Various Artists
BAAD!
October 2
The BlaKTinX: Dance Compilation returns when BAAD! showcases seven choreographers live, and outdoor in their ownbackyard! Featured will be performances from Lisa Aronowitz, Borne Dance Company, Felix Ciprian, Fannieka Dawkins, Noel Rodriguez, Aya Saotome and Yasmin Venable. Find out more and purchase tickets here

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​Various Artists
New York Botanical Gardens
April - October 2021
The Contemporary Dance Series offers up "...A series of spontaneous outdoor performances celebrate the infinite possibilities of our connection with nature and each other," notes the release.  Find out more here

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
The Armory
September 28 – October 9
The Company bring the world premiere of Deep Blue Sea. The production marks Jones' first time performing in over fifteen years.  Find out more here
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Alejandro Cerrudo
The Joyce
September 28 - October 3
Cerrudo will premiere his evening-length work, It Starts Now "...push[ing] contemporary vocabulary and its dancers to unprecedented heights," according to the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Theatre at St. Jeans
September 30-October 3 
"Denishawn" a program of  rarely seen works by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, regarded as the Mother and Father of American Modern Dance will feature Arthur  Aviles, PeiJu Chien-Pott, Christine Dakin, Antonio Fini, Nina Jirka, Valentina Kozlova, Bradley Shelver, Limon2, and Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble.  Find out more and RSVP here

Various Artists
Bethesda Fountain, DUMBO Archway
October 1, 9 & 30
White Wave Dance presents iyouuswe II (I-You-Us-We-Two), a multi-year collaboration with choreographer Young Soon Kim and composer Marco Cappelli, in collaboration with their performers. Find out more here

Various Artists
​Arts On Site
October 1 & 2
The MADE BY WOMEN, A Women's Choreography Festival hosted by Dual Rivet, will feature Chelsea Hecht, Wild(flwr), Grace Tong, Benae Beamon, Annie Rigney, Claire Deane, and Dual Rivet.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Judson Memorial Church
October 2
From 11am to 6:30pm, "Movement Without Borders" conceived, directed, and produced by dance maker Richard Colton, in collaboration with Judson Memorial Church, performers will include dancer/choreographers Mariana Valencia, Ernesto Breton/Rudy Perez, Jimena Paz, Francisco Córdova, Horacio Macuacua, Francesca Harper, Edivaldo Ernesto, and Shamel Pitts/TRIBE; multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas with dancers Arthur Avilés, Jonathan Gonzáles, Maxi Kawkeye Canion, and Mio Ishikawa; and Antonio Sánchez Band with Thana Alexa, Jordan Peters, Carmen Staaf, Noam Wiesenberg, and poet Jonathan Mendoza.  Find out more and RSVP here 

rebeca medina
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
October 2
Medina presents jardín salvaje "...a sound map and durational dance work that guides the audience through the physical and temporal landscape of Snug Harbor," according to the release. Find out more here

Dance Visions NY
The Friends of Cedarmere
October 3
"Morning Afternoon Evening” is an interdisciplinary dance theater work based on an original poem  Find out more here

CONGRATULATIONS to Urban Bush Woman's Founder and Chief Visioning Partner Jawole Willa Jo Zollar! This is a is well deserved honor!

Read more about Zollar here

Read more about the recipients of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship ​here

Tickets are still available to
The 37th Annual Bessies Ceremony!

Monday, October 11th, 2021
7:30pm ET
A virtual event 
Free Virtual Afterparty to follow
 
Bessies Ceremony Tickets
​Join us as The Bessies returns to a virtual platform in recognition and celebration of our community's artistry and resilience, honoring the 2021 Bessies Nominees, and announcing the award recipients for each category. Join us for the unveiling of a few exciting community-wide initiatives, pay special tribute to our community's often unsung but essential dance workers, and more!

​Assistant/Associate Professor of Dance
Fine & Applied Arts
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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https://jobs.illinois.edu/academic-job-board/job-details?jobID=154109&job=fine-applied-arts-assistant-associate-professor-of-dance-fall-2022-154109
 
The Department of Dance at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign https://dance.illinois.edu invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor beginning August 2022.
 
The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.
 
We seek an artist/scholar committed to creative research, progressive pedagogical practice, and a colleague who will contribute to our ongoing anti-racist efforts and curriculum redesign. We are interested in adventurous thinkers with clear research interests and inventive trajectories. The successful candidate should have a passion for broadening perspectives on dance and promoting the importance of the form in contemporary culture. We welcome applications from artist/scholars from multiple genres of dance practice and performance.
 
Candidate must have a demonstrated record of achievement in dance; a focused research trajectory in dance-related scholarship, choreography, and/or performance; strong written and oral communication skills; interest in mentoring students and in making a positive impact toward diversity and inclusion.  MFA (and or equivalent experience) or PHD preferred.
 
The mission of Dance at Illinois is to contribute to Dance’s positive impact on the world, as a distinctive generator of new knowledge and as a vital cultural agent and signifier. We activate the power of Dance to root out historically unbalanced, hierarchically oppressive perspectives and are committed to investigating the dynamic intersections between research and teaching in academic, professional, and community settings. We promote ethical, anti-racist, and progressive practices, operating from a deeply held belief that diversity and inclusion are critical for the advancement of the artform and for humankind. Utilizing a range of experimental and canonic approaches, we generate choreographic, pedagogical, performative, and scholarly research that centers Dance in global discourse.  We aim to forge innovative and sustainable lives as artist educators and to model that practice widely, compelled by our collective, passionate dedication to Dance as a transformational process.
 

Ragamala Dance Company
The Joyce
September 22-26
The Company brings the evening-length New York premiere of Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim  created and performed by mother/daughter Artistic Directors Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy.  "Co-commissioned by The Kennedy Center, the piece suspends time and reality, with eleven dancers creating a metaphorical realm where humans and the divine are one. Inspired by the death of the choreographers’ father/grandfather while away from his Indian homeland, Fires of Varanasi merges the traditional Hindu belief of life and death as part of an integrated whole with the experience of immigrants in the contemporary diaspora," according to the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
New York Botanical Gardens
April - October 2021
The Contemporary Dance Series offers up "...A series of spontaneous outdoor performances celebrate the infinite possibilities of our connection with nature and each other," notes the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Virtual
September 20-30
The Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Merce Cunningham Trust launches the new season with “In Conversation with Merce,”  featuring solos and duets from Cunningham’s Landrover, danced by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre company members Chalvar Monteiro and Jacquelin Harris, plus includes world premieres Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring.  The program will stream until September 30.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Danspace Project
September 25
Danspace Project opens the fall season with “A Ritual of Return: a free outdoor gathering” in the Gardens at St. Mark’s Church with offerings by artists devynn emory, Samita Sinha, and Mina Nishimura, and music mixed by artist and DJ JD Samson. The event will also mark the introduction of the 2021-2022 Renewal Residency artists: Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Mina Nishimura, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez and Gillian Walsh.  Find out more here

BOiNK! Presents: Sizzle! Dance and Film Festival 
Arts On Site, Studio 3R
September 24 - 25
All programs include short dance films between 5-20 minutes. Festival screenings highlight artists who are pushing boundaries within the dance and film genre.  Find out more here

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
The Armory
September 28 – October 9
The Company bring the world premiere of Deep Blue Sea. The production marks Jones' first time performing in over fifteen years.  Find out more here

Various Artists
New York City Ballet
September 30
New York City Ballet’s ninth edition of the annual Fall Fashion Gala will feature world premieres by Sidra Bell and Andrea Miller.  Bell, founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York, will collaborate with Brooklyn-based designer Christopher John Rogers and Miller, Artistic Director, Choreographer, and Founder of Brooklyn-based company GALLIM, will work with Paris-based Colombian-American designer Esteban Cortázar. The NYCB season runs September 21 - October 17. Find out more here

mayfield brooks and Taína Asili
Gibney - Virtual
September 28
As part of Gibney’s “Deeper Duet” series, tune in for a conversation with brooks and Asili.  Find out more here

The 37th Annual Bessies Ceremony!

Monday, October 11th, 2021
7:30pm ET
A virtual event 

Free Virtual Afterparty to follow
 
Bessies Ceremony Tickets