The Festival

"It's visionary and whimsical attitude toward contemporary dance remains."
NYC Go [2009]

“DanceNOW has been around fifteen years and the experience shows; it’s cleanly presented and efficient with a clear
artistic slant."
Dance View Times [2009]

 

"A worthy challenge for choreographers: how to say more with less "
Dancing Perfectly Free [2009]

 

"Seven-Minute Windows Into Many Different Worlds … an ambitious operation, and Robin Staff, Tamara Greenfield and Sydney Skybetter, who direct and produce the festival, do a fine job of putting together tightly paced and nicely varied programs.”

The New York Times [2009]

“DanceNow's visionary bravado and generosity is paying off in these times of fear and fiscal caution."
The Dance Insider [2009]

"A huge variety of dance that everyone can enjoy their old favorites and maybe some new favorites as well."
IDanz [2009]

 “DanceNow 2009 keeps NYC healthy” 
Quinn Batson, OffOffOff.com [2009]

"A Triumph of Vision Over Common Sense"
Roslyn Sulcus, The New York Times [2008]

"As usual, Dancenow I NYC opened the fall season at Dance Theater Workshop with a message of inclusiveness."
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice [ 2007 ]

"Eclectic ideas, vividly performed …  the opening night proved that experience counts, although youth can charm."
Hilary Ostlere, The Financial Times [2007]

"Base Camp is a well curated evening; balanced with humor and emotional depth in both new works and recreations."
Danciti, a New York City Dance Blog [2007]

"Half the fun of smorgasbord events like Dancenow/NYC is going in blind and walking out with a new artistic crush."
Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

"Always Stellar"
Alicia Zuckerman, New York Magazine

"The broadest sampling around of the city's dance scene …… only getting better with age ... the whole Festival feels alive and vital"
Quinn Batson, OffOffOff.com

"A stunningly full-range program of modern dance in New York City"
Brian McCormick, Gay City News

"If it’s Autumn in New York, then it must be DanceNOW"
Maura Nguyen Donohue, The Dance Insider

A Model of Imaginative, Knowledgeable and Sleek Production
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

Dancemopolitan

"A list of holiday traditions in New York runs longer than my arm, but two are essential. One is New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker, which always conjures seasonal spirit, even in annual viewings. Another is Doug Elkins’ Fräulein Maria at The Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub, which couldn’t be more of a contrast, but which left me ridiculously giddy. At heart, they sum up the best of the city at holiday time. Any time, really."
Susan Yung, SundayArts Channel 13 [2008]

"Finding ways to breach the "closed system" of the Downtown dance community has been a specialty of DanceNOW [NYC] since its founding in 1995.  "Dance Mojito," the sparkling and most recent installment of Dancemopolitan presented this past weekend at Joe's Pub demonstrates just how successful its strategies are. "
Elizabeth Zimmer, Gay City News [2007]

"Establishes a level of playful informality that implies the work will tend towards levity and brevity, and thereby perhaps not profundity or deep investment. This is the series strength, though. Dancemopolitan is where one can take a dance novitiate, where work is accessible without being dumbed down."
Maura Donahue, The Dance Insider [2007]

"Doug Elkins’ Fräulein Maria could easily become a holiday ritual for hipsters of all ages."
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

"What finer message for a happy crowd to take out onto the Christmas ready streets than one of diversity and freedom cohabiting with group harmony?"
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

"Life is a Cabaret ... This is the greatest development"
Dance Magazine

"DanceNOW [NYC] aims to cultivate a more diverse audience than dance usually draws, in part by using unusual venues. During the shows at Joe’s Pub you can Get a cosmo with your Choreography"
Alicia Zuckerman, New York Magazine

"The events at Joe's Pub have proven to be an excellent showcase for dance as intimate or cabaret entertainment and will spawn an ongoing series of evenings.  There is definitely something about a space like Joe's Pub that lends itself equally to ethereal, transcendent, quiet beauty and raucous, irreverent, broadstroked insanity, usually comic."
Quinn Batson, OffOffOff.com

"Perfectly timed .... and perfectly located in Joe’s Pub"
Elizabeth Zimmer, The Voice 

Testimonials

"It is just great to have you guys here on our first opening of the season and to have so many artists and artists friends and friends of friends and those who’ve never ever stepped foot inside Dance Theater Workshop to be here that week."
Carla Peterson, Artistic Director of Dance Theater Workshop, 2007

"I was inspired to be in such amazing company and it was a real treat for me to dance We’re Not Married at DTW again (where it was more or less born) and with Amber.  It was also so great to be able to just show those beginning sections of Annie.  I always learn a lot from such performances about how to take the work to the next level." 
David Parker, 10th Anniversary Artist, 2007

"In the past I have been offered several performance opportunities due to my participation in the Base Camp series.  I owe my performance in this year’s City Center’s Fall for Dance to Dancenow!"
Kyle Abraham, Choreographer, 2007

"Since 1995, The Dancenow I NYC Festival has been giving our young dance makers a decade of professional experiences, thereby nurturing the urban teens that will hopefully fill our concert stages in years to come."  
Alice Teirstein, Performer, Choreographer, Dance Educator, 2007

"You are an amazing force for all of us working in New York City over the last decade! Thank you. I am moved by your ambitions. My life has been forever changed. All my best to you and the Festival, I am honored to be a part of it."
Choreographer, Brian Brooks, Brian Brooks Moving Company, 2004

"I have had the chance to get involved and watch Robin Staff and Tamara Greenfield by sheer strength of will and never sleeping bring this event from a small part of the SoHo Arts Festival to a major festival in the New York dance community." 
Administrator, Curator for Joyce SoHo, Joan Duddy, 2004

"Your belief in my work encourages me to continue creating new projects."
Choreographer, Camille A. Brown, 2003