MERCE/MISHA/MORE
​Kaatsbaan
Sept. 13
Kaatsbaan launches the Annual Festival with a film celebrating decades of friendship, mutual admiration, and collaboration between Mikhail Baryshnikov and Merce Cunningham. MERCE / MISHA / MORE includes new reminiscences by Mikhail Baryshnikov, rarely seen rehearsal footage from 1967 and 1994, the duet from Cunningham’s Landrover, featuring Jacquelin Harris and Chalvar Monteiro, and Daniel Madoff’s film Event at REDCAT, performed in 2010 by Mikhail Baryshnikov with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and produced by Nancy Dalva. The film is provided courtesy of Baryshnikov Arts. Opening Night Reception follows the screening. Find out more here

​Various Artists
Manhattan West
Sept. 4 – 25
Every Wednesday in September, “Gather Round,” a free outdoor dance and music series, in partnership with Works & Process and inspired by the competitions of the summer Olympics in Paris will feature a celebration of street and club dance battles.  Find out more here 

Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet 
Mark Morris Dance Center
Sept. 13 – 14
Magloire's New Chamber Ballet celebrates its 20th anniversary with works from 2007 to 2024.  Find out more here  

Various Artists
Chocolate Factory
Sept. 14
CATCH is a party that centers short and/or in-progress live performances and other time-based media. CATCH 76 will feature Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein, leahlaia, Hiera Jihye, Kennie Zhou, Laura Ortman, Paris Alexander, River L. Ramirez, Shawn Escarciga, Sol Cabrini, +  a Collective Action by Yanira Castro. .Find out more here

Roulette announces this year's cohort of Awarded Artists: Dreamcrusher, Elias Stemeseder, Emilio Modeste, NO LAND, Sylvie Courvoisier, David Leon, Leo Chang, Lester St. Louis, Nava Dunkelman, and Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith. 

Each year, Roulette responds directly to artists’ needs for money, space, and support by awarding commissions, residencies, and generous production stipends to extraordinary artists—cumulatively totaling over $2.2M and counting. For our 2024-2025 season, we are proud to present awards to a cohort of eleven incredible and distinctive artists at various stages in their careers, who will be premiering new work or honing ongoing projects in the coming year. 

Maho Ogawa
Stephanie Acosta
Ash Rucker
Sofia Engelman & Em Papineau
Shira Kagan-Shafman

The LEIMAY Incubator Program is a self-directed opportunity offered primarily to a local community of dancers & choreographers, providing resource sharing to aid in their creative development.

Hear from the artists and stay tuned to LEIMAY's social media for more spotlights!​

The 2024-25 artists-in-residence are Maria Bauman, Javon “Ja’Moon” Jones, and Nubian Néné. Each artist will receive a one-week residency with unlimited access to a dance studio and full living space at Arts on Site R&R in Kerhonkson, NY, as well as a $2,000 stipend. The residency is designed as both a retreat and a space to create without the pressure of developing a new project. Additionally, artists have access to complimentary studio space at New Dance Alliance’s loft in Tribeca throughout the season, and are invited to show work at NDA’s annual Performance Mix Festival.

Founded in 2020, BASC was envisioned by former NDA advisory board member Angie Pittman “as a way to value and amplify the tremendous work that Black artists have historically done and are doing to shape our nation’s imagination, language, and humanity.” 

New Dance Alliance is committed to continually assessing its role in amplifying, uplifting, and supporting artists of color across its programmatic platforms. As a predominately white-led organization, NDA hopes to learn and continue to push the boundaries of what it means to create a more equitable dance field. NDA’s hope as an organization is to not only grow this program, but also to create a community of artists to whom it is continually able to offer support. 

Artists are selected by an invited curatorial committee of previous BASC artists and New York-based artists. The committee is modeled after Movement Research’s Artists of Color Council. NDA’s motivation in gathering this committee is to transfer organizational and curatorial power to artists of color, and work toward cultivating a more transparent and accessible organization for all artists. This year’s committee selected artists who demonstrate a rigorous commitment to conversation in dance and performance within the communities they are rooted in, in addition to dedication and longevity in practice, performance, and community building.

The 2024-25 BASC curatorial committee: j. bouey, Kyle Marshall, Babou Sanneh, and Jelani Taylor.

This nationwide, educational paid apprenticeship takes place over 14 weeks in the spring of 2025 and is offered to applicants with a demonstrated passion to increase the involvement of those that have been historically underrepresented in American Theater. The program showcases the inner workings of the commercial theater business and Broadway touring.

This intensive educational program begins with 13 weeks of in-depth learning in one of the following Broadway Across America offices: New York City, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Louisville, Minneapolis, Ottawa, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, where Apprentices will learn about topics like Presenting, Ticketing, Marketing Strategy, Operations, and more. To close out the semester, the Apprentices will travel to New York City for a week of networking, on-the-job learning, and to see Broadway shows.

“Everyone at Broadway Across America and the John Gore Organization is very happy to be launching applications for the fourth year of this program,” said John Gore Organization President Lauren Reid. “We have seen many brilliant early career professionals enter our industry after completing the apprenticeship, and we can’t wait to welcome a new cohort of Apprentices to the program.  We are proud to partner with BTC to create more pathways for the future workforce of the theater community.”

“We’re excited to continue our partnership with Broadway Across America, offering opportunities that uplift underrepresented voices. Through our partnership with BAA, we’re building a more equitable industry," said co-founders of BTC T. Oliver Reid and Warren Adams. "This program provides crucial, hands-on experience for those usually left out of the conversation and helps ensure that the future of American theater reflects the diversity of its artists and audiences.”

The BAA•BTC Regional Apprenticeship works to equip participants with the tools necessary to be successful in the industry. It also provides a foundation of mentors and colleagues to whom they can turn to for support as they pursue a career beyond the stage. Past alumni of the BAA•BTC Regional Apprenticeship program have gone on to work at Tony Awards Productions, Foresight Theatrical, Daryl Roth Productions, Disney Yellow Shoes, Broadway Across America, and more.

“The BAA/BTC Regional Apprenticeship gave me the opportunity to be an insider in an industry that, under ordinary circumstances, had been just out of reach” said, Trey Robinson, Communications Coordinator for Broadway Across America.  “This Apprenticeship has proven a pivotal moment in my professional journey, allowing me a front row seat to witness and learn about the intricacies, challenges, and innovations that shape the theater industry.”

Students pursuing degrees in fields like Arts Administration, Business Administration, Marketing, Public Relations/Communications, Theater Studies, Finance/Accounting, Human Resources, Pre-Law, Arts Ticketing/Sales/Operations, and other fields of study that relate to commercial theater presenting are welcome in the program. A variety of perspectives, backgrounds, abilities, and opinions are very much encouraged to apply.

Interested applicants can find the application form and more information at www.broadwayacrossamerica.com/apprenticeship

Type: Full-Time
Posted: 08/23/2024
Category: Dance
Position Overview
The Butler University Department of Dance, in the Jordan College of the Arts, is inviting applications and nominations for Assistant Professor of Dance, tenure-track.

Find out more HERE

Penny Arcade (she/her) aka Susana Ventura is a poet, actress, writer, theatre maker, and videographer whose focus on community building as the goal of performance and performance as a transformational act have brought her recognition far outside American soil and mark her as a true original on the world stage, where she is considered an international icon of artistic resistance. Penny debuted in John Vaccaro's explosive Playhouse Of The Ridiculous in 1968. She was a teenage Superstar for Andy Warhol's Factory featured in the film Women in Revolt. Since 1985 she has created her own text-based work. She has written 16 full length plays and thousands of performance pieces.  Since 1999, along with her long-time collaborator of 33 years, Steve Zehentner, she has cohelmed The Lower East Side Biography Project "Stemming the Tide of Cultural Amnesia ", a video project preserving and  celebrating the rich tapestry of downtown NY's creative diversity. It streams and broadcasts every Monday at 11pm on NY cable stations and online. Complete access to Penny’s large body of work and social practice is available at www.patreon.com/penny_arcade.

NICKY PARAISO (he/him) is an actor, singer, musician, writer, curator, and solo performance artist.  He has been a fixture of the NY downtown performance scene for almost five decades. He is Director of Programming for The Club at La MaMa, and Curator for the annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, which will celebrate its twentieth year in April 2025. He has worked as a performer with vanguard artists Jeff Weiss & Carlos Ricardo Martinez, Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks. Nicky has also performed in the works of Anne Bogart, Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley, Richard Elovich, Dan Froot, Fred Holland, Dan Hurlin, Christopher Williams, among many others. He has also performed with Ma-Yi Theatre Company & National Asian-American Theatre Company (NAATCO). Nicky is the recipient of a 1987 Bessie Award for his Collective Performances, the Lilah Kan Red Socks Award, a 2012 BAX Arts & Artists in Progress Arts Management Award, a 2018 TCG Fox Fellowship as an Actor of Distinguished Achievement, and the 2019 (NY Innovative Theatre) Ellen Stewart Award for Stewardship. Nicky is an acclaimed solo performance artist and has written & performed the following solo shows: Asian Boys directed by Laurie Carlos (Performance Space 122), Houses & Jewels directed by Laurie Carlos (DTW), and House/Boy directed by Ralph B. Pena (La MaMa, Dublin Theatre Festival, Singapore Performance Initiation Festival). Nicky's most recent full-length performance, now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories, directed & designed by John Jesurun, premiered at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre in March-April 2019, performing with choreographer/dancers Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio.

The Ruth Maleczech Award is a no-strings-attached cash award granted by Mabou Mines together with Ruth’s family, Clove Galilee and Lute Breuer. The awardee is selected through a nomination process and is given to a performer who embodies Ruth’s daring and raw, naked, fearlessness in every performance. “The Ruthie” was created to honor Ruth Maleczech, the beloved artist/performer/director and co-founder of Mabou Mines. She was an inspiration, a mentor, and a role model for countless artists.

DANCENOW
Sept. 4-7
Joe's Pub
DANCENOW celebrates its 21st annual season at Joe’s Pub and will present 24 artists in all new works, commissioned from a diverse roster in two different programs of 12 artists each night.  Hosted by Deborah Lohse as TruDee, featured will be Jamal Jackson Dance Company, NVD Project, Symara Johnson, NVA & Guests, Tsiambwon M. Akuchu, Nicole Wolcott, Doug Elkins Choreography, binbinFactory, 2nd Best Dance Company, Leslie Cuyiet and many more.  Find out more here 
Various Artists
Sept. 4 – 25
Manhattan West
Every Wednesday in September at Manhattan West, “Gather Round,” a free outdoor dance and music series, in partnership with Works & Process and inspired by the competitions of the summer Olympics in Paris, will feature a celebration of street and club dance battles.  Find out more here 

Sharon Eyal
Sept. 5-12
Park Avenue Armory
WIth the premiere of R.O.S.E., "...a subversive Armory co-commission that reconfigures conventional expectations of dance performance by dissolving the boundary between performers and audience members and bringing everyone together on the dance floor," according to the release. Conceived by Eyal and her creative partner Gai Behar, this new production synthesizes contemporary dance, electronic music, and club culture. Find out more here  

Various Artists
Sept. 7-8
EL Barrio Artspace
Clark Center NYC brings back their "Dance Showcase" and pays homage to the original Clark Center “New Choreographers” concerts which began in 1962.  “We continue to be dedicated to supporting new talent by encouraging emerging choreographers and small companies,” notes the release. The lineup of emerging artists includes Winston Dynamite, Daniel Kersh, Claudia Logi, Makayla Peterson, Rachael Su, Miaotian Sun, and Sekou Walton. And guest artists will be Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company, Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet, Amy Pivar and Jamal Story.  Find out more here