jess pretty
The Chocolate Factory
Jun. 26-29
pretty brings call and response to The Chocolate Factory, where she wraps her audience in a conceptual, and literal, embrace by unfolding a dance-based, experiential conversation – between pretty and her younger selves, her ancestors, and everybody else in the room with pretty as the host.  Find out more here  

Paul Taylor Dance Company
The Joyce
Jun. 25-30
The Company returns to The Joyce with "Extreme Taylor," a series celebrating Paul Taylor in two programs curated by Artistic Director Michael Novak.  The programs include,  Airs, Big Bertha, Private Domain and more.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Mark Morris Dance Center
Jun. 27–30
Celebrating their 23rd anniversary, WHITE WAVE Dance returns with the four-day DUMBO Dance Festival of contemporary dance in the greater New York City region. Find out more here 

Urban Bush Women
The Fisher Center at Bard
Jun. 28-30
Urban Bush Women’s SCAT! The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar reunites frequent collaborator, composer Craig Harris and guests. Find out more here 

Kinesis Project Dance
Fort Washington Park
June 28 
The Company will present a first installation of a large-scale dance work: Bridge Matter/the Reach. A dance of echos, listening, how we bridge the cracks between us and the company's extraordinary ability to bring new life into an environment. Find out more here 

Jessica Chen
Arts on Site
Jun. 30-Sept. 29
Choreographer Chen brings back AAPI HEROS, where audiences follow a young explorer, Kai, on a captivating journey across time to meet AAPI HEROES. Find out more here  

Hello!

Choreographer Anne Collod and L’Alliance New York would love to invite you to participate in L’Alliance’s  upcoming Bastille Day  (Sunday, July 14, 2024) where Anne Collod will be recreating Anna Halprin’s BLANK PLACARD DANCE. This performance is emblematic of the work cycle Anna Halprin developed from 1965. It explores the political dimension of performance and its inscription in the urban space, at the crossroads of happening, street theater and activist art.

Join us in reviving this performance and taking part in a proposal that blurs the boundary between performer and spectator, turning walking into a poetic and political experience! 

We are looking for a diverse group of 30 volunteers (amateur dancers and/or non-dancers)  of all age, race, gender and beyond, who represent a wide variety of concerns. No technical skills are required.
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What it is: 
This Bastille Day, L’Alliance presents a timely reenactment of the 1967 dance, Blank Placard Dance by Anna Halprin. Originally presented in reaction to the Vietnam war and social unrest in the U.S., for this present-day recreation, French choreographer Anne Collod joins 30 ‘dancers’, carrying blank placards and silently marching down the busy streets of the city.  Along with a marching band, marchers answer bystanders’ question, “What are you protesting?” by replying, “What do YOU want to protest?” and collect their answers. 

What will you be doing:
Before the performance, you will participate in workshops with choreographer Anne Collod to become acquainted with the work of Anna Halprin, a pioneering choreographer of post-modernity in dance, learn and practice the walk and its protocol, develop the tools of awareness and listening useful to the practice of this performance
On the day of the performance, you will hold up blank placards and perform the walk, as rehearsed during the workshops, following a pre-determined path alongside a group of musicians playing protest songs. 
This promo video from a previous version will give you a great sense of what it will look like.

When is it: 
We will need you for FOUR DAYS (with an optional 5th day)  including the day of the performance - times subject to shift:
Saturday, July 6, 2024 - PARTICIPANT WORKSHOP #1 - 4pm-7:30pm (3.5 hours)
Sunday, July 7, 2024 - PARTICIPANT WORKSHOP #2  - 1pm-5pm (4 hours)
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - OPTIONAL PARTICIPANT WORKSHOP #3 - 3pm-7pm (4 hours) - (this is for a self-selected group of participants who would like to speak as part of the presentation)
Saturday, July 13, 2024 - DRESS REHEARSAL outside - 12:00pm-3:00pm
Sunday, July 14, 2024 - CALL TIME: 11:30am, PERFORMANCE: 12:30pm-2:30pm

Where is it:
Workshops will be at L’Alliance New York (22 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022) and another Manhattan location TBD
The dress rehearsal and performance will be near L’Alliance (22 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022) at a Manhattan location TBD.

How to sign up: Please sign up by June 28, 2024 [email to know about the extention] Please feel free to reach out to Torya Beard, [email protected] or Audrey Frischman at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Thank you!
Audrey and Torya

About Anne Collod:
Anne Collod pursued a career as a performer, working with various choreographers (Pierre Deloche, Philippe Découflé, Fabrice Ramalingom and Hélène Cathala, and Stéphanie Aubin), until her introduction to Labanotation (a system for writing and analysing movement, in which she qualified in 1993) inspired her to re-create 20th century choreographic works from scores and to cofound the Quatuor Albrecht Knust (1993-2001). Together, the group of performers, re-created many symbolic pieces, including Vaslav Nijinksky’s legendary work, L’Après-midi d’un Faune.

About L’Alliance New York: 
L'Alliance is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to providing its audience and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world. A welcoming and inclusive community for all ages and all backgrounds, L'Alliance is a place where people can meet, learn, and explore the richness of our heritages and share discoveries. L'Alliance strives to amplify voices and build bridges from the entire francophone world to New York and beyond.

jill sigman/thinkdance
Jun. 21-23
Gibney
​Celebrating their 25th anniersary, jill sigman/thinkdance "...has worked with bodies, found materials, and alternative geographies to envision a future in which we reconnect with the natural world and each other in the service of personal, communal, and environmental healing. Continuing the company’s movement, sound, and visual research practices, Re-Seeding (Encounter #3: The Commons) is a rigorous ritual-based process grounded in an exploration of our interconnectedness to land and each other. It grows out of Sigman’s many years of making dances and installations about environmental and social justice issues. For Sigman, Re-Seeding is at once personal and political. “It has its origins in my relationship to New York as a settler born on traditional Munsee Lenape homeland in what is now called Brooklyn,” said Sigman. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Performance Space 122 or Virtual
Jun. 21
I wanna be with you everywhere returns to your bedroom, hospital bed, backyard, kitchen table, living room, back room, no room, Zoom room, and the 122CC outdoor courtyard. This event will feature Kayla Hamilton and Elisabeth Motley of Crip Movement Lab, Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, JJJJJerome Ellis, Conor Foran, and Kristel Kubart of People Who Stutter Create. This hybrid-online pop-up solstice gathering is the third iteration of IWBWYE and this third time’s a real charm: we’re conjuring up an even chiller vibe than before. Attendance is online and in person is free with RSVP.

Kayla Hamilton and Kate Speer
The Arts Center at Governors Island
Through Jun. 23
As part of the “River to River Festival” Hamilton and Speer shares an installation in dialogue with their performance project PlaceHolder, exposing how perception actualizes and strips identities. Find out more here 

Queer the Ballet
Baruch Performing Arts Center
Jun. 21-23
The evening will offer the world premiere of Dream of a Common Language a new evening-length ballet inspired by lesbian writer and activist Adrienne Rich’s 1978 poetry collection by the same name. Find out more here .

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
The Joyce
Jun. 18-23
For this return engagement, slated for fhe program is the US premiere of EQUILIBRIO (Clásica/Tradición), by Emilio Ochando, “…embracing the flamenco tradition while creating a unique environment of sound and creative staging,” according to the release.  Find out more here 

Yaa Samar Dance THeatre!
The Shed
Jun. 20-22
Commissioned and presented by The Shed Open Call Series, the world premiere of Gathering: New York City by Samar Haddad is an invitation, it’s a party, a protest, a celebration of harvest, the championship game. Find out more here  

YY Dance Company
NYLA
Jun. 20-24
The Company brings Yue Yin’s SOMEWHERE, the second chapter of the trilogy that began with NOWHERE in 2023.  Find out more here

​Dance/USA, the national service organization for the dance ecosystem, invites initial applications from dance artists for the third iteration of Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA), generously funded by the Doris Duke Foundation. The initial application period is open until August 15, 2024 at 6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT.  

One of the few regranting programs available to independent artists with an unrestricted financial award, DFA supports dance and movement-based artists from across the U.S. and its territories who work at the intersection of social and embodied practices. DFA recognizes the wide variety of ways in which people engage in social transformation through dance, which often do not fit into established models of arts funding. This includes community-building and culture-bearing practices, healing and storytelling practices, activism and representational justice practices, and more.  
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DFA will award $31,000 to at least 25 individual artists, to be used at their own discretion. As part of their Fellowship experience, the Artist Fellows will have the option to participate in an emergent programming process that honors the Fellows’ choices around connection, rest, and desire. The facilitated process will be self-directed by the artists and administratively supported by Dance/USA. The program also offers the Fellows additional resources including one-on-one consultations with professional advisors, underwriting professional photography/headshot, press support, access for Disabled Artist Fellows, and family care/childcare subsidies during required Fellow cohort meetings.  

Camille A. Brown & Associate Choreographers
Harlem Stage
Jun. 14–15
The signature dance series, E-Moves, closes with Brown, and associate choreographers Chloe Davis, Juel D. Lane, Maleek Washington, Mayte Natalio, and Rickey Tripp, based on the theme “BLACK JOY.” Brown will present TURF featuring her company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers.  Find out more here  

Introdans
The Joyce Theater
Jun. 11-16
The Netherlands-based Introdans brings three repertory works, in an evening of dance titled "ENERGY." Slated for the program is  Akram Khan's Kaash, Lucinda Child’s Concerto, Cantata by Mauro Bigonzett.  Find outmore here

Carolyn Dorfman Dance
Ailey Citigroup Theater
Jun. 13-14
In honor of the Company’s milestone 40th anniversary featured will be Dorfman’s newest work, The Attitude of Doing, the NYC theater premiere of NOW!, by Juel D Lane, plus repertory.  Find out more here

Ash R. T. Yergens
NYLA
Jun. 13-15
In Surrogate, Yergens presents transmasculine experiences surrounding pregnancy and in vitro fertilization (IVF) while exploring the parallels between a choreographer living through others’ bodies. Find out more here 

Martita Goshen 
Paul Taylor Dance Company Studios
Jun. 14
Goshen offers the world premiere of Way of the Whale, a tribute to the great whales and prayer for their survival.  Reservations: e-mail requests to [email protected]

Kayla Hamilton and Kate Speer
The Arts Center at Governors Island
Jun. 14-23
As part of the “River to River Festival,” Hamilton and Speer share an installation in dialogue with their performance project PlaceHolder, exposing how perception actualizes and strips identities. Find out more here

Shua Group and Donna Costello
AOS
Jun. 14 - 15
The Bang Group present both artist in a shared evening.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
CPR
Jun 14-15
CPR’s annual “Open Stage: Spring Movement,” Ayana Evans curates a talk show-style performance extravaganza titled “Giving You the Best That We Got.” Tsedaye Makonnen will be a video correspondent. Find out more here  

2nd Best Dance Company
Trisk
Jun. 15-16
The Company returns with RED a piece that walks the fuzzy, shag-carpet line between dance performance and narrative play,  to tell an abstracted version of a well known fictional story of survival:Little Red Riding Hood. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Hostos Center for the Artis & Cuture
Jun. 18
For their inaugural Juneteenth Celebration, the Center will feature dance, music and spoken word with Forces of Nature Dance Company, Women of the Calabash, poet Daniel Beaty and more! Find out more here  

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
The Joyce
Jun. 18-23
For the US premiere of EQUILIBRIO (Clásica/Tradición) by Emilio Ochando, the artists “…embrace the flamenco tradition while creating a unique environment of sound and creative staging,” according to the release.  Find out more here  

Oona Doherty
June 4-9
The Joyce Theater

Irish contemporary choreographer Doherty makes her Joyce debut with the New York premiere of the evening-length work Navy Blue. "This urgent appeal for societal change that draws a direct line from the past to the present...Combining ensemble movement, spoken word poetry, and political candor. Part existential crisis, part demand for redemption and freedom, the piece for twelve dancers seeks a new future for us all by reveling in and then liberating artists from the beautiful yet binding order and rules of classical art and the world as a whole," notes the release.  Find out more here  

Angie Pittman
The Chocolate Factory
Jun. 5-8
Pittman will premiere of Black Life Chord Changes, an evening length solo performance (broken into scores for “day” and “night”) through “…dance improvisation that pulls from and synthesizes folk traditions of liturgical dancing, Soul line dancing, Umfundalai, and post-modern improvisation - with layers of sung and spoken text, patient listening, and recorded sound, to open an experimental improvised movement portal," according to the release.  Find out more here  

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 
BAM
Jun. 4-9
On this return to BAM the Company will present two programs: Program A - “Contemporary Visions”—featuring works by modern dance choreographers Alonzo King (Following the Subtle Current Upstream), Jamar Roberts (Ode), and Hans van Manen (Solo); and Program B - “All Ailey” which includes Memoria (1979), A Song For You (1972), Cry (1971) and the iconic masterpiece Revelations (1960).  Find out more here 

Graham 2
The Martha Graham Studio
Jun. 6-8
For its 41st New York season, the program will include Graham classics and new works, plus special guest musicians ages 9, 12, and 14, prodigies of pianist Irina Nuzova under Director Virginie Mécène.  Find out more here 

Vinson Fraley + Bebe Miller
Danspace Project
Jun. 6-8
Kyle Abraham, choreographer, performer, and artistic director of A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham, curates Danspace Project’s sixteenth Platform.  Titled “Platform 2024: A Delicate Ritual,” the series concludes with the intergenerational shared evening of performance with Fraley + Miller. Find out more here 
 
Christian Warner
Triskelion Arts
Jun. 6-8
Triskelion Arts will present the premiere of WHITE HOT ROOM by Warner, which draws inspiration from Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and explores the dissociative effects of long-held traumas within a body. Find out more here  

Various Artists
Bryant Park
Jun. 6-14
The Bryant Park Picnic Performances/Contemporary Dance Series returns with performances by Naomi Funaki + Jared Alexander Feat. Ayodele Casel, Sidra Bell, It's Showtime NYC!, National Dance Institute (Jun. 6); David Dorfman Dance, Soles of Duende, Joffrey Concert Group, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts (Jun. 7); and Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Robin Dunn's 'SHOUT', Kevin Wynn Tribute, Brooklyn Arts (Jun. 14).  Find out more here 

Kinesis Project & Richard Move / MoveOpolis!
CUNY’s Martin Segal Center
Jun. 7
Prelude in the Parks: Performances for the Planet—presents Kinesis Project will offer an excerpt of Bridge Matter/The Reach, and Richard Move / MoveOpolis! will present Devrai (Sacred Grove) a section of Move’s Herstory of the Universe, as part of the Culture Projects of performances by artists whose work addresses environmental and/or climate change issues. Find out more here 

Various Artists
AOS
June 7-8 
The Bang Group presents "Seoul-Mate Korean Dance Festival" with Sin Ae Park, Catherine Tharin in two evenings of performances by Korean choreographers: Won Kim, Bo Kyung Lee, Su Jeong Kim, Jin A Kim (6/7); Bo Kyung Lee, Su Jeong Kim, Jin A Kim, Young Hoon Oh (6/8).  Find out more here 

Various Artists
BAAD!
Jun. 8
t BAAD!, the “Out Like That” festival returns with works by Anabella Lenzu, Stephany, Deepa Mahadevan, Ann-Sylvia Clark, Estelle Walkin, Charli Ariel, Shackiel Scott & Parker Ramirez.  Find out more here 

Symara Sarai
AOS 
June 9 
WiM Presents Symara Sarai who combines the methodologies of folk, improvisation, and modern dance to explore their African American and West Indian heritage.  Find out more here ​

About the residency:

The MR AIR Residency provides early career generative dance artists with two years of support through Movement Research’s Artist-in-Residence program is an 18 month residency that supports early career generative dance artists with residency fees, rehearsal space, professional development, peer dialogue and related opportunities designed to support the individualized creative process of movement-based artists.
 
Application and demographic information form must be submitted online by 11:59pm EDT
on Monday June 10, 2024.

​Find out more and submit HERE