to make dances from all sorts of found and appropriated material, New York-based choreographer Doug Elkins conducts classe…