Estrogenius Festival
May 8-24
Judson Church, The Cell, UNDER St. Marks, Downtown Art
Estrogenius presents its 24th year of commitment to breaking the mold of a womxn’s festival. Estrogenius 2025: ALL IN is 3 weeks of experimental performance, dance, theater, music and poetry across New York City. The Festival is curated by Portia Wells, Sabrina Canas, Melissa Riker, John C. Robinson, and short play producer Vincent Marano. 2025 offers the EstroGenius Short Play Series, which sold out in 2024, partners with the historic Judson Church, and features independent New York City dance artists like Em Papineau & Sofia Engelman, VERBAL ANIMAL, Movement of the People, Valentina Bache, Dorchel Haqq and Petra Zanki, plus the work of long-time EstroGenius producer, maura nguyễn donohue and welcomes Seattle artists Kara Beadle and Andy Zacek and their wild, bicycle focused new world. Find out more here​

NYCB
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center
Sept. 16- May 31
Curated by Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, in collaboration with Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford and Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck.  Featured will be world premieres and new works by Jamar Roberts, Justin
Peck’s Heatscape, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum and more.  Find out more here

Ankita Sharma
JACK
May 15-17
The experimental movement-based performance artist Sharma will present dhoka/Betrayal/, where the “Heady and erotic, dhoka entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s ultimate power with present-day authoritarianism and religious violence in a South-Asian diasporic dance-theater duet,” notes the release. Find out more here 

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
NYLA 
May 15-24: For this season, the Company will offer two programs: Program A: Curriculum III: People, Places & Things, “created against the backdrop of a memory of freedom, and with that memory comes a taste for self determination…” And Program B: Jones’ latest work, Memory Piece solo, where he “...reflects on pivotal moments and influential figures throughout his career …” according to the release.  Find out more here 

Parsons Dance
Joyce
May 13-24
Parsons Dance will feature the world premieres of Her Gifts, a solo by David Parsons and Sheep’s Gothic by Rena Butler, plus Robert Battle’s The Hunt, and Parsons’ iconic Caught.  Find out more here

Dancers Unlimited
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden 
May 17 
The Company concludes their month-long CUNY Dance Initiative residency with a studio showing of Edible Tales: REST. Inspired by Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance. Find our more here 

BBB Block Party 
Triskelion Arts
May 17
Trisk, in partnership with KEIGWIN + COMPANY brings their block into a space of celebration, expression, and connection...honoring the power of Black artistry...turning the block into a stage, a dance floor, and a gathering space where culture, creativity, and community take center stage," according to the release.  The event is free.  Find out more here  

JENNIFERCHINdance
AOS
May 17 - 18
The Company will present A Love Letter, "...a celebration of Asian identity through the lens of biology, biography, and migration, bringing a continually evolving perspective of change in a love letter to the world," according to the release.  Find out more here  

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Ailey CitiGroup Theater
May 18
The Company, founded by Chinese American choreographer Nai-Ni Chen, and now led by Artistic Director Greta Campo and Executive Director Andy Chiang, will launch its 37th anniversary season and celebrates the 2025 Asian American  Pacific Islanders Heritage month. The program will include Chen’s Unfolding, Tiger and Water Lilies, plus a new work Ninja Under the Umbrella by director Ying Shi. Find out more here

Nami Yamamoto | Emma Judkins | IV Castellanos
Sundays on Broadway
May 18
Yamamoto will present Mu-chan (working title), Emma Judkins' At Matins or Evensong, and IV Castellanos will perform an excerpt from Leche Hervida. Find out more here 

Paul Taylor Dance Company 
Taylor Dance East
May 18
For the up close sessions, the Company will present Cascade (1999) and Company B (1991).  The event is free and space is limited.  Find out more here

​Development & Executive Support Associate
The Development & Executive Support Associate will report to the Development Manager and Executive Director. The position supports Movement Research’s individual giving programs and departmental administration through organization of reporting and tracking across the organization, creation of materials for donation campaigns, and institutional giving materials.

Part-time, 25-hour/week, hourly position at Movement Research.
Compensation: $22/hour
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Classes & Workshops Associate
The Classes & Workshops Associate will report to the Programs & Events Manager and is responsible for handling daily programming tasks. The Classes & Workshops Associate supports the implementation of MR’s class and workshop schedule, including MELT, and other related programs. 

Part-time, 28 hour/week, hourly position at Movement Research.
Compensation: $22/hour

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Alethea Pace
Joseph Rodman Drake Park/African Burial Ground
May 10
Pace will reprise between wave and water, a site-specific performance rooted in contesting and reclaiming the history of an African Burial Ground in Hunts Point, the Bronx. "Combining dance, storytelling, and song, between wave and water is an immersive journey where fragments of ancestral memory guide the audience through layers of history. A contemporary Bronx Trickster character leads the way, colliding our present realities with the pervasive yet irretrievable past. Trickster tells stories, invented mythologies that expose and disrupt dominant narratives. The performers mirror and amplify Trickster’s double-talk and duplicity, and at other times translate unspeakable memories into movement," according to the release.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Judson Church
May 5-19
The Movement Research at the Judson Church continues its monthly offerings with performances by Kiera Bono, Stephanie García | Punto de Inflexión and Leslie Parker (May 5), Mohammadreza Akrami and Abbey McBride (May 12) and Benin Gardner, Zhangxinan Wu 吴张心安, Queer CI Cohort: Robin Ekeya, Leland Hull, Emily Jones, and Hannah Krafcik (May 19).  Find out more here 

Anna Sperber
The Chocolate Factory
May 7-10
Sperber will present Beacons, an evening-length dance that "continues her investigations into the tension between exacting formal clarity and a visceral wildness, mapping the intersections between desire and care. ," according to the release.  Find out more here  

Bebe Miller Company
Harlem Stage
May 8-9
As part of Harlem Stage’s dance series, E-Moves, the Company makes its Harlem Stage debut with the new ensemble work Indifferent Forest, plus solos Rain (1989) and Rhythm Studies (1999).  Find out more here 

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre 
New York Live Arts
May 8-10
Dance Theatre presents the world premiere of Awaken which "weaves original material with resonant choreography from Selwyn’s 25 years of rich repertory...exploring the struggle between distraction, a quest for certainty, and living in an embodied present," according to the release. Find out more here

Various Artists
Arts on Site
May 9-11
In varied productions, Agon/Again, and Mikael Darmanie with Emily Haughton are presented over the weekend.  Find out more here 

The Equus Project
Arts on Site
May 10 - 11
Artistic Director, JoAnna Mendl Shaw's The Equus Projects will present Truth be Told, a new theatre/dance/film work for six dancers about some brutal truths.  ​Find out more here 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
NJPAC
May 9-11
For their annual Mother’s Day weekend at NJPAC, and continuing to celebrate the life and legacy of artistic director emerita Judith Jamison, the Company, under interim artistic director Matthew Rushing, will present Sacred Songs by Rushing, Jamar Roberts’ Al-Andalus Blues, Hope Boykin’s Finding Free, Lar Lubovitch’s Many Angels, plus repertory works including Ailey’s Revelations.  Find out more here 

Anabella Lenzu 
La Mama
May 10
Lenzu launches her book, “Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures” with a reading and performance .  Admission is free.  Find out more here 

Harlem Lite Feet with Chrybaby Cozie
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
May 15
At the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and as part of the Works & Process series, the pioneers of Harlem Lite Feet will share stories of how this New York City dance tradition and culture was created and how it has grown. Find out more here 

Ankita Sharma
JACK
May 15-17
The experimental movement-based performance artist Ankita Sharma will present dhoka/Betrayal/, where the “Heady and erotic, dhoka entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s ultimate power with present-day authoritarianism and religious violence in a South-Asian diasporic dance-theater duet,” notes the release. Find out more here 

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
NYLA
May 15-24
For this season, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will offer two programs: Program A: Curriculum III: People, Places & Things, “created against the backdrop of a memory of freedom, and with that memory comes a taste for self determination…” And Program B: Jones’ latest work, Memory Piece solo, where he “...reflects on pivotal moments and influential figures throughout his career …” according to the release.  Find out more here 

Graham 2 is a pre-professional dance company drawn from the most advanced students of the Martha Graham School.
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Its mission is to bring the Graham tradition to a younger audience, smaller venues, and cultural communities, and to be a springboard for early career dancers to enter the professional dance world.
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Learn more here

Anna Sperber
The Chocolate Factory
May 7-10
Sperber will present Beacons, an evening-length dance that "continues her investigations into the tension between exacting formal clarity and a visceral wildness, mapping the intersections between desire and care. Through movements that are at once driving, soft, and precise, Beacons seeks an exuberant and expansive generosity of space, feeling, volume, and light; luring its audience toward a heightened sense of our collective rhythms and shared environments. An immersive, saturating sound score (by experimental electronic musician Lea Bertucci) and atmospheric lighting (by Madeline Best) create striking perceptual effects in response to the architecture and the bodies it contains; complicating distinctions between body and space; and challenging the limits of our common awareness, both real and imagined," according to the release.  Find out more here  

The Trisha Brown Dance Company
The Joyce
Apr. 29 - May 4
The Company with a program celebrating Brown’s Unstable Molecular Structure cycle, a period which introduced the geometric style that remains a hallmark of her work. The program will feature Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980) and Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981), plus a new commissioned piece, Time again, by Lee Serle in collaboration with Colombian visual artist Mateo López.  ​Find out more here 
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Various Artists
WestFest
May 1-4
The WestFest Festival returns for their 15th year with performances all over Westbeth Artists Housing. Performances will be by Assaf Salhov - Cardinal Movement and Company, Company of Collaborative Artists (CoCA), Dylan Richmond, Faustine Lavie Dance Project, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, The Bang Group, The DynamitExperience and many more.  Find out more here  

Peridance Contemporary Dance Company
Peridance Center
May 2-4
The Company’s Season 42 will feature works by Igal Perry, Roderick George, Mizuho Kappa and Lar Lubovitch.  Find out more here 

Michael Greenberg
CUNY
May 3
Choreographer and dancer Michael Greenberg creates a site-specific work for City College’s Cohen Library titled Intuitive Imprints.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
May 4
As part of the Works & Process series, the Vail Dance Festival is highlighted. Every summer, leading and rising choreographers, composers, companies, dancers, and musicians all come together at the Vail Dance Festival in Colorado. Directed by Damian Woetzel, the festival features a mosaic of offerings, including premieres.  Find out more here   

Various Artists
Judson Church
May 5-19
The Movement Research at the Judson Church continues its monthly offerings with performances by Kiera Bono, Stephanie García | Punto de Inflexión and Leslie Parker (May 5), Mohammadreza Akrami and Abbey McBride (May 12) and Benin Gardner, Zhangxinan Wu 吴张心安, Queer CI Cohort: Robin Ekeya, Leland Hull, Emily Jones, and Hannah Krafcik (May 19).  Find out more here 

Julia Antinozzi
The Brooklyn Peace Center
May 8
Antiozzi will present a new work in progress, danced by Sienna Blaw, Leah Fournier, Dasol Kim, Shane Larson, Paulina Meneses and Kelsey Saulnier.  Find out more here 

Cleo Reed and Symara Sarai
Abrons Arts Center
May 8
As part of CPR's Open Studios series and in partnership with Abrons'; AIRSpace Residency, Reed and Sarai, will share works in process. Find out more here

Bebe Miller Company
Harlem Stage
May 8-9
As part of Harlem Stage’s dance series, E-Moves, the Company makes its Harlem Stage debut with the new ensemble work Indifferent Forest, plus solos Rain (1989) and Rhythm Studies (1999).  Find out more here 

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre 
New York Live Arts
May 8-10
Dance Theatre presents the world premiere of Awaken which "weaves original material with resonant choreography from Selwyn’s 25 years of rich repertory...exploring the struggle between distraction, a quest for certainty, and living in an embodied present," according to the release. Find out more here

Various Artists
Arts on Site
May 3 - 9
In varied productions, Erin Maher, JacoTayl Dance! And Friends, Finding Compassion and Agon/Again are presented over the weekend.  Find out more here 

​THE CLIVE BARNES FOUNDATION CELEBRATES ~ 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF DANCE AND THEATRE AWARDS,
AT NATIONAL ARTS CLUB

The Clive Barnes Foundation (CBF) has announced the 2024 Honored Artists for The Clive Barnes Award in Dance and Theatre. David Gabriel (New York City Ballet), Isaiah K. Harvey (EVIDENCE), and Kanon Sugino (Doug Varone and Dancers) have been named Honored Artists in Dance, and Ava Lalezarzadeh (English), Tom Francis (Sunset Boulevard), and Helen J Shen (Maybe Happy Ending) are the Honored Artists in Theatre. The 15th Annual Clive Barnes Award ceremony will be held Monday, June 9, at 5:30pm at the National Arts Club in New York City.

For more information and to support the Clive Barnes Foundation, click here

​NYC cultural nonprofits: apply for the next cycle of the Cultural Development Fund (CDF)! Open to eligible non-profit arts and cultural organizations, the CDF is the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs’ annual grantmaking process that supports a broad, multidisciplinary group of diverse non-profit cultural organizations for their public programming. Each year the CDF receives hundreds of applications for programmatic funding from groups working across the five boroughs, and convenes peer panels of individuals with expertise in NYC’s cultural community to review all eligible applications.

This public support for cultural activity is intended to reach New Yorkers in every corner of the city, so eligible groups are encouraged to apply. Potential applicants are encouraged to attend a CDF application webinar, four of which will be offered from April 9 through May 1. The Fiscal Year 26 CDF application deadline is Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 5:00 PM (ET). Learn more about eligibility, guidelines, webinar dates, and more at nyc.gov/CDFapply.

​Hello, Culture Stewards.

We Are Bound: Developing Equitable Artists’ Contracts crew here. Greetings to you! 

As you know, we have been working to develop guidelines for more equitable artists’ contracts.
We asked artists nationwide which contractual issues have the greatest impact on their current and future earnings, ownership rights, and protections.  
We engaged lawyers to offer guidelines and recommendations to top artist-named issues.
Now, we sincerely ask that you invite all artists you know to a virtual sharing and listening session to overview the emerging recommendations that lawyers have offered.

DIGITAL DISCOVERY LAB™  MAY 1,  1 - 3 PM ET

Artists can pop in at any time during the two-hour window. 

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83610142400?pwd=9vb72sA4WpgfNi665yIFWMPHoxSNbG.1
Meeting ID: 836 1014 2400. Passcode: 146679

Various Artists
92y
Apr. 22-26
The Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, a multi-night performance and workshop program offering rhythm-based dance forms including tap, hip hop and street dance, Kathak Indian dance, flamenco, Appalachian flatfooting, Irish step dance, live music and more. Find out more here 

Various Artist
​Baryshnikov Arts
April 24–26
SISSY a modern-day reimagining of Sisyphus, expressed through dance and explored from a female perspective, taking place between the worlds of a theater and a miles-long rock quarry.  Find out more here  

Various Artists
La Mama
Apr. 25-27
Alexis Chartrand and Nic Gareiss, and Megumi Eda shares a program as part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.  Find out more here  

Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet
Mark Morris Dance Center
Apr. 25 – 26
Magloire’s 2023 work, Well, inspired by the compositions of contemporary composer Anthony Cheung will be presented.  Find out more here  

Reggie Wilson
Danspace Project
Apr. 26
Danspace Project’s Platform 2018: Dancing Grounds curated by Wilson inspired an extensive Philadelphia project which featured eight Philly choreographers at three historic churches in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia project resulted in a documentary film entitled GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!… and others merely shaking produced by Deborah Thomas, directed by Gordon Divine Asaan, and curated by Reggie Wilson. This program will include a screening of the documentary of the 2019 Philadelphia series and reflections on the 2018 Danspace Platform. Find out more here  

Various Artists
La Mama
Apr. 25-27
Jesse Zaritt and Pamela Pietro, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd shares a program as part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.  Find out more here  

A film by Emily Coates
WeisAcres
Apr. 27
Invisible Universe is a feature-length experimental documentary and dance film by Emily Coates that chronicles spontaneous collaborations between leading dance artists and scientists encountering each other for the first time within the Wright Laboratory. Find out more here

Various Artists
La Mama
Apr. 26-27
As part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival and at Community Arts Space, Amalia Suryani will premiere of Ta’na Nirau, “…rooted in the dance, music, and storytelling traditions of the Dayak tribes of Borneo, Indonesia, who are grappling with multiple existential challenges,” notes the release.  Fin out more here  

Brenda Bufalino & Company
92Y
April 27 
As part of the "Works & Process" series Bufalino closes the inaugural Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival with stories and work spanning a lifetime, Bufalino starts with the film The White Buffalo Suite, which her company the American Tap Dance Orchestra premiered in 1990. Her cast of collaborators includes dancers Alice Baum, Tammy Sakuri, and Dylan Szuch as well as accordion player and pianist Ben Rosenbaum and bass player Joe Fonda. Find out more here 

Various Artists
CPR
April 27
Nico Cabalquinto is the guest curator for OPEN STUDIOS, and invites Fernando Gregório, Kevin Peter He, and MIZU to share works in development.  Find out more here 

The Trisha Brown Dance Company
The Joyce
Apr. 29 - May 4
The Company with a program celebrating Brown’s Unstable Molecular Structure cycle, a period which introduced the geometric style that remains a hallmark of her work. The program will feature Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980) and Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981), plus a new commissioned piece, Time again, by choreographer Lee Serle in collaboration with Colombian visual artist Mateo López.  ​Find out more here 

Darcel Haqq
CPR
Apr. 29
As part of the "Open Air" series, Haqq will present closed mouths dont get fed, an immersive performance installation that explores the genesis of human consciousness, and examines the formative moments when we first recognize our desires and develop the autonomy to express them. Find out more here 

Camille A. Brown is looking for extremely virtuosic dance artists to perform for engagements with her Company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers.

Female Presenting Dancers: We are in search of dance artists with the ability to perform African diasporic styles, specifically: polyrhythms, black social dances, and have a familiarity with modern dance and contemporary styles/techniques. The dance artist must have an ability to learn, retain choreographic aesthetic, possess the ability to act and do character work while maintaining a physical capacity to dance and perform.

Male Presenting Dancers: We are in search of dance artists who are familiar with various hip hop forms, breaking, popping, locking, improvisation, and have a familiarity with modern dance and contemporary styles/techniques. The dance artist must have an ability to learn, retain choreographic aesthetic, possess the ability to act and do character work while maintaining a physical capacity to dance and perform.

Dates: June 9th-11th: Women's Audition, June 12th-13th: Men’s Audition

Video Submission Deadline: The Camille A. Brown & Dancers Audition is INVITATION ONLY. Applicants should submit a video for review to [email protected] by May 4th, 2025. Video may be of you in studio or performance (must be solo or easily identified), 2-3 minutes of footage. Invited candidates will be notified with audition location and times.

Salary/Wage: Ranges from $25 to $30/hour for rehearsals and meetings; $1000 to $1300 for weekly engagements; $300 for local performances. Payment range is based on experience. Cost of living adjustments may increase fees.

Must be able to work in the U.S.

Rehearsals will begin in-person: Monday, June 16th, 2025 in New York City.

Camille A. Brown & Dancers is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, age, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We encourage members of underrepresented groups to apply.

INVITATION ONLY! Please Submit Video for Review to [email protected] by May 4h, 2025.