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Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation
March 5
Ase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation "...whose core tenets are to Enrich, Educate, Entertain African history art forms and history through its programs for children to adults," brings its It Was All A Dream, 20th Anniversary, kicking off their year-long celebration.  Find out more here






Maria Valencia
March 1
The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) continues its 2021 digital spring season with the premiere of choreographer and performer Valencia’s brownout, a solo created, directed, and filmed at locations in upstate New York. brownout will be available to view until March 15. Find out more here

Rovaco Dance & Kayla Farrish
March 4
Rovaco Dance and Kayla Farrish shares and evening as part of this series following current COVID-19 restrictions, and welcoming live and virtual audiences  Find out more here

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Festival
March 5 - April 4
This month-long digital festival features four New Adventures productions filmed live at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London.    Bourne’s: Swan Lake, The Car Man, Cinderella, and Romeo and Juliet will be available on demand in rotation.  Find out more here

Dara Fain
March 6
The Chocolate Factory celebrates the occasion of Faïn’s 25th anniversary as an NYC based artist with a preview of the patch the sky with 5 colored stones interactive digital platform – inviting the spectator to join in the effort to conjure an experience of human intimacy using tools of disconnection. Find out more and register here

Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance
March 6 + 7
Founder and director Fredrick Earl Mosley's Unconquered, initially in response to COVID-19 and racial injustice, happens this weekend. Register and find out more here

Martha Graham Company
March 6 - 24
The Company’s all-digital 95th season continues and offers and inside look the work of the Company and iconic works by Martha Graham, and the dances commissioned from some of today’s choreographers. Find out more here

Various Artists
March 6
In the program "DANCING ACROSS BORDERS," Pepatián and BAAD presents dance makers Stéphanie Cyr, Jessica McMann, Simran Sachar, Zahra Shahab who will share a program moderated by Alicia Bauman-Morales and curated Jane Gabriels, Ph.D. in collaboration with Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative. Find out more and RSVP here

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7NMS|Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders
Virtual Work-In-Process Showing
February 27

Watch h a mix of live and pre-recorded footage from 7NMS|Everett Saunders + Marjani Forté-Saunders' residency collaborating music and dance. Self titled students and descendants of black liberation movements who radically engage music and dance forms as alchemic mediums of elevation, healing, and futurity, for The Yard, through their #SatelliteResidency, 7NMS continues developing PROPHET from their home studio in Pasadena. Find out more here

Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH)
February 24 – 27
DTH continues their month of virtual screenings – this last week includes talks and an investigation of Firebird, John Taras’ choreography to Stravinsky’s familiar score and sets and costumes by Geoffrey Holder. The DTH production was created in 1982. Find out more here

DANCE NOW
February 25
This live event will feature one-time-only performances from host, TruDee and recreate the atmosphere of Joe's Pub while celebrating Chapter 4 and Claire Porter.  Find out more here

New York City Ballet
February 25
See George Balanchine's Prodigal Son filmed in 2013 at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center and danced by Teresa Reichlen and Daniel Ulbricht with Jonathan Stafford, Marika Anderson, Likolani Brown, Devin Alberda, and Austin Laurent.  Music is by Sergei Prokofiev and conducted by Marc Taddei, Guest Conductor.  Find out more here 

Moko Fukuyama
February 26 + 27
"Fukuyama has been in residence at Queenslab producing two new pieces as part of her project American Recordings, an ongoing series that reflects on the state of public discourse within the United States today. In the final days of her residency, Fukuyama invites visitors to view installations and videos that she created in the space last week," notes the release. Find out more and RSVP here.

Danspace Project
February 26
The Fall 2020 Artist Research Fellows, devynn emory and Angie Pittman come together in the digital Conversations Without Wall series, pre-recorded, streamed on YouTube and archived on Danspace Project's online Journal.  Find out more here

ARTS ALIVE
February 26 + 27
BODYSTORIES: TERESA FELLION & ROYA CARRERAS shares and evening as part of this series following current COVID-19 restrictions, and welcoming live and virtual audiences. Find out more here

Miguel Gutierrez and Ishmael Houston-Jones
February 27
Gutierrez writes, "I’m reading this Saturday on a shared bill with my spiritual “abuelo” Ishmael Houston-Jones, as part of Artists’ Space Segue Reading Series, curated by the luminous pair - imogen xtian smith and Kay Gabriel." Join the reading here

TRIBE’s BLACK HOLE 360° Video Art
February 27
The 92Y will premiere TRIBE’s BLACK HOLE 360° Video Art a multidisciplinary, interactive piece merging choreography, photography, video and lighting and featuring the photography series by Alex Apt, 3D imaginary by Lucca Del Carlo, original music by Sivan Jacobovitz, with performers Shamel Pitts, Mirelle Martins, and Tushrik Fredericks. The event is free with registration. Find out more here

Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC)
Through February 28
KMC releases the performance recording of COLORED a work that “…navigates the beautifully twisted spectrum of blackness that dance artists Oluwadamilare Ayorinde, Marshall, and Myssi Robinson,” from BAM’s 2019 Next Wave Festival, notes the release. To get tickets for the virtual watch party email kmchoreostaff@gmail.com

New York Theatre Ballet 
February 28
Between the Acts: Antony Tudor a look at the life and works of Antony Tudor, and the curator of dance for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Jane Pritchard, the sole Trustee of the Antony Tudor Ballet Trust Amanda McKerrow, and more. RSVP to ezahlmann@nytb.org to receive a Zoom link prior to Sunday.

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
The Joyce Theater Stage
Livestreamed
Thursday, February 18 at 8pm EST

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE continues its 35th Anniversary celebration with a program that includes excerpts from some of the Company's large body of work. Slated for this one-night-only livestreamed event are excerpts from Grace, For You, She is Here,Palo y Machete, One Shot, March and Mercy.  The evening will stream until Thursday, March 4 at 11:59pm ET. Find out more here

Thunderbird American Dancers Pow Wow and Dance Concert
February 20 - 8:30pm
Theater for the New City
There will be dances, stories and traditional music from Native Peoples of the Northeast, Southwest and Great Plains regions. The event, emceed by Bessie-winner Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago), has become a treasured New York tradition for celebrating our diversity by honoring the culture of our first Americans. The concert will be livestreamed from the theater and available on demand until March 7, 2021.

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and ArteEast
February 18 
Sign up to see the world premiere of 3 x 13, where "...in 12 short films with original music by Lou Tides, 12 artists from around the globe share a journey of transformation that deeply marked their lives," according to the release.  Get Your Tickets Before 11am on Thursday. RSVP

Dance Theatre of Harlem 
February 19 - 8pm
Hear from Lighting Designer Roma Flowers and Costume Designer Pamela Allen-Cummings and learn more about their long-term collaboration with choreographer, Robert Garland. Watch on YouTube and Facebook.
February 20 - 8pm
Join principal couples of New Bach after the stream of the ballet as they talk about their experiences working with Robert Garland and performing the ballet. Watch on YouTube and Facebook.

Renegade Performance Group
February 20 & 21 at 7PM
Witness the screening of the Afrofuturist dance film Ephemera shot on location at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2019, stay for the post-screening artist talkback with collaborators and performers of the project and get access to other films by RPG.
RPG Virtual Season - Ticket Registration

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January 19–20 & January 26–27
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
Curated and hosted by Nicky Paraiso, the festival will feature digital premieres by five artists: Kevin Augustine (US); Kari Hoaas (Norway); Tamar Rogoff (US) with Mei Yamanaka (Japan). Tickets are pay-what-you-can starting at $5.  Find out more here

February 1 – February 15
Bijayini Satpathy 
BAC
Satpathy's Vibhanga "...a non-narrative dance set to a reimagined score of traditional South Indian music, and draws from the curvilinear tendencies of the Odissi dance forms..." is presented as part of BAC's New Works Commissioned series.  Find out more here

January 27, and February 3, 10, and 17
Various Artists
Isolation to Creation Docuseries/Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Airing on WNET's ALL ARTS "This past Summer and Fall amidst widespread cancellations, Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, itself facing a shuttered theater, forged a path for artists to safely gather, create and perform together again. Pioneering and producing bubble residencies that have since been widely duplicated, over fifty artists entered eight Works & Process bubble residencies in rural Hudson Valley after an unprecedented period of isolation," from the release.  Find out more here

January 30
Kinesis Project dance theatre
In an evening of an experiment in bi-coastal live performances titled Search(light), dancers on each coast will perform simultaneously, live from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York and the Kay White Hall at Vashon Center for the Arts on Vashon Island, Washington. Find out  more here

January 31
Johnnie Cruise Mercer
"Process memoir 6: thenowlater (SOUL) is a multi-layered ‘movement’ choreography charted as four journeys: (Body - Mind - Soul - Heart).." notes the release.  Planned for the day of the Film Premiere is also a Watch Party & Fundraiser.  Find out more here.

My AmNews January 2021 Virtual Dance Calendar

Featured:
Maria Bauman-Morales’ Desire: A Sankofa Dream
January 22 and 23