Martha Graham Dance Company
Alexander Kasser Theater
November 14-17
In celebrating of the 75th anniversary of the Graham classic Appalachian Spring, created in 1944 “…amidst a war that had torn many couples apart, follows a young 19th century frontier couple on their wedding day, imagining a dreamlike idyll of simplicity and togetherness,”  the Company is joined by The International Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Also on the program is The Auditions, by Troy Schumacher to an original score by composer Augusta Read Thomas, and performed by seven Martha Graham Dance Company.  The Auditions was commissioned by Peak Performances.  Find out more here
 
Dimitris Papaioannou
BAM
November 14-16
For his BAM debut, Papaioannou will present The Great Tamer, which “…references Greek mythology, proposing an omnipresent and restless underworld…” notes the release. Papaioannou was the first choreographer to create a new evening length work for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch since Bausch’s death in 2009. Find out more here
 
Colin Dunne
Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC)
November 14-16
Irish Arts Center and BAC come together to present the U.S. premiere of Dunne’s Concert, choreographed and performed by Dunne, and created in collaboration with director Sinéad Rushe and composer and sound designer Mel Mercier.  Find out more here
 
Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce
Danspace Project
November 12, 15 & 16
Artists/performer Herman and composer/performer Joyce will premiere Breaking and Entering where they “…explore the creative potential of congenital and acquired physical immobility through their parallel weak left sides — Herman with cerebral palsy and Joyce an impaired hand from a car accident,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
Tiffany Mills Company
The Flea Theater
November 13-16
The Company will offer the premiere of Not then, not yet, an evening-length work that explores states of transition and transformation.  Find out more here
 
Gibney Dance Company
Gibney
November 14-16
Gibney Dance Company invites Stefanie Batten Bland and Peter Chu to create world premieres for their fall 2019 season. Find out more here
 
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
Capezio Theater at Peridance
November 17
Under artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus, the Company continues to bring works by Eleo Pomare to life.  On the program for this single event is Pomare's Las Desenamoradas (1967), based on Federico Garcia Lorca's play "The House of Bernarda Alba," and Tabernacle (1989) inspired by James Baldwin's “The Fire Next Time.”   Find out more here
 
Panel – “Africana Dance Dramaturgies…”
Martin Segal Theatre Center
November 18
Come listen to the panel of artist in a talk and roundtable discussion with choreographer Olivier Tarpaga, André M. Zachery, Rosamond S. King, Ph. D., Charmian Wells and Abdel R. Salaam. Curated, moderated, and hosted by Margit Edwards, Ph.D. Candidate.  Find out more here
 
“For The Moment” – Various Artists
Gibney
November 19
“For the Moment,” is a new program curated by Senior Curatorial Director Eva Yaa Asantewaa, and offers short, theme-based solo improvisations “…that celebrate creative response to the changing textures and energies of outer and inner worlds,” according to the release.  Featured will be Michiyaya Dance, Alethea Pace and Georgia Wall.  Find out more here

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Assistant/Associate Professor of Dance
University of Michigan

The Department of Dance at the University of Michigan seeks an experienced dance teacher and artist who is actively engaged in defining what dance is, and what dance can be through deep physical investigation. Embodied research should drive the applicant's work as a dancemaker, thinker, and critical pedagogue. We welcome an artist working in contemporary forms of dance who also is informed both by the histories of these forms and the innovative possibilities that can result from this investigation. This includes dance artists working in dance forms that investigate race, and gender and sexuality, particularly those of the Africanist, Asian, and Latinx diasporas and practices. We require an individual with a national and/or international profile, who will work to deepen and extend the department's connections to the professional field, both nationally and internationally.

Read more here

ROOTS PARTY

November 16, 2019 | 12pm-4pm

Urban Bush Women and DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks invite you to a Roots Party, which is a making and conversation space, where you can enjoy a meal, make a root out of paper and twine, and engage in a conversation on "Healing Spaces: creating all-body loving, liberatory practices of care" with healer, educator, artist Adaku Utah of Harriet’s Apothecary.

12pm-4pm | Root Making
1pm | Lunch provided while supplies last
2pm | Community conversation with Adaku Utah on intergenerational trauma, mental health, and healing, all-body loving, liberatory practices of care by and for Black communities
Children Welcome

Restoration ART Skylight Gallery
1368 Fulton St - 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11216

The event is FREE - RSVP here

Camille A. Brown & Dancers
The Joyce
November 9-10
After the premiere in 2013 to critical acclaim, Brown’s Mr. TOL E. RAncE returns for just two days and three performances.  Mr. TOL E. RAncE is inspired by Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” and Mel Watkins’s book On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy from Slavery to Chris Rock, this was the first installment of her trilogy on black identity. The second and third works are Black Girl: Linguistic Play (2015) and Ink (2017), respectively.  Find out more here
 
Nairy Baghramian and Maria Hassabi
Fifth Avenue Townhouse
November 6-10
Baghramian and Hassabi come together for Entre Deux Actes (Ménage à Quatre), an installation and live performances which takes over two floors of a Fifth Avenue townhouse originally built in 1906. The FREE event takes place at 1014 Fifth Avenue.  RSVP required. Find out more here
 
From the Horse’s Mouth – Various Artists
14th Street Y
November 7–9
In celebration of 75 years of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library, the weekend includes performances with dancers, musicians, historians and choreographers, plus a panel discussion with current and past staff of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.  The list of artists includes: Arthur Aviles, Emma Rose Brown, Diana Byer, Yoshiko Chuma, Ze-eva Cohen, Alberto Del Saz, Joan Finkelstein, Julia Foulkes, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Joseph Houseal, Tanisha Jones, Deborah Jowitt, Phyllis Lamhut, Kathleen Leary, Alastair Macaulay, Dianne McIntyre, Elizabeth McPherson, Cassie Mey, Linda Murray, Rajika Puri, Charles Reinhart, Judith Ren-Lay, Henning Rübsam, Magda Saleh, Margo Sappington, Jan Schmidt, Alice Standin, Preeti Vasudevan, Tony Waag, Theara Ward, Lynne Weber, William Whitener, Kevin Winkler, Arlene Yu. *Cast subject to change.  Find out more here
 
Kia LaBeija
Performance Space New York
November 7–9
LaBeija will present her first large scale performance work which engages Oskar Schlemmer’s early Bauhaus ballet piece Das triadische Ballett, a dance in three acts, reinterpreting the final, so called Black Act which relates to fantasy, mysticism, and the infinite void of the black stage. Find out more here  
 
Nia Love
Gibney
November 7-9
Love will premiere g1(host): lostatsea which “…grapples with what it means to live within conditions shaped by the “afterlife” of slavery.”  Find out more here

Marlene Monteiro Freitas
BAM Strong
November 7–9
Making its US premiere is Cape Verde-born choreographer Freitas’ Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge, “…full of dance and mystery… in which movement, dance, and music-making are integrated—all with its own logic. Find out more here
 
Candace Tabbs
BAAD!
November 8-9
BAAD!, some events presented with Pepatian, continues their annual multidisciplinary festival, “BlakTinX Performance Series,” featuring art and performance by Black, Latinx and artists of color.  Still to come is Nile Harris (11/15-16), and Joan Bradford (11/22-23).  Find out more here
 
Annie-B & Parson’s Big Dance Theater
NYU Skirball
November 8 - 9
On the program is The Road Awaits Us (2017) based loosely on an absurdist play by Ionesco, staged as a birthday party for a company of esteemed dance elders, including Bebe Miller, Meg Harper, Keith Sabado, Sheryl Sutton, George Faison, Black-Eyed Susan, and from the original cast: Betsy Gregory and Brian Bertscher. Also on the program is Ballet Dance and Cage Shuffle: redux.  Find out more here
 
The Living Room – Various Artists
MANA Contemporary @ Jersey City
November 9
Curated by choreographer Kyle Marshall, the casual series will have performances by Oluwadamilare Ayorinde, Melanie Greene, Johnnie Cruise Mercer and Ambika Raina. Find out more here
 
Visions Contemporary Ballet: Traces (of what makes us who we are)
The Riverside Theatre
November 9
The company will premiere Still Healing, inspired by stories of people who experience pain and suffering through no fault of their own, yet they persevere.  Also on the program will be Dash – Between, Through the Valley and Roots. Find out more here
 
Zachary Tye Richardson
JACK
November 8-9
Richardson brings Available Bodies a “…sensual tribute to gender discovery, infusing moves from the queer club scene into a shifting sculptural landscape,” according to the release.  Find out more here 

10HL
Kaatsbann Cultural Park
November 9
10HL will present works by Larry Keigwin, Adam Barruch, Yin Yue and Stephen Petronio.  Find out more here
 
“Works & Process” – Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
November 10
As part of the series, the Dance Lab New York and The Joyce Theater Foundation Lab Cycle presents “Female Choreographers of Color in Ballet.”  Choreographers Margarita Armas, Courtney Cochran, Amy Hall Garner and Preeti Vasudevan were invited to explore the classical, neoclassical, and contemporary ballet idioms.  Find out more here 
 
Community Dialogue Series "Open Spectrum"
New York Live Arts (NYLA)
November 10
As part of its "Open Spectrum" series, NYLA presents “Ballroom Has Something to Say" curated by activist, leader in the LGBTQ and House I Ballroom communities, and adviser to FX’s Pose, Michael Roberson. Find out more here

Youth Summer Scholarship Audition (ages 10-17) Friday, January 17, 2020 | 10am - 1pm
Innovation Studio at the Kimmel Center Cultural Campus
$25 - IABD Members ONLY
 

• Ballet Audition for Men of Color

Saturday, January 18, 2020 | 10am - 12noon
Innovation Studio at the Kimmel Center Cultural Campus
$35 - IABD Members & General Public
 

• Artist Summer Scholarship Audition (ages 18+)

Saturday, January 18, 2020 | 1pm - 4pm
Innovation Studio at the Kimmel Center Cultural Campus
$25 - IABD Members ONLY
 

• Multi-Company Dance Audition

Sunday, January 19, 2020 | 1pm - 3pm
Innovation Studio at the Kimmel Center Cultural Campus
$25 - IABD Members
$35 - General Public
 

• Ballet Audition for Women of Color

Sunday, January 19, 2020 | 4pm-6pm
The Rock School for Dance Education
$35 - IABD Members & General Public