Raja Feather Kelly’s the feath3r theory
The Kitchen
June 22 – 24
Continuing their Lumberyard in the City festival, Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) presents the world premiere of feath3r theory in: Another Fucking Warhol Production, or Who’s Afraid of Andy Warhol?, a new work from Raja Feather Kelly and his company the feath3r theory. Kelly describes the feath3r theory in this work “…as a “docufiction performance.  The work stars Kelly and his company, the feath3r theory (as themselves), performing a post-ballet theater musical that reimagines and attempts to re-create unrecorded, deleted and lost footage from a rumored 2015 “Saturday Night Live” episode on love and war (“The Love Episode”), featuring musical guest Kanye West.,” according to the release.  Another Fucking Warhol Production, or Who’s Afraid of Andy Warhol? culminates Kelly’s development of the work with the support of LUMBERYARD’s 2016 Solange MacArthur Award.   Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Prismatic Park/Madison Square Park
June 13 - October 8
Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, Netta Yerushalmy, and Jodi Melnick will rehearse, have workshops, and perform amongst Josiah McElheny's outdoor public art project - prismatic glass-tile sculptures, in in full view of the public.  Find out more here
 
River to River Festival – Various Artists
Various Venues
June 14 – 25
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents the 16th annual “River To River Festival,” a free arts festival that promises to “…explore and celebrate diversity in all its forms over 100+ performances and events ...across Lower Manhattan and Governors Island,” according to the release.  The lineup includes: Wally Cardona, Jennifer Lacey and multiple collaborators in The Set Up: Island Ghost Sleep Princess Time Story Show (June 23–24 & June 24–25); Maria Hassabi (June 23 & 25), to name a few.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
JACK
June 21 - 24
In the four-day festival of performances and conversation, “EXPLODE! queer dance,” curated by Clare Croft, set for this season is: Jennifer Monson, DD Dorvillier, Thomas DeFrantz, Jennifer Harge, Nic Gareiss & Cleek Schrey and Post Natyam Ensemble. The evenings at JACK will be hosted by Boston-based desi drag queen LaWhore Vagistan.  Find out more here
 
Bryant Park Presents Contemporary Dance – Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 16 – 30
The Contemporary Dance series curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, paired with the ballet performances curated by Donna Salgador returns with a lineup that includes:  Martha Graham Dance Company, Kinetic Architecture Dance Theatre and more (June 23); and CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, Island Moving Company and Thomas/Ortiz Dance (June 30). Find out more here
 
NYC10 – Various Artists
Dixon Place
June 21
NYC10, which “…provides opportunities to 10 emerging dance companies to showcase their work (up to 10 minutes each) and receive feedback and reviews,” will feature Lukasz Zieba & Iza Szylinska, Soluq Dance Theater, ZEST Collective,  ODNA Choreography, Cameron McKinney, Yidi Lin & Karlie Budge and more.  Find out more here
 
Lydia Johnson Dance
New York Live Arts
June 21 – 23
The 13-member ensemble from Lydia Johnson Dance premieres two works,  and will be joined by guests Mary Beth Hansohn and Peter Chursin, and Deborah Wingert,.   Find out more here
 
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Martha Graham Studio Theater
June 22-24
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company will present the New York premiere of Chen's CrossCurrent, “…a collection of new works created on her journey as an immigrant artist attempting to reconcile the two cultures inside her, one she was born into, the other she chose to join,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Dance Visions NY
Various Venues
June 25 – August 1
By collaborating with North Shore landmarks Dance Visions NY will create multi-faceted dance and art programs amongst the environments in which they are performed. Sands Point Preserve Conservancy (June 25),  Cedarmere  (July 29) and Clark Botanical Gardens (August  1 (rain date Aug. 3).  Find out more here
 
David Michalek/Yvonne Rainer
Danspace Project
June 23 – July 1
The film, “SlowDancing/TrioA” by artist Michalek, in collaboration with choreographer, Rainer, “… seeks to create an unusual motion picture record of Rainer's iconic dance-work, Trio A, which she created in 1966,” notes the release.  There is a cast of 46 dancers includes original dancers Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, Stephen Petronio, Richard Move, David Thomson, Wendy Whelan and younger generations of dancers, many of whom are students of the original dancers. "   This video installation will be open to the public  and admission is free. RSVP is recommended at danspaceproject.org.  Find out more here

Armitage / Buglisi / Monte / Muller – LIVE!
New York Live Arts
June 13 – 17
Armitage Gone! Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Elisa Monte Dance, and Jennifer Muller/The Works come together in five shared evenings of pPerformances featuring 6 pPieces –  3 premieres – and 35 dancers.  The program includes (in order of appearance): Buglisi Dance Theatre’s MOSS 1 (premiere) by Jacqulyn Buglisi; Armitage Gone! Dance’s WALLS (excerpt) (preview) by Karole Armitage; Elisa Monte Dance’s DAY'S RESIDUE by Elisa Monte; Jennifer Muller/The Works’ THE SPOTTED OWL (excerpt) by  Jennifer Muller; Elisa Monte Dance’s  1:3:4:1(US premiere)by Tiffany Rea-Fisher (Artistic Director); and Armitage Gone! Dance’s EXCERPT FROM LIGETI ESSAYS  by Armitage.   Find out more here 
 
Out Like That! Festival
BAAD!
June 8 - 24
Now celebrating 17 years, The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) has marked LGBTQ pride month by presenting the “…Bronx’s only consistent gay pride,” returning with a lineup of dance, theatre, film and performances featuring queer artists from the Bronx and beyond, notes the release.  On the bill: Richard Rivera/Physual (June 16 & 17); #Queer #SouthAsian #Diaspora (June 18); and the “Courageous Conversations: Strategies for Living and Loving in America” with Kiara St. James and Jamal T. Lewis (June 19 /Free).  Find out more here
 
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Lincoln Center
June 14-18
AAADT returns to Lincoln Center for one-week only beginning with the “Musical Inspirations” program featuring the premiere of Robert Battle’s Mass, plus Battle’s Ella (2016) and the 2016 new production of Billy Wilson’s The Winter in Lisbon (June 14). The Ailey Spirit Gala benefit honoring Board Vice Chairman Stephen Meringoff raises funds to support scholarships for students of The Ailey School and Ailey’s Arts in Education & Community Programs (June 15). The “Global Voices” program featuring Mauro Bigonzetti’s Deep, Johan Inger’s Walking Mad and Maurice Ravel’s Boléro (June 16) and “The Bold Visions” program featuring Ailey dancer Hope Boykin’s r-Evolution, Dream and Kyle Abraham’s Untitled America (June 17). Some programs repeat. Find out more here 
 
Benjamin Millepied/L.A. Dance Project
Joyce Theater
June 13 – 25
Returning to The Joyce with two mixed bill programs L.A. Dance Project, conceived by Artistic Director Millepied: Program One includes the world premiere of  Millepied’s’ In Silence We Speak, plus Yag by Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company Ohad Naharin, and Millepied’s Hearts & Arrows (2014). Program Two includes Murder Ballades (2013) by Justin Peck, Merce Cunningham’s “MinEvent” and the world premieres of Millepied’s Orpheus Highway and In Silence We Speak. Find out more here 
 
River to River Festival – Various Artists
Various Venues
June 14 – 25
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents the 16th annual “River To River Festival,” a free arts festival that promises to “…explore and celebrate diversity in all its forms over 100+ performances and events ...across Lower Manhattan and Governors Island,” according to the release.  The lineup includes: The Dance Cartel (June 14, 21 & 25); Netta Yerushalmy (June 15 & 19); Joshua Frankel, Judd Greenstein, Will Rawls, Tracy K. Smith (June15 & 17 – 18); Jodi Melnick (June 16 & 17 – 18); Wally Cardona, Jennifer Lacey and multiple collaborators in The Set Up: Island Ghost Sleep Princess Time Story Show (June 17–18, June 23–24, & June 24–25); Maria Hassabi (June 23 & 25), to name a few.  Find out more here
  
Victory Dance Project
June 15 – 18
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
Under the Artistic Director Amy Jordan, the season will open with a celebration honoring Broadway legend Chita Rivera, who will be presented with the company’s “Woman of Valor Award.” The program, entitled From This Moment On will also include a world premiere as well pieces from the company’s repertory.  Special performances will feature students from Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance company.  Find out more here
 
Paloma McGregor
New York Live Arts
June 16 – 17
In McGregor’s iterative performance project, “Building a Better Fishtrap,” the work “…is rooted in the reclamation of her 91-year-old father’s vanishing fishing tradition,” notes the release. Collaborators are currently in a 10-day creative process at the Bronx River, Hudson River, and New York Live Arts as part of McGregor's 2016-18 NYLA Live Feed residency.   Find out more here
 
ESMÉ BOYCE
92nd Street Y
June 16 - 18
Boyce will premiere Interrobang, “…rooted in the Dada art movement...[and which]…strives for a balance of grace, humor and abandon, rendering a kinetic world with painterly detail,” notes the release. Also on the program is Boyce’s Dark and Pretty Flat (2014) Find out more here 
 
Bryant Park Presents Contemporary Dance – Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 16 – 30
The Contemporary Dance series curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher and Donna Salgador returns with a lineup that includes:  David Fernandez’s Some Dance Company, Da’ Von Doane & Artists of the Shift and more (June 16); Martha Graham Dance Company, Kinetic Architecture Dance Theatre and more (June 23); and CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, Island Moving Company and Thomas/Ortiz Dance (June 30). Find out more here 
 
Martita Goshen
Paul Taylor Studio
June 16 – 17
Goshen presents the premiere of Sanctuary, “…her final work honoring the legacy, greatness and goodness of the magnificent racehorse Barbaro, who died tragically,” notes the release.  Find out more here 

New Traditions Festival: Our Caribbean Spirit
June 16-18, 2017 at Mark Morris Dance Center
Buy Tickets: 2017.newtraditionsfestival.com
Find out more:
Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE
www.dancecaribbeancollective.com

New Dance Alliance – Various Artists
University Settlement
June 8 - 11
New Dance Alliance presents the 31st annual Performance Mix Festival featuring works by 20 local and international dance artists, plus Performance Mix’s annual community breakfast, a dance party, and more.  Curated by New Dance Alliance Founder and Director Karen Bernard, a few from the impressive lineup includes: Julian Barnett and Jocelyn Tobias | Anya Liftig, Societat Doctor Alonso, Barbie Diewald, Xan Burley and Alex Springer, Angie Pittman, Melanie Greene, Ori Flomin, Julio Ulises Medina and so much more.  Find out more here.
 
Ivy Baldwin
Abrons Arts Center
June 1 - 11
Baldwin’s latest work, Keen [No. 2], “…is a meditation on loss and ritual [that]builds upon Baldwin’s recent Keen (Part 1) for the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and is co-presented by the Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory Theater, and The Joyce Theater as part of Joyce “Unleashed,” the Joyce Theater’s off-site series for experimental dance.  Find out more here 
 
The SERIES 2017– Various Artists
Hudson Guild Theatre
June 6 – 11
Curated by Juan Michael Porter II, at each performance of THE SERIES 2017, one or two of the 12 guest companies will share the program with Michael Mao Dance in a set of works that range from social to abstract dance.  The lineup includes: Soluq Dance Theater, Kilowatt Dance Theatre, DoubleTake Dance, NSquared Dance, Depth Dance, JP Dance Group, Monteleone Dance and more.  Find out more here
 
Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance
Baryshnikov Arts Center
June 7 – 10
Sperling, artistic director of Time Lapse Dance, collaborates with visual artist Amy-Claire Huestis, and composer/ video artist Omar Zubair on Book of Clouds, “…utilizing inventive light technologies, movement, and sonic composition to expand perceptions of time and space,” notes the release.  Find out more here 
 
10 Hairy Legs
BAM/Fisher
June 8 – 11
The all-male repertory dance company, 10 Hairy Legs under artistic director Randy James will debut Al Blackstone’s “playful quintet” Brian, Raja Feather Kelly’s Andy Warhol’s Bleu Movie, set to a score by Bryan Strimpel which will be played live, and Brooklyn premieres:  mark (2016) by Doug Varone  and Quadrivium (2016) by Megan Williams.  All works are commissioned by 10HL.  Find out more here 
 
Vicky Shick
The Kitchen
June 8 - 10
Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) continues  its second annual Lumberyard in the City festival with Let It Linger, a new work Vicky Shick, described as “…a movement piece in several segments, each one with a slightly different combination of inhabitants. In the work, moments of discomfort—perhaps even the unpleasant—are interspersed with attempts at intimacy and with robust and luscious physicality,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Raja Feather Kelly and David Hamilton Thomson
June 8 & June 10
The Yard
The Yard officially opens the 2017 Season with Schonberg Fellows Kelly and Thomson, who, with their collaborators will develop new and ongoing work as part of the Bessie Schonberg Legacy Choreographic Mentorship Residency and perform the in-progress explorations after their 3-week residency on-site at The Yard.  Find out more here
 
MeenMoves
Martha Graham Studio Theater
June 8 – 9
Choreographer/artistic director, Sameena Mitta of MeenMoves will present the new, evening-length work, alternative (f)Acts  which “…investigates what it means to process the multiplicity of “facts” evolving before our eyes,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
“Out Like That! Festival”- Various Artists
BAAD!
June 9
As part of BAAD!’s “Out Like That! Festival,” a shared bill of works with contemporary dance, House moves and Indian dance includes: Anooj Bhandari, ColemanCollective, Filip A. Condeescu, Linda LaBeija, James LaTeek, Jordan Martin, Nikolai McKenzie and Kiran Rajagopalan.  The Festival runs June 8 – 24. Find out more here 
 
ChoreoQuest – Various Artists
RestorationArt’s New Dance Space
June 10
The 2017 ChoreoQuest choreographers-in-residence:  Germaul Barnes, Alia Kache, Francine Ott, Andre Zachery, Brittany Williams, Edisa Weeks and lead choreographer Nathan Trice will present works as part of “The Afro-Pas de Deux Festival…[which] wrestles with the binaries that often exist between Western dance and Afrocentric dance,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet
City Center Studio 5
June 10 – 11
Magloire's New Chamber Ballet close its 2016-17 series with a premiere to John Cage's "Cheap Imitation" for violin, Mozart, Friction and Leise, Leise  (Softly, Softly) all by Magloire.  Find out more here
 
Asha Dance Company
Kimble Theater
June 10
The evening, titled “Generation Speak” will offer a “…program of dance dedicated to the individuals of our present who choose to make their voices heard and take a stand against injustice,” according to the release.  Find out more here 
 
Paz Tanjuaquio
Fisher Landau Center for Art
June 11
Choreographer and dancer Tanjuaquio who creates dance inspired by artworks will move within the exhibition Hypothetical? by Lorna Simpson. Admission is complimentary. Find out more here
 
Fadi J. Khoury’s FJK Dance
Kaye Playhouse/Hunter College
June 13
Khoury brings his blend of contemporary ballet, Argentinian tango, ballroom and Middle Eastern dance together in the evening titled “A Fusion of Culture and Dance, A Message of Peace.”  Find out more here

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​Featured: Kyle Marshall Choreography 

​Kyle Marshall Choreography
The Actors Fund
June 2 – 3
Kyle Marshall with dancers Oluwadamilare Ayorinde and Myssi Robinson have been in deep research in the making of Marshall’s first full evening work, Colored.  Marshall notes, Colored “…honors the dark twisted beauty of blackness while demonstrating the inherent struggle in abstracting the black dancing form.”  To that end, the work traverses many terrains to find answers asked of each dancer.  Colored is commissioned in part by  "Dance on the Lawn: Montclair’s Dance Festival, EMoves Harlem Stage, and Jersey (New) Moves Dance Festival at New Jersey Performing Arts Center and features original music and decor by Matt Clegg.  Colored runs June 2 - 3 at the Actors Fund Arts Center.  There will be a brief Q & A with the artists after Friday’s performance.  Find out more here


​La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
LaMaMa Theatres
Now  - June 4
Now in its 12th year, curated by Nicky Paraiso with a lineup of “…different generations of choreographic artists dealing with the actual day-to- day contemporary, political, social, and ecological challenges that we face in our world,” says Paraso. This final weekend’s lineup includes: Maura Nguyen Donohue (May 25-26 and June 1-3); Patricia Hoffbauer (June 2 – 4); Patricia Noworol (June 1 – 3); and “Shared Evenings” curated by Alexis Convento with Fana Fraser, Mersiha Mesihovic and Veraalba Santa (June 3 ) Leslie Cuyjet, Maree Remalia and Jessica Pretty (June  4).  Find out more here
 
Movement Research Festival Spring 2017
Various Venues
May 31 – June 6
Curated by Laurie Bert, Monstah Black and Amy Khoshbin, the Festival includes performances, screenings, workshops and dance parties.  Find out more here   
 
David Gordon’s Pick Up Performance Co(s)
The Kitchen
June 1-3
Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) begins  its second annual Lumberyard in the City festival with the New York premiere of Gordon’s Live Archiveography  a combination of  “…movement, scripted storytelling, conversation and video to look back at his five decades in dance and theater,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Janis Brenner & Dancers
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
June 1 – 3
The company will premiere Once You Are Not A Stranger, an “… interdisciplinary work [that] looks at the idea of empathy in a multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious world and uses the dance company as a microcosm of this world.,” according to the release.  This work is made in collaboration with Bosnian-born composer Svjetlana Bukvich.  Also on the program is Brenner’s Soul River/Blues, originally created in collaboration with Maya Dance Theatre in Singapore.  Find out more here
 
Graham 2
Martha Graham Studio Theater
June 1- 4
For their 2017 New York season, the Company’s program will feature a series of solos from modern pioneers, including Ted Shawn’s Serenata Morisca (1916), Ethel Winter’s En Dolor (1944), Stuart Hodes’ Flak (1951), and more.  Find out more here
 
Ivy Baldwin
Abrons Arts Center
June 1 - 11
Baldwin’s latest work, Keen [No. 2], “…is a meditation on loss and ritual [that]builds upon Baldwin’s recent Keen (Part 1) for the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT, and is co-presented by the Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory Theater, and The Joyce Theater as part of Joyce “Unleashed,” the Joyce Theater’s off-site series for experimental dance.  Find out more here
 
Marie-Christine Giordano Dance & BalaSole Dance Company
BAM/Fisher
June 2 – 3
As part of the 15th Anniversary season the Company will premiere Et Maintenant  and Robert Villanueva’s BabaSole Dance Company will be joined by Miki Orihara.  Find out more here
 
Legacy 36
Miller Theater at Columbia University
June 3
This special event will feature The Legacy Dancers, a line of former Rockettes, directed and choreographed by Mary Six Rupert with guest appearances by Maurice Hines, Sandy Duncan, Don Correia and Rosemary Novellino-Mearns.  Find out more here
 
“Dancers For Good”
Ross School (East Hampton)
June 3
Hosted by Bebe Neuwirth, the “Dancers For Good” event, created in 2016 to raise funds in support of the arts and the local community will feature performances by Eryc Taylor Dance, Paul Taylor Dance, American Ballet Theater & Complexions Contemporary Ballet.  Find out more here
 
Cathy Weis
“Sundays on Broadway”
June 4
Cathy Weis Projects continues the spring 2017 lineup for "Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions.  This Sunday there will be an evening with Simone Forti, K.J. Holmes, and Daniel Lepkoff.   The evening will include a conversation with the artists moderated by Wendy Perron.  Find out more here