Ballet Hispánico
New York City Center
June 1 - 3
Ballet Hispánico will present a mixed program curated by Artistic Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro featuring repertory favorites, two new commissions, a new work, plus repertory.  Included on the program is Pedro Ruiz's Club Havana, William Forsythe's New Sleep presented in tribute to Ballet Hispánico’s founder Tina Ramirez (1929 – 2022); and the premiere of Michelle Manzanales Sor Juana and Omar Román De Jesús’  Papagayos. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Danspace Project
May 25 - June 3
The six-show reprisal of Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd, co-directed by choreographers Ishmael Houston-Jones and Miguel Gutierrez, with music by composer Nick Hallett concludes.  Find out  more here  

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company (Virtual & In-person)
The Cherry Artspace
May 26 - June 4
The Cherry Arts and Gwirtzman presents e-Motion, a collaboration with playwright Saviana Stanescu which explores artificial intelligence, neuroscience and what it means to be human in a digital age.  Find out more here

José Limón Dance Company
Kaatsbaan
June 3
The Limón Dance Company will present Chaconne (1942) and The Moor's Pavane (1949). Find out more here 

The American Ballet Theatre Studio Company
Kaatsbaan
June 3
The company will present, as part of the ABT Women’s Movement, at least on work by an emerging female choreographer plus other commissioned works. Find out more here 

Various Artists
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Audubon Terrace
June 3 - 4
Dance and Process, the series that brings dance artists into a group process interrogating methods of choreographic and dance practice. This year features Martita Abril, Jonathan González, and Anh Vo. Find out more here 

Yanira Castro / a canary torsi
The Chocolate Factory
June 4 - 11
Castro's I came here to weep "is a performance and collective exorcism co-created with the public. It is a multimodal, interactive project made up of four participatory scores with corresponding materials and environments that examines U.S. territorial possession through the redaction, deconstruction and performance of absurdist colonial texts," according to the release. Find out more here

​The Billie Holiday Theatre / Restoration ART and DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks present

ROOTS PARTY + LIFE ZINE RELEASE
Saturday June 3, 2023 from 12pm-4pm
Multi-Purpose Room at Restoration Plaza | 1368 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11216
RSVP here

Join multi-disciplinary artist Edisa Weeks in the journey of making 1,865 roots out of paper and twine, for the installation and performance of 3 RITES: Liberty. 1865 represents the last year of legalized chattel slavery in America.

We will also be releasing the Life Zine, which is one of four limited edition accordion fold art zines about the 3 RITES project. The zine includes images from creative residencies to develop life, the poem/essay “Movement to Suffocate” by James Scruggs, and graphic design by Natalia Viteri. Zine images included below.

Schedule:
12pm-2pm Root Making 
2pm Food & Drinks
3pm-4pm Life Zine release + conversation with James Scruggs

Attending the event is free and children are welcome.
Come and go as you please and engage in whatever capacity you feel comfortable – make a root, enjoy a meal, participate in and/or listen to the conversation, purchase a zine ($25)!

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​BROADWAY

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY IN A BROADWAY SHOW
***Steven Hoggett, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical

OUTSTANDING DANCER IN A BROADWAY SHOW
***Robyn Hurder, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical

***Jess LeProtto, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical

***Mattie Love, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A BROADWAY SHOW
***Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
***New York, New York

OFF BROADWAY SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS
Outstanding Dancers in an Off-Broadway Show
           ***Gaby Diaz, Only Gold
           ***Ryan Steele, Only Gold

Outstanding Choreography in an Off-Broadway Show
           ***Andy Blankenbuehler, Only Gold

CHOREOGRAPHY IN FILM
***13: The Musical, Choreographer: Jamal Sims

OUTSTANDING DIRECTION OF A DOCUMENTARY RELEASE
***Everybody Dance, Director: Dan Watt

Dada Masilo
Joyce Theater
May 23 - 28
South African choreographer Masilo brings The Sacrifice, her ritual expression of Tswana, the traditional dance of Botswana, and inspired by Pina Bausch's “The Rite of Spring” will be realized as she “…expands upon the concept of sacrifice, building a unique narrative by fusing ballet with modern and traditional dance to reimagine classic tales. The Tswana dance is both rhythmic and expressive, rooted in storytelling and healing practices—a fertile base on which Masilo expertly melds disparate styles,” notes the release. Find out more here  

Gibney Company
Joyce Theater
May 17-21
The Company will present the world premiere of Ghost Town by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond, SARA by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, plus Bliss by Johan Inger. Find out more here
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Various Artists
WeisAcres
May 21
Cathy Weis Projects' Sundays on Broadway events which features new and in-progress works by artists with varied movement practices, Jade Manns + Juliette Mapp + Jo McKendry & Molly Ross + video by C. Weis shares this evening of performances.  Find out more here

Autumn Knight
Performance Space New York
May 5 – 20
Performance artist, Knight will present a suite of performances for three weekends described as “an ongoing investigation into the sweetness of nothingness” in NOTHING#122: a bed, according to the release. Part one is a social experiment, transforming the Keith Haring Theatre into a host club. Part two is a choreographic and installation-based work that pares down and formalizes Nothing #122’s approach to intimacy using the bed as a site for all things beginning and ending—where everything and nothing happens. Part three sees Knight alone onstage, responding improvisationally to the space, its architecture, its audience, and more.  Find out more here 

Daina Ashbee
NYLA
May 18 - 19
In her new work Hello, Buffalo, Ashbee "gestures to perceived beings and animals with which humans share space and questions our tendency to categorize, humanize and control," according to the release.  Find out more here.

Spring Salon: Sunday, May 21, 2-4pm
The event is free with registration: RSVP on Eventbrite >
TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Avenue > directions
 
On Sunday, May 21, 2-4pm, TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present readings by Nancy Agabian celebrating her new novel The Fear of Large and Small Nations joined by fellow writers Aida Zilelian, Catherine Kapphahn, and Nita Noveno, with a dance performance by AAPI Dance Artist in Residence Nikaio Bulan Sahar.A finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, The Fear of Large and Small Nations , Nancy Agabian‘s first novel is an epic feminist misadventure story–partially set in Queens–breaks myths about gender, shame, power, and culture that travel between diaspora and homeland. Each writer will read a brief passage from Nancy’s novel alongside their own work that portrays the colorful, sometimes fraying threads that connect their characters to diverse cultures in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Asia. read more about the artists >
Nikaio Bulan Sahar/KAōS Dance Collective will perform new work inspired by interpretations of the Philippine romance story of the androgynous moon spirit, Bulan, and the messenger of death, Sidapa. Through movement, they explore questions – how are the process of falling in love and the stages of grief interconnected? How do we extend grace to ourselves and others as we cope with the death of relationships, experiences, and former iterations of the self?
Join us May 21 at 2pm: RSVP here on Eventbrite >

Autumn Knight
Performance Space New York
May 5 – 12
Performance artist, Knight will present a suite of performances for three weekends described as “an ongoing investigation into the sweetness of nothingness” in NOTHING#122: a bed, according to the release. Part one is a social experiment, transforming the Keith Haring Theatre into a host club. Part two is a choreographic and installation-based work that pares down and formalizes Nothing #122’s approach to intimacy using the bed as a site for all things beginning and ending—where everything and nothing happens. Part three sees Knight alone onstage, responding improvisationally to the space, its architecture, its audience, and more.  Find out more here 

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Chitrasena Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
May 9-12
Both companies come together to share the Odissi classical dance from India and traditional Kandyan dance from Sri Lanka in Āhuti, meaning “offering.” Find out more here 

Dancing While Black/Various Artists
Virtual & In-person
May 10 – 13
Join the Dancing While Black community as they continue to celebrate their 10th anniversary with timeless events virtually and in-person with their partners BAAD!, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.  Find out more here 

Kazunori Kumagai
Gibney Dance
May 11-13
Kumagai brings the world premiere of Tap Into the Light with a list of guest artists.  Find out more here  

Testu Collective and Yoko Murakami 
The Trisk
May 11-13
Serena Stucke & Dan Tesene of Testu Collective will present existence in time,  a transitory, site-specific performance and movement artist Yoko Murakami will be in the black box.  Find out more here

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
NJPAC
May 12 - 14
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, led by artistic director Robert Battle, returns to NJPAC with “New Jersey Premieres” including Kyle Abraham’s Are You in Your Feelings?, In a Sentimental Mood by Jamar Roberts, and The “Classic Ailey” program with Survivors (1986), Reflections in D, Night Creature and Revelations. Find out more here  
 
Catherine Galasso
Snug Harbor Performing Arts
May 12 - 14
Galasso's CITY OF WOM_N: HARBOR is part of an ongoing five-borough dance series, "in which historical memoir, contemporary interview, and abstract tableaux combine to form portraits of female luminaries, interrogating the criteria for who is remembered and how," notes the release. Find out more here

Joffrey Ballet Concert Group
The Riverside Theater
May 14 
The Concert Group will appear in ballets by artistic director Bradley Shelver and Eric Trope plus guests will be Le Jeune Ballet of Blue Ash Ohio, under the direction of former Joffrey dancer Steve Beirens.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
WeisAcres
May 14
Cathy Weis Projects' Sundays on Broadway events which features new and in-progress works by artists with varied movement practices, Malcolm-x Betts + Factress & Dance Explosion! + Iris McCloughan & Jessie Young shares this evening of performances. Find out more here 

​Peter Chu
92nd Street Y
May 14 - 15
Chu bring two world premieres Conscious Shift and take-off and performs with Roger Van der Poel, a member of his company, Chuthis. The performances are live on May 14 and online May 15.  Find out more here 

Princess Lockerooo
New York Public Library
May 18
As part of the Works & Process series at The Guggenheim, Lockerooo will talk about the History of Waacking born in the 70s by Black, gay underground clubs. Find out more here 

nia love
Harlem Stage
May 4-6
love’s multimedia performance work UNDERcurrents come to Harlem Stage as part of the WaterWorks series and asks: “What remains of the Middle Passage as force, gesture, and affect? and “expore the question through the themes of water and doors, as the point of departure for captive Africans into the Middle Passage is often described as “the door of no return,” notes the release. love explains, “Our aim is an experience of immersion that is, most crucially, felt—where the audience participates in a speculative process in which the submerged gestural and elemental traces of transatlantic slavery are made palpable. This is the core of the new departure of UNDERcurrents: we want to bring the audience fully into this world, we want to reduce the distance between the audience and the performance, taking the audience out to sea, or bringing the sea forth, and from this altered perspective we shift our embodied habits of sensing these foundational conditions of our lived environments and histories.”  To create UNDERcurrents, love is working with the dancers Cyan Hunter, Diana Uribe, j. bouey, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Jessica Ziegler, Lela Aisha Jones, Makeda Lily Love-Roney, and Marco Farroni; and with the composer-musicians Antoine Roney, Emanuel Ruffler, Jeremiah Ka’lab, and Kojo Roney, who perform live. Find out more here

Miguel Gutierrez
BAC
May 4-7
Gutierrez’s newest work, I as another is, a duet performed with Laila Franklin “takes place in a future/present dystopia and explores the virtual architecture of memory, what it means to be alongside one another, and how existential despair has come into public view,” notes the release. Find out more here 

Tzeni Argyriou’s ANΩNYMO
Peak Performances
May 4 - 7
In this U.S. premiere by Greek artist Argyriou’, ANΩNYMO, takes audiences on "...a journey back to a time before dance was defined by or attached to named individuals, but rather a practice which brought people—and kept communities—together," according to the release.  Find out more here 

Alma Dance Company
Green Space
May 5 -6
The "TAKE ROOT PRESENTS" includes Alma Dance Company & wonderland wizehart in Womb Creature: "a sonic dance experience of stories screaming to be let out."  Find out more here 

Autumn Knight
Performance Space New York
May 5 – 12
Performance artist, Knight will present a suite of performances for three weekends described as “an ongoing investigation into the sweetness of nothingness” in NOTHING#122: a bed, according to the release. Part one is a social experiment, transforming the Keith Haring Theatre into a host club. Part two is a choreographic and installation-based work that pares down and formalizes Nothing #122’s approach to intimacy using the bed as a site for all things beginning and ending—where everything and nothing happens. Part three sees Knight alone onstage, responding improvisationally to the space, its architecture, its audience, and more.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
WeisAcres
May 7
Cathy Weis Projects' Sundays on Broadway events which features new and in-progress works by artists with varied movement practices, K.J. Holmes, dustin maxwell and Anat Shamgar shares this evening of performances. Find out more here 

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Chitrasena Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
May 9-12
Both companies come together to share the Odissi classical dance from India and traditional Kandyan dance from Sri Lanka in Āhuti, meaning “offering.” Find out more here 

Dancing While Black/Various Artists
Virtual & In-person
May 10 – 13
Join the Dancing While Black community as they continue to celebrate their 10th anniversary with timeless events virtually and in-person with their partners BAAD!, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University.  Find out more here 

Kazunori Kumagai
Gibney Dance
May 11-13
Kumagai brings the world premiere of Tap Into the Light with a list of guest artists.  Find out more here