Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
The Joyce
February 18-23
Celebrating their 20th anniversary, the Company will present the New York premiere of Les nuits barbares ou les premiers matins du monde (The Barborous Nights; or, The First Dawns of the World) by French and Algerian choreographer Koubi exploring the shared history of the Mediterranean basin.  Find out more here
 
Richard Alston Dance
Peak Performances
February 20-23
After 50 years, the Company will close its doors, and a final American performance will offer three U.S. premieres including Shine On, the last by Alston, plus more.  Find out more here
 
Peter Stathas Dance
Gibney
February 20-22
Strathas will present the world premiere of the solo In the Garden described as an exploration of our life cycle.  Find out more here 
 
Sarah Juli
Dixon Place
February 21-22 & 27-28
Dixon Place and American Dance Festival presents Juli’s new comedic dance-theater work, Burnt-Out Wife, “…her latest feminist solo…Taking on such topics as intimacy, loneliness, monogamy, and other marital taboos,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Florentina Holzinger
NYU Skirball
February 22-23
Holzinger “…combines fin de siècle freak shows with 1960s live art, offering a new perspective on the rupture between high art and entertainment culture…addressing the myth of the supposedly perfect woman, the artist herself,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
HERE
February 23-March 1
For their annual HERE RAW where resident artists get to share their projects, included on this year’s program will include Suzi Takahashi Marie, Gelsey Bell, Raja Feather Kelly | the feath3r theory and many more. Find out more here
 
“Works & Process at the Guggenheim” – Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
February 23
The performing arts series at the Guggenheim presents Artistic Director Angel Corella’s La Bayadère the 1877 tale of love and godly revenge for Pennsylvania Ballet.  Find out more here
 
“Works & Process at the Guggenheim” – Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
February 24
The performing arts series at the Guggenheim presents Caleb Teicher and Lindy Hop dancers.  Find out more here
 
Philadanco!
NJPAC
February 25
As part of their 50th anniversary celebration, Philadanco comes to New Jersey with a program of dances that explore social themes.  Find out more here  

Park Avenue Armory, with lead partner National Black Theatre, have announced the lead group of artists they and a cohort of nine additional New York City-based cultural institutions have commissioned as part of 100 Years | 100 Women , a two-part, multidisciplinary initiative marking the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. This group of artists—who self-identify as women or gender non-binary and whose work spans visual arts, music, dance, film, photography, and performance—will create new projects that respond to this anniversary, reflecting on issues including womanhood, citizenship, feminism, and intersectionality. Commissioned artists include: Sama Alshaibi, Murielle Borst-Tarrant/Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective, Zoë Buckman, Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, Karen Finley, Ebony Noelle Golden, Chanon Judson, L’Rain, Shola Lynch, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, Jaime Sunwoo, Sahar Ullah, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, and many more.

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Hone your technique, develop socially-engaged practices, and learn repertory by Yin Yue, Mark Caserta, and Peter Chu in an intensive led by Gibney Company Artistic Associates!

The Intensive also includes professional enhancement workshops designed to help you develop leadership practices, community action skills, and navigation through your artistic career. 
JUN. 8 - 19
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​Various Artists
BAAD!
February 15
The nine choreographers of “Queer Movie Movers” take over BAAD!’s stage with a series of dances set to music from their favorite LGBTQ film that features queer people of color in a positive light. The choreographers are: Aleixa & Molly, Dia Bui, Rodney Brown, Felix Ciprian, Nick Daniels, Frenchy Haynes, Houiea LOVE, Acharo Smith and Tamara M. Williams. Find out more here
 Che Malmbo
The Joyce
February 11-16
The all-male dance company filled with Argentinian traditions, bring their percussive dance and music spectacle to the Joyce. Find out more here
 
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas & Jean-Guihen Queyras:
NYU Skirball
February 13-15
Choreographer De Keersmaeker makes a rare appearance with her Company, Rosas for the North American premiere of Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6Cellosuiten (In the Midst of Life/Bach’s Cello Suites).  They are joined by cellist Queyras who will play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites in its entirety to “…capture an affinity between the music and dancers, notes the release.   Find out more here
 
NYTB/Chamber Works
Danspace Project
February 13-15
This season's program includes the world premiere of Robert La Fosse's A Soldier’s Tale and Antonia Franceschi's Uncaged, plus Sir Richard Alston's The Small Sonata, and Pam Tanowitz's Double Andante. Find out more here

Various Artists
Peak Performances
Februaty 14-15
The piano sextet, Grand Band made up of Erika Dohi, David Friend, Paul Kerekes, Blair McMillen, Lisa Moore, and Isabelle O’Connell to perform compositions by Eastman, Missy Mazzoli, Kate Moore, and Julia Wolfe, plus an animated film by Joshua Frankel who builds a world of geometry, color, and looping patterns of human bodies created collaboratively with choreographer Faye Driscoll.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Park Avenue Armory
February 15
An impressive mix of artists come together for talks and performances and to explore the legacy of the 19th Amendment, 100 years after its ratification. Participants include Deborah Willis, Kathleen Turner and Tantoo Cardinal, Caridad De La Luz “La Bruja,” Martha Redbone, Renee Cox, Karen Finley, De’Ara Balenger and many others.  This one-day event marks the beginning of 100 Years | 100 Women, an initiative of Park Avenue Armory, with lead partner National Black Theatre, and nine major cultural institutions including, The Apollo Theater, The Juilliard School, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company, The Laundromat Project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of the Moving Image, National Sawdust, New York University (Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture), and Urban Bush Women, who will collectively commission one hundred artists who self-identify as women to respond to this significant anniversary.
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Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Summer Dance Intensive Audition Tour

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New York, NY – Feb 15, 2020
Miami, FL – Mar 20, 2020
Bowling Green, KY – Mar 21, 2020
Chicago, IL – Mar 28, 2020

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