Yaniro Castro I a canary torsi
The Yard
July 18-July 20
Castro and her company, a canary torsi, continues her investigative work with performances of CAST, “…part of a trilogy of works that draw from a collection of audio and video recordings generated between 15 accomplished NYC performing artists, concerning the process of casting and the complexities of representation. A computer-generated script is created each night from transcripts of over 100 hours of conversation with the full ensemble about the performance of representation. Four performers negotiate a new score of movement and text in front of the audience each night, not knowing whose words they will have to speak or whose actions they may embody," according to the release.  Find out more here

dance-mobile/ Various Artists
Brooklyn Bridge & Union Square
July 20
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
 
600 Highwaymen
Lumberyard
July 20 – 21
In Manmade Earth, the company's latest work-in-process, “Created with 8 teenagers…[they] examine the evolution of our society; how we come together to create what we could not on our own…all in the hands of young people, in all their glory,” notes the release.  Find out more here

Dance Visions NY
Various Venues
July 21 – 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 our more here

dance-mobile/ Various Artists
Brooklyn Bridge & Union Square
July 13
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 2nd Best Dance Company (July 13); Gibney Dance Company Performing Micaela Taylor's EYESOW (July 20 & 25); and Soles of Duende (July 27).  Find out more here
 




Mark Morris Dance Group
Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
July 10 – 13
Mark Morris, a longtime friend and collaborator of the Mostly Mozart Festival, opens the season with the world premiere of Sport set to Satie’s “Sports et divertissements.” Also on the program are repertory works, Empire Garden and V. The series continues with Blak Whyte Gray (August 1-3) by East-London based boy Blue, and the U.S. premiere of Under Siege by China’s Yang Liping (August 8-10).   Find out more here
 
Kimberly Bartosik/Daela
The Yard
July 11 – 13
In Bartosik’s I hunger for you, she “… looks deeply into the impulse to lose oneself in ecstasy, ritual, and desire—riding an edge between barely controlled abandon and vibrating stillness,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
“Dance on Camera Festival 2019”
Lincoln Center
July 12-15
For their 47th edition, the Festival will feature 11 programs over four days, including films from 17 countries, exploring dance from a variety of perspectives. “Revel In Your Body,” featuring Kinetic Light dancers Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson, “Dance on Camera 2019 Shorts,” “With Merce” and many more are included on the lineup.  Find out more here
 
Ephrat Asherie
Lumberyard
July 13
Asherie’s work-in-progress showing of UnderScored (working title), kicks of the “Summer at Lumberyard” series with this dance theater piece created and performed by members of the company with special guest artists from New York City's underground scene.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA)
July 13
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 13 is Ballez. Find out more here

nia love
Gibney
890 Broadway, Studio 6
June 27
​Join nia love in a showing of her ongoing project/practice g1(host) as part of Gibney’s Dance-in-Process residency, in preparation for our performance at Gibney in November. “g1(host) grapples with what it means to live within conditions shaped by the “afterlife” of slavery. As a serial, multi-media performance and mobile site of study, it pursues questions regarding the body’s status as it pivots on this fundamental query: what remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect,,,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
"River To River Festival" - Various Artists
Various Venues
June 18 - 29
On the roster for the 18th annual “River To River Festival,” where “performances and events celebrate artistic and creative diversity in all its forms…this year's festival encourages the discovery of what arises when we all slow down,” according to the release.  Featured will be NIC Kay, Pam Tanowitz, Jennifer Monson, Sarah Michelson and many more.  Find out more here
 
The ASSEMBLY - Various Artists
June 22 - 30
The Kitchen
"The Kitchen's paces will be stripped of their defining uses as gallery, theater, and office. Each floor will be emptied then activated sequentially by musicians, dancers, performance artists, and DJs using custom sound and video systems," according to the release.  The ASSEMBLY is organized by Kevin Beasley, and Lumi Tan, Time Griffin and Nicole Kaack from the Kitchen and will feature performances from Mhysa, Jason Moran, David Thomson, Angie Pittman, stud1nt, Wetward and more.  Find out more here 

Ze’eva Cohen and Avri Ohana
Westbeth Gallery
June 15 – July 6
Cohen and Ohana shares their work as independent artists exploring their own media and as collaborators who find inspiration from music. Ohana is a multi-style artist whose new body of work presents paintings inspired by his love for classical music, opera and jazz, and Cohen will show a visual retrospective of her long career as dancer and choreographer containing photographs of her work taken by major dance photographers, as well as posters and videos. Find out more here and here

Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 21 – July 5
The Contemporary Dance Series, a four-week celebration of modern dance that falls on Fridays, is curated by Tiffany Rae-Fisher in partnership with Inception to Exhibition. This week's lineup includes: LaneCoArts, SYREN Modern Dance, JOLT Dance Project, Harlem Dance Ensemble and Dorothy Maynor Singers (June 28); and David Dorfman Dance, Francesca Harper Project, URBAN / TRIBE, Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts (July 5). All performances are FREE.  Find out more here

10HL
New York Live Arts
June 27 - 29
10HL (10 Hairy Legs), the male repertory ensemble, under artistic director Randy James, will present world premieres by Larry Keigwin and Adam Barruch, plus Stephen Petronio’s Bud and 2018 10HL Commissioned Work So It Goes by Yin Yue. Barruch’s work will have a newly composed score by Roarke Menzies. Find out more here

Alice Farley Dance Theater
Bronx Museum of the Arts
June 28
​Choreographer/designer Farley continues 40 years of work exploring "...geometrics of the human body, the magnification of human proportion, and the language of movement and shapes in her new 'Conversations with Monsters,' commissioned by the Bronx Museum of the Arts," notes the release.  Find out more here 

Infinity Dance
The Riverside Theatre
June 28 - 29
Infinity Dance Theater and Alison Cook Beatty Dance come together and will feature 24 dancers with and without disabilities. Find out more here and here               

​Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS Dances
Topaz Arts
June 29
As part of a residency at Topaz Arts, and continuing the development of her trilogy THREE RITES, Weeks offers a showing of with her company DELIRIOUS Dances. THREE RITES “…integrates live music, dance and visual installations to interrogate how life, liberty and happiness are guaranteed and pursued in America; and how these rights manifest in the body,” notes the release. The full work will premiere in June 2020. This is performance is FREE and is followed by a reception with the artists. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA)
June 30
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 June 15, and curated by Jaime Shearn Coan and Tara Aisha Willis are: David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi. Find out more here

Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre
BAAD!
June 21
"Dipping into the archives of his past repertory, Arthur Avilés revives Real Men a dance he created in 2004. This seemingly abstract dance set to two of Bach's Goldberg variations brings together 6 dancers who engage in sometimes tender, sometimes abrupt, sometimes balanced objective interactions. The dance is open enough to allow each audience member to contemplate what might be going on. The dance happens through duets, quartets and full group interactions culminating in the entire group entangled figuratively and literally," according to the release. Find out more here

"River To River Festival" - Various Artists
Various Venues
June 18 - 29
On the roster for the 18th annual “River To River Festival,” where “performances and events celebrate artistic and creative diversity in all its forms…this year's festival encourages the discovery of what arises when we all slow down,” according to the release.  Featured will be NIC Kay, Pam Tanowitz, Jennifer Monson, Sarah Michelson and many more.  Find out more here
 
The ASSEMBLY - Various Artists
June 22 - 30
The Kitchen
"The Kitchen's paces will be stripped of their defining uses as gallery, theater, and office. Each floor will be emptied then activated sequentially by musicians, dancers, performance artists, and DJs using custom sound and video systems," according to the release.  The ASSEMBLY is organized by Kevin Beasley, and Lumi Tan, Time Griffin and Nicole Kaack from the Kitchen and will feature performances from Mhysa, Jason Moran, David Thomson, Angie Pittman, stud1nt, Wetward and more.  Find out more here 

Ze’eva Cohen and Avri Ohana
Westbeth Gallery
June 15 – July 6
Cohen and Ohana shares their work as independent artists exploring their own media and as collaborators who find inspiration from music. Ohana is a multi-style artist whose new body of work presents paintings inspired by his love for classical music, opera and jazz, and Cohen will show a visual retrospective of her long career as dancer and choreographer containing photographs of her work taken by major dance photographers, as well as posters and videos. Find out more here and here
 
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre
New York Live Arts
June 20 – 22
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre offers the world premiere of Crossroads, “…an evening-length work that explores moments of forging into unchartered waters and the ensuing and often tumultuous process of self-discovery,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Leonardo Sandoval & Gregory Richardson
The Yard
June 22
In an evening of Brazilian tap dance and music (Uma Explosão De Sapateado E Música Rasileira!), Brazilian percussion and tap artist Sandoval, and multi-instrumentalist Richardson, and "Music from the Sole," come together in Partido and Phase.  Find out more here
 
Peter Stathas Dance
Dansapce Project
June 20 - 22
The Company will present Leaving and Coming Back, a collection of works that Peter Stathas has created throughout his dance career. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 21 – July 5
The Contemporary Dance Series, a four-week celebration of modern dance that falls on Fridays, is curated by Tiffany Rae-Fisher in partnership with Inception to Exhibition. The lineup includes: Buglisi Dance Theatre, VON HOWARD PROJECT, Beatrice Capote, LaGuardia Dance Ensemble (June 21); LaneCoArts, SYREN Modern Dance, JOLT Dance Project, Harlem Dance Ensemble and Dorothy Maynor Singers (June 28); and David Dorfman Dance, Francesca Harper Project, URBAN / TRIBE, Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts (July 5). All performances are FREE.  Find out more here
 
Sidra Bell Dance New York
GK Arts Center
June 21 – 22
Sidra Bell Dance New York returns for its home season with the world premiere of PRELUDE | IDENTITY.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Rufus King Park
June 22
For the 3rd annual Jamaica Dance Festival will presents works by Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Institute, White Wave Rising Young Soon Kim Dance Company and Parul Shah Dance Company. The Festival continues with more artists on June 15th and 22nd. Find out more here

Jennifer Muller,
Karol Armitage, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Carolyn Dorfman, Francesca Harper,
Helen Simoneau, and Katarzyna Skarpetowska
New York Live Arts
June 11 – 16
Celebrating 7 years, “Women/Create! A Festival of Dance,” curated by Jennifer Muller/The Works will again feature works will feature prominent female choreographers and their companies including Muller/The Works, Armitage (Armitage Gone! Dance), Buglisi (Buglisi Dance Theatre), Dorfman (Carolyn Dorfman Dance), Harper (The Francesca Harper Project), Simoneau (Helen Simoneau Danse), and Skarpetowska. Find out more here
 
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AADT)
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center
June 12 – 16
For their summer season, the led by artistic director Robert Battle, included is a world premiere by Darrell Grand Moultrie, Ronald K. Brown’s The Call, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Shelter, Rennie Harris’ Lazarus, and repertoire staple, Ailey’s Revelations. A special evening honoring dance icon Carmen de Lavallade, a close friend of Alvin Ailey who first introduced him to dance, is planned for the final performance. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 14 – July 5
The Contemporary Dance Series, a four-week celebration of modern dance that falls on Fridays, will feature performances curated by Tiffany Rae-Fisher in partnership with Inception to Exhibition. The lineup begins with Jennifer Muller / The Works, Patrick O'Brien Dance Project, Talissa Bavaresco / BAVA Dance, Steps Conservatory (June 14); Buglisi Dance Theatre, VON HOWARD PROJECT, Beatrice Capote, LaGuardia Dance Ensemble (June 21); LaneCoArts, SYREN Modern Dance, JOLT Dance Project, Harlem Dance Ensemble and Dorothy Maynor Singers (June 28); and David Dorfman Dance, Francesca Harper Project, URBAN / TRIBE, Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts (July 5). All performances are FREE.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA)
June 15
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 June 15, and curated by Jaime Shearn Coan and Tara Aisha Willis are: David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
June 15
For one evening only, celebrate the final presentations of Dance Caribbean Collective’s “New Traditions Choreographic Incubator Award & Caribbean Explorations Fellowship.” The choreographers are: Sade Bully (Dominica, Jamaica, USA), Persephone DaCosta (USA/T&T), Kevin L. McEwen (USA/T&T), Gabriela Silva (Brazil/USA) and Maria Rivera (USA – Puerto Rico), and Caribbean Explorations Fellow is Kyle Marshall (Jamaica – USA). Find out more and RSVP here
 
Joanna Kotze
The Yard
June 15
Kotze will present What will we be like when we get there” a multi-disciplinary performance collaboration, with choreographer/dancer Kotze, dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, visual artist Jonathan Allen, composer/musician Ryan Seaton, and lighting designer Kathy Kaufmann “…that combines movement, sound, and visual art in surprising, near chaotic ways, and resonates with the social and political time we are living in now,” according to the release.  Find out more here

Ze’eva Cohen and Avri Ohana
Westbeth Gallery
June 15 – July 6
Cohen and Ohana will feature their work as independent artists exploring their own media and as collaborators who find inspiration from music. Avri Ohana is a multi-style artist whose new body of work presents paintings inspired by his love for classical music, opera and jazz, and Cohen will show a visual retrospective of her long career as dancer and choreographer containing photographs of her work taken by major dance photographers, as well as posters and videos. Find out more here