Sept. 27-28
L'Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater
As part of the Crossing The Line Festival, Bel opens this year’s festival with a career retrospective Bel calls “auto-bio-choreo-graphy.” For ecological reasons, the choreographer no longer travels by plane; instead, Broadway actress April Matthis plays him, blending filmed dance documentation, monologue, and live restaging into an unexpected evening. Find out more here
Various Artists
Sept. 18 – 29
City Center
The annual ten-day event, Fall for Dance Festival, returns to City Center with five programs. Slated for this season is the National Ballet of Ukraine, collective kNoname Artist– Roderick George, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, GALLIM, M.A.D.D. Rhythms, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Italy’s CCN/Aterballeto, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Tiler Peck, Herman Cornejo and much more. Find out more here
Various Artists
Sept. 20 - Oct. 6
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
For the 2024 Annual Festival, showcasing various artistic styles and genres, from visual art to contemporary dance, in indoor and outdoor settings. Find out more here
Ballet X
Sept. 25-29
The Joyce
Led by Christine Cox, the Company returns with three New York premieres including Takehiro Ueyama’s Heroes, Jodie Gate's Beautiful Once, and Loughlan Prior's Macaroni. Find out more here
Alethea Pace
Sept. 28
Joseph Rodman Drake Park/Enslaved African Burial Ground
Pace’s between wave and water “…a performance walk rooted in remembering and reclaiming the history of an African Burial Ground in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, and combines dance, storytelling, and song…” will be presented at Joseph Rodman Drake Park/Enslaved African Burial Ground. between wave and water is part of Pace’s Civic Practice Partnership Residency at The Met Museum. Find out more here
Various Artists
Sept. 28
AOS
Dual Rivet's "Made By Women Festival" in two programs with Priscilla Tom, Jeevika Bhat, Graciela Portillo, Dual Rivet, Sydney Burtis, Starla Edwards & Rachel Lockhart and Kanami Kusajima. FInd out more here
Michelle Thompson
Sept. 29
AOS
Thompson will presnet Excuse me, it’s nice to meet you, a multi sectional work exploring the beginnings of relationships. Find out more here
Various Artists
Sept. 28
Roulette
Belongó: Worldwinds, a collaborative performance bringing together pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble with dance companies: LaTasha Barnes & The Continuum Collective and Soles of Duende. Find out more here
Limón Dance Company, Boca Tuya, and Music From The Sole
Sept. 28-29
Kaatsbaan
This mixed bill includes Limón Dance Company in a new creation by Kayla Farrish plus classics by José Limón. Redes (Nets) (1951) and El Grito (The Scream) (1952), Boca Tuya performs Like Those Playground Kids at Midnight by Omar Román De Jesús, and from Music From The Sole, a new work-in-development that explores the link between tap dance, Afro-Brazilian, and house music. Find out more here
Sept. 29
Martha Graham Dance Company: Baye & Asa
The Guggenheim Museum
Graham Dance Company highlights commissioned expansion of choreographers Baye & Asa’s Cortege 2023, inspired by Martha Graham’s Cortege of Eagles. Baye and Asa will participate in a moderated discussion with artistic director Janet Eilber. Martha Graham Dance Company members will perform excerpts prior to the work’s premiere. Find out more here
Music From The Sole
Sept. 30
The Guggenheim Museum
Led by Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and bassist Gregory Richardson, Music From The Sole draws from Afro-Brazilian, jazz, soul, house, rock, and Afro-Cuban styles. Find out more here
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Oct. 1-6
The Joyce
Ray Mercer’s This I Know For Sure brings a distinct energy to the program, capturing the spark of creation between choreographer and dancers and giving a peek into the artist’s mind. Philadelphia dance pioneer Rennie Harris pays homage to renowned painter Jacob Lawrence and his portrayals of Black life in America with Jacob’s Ladder, focusing on Lawrence’s scenes of urban life. add master choreographer Paul Taylor’s Esplanade. Find out more here
NVA & Guests
Oct. 2
Triskelion Arts
NVA & Guests presents the first phase of the new project, Cry Wolf (Phase One) a dance-theater production that interlaces the urgency of climate change awareness with the classic narrative of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Find out more here