​Stephanie Batten Bland
La Mama
October 3-6
The French Institute Alliance Française’s (FIAF) “Crossing Line Festival” and LaMama premieres Look Who’s Coming to Dinner inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film in which a black fiancé meets his white soon-to-be wife’s family, the work pays tribute to those who paved the way toward acceptance in love and life.  Set around a dinner table, seven dance theater artists explore questions of who we choose to break bread with, and whether long-held biases still shock.  The work is set to new composition by Paul Damien Hogan. Find out more here 

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
NYLA
October 1-5
Keersmaeker will be at NYLA for two weeks with with two early Fase (September 24-28) and Rosas danst Rosas (October 1-5).  Premiering in 1982, Fase, to the Music of Steve Reich was Keersmaeker’s first choreographic work, and Rosas danst Rosas is “…considered a benchmark in postmodern dance history,” notes the release.  Find out more here

BalletX
The Joyce Theater
October 1-6
Choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s evening-length adaptation of the classic French children’s tale The Little Prince.  Find out more here

Fall for Dance Festival
New York City Center
October 1–13
The annual two-week festival which brings dance to many for just $15, returns for year 16 with five diverse programs including performances by Misty Copeland, Kim Brandstrup for NYCB principal dancers Sara Mearns and Taylor Stanley, Sonya Tayeh with live music by Moses Sumney, Alicia Graf Mack, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, English National Ballet (United Kingdom), MADBOOTS DANCE, Malevo (Argentina), The Mariinsky Ballet (Russia), Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), Vuyani Dance Theatre (South Africa), and more. Find out more here  

Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers
The Chocolate Factory
October 2-12
The Chocolate Factory Theater and Abrons Arts Center come together to present the premiere of Ramos’ El pueblo de los Olvidados, Parte II (The Village of the Forgotten), “…a dance-theater performance in the genre of science-fiction, prompted by Ramos’s research about Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria,” according to the release.  Find out more here  

American Dance Guild (ADG) Festival
Aliley Citigroup Theater 
October 4-6
ADG Festival will honor dance educator and advocate Jody Gottfried Arnhold, dancer/choreographer/teacher/writer Gus Solomons jr, and Abdel R. Salaam, co-founder and director of Forces of Nature Dance Theater, with a “Lifetime Achievement Award.” Find out more here 
 
Soaking Wet – Keely Garfield & Beyond the Bang Group
West End Theater
October 3-6
After 15 years, curator David Parker and producer Jeffrey Kazin announce the grand finale of the "Soaking WET" dance series with one-hour performances by Keely Garfield Dance (Program A), and Beyond the Bang Group (Program B).  Find out more here
 
jumatatu m. poe & Jermone Donte Beacham
BAAD!
October 4-5
Poe and Beacham brings Let ‘Im Move You: This Is A Success And A Study, a series of performance and installation works, and a continuation of jumatatu and Donte’s work within and in response to J-Sette’s movement vocabulary and Black queer performance aesthetics. This performance falls under the BlakTinX Performance Series. Find out more here
 
Gabriela Estrada
St. Mark’s Church
October 5
Estrada will present the solo Not a Single Carmen More!, (Ni Una Carmen Mas!), danced by Ivanka Figueroa as part of a performance entitled "Mourning Loss/Celebrating Survival" on the Day of Action Against Domestic Violence.  Find out more here   
 
Sundays on Broadway – Various Artists
537 Broadway
October 6
As part of Cathy Weis’ Sundays on Broadway series, this one curated by Joanna Kotze, Edisa Weeks will present an excerpt from ARISE! Also on the shared program are Keely Garfield, Ambika Raina and Stuart Shugg.  Find out more here

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
NYLA
September 24-28 & October 1-5
Keersmaeker will be at NYLA for two weeks with with two early Fase (September 24-28) and Rosas danst Rosas (October 1-5).  Premiering in 1982, Fase, to the Music of Steve Reich was Keersmaeker’s first choreographic work, and Rosas danst Rosas is “…considered a benchmark in postmodern dance history,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Ayodele Casel + Arturo O’Farrill
The Joyce Theatre
September 24 – 29
Award-winning tap dancer, Casel pairs with GRAMMY winner Arturo O’Farrill for a world premiere that will bring to life their “…shared musical lexicon in Afro-Latin jazz.”  Known for “…honoring artists who have paved the way for her work and moving the artform to new.”  Find out more here 
 
Martha Graham Dance Company
Martha Graham Studio Theater
September 24 – 25
The Studio Series opens with GrahamDeconstructed featuring Graham’s Steps in the Street.  For this event, excerpts of the early film and dancer demonstration will illustrate the reconstruction process before a performance of the complete work. Find out more here
 
Maria Bauman-Morales/MBDance
BAAD!
September 25-28
BAAD! and The Chocolate Factory will co-present evening-length (re)Source, Bauman-Morales’ “…dance and spoken artwork performed inside an installation crafted by Bauman-Morales in consultation with Zimbabwean-born interdisciplinary artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti,” according to the release. Find out more here 
 
The School for Temporary Liveness – The Library
Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts
September 25-October 1
The Library is home to nora chipaumire's #PUNK 100% POP N!GGA, a three-part live-performance album inspired by chipaumire's formative years in Zimbabwe during the '70s, '80s and '90s. It explores the sonic ideologies of punk, pop and Congolese rumba, through the iconic artists Patti Smith, Grace Jones and Rit Nzele, respectively. Each part is embedded with a lecture or history lesson that explores how knowledge can be shared through live performance. The Library is FREE and open to the public. Find out more here 
 
Germaine Acogny
La Mama
September 26–28
As part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s (FIAF) “Crossing Line Festival,” the Senegalese and French performer, choreographer and teacher, Acogny, known as the “Mother of Contemporary African Dance,” returns to New York with the premiere of SOMEWHERE AT THE BEGINNING “…tracing African history interwoven with her own life narrative.”   Find out more here 
 
Liz Gerring
BAC
September 27
In just one evening (two showings) Gerring offers Installation III: red green blue & grey (Work-in-Progress), a new phase in her exploration of physical effort and its innate capacity to provide meaning. Sound design is by Ryan Seaton.  Find out more here 
 
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
The Billy Holiday Theatre
September 27-28
Brown and EVIDENCE celebrates the 20th anniversary Gatekeepers and Water, both made in 1999, featuring Brown’s signature fusion of African and contemporary dance with spoken word. Find out more here 
 
Dance Theatre of Harlem
The Guggenheim
September 30
The Guggenheim building's 60th and Dance Theatre of Harlem's (DTH) 50th anniversaries, coincide for the Works & Process series, and DTH will pay tribute to its history in a restaging of TONES II, by former DTH principal ballerina Lorraine Graves, set to music by Tania León.  Find out more here 

Marielis Garcia and Nicole Von Arx
Judson Memorial Church
September 21 - 22
In a shared evening titled "Objective Bodies," choreographers Garcia and Von Arx asks "can bodies of gender, color, or experience ever be neutral? Each artist will premiere two different dance works revolving around the social implications that directly affect the way we attend to, take notice of and develop within our own bodies.  Find out more here 
 
 

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Keiko Fujii Dance Company
Gibney
September 19 - 21
Japan’s Keiko Fujii Dance Company will premiere Tamashii No Tibiki II (Soul Vibrations), “an ensemble work that looks into peoples' minds to explore the vibrations in the silent inner sanctuary of the body,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
Freemove Dance
14th Street Y
September 19 – 22
In the premiere ...its time... by Jenn Freeman, five performers move to a drum score composed by Dani Markham.  Find out more here
 
Reigakusha Ensemble
Japan Society
September 21
To celebrate the beginning of Reiwa [令和], the new era meaning “beautiful harmony," Japan Society imports royal court music from Japan.  Find out more here
 
San Francisco's Flyaway Productions
Louis Engel Park
September 20 – 22
Jo Kreiter premieres the site work, The Wait Room, a performance installation that exposes the physical, psychic, and emotional burden of incarceration for women with imprisoned loved ones, to Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. Find out more here

The Kathryn Posin Dance Company
92nd St. Y
September 13- 14
The Kathryn Posin Dance Company opens the 2019-20 “Dig Dance Season” with three premieres: Evolution: The Letters of Charles Darwin, Triple Sextet and Memoir.   The seven-member Kathryn Posin Dance Company, founded in 1972, is returning to the 92nd Street Y''s series for the third time.  Find out more here
 


​Solo Works/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers
Gibney
September 12 - 14
In a return to New York, at Gibney, Souloworks/Andrea E. Woods & Dancers brings The Amazing Adventures of Grace May B. Brown “…a soulful, spirit-filled, dancing, musical folk performance in several acts written, choreographed and directed by Andrea E. Woods to celebrate 25 years,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Wilma Casal/Wolf & Swan
La Mama
September 12 - 14
German dancer and choreographer Casal and her company Wolf & Swan will premiere the evening-length program, Shadow of a Dragon Wing, as part of Summer Shares at La MaMa. Shadow of a Dragon Wing comprises three works--Dust in My Wings, Ancestral Shadows, and Dragon Blood. Find out more here
 
Mari Meade Dance Collective/MMDC
John Jay College
September 13
The CUNY Dance Initiative and John Jay College, in collaboration with MMDC presents the world premiere of immigration stories, a series of dances based on true experiences about relocating to the United States.  Find out more here
 
Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio 5
September 13–14
Magloire opens the 15th anniversary season of the New Chamber Ballet with a full-evening world premiere to music by contemporary German composer Wolfgang Rihm.  Find out more here
 
Deeply Rooted
BAM Fisher
September 13-14
In a shared evening titled “Legacy,” Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT), under founder/artistic director Kevin Iega Jeff, and Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (JCGO) come together. “Legacy” is inspired by JUBILATION! Dance Company’s mission, established during the 1980s and 90s in Brooklyn, NY.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists – Erasing Borders Dance Festival
Various Venues
September 14–16
In association with the Indo-American Arts Council, the annual “Erasing Borders Dance Festival,” at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup, boasts a lineup that includes Parijat Desai, Radhe Jaggi, IndianRaga and more. Find out more here
 
Various Artists - Works & Process
Guggenheim
September 15
For the “Works & Process” performing arts series at the Guggenheim, The National Ballet of Canada will present Orpheus Alive by Robert Binet and Missy Mazzoli, moderated by Wendy Whelan.  Find out more here 

My AmNews September 2019 Dance Calendar

Featured:
Ayodele Casel + Arturo O'Farrill
The Joyce Theater
September 24 - 29

​Find out more here

Fadi J. Khoury’s FJK Dance
John Jay College
August 23
For one-night-only, FJK Dance returns for the final performance of their “Black Box” Fusion of Culture and Dance repertoire series. Slated on the program is DUM TAK, an original work in which dancers perform in pointe shoes, Latin heel and bare feet in a blend of ballet and Latin salsa, and features Rig and Tabla (Middle Eastern) drumming.  Find out more here

It’s Showtime NYC
The Shed
August 24
As part of The Shed’s “Open Call,” It’s Showtmie NYC will present their latest performance creation, Twogether We’re One, “…a testament to what it takes to build a family of street dancers,” according to the release.  This is a free event. Reservations are encouraged, but not required.  Find out more here

The Clark Center 60th Anniversary Tribute – Various Artists
Marcus Garvey Park
August 15
Celebrating Clark Center’s 60th anniversary, “this showcase upholds the mission of a space to cultivate emerging artists, with room for dancers and choreographers from every demographic to feel comfortable to create the work they want to make. It has long served as an incubator for young talent and many of the choreographers who worked at the center have gone on to create their own companies. Much of the all-star lineup has been around since the center first opened,” notes the release. On the program is PHILADANCO!, 5Plus Ensemble featuring dancers 50 years of age and older, (Hope Clarke, Dyane Harvey and more), Juel D. Lane, Amy Hall Garner and the young dancers of The HSA Dance Ensemble from the Harlem School of The Arts, led by former Ailey dancer, Aubrey Lynch.  Find out more here
 
Ballet Festival - Various Artists
The Joyce
August 6-18
The Joyce’s Ballet Festival, curated by Kevin O’Hare, director of The Royal Ballet, who has invited artists associated with The Royal Ballet have come together to make works based on the theme of collaboration. Works by Fredrick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Royal Ballet company choreographers and more.  Find out more here 
 
Reggie ‘Roc’ Gray & Kaneza Schaal
The Shed
July 24 – August 17
Maze, an “…immersive dance-theater piece co-directed by choreographer Gray (The D.R.E.A.M. Ring) and theater artist Schaal (Go Forth, Jack &), premieres with performances by masters of flexn, a form of street dance created in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in Jamaican bruk up,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Balasole Dance Company
Ailey Citigroup Theater
August 16-17
For their annual season, executive, artistic director and founder Robert Villanueva’s Balasole Dance Company will present an evening of solo works titled “GAMME” featuring Alex Bar, Alyssa Bar, Kat Bark, Jonalyn Bradshaw, Yu Fujiwara, Ezra Goh, Mckenzie Mullan, Leigh Schanfein, Caroline Sheehan, Tyreel Simpson, Roberto Villanueva, Stephanie Rae Williams (Guest Soloist). Find out more here
 
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
The Yard
August 17
In a multi-week offshore creation residency, Evidence celebrates the 20th anniversary of Grace (originally choreographed for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater).  Also on the program is the premiere of Mercy, recently premiered at Bard College, and Torch (2013).  Find out more here 

Guangzhou Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
August 17 – 18
The Company will perform a contemporary version of Carmina Burana and recomposed music for Goddess of the Luo River.  Find out more here

Renegade Performance Group
Socrates Sculpture Park
August 10
Artistic director André M. Zachery and RPG will premiere Ephemera “…an Afrofuturist site-specific dance and media work…expounding on the body as a living-archive …activating the current exhibition, “Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space,” at Socrates Sculpture Park, notes the release.  Find out more here 




​Ballet Festival - Various Artists
The Joyce
August 6-18
The Joyce’s Ballet Festival, curated by Kevin O’Hare, director of The Royal Ballet, who has invited artists associated with The Royal Ballet have come together to make works based on the theme of collaboration. Works by Fredrick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Royal Ballet company choreographers and more.  Find out more here
 
Reggie ‘Roc’ Gray & Kaneza Schaal
The Shed
July 24 – August 17
Maze, an “…immersive dance-theater piece co-directed by choreographer Gray (The D.R.E.A.M. Ring) and theater artist Schaal (Go Forth, Jack &), premieres with performances by masters of flexn, a form of street dance created in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in Jamaican bruk up,” notes the release.  Find out more here

​Reggie ‘Roc’ Gray & Kaneza Schaal
The Shed
July 24 – August 17
Maze, an “…immersive dance-theater piece co-directed by choreographer Gray (The D.R.E.A.M. Ring) and theater artist Schaal (Go Forth, Jack &), premieres with performances by masters of flexn, a form of street dance created in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in Jamaican bruk up,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Gibney Dance Center (280 Broadway)
August 1 – 3
As part of Gibney’s POP (Performance Opportunity Project) Doug Varone brings his DEVICES, a week-long intensive and summer-long mentorship program designed for emerging choreographers.  For this sixth season, original works will be presented by Bianca Brengman, Sarah Carlson, Adeene Denton, Kathleen Fotheringham, Francisco Graciano, Jeffrey Gunshol, Alison Machabee, Andrew Merrell, Trevor Naumann, Courtney Ozovek, Jenna Valez, and Alyssandra Wu. Find out more here 
 
Malpaso Dance Company
The Yard
August 1-3 
Malpaso Dance Company returns to Martha’s Vineyard with works by artistic director Osnel Delgado, featuring Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, plus Ohad Naharin, Beatriz Garcia and Robyn Mineko Williams.  Find out more here  
 
Boy Blue
Gerald Lynch Theater at John J. College
August 1 – 3
As part of the “Mostly Mozart Festival” the East London company returns to Lincoln Center with its dance-theater work Blak Whyte Gray (2017).  Find out more here 
 
Caleb Teicher & Company
Damrosch Park
August 2
On the same bill at Teicher & Company will be Liza with a “Z” (rare screening of Liza Minnelli's seminal special), and students of LaGuardia High School will perform "Sing, Sing, Sing" from Bob Fosse's DANCIN' (1978), all part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival.  Find out more here 
 
Renegade Performance Group (RPG)
Socrates Sculpture Park
August 3 & 10
Artistic director André M. Zachery and RPG will premiere Ephemera “…an Afrofuturist site-specific dance and media work…expounding on the body as a living-archive …activating the current exhibition, “Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space,” at Socrates Sculpture Park, notes the release.  Find out more here  

Various Artists
Lincoln Center
Out of Doors
/Hearst Plaza
July 28
The “Made in NYC 2.0: Next Generation Traditions” will feature Redobles de Cultura, Sri Lankan Dance Academy of New York, Michael Winograd & the Honorable Mentshn, and Inkarayku.  Find out more here






“Freddie Falls in Love”
The Joyce Theater
July 23 – August 4
This “…Broadway-style dance play…brings audiences along on a young man’s journey of self-discovery told solely through movement,” notes the release. Find out more here

Reggie ‘Roc’ Gray & Kaneza Schaal
The Shed
July 24 – August 17
Maze, an “…immersive dance-theater piece co-directed by choreographer Gray (The D.R.E.A.M. Ring) and theater artist Schaal (Go Forth, Jack &), premieres with performances by masters of flexn, a form of street dance created in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in Jamaican bruk up,” notes the release.  Find out more here

dance-mobile/ Various Artists
Brooklyn Bridge & Union Square
July 25
Gibney Dance Company's annual series of free, outdoor performances offers a platform by “…‘making space for dance’ in outdoor public spaces…[and] hopes to make the power of movement accessible to all members of [their] community.  The 2019 series features Gibney Dance Company performing Micaela Taylor's EYESOW (July 20 & 25); and Soles of Duende (July 27).  Find out more here
 
Dance Visions NY
Various Venues
July 25 & 27
Under the direction of Beth Jucovy, see the company in works by Isadora Duncan, site specific works, repertory and works by Jucovy over three-weekends.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Vital Joint
July 26
Lorene Bouboushian curates an evening of interdisciplinary performance with Samantha CC, Geraldo Mercado, Jamondria Harris (PDX), Cherrie Yu (CHI), Sam White, and Amelia Marzec/Abe Morrison.  Find out more here
 
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival
July 27
For one-evening-only, at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell, the French-Algerian choreographer Hervé brings his What the Day Owes to the Night, a work made in part from Hervé “…learning about [his Algerian heritage] at age 25 from his father on his deathbed [sending] him on a personal and artistic journey,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA)
July 27
Throughout the summer and until on October 26, MTA will support more than 25 artists working in a variety of disciplines for the 2019 Watershed Lab including Stephanie Acosta, Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum, Ballez, Lorene Bouboushian, mayfield brooks, Megan Byrne and Jennifer Kjos, Leslie Cuyjet, Lisa Fagan, Ellie Ga, Charlotte Gibbons, Madison Krekel, Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki, iele paloumpis, Jillian Peña, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal and Raha Behnam, Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, Tara Sheena, David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi. Featured on July 27 is Gelsey Bell, Becca Blackwell, and Edisa Weeks. Find out more here