New York Live Arts
December 13 - 18
The Gibney Company premieres Ohad Naharin’s Yag 22 as part of its ongoing Up Close series. Naharin revisits Yag, created in 1996 for Batsheva Dance Company, and "...features six dancers whose relationships are gradually revealed through the work’s deft storytelling incorporating dance, speech, visual symbolism and imaginative staging," according to the release. Find out more here
Streb Extreme Action
Streb SLAM
November 18 – December 18
Elizabeth Streb’s FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN continues their month-long season and "investigates Streb’s philosophy that failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and innovation and leading to unexpected, surprising and truly original moves," according to the release. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
November 30 – December 24
Under Artistic Director Robert Battle, the Company's winter tradition of world and company premieres continues with works by Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp. The season will also include repertory and new productions, such as Revelations and Survivors, respectively. Find out more here
Tere O’Connor
BAC
December 14-17
Co-Commissioned by Danspace Project, O'Connor will present the world premiere of Rivulets where "he grapples with the relationship between unison/non-unison movement, its ubiquity across dance forms and the social and philosophical resonances this choreographic examination might engender such as: ideals of classical beauty, authoritarian or anarchic tendencies, and the standardization of human behavior," notes the release. Find out more here
Dorrance Dance
The Joyce
December 7-18
In the company’s first appearance since 2019’s holiday tap The Nutcracker Suite, founder and artistic director Michelle Dorrance brings two world premiere works in collaboration with the women of the Off-Broadway sensation STOMP and musician and company member Aaron Marcellus. Find out more here
Ivy Baldwin
The Chocolate Factory
December 7 - 17
Made specifically for the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new space, Baldwin's Folds "...revels in four dancers’ vulnerable, molting, and triumphant bodies; their operatic and primal voices; and the real-time morphing and mending of a large visual art installation made in collaboration with Ukrainian visual artist Inna Babaeva," notes the release. Choreography and performance is Baldwin with Katie Dean, Kayvon Pourazar, and Saúl Ulerio. Find out more here
The Bang Group
The Flea Theater
December 15 - 17
The Bang Group will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nut/Cracked, the company’s take on the traditional The Nutcracker. Find out more here
Take Dance
Arts On Site
December 16 - 17
The NYC-based contemporary dance company founded by Artistic Director Takehiro Ueyama will offer two evenings of performances. Find out more here
Moriah Evans
Performance Space New York
December 17 - 18
Evans' Remains Persist, "...a performance exploring and excavating the body’s internal, imperceptible, and at times immaterial remains...[was]... developed as process for making dance that combines somatic practice with contemporary research from the humanities and sciences, reckoning with the way history is embodied, notes the release. Find out more here