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MEG STUART AND PHILIPP GEHMACHER Some shows generate buzz because of their content, others because of the artists involved. The content of Maybe Forever, which is to have its New York premiere at Dance Theater Workshop on Thursday, sounds interesting, but the reason to get excited about it springs from the artistic end: Meg Stuart, an American whose company, Damaged Goods, is based in Belgium, does not visit these shores often enough. A chance to see what she has been up to is not to be missed; success or failure, it is likely to provoke thought and engage the eye.
Ms. Stuart is quite the collaborator. In Forgeries, Love and Other Matters, her previous performance at Dance Theater Workshop in 2006, she joined the Montreal dancer Benoit Lachambre, as well as Hahn Rowe, a magician of a composer.
For Maybe Forever her onstage partners in crime are the Austrian choreographer Philipp Gehmacher, who leads the Mumbling Fish company in Vienna, and the singer-songwriter Niko Hafkenscheid, a member of the electronic-rock project aMute in Brussels. Janina Audick's set is meant to conjure images of concert halls, as well as of crematoria.
In this evocative landscape expect the two choreographers to have a meeting that is more of the minds than a merging of movement languages. Everyone struggles with something in the end, reads the meditative artistic statement for Maybe Forever (above, a scene from the dance). But not everyone can make this struggle into art. (Wednesday through Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m., Dance Theater Workshop, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea, 212-924-0077, dtw.org; $25). CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE (Friday through Sunday) Karole Armitage's new full-evening Connoisseurs of Chaos, danced to music by Morton Feldman performed live, is the final piece in Dream Trilogy, which contrasts lyricism with disruption. The set designs are by the painter David Salle, Ms. Armitage's longtime collaborator. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $44; $25 on Sunday.
(Jennifer Dunning)
CHASHAMA: RASA DANCE (Friday, Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday) Choreographed by Rachel Tinguely and Sabine Heubusch, Cycle focuses on the influences of fashion and advertising on women, in 25-minute storefront-window performances. Friday at 4, 5 and 6 p.m.; Saturday at 2, 3, 5 and 6 p.m.; Tuesday at 4, 5 and 6 p.m.; Wednesday at noon and 1, 2, 4 and 5 p.m., Chashama Window Performance Stage, 266 West 37th Street, Manhattan, (212) 391-8151, chashama.org; free. (Dunning)CHINESE NEW YEAR SPLENDOR (Wednesday and Thursday) Bring them on: more than 200 dancers and singers and the 55-member Divine Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra, in a celebration described as spectacular. (Through Feb. 9.) At 7:30 p.m., Radio City Music Hall, (212) 307-4111, chinesesplendor.com; $58 to $150. (Dunning)
LUNA NEGRA DANCE THEATER (Friday through Sunday) A Chicago troupe heats up the New York winter by infusing classic and contemporary styles with Latin musical and choreographic rhythms in these family performances. (Through Feb. 3.) Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m., Sunday at noon and 5 p.m., New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (646) 223-3010, newvictory.org; $12.50, $25 and $35. (Jack Anderson)
NEW YORK CITY BALLET(Friday through Thursday) The week begins with the company's Passages program (Christopher Wheeldon's American in Paris, Peter Martins's Valse Triste, Alexei Ratmansky's Russian Seasons and a new piece by Mauro Bigonzetti) on Friday and Wednesday; Four by Four (George Balanchine's Ballo della Regina, Mr. Wheeldon's Liturgy, Mr. Martins's Gentilhommes and Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free) on Saturday afternoon; Spirit of Discovery (Robbins's Goldberg Variations and Balanchine's Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux and Western Symphony) on Saturday night; and Traditions (Balanchine's Square Dance and Prodigal Son and Robbins's Four Seasons) on Sunday afternoon and Tuesday. (Through Feb. 24.) Friday and Thursday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.; New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, (212) 870-5570, nycballet.com; $20 to $98. (Dunning)
MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Monday) This choreographic workshop series offers new dances by Gerald Casel, Alex Escalante, Margaret Morris and Christopher Williams. At 8 p.m., 55 Washington Square South, Greenwich Village, (212) 598-0551, movementresearch.org; free.
(Anderson)
MARY SEIDMAN AND DANCERS (Saturday and Sunday) Ms. Seidman will present her new WeDOGS, a canine celebration with the guest artists Raphael Boumaila and Dagmar Spain. Seven children will dance as puppies. And on Sunday, from 1 to 4 p.m., the real thing will be available for adoption, paws unpointed, but otherwise irresistible and in need of loving homes, at the A.S.P.C.A. adoption van parked just outside the theater. Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, Clinton, (212) 868-4444, smarttix.com; $20; $15 for students and 65+. (Dunning)
COLLEEN THOMAS DANCE (Thursday) New works explore problems of control, the pathos of loss and the desperation of searching. (Through Feb. 2.) At 8:30 p.m., Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street, at Second Avenue, East Village, (212) 674-8194, danspaceproject.org; $15.
(Anderson)
TORONTO DANCE THEATER (Tuesday through Thursday) Christopher House meditates on time and the ephemeral beauty of the human body in Timecode Break, a piece that combines live action with video sequences. People onstage will dance with screen images of themselves, not always doing the same steps at the same time. (Through Feb. 3.) Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $40. (Anderson)
VIA DANCE COLLABORATIVE (Thursday) Dances by Janice Lancaster, Katie Swords and Dawn Poirier examine issues like falling in love with more than one person at once, sewing together pieces of broken hearts and being part of a group without really fitting into it. (Through Feb. 3.) At 8 p.m., Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, at Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan, (212) 279-4200, ticketcentral.com, dnadance.org; $48 to $98. (Anderson)
