Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
Jan. 28-Feb. 2
The Joyce Theater
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs What The Day Owes To The Night, "...a gravity-defying work blending capoeira, martial arts, and contemporary dance. Inspired by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra’s novel, What The Day Owes To The Night traces Koubi’s own personal lineage as a French-Algerian choreographer. After learning about his family’s Algerian roots, Koubi returned to the country of his ancestors to collaborate with streetdance performers from across the Mediterranean basin," according to the release. This performance is supported by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.  Find out more here   

Laura Peralta and IMGE Dance 
Feb. 1 
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
In Entre Líneas, Afro-Dominican Flamenco artist Peralta "...uses the individual symbolic elements of Flamenco – the dress, the shawl, the guitar, rhythm, masculinity, and femininity – to examine the tension between tradition and self-expression..." notes the release.   Find out more here 

Nai-Ni Chen Dance
Feb. 1-2
NJPAC
Celebrating the coming of spring 2025 and The Year of The Snake, Nai-Ni Chen Dance continues their Newark tradition for over two decades, with dance, acrobatics and music to invoke the spirit of the snake.   Find out more here  

Varioius Artists
Feb. 2
92nd Street Y
As part of drummer/composer Allison Miller’s immersive multimedia work Rivers in Our Veins, Michelle Dorrance, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Maleek Washington and Luke Hickey will be featured.  Find out more here  

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar + Urban Bush Women
Feb. 5-8
Perelman Performing Arts Center. 
​SCAT!...The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar, conceived, directed and co-choreographed by Zollar "… Through song, dance, and storytelling, [they] tell the powerful love story of two people making their way through the Great Migration, inspired by Zollar’s childhood in Kansas City’s Black neighborhoods,” according to the release.  Find out more here 

Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Feb. 5-9
The Joyce Theater
Brown & Dancers brings I AM, a new work expanding Brown’s trilogy: Mr. TOL E. RAncE (2012), BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play (2015), and ink (2017) that “…disrupt our understanding of the past, while I AM shifts the scope of her bold queries into the future. Inspired by a narrative within the drama television series Lovecraft Country, Brown imagines a creative space for cultural liberation,” notes the release.  Find out more here 

CDI also announces an open call for applications for its next residency cycle. Professional NYC-based choreographers and dance companies working in all styles and forms are invited to apply, and applications can be submitted between January 15 and February 20, 2025.

CDI supports residencies that are for rehearsal only, or may culminate in a public performance, and all awards include an honorarium in addition to the space grant. CDI, via its consortium of CUNY colleges and arts organizations, expects to award 22 to 24 residencies from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Starting with the 2025-26 cycle, CDI has forged a new partnership with Works & Process. In addition to a CDI rehearsal residency at Queens College, the selected artist will be awarded a fully-funded out-of-town Works & Process LaunchPAD residency.

More information about the residencies and application: HERE.

Malpaso Dance Company
The Joyce
Jan. 21-26
The Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company returns for a second season. The company remains committed to nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography and for this program they will offer What The Day Owes To The Night, inspired by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra’s novel, What The Day Owes To The Night  and also traces Koubi’s own personal lineage as a French-Algerian choreographer. Find out more here

New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center
Jan. 21 - Mar. 2
The Winter Season with programming curated by NYCB Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, in collaboration with Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford and Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck, will feature 20 ballets including world premieres from Peck and NYCB Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky. The season will also feature works by Christopher Wheeldon including Carnival of the Animals.  Find out more here 

H.T. Chen & Dancers
LaMama
Jan. 24-26
The program entitled "Rise of the Phoenix," will include works by founder/choreographer H.T. Chen, and celebrate the history of Chinatown. They will also celebrate the 2025 Lunar New Year and ring in the Year of the Snake. Find out more here  

Various Artists
Jan. 24-26
AOS
Continuing their mission to cultivate creative spaces to support artists, featured will be: Working Title Theater/Arch Danse Ensemble, (1/24), Juan Carlos Franquiz II (1/25), Amelia Larson/Entity Dance/Yauheniya Ramanovich and  Kristina Desjardina (1/25), plus JacoTayl Dance! (1/26).  Find out more here 

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Pam Tanowitz
The Guggenheim
Jan. 25
As part of the Works & Process series, Lopez and Tanowitz, looks at two new ballets premiering in spring 2025 at Miami City Ballet. Find out more here 

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Kupferberg Center for the Arts 
Jan. 25-26
At Queens College's Kupferberg Center, the Company will celebrate The 2025 Lunar New Year of the Snake. Find out more here  

Momix
NJPAC
Jan. 26
Under the direction of Moses Pendleton, the Company will present Pendelton's s newest creation, ALICE, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Find out more here 
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Compagnie Hervé KOUBI
The Joyce
Jan. 28-Feb. 2
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI returns with What The Day Owes To The Night, a work blending capoeira, martial arts, and contemporary dance. Find out more here 

​The MOPTOP Universal Professional Program brings together some of the leaders in the street and club dance scene in New York to offer Street and Club Dance Open Class programming and the 3-month / 6-month MOPTOP Universal Professional Program. 

The MOPTOP Universal Professional Program at Peridance Center offers a condensed and comprehensive learning experience in street dance.

The program covers history, terminology, vocabulary, performance, and technique, providing dancers with the tools to authentically navigate their careers while immersing themselves in the street and club dance community. This program is open to dancers of all levels aged 18 and above by audition only. Students learn from leading figures in the New York street and club dance scene, and the program concludes with a performance at Peridance Center's KnJ Theater.

​Find out more here 

The Movement Research at The Judson Church gives local and international artists an opportunity to showcase performance work at any stage of development. This is a high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights happening throughout the fall and spring seasons.
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Application Opens: Monday, December 16, 2024

Application Closes: Tuesday, February 4, 2025

​Find out more here

Started as a response to the gentrification of BedStuy, Brooklyn, STooPS Art & Community was birthed in 2013 by Founder/Director, Kendra J. Bostock with the vision to make art accessible while valuing creators and honoring the local. STooPS creates opportunities for community building through workshops and showcasing interactive, multidisciplinary art on neighborhood stoops, sidewalks, and storefronts. We reinvigorate outdoor spaces and the iconic brownstone stoops in honor of their legacy of communal care, networking, rest, and social activism.

Job Description:
STooPS Marketing Specialist is responsible for sharing our story and our love of art and community to the world. Specialist will work collaboratively with STooPS Team (primarily Founder/Director, Creative Producer, and Development Director) to create an overall marketing strategy for STooPS activities and campaigns. STooPS activities include a Summer Festival, Fall Fun Series, Holiday Party, and educational/curatorial programs. Campaigns may include individual donors cultivation, general fundraising, and brand awareness. Marketing Specialist will be responsible for managing the implementation of all marketing facets of the organization. Marketing Specialist will be directly responsible for the strategy, creation and implementation of ongoing social media presence. Specialist will also be the main point person for press and PR consultants. 

​If you have any questions about the job posting or STooPS, you may reach out to [email protected].

André M. Zachery
651ARTS
Jan. 16-19
Zachery will present the world premiere of his solo memoir,
Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans + Other Urban Legends, a "journey of self-exploration and Black masculinity, weaving together history, memory, poetry, and music. Co-written by producing director Ayinde Jean-Baptiste.  It also features Chicago"s Poet Laureate Avery R. Young and the and sound artist Sadah Espii Proctor.  Against Gravity... is set against the backdrop of 1980s and 90s Chicago, while André’s story is informed by three main figures: Fred Hampton, Benji Wilson, and Harold Washington. "Guided by the prophetic voice of Gwendolyn Brooks, the performance grapples with their legacies and the weight of mythologies they left behind—unraveling how they shaped a generation of Black men."  Find out more here   

Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri
Playwrights Horizon
January 9-18
Barnes and Saenz de Viteri’s Many Happy Returns, "is a memory play in the form of a playful and unpredictable (even for performers) dance. This hybrid scripted and improvised work of movement and language sees Barnes playing the body and Saenz de Viteri assuming the voice of a woman, in the middle of her life, who moves with total clarity but can’t stop revealing the doubt she’s desperate to cover by dancing.  Find out more here

Miguel Gutierrez 
New York Live Arts
Jan. 12-18
A Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist, Gutierrez will premiere, Super Nothing a quartet for performers (Justin Faircloth, Wendell Gray II, Jay Carlon, and Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez), "...whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive," notes the release. Find out more here 

Urban Bush Women
The Apollo
Jan. 13 – Mar. 12
The Apollo will present Lineage Legacy and Liberation: An Examination of Urban Bush Women’s Art-Making and Community Organizing Praxis a visual exhibition in the Laura and Frank Baker Gallery with pop-up performances on select dates. Find out more here

Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
The Joyce
Jan. 14-19
Brown will offer a restaging of Serving Nia (2001) and the 25th anniversary performance of Grace (1999). Find out more here  

Jawole WIlla Jo Zollar
The Whitney Museum of American Art
Jan. 17 - 19 
Presented as part of Edges of Ailey, LifeDance IV The Emperor…The Old Woman Persists is a new work in development that experiments with the form and structure of monologues, characters, scenes, and imaginings from the past forty years of  Zollar’s work with Urban Bush Women. It is directed by Niegel Smith and performed by Zollar and Tendayi Kuumba. Find out more here

Various Artists
Jan. 18 - 19
Arts On Site
Dahyun Kim (1/18), Enya Kalia Creations/MONÉT Movement Productions: The Collective and 7Midnights Physical Research (1/19) will present solo or shared evenings. Find out more here 

CDI announces an open call for applications for its next residency cycle.

​Professional NYC-based choreographers and dance companies working in all styles and forms are invited to apply, and applications can be submitted between January 15 and February 20, 2025. CDI supports residencies that are for rehearsal only, or may culminate in a public performance, and all awards include an honorarium in addition to the space grant. CDI, via its consortium of CUNY colleges and arts organizations, expects to award 22 to 24 residencies from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Starting with the 2025-26 cycle, CDI has forged a new partnership with Works & Process. In addition to a CDI rehearsal residency at Queens College, the selected artist will be awarded a fully-funded out-of-town Works & Process LaunchPAD residency.

Find out more about the residencies and application here