Paul Taylor Dance Company and EMERGE125 - In-Person
Bryant Park Pinic Performances
August 20 & 27
Dance Curator, Tiffany Rae-Fisher again welcomes audiences to Bryant Park Picnic Performances; season of free, live performances this summer with Paul Taylor Dance Company and EMERGE125, formerly Elisa Monte Dance (August 20), and Ballet Hispánico and Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (August 27). Find out more here 

92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here 
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Various Artists
Little Island
August 11- Sept 5
The new NYC FREE, a month-long arts festival celebrating the creativity of New York City’s artists will feature composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, poets and writers, and comedians. Under artistic direction from Festival Producer Mikki Shepard, there will be curated evenings from Tariq Al-Sabir, Ronald K. Brown, Dormeshia, Robert Garland & Misty Copeland, Alphonso Horne, Paolo Javier, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Georgina Pazcoguin, Conrad Tao, Adam Tendler, Awoye Timpo, Shirazette Tinnin, Eduardo Vilaro–– to curate this one-time festival. Find out more here 

Various Artists - In-Person
Studio 3R Performance Space
August 14
At this new performance space in the East Village, Studio 3R features a series of evening length works of music, theater, and dance from artists. This weekend's bill is the WE BELONG HERE: AAPI DANCE FESTIVAL featuring Mary-Angela Granberry, Jesse Obremski, Xiang Xu, J CHEN PROJECT Saxon and Brad Beakes + Dual Rivet HRYN SAXON & BRAD BEAKES | DUAL RIVET. Find out more here here

Jamel Gaines' Creative Outlet
Lincoln Center
August 14​
Gaines' Creative Outlet will perform at the Josie Robertson Plaza a re-imagined outdoor campus as part of Restart Stages. Find out more here 






Various Artists - In-Person & Virtual 
92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here 
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Various Artists
Little Island
August 11- Sept 5
The new NYC FREE, a month-long arts festival celebrating the creativity of New York City’s artists will feature composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, poets and writers, and comedians. Under artistic direction from Festival Producer Mikki Shepard, there will be curated evenings from Tariq Al-Sabir, Ronald K. Brown, Dormeshia, Robert Garland & Misty Copeland, Alphonso Horne, Paolo Javier, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Georgina Pazcoguin, Conrad Tao, Adam Tendler, Awoye Timpo, Shirazette Tinnin, Eduardo Vilaro–– to curate this one-time festival. Find out more here 

Netta Yerushalmy - In-Person
The Yard
August 13 - 14
See a work-in-process showing of MOVEMENT "...a new evening-length dance work that “steals” movement quotes from an expansive range of dance across genres, cultures, and idioms, in order to experiment with pluralism and discord as guiding creative and political principles," according to the release.  Find out more here 

Various Artists - In-Person
Studio 3R Performance Space
August 14
At this new performance space in the East Village, Studio 3R features a series of evening length works of music, theater, and dance from artists. See Thryn Saxon and Brad Beakes + Dual Rivet HRYN SAXON & BRAD BEAKES | DUAL RIVET
Saturday, 8/14 from 6:30 & 8:30PM. Find out more here here

​Various Artists - In-Person & Virtual
Battery Dance Festival
August 12 – 14
The 40th Annual Battery Dance Festival with international dance films and in-person performances at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park. The virtual films are from Puerto Rico, Mexico, South Korean, Tanzania, Australia and more, while the in-person/livestreamed performances will feature an evening of dances by Indian artists, another with titled “Young Voices in Dance,” plus even more from Jon Lehrer Dance Company, MorDance, Battery Dance, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, New York Theatre Ballet, Christopher Williams, Flamenco Vivo II, Galletto y Guzmán, Beatrice Capote and many more. Find out more here 

Various Artists - In-Person
Bryant Park Pinic Performances
August 16, 20 & 27
Dance Curator, Tiffany Rae-Fisher again welcomes audiences to Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances this summer with Limón Dance Company and Music From The Sole (August 16), Paul Taylor Dance Company and EMERGE125, formerly Elisa Monte Dance (August 20), and Ballet Hispánico and Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (August 27). Find out more here 

FROM THE FOLKS AT THE BESSIES:

​The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, today announced the nominees for the 2021 Bessie Awards. Digital performances presented between March 15, 2020 and May 31, 2021, and in-person performances presented between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021, were considered for Bessie nominations. Award categories include Outstanding Production, Outstanding Performer, Outstanding Revival, Outstanding Music Composition or Sound Design, Outstanding Visual Design, and Outstanding Breakout Choreographer, which recognizes an artist who has made an exceptional leap in visibility and impact in their career this past season. The list of nominations follows.
 
“Dance artists and their collaborators have continued to dream and build during the pandemic. They have called upon each of us to reimagine and commit our collective movement toward equity, justice, and healing. We are thrilled to celebrate their work and the resilience of our community at the virtual 2021 Bessies Ceremony,“ said Bessies Executive Director Heather Robles.
 
The 37th Annual Bessie Awards ceremony will be livestreamed on Monday, October 11, 2021, at 7:30PM ET. Reservations for the ceremony will be available starting September 20, through donation.
 
The 2021 Bessie Award Nominations
 
Outstanding Production:
 
Kyle Abraham
When We Fell
New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater
 
Kyle Abraham and Taylor Stanley
Ces noms que nous portons
New York City Ballet and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
 
Stefanie Batten Bland
Kolonial
Baryshnikov Arts Center
 
mayfield brooks
Whale Fall
Abrons Arts Center
 
Ayodele Casel
Chasing Magic
The Joyce Theater
 
Janessa Clark
Communion
Janessa Clark and HERE Arts Center
 
Johnnie Cruise Mercer
_AShadowPrince
Presented through Stephen Petronio Company's Bloodlines(future) program
 
Israel Galván
Maestro de Barra
The Joyce Theater
 
Indigenous Enterprise
Indigenous Enterprise: Powwow Style
The Joyce Theater
 
Eiko Otake
A Body in a Cemetery
Pioneer Works and Green-Wood Cemetery
 
Mariana Valencia
Brownout
Baryshnikov Arts Center
 
Saul Williams, Bill T. Jones, Maria Bauman, Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forté-Saunders,
d. Sabela grimes, Jasmine Hearn, and Shamel Pitts
The Motherboard Suite
New York Live Arts
 
Outstanding Performer:
 
LaTasha Barnes
Sustained Achievement
 
Isabella Boylston
Sustained Achievement with American Ballet Theatre
 
Marc Crousillat
Watermotor by Trisha Brown
The Joyce Theater
 
d. Sabela grimes
The Motherboard Suite, We get what you deserve
New York Live Arts
 
Jasmine Hearn
The Motherboard Suite, Order of Time
New York Live Arts
 
Princess Lockerooo
Sustained Achievement
 
Sara Mearns
State of Darkness by Molissa Fenley
The Joyce Theater
 
Anjali Mehta
Descent by Anjali Mehta
The Artivist’s Studio and Lion Party Films
 
Annique Roberts
Sustained Achievement with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
 
Nicholas Sciscione
Bloodlines Season 7 by Stephen Petronio Company
The Joyce Theater
 
Michael Trusnovec
State of Darkness by Molissa Fenley
The Joyce Theater
 
Huiwang Zhang
OUR LABYRINTH by Lee Mingwei/Bill T. Jones
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Outstanding Revival:
 
State of Darkness
By Molissa Fenley
The Joyce Theater
 
Watermotor
By Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
 
Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design:
 
Monstah Black
For _AShadowPrince by Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Presented through Stephen Petronio Company's Bloodlines(future) program
 
Pedro León and Manu Prieto
For Maestro de Barra by Israel Galván
The Joyce Theater
 
Arturo O’Farrill, Crystal Monee Hall (singer/songwriter), Annastasia Victory (music director and composer), and Senfu Stoney (percussionist)
For Chasing Magic by Ayodele Casel
The Joyce Theater
 
Saul Williams
For The Motherboard Suite
New York Live Arts
 
Outstanding Visual Design:
 
Kyle Abraham (Director), Ryan Marie Helfant (Director & Director of Photography), Eric K. Yue (Director of Photography), and Esteban Pedraza (Editor)
When We Fell by Kyle Abraham
New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater
 
Tei Blow and Sean McElroy
Visuals
The Sprezzaturameron by Tei Blow and Sean McElroy
Baryshnikov Arts Center
 
Conrad Quesen (installation) and Shane Ballard (costumes)
Kolonial by Stefanie Batten Bland
Baryshnikov Arts Center
 
Catalin Stelian (Director of Photography, Cinematography, Editor), Kofi Assane Opare
(Cinematography), and Kweku Amantey Opare (Editor)
Steel Standing by Fritzlyn Hector
DanceAfrica 2021
Brooklyn Academy of Music


Outstanding Breakout Choreographer:
 
Hope Boykin
 
Johnnie Cruise Mercer
 
Maleek Washington
 
André M. Zachery

BAAD! is seeking eight (8) choreographers to present 5-7 minutes of their choreographic work for our upcoming dance compilation concert during its
BlakTinX Performance Series on Saturday, October 2 @ 8pm ET.

This event will be presented in-person outdoor at BAAD!’s own backyard
(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.

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

For more info and to submit, visit:
https://bit.ly/BAADdancecomp

In-Person - Various Artists
Studio 3R Performance Space
July 30 - August 6
At this new performance space in the East Village, Studio 3R features a series of evening length works of music, theater, and dance from artists.See Penelope Wendtlandt & The Bang Group, Benae Beamon, Greg Lakhan and Tai Lee. Find out more here here

In-Person & Virtual - Various Artists
92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here 
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FROM THE FOLKS AT CPR:

​ABOUT CPR'S ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Established in 2012, this year-long residency seeks to support a wide range of artists, from emerging to established, working within various perspectives of contemporary dance and performance, and time-based forms.

CPR’s AiR Program provides rehearsal space, presentation and performance opportunities, curatorial and project support, professional development, and peer dialogue, all of which are designed to support the individualized creative process and an open environment for research, experimentation, embodiment, exchange, and creation.

In an effort to create a more inclusive and equitable selection process, starting with the 2020 cohort, applications are accepted through an open call and are reviewed by a peer committee of artists and community stakeholders. With this approach, CPR aspires to increase visibility, opportunities, and resources for a more diverse range of artists in the field.

CPR is committed to supporting artists from every background with an expansive approach to performance, and at all stages in their creative careers. We strongly encourage artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, immigrant artists, and artists with disabilities to apply.

RESIDENCY DETAILS
Up to 10 AiRs will be selected for a year-long residency (January–December 2022), which provides each AiR with up to 150 subsidized rehearsal hours in CPR’s Large Studio or Small Studio with advance booking privileges, curatorial support and feedback from CPR staff and fellow artists, access to equipment and production resources, and a $1,000 stipend.

In addition, AiRs will have opportunities to share their current practice with the larger CPR community through programs such as Sunday Salon, Open Studios, and Performance Philosophy Reading Group, and other opportunities for presentation, community engagement, and creative exchange, in dialogue with CPR’s program staff.


APPLICATION TIMELINE
Applications will be accepted until September 7, 2021, at 5:00pm EST. We expect to send notifications in September 2021 and to announce the 2022 AiR cohort in October 2021. More information about the residency and eligibility requirements can be found here

The third and final cycle of the City Artists Corps Grant to support NYC-based working artists is now open and will close on Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. E.S.T. This cycle will support creative public engagement activities hosted from September 3 to October 31, 2021. Grant recipients will receive notification of their award by Wednesday, August 25, 2021.

ABOUT THE GRANTCity Artist Corps Grants is part of City Artist Corps, a new $25 million recovery initiative designed to help artists who were both hard hit by the pandemic and who may have been left out of other local and federal funding opportunities. The program is administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), and in partnership with re-grant and arts service organizations including Dance/NYC. 
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City Artist Corps Grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The program will distribute one-time $5,000 grants to over 3,000 artists to help sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City’s five boroughs this summer beginning in July. Artists working in any discipline are eligible to apply. 

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