Kyle Abraham @ New York City Ballet + A.I.M.
September 27 – 28 & October 4 & 6 (NYCB) – David H. Koch Theater
September 29 – October 1 (A.I.M.) The Joyce Theater  
For NYCB, Abraham, the only African American choreographer to create a work on the ballet company in over a decade will premiere The Runaway. The work, writes Terry Trucco for Playbill, “…began with a playlist he created after watching Company class. A classically trained musician, he selected “music that would shake things up,” including jazz standards, hip hop, contemporary compositions, and obscure electronica. In the studio, his pulsating playlist often served as a mood backdrop as he choreographed. He didn’t finalize his score until he could see how different pieces spoke to the way the dancers were moving.”   Almost overlapping engagements, Abraham’s company A.I.M will be a part of NY Quadrille with the very intimate Dearest Home (2017).  Find out more here & here
 
Satellite Collective
BAM Fischer space
September 14 – October 7
Satellite Collective continues their run of Echo & Narcissus “…a vocal and hand projected performance - an aria to illuminate the unrest and discord of our moment,” with original music for a seven piece chamber and jazz orchestra and live performance by vocalists,” notes the release.  Find out more here
 
NY Quadrille/Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
September 24 – October 13
For this season’s NY Quadrille, curated choreographer Lar Lubovitch, the three-week engagement features works by John Jasperse Projects, Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M, former Merce Cunningham dancers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Donna Uchizono Company, and Beth Gill. Find out more here
 
Claudia Rankine, Will Rawls and John Lucas
Danspace Project
September 25 – 29
This trio have come together in What Remains “…through movement, language, and video…inviting us across the threshold of a historical void, creating an immersive environment from the idea of an entombed imagination, and responding to violence and disappearance with a resonant, ghostly chorus,” according to the release. What Remains is performed by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Leslie Cuyjet, Jessica Pretty, and Tara Aisha Willis.  Find out more here
 
DanceNow Festival Encore
Joe’s Pub
September 27
For the 2018 DanceNow Festival ENCORE!, the one-night-only performance where 10 choreographers/companies were selected by the DANCE NOW producers for having most successfully met the DANCE NOW Challenge: to create a clear and complete artistic statement in five minutes or less for the specifics of the stage at Joe’s Pub, the lineup includes: Chelsea Ainsworth + Doron Perk, Tsiambwom M. Akuchu, Satoshi Haga and Rie Fukuzawa, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, Loni Landon Dance Project, Kate Weare Company, Nicole Wolcott and more.  This year’s Challenge winner is Brendan Drake. As the Challenge winner, Drake will receive a $1,500 stipend and a weeklong creative residency at DANCE NOW Silo on Kirkland Farm in Bucks County, PA. Find out more here
 
Eryc Taylor Dance
Howl! Happening
September 27
Eryc Taylor Dance will present two repertory works Song for Cello and Piano (2016) and Grand Duo (2016 - excerpt), the artist Chris Tanner’s “Here’s Looking at You,” an exhibition of paintings and drawings created over the last decade is on view through September 30, also at Howl!. Find out more here
 
Boris Charmatz
NYU Skirball
September 27 – 28
NYU Skirball and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)’s Crossing The Line Festival 2018 presents Charmatz’s “…24-strong ensemble of dancers perform, in succession, 10000 gestures, each is unique, not to be repeated, and evaporates as soon as it is completed. Alluding to the ephemeral nature of dance, Charmatz’s work—which is set to Mozart’s Requiem,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
 
Soaking Wet – Various Artists
West End Theater
September 27 – 30
The Soaking WET dance series, curated by Jeff Kazin and David Parker, opens its 2018-19 season with two programs: Program A features Deborah Lohse in Star Crossed, Dances for Lovers,” and Program B, which will be shared by Beyond the Bang Group, members past and present of The Bang Group.  Find out more here

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Dance/USA, the national association for professional dance, is pleased to announce Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA), a new, national program to support individual artists, generously funded through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). 
In this pilot round, direct support will be provided to dance artists who have substantial practice of working through dance to address social change within one or more communities. The program is open to individual artists from all corners of the dance field. Artists do not need to be Dance/USA members to apply. By June of 2019, Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists will award $1,000,000 to dance artists. Dance/USA works in alliance with Dance/NYC.

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Judson Dance Theater:The Work Is Never Done
(Exhibition & Performances)
MoMA
September 16 – February 3, 2019
Celebrate Yvonne Rainer's “Early Dances 1961 – 1969,” and Deborah Hay’s ten (1968) in the 6-month performance and exhibit at MoMA.  “For a brief period in the early 1960s, a group of choreographers, visual artists, composers, and filmmakers made use of a local church to present performances that Village Voice critic Jill Johnston declared the most exciting new developments in dance in a generation. Redefining the kinds of movement that could count as dance, the Judson participants—Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, Bill Dixon, Judith Dunn, David Gordon, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Fred Herko, Robert Morris, Steve Paxton, Rudy Perez, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, and Elaine Summers, among others—would go on to profoundly shape all fields of art in the second half of the 20th century. Taking its name from the Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York’s Greenwich Village, Judson Dance Theater was organized as a series of open workshops from which its participants developed performances. Together, the artists challenged traditional understandings of choreography, expanding dance in ways that reconsidered its place in the world. They employed new compositional methods to strip dance of its theatrical conventions, incorporating “ordinary” movements—gestures typical of the street or home, for example, rather than a stage—into their work, along with games, simple tasks, and social dances to infuse their pieces with a sense of spontaneity.
Organized by Ana Janevski and Thomas Lax, and on view only at The Museum of Modern Art (September 16-February 3, 2019), Judson Dance Theater explores the unique moment in the 1960s when a group of choreographers, visual artists, composers, and filmmakers made use of a local church to present ground-breaking cross-disciplinary performances. The history of Judson is a key part of New York City’s history, taking its name from the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village where they presented performances; these artists challenged traditional understandings of choreography.”  Find out more here & here
 
Gabri Christa’s MAGDALENA
Theaterlab
September 12 – 22
At Theaterlab, Gabri Christa premiere’s her multimedia solo performance, Magdalena, “a family story of love and dementia…part family album, part story of love and race, but above all, a reckoning with the harrowing consequences of a devastating illness that affects an increasing percentage of the world’s population,” according to the release.  Find out more here
 
Various Artists
Times Square (Duffy Square & Broadway Plaza)
September 20 – 23
Together, Danspace Project and Times Square Alliance commissioned site-specific works from Full Circle Souljahs (Ana "Rokafella" Garcia & Gabriel "Kwikstep" Dionisio), luciana achugar and Laurie Berg in the midst of a Times Square crowd.  For this undertaking, the “…artists [were] to consider Times Square's history as a home to Broadway musicals, vaudeville, dance halls, and vernacular dance forms, including modern dance, tap, and hip hop, that emerged throughout the 20th century.” Find out more here
 
Fridays at noon
92nd Street Y
September 21
Three veteran dance-makers: Molissa Fenley, Claire Porter and Megan Williams will present new and reconstructed choreography.  Find out more here
 
Miro Magloire's New  Chamber  Ballet
City Center Studio 5
September 21 - 22
Magloire's New Chamber Ballet opens its 2018-19 season with the world premiere of a Magloire's ballet to music by contemporary German composer Wolfgang Rihm, along with repertory works Amity (2017), Bach (2018), and The Letter (2012). Find out more here
 
“Making Moves Dance Festival”
Jamaica Center for the Arts
September 21 & 22
Beginning their 9th year, the two-day multi-stage/multi-site Festival will present emerging and established choreographers and dance companies in original works plus master workshops, showcases, and discussions.  The lineup includes: Hana Kozuka, Barkha Dance Company/Barkha Patel, Kofago Dance Ensemble/Kevin McEwan, Laura Peterson Choreography, Schoen Movement Company and more.  Find out more here
 
Melanie Greene and Meira Goldberg
Danspace Project
September 22
Greene and Goldberg will share the bill at “DraftWork,” curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, which gives choreographers an opportunity for to share their work at various stages of development.  This is a free event.  Find out more here
 
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
NYU’s Skirball Theater
September 22 – 23
In the first performance this trilogy, all in one place, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company brings together Dora: Tramontane, Lance: Pretty aka the Escape Artist, and the NYC premiere of Ambros: The Emigrant, the work’s final piece. The complete trilogy will run 6½ hours (including a 90-minute dinner break).  Find out more here
 
Heidi Latsky Dance
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery/Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard
September 23
Latsky Dance will premiere of ON DISPLAY, featuring “…a cast of 20 dancers—ranging in age, race, size, disability and gender—who will create an interactive space where the viewer and the viewed can experience the beauty of difference,” according to the release.  The performance is free and open to the public. It celebrates the Washington, D.C. premiere of this performance installation initially conceived to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Find out more here

Sarah Halzack's (The Washington Post) first paragraph says it all:

"Arthur Mitchell, who paved the way for other minority dancers by becoming one of the first black dancers to join a major ballet company and who helped start the acclaimed Dance Theatre of Harlem, died Sept. 19 at a hospital in New York City. He was 84."

Read New York Times article by Jennifer Dunning

Read The Washington Post article by Sarah Halzack

Visit Dance Theatre of Harlem's website and see his legacy

Listen to Mr. Mitchell on starting his beloved Dance Theatre of Harlem (directly below) & watch (and listen) as Mitchell dances George Balanchine's controversial duet Agon (1957)  with Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell.