Gotham Dance Theater: The Films

Gotham Dance Theater: The Films

📽️ Sunday, October 18
12pm & 2pm
📍Stuart Cinema & Cafe
Long Island City, Queens

🎟️ $35 General Admission
🌟 $100 VIP Priority Access*

*VIP Priority Access includes early seating, 2 concession tickets for food or drink, and a GDT long-sleeve t-shirt. Limited availability.

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“22” (2021), a feature length dance film created and live-streamed during the pandemic as part of our residency at The Center at West Park.

Inspired by Director Marc Nuñez’s mother, who left the Philippines as an OFW, or Overseas Filipino Worker, to pursue a career in the United States of America, “22” explores each dancers’ parents’ journeys and their own through dance theatre. What gave our parents courage, nerve, and strength to pursue the American Dream? How did love persevere through our parents’ lives in order to bring us into the world and lead to the lives we have today?

Director/Choreographer: Marc Nuñez

Assistant Choreographers/Dancers: Davonna Batt & Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Dancers: Karesia Batan, Corry J. Ethridge, Emily Hart Lopez, Nadia Khayrallah

Production Assistant: Lia-Shea Tillett

Solos choreographed in collaboration with dancers

Filmed & Edited by Marc Nuñez

Additional Film and Editing by Grant Hao-Wei Lin, Federica Berra (Assistant), Daniel Hess

“Free” (2026) is a short dance film adaptation of excerpts from “Then, Now,” our ten-year anniversary production, along with new work, and a review of our recent tour of “Summer Suite 8.0: Rock the World.”

Co-Directors: Marc Nuñez & Davonna Batt

Dancers: Amanda Lowe, Cameron Kay, Dahyun Kim, Davarria Ford, Davonna Batt, Emily Hart Lopez, Jessica Watkins, Marc Nuñez, Michaela Ternasky-Holland, Nadia Khayrallah, Sara Lavalley, Sarina Gonzalez, Stephanie Shin

Filmed & Edited by Marc Nuñez

Additional Film by Grant Hao-Wei Lin

Gotham Dance Theater is funded in part by the Howard Gilman Foundation administered by Flushing Town Hall.

Summer Suite 8.0 is supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, Statewide Community Regrants Program (formerly the Decentralization program) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and administered by Flushing Town Hall.

Summer Suite 8.0 is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.