Various Artists
(In-Person & Virtual)
BAAD!
April 30 
In the evening titled UNITED WE DANCE! This compilation of dance will include performances from Jordyn Cherry, Mai Lê Hô, Malaika Holder, Linda LA, Beverly Lopez, Alicia Morales, Nu~Lu Danza and Mickey Sakai!  Find out more here


Various Artists
LaMama
April 14 – May 1
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso, returns for the 17th edition featuring new works by nine dance artists/companies including Tiffany Mills Company, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Gerald Casel Dance and many more.  Find out more here

Limón Dance Company
The Joyce
April 19 – May 1
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Company returns with two programs of classic and premier works.  Program A – Doris Humphrey’s Air for the G String (1928), Limón’s Psalm (1967) and Chaconne (1942), and Olivier Tarpaga’s Only One Will Rise (2022).  Program B – Limón’s Waldstein Sonata (1971/1975) completed by Dr. Daniel Lewis, Limón’s Danzas Mexicanas (1939/2022) and Raúl Tamez’s Migrant Mother (2022).  Find out more here   

New York City Ballet (NYCB)
Lincoln Center
April 19 - May 29
NYCB​’s 2022 spring season will include an array of programs featuring works by the Company’s co-Founding Choreographers – Serenade by George Balanchine and The Goldberg Variations by Jerome Robbins.  Programs will also feature works by Silas Farley, Jamar Roberts (Emanon – In Two Movements), Pam Tanowitz (Gustave le Gray No. 1), featuring Dancers from New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem, plus Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Divertimento No. 15, The Four Temperaments, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, The Four Seasons, and more.  Find out more here

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener
Danspace Project
April 28-30
Danspace Project’s Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II), curatoed Judy Hussie-Taylor, continues with Mitchell + Riener in the premiere of their latest work, an immersive performance-installation titled RETROFIT: a new age. Other Platform artists through the end of the season will be: mayfield brooks, iele paloumpis, and Ogemdi Ude.  Find out more here


Omar Román De Jesús
(Virtual) The Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC)
April 25 - May 9
As part of the digital series, BAC presents the premiere of Cielo Elena, a new dance film by De Jesús, created in part during a residency at BAC this March.  Find out more here

Andrea Miller/GALLIM 
Chelsea Factory
April 26-30
Miller's Brooklyn-based movement company GALLIM will make it's Chelsea Factory debut with the 2009 work, BLUSH "a sixty-minute flood of visceral theatricality and physical virtuosity​," according to the release.  Find out more here

Jennifer Nugent
(In-person & Livestream) Gibney
April 28-30
As part of Gibney Presents, Nugent will present up against "a collective endeavor that asks, in what ways can the expectations of performance and space be altered?," notes the release.  Find out more here

Barkin/Selissen Project
John Jay College
April 29 -30
In the evening titled "An Evening of Math and Dance," Kyla Barkin and Aaron Selissen offer the NYC premiere of one of the company's signature pieces, Differential Cohomology: Dance of the Diagram featuring specially-commissioned pre-recorded music from Sirius String Quartet.  Find out more here

Tatyana Tenenbaum
ISSUE Project Room
April 29
Artist-In-Residence Tatyana Tenenbaum will present For Selma, a solo for voice, movement, microphone, memory, and textile.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Virtual
Through April 30
Revisit the Radical Broadcast: Performa 2021 Commissions with works by Kevin Beasley and many mores.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
April 30 - May 22
The 2022 Spring Artists in Residence (AIR) Performance Series will feature 2021/22 AIR cohort Jessie Young (4/30), Yo-Yo Lin (5/14), Andrea Ambam (5/21 & 22), and Shenny de Los Angeles. Find out more here

Megan Williams & Ori Flomin
Arts On Site
April 30 - May 1
Williams and Flomin, "...longtime friends who share parallel paths as performers and dance makers...join together in a split program to present new work," notes the release. Find out more here

The Joffrey Ballet School will relaunch the Joffrey Ballet Concert Group this upcoming September 2022, under the artistic direction of renowned performer, choreographer, and educator, Bradley Shelver. 

This pre-professional performing ensemble was founded by Robert Joffrey in 1981 to provide young artists from the School’s year-round Trainee Program the opportunity to experience life as a professional dancer. In the years since its founding, selected students studied and performed some of the most celebrated classical and contemporary repertoire, including the works of Gerald Arpino, Robert Battle, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, and Africa Guzman.

Read more here

​The Changing Times Tap Dance Company, Inc. is accepting applications for the 2022-23 cycle of the Changing Times Tap Initiative.

Successful projects will be awarded stipends ranging from $1,000 to $5,000.

​Find out more and apply here

FROM THE FOLKS AT THE MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST:

Grant Provides Support to an Upper-Level Dance Student Who Is in Danger of Not Finishing Their Studies Due to Financial Pressure

The Merce Cunningham Trust, on the occasion of the 103rd anniversary of Cunningham’s birth, has announced the Merce Cunningham Endowed Scholarship in Dance at Purchase College, SUNY, continuing the Trust’s robust efforts to support the future of the dance field and the artists and administrators who will envision and realize it. This grant, funded by the Merce Cunningham Trust and matched by a generous Purchase College donor, is designed to provide financial support to an upper-level dance student to ensure they have resources necessary to complete their studies. 
Read more here

Mufutau Yusuf
Irish Arts Center
April 21-24
Nigerian-born Yusuf brings the New York City and world premiere of the evening-length work, Òwe.  With “…Òwe—“proverb” in the Yoruba language—Yusuf seeks to decode his personal identity through the lens of the ancestral, in an evocative confluence of personal, ritual, and digital archives. And through a charged amalgam of traditional and contemporary movement, with music and soundscape, video projection, sculptural set elements, and text, the stage teems with symbolic and literal representations of traditions and histories foundational to, and blurred within, Yusuf’s sense of identity,” according to the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
LaMama
April 14 – May 1
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso, returns for the 17th edition featuring new works by nine dance artists/companies including Tiffany Mills Company, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Gerald Casel Dance and many more.  Find out more here

Limón Dance Company
The Joyce
April 19 – May 1
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Company returns with two programs of classic and premier works.  Program A – Doris Humphrey’s Air for the G String (1928), Limón’s Psalm (1967) and Chaconne (1942), and Olivier Tarpaga’s Only One Will Rise (2022).  Program B – Limón’s Waldstein Sonata (1971/1975) completed by Dr. Daniel Lewis, Limón’s Danzas Mexicanas (1939/2022) and Raúl Tamez’s Migrant Mother (2022).  Find out more here   

New York City Ballet (NYCB)
Lincoln Center
April 19 - May 29
NYCB​’s 2022 spring season will include an array of programs featuring works by the Company’s co-Founding Choreographers – Serenade by George Balanchine and The Goldberg Variations by Jerome Robbins.  Programs will also feature works by Silas Farley, Jamar Roberts (Emanon – In Two Movements), Pam Tanowitz (Gustave le Gray No. 1), featuring Dancers from New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem, plus Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Divertimento No. 15, The Four Temperaments, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, The Four Seasons, and more.  Find out more here

TRIBE Shamel Pitts
New York Live Arts
April 21-23
TRIBE will perform the New York premiere of BLACK HOLE: Trilogy And Triathlon by Pitts, "...in which three Black performers create a trinity of vigor, Afrofuturism and embrace." according to the release. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Harlem Stage
April 21 – 23
The dance series, E-Moves at Harlem Stage closes this week with in-person performances by Dormeshia, Sydnie Mosely, Du’Bois A’Keen, Vinson Fraley, and Leslie Cuyjet.  Find our more here 

​Justin Cabrillos
The NEW Chocolate Factory Theater
April 21-23
Cabrillos will offer the premiere of as of it which "...takes place across and between a disassembled dance club," notes the release.  Find out more here

David Dorfman Dance
NYU Skirball
April 22 - 23
In (A)Way Out Of My Body, the newest work by Dorfman with lighting and visual design by Andrew Schneider, four-person house band, led by singer/songwriter Elizabeth DeLise, and the cast of dancers Dorfman offers "...beckons us into the otherworldly-ness of dreams, desires, and routines," according to the release.  Find out more here  

Jazz Choreography Enterprises
Peridance
April 23 - 24
The Company will be present works by Jess LeProtto, Jeff Davis, Ashley Carter and Vanessa Martínez de Baños, and many
other jazz dance choreographers.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Danspace Project (Virtual)
April 23
Join Danspace Project’s catalogue launch at Conversation Without Wall’ facilitated by Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez and conversation between Judy Hussie-Taylor, mayfield brooks, Rashaun Mitchell, iele paloumpis, Silas Riener, and Ogemdi Ude, focusing on the Dancespace Project upcoming Platform.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Virtual
Through April 30
Revisit the Radical Broadcast: Performa 2021 Commissions with works by Kevin Beasley and many mores.  Find out more here

Tatyana Tenenbaum
ISSUE Project Room
April 29
Artist-In-Residence Tatyana Tenenbaum will present For Selma, a solo for voice, movement, microphone, memory, and textile (April 29).  Find out more here

FROM THE FOLKS AT RUTGERS:
​
Casel comes to Rutgers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he currently serves as provost of Porter College, associate professor of theater arts, and director of graduate studies.  

Read more here

CALL FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS!
​
Our Out Like That! Festival is the only festival in The Bronx that celebrates Pride with art & performances by LGBTQ+ artists.   
BAAD! is seeking eight (8) choreographers to present 5-7 minutes of dance and body-oriented performance works for our upcoming dance compilation concert on Saturday, June 04th , 2022 at 8pm ET.

This event will be presented in person at BAAD! (2472 Westchester Ave, Bronx 10461)  in front of a live audience. The dance compilation will also be live-streamed. 

The compensation is $125 per choreographer, plus 5 hours of free rehearsal space.
At this time, we are only seeking submissions for solo and duet performances.

NOTE: We ask that all choreographers and dancers provide full proof of vaccination (2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna vaccines; 
or 1 dose of Johnson & Johnson). For details, visit: 
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-vaccines-keytonyc.page.

A bare-bones technical rehearsal will be earlier the same day as the performance.

For more info and to submit, visit:
https://linktr.ee/BAADBronx