Seán Curran Company
NYU Skirball
Apr. 18 - 19                                                                                              
The Company makes its NYU Skirball debut with the world premiere of PATH, "...with music from “Path of Miracles,” composed by Joby Talbot. The work reflects on the phenomenon of the Camino de Santiago — the ancient Catholic pilgrimage route across northern Spain to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia – and Curran’s own spiritual wayfaring. Also on the program is Everywhere All the Time (2018), with music by Donnacha Dennehy, which explores the relationship of humans with the natural environment and features a set by the noted landscape architect, the late Dr. Diana Balmori," according to the release.  Find out more here

BODYTRAFFIC
The Joyce
Apr. 15-19
The Los Angeles based company returns with an evening of works by Juel D. Lane, Trey McIntyre, and Matthew Neenan, .  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Guggenheim Museum
Apr. 21
As part if the Works & Process series, Rotunda Dance: Swing with Danny Jonokuchi & The Revisionists and Gaby Cook in collaboration with 92NY, opens the first annual Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival.  Find out more here   

Jane Comfort and Company
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Bruno Walter Auditorium
Apr. 21
This documentary, Breaking Form, is a tribute to the work of Comfort, a downtown New York dance scene and visionary choreographer for  decades "...pushing artistic boundaries, redefining movement, and engaging her audiences in social justice issues of the day," notes the release.  The event is FREE. Find out more here  

Various Artists
92nd Street Y
Apr. 22-26
The Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, a multi-night performance and workshop program opens will offer 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 Artists
Baryshnikov Arts
Apr. 24 - 26
The 20th Anniversary Spring Season includes SISSY, a modern-day reimagining of Sisyphus written, choreographed, and directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall. Find out more here 

New Jersey Ballet
NJPAC
Apr. 24 - 25
The New Jersey Ballet under Artistic director Maria Kowroski, will present Twyla Tharp's Nine Sinatra Songs and a world premiere by Harrison Ball.  Find out more here 

​2025 GALLIM Moving Artist Residencies
Deadline: May 1, 2025
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Moving Artist Residency Program
This residency supports six early-career Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latine, people of color and people of global majority who are women, non-binary, transgender and gender nonconforming movement artists based in NYC. This two-week process-based residency offers fully-funded studio space, artist stipends, mentorship, professional photo & video shoot, and promotion via GALLIM’s channels.

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Parent Moving Artist Residency Program
This residency supports two movement artists who are parents. This one-week process-based residency offers fully-funded studio space, artist stipends, mentorship, professional photo & video shoot, and promotion via GALLIM’s channels.

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Various Artists
LaMama
Apr. 10-13
As part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso, "John Jasperse Projects will premiere a new evening-length work that is built around a collection of real-life, intergenerational mentor/protegé relationships that exist within the team of collaborators. This celebration of the arc of life in dance and the generosity of the act of transmission is at the heart of the work. In many ways, dance has often been denigrated through sexism precisely because it is linked to sensorial, intuitive, empathetic, and responsive processes–attributes that are typically thought to be feminine," notes the release. Also part of the Festival are Keith A. Thompson & danceTactics performance, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd and more.  Guest curators are Martita Abril, Blaze Ferrer, Adham Hafez: Find out more here  

STREB EXTREME ACTION
SLAM
Mar. 21 - Apr. 13
Streb's latest DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME will present the "...action-packed MAVERICK SURF, a piece that has seen continued evolution thanks to Elizabeth’s push to take the Action Heroes to new velocities. The result is a more dynamic, more intense performance, as the Action Heroes take on gravity-defying feats with breathtaking precision," according to the release.  Find out more here 

Martha Graham Dance Company
The Joyce
April 1 - 13
The Company will offer Graham classics plus contemporary works by Baye & Asa and Hofesh Shechter. Graham’s "Americana" solos will be paired with Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo and Jamar Roberts’s We the People. Graham’s Greek-themed Clytemnestra Act II and Errand Into the Maze, both with sets by Isamu Noguchi, will be presented with Deaths and Entrances. The season will also include new works from Graham dancer Xin Ying and choreographer and Graham 2 director Virginie Mécène.  Find out more here   

Dance Theatre of Harlem
City Center
Apr. 10 - 13
For this season, DTH will present the New York premiere of Robert Garland's The Cookout, William Forsythe's Company premiere of The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, the world premiere of Jodie Gates' The Passage of Being, and the Company premiere of George Balanchine's Donizetti Variations.  Find out more here  

Various Artists 
Arts On Site
Apr. 12 - 13
This curated performance will feature work from Claire Goldes, Carlos Franquis, Joy-Marie Thompson, Alexander Anderson, and Taylor Graham & Jerimy Rivera and (All)Ways Dance Company.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Judson Church
Apr 14
For the ​Movement Research at Judson Church series, Luna Beller-Tadiar, Shua Group and Yun Lee will share the evening. Find out more here 

BODYTRAFFIC
The Joyce
Apr. 15-20
The Los Angeles contemporary dance company returns with works by Juel D. Lane, Trey McIntyre, and Matthew Neenan, Find out more here

Artist Emergency Grant Opportunities
 
Are you a dancer anywhere in the US in dire financial emergency? Have you recently lost engagements, or been ill or injured? You may be eligible for a one-time Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant of up to $3,000. Cycle 18 is open through April 15 for essential expenses including rent, utilities, medicine/healthcare, and food. This national program is administered by New York Foundation for the Arts and funded by Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Privacy is guaranteed. Please click here for details. Learn more in this recorded information session. 

Dance/USA, the national service organization for the dance ecosystem, announces the recipients of the Dance/USA Honor, ‘Ernie’, Champion, and Trustees Awards, to be presented at the 2025 Dance/USA National Conference in Chicago, June 17-20. New this year, Dance/USA will also present the inaugural Emerging Leader Award.

Awardees Include:
Stoner Winslett, Founding Artistic Director of Richmond Ballet, will receive the Dance/USA Honor Award;
Rita Mustaphi, Artistic Director of Katha Dance Theatre, will receive the Dance/USA Ernie Award;
National Dance Project (NDP), a program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, will receive the Dance/USA Trustees Award;
Joel Hall, Artistic Director Emeritus of Joel Hall Dancers & Center, will receive the Dance/USA Champion Award;
Jessica Leyva, Executive Director of Chicago Dance Crash, and Jonathan Pacheco of Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater will receive the Dance/USA Emerging Leader Award. 

​Find out more here

Martha Graham Dance Company
The Joyce
April 1 - 13
The Company will offer Graham classics plus contemporary works by Baye & Asa and Hofesh Shechter. Graham’s "Americana" solos will be paired with Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo and Jamar Roberts’s We the People. Graham’s Greek-themed Clytemnestra Act II and Errand Into the Maze, both with sets by Isamu Noguchi, will be presented with Deaths and Entrances. The season will also include new works from Graham dancer Xin Ying and choreographer and Graham 2 director Virginie Mécène.  Find out more here   

STREB EXTREME ACTION
SLAM
Mar. 21 - Apr. 13
Streb's latest DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME will present the "...action-packed MAVERICK SURF, a piece that has seen continued evolution thanks to Elizabeth’s push to take the Action Heroes to new velocities. The result is a more dynamic, more intense performance, as the Action Heroes take on gravity-defying feats with breathtaking precision," according to the release.  Find out more here 

Ailey II
Ailey Citigroup Theater
Mar. 26 – Apr. 6
Led by Artistic Director Francesca Harper, slated for their two-program season titled “Echoes” is Harpers’ Luminous, Houston Thomas’ Down the Rabbit Hole, plus Alvin Ailey’s Streams, and for the “New Vintage” program Jamison’s Divining (excerpt), Ailey Highlights, Thomas’ Down the Rabbit Hole, and Baye & Asa’s John 4:20. Find out more here  Find out more here  

Sara Mearns, Guillaume Côté and Jonathon Young, Jamar Roberts
New York City Center
Apr 3 – 5 
Curated by Mearns, the Artists at the Center series will feature premieres Côté and Young (Don’t Go Home), Mearns partners with Gilbert Bolden III , and Roberts to the stage alongside Mearns, Jeroboam Bozeman, Ghrai DeVore-Stokes, and Anna Greenberg. Find out more here  

Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group
NYU Skirball 
Apr. 4-5 
The Reclamation.  Wilson, according to the release, “…is conspicuously reclaiming foundational ideas from his early gestural and “duet-ed” works and landing on provocative questions and surprises fitting to the times we are now experiencing.” For more information visit https://nyuskirball.org/events/the-reclamation/

jill sigman
SMUSH Gallery
Apr. 4-5
sigman will present Spark Bird, a new performance installation that "...explores our connections to the other-than-human through the lives of birds and the practice of birding," notes the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Mark Morris Dance Center
April 4-5
Under artistic director, Bradley Shelver, ICONS DANCE FESTIVAL, a celebration of dance, will feature the Joffrey Concert Group, Limon2, and BHDos.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
LaMama
Apr. 10-13
As part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, curated by Nicky Paraiso, with guest curators: Martita Abril, Blaze Ferrer, Adham Hafez, Keith A. Thompson & danceTactics performance group will premiere Love Alone Anthology Project.  Find out more here  

Chloe London
Triskelion
Apr. 10-12
London will premiere Unstable Sky, where she "...investigates the idea of repurposing material from her past dances," according to the release. Find out more here