Jérôme Bel
Sept. 27-28
L'Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater

As part of the Crossing The Line Festival, Bel opens this year’s festival with a career retrospective Bel calls “auto-bio-choreo-graphy.” For ecological reasons, the choreographer no longer travels by plane; instead, Broadway actress April Matthis plays him, blending filmed dance documentation, monologue, and live restaging into an unexpected evening.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Sept. 18 – 29
City Center
The annual ten-day event, Fall for Dance Festival, returns to City Center with five programs. Slated for this season is the National Ballet of Ukraine, collective kNoname Artist– Roderick George, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, GALLIM,  M.A.D.D. Rhythms, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Italy’s CCN/Aterballeto, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Tiler Peck, Herman Cornejo and much more.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Sept. 20 - Oct. 6
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
For the 2024 Annual Festival, showcasing various artistic styles and genres, from visual art to contemporary dance, in indoor and outdoor settings.  Find out more here 

Ballet X
Sept. 25-29
The Joyce
Led by Christine Cox, the Company returns with three New York premieres including Takehiro Ueyama’s Heroes, Jodie Gate's Beautiful Once, and Loughlan Prior's Macaroni. Find out more here

​Alethea Pace
Sept. 28
Joseph Rodman Drake Park/Enslaved African Burial Ground
Pace’s between wave and water “…a performance walk rooted in remembering and reclaiming the history of an African Burial Ground in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx, and combines dance, storytelling, and song…” will be presented at Joseph Rodman Drake Park/Enslaved African Burial Ground.  between wave and water is part of Pace’s Civic Practice Partnership Residency at The Met Museum. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Sept. 28
AOS
Dual Rivet's "Made By Women Festival" in two programs with Priscilla Tom, Jeevika Bhat, Graciela Portillo, Dual Rivet, Sydney Burtis, Starla Edwards & Rachel Lockhart and Kanami Kusajima.  FInd out more here 

Michelle Thompson
Sept. 29
AOS
Thompson will presnet Excuse me, it’s nice to meet you, a multi sectional work exploring the beginnings of relationships. Find out more here

Various Artists
Sept. 28
Roulette
Belongó: Worldwinds, a collaborative performance bringing together pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble with dance companies: LaTasha Barnes & The Continuum Collective and Soles of Duende. Find out more here

Limón Dance Company, Boca Tuya, and Music From The Sole
Sept. 28-29
Kaatsbaan
This mixed bill includes Limón Dance Company in a new creation by Kayla Farrish plus classics by José Limón. Redes (Nets) (1951) and El Grito (The Scream) (1952), Boca Tuya performs Like Those Playground Kids at Midnight by Omar Román De Jesús, and from Music From The Sole, a new work-in-development that explores the link between tap dance, Afro-Brazilian, and house music. Find out more here 

Sept. 29
Martha Graham Dance Company: Baye & Asa
The Guggenheim Museum
Graham Dance Company highlights commissioned expansion of choreographers Baye & Asa’s Cortege 2023, inspired by Martha Graham’s Cortege of Eagles.  Baye and Asa will participate in a moderated discussion with artistic director Janet Eilber. Martha Graham Dance Company members will perform excerpts prior to the work’s premiere.  Find out more here 

Music From The Sole
Sept. 30
The Guggenheim Museum
Led by Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and bassist Gregory Richardson, Music From The Sole draws from Afro-Brazilian, jazz, soul, house, rock, and Afro-Cuban styles.  Find out more here 

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 
Oct. 1-6
The Joyce
Ray Mercer’s This I Know For Sure brings a distinct energy to the program, capturing the spark of creation between choreographer and dancers and giving a peek into the artist’s mind. Philadelphia dance pioneer Rennie Harris pays homage to renowned painter Jacob Lawrence and his portrayals of Black life in America with Jacob’s Ladder, focusing on Lawrence’s scenes of urban life. add master choreographer Paul Taylor’s Esplanade.  Find out more here

NVA & Guests
Oct. 2
Triskelion Arts
NVA & Guests presents the first phase of the new project, Cry Wolf (Phase One) a dance-theater production that interlaces the urgency of climate change awareness with the classic narrative of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Find out more here

​Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study interrogates the history of dance from the embodied and poetic perspectives of choreographers. Authored by twelve diverse American dance artists in the form of twelve small booklets, it approaches and celebrates dance history as a subjective, artistic inquiry. Written by working choreographers, it reimagines and radicalizes our understanding of dance throughout human history. Simultaneously, the project is dedicated to the power of an artist-centric view of history itself, thus placing the history of dance back into the body, where it began. Here, history occurs in vertical layers of time and space, moving dance history into the street, the football field, the yard, the screen, the memory, the womb, the sky, and the future. Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study enlarges and complicates the history of dance; it interprets history as unfixed, limitless, and prismatic.
Edited by Annie-B Parson and Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Join us for our Book Launch on October 2, 7pm, at The Chocolate Factory!
FREE WITH RSVP

We are thrilled to invite you to the 2024 Movement Research Gala, honoring AUNTS, Justine Simons, and Lucien Zayan!

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New York, NY (September 19, 2024) – New Dance Alliance (NDA) is pleased to announce the resident artists for the 2024-2025 LiftOff Residency program.

Now in its 11th year, NDA’s LiftOff Residency provides six movement-based artists with a minimum of 36 hours of rehearsal space at NDA’s studio in Tribeca, a $500 stipend, and two in-person feedback sessions. Facilitated by NDA Executive Director Karen Bernard, feedback sessions are designed for artists to share their creative process and project development and participate in a community exchange.

The Fall 2024 LiftOff Resident Artists are Makayla Peterson | Monét Movement Productions: The Collective, Cristina Moya-Palacios, and Emily Kyoto Shari.

The Winter 2025 LiftOff Resident Artists are Imani Gaudin, Morgan Gregory, and Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa / binbinFactory.

NDA invites artists to apply for the LiftOff Residency through an Open Call. Residency artists are selected by a panel of artists, including past LiftOff recipients. The 2024-2025 panel included Justin Cabrillos, Tal Halevi, Kashia Kancey, Joy Norton, Kimiko Tanabe, and Yolette Yellow-Duke.

Read more here 

Movement Research hosts a range of Residency and Fellowship Programs which provide artists with support and resources within a dynamic, interactive home base for inquiry, artistic research, and creative development.

We are excited to announce three artist opportunities with applications opening this Fall/Winter for programs starting in 2025! 

The MR Van Lier Emerging Artists of Color Fellowship provides year-long creative research support, rehearsal space, mentorship, performance and related opportunities designed to support the individualized creative process of movement-based artists. Artists must apply as individuals and are selected through an open application and panel process.The Fellowship program is supported by New York Community Trust through the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund.

Application Opens: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Application Closes: Sunday, October 29, 2024
Find out more here

Movement Research at the Judson Church is a high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights at Judson Memorial Church throughout the fall and spring seasons. The Movement Research at the Judson Church series supports wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based forms and provides a platform for artists at various stages of their creative development. 
Movement Research at the Judson Church is a free event and draws audiences from the dance community and general public. Because Movement Research supports creative practice and process, not final product, the Movement Research at the Judson Church series is for exploration of ideas, not a venue for fully produced work on a season’s presentation. 

Application Opens: Monday, December 16, 2024
Application Closes: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Find out more here
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The MR Artist-In-Residence (AIR) program was founded in 1989 in direct response to the needs of early career dance artists. The MR AIR Residency provides early career generative dance artists with a year and a half of support through residency fees, free rehearsal space, professional development, national and international exchange opportunities, and other formats for investigative discourse to NYC-based early artists to support their creative process in a supported and constructive environment.  The MR AIR program offers a “home base” environment that allows artists to interact with a community of peers and explore their artistic interests. The MR AIR program supports early career artists’ engagement in creative research, investigation and experimentation without the requirement and pressure to create a final product. The program is flexible and is customized in collaboration with the participating artists, in order to best serve each artist’s interests, needs and schedules. The MR AIR program offers guidance and administrative support from MR staff, giving participating early career artists, at a critical stage in their development, a solid foundation to further their careers.  The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program is funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Davis/Dauray Family Fund, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Application Opens: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Application Opens: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Find out more here 

Dance and Process: Rena Anakwe,
ms. z tye, and Ogemdi Ude
Sept.  20–22
The Kitchen at Westbeth
Dance and Process (DAP) stages an interrogation of methods of choreographic and dance practice, whereby artists challenge default structures in their own work and the field at large. Dance and Process, DAP alums, mayfield brooks and Niall Jones leads this cohort of artists Rena Anakwe, ms. z tye, and Ogemdi Ude.  Find out more here

​London City Ballet
Sept. 17-22
The Joyce
For their first international tour in over 30 years, the former resident company of Sadler’s Wells, London City Ballet brings four U.S. premieres during its Joyce season. Olivier Award-winning choreographer Arielle Smith offers a new creation which pushes the boundaries of dance theater. Liam Scarlett’s emotive Consolations & Liebestraum features a live music performance of Liszt's piano concerto, while Ashley Page’s graceful Larina Waltz amplifies Tchaikovsky’s carefree melodies. Closing the program, Eve by Christopher Marney zeroes in on the exchange between Eve and The Serpent, an intimate look at the biblical tale from her perspective. 

Various Artists
Sept. 17 – 19
Triskelion
The “Black Black Black” week, curated by Beyond The Black Box returns with a three day gathering of dancers, choreographers, and multidisciplinary artists.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Sept. 18 – 29
City Center
The annual ten-day event, Fall for Dance Festival, returns to City Center with five programs. Slated for this season is the National Ballet of Ukraine, collective kNoname Artist– Roderick George, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, GALLIM,  M.A.D.D. Rhythms, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Italy’s CCN/Aterballeto, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Tiler Peck, Herman Cornejo and much more.  Find out more here 

Body Stories: Teresa Fellion Dance
Sept. 19 - 20
Arts On Site
Will present the premiere with Purple Flame.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Sept. 20 - Oct. 6
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
For the 2024 Annual Festival, showcasing various artistic styles and genres, from visual art to contemporary dance, in indoor and outdoor settings.  Find out more here 

Step Afrika! 
Sept. 20
Lincoln Center
Step Afrika! brings their step tradition of percussive dance, call-and-response, and polyrhythmic symphony to Alice Tully Hall.  Find out more here 

Mimi Garrard
Sept. 21
The Rudin Museum of Art
Mimi Garrard of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre and her collaborators will present GLOBAL – four works for video. Program is by invitation only. Find out more here

Various Artists
Ailey Citigroup Theater
Sept. 21-23
The evening, titled, Erasing Borders is a festival of East Indian dance, presented by the Indo-American Arts Council, with different programs of all styles of Indian dance and music, will be live and livestreamed.  Find out more here  

Various Artists
Sept. 22 
Arts On Site
This split bill will offer works by Cori Marquis, The Nines [IX] /Baira Mvmt Philosphy and Jamal Jackson Dance. Find out more here 

This season's four Fresh Tracks artists, after auditions and representing the 60th cohort artists are (alphabetical by last name):  

Maxi Hawkeye Canion 
Kashia Kancey 
Jade Manns
ayo ohs

​Find out more here

From the choreographer/Ogemdi Ude:

I am seeking Black femme-identifying performers (inclusive of cisgender, transgender, non-binary, agender, and genderqueer identities) for my new work “Major”, premiering at New York Live Arts in Fall 2025 and touring in 2026/2027. Major is a dance theater project engaging the history and physicality of Southern majorette dance as a means of physically investigating Black femme memory, sexuality, and sensuality.

Auditions will take place in NYC on September 27 from 4:45-7:15pm with callbacks on September 28th from 12:30-4pm. Auditions via invitation only. To be considered learn more and submit your materials at the link belo, and find out more here