Christopher Williams
Baryshnikov Arts
Oct. 12-15
Williams brings his danced myths to BAC in two world premieres: Jeux Eux + A Child's Tale.  "Believing that myths must evolve as the societies they serve reform over time, Williams has long dreamt of reimagining a series of mythic-themed ballets originally premiered by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in order to make his own queer-inclusive cultural contribution to help further this evolution," according to the release. Find out more here https://baryshnikovarts.org/christopher-williams

Malpaso Dance Company
The Joyce
Oct. 10-15
The Company returns to the Joyce for their 8th appearance with the New York premiere of A Dancing Island, by artistic director Osnel Delgado set to a new score performed live by musicians from Cuba and the United States.  Also on the program will be New York premieres by Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie, and The Last Song by Malpaso co-founder Daile Carrazana.  Find out more here 

DELIROUS Dances/Edisa Weeks
Mark O'Donnell Theater
Oct. 12-15
With 651ARTS, Weeks and DELIOUS Dances will present 3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness is a trilogy featuring three interactive performance rituals that integrate dance, live music, text, visual installations, community discussions and shared meals to interrogate why life, liberty and happiness were included as unalienable rights in the United States Declaration of Independence. For the premiere of 3 RITES: Liberty, the second installment invites audiences to engage in a powerful exploration of our past and present that challenges us to undo systemic racist structures and examine our collective and individual experiences within them. Find out more here 
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Thistle Dance
Jefferson Market Library
Oct 13, 20 & 27
Thistle Dance, in partnership with the New York Public Library, will present 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 

New York City Ballet
David H. Koch Theater
Oct 14-15
Closing their fall 2023 season, scheduled are "All Balanchine" programs including the following works:  -Serenade, Orpheus, Theme and Variations, JEWELS, Concerto Barocco, Prodigal Son, and Symphony in C.  Find out more here 

Works & Process/San Francisco Ballet
Guggenheim 
Oct 15
As part of the "Works & Process" series, in her first season as San Francisco Ballet’s artistic director, Tamara Rojo will center cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations, celebrate the artists and histories of San Francisco, and spotlight women’s voices on stage and off.  Find out more here 

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

ALLways: Fall 2023 Session Announcement
October 3 + November 9 • 1-4pm ET / 10am-1pm PT

These access in the arts workshops are three hour participatory, online workshops rooted in Kinetic Light’s Access ALLways methodology and designed for arts organizations, producers, and event organizers.
The ALLways method, grounded in KL’s holistic research and practice and led by Laurel Lawson, uses fundamental principles of equity and hospitality to help you learn how to create equitable access for your performances, events, audiences, and organization.

The October 3 session, ALLways: Producing Accessible Online Events, is for arts workers with new to intermediate experience levels with disability or accessibility. Online programming and engagement has long been a critical location for disabled gathering and creation; now, online programming is here to stay for arts organizations who want to offer vibrant and accessible programming and fulfill their highest potential to reach their audience. Come learn how to deepen your online practices to sustain and create meaningful connections. 

The November 9 session, ALLways: Centering Disability in Strategy, Systems & Structures, is best suited for arts professionals with new to intermediate experience with disability or accessibility. While institutional interest in supporting disabled artists and access work has boomed – this well-intentioned support will be ineffective at supporting equity, justice, and field-wide change if we don’t examine the underlying assumptions and structures. Join us to learn how centering artistry and access can permeate and ripple through organizational structures and cultures.

CART/ASL and verbal description included for each session.
Stay tuned here for more information about each session. If you’re ready to register you + your team, click here for October or here for November registration.

Early Bird Pricing for the October session ends August 31. 
Early Bird Pricing for the November session ends September 30.
As part of our KL community, enter code FriendsAndFamily for
$30 off (in addition to early bird pricing!).
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If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

Leslie Parker
Danspace Project
Oct. 5-7
At Danspace Project, NYC and Twin-Cities based artist Leslie Parker brings her Divination Tools: imagine home, the latest iteration of Parker’s “Call to Remember,” an epic, multi-year project exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance. Divination Tools: imagine home brings together a collective of Black visual artists, musicians, and femme dance artists to experiment and to expand notions of improvisation and lineage through these art forms.
Find out more here 

Various Artists
New York City Center
Sept. 27–Oct. 8
The 20th Fall for Dance Festival returns with 4 diverse programs - On the programs will be Ballet BC, Caleb Teicher, Gibney Company, Côté Danse, Sara Mearns, Madrid’s Sergio Bernal Dance Company, Adesola Osakalumi, Hawaiian hula halau Kaleoolakaikahikinaokalā, and so much more.  Find out more here  

Olivier Tarpaga Dance Project
The Joyce
Oct. 3-8
In his debut at the Joyce, the Burkina Faso-born, choreographer and composer Tarpaga will premiere Once the dust settles, flowers bloom with his company Olivier Tarpaga Dance Project.  The evening-length work that “gives voice to the refugees of his homeland. Tarpaga addresses the fragility of individual autonomy in the wake of religious extremism, chronicling stories of women and children fighting against oppressive systems of violence…[but]…offers the promise of hope through unity,” notes the release.  Find out more here  
 
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company
NYLA
Oct. 4-7
The Company's Curriculum II, “The poetic quilt - sewn of text, lecture as narration, live song, sound and visual installation,” notes the release, returns to the company’s home. Find out more here  

Takahiro Yamamoto
The Chocolate Factory
Oct. 5-7
Oregon-based choreographer Yamamoto’s NOTHINGBEING, which “uses highly physical movement, communal meditation, and the internal activation of sensory memories to construct a sustained and complex meditation on subjectivity and erasure within and between states of “nothingness” and ‘being,’” notes the release.  Find out more here  

Various Artists 
Broadway Presbyterian Church
Oct. 6
Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup and David Shenk present the latest installment of the Moving Memory project: fill in the blank  bringing together artists, caregivers, and seniors to create a community of care. Find out more here  

Various Artists
Arts On Site
Oct. 6-7
Dual Rivet presents their 3rd annual MADE BY WOMEN Festival, highlighting women* choreographers & filmmakers. Featured choreographers are: Kashia Kancey, Olga Rabetskaya / OR Dance Projects, Khala Brannigan, Dual Rivet, Majella Bess, Laja Field, Jessie Lee Thorn, Dorchel Haqq/ LLAB, Ashley Pierre-Louis and Ke'Ron Wilson.  Find out more here

Aliesha Bryan and Orlando ​Hernández
BAAD!
Oct. 6-7
Flamenco dancer Bryan debuts El Mensaje, a work on climate change and Hernández revisits Si así lo hicieseis, haréis bien…, a 2017 solo on the legacies of colonial violence.  Find out more here 

Martha Graham Dance Company
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oct. 7-10
Six of Graham’s solos from the 1930s will be presented as part of MetLiveArts Fall 2023 Season The performances are presented by MetLiveArts as part of GRAHAM100, a three-season celebration of the Company’s 100th anniversary. Find out more here

American Ballet Theatre
Guggenheim Museum
Oct. 8
As part of the Works & Process series, the newly appointed Artistic Director Susan Jaffe leads a program illuminating how the art of storytelling is at the heart of American Ballet Theatre. Members of ABT’s artistic team participate in the discussion, and dancers perform highlights of iconic classics and one-act story ballets. Find out more here

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, will celebrate the 2023 Angel Award honorees: adrienne maree brown, Lane Harwell, Young Soon Kim, and, in memoriam, Gus Solomons jr, at the 2023 Bessies Angel Party on Wednesday, October 11, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The award honors arts and culture workers whose contributions have had an immense impact on the dance and performance field.

​Presentations and remarks by nia love, Wendy Perron, Heather Robles, george emilio sanchez, and Lucy Sexton.

Fnd out more here 

Reposting from: Attitude: The Dancers' Magazine for Beckles Dancing Company

“Delores Browne is one of our living legends in dance... but first [to me], she was just the teacher who fixed my positions and insisted on carriage. Miss Browne taught me a lot about ballet, and only later did I learn about her significant role in our history.
According to Lisa Kraus, who got a grant and studied Miss Browne’s career, “If you were lucky enough to have seen Delores Browne dancing the Bluebird pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty on tour in Europe with the New York Negro Ballet in 1957, or in Louis Johnson’s First Sin (1957), or in parts created for her by Alvin Ailey, Geoffrey Holder, Anthony Tudor, and other eminent choreographers, you wouldn’t need to be told that Delores Browne was a great black ballerina. For the rest of us, though, it might be news. Gifted for dance, Miss Browne today “glows with energy”. She celebrates her fortieth year as a ballet mistress with Philadanco, the Philadelphia Dance Company led by Joan Myers Brown.

She was a teacher at the Alvin Ailey School in New York in the early 1980s. When I first met Miss Browne. Always impeccably dressed in leotard, tights, ballet shoes and chiffon skirt, she exuded the elegance we were trying to achieve. There were three things I remember about her. First, she insisted we carry ourselves as though we had high ruffled collars about our necks and upper chests. The second was that when things got really fast, she said, she would put on her pointe shoes! And thirdly, she reminded us that even though we strive to get better every day, there are some plateaus in our development, so we should not be discouraged. Well, these things stayed with me. It was wonderful to have finally caught up with her by phone recently.”
(This excerpt is from a feature in the program from the SDDF in 2013 by Loris.)

Today as Loris reflects on her passing yesterday morning, he expressed these thoughts:
“I always called her Miss. Browne.“ “I received a donation from her for BDC this year. She had the wherewithal to do it early!” “It was indeed an honor that she graced my life!”