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  

​​Applications are now open for SUITE/Space, Mabou Mines’ performance initiative for artists of color that share Mabou Mines’ commitment to breaking new ground in form and content. SUITE/Space provides artistic advisement, rehearsal space, stipend and public performances in Mabou Mines' 99-seat theater.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE: SUITE/Space is open to artists of color from historically underrepresented communities who show a commitment to experimentation and a collaborative creative process. Multimedia, music, dance, theater, and cross-disciplinary projects are accepted. Proposed projects should be at an advanced stage of development or performance ready.

WHEN: The 2023 SUITE/Space Program will run from August 2023 with performances in January 2024.

​Submissions are open May 2 - June 16, 2023. Four artists will be selected and notified by July 31, 2023.

APPLY HERE

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