Dorothée Munyaneza
NYLA 
Oct. 26-27
British-Rwandan singer, actress, dancer and choreographer Munyaneza together with five Black, African and Afro-descendant artists brings Mailles,  shares  "...intimate journeys ... from Bristol to Seville and Port-au-Prince to Marseille, creating a symphony of voices. Each of these voices and bodies tells a unique story of commitment and strength," according to the release. Begun in 2014 by Munyaneza, Mailles is performed by Ife Day, Yinka Esi Graves, Asmaa Jama and Nido Uwera. Mailles is presented with The Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival.  Find out more here 

Michael Keegan-Dolan
St. Ann's Warehouse
Oct. 21 - Nov. 5
Keegan-Dolan’s How to Be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons, offers a story about his life in dance that are both fictious and real.  Find out more here 

Sankai Juku
The Joyce
Oct. 24
The Tokyo-based company offers contemporary Butoh creations in KŌSAr, a compilation of reimagined excerpts from the company’s repertoire. Find out more here   

Take Dance
Arts On Site
Oct 26 - 27
Take Dance presents two world premieres, Bamboo Dreams by artistic director Takehiro Ueyama and If You Find Yourself Missing by associate director Jill Echo. Find out more here 

Rachide Ouramdane
BAM
Oct 27-29
Ouramdane brings his Corps extrêmes, his new gravity-defying multimedia piece of aerial dance, where performers traverse the stage against the backdrop of an impressive climbing wall.  Find out more here  

Boris Charmatz
NYU Skirball
Oct 27 - 28 
The French dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Charmatz will present his solo, Somnole which explores the idea of somnolence — the feeling of being on the brink of sleep.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Judson Memorial Church
Oct. 27-28
Paul J. Botelho, Brice Brown, Douglas Dunn, and Steve Gibson will present BODY / SHADOW, a new experimental opera featuring 16 dancers. Find out more here 

Wendell Gray II and Anna Sperber 
Danspace
Oct. 28
As part of the DraftWork series, Gray II and Sperber will offer works-in-development followed by a conversation with the DraftWork curator Ishmael Houston-Jones.  This event is free with RSVP.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Arts on Site
Oct. 28-29
"And yet," a festival curated by choreographer Heidi Latsky is a celebration of disability and dance with choreogrhers Mark Travis Rivera, Nicole Marquez, and Leslie Taub. Find out more here 

Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH)
Guggenheim Museum
Oct. 29
As part of the "Works & Process" series at the Guggenheim Museum, DTH’s new artistic director Robert Garland celebrates the DTH diaspora with a program that celebrates the company’s multifaceted founder Arthur Mitchell. Four DTH alums—Dionne Figgins, Director, Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech; Alicia Graf Mack, Director, Juilliard School Dance Division; Tai Jimenez, Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem School; and Melanie Person, Co-Director, The Ailey School, and Director, Ailey/Fordham BFA—will coach DTH company dancers and participate in discussions moderated by Garland that explore how their time at DTH resonates in their work.  Find out mre here 

Alfred Gallman & Mansa K Mussa
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company
Oct. 28
Gallman and Mussa, in collaboration with Clark Center NYC will present "Gallman and Mousa in conversation."  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Manhattan Movement Arts Center
Oct. 29
The  Annual World Dance Festival: Dancing Across Cultural Borders presented by Lotus Music & Dance and Robert Browning and Associates will present  Zerd Mongolian Music and Dance, Sri Lankan Dance Academy,  Songhee Lee Korean Dance Company and Sidiki Conde and Friends (West African Dance from Guinea). Find out more here  

Paul Taylor Dance Company 
Lincoln Center
Oct 31 - Nov 12
Featured this season are Taylor's Piazzolla Caldera (1997),  Black Tuesday (2001) and Esplanade (1975) and more, plus works by contemporary choreographers Lauren Lovette, Larry Keigwin and Amy Hall Garner accompanied by live music from the Orchestra of St. Luke's.  Find out more here 

Now Accepting Applications:

Open Call for Production Commission & Resident Companies

We are seeking experimental art that finds itself somewhere in the intersections of Black, brown, and queer identity and led by artists who identify with those intersections. We believe in projects that cross/blend/subvert genres and disciplines; and are looking for compelling art that requires virtuosity and is participatory/active for audiences in some way. We are looking for projects that are ready to have a New York City premiere and companies that are ready to capitalize on a residency at The Flea to bring artists and audiences together in community.

Submission Deadlines: November 1st, 2023

APPLY FOR A PRODUCTION COMMISSION

The Flea is seeking production proposals for its 2024 - 2025 season. We are looking for work that asks genuine and challenging questions and resists status quo thinking/binaries/moralizing; work that invites us into deep consideration while embracing humor or absurdity; odd, strange work that inspires awe and unique ways of seeing and being.

One exciting proposal will be selected for The Flea’s 2024 - 2025 season and its lead artist will be awarded a $6,000 development fee as well as a $6,000 production fee.

In order to apply, you will need to provide:
Written Artist Statement/Project Description
Work sample that indicates the full scope/context of the project
Optional: Artist CV/Resume/Website

The final project will be chosen by February 2024. The chosen project will be invited to do a development workshop in the Fall of 2024 with the goal of a Spring 2025 production at The Flea.

Learn more

APPLY FOR RESIDENT COMPANY

The Flea is seeking proposals for its 3-year Resident Company Program. The new cohort will begin Jan 1, 2025. We are looking for companies who produce performing and/or visual art that asks genuine and challenging questions and resists status quo thinking, binaries, and moralizing;  work that invites us into deep consideration while embracing humor or absurdity; odd, strange work that inspires awe and unique ways of seeing and being.

One company will be chosen as the Key Resident Company and two additional companies as Resident Companies. 

The Key Resident Company program is a reparative grant and partnership offered to a nascent company that centers Black, brown and queer artists and leadership. The company will function as an autonomous company and will receive:

$10,000 unrestricted cash support each year
$36,000 space rental credits each year
Printing and office supplies 
Some production resources (i.e., costume shop usage, long-term storage, etc.) 
Digital Marketing support
Quarterly fellowship activities with the cohort of Resident Companies

The Key Resident Company commits to presenting a minimum of two (2) productions each year at The Flea
The Key Resident Company must fairly compensate all artists, contractors and employees who work with them.

The Resident Company program offers two mission-aligned artistic companies the ability to leverage The Flea’s in-house support system—creative, technical, and producing—to further their artistic reach. The company will function as an autonomous company and will receive:

Three (3) weeks of free development space in the Pete theater
One (1) rent-free fundraising event for the year at The Flea (galas, benefits, funders briefings) 
Quarterly fellowship activities with the cohort of Resident Companies
Discounted rental rates for production weeks
Printing and office supplies as needed.  
Some production resources (i.e., costume shop usage, long-term storage, etc.) 
Digital Marketing support

The Resident Company commits to presenting a minimum of two (2) productions, exhibitions or installations each year at The Flea
The Resident Company must fairly compensate all artists, contractors and employees who work with them.

Submission components:
Written Statement/Description
Demographics
Two samples of previous projects.
The final companies will be chosen by April 2024. The chosen companies will be invited to start their first year in residence January 1, 2025.

Learn more

Next Week! DESCENT: Online & In-Depth
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We are excited to host DESCENT: Online & In-Depth, a Kinetic Light produced online event featuring an intimate conversation between our founding artists followed by screenings of DESCENT.

Thursday, October 26 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT 

Saturday, October 28 1pm ET / 10am PT 

The first hour will be a pre-recorded, podcast style conversation between the artists; Alice Sheppard, Michael Maag and Laurel Lawson will tune into the event live via chat so you can engage with them in real time during their recorded conversation. After a short break, we’ll roll into screenings of DESCENT, filmed in 2018 at EMPAC, with freshly revamped accessibility.

Access: Open captions, multiple tracks of audio description, musical ASL interpretation with a DI/HI team, call line, and transcripts will be available.  Event playback will be available to ticket holders for 48 hrs. For even more access details, click here.

We hope you will join us! Questions? Email [email protected]
 
Tickets available on a sliding scale $0-$50.
​Read more and get tickets HERE

Lucinda Childs & Philip Glass
Lyon Opera Ballet
New York City Center
Oct. 19-21
Childs’s 1979 Dance layered with Philip Glass' score, projections by Sol LeWitt projections,
"... remains as fresh and exhilarating as it was four decades ago," notes the release. Dance is restaged for the dancers of the Lyon Opera Ballet and presented as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival. Find out more here 

HopeBoykinDance
The Joyce
Oct. 17-22
In their Joyce debut,  HopeBoykinDance will premiere States Of Hope, an evening-length work where Boykin shares experiences and insights of self-discovery, reshaping, and renewal – a dance memoir of sorts. Find out more here  

Gregory Maqoma & Thuthuka Sibisi
BAM
Oct. 19-21
South African collaborators, choreographer Maqoma and composer Sibisi’s Broken Chord makes its US premiere as part of BAM’s Next Wave. Broken Chord reimagines the 19th-century South African choir's journey through North America and England using traditional Xhosa and contemporary dance. This production marks Maqoma's farewell as a dancer and delves into complex themes of colonialism and racism, creating a unique blend of movement and storytelling. Find out more here  

Antonio Ramos
Abrons Arts Center
Oct. 19-21
Ramos and the Gangbangers brings CEREMONIA, “a mixtape extravaganza of cultural misappropriation and reappropriation,” according to the release, to the Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center.  Find out more here  

Thistle Dance
Jefferson Market Library
Oct 20 & 27
Thistle Dance, in partnership with the New York Public Library, presents The Art of Sin, an immersive dance experience that explores the entwined relationships between the seven deadly sins and featuring 11 dancers, spanning three floors.  Find out more here 

(LA)HORDE and Ballet National de Marseille
NYU Skirball
Oct. 20-21                                                                                                                
The North American premiere of Room with a View, a collaboration between the electronic music producer Rone, the dance collective (LA)HORDE and the Ballet National de Marseille, is a large-scale, multidisciplinary performance featuring 20 dancers. Find out more here 

chameckilerner
The Chocolate Factory Theater.
Oct. 20-28
chamecklerner's premiere Aging Prelude, marks the “return to the stage” of the duo and delves "...into their shared experiences with their aging bodies and their shifting relationship to a visual landscape that idealizes the “perpetuation of youthfulness,”  notes the release.  Find out more here 

Ragas in Motion, ft. Barkha Patel & Malini Srinivasan
Chelsea Factory
Oct. 21
Brooklyn Raga Massive presents an evening of dance and classical Raga music, featuring Bharatanatyam dancer Malini Srinivasan and Kathak dancer Barkha Patel.  Find out more here 

Gillian Walsh
Danspace Project
October 19-21 
Walsh's new work Wilderness is informed by her studies in theology. Summarizing the work, Walsh writes, "I was led into the wilderness. I was alone but longing and celestial love stayed. I waited. After a long period of stillness movement emerged from the groundswell. God spoke through my body.”  Find out more here 

Sankai Juku
The Joyce
Oct. 24-Nov. 5
The Tokyo-based company Sankai Juku that offers contemporary Butoh creations, returns with KŌSAr, a compilation of reimagined excerpts from the company’s repertoire. Find out more here 

mayfield brooks
Performance Space
Oct. 26–28
brooks brings Wail•Fall•Whale•Fall their interdisciplinary dance methodology Improvising While Black (IWB), which explores the decomposed matter of Black life and engages in dance improvisation, disorientation, dissent, and ancestral healing. Wail Room, an installation is also part of the brooks’ events.  Find out more here  

Get free access to our studio and a supportive community of artists for the development of your creative practice.

Apply by October 31st!

​Our selection process is lottery based, check our website for all eligibility and selection priorities.

Apply and learn more!

Women of Color in the Arts
Executive Director
WORK LOCATION: Remote
SALARY RANGE: $90,000 - $100,000
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ROLE & PURPOSE: Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA) is seeking its newest Executive Director (ED), one who leads with vision and purpose and whose approach to leadership is collaborative, intergenerational, and liberatory. This new ED will work directly with the WOCA staff and advisory board in visioning for the future of the almost 15-year-old organization and will be tasked with shepherding the grassroots organization into the future by leaning on the wealth and resources of its vast, national community. The Executive Director will work directly with the Founding Director/Co-Founder, Kaisha S. Johnson, in the implementation of both the vision and values of the organization, as well as, the transference of institutional knowledge, helping to record, archive, and secure a lasting legacy for the organization.  

The ideal candidate for Executive Director is a creative and critical thinker who has a decolonized approach to nonprofit work, an acute understanding of community,  experience working in dynamic environments that demand a high level of flexibility and problem-solving skills, and a clear alignment with WOCA’s mission and vision. Prior background working in a nonprofit arts or cultural organization, particularly within a grassroots setting, is especially valued.  

HOW TO APPLY:  Submit your application to Unlock Creative at the link below and include a resume, cover letter, and 1 - 2 work samples that demonstrate your professional experience and/or highlight some of your accomplishments related to the position. In the cover letter, please be sure to articulate why this role resonates with you (i.e., is in alignment with your current goals and trajectory) and outline your core skills as they support the mission of the work of WOCA. 

In the cover letter, you are also encouraged to respond to the following questions: 
How do you interpret liberatory leadership? What does community look like to you, including your own? Why are you passionate about leading a member-driven organization? How do you feel about taking the reins of a founder-led organization and creating your own vision to move the organization into its next phase of development? 
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SEARCH MANAGEMENT: Unlock Creative: Coaching & Management Solutions LLC is conducting this search. If you have any questions, please email Ashley Walden at [email protected].  Label the email “WOCA Search Questions.”  All applications and expressed interest in this position will remain confidential. Again, please direct all questions regarding the process and application to [email protected]. 

To read the full job description, click here and apply here.
--Learn more about Women of Color in the Arts at link.      ​

Misty Copeland has taken to Change.org to start a petition to promote diversity in the dance community. 

A clip from her Master Class detailing how she colors her own ballet shoes to match her skin tone went viral on social media yesterday. This morning, Copeland posted a video directing fans and followers to her new petition asking Apple to introduce a spectrum of shades for the pointe shoe emoji. It's amassed nearly 2K signatures in just a few hours. 

“Fortunately, ballet shoe companies are beginning to embrace diversity by offering pointe shoes in various shades,” Copeland writes. “Yet, when I use Apple’s pointe shoe emoji, I only see “European Pink.” In an era where Apple showcases diversity across its emoji spectrum, why is the pointe shoe left behind?” 

Copeland is asking followers to take to social media with #MakeAPointe.

“Every signature brings us one step closer to a world where ballet, both on the stage and in digital spaces, reflects all of us,” she writes. 
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The petition and a real-time signature count can be found at Change.org/MakeAPointe. ​