“DoublePlus”-Various Artists
Gibney
December 5-7
The series brings in veteran artists to curate split-bill evenings over three weekends.  Dana Davenport + Samita Sinha, curated by Alexis Convento (December 5–7); Alexander Diaz + Jennifer Harrison Newman, curated by Charmaine Warren (December 12–14); and Laurel Atwell + Hyung Seok Jeon, curated by Tei Blow (December 19–21).  Find out more here
 
Dormeshia, Derick K. Grant, Jason Samuels Smith and Camille A. Brown
The Joyce Theater
December 3–8
Tap dancers Dormeshia, Grant, Samuels Smith and a special guest, performer, choreographer and contemporary dancer Brown join forces for a celebration of tap dance, And Still You Must Swing. This team of tappers and contemporary guest artist promise to honor the heart and legacy of the art form.  Find out more here
 
Tess Dworman
The Chocolate Factory
December 4-7
In Dworman’s A Child Retires, the work “…emboldens artifact and artifice to reference the collapse of my own maturation as an artist. The work includes my mom’s old t-shirt (costume), a tote bag (prop), and a soundtrack of the Beach Boys rehearsing Good Vibrations,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Kyle Marshall Choreography
December 4-7
BAM/Fisher
For this BAM debut, Marshall and his company brings Colored (2017) and the world premiere of A.D., as part of Next Wave 2019—the first season by artistic director David Binder.  Marshall has been investigating race and religion and in Colored he “…navigates the twisted spectrum of blackness that dancers Oluwadamilare Ayorinde, Myssi Robinson, and Marshall regularly embody. [Further] As three black dancers from varied backgrounds, their work together in the studio led to conversations on tokenism, appropriation, stereotype, and representation.”  And in the newer work, A.D., where dancers Bria Bacon and Miriam Gabriel are added to the cast, Marshall and Company delved into “…conversations surrounding Christianity and its influence on the body,” according to the release.  Find out more here

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
December 4-January 5
Under artistic director Robert Battle, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for their annual New York City Center five week season.  Included on this season’s program are world premieres: Greenwood by Donald Byrd and Ode by Ailey dancer and newly announced Resident Choreographer Jamar Roberts; company premieres of BUSK by Aszure Barton and City of Rain by Camille A. Brown; new productions of Divining (1984) by Judith Jamison and Fandango (1995) Lar Lubovitch; plus repertory favorites including Ailey’s Memoria and Revelations. Find out more here

George Emilio Sanchez
Abrons Arts Center
December 5-6
After successful runs since 2017, Sanchez’s Bang, Bang, Gun Amok, a 24-hour performance marathon that addresses how gun culture is embedded in the history of the United States, is back at Abrons Arts Center and will again feature a large cast of artists, survivors of gun violence, activists, and scholars who have come together through music, dance, theater and more.  Find out more here

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
New York Live Arts
December 5-7
Under artistic director Nai-Ni Chen, the Company brings the retrospective production “CrossCurrent,” and will showcase Chen's Callligraphy II, Whirlwind, Breaking News and Bamboo Rap. Find out more here

'newsteps'
Chen Dance Center
December 5-7
For this year’s newsteps choreographer’s series, the young dancemakers featured are: Alice Halter, Caitlin Javech, Susanne McHugh, Jessica Alexander & Madison Doyle, Catherine Eng, and Amanda Spilinga. Find out more here

BAX "Space Grant Showcase" - Various Artists
BAX
December 6-7
The 2019 "Space Grant Showcase" will feature Catie Leasca, Kayla Farrish and Ogemdi Ude.  Find out more here

The Construction Company & The Performance Project
Speyer Hall at University Settlement
December 6-7
Both companies will present new works by Alan Good, Kenneth King and Sally Silvers and more.  Find out more here

Mocow Ballet
Kings Theatre
December 7
For two performances on one-day- only, Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker comes to Brooklyn as part of their 140 U.S. tour.  Find out more here

Leonardo Sandoval
Clark Studio Theater
December 7-8
Brazilian tap dancer and musician Leonardo Sandoval performs as part of Lincoln Center Kids series “Music from the Sole” melding tap with big-band. Find out more here

"Sundays on Broadway" - Various Artists
537 Broadway
December 8
As part of Cathy Weis’ “Sundays on Broadway” series, this one curated by Weis, will feature Jon Kinzel, Jimena Paz, Vicky Shick on a shared evening.  Find out more here

My December 2019 AmNews Calendar

Featured:
Kyle Marshall Choreography
December 4-7
BAM/Fisher & video

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
Joyce Theater
November 19–December 1
Under artistic director Martín Santangelo and dancer Barrio, Noche Flamenca returns with a new version of Entre Tú y Yo (Between You and Me), an evening-length program of duets, solos, and ensemble works.  Previously called La Ronde, and then Íntimo—Santangelo notes that she has found a technique to facilitate the performers performing to each other, together, rather than for the audience. Audience members are instead simply witnesses to what is occurring onstage. Find out more here
 
Martine Gutierrez
Performance Space New York
November 20 – 23
Gutierrez invites audiences to enter into a secret holding laboratory for what can only be assumed is a dangerous creature in Circle.  Find our more here
 
Peeping Tom (Belgian dance theater collective)
BAM/Harvey
November 20-23
Making its US and BAM debuts with 32 rue Vandenbranden, “…five dancers and a mezzo-soprano inhabit an unstable, surreal universe, governed by their own laws of time and space…” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Elisa Monte Dance
The Flea Theater
November 21–24
Under artistic director Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Elisa Monte Dance returns to The Flea Theater as the company moves its 39th anniversary season with the world premiere of Emerged Nation, an evening-length work comprised of three movements inspired by the shifts in America’s civil and social mores. Find out more here
 
Hadar Ahuvia and Shira Eviatar
Gibney
November 21-23
Ahuvia and Eviatar comes to Gibney with Possessing, collaboratively questioning their shared, inherited trauma of the Israeli nation-state, asking, “How do we move together?” Find our more here 
 
The Chase Brock Experience
Theater Row
November 21-23
Brock will premiere The Four Seasons, a dance theater narrative set to Antonio Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni and “… imagines an American community in the not-too-distant future,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Live Arts Bard (LAB) – Various Artists
Fisher Center at Bard
November 21-24
For the third edition of LAB Biennial, the residency and commissioning program titled “Where No Wall Remains,” is co-curated by Lebanese live artist Tania El Khoury, and Gideon Lester the Fisher Center’s artistic director for Theater and Dance. "The entire program responds to the urgency of our political climates, not by merely advancing critique, but by also producing knowledge" with works from Jason de León, Mirna Bamieh/Palestine Hosting Society, Emilio Rojas and more, according to the release. Find out more here
 
Sidra Bell Dance New York
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
November 20
As part of the CUNY (City University of New York) Dance Initiative, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture presents Sidra Bell Dance New York for IN | REP, an evening of repertory. On the program is Grief Point, a section of a new work, and excerpts POOL, PRELUDE | IDENTITY, and Nudity.  Find out more here
 
Ballet Hispánico
The Apollo
November 22-23
On their return to the Apollo, following artistic director Eduardo Vilaro’s commitment to staging works by female, Latinx choreographers, on the program is the world premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Tiburones, plus Andrea Miller’s Nací (2009), and Michelle Manzanales’ Con Brazos Abiertos (2017).  Find out more here
 
Maurice Hines
NJPAC
November 23
With host Savion Glover, dance legend Maurice Hines brings his Tappin’ Thru Life the story of his career in song-and-dance which pays tribute to his brother, Gregory Hines. Hines will be backed by fellow hoofers (and siblings) John and Mary Manzari, and more.  Find out more here
 
10HL
Morris Museum
November 21-23
10 Hairy Legs, a company who celebrates the artistry of the male dancer joins forces with choreographer Doug Elkins for the new site-specific piece Trouble Will Find Me: Remixed. Find out more here 
 
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio 5
November 22 -23
The Company celebrates its 15th anniversary with world premieres by Magloire to music by Schubert and Dvorak.   Other ballets on the program are with music by Wolfgang Rihm and Karlheinz Stockhausen.  Find out more here
 
Nia & Ness
JACK
November 22-23
The duo, self-titled - black, lesbian couple living and loving in NYC will present home, a new dance-poetry piece,  that “… Ness make visible the impact of external violence and the love that drives them forward,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Beth Soll & Company
November 22-23
University Settlement
Soll will present an evening of all premieres titled "Dances of Passion and Peace - A Concert of Dance, Music, Poetry, and Translation."   Find out more here
 
Darrah Carr Dance
Irish Arts Center
November 23-24
Carr will premiere Dancing the Coral Suite, a second collaboration with traditional music duo Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna.  Find out more here
 
Sundays on Broadway – Various Artists
537 Broadway
November 24
As part of Cathy Weis’ “Sundays on Broadway” series, this one curated by Weiss, Wally Cardona, John Jasperse, Athena Malloy & Connor Voss will share the evening’s program.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Movement Research at Judson Church
November 25
Don’t miss this free, on-going, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress.  This week’s featured artists are: Juli Brandano, Alice Heyward and Megan Payne, John Hoobyar, and Rourou Ye.  Find out more here

Martha Graham Dance Company
Alexander Kasser Theater
November 14-17
In celebrating of the 75th anniversary of the Graham classic Appalachian Spring, created in 1944 “…amidst a war that had torn many couples apart, follows a young 19th century frontier couple on their wedding day, imagining a dreamlike idyll of simplicity and togetherness,”  the Company is joined by The International Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Also on the program is The Auditions, by Troy Schumacher to an original score by composer Augusta Read Thomas, and performed by seven Martha Graham Dance Company.  The Auditions was commissioned by Peak Performances.  Find out more here
 
Dimitris Papaioannou
BAM
November 14-16
For his BAM debut, Papaioannou will present The Great Tamer, which “…references Greek mythology, proposing an omnipresent and restless underworld…” notes the release. Papaioannou was the first choreographer to create a new evening length work for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch since Bausch’s death in 2009. Find out more here
 
Colin Dunne
Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC)
November 14-16
Irish Arts Center and BAC come together to present the U.S. premiere of Dunne’s Concert, choreographed and performed by Dunne, and created in collaboration with director Sinéad Rushe and composer and sound designer Mel Mercier.  Find out more here
 
Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce
Danspace Project
November 12, 15 & 16
Artists/performer Herman and composer/performer Joyce will premiere Breaking and Entering where they “…explore the creative potential of congenital and acquired physical immobility through their parallel weak left sides — Herman with cerebral palsy and Joyce an impaired hand from a car accident,” notes the release. Find out more here
 
Tiffany Mills Company
The Flea Theater
November 13-16
The Company will offer the premiere of Not then, not yet, an evening-length work that explores states of transition and transformation.  Find out more here
 
Gibney Dance Company
Gibney
November 14-16
Gibney Dance Company invites Stefanie Batten Bland and Peter Chu to create world premieres for their fall 2019 season. Find out more here
 
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
Capezio Theater at Peridance
November 17
Under artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus, the Company continues to bring works by Eleo Pomare to life.  On the program for this single event is Pomare's Las Desenamoradas (1967), based on Federico Garcia Lorca's play "The House of Bernarda Alba," and Tabernacle (1989) inspired by James Baldwin's “The Fire Next Time.”   Find out more here
 
Panel – “Africana Dance Dramaturgies…”
Martin Segal Theatre Center
November 18
Come listen to the panel of artist in a talk and roundtable discussion with choreographer Olivier Tarpaga, André M. Zachery, Rosamond S. King, Ph. D., Charmian Wells and Abdel R. Salaam. Curated, moderated, and hosted by Margit Edwards, Ph.D. Candidate.  Find out more here
 
“For The Moment” – Various Artists
Gibney
November 19
“For the Moment,” is a new program curated by Senior Curatorial Director Eva Yaa Asantewaa, and offers short, theme-based solo improvisations “…that celebrate creative response to the changing textures and energies of outer and inner worlds,” according to the release.  Featured will be Michiyaya Dance, Alethea Pace and Georgia Wall.  Find out more here

Camille A. Brown & Dancers
The Joyce
November 9-10
After the premiere in 2013 to critical acclaim, Brown’s Mr. TOL E. RAncE returns for just two days and three performances.  Mr. TOL E. RAncE is inspired by Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” and Mel Watkins’s book On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy from Slavery to Chris Rock, this was the first installment of her trilogy on black identity. The second and third works are Black Girl: Linguistic Play (2015) and Ink (2017), respectively.  Find out more here
 
Nairy Baghramian and Maria Hassabi
Fifth Avenue Townhouse
November 6-10
Baghramian and Hassabi come together for Entre Deux Actes (Ménage à Quatre), an installation and live performances which takes over two floors of a Fifth Avenue townhouse originally built in 1906. The FREE event takes place at 1014 Fifth Avenue.  RSVP required. Find out more here
 
From the Horse’s Mouth – Various Artists
14th Street Y
November 7–9
In celebration of 75 years of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library, the weekend includes performances with dancers, musicians, historians and choreographers, plus a panel discussion with current and past staff of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.  The list of artists includes: Arthur Aviles, Emma Rose Brown, Diana Byer, Yoshiko Chuma, Ze-eva Cohen, Alberto Del Saz, Joan Finkelstein, Julia Foulkes, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Joseph Houseal, Tanisha Jones, Deborah Jowitt, Phyllis Lamhut, Kathleen Leary, Alastair Macaulay, Dianne McIntyre, Elizabeth McPherson, Cassie Mey, Linda Murray, Rajika Puri, Charles Reinhart, Judith Ren-Lay, Henning Rübsam, Magda Saleh, Margo Sappington, Jan Schmidt, Alice Standin, Preeti Vasudevan, Tony Waag, Theara Ward, Lynne Weber, William Whitener, Kevin Winkler, Arlene Yu. *Cast subject to change.  Find out more here
 
Kia LaBeija
Performance Space New York
November 7–9
LaBeija will present her first large scale performance work which engages Oskar Schlemmer’s early Bauhaus ballet piece Das triadische Ballett, a dance in three acts, reinterpreting the final, so called Black Act which relates to fantasy, mysticism, and the infinite void of the black stage. Find out more here  
 
Nia Love
Gibney
November 7-9
Love will premiere g1(host): lostatsea which “…grapples with what it means to live within conditions shaped by the “afterlife” of slavery.”  Find out more here

Marlene Monteiro Freitas
BAM Strong
November 7–9
Making its US premiere is Cape Verde-born choreographer Freitas’ Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge, “…full of dance and mystery… in which movement, dance, and music-making are integrated—all with its own logic. Find out more here
 
Candace Tabbs
BAAD!
November 8-9
BAAD!, some events presented with Pepatian, continues their annual multidisciplinary festival, “BlakTinX Performance Series,” featuring art and performance by Black, Latinx and artists of color.  Still to come is Nile Harris (11/15-16), and Joan Bradford (11/22-23).  Find out more here
 
Annie-B & Parson’s Big Dance Theater
NYU Skirball
November 8 - 9
On the program is The Road Awaits Us (2017) based loosely on an absurdist play by Ionesco, staged as a birthday party for a company of esteemed dance elders, including Bebe Miller, Meg Harper, Keith Sabado, Sheryl Sutton, George Faison, Black-Eyed Susan, and from the original cast: Betsy Gregory and Brian Bertscher. Also on the program is Ballet Dance and Cage Shuffle: redux.  Find out more here
 
The Living Room – Various Artists
MANA Contemporary @ Jersey City
November 9
Curated by choreographer Kyle Marshall, the casual series will have performances by Oluwadamilare Ayorinde, Melanie Greene, Johnnie Cruise Mercer and Ambika Raina. Find out more here
 
Visions Contemporary Ballet: Traces (of what makes us who we are)
The Riverside Theatre
November 9
The company will premiere Still Healing, inspired by stories of people who experience pain and suffering through no fault of their own, yet they persevere.  Also on the program will be Dash – Between, Through the Valley and Roots. Find out more here
 
Zachary Tye Richardson
JACK
November 8-9
Richardson brings Available Bodies a “…sensual tribute to gender discovery, infusing moves from the queer club scene into a shifting sculptural landscape,” according to the release.  Find out more here 

10HL
Kaatsbann Cultural Park
November 9
10HL will present works by Larry Keigwin, Adam Barruch, Yin Yue and Stephen Petronio.  Find out more here
 
“Works & Process” – Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
November 10
As part of the series, the Dance Lab New York and The Joyce Theater Foundation Lab Cycle presents “Female Choreographers of Color in Ballet.”  Choreographers Margarita Armas, Courtney Cochran, Amy Hall Garner and Preeti Vasudevan were invited to explore the classical, neoclassical, and contemporary ballet idioms.  Find out more here 
 
Community Dialogue Series "Open Spectrum"
New York Live Arts (NYLA)
November 10
As part of its "Open Spectrum" series, NYLA presents “Ballroom Has Something to Say" curated by activist, leader in the LGBTQ and House I Ballroom communities, and adviser to FX’s Pose, Michael Roberson. Find out more here

Grupo de Rua
BAM
October 31—November 2
The 10 male dancers of Brazil’s Grupo de Rua makes their BAM debut with Bruno Beltrão’s street dance, Inoah where the dancers
“…explore urban life at the interface between encounter and confrontation, aggression and exuberance, animosity, bondedness, and common ground. The dancers occupy the mostly dark space with whirling movements, fast kicks, high jumps, and somersaults. Named for a city in Brazil, Inoah is a call for freedom of movement and a creative indictment against its restriction,” according to the release.  Find out more here 
 
Black Grace
The Joyce Theater
October 29–November 3
Neil Ieremia’s New Zealand-based company, Black Grace brings a repertoire of Ieremia’s works, fusing Samoan and Maori movement with contemporary dance. On the program is the U.S. premiere of Kiona and the Little Bird Suite, set to a score of body percussion along with live drumming, singing, and chanting, plus excerpts from recent evening-length pieces, including As Night Falls, and Crying Men. Find out more here 
 
Sam Kim
Danspace Project
October 31–November 2
The Brooklyn-based experimental choreographer, performer, and teacher returns to the Danspace sanctuary with her latest work, Other Animal, “…in which she incorporates media elements into a dance for the first time––animation by celebrated filmmaker Stacey Steers,” notes the release. Find out more here 
 
The Limón Dance Company
Aaron Davis Hall
November 1
City Center for the Arts brings The Limón Dance Company with youth performances and a single evening of dance specifically for the community.  Find out more here  
 
Mark DeGarmo Dance
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
November 1 – 10
Mark DeGarmo is Las Fridas in a 60-minute dance-theater duet inspired by the life and work of Mexican painter and revolutionary, Frida Kahlo. The original cast will perform the piece for the first time in over 3 years in its original, intimate setting. Find out more here
 
J CHEN PROJECT (JCP)
The Ailey Citigroup Theater
November 2
This evening will feature works by JCP’s artistic director, Jessica Chen, and winner of JCP’s CORE Choreography Competition (C3), Michelle Thompson Ulerich. Find out more here 
 
“BlakTinX Performance Series” – Various Artists
BAAD!
November 2–23
The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), some events presented with Pepatian, continues their annual multidisciplinary festival, “BlakTinX Performance Series,” featuring art and performance by Black, Latinx and artists of color.  Still to come is “Souls of our Feet” where eight choreographers share the evening (11/2), Candace Tabbs (11/8-9), Nile Harris (11/15-16), and Joan Bradford (11/22-23).  Find out more here
 
“CrackerJazz” – Various Artists
Birdland Jazz Club
November 3
“CrackerJazz” is based on the 1960 Duke Ellington album “Three Suites,” a jazz interpretation of “The Nutcracker” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, happens at the Birdland Jazz Club, hosted and presented by Mercedes Ellington, artistic director/founder of the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, Inc., and Tony Waag, artistic director of The American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF). Find out more here 
                                                                                                                                  
Sundays on Broadway – Various Artists
537 Broadway
November 3
As part of Cathy Weis’ Sundays on Broadway series, this one curated by Weis, Gregory Corbino, Jennifer Miller, and Lucy Sexton will share the evening’s program.  Find out more here
 
Durgesh Gangani
Goethals Hall
November 4
At Aaron Davis Hall, in partnership with Battery Dance, City Center for the Arts will present an evening of Kathak dance with live musical accompaniment by Dibyarka Chatterjee and Rohan Misra. Find out more here 
 
NEW@Graham
November 5–6
Martha Graham Studio Theater
The series continues with a new work by Troy Schumacher and composer Augusta Read Thomas, commissioned by Peak Performances. Find out more here
 
Ephrat Asherie Dance
The Joyce Theater
November 5-7
For Asherie’s Joyce debut she teams up for the second time with her brother, jazz pianist Ehud Asherie in Odeon blending street and club dances and features seven dancers and four musicians to create a hybrid approach to movement. Find out more here

My November 2019 AmNews Calendar

Featured:
Nia Love @ Gibney
November 7 - 9
Find out more here

mayfield brooks
Mount Tremper
October 26
Mount Tremper concludes their summer of promise to support more than 25 artists working in a variety of disciplines for their 2019 Watershed Lab.  Featured on October 26, in partnership with JACK, is mayfield brooks in Letters to Marsha, begun from  “missed connection” with queer ancestor Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson, when mayfield was 21 and Marsha 46,” according to the release. This event is curated by Marýa Wethers.  Participating artists over the series are: Stephanie Acosta, Ballez, Leslie Cuyjet, Jillian Peña, Pourzal and Raha Behnam, David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and more.  Find out more here   
 
William Forsythe
The Shed
October 1 - 25
Forsythe’s A Quiet Evening of Dance “…is an intimate experience for audiences in which choreography is stripped down to its essence…[and] performed by seven former dancers [collaborators] with the Forsythe Company/Ballet Frankfurt: Brigel Gjoka, Jill Johnson, Christopher Roman, Parvaneh Scharafai, Riley Watts, and Ander Zabala. They are joined by Rauf 'Rubberlegz' Yasit, who has developed a unique form of movement taken from b-boying, a style of breakdancing,” notes the release. Also on the program are two reimagined repertory works, Dialogue (DUO2015) and Catalogue (Second Edition).  Find out more here
 
“THE DAY” – Various Artists
The Joyce
October 22 – 27
Cellist Maya Beiser, composer David Lang with dancers Lucinda Childs and Wendy Whelan come together for the New York premiere of THE DAY, the collaborative evening-length work “…examining the way we remember our lives and what happens to our soul and stories when we leave this earthly world behind,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Armitage Gone!
NYLA
October 23 – 26
Karole Armitage’s You Took a Part of Me, inspired by Japanese Noh theater and drawing on Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji “…is an archetypal investigation of a woman revisiting her past situated in a dreamlike state of time and memory,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
“Cracks of Light” – Various Artists
Gibney
October 25 – 26
“Cracks of Light” is part of Gibney's annual observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month with performances by Nana Chinara, Gender/Power, Arielle Rosales, and Sanctuary for Families’ Survivor Leaders.  Find out more here
 
Mette Ingvarsten
NYU Skirball
October 25 - 26
For the U.S. premiere of to come (extended), part of Ingvartsen’s ongoing series, the “Red Pieces,” that deal with the conjuncture of sexual politics, private and public spheres, “…15 performers merge into a collective group, exploring the notion of individual sexual freedom by working on orgiastic relations explores indistinctions between private and public space in regard to sexual representation,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Corona Performing Works
Theatre St. Jean Baptiste
October 26 – 27
The program will feature works by Alessandra Corona, Maiya Redding, Isaies Santamaria Perez, and Manuel Vignoulle in two parts:  Part I with works by Redding, Perez and Corona, and Part 2 features W2! (Women Too!) with works by Manuel Vignouelle.  Find out more here
 
Sundays on Broadway – Various Artists
537 Broadway
October 27
As part of Cathy Weis’ Sundays on Broadway series, this one curated by Adrienne Truscott, Mike Albo, Christen Clifford and Magda San Milan will share the evening’s program.  Find out more here

World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders - Various Artists
Manhattan Movement Arts Center
October 27
Lotus Music & Dance presents “World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders” featuring Dancing Crane Georgian Dance Ensemble and Sonali Skandan/Jiva Dance (South Indian Dance), accompanied by live music. Also scheduled is are pre-performance discussions and demonstrations about the art form.  Find out more here
 
Merce Cunningham Summerspace
New York City Center/Studio 5
October 28
This studio series takes audiences beyond the proscenium for intimate conversations and live performance excerpts from hosted by dance critic and historian Alastair Macaulay. Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace (1958) performed by New York City Ballet in 1966, and now regarded as a masterpiece will be the focus. Macaulay will moderate a conversation with Cunningham stager Jean Freebury with performances by dancers from NYCB. Find out more here
See clips here