DanceAfrica
BAM
May 27-30
BAM's annual DanceAfrica, the country's largest showcase of African dance, returns to the Howard Gilman Opera House this May with DanceAfrica 2022: HOMEGROWN. Under the artistic direction of Abdel R. Salaam, dancers, drummers, and musicians take the stage together in a unique program that features five popular companies making return visits. Each company will offer their homegrown vision of traditional African dances.  Now in its 45th year, DanceAfrica celebrates its bright future and its deep roots. Below is the schedule of featured companies with extended performances:
Fri, May 27 at 7:30pm: Bambara Drum and Dance Ensemble
Sat, May 28 at 2pm: LaRocque Bey School of Dance
Sat, May 28 at 7pm: Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater
Sun, May 29 at 3pm: Farafina Kan
Mon, May 30 at 3pm: Harambee Dance Company
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New York City Ballet
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

STREB SLAM
Home Studio/Brooklyn
May 7 - 29
For their return season, the Company presents FAILING FORWARD, which follows artistic director Elizabeth Streb’s philosophy that "...failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and innovation and leading to unexpected, surprising and true original moves," notes the release.  Find out more here 

EMERGE125
The Flea Theater
May 26-29
Marking their inaugural season as resident dance company, EMERGE125, will present the world premieres of Behavioral Synchrony and Poly String Theory, plus more by Executive Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher.  Find out more here

Various Artists
92Y
May 26 - 29
For this year's Future Dance Festival, created by Harkness Dance Center director Taryn Kaschock Russell, the 21 finalists for the in-person program includes a range of seven works.  Find out more here 

iele paloumpis
Danspace Project
May 26 - 28
Danspace Project’s Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) continues with the premiere of iele paloumpis’ In place of catastrophe, a clear night sky, "a new multi-sensory work with multiple access points for both audiences and a hybrid cast of virtual and in-person performers to engage," according to the release. Find out more here

Various Artists
BAAD!
May 27
Closing out the Boogie Down Dance series will be the evening titled: DANCING TOGETHER! An Athletic Dance featuring performances from Carlos Borge, Jose Cintron, Dennis Rivera Lopez, Noele Rodriguez, Yolanda Rodriguez, Cesar Valentino, and Rudy Van Daele!  Find out more here  

Martita Abril, Wally Cardona, Ellen Fisher, Salley May
WeisAcres
May 29
Abril, Cardona, Fisher and May will present new or in-progress works as part of the Sundays on Broadway series.  Find out more here

Jerron Herman
Abrons Arts Center
May 19-21 @ 7PM
In VITRUVIAN, a solo performance Herman "...explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. Movement and visual design tell an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses several hemispheres." according to the press release."  Find out more here


New York City Ballet
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

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 Yo-Yo Lin (5/14), Andrea Ambam (5/21 & 22), and Shenny de Los Angeles. Find out more here

STREB SLAM
Home Studio/Brooklyn
May 7 - 29
For their return season, the Company presents FAILING FORWARD, which follows artistic director Elizabeth Streb’s philosophy that "...failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and innovation and leading to unexpected, surprising and true original moves," notes the release.  Find out more here 

Stephen Petronio Company 
The Joyce
May 17 - 22
The Company returns to the Joyce with a trio of works including the world premiere of New New Prayer for Now, set to commissioned score by Monstah Black with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC), under the direction of Francisco J. Nuñez, a re-staging Petronio’s Bloom (2006), a collaboration with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, with live performance by the YPC, and a tribute to Petronio’s history with Trisha Brown in a re-staging of her 1973 work, Group Primary Accumulation.  Find out more here

Donna Uchizono
BAC
May 18 - 21
Uchizono's new evening-length work, Wings of Iron "...examines what it takes to remain humane in these charged times, providing a framework for both performer and audience to share the weight of a vulnerability that is simultaneously public and private," according to the release.  Find out more here

Abby Zbikowski/Abby Z and the New Utility
NYLA
May 18 - 22
Zbikowski offers the world premiere of RADIOACTIVE PRACTICE, the newest evening-length work.  Find out more here

Laurie Berg
The Chocolate Factory
May 19 - 21
Berg will present the world premiere of FOMO:DIPTYCH, "A densely layered performance installation to study the diptych: as a form, a way of viewing, listening, feeling, and consuming. A place where missing something is guaranteed (and ok)," notes the release.  Find out more here

binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa
Theater Row
May 19-22
Haga and Fukuzawa will present an original work as part of the 3rd Paymakers' Redux: Out of the Box's series.  Find out more here

Ariel Rivka Dance
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
May 20
Ariel Rivka Dance opens up space for self-reflection in the company's expansive 2022 Spring Season program, featuring the world premiere of What You Want, plus company repertoire. Find out more here

Battery Dance
Schimmel Center
May 20
Battery Dance presents the World Premieres of three works of choreography, each inspired by the painting and legacy of Hans Hofmann. Find out more here

Arthurs Avilés
Arts on Site
May 20-21
Avilés will dance James Waring's FEATHERS (to Barbette)!  Find out more here

Various Artists
Mark Morris Dance Center
May 21-22
As part of the Periapsis Music & Dance series bringing choreographers and musicians together, on the program titled UNBEKNOWNST will be choreography by Rohan Bhargava, PeiJu Chien-Pott, Da’ Von Doane, Gabrielle Lamb, and Evita Zacharioglou and music by Annie Nikunen and Jonathan Howard Katz, with a soundscape by Spencer Robelen. Featuring guest musicians Jeffrey Zeigler and Melinda Faylor. Costumes for two pieces by Lauren Carmen.  Find out more here

Various Artists/Dancing While Black
BAAD!
May 22
The Sankofa Story Circles opens a year of DWB 10th Anniversary programming — all rooted in deepening community building, resource sharing and, of course, celebration. This afternoon of storytelling will be facilitated by Wendi Moore-O’Neal, who led our 5th anniversary DWB Story Circle in 2017. RSVP and find out more here

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
NJPAC
May 21
The company will present Celebrating the Legacy of Nai-Ni Chen and the Year of the Water Tiger. .  Find out more here

FOR FEMALE AND NON-BINARY IDENTIFYING DANCERS

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FOR MALE AND NON-BINARY IDENTIFYING DANCERS
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CALL BACKS
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LOCATION
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Dance/NYC seeks to hire a passionate, entrepreneurial, and detail-oriented full-time Director of Operations and Finance to work with the Executive Director and build on Dance/NYC’s human resources, financial goals, and field-wide impact.
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Dance/NYC offers a collaborative environment driven by core values of justice, equity and inclusion, and also provides room for innovation and growth. Apply now to join the team.

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FROM THE FOLKS AT THE 92Y:

92Y announces 21 finalists for the 2022 Future Dance Festival. Created by Harkness Dance Center director Taryn Kaschock Russell, the Future Dance Festival is a choreographic competition aiming to give new creators an opportunity to showcase their work. Conceived as a virtual showcase in 2021 when 92Y’s building was closed due to the pandemic, this year’s festival includes two virtual-only programs and an in-person program on the stage of Kaufmann Concert Hall as part of the Harkness Dance Center’s 2021-22 Mainstage Series. Each program includes seven works , with panelists Kyle Abraham, Janet Eilber, Jennifer Stahl, Jessica Tong, Michelle Manzanales, Melanie Person and Duke Dang choosing three finalists apiece.

Two Virtual-Only Programs Stream
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22

In-Person Program at the 92nd Street Y as part of the Harkness Mainstage Series
Thursday, May 26, 8 pm 
Streaming Friday, May 27- Sunday, May 29

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UBW 2022 APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM:

With support from The New York Community Trust (NYCT) Van Lier Fellowship program, Urban Bush Women (UBW) will provide one-year dance apprenticeships to Black women+ over the course of three years. UBW Apprenticeship Program includes a wide range of activities, benefits, and rigorous evaluation to support each artist’s development.

The UBW Apprenticeship Program 2022 NYCT Van Lier Fellows: (pictured from L-R) Kentoria Earle, Ziiomi Law, Makeda-Lily Love-Roney, and Shayla Taylor.
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Dance/NYC is pleased to announce the extension of an open call for proposals for the Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund: New York State Edition, with a new application deadline for Tier II of May 18, 2022. 

Made possible by the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the purpose of this Fund is to continue Dance/NYC’s existing relief efforts and mitigate the continued impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak on individual dance makers and small-budget dance making organizations and groups with budgets between $10,000 and $250,000 based in New York State. The Fund will prioritize individual dance makers and small-budget dance making organizations and groups based outside of the New York City metropolitan area and offer unrestricted relief to those that have incurred financial losses due to the spread of COVID-19 and the social restriction measures implemented to contain the disease.

This Fund is an extension of Dance/NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund (https://bit.ly/CoronavirusDanceReliefFund), which was created in 2020 to mitigate the growing impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on individual freelance dance workers and small-budget organizations based in the metropolitan New York City area and New Jersey between March 2020 and August 2020. The Fund prioritized supporting communities most impacted by COVID-19 including: African, Latina/o/x, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA), disabled, immigrant, and women-identifying, transgender, gender nonconforming and/or non-binary dance workers, as well as those at high risk including elderly and immunosuppressed dance workers. In total, the Fund provided 1,082 awards to 734 unique freelance individuals and relief grants to 125 different organizations totaling $1,000,500 across the grant period.