Various Artists
Bryant Park Stage
June 22 – July 29
As part of the "Bryant Park Picnics" program, the “Contemporary Dance Series” curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, will offer four Friday evenings of modern dance.  The lineup includes: Graham 2, Eryc Taylor Dance, AThomasProject, and Harlem School of the Arts (June 22 ), Mindy Jackson, NOW Dance Project, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (June 29), Tiffany Mills Company, Monteleone Dance, and Steps Summer (July 6), Tina Croll + Company, Kate Weare Company, KineticArchitecture Dance, Bryn Cohn + Artists, and Diva Dance (July 13), and Hope Boykin Dance, Julia Ehrstrand, Gabrielle Lamb, and Earl Mosely Institute of the Arts (July 20).  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Various Venues
June 15 – 24
The always-free “River To River Festival” continues with It’s Showtime NYC (6/18 – 22) on the steps of the Federal Hall, an evening of salsa with Los Hacheros (6/23), and Naomi Goldberg Haas and visual artist Laura Nova (June 22 & 24).  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
June 19 – 23
As an official partner with Pride Week, the Joyce joins New York City’s annual LGBTQ Pride festivities by presenting two queer contemporary dance companies, MADBOOTS DANCE and Sean Dorsey Dance.  Find out more here
 
Leimay Ensemble
New York City College of Technology
June 20 – 21
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya and the LEIMAY Ensemble will present LEIMAY Unplugged, a companion to an earlier work, BECOMING Pentology.  Find out more here
 
Vencl Dance
Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
June 21-23
Vencl will offer Critical Junctures, an evening of contemporary dance with music by Arlene Sierra.  Find out more here
 
Molissa Fenley and Company
Danspace Project
June 21 – 23
In collaboration with percussionist Frank Cassara and violist Ralph Farris, Fenley will present an evening of dance and live music, with scores by four contemporary composers. The program features four dances from Fenley’s Water Table, three of which are New York premieres. The program also includes a new configuration of Fenley’s 1979 work Mix. Find out more here
 
Choreoquest Afro Pas De Deux Festival
RestorationART
June 22 – 23
The Festival returns with works by Davalois Fearon, Germaul Barnes, Angel Chinn, Rosamund S. King, Sekou McMiller, Johnnie Mercer, Edisa Weeks and Nathan Trice to again “…explore the complex and artificial binaries of gender, sexuality, nationality and more,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Lawrence Goldhuber | Erick Montes
BAAD!
June 22
As part of BAAD!’s “Out Like That” series, Goldhuber and Montes, alums of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, brings Goldhuber’s Apple v. Oranges Montes’ Otherwise to BAAD!  Find out more here

Catherine Cabeen and Kristina Berger
Pangea
June 22 -23
Glitter in the Gutter, is the title given to Cabeen and Berger’s “…intimate evening of bawdy dance-theater...” according to the release. Find out more here
 
Various Artists - Angela’s Pulse
The Bronx River
June 23
The annual one-day-only event, created through collaboration with artists and community members, Paloma McGregor’s iterative Fishtrap project; rooted in the reclamation of her 92-year-old father’s vanishing fishing tradition titled “Building a Better Fish trap” returns.  Made in collaboration with Angela’s Pulse and New York Live Arts, audiences will again be taken “…by boat on a 1.5-mile stretch of the once embattled waterway.” Tickets must be purchased in advance.  Find out more here
 
NIC Kay
BAM/Fisher
June 23
"EVERYBOOTY 2018" descends on BAM this Pride weekend for “…a four-floor, more-is-more art party with the glitteriest critters of the queer art and nightlife worlds,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
New York Live Arts
June 24
The HOUSE PARTY  “…a building wide and sidewalk celebration in the historic gayborhood, Chelsea, just blocks from the pride march," notes the release, happens for one-day-only. Find out more here
 
Various Artists – “A Day of Healing and Movement”
JACK
June 24
JACK partners with healing practitioners from MINKA Brooklyn, plus dance artists RAKIA! and Marguerite Hemmings for a day of healing and movement as part of their Reparations365 series, exploring distributive justice for Black Americans.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Dixon Place
June 24 - 25
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company presents the 3rd Annual “SoloDuo Dance Festival” featuring 28 dancemakers from the New York Metro area, across the U.S., Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico, Japan and Korea.  Find out more here

Watch BECOMING BAIRA [ rehearsal trailer] from BAIRA | MVMNT PHLSPHY on Vimeo.

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Gibney Dance Company is thrilled to announce a new initiative to support emerging choreographers, in partnership with Springboard Danse Montréal: the GDC/Springboard EMERGE Choreographic Award.

The EMERGE Choreographic Award will be presented to one of the Emerging Choreographers from Springboard Danse Montréal’s roster each summer. The selected artist will receive:

• Commissioning support to create a new work for Gibney Dance Company that will premiere on a split bill program the following spring;
• Mentorship through the creative process from a seasoned choreographer;
• And opportunities to teach classes and share their creative process through showings and dialogues at Gibney throughout the year.

The inaugural EMERGE performance, taking place May 2 – 4, 2019 in the Theater at Gibney 280 Broadway, will feature New York City-based choreographers Chanel DaSilva and Bobbi Jene Smith alongside the 2018-19 EMERGE Choreographic Award Winner, to be announced this July.

Find out more here

We are thrilled to introduce Jenny Thompson, new Director of Development! Please join us in welcoming Jenny as a part of the team that will lead Gibney through its Next Phase.Jenny joins Gibney from Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, where she recently served as Director of Campaign & Major Gifts. Her career as a nonprofit fundraising professional began at RIOULT Dance New York, where she quickly rose the ranks from Operations & Special Events Manager, to Manager of Institutional Giving, and ultimately Director of Development.

She then joined management and consulting firm, DUNCH: Cultural Leadership for a Creative World, and worked under the mentorship of President Emma Dunch on a broad range of fundraising and strategy projects for a variety of arts organizations.

Jenny shares our passion for the arts and continues to take dance class and volunteer as a dance teacher at Groove With Me. For over a decade, she has added her voice to the industry as a contributor to multiple performance publications.
Jenny holds a M.A. in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky and a B.A. in Dance Studies, Choreography, and Writing about Performance from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

“Jersey New Moves Festival” – Various Artists
NJPAC
June 15
For one-night-only, emerging New Jersey choreographers will be presented in the third annual edition of "Jersey (New) Moves! featuring Joe Monteleone, Barkha Patel, Daniel Padierna, Nijawwon Matthews, and Stephanie Nerbak.  Find out more here
WOMEN / CREATE! – A Festival of Dance. 
New York Live Arts
June 12 – 16
Initially curated by Jennifer Muller of Jennifer Muller/The Works, for the 7th season, Armitage Gone! Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, and Jennifer Muller/The Works pioneers of contemporary dance come together for WOMEN / CREATE! - A Festival of Dance reconnects with those roots to present a season of strong works by four visionary female choreographers.  Find out more here

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Lincoln Center
June 13 – 17
Led by artistic director Robert Battle, AAADT returns for their annual Lincoln Center season with three programs: “Celebrate Women” with works by Jessica Lang, Judith Jamison, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar; “Ailey, Then & Now,” with works by Talley Beatty, Battle; and “Musical Icons,” with works by Jamar Roberts, Twyla Tharp and Battle.  Each evening will close with Mr. Ailey’s signature work, Revelations.  Find out more here 
 
Susan Rethorst with Gregory Holt and Gabrielle Revlock
June 13–15
Roulette
In Stealing from Myself, Rethorst creates a dance pulling from her last 30 years of dance making. Find out more here
 
Joan Jonas
Danspace Project
June 14 – 16
For her U.S. premiere, Jona will present Moving Off the Land, an “…immersive lecture-performance drawing from literature, mythology, and the artist's collections of sketches and notes on the sea,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Bryce Dance Company
Gibney
June 14-16
The Company will premiere Moving Memory, “… exploring how identity, internal narrative and relationships inevitably change as memory becomes fragmented, altered or lost,” according to the release.”  Find out more here 
 
“River To River Festival” – Various Artists
Various Locations
June 15 – 24
The always-free “River To River Festival” boasts a lineup that includes It’s Showtime NYC (6/18 – 22) on the steps of the Federal Hall, and an evening of salsa with Los Hacheros (6/23).  Also on the program is Catherine Galasso’s (June 15-17), Enrico D. Wey (June 15-17), Cori Olinghouse (June 16-17), and Naomi Goldberg Haas and visual artist Laura Nova (June 22 & 24).  Find out more here
 
Douglas Dunn + Dancers
The Yard
June 14 & 16
From Dunn’s 5-decade as a dancemaker which launched in the early 1960’s, today, his Company will present Tandem, “a new sixty-minute dance that imagines a wide space as if the viewer is looking out over a savannah,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Nik Kay
The Whitney
June 15
In collaboration with Discwoman, the Whitney Museum celebrates Pride and the LGBTQ community with NIC Kay in “…a performance that considers the Ru Paul quote, “If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
“Out Like That! 2018” – Various Artists
BAAD!
June 14 - 16
Antonio Ramos/Antonio & The Gangbangers will premiere Las Que No Son Bellas son Hermosas (Those Who Aren’t Beautiful are Gorgeous), danced with Saul Ulerio, Awilda Rodriguez-Lora and Marielys Burgos (6/14 & 6/15). Dance Films Association and Baad! team up for a free outdoor screening of “LGBTQ-themed thought-provoking, sexy/sensual dance films especially curated by BAAD’s own Arthur Aviles and Joseph Hall with Marta Renzi of DFA. Filmmakers in attendance include: Winnie Cheung, Jasmine Hearn, Jason Rodriguez, and Rami Shafi,” notes the release (6/16).  Find out more here