CounterPointe13: new works by women choreographers & their collaborations with artists

Performance Dates:
Fri, Mar 20 at 7:30pm
Sat, Mar 21 at 4pm and 7:30pm followed by a talk with the creators led by Prof. Molly Faulkner
Sun, Mar 22 at 4pm

General Admission: $30 | Students+Seniors: $20
*All tickets must be purchased in advance. This show sells out. Plan to arrive 15 minutes early to claim your seat. Unclaimed tickets may be released to door waitlist 5 minutes prior to show.

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Entertainment Community Fund
160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

Directions by Subway: A, C, G Train to Hoyt-Schermerhorn. 2, 3 Train to Hoyt Street

Featuring new collaborative works by:

Ava Desiderio and Natalie Moore
Julia Gleich and Brenda Zlamany
Taylor Gordon and Gaby Collins Fernandez
Magali Johnston-Viens and Jency Sekaran
Alexandra Light and Karen Lee Williams
Shloka Porwal and Allison Kaufman

Norte Maar presents the 13th season of CounterPointe: collaboration between seven women dance makers and visual artists. The performances will take place at downtown Brooklyn’s The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center on March 20-22, 2026. Tickets available through TicketTailor.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About CounterPointe Brooklyn, NY — CounterPointe is an annual performance series dedicated to presenting the latest experimental, innovative, risk-taking choreography that shows a depth of investment in ballet by women dance makers working with the pointe shoe. Investigating new and old territory the series highlights new work, opening up discussion, and creating a forum for women, young or old, emerging or established, to take risks. The series made its inaugural presentation in Brooklyn at the Actors Fund Arts Center in 2012. In June 2013, the series made its London debut at The Broadway Theater. 

It has been my proudest achievement to give life to stimulate new collaborative approaches for 13 years through this program. We continue faithfully to give space to experiments that use pointe alongside visual art in an environment that is supportive, curious, enthusiastic! – Julia K. Gleich, Producer/Choreographer

Dance and art luminaries who have moderated a panel discussion following Saturday's CounterPointe have included Guerrilla Girl Frida Kahlo, Karole Armitage, Ashley Bouder, Sharon Butler, Antonia Franceschi, Claudia Jeschke, Kat Wildish, Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeon Wing Dance, Lynn Parkerson/Brooklyn Ballet, and Kathryn Posin.

I remember one of my first ideas in these early punk pointe pieces was to think of pointe shoes as weapons. – Karole Armitage, 2013 CounterPointe Panelist, Internationally recognized Contemporary Ballet Choreographer, the Punk Ballerina

About Molly Faulkner - Molly Faulkner has been a Professor of Dance at Palomar College in San Marcos, California for 24 years. She teaches all levels of ballet, choreography, teaching methods and other core curriculum dance courses. She has her Ph.D. in Dance and Related Arts from Texas Woman’s University, her Master of Fine Arts in Choreography from the University of Iowa, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance with an emphasis in English. from the University of Arizona. She has danced professionally with Ballet Arizona, Arizona Dance Theatre, Empire State Ballet, Tokyo Disneyland, and was the Muppet Grover on an International Tour of Sesame St. Live. She was a Master Teacher and choreographer for Burklyn Ballet, mentoring the Young Choreographers for over 20 years. Ms. Faulkner and collaborator Julia K. Gleich have written for the Oxford Handbook of Ballet Pedagogy, and the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary ballet, as well as for the Excite books anthology (RE)claiming Ballet. Molly and Julia are currently working on a book tentatively titled Ballet Pedagogy: Philosophies and Opinions.