AUNTS goes public!
September 19
Bushwick
This series of outdoor performance are part of the "Open Culture NYC Program" organized by AUNTS: Kadesmiles, Shana Crawford, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Jordan Lloyd, Jessie Young, Laurie Berg.  The event will be hosted by House of Yes and will feature performances by: Robin Denzer, Blaze Ferrer w/ Justin Faircloth, Fogul Azul New York City, Lea Fulton, Janelle (Jei) Lawrence creator/performer & Candice Segarra actor/dancer, Rishauna Mari & Bridget Barkan, Pia Monique Murray/PMMDC, Kris Seto, Hadley Smith & Elanor Grace Bock, Ogemdi Ude, Rochelle Jamila Wilbun, Audre Wirtanen, Jessie Young.  Find out more here 
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Various Artists
Little Island
September 15 - 19
The Little Island Dance Festival curated by Artist-in-Residence Ayodele Casel and co-curator Torya Beard.  The line-up includes Aaron Mattocks; The Afro-Latineers; Andre Imanishi; Barkha Patel; Brinae Ali & Sean Jones' Dizzy Spells Brinda Guha; Crystal Monee Hall; Danni Gee; Earl Mosely’s Diversity of Dance; Evidence, A Dance Company; House of Xtravaganza; Jared Alexander Sprague; Leo Manzari; Leonardo Sandoval & Music from the Sole; Maurice Chestnut’s Dance Therapyl. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jamaica Center for the Arts
September 17-18
The Making Moves Dance Festival returns with works by  Ranardo-Domeico Grays with VISIONS Contemporary Ballet and Patrick Coker and many more.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Duke Ellington Statue
September 19
The American Tap Dance Foundation will hold this year’s Duke Ellington’s Birthday Celebration of at the Duke Ellington Statue in Harlem with performances by The Duke Ellington Center Big Band and a host of musicians, dancers and vocalists.  Find out more here 

Kinesis Project
Riverside Park
September 19
As part of Riverside Park’s Summer on the Hudson, Kinesis Project presents Search(Light).  Find out more here 
 
Various Artists
Virtual
September 20
The Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Merce Cunningham Trust launches the new season with “In Conversation with Merce,”  featuring solos and duets from Cunningham’s Landrover, danced by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre company members Chalvar Monteiro and Jacquelin Harris, plus includes world premieres Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring.  The program will stream until September 30.  Find out more here

Rena Butler and Moor Mother
Brooklyn Bridge Park
September 21
Butler and Mother come together as part of four/four presents’ Open Air collaboration series bringing choreographers, dancers and musicians together at Brooklyn Bridge Park.  Find out more here      

Ragamala Dance Company
The Joyce
September 22-26
The Company brings the evening-length New York premiere of Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim  created and performed by mother/daughter Artistic Directors Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Little Island
September 15-19
The Little Island Dance Festival curated by Artist-in-Residence Ayodele Casel and co-curator Torya Beard.  The line-up includes Aaron Mattocks; The Afro-Latineers; Andre Imanishi; Barkha Patel; Brinae Ali & Sean Jones' Dizzy Spells Brinda Guha; Crystal Monee Hall; Danni Gee; Earl Mosely’s Diversity of Dance; Evidence, A Dance Company; House of Xtravaganza; Jared Alexander Sprague; Leo Manzari; Leonardo Sandoval & Music from the Sole; Maurice Chestnut’s Dance Therapyl. Find out more here 

Various Artists
New York Botanical Gardens
April - October 2021
The Contemporary Dance Series offers up "...A series of spontaneous outdoor performances celebrate the infinite possibilities of our connection with nature and each other," notes the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
August 28- September 12
 This Summer Festival runs for three consecutive weekends, outdoors across its 153-acres in the Hudson Valley as well as in its indoor Theater and includes classical dance works with live music; western swing music, art, and picnicking; a film screening in partnership with the Woodstock Film Festival; and more.  Find out more here 

Eiko Otake
September 11
Belvedere Plaza in Battery Park City
Otake will perform Slow Turn a new work that centers on a monologue of her personal memories of that day and its aftermath, with composer and clarinetist, David Krakauer, alongside the Hudson River, directly west of where the Twin Towers once stood.  RSVP required.  Find out more here 

Buglisi Dance Theatre
September 11
Lincoln Center Plaza
Buglisi Dance Theatre and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Dance/NYC honors the 20th year since the events of 9/11 with a livestreamed performance of the Table of Silence Project 9/11.  Conceived and choreographed in 2011 by Jacqulyn Buglisi, Artistic Director of Buglisi Dance Theatre, the artistic collaborators for this year’s reimagined program are Composer/Music Director Daniel Bernard Roumain, spoken-word poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Buglisi Dance Theatre Co-Founder/Principal Dancer Terese Capucilli, and videographer Nel Shelby.  Find out more here

Kayla Farrish and Melanie Charles
September 12
Maria Hernandez Park
Farrish and Charles come together as part of four/four presents’ Open Air collaboration series that bringa choreographers, dancers and musicians together.  Find out more here

Arthur Aviles
September - November 16
Virtual and In-Person
The Hemispheric Institute at New York University and BAAD! will present Naked Vanguard: The Arthur Avilés Archive in Motion — a series of conversations and performances.  Find out more here 

Paul Taylor Dance Company and EMERGE125 - In-Person
Bryant Park Pinic Performances
August 20 & 27
Dance Curator, Tiffany Rae-Fisher again welcomes audiences to Bryant Park Picnic Performances; season of free, live performances this summer with Paul Taylor Dance Company and EMERGE125, formerly Elisa Monte Dance (August 20), and Ballet Hispánico and Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (August 27). Find out more here 

92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here 
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Various Artists
Little Island
August 11- Sept 5
The new NYC FREE, a month-long arts festival celebrating the creativity of New York City’s artists will feature composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, poets and writers, and comedians. Under artistic direction from Festival Producer Mikki Shepard, there will be curated evenings from Tariq Al-Sabir, Ronald K. Brown, Dormeshia, Robert Garland & Misty Copeland, Alphonso Horne, Paolo Javier, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Georgina Pazcoguin, Conrad Tao, Adam Tendler, Awoye Timpo, Shirazette Tinnin, Eduardo Vilaro–– to curate this one-time festival. Find out more here 

Various Artists - In-Person
Studio 3R Performance Space
August 14
At this new performance space in the East Village, Studio 3R features a series of evening length works of music, theater, and dance from artists. This weekend's bill is the WE BELONG HERE: AAPI DANCE FESTIVAL featuring Mary-Angela Granberry, Jesse Obremski, Xiang Xu, J CHEN PROJECT Saxon and Brad Beakes + Dual Rivet HRYN SAXON & BRAD BEAKES | DUAL RIVET. Find out more here here

Jamel Gaines' Creative Outlet
Lincoln Center
August 14​
Gaines' Creative Outlet will perform at the Josie Robertson Plaza a re-imagined outdoor campus as part of Restart Stages. Find out more here 






Various Artists - In-Person & Virtual 
92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here 
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Various Artists
Little Island
August 11- Sept 5
The new NYC FREE, a month-long arts festival celebrating the creativity of New York City’s artists will feature composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, poets and writers, and comedians. Under artistic direction from Festival Producer Mikki Shepard, there will be curated evenings from Tariq Al-Sabir, Ronald K. Brown, Dormeshia, Robert Garland & Misty Copeland, Alphonso Horne, Paolo Javier, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Georgina Pazcoguin, Conrad Tao, Adam Tendler, Awoye Timpo, Shirazette Tinnin, Eduardo Vilaro–– to curate this one-time festival. Find out more here 

Netta Yerushalmy - In-Person
The Yard
August 13 - 14
See a work-in-process showing of MOVEMENT "...a new evening-length dance work that “steals” movement quotes from an expansive range of dance across genres, cultures, and idioms, in order to experiment with pluralism and discord as guiding creative and political principles," according to the release.  Find out more here 

Various Artists - In-Person
Studio 3R Performance Space
August 14
At this new performance space in the East Village, Studio 3R features a series of evening length works of music, theater, and dance from artists. See Thryn Saxon and Brad Beakes + Dual Rivet HRYN SAXON & BRAD BEAKES | DUAL RIVET
Saturday, 8/14 from 6:30 & 8:30PM. Find out more here here

​Various Artists - In-Person & Virtual
Battery Dance Festival
August 12 – 14
The 40th Annual Battery Dance Festival with international dance films and in-person performances at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park. The virtual films are from Puerto Rico, Mexico, South Korean, Tanzania, Australia and more, while the in-person/livestreamed performances will feature an evening of dances by Indian artists, another with titled “Young Voices in Dance,” plus even more from Jon Lehrer Dance Company, MorDance, Battery Dance, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, New York Theatre Ballet, Christopher Williams, Flamenco Vivo II, Galletto y Guzmán, Beatrice Capote and many more. Find out more here 

Various Artists - In-Person
Bryant Park Pinic Performances
August 16, 20 & 27
Dance Curator, Tiffany Rae-Fisher again welcomes audiences to Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances this summer with Limón Dance Company and Music From The Sole (August 16), Paul Taylor Dance Company and EMERGE125, formerly Elisa Monte Dance (August 20), and Ballet Hispánico and Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (August 27). Find out more here 

In-Person - Various Artists
Studio 3R Performance Space
July 30 - August 6
At this new performance space in the East Village, Studio 3R features a series of evening length works of music, theater, and dance from artists.See Penelope Wendtlandt & The Bang Group, Benae Beamon, Greg Lakhan and Tai Lee. Find out more here here

In-Person & Virtual - Various Artists
92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here 
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You Are Here: Live Performances
Lincoln Center Campus 
July 14-30

This public sculpture, sound, and live performance installation was conceived by Andrea Miller and artistic director of movement-based production company GALLIM.

"Visitors first experience You Are Here as a free sculpture and sound installation...each sculpture created by scenic designer Mimi Lien, houses a speaker through which audio portraits of New Yorkers are projected. Composer and sound artist Justin Hicks created an aural garden that stretches across the footprint of the plaza. Artists, ushers, security guards, educators, and other staff members nominated by Lincoln Center constituent organizations and community partners from across the city will tell a story, dance, sing, breathe, or reflect — offering a window into their experiences processing this past year," according to the release.  Find out more here

In-Person - Various Artists
Studio 3R Performance Space
July 30 - August 6
PROTEAN PIECES --Curated by Jonathan Matthews, Protean Pieces brings together four choreographic entities - 2nd Best Dance Company, spacejunk Dance, Indah Walsh, and Sienna Blaw - for a project of equal parts performance and creative incubation. Find out more here here

In-Person & Virtual - Various Artists
92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here 

In-Person - Jill Sigman
Riverside Park
July 31
A response to the past year, To Mend is an outdoor durational process about slowness, loss, and repair. In this collaboration with composer/vocalist Kristin Norderval.  Find out more here

Virtual - Kevin Ramsey
"Hangin with Hank" 
August 1
In the third episode of my "Hangin'" series the guest is Ramsey - performing artist, writer, director, choreographer.  Join the conversation here 

Pam Tanowitz Dance
July 8-10
Bard SummerScape
Tanowitz's I was waiting for the echo of a better day, a new commission for the Fisher Center’s inaugural Choreographer-in-Residence, with Jessie Montgomery, next Composer-in-Residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, "...is one of the nation’s first large-scale, full-length dance commissions with a live, in-person audience since the start of the pandemic," notes the release. It also marks Tanowitz’s first return to SummerScape since the company's T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Find out more here.

Various Artists
June 3 – August 1
The Shed
Now open to the public, Open Call, an Exhibition and Performance Series, featured will be works by early-career New York artists including Leslie Cuyhet, Nia O. Witherspoon, Emily Waters, Nazareth Hassan, Rachika Nayar, AnAkA, DonChristian Jones, Troy Anthony, Merche Blasco, Kyle Marshall, Ana María Agüero Jahannes and more.  Find out more here

Various Artists
July 1 - August 31
Dancespace Project
The Dream of the Audience, curated by artistic director Judy Hussie-Taylor brings artist to the virtual space to present works built while in-residence at Danspace’s historic venue in St. Mark’s Church, and more. The Dream of the Audience features the premiere of a new film by Ishmael Houston-Jones in collaboration with josé e. abad, Snowflake Calvert, Keith Hennessy, and Kevin O’Connor followed by live conversation with Houston-Jones & Miguel Gutierrez.  Also featured will be films by Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake with Joan Jonas, and Reggie Wilson. All films will be available for online viewing July 1-Aug 31.  Find out more here

Various Artists
July 9 - 10
Union Steet Dance
For this installment of Underground Movement, Vol. 4, guest artists are Cecilia Fontanesi in Kristin Hatleberg's Half | Life,  Rie Fukuzawa and Satoshi Haga of binbinFactory, Eva Dean Dance and more.  Find out more here

Raphael Xavier
July 10
The Yard
On his return to The Yard, Xavier will continue creating XAVIER'S: The Musician and The Mover, which highlights the traditions of freestyle and improvisation in both Breaking and Jazz. He will be joined by a saxophonist, bassist, pianist, percussionist, and dancers.  Find out more here

Hank Smith with guests - "Hangin' with Hank"
July 11
Alde Lewis
Free on YouTube - Join the conversation here

Various Artrists
Judson Memorial Church 
July 13–30, 2021
Pioneers Go East Collective will present the world premiere of LUCKY STAR (0.3), a queer dance performance, part underground club inspired by the famed Club 57. The performance installation is free. Capacity regulations and other safety protocols will be in place. Find out more here
 
Various Artists
The Greenwood Cemetary
July 14 - 15
The performance is part of OPEN AIR, a series of live, site-specific performances offering a mix of music and dance, and also provides opportunities for artists to connect and create new work in a live setting.  Find out more here

American Ballet Theatre
July 15
Virtual
The ABT dancers will present new works by Silas Farley, Helen Pickett, and James Whiteside, all filmed during outdoor
performances for their 2021 Summer Celebration hosted for free on Afterparty.  Jill Biden will deliver the program’s welcoming remarks. Find out more here

J Chen Project
July 15 - September 18
Museum of Chinese in America
The new work commissioned by You Are Safe "...is a response to the current escalation in xenophobia and bigotry targeting Asian-Americans," according to the release. Find out more here

Various Artists
Tap City
July 5 - 10
This year Tap city, the New York City tap festival is  virtual with master classes, performances and community events. The celebration will close with TAP IT OUT, a live performance in the middle of Times Square, where tap dancers on individual portable boards in a structured improvisation, followed by unison choreography and the "Shim Sham." Find out more here

Various Artists
June 3 – August 1
The Shed
Now open to the public with their Open Call, an Exhibition and Performance Series, featured will be works by early-career New York artists including Leslie Cuyhet, Nia O. Witherspoon, Emily Waters, Nazareth Hassan, Rachika Nayar, AnAkA, DonChristian Jones, Troy Anthony, Merche Blasco, Kyle Marshall, Ana María Agüero Jahannes and more.  Find out more here

Various Artists
July 1 - August 31
Dancespace Project
The Dream of the Audience, curated by artistic director Judy Hussie-Taylor brings artist to the virtual space to present works built while in-residence at Danspace’s historic venue in St. Mark’s Church, and more. The Dream of the Audience features the premiere of a new film by Ishmael Houston-Jones in collaboration with josé e. abad, Snowflake Calvert, Keith Hennessy, and Kevin O’Connor followed by live conversation with Houston-Jones & Miguel Gutierrez.  Also featured will be films by Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake with Joan Jonas, and Reggie Wilson. All films will be available for online viewing July 1-Aug 31.  Find out more here