Gibney Company
New York Live Arts
December 13 - 18
The Gibney Company premieres  Ohad Naharin’s Yag 22 as part of its ongoing Up Close series. Naharin revisits Yag, created in 1996 for Batsheva Dance Company, and "...features six dancers whose relationships are gradually revealed through the work’s deft storytelling incorporating dance, speech, visual symbolism and imaginative staging," according to the release.  Find out more here



​Streb Extreme Action
Streb SLAM
November 18 – December 18
Elizabeth Streb’s FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN continues their month-long season and "investigates Streb’s philosophy that failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and innovation and leading to unexpected, surprising and truly original moves," according to the release.  Find out more here
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
November 30 – December 24
Under Artistic Director Robert Battle, the Company's winter tradition of world and company premieres continues with works by Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp.  The season will also include repertory and new productions, such as Revelations and Survivors, respectively.  Find out more here

Tere O’Connor
BAC
December 14-17
Co-Commissioned by Danspace Project, O'Connor will present the world premiere of Rivulets where "he grapples with the relationship between unison/non-unison movement, its ubiquity across dance forms and the social and philosophical resonances this choreographic examination might engender such as: ideals of classical beauty, authoritarian or anarchic tendencies, and the standardization of human behavior," notes the release. Find out more here

Dorrance Dance
The Joyce
December 7-18
In the company’s first appearance since 2019’s holiday tap The Nutcracker Suite, founder and artistic director Michelle Dorrance brings two world premiere works in collaboration with the women of the Off-Broadway sensation STOMP and musician and company member Aaron Marcellus. Find out more here

Ivy Baldwin
The Chocolate Factory
December 7 - 17
Made specifically for the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new space, Baldwin's Folds "...revels in four dancers’ vulnerable, molting, and triumphant bodies; their operatic and primal voices; and the real-time morphing and mending of a large visual art installation made in collaboration with Ukrainian visual artist Inna Babaeva," notes the release. Choreography and performance is Baldwin with Katie Dean, Kayvon Pourazar, and Saúl Ulerio. Find out more here

The Bang Group
The Flea Theater
December 15 - 17
The Bang Group will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nut/Cracked, the company’s take on the traditional The Nutcracker.  Find out more here

Take Dance
Arts On Site
December 16 - 17
The NYC-based contemporary dance company founded by Artistic Director Takehiro Ueyama will offer two evenings of performances.  Find out more here

Moriah Evans
Performance Space New York
December 17 - 18
Evans' Remains Persist, "...a performance exploring and excavating the body’s internal, imperceptible, and at times immaterial remains...[was]... developed as process for making dance that combines somatic practice with contemporary research from the humanities and sciences, reckoning with the way history is embodied, notes the release.  Find out more here

Raja Feather Kelly/TF3T
Chelsea Factory
October 8-10
JACK, and the feath3r theory presents UGLY Part 3: BLUE, the conclusion to Kelly’s opus on Queer Black subjectivity in the mainstream media.  Conceived, directed, and performed by Kelly and Company, the trilogy began as a search for a metaphor to juxtapose Kelly’s identity as a Queer Black artist with his feeling of being an outsider to the mainstream Queer Black experience. The trilogy closes with Kelly bridging his highly personal journey to one that is both universal and Alien. In UGLY Part 3: BLUE, the Alien—and the audience—are completely distinct and able to examine the popular culture that has shaped them and from which they desire to be freed. In Kelly’s words, “We are all searching for ourselves; there are too many labels and not enough meaning.”  Find out more here

Streb Extreme Action
Streb SLAM
November 18 – December 18
Elizabeth Streb’s FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN continues their month-long season and "investigates Streb’s philosophy that failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and innovation and leading to unexpected, surprising and truly original moves," according to the release.  Find out more here
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
November 30 – December 24
Under Artistic Director Robert Battle, the Company's winter tradition of world and company premieres continues with works by Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp.  The season will also include repertory and new productions, such as Revelations and Survivors, respectively.  Find out more here

Tere O’Connor
BAC
December 7-10, 14-17
Co-Commissioned by Danspace Project, O'Connor will present the world premiere of Rivulets where "he grapples with the relationship between unison/non-unison movement, its ubiquity across dance forms and the social and philosophical resonances this choreographic examination might engender such as: ideals of classical beauty, authoritarian or anarchic tendencies, and the standardization of human behavior," notes the release. Find out more here

Dorrance Dance
The Joyce
December 7-18
In the company’s first appearance since 2019’s holiday tap The Nutcracker Suite, founder and artistic director Michelle Dorrance brings two world premiere works in collaboration with the women of the Off-Broadway sensation STOMP and musician and company member Aaron Marcellus. Find out more here

Ivy Baldwin
The Chocolate Factory
December 7 - 17
Made specifically for the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new space, Baldwin's Folds "...revels in four dancers’ vulnerable, molting, and triumphant bodies; their operatic and primal voices; and the real-time morphing and mending of a large visual art installation made in collaboration with Ukrainian visual artist Inna Babaeva," notes the release. Choreography and performance is Baldwin with Katie Dean, Kayvon Pourazar, and Saúl Ulerio. Find out more here

Various Artists
Danspace Project
December 8-10
Stephen Petronio Company co-presents Bloodlines/Bloodlines(future), an evening of new work by early career choreographers Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Davalois Fearon, Tendayi Kuumba & Greg Purnell (UFly Mothership), and masterworks from established choreographers Steve Paxton and Stephen Petronio, Find out more here

Kathy Westwater
Gibney
December 8-10
Westwater will present the world premiere of Moundscapes "...a new ­­­iteration of Westwater's durational performance research project PARK," according to the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Triskelion
December 8-9
With guest curation by Kelsey Rondeau of Hard/Femme Dances, an array of Brooklyn’s nightlife performers, choreographers, and recovering musical theater kids, the artist lineup includes work by Hunter Sturgis, Jonathan Matthews, Manatsu Tanaka, Beatriz BB Lanceta, Nate Carter III and Aeon Andreas.  Find out more here

New York Theatre Ballet
Florence Gould Hall
December 9 - 10
New York Theatre Ballet’s The Nutcracker returns for the holiday ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s score and set in Art Nouveau style circa 1907 with choreography by NYTB choreographer, Keith Michael . Find out more here

Dances Patrelle
The Danny Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
December 9-11
The Yorkville Nutcracker takes audiences back on a tour of Olde New York, featuring landmarks like the Gracie Mansion and the NYBG’s Crystal Palace on it’s 26th anniversary. Find out more here

Moriah Evans
Performance Space
December 10 - 18
For Evans, Remains Persist "...works from the remainders—of ancestral histories, lived experiences of race, societal catastrophes, socio-political hierarchies, displacements, imaginations, fantasies, pleasures and more—that live differently in each of our bodies," notes the release.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Cathy Weis Projects
December 11
Weis' Sundays on Broadways, evenings that features new and in-progress works by choreographers will feature Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz present the start to their first collaborative duet, Agua Viva, mid-stream + Cathy Weis with Scott HeronFind out more here 

BAX Presents - EmergeNYC—a program of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange in partnership with Abrons Arts Center—is an incubator and affinity network for socially engaged artists to develop their creative voice, explore the intersections of art and activism, and connect to a thriving community of BIPOC, migrant, and LGBTQIA+ practitioners who challenge dominant narratives through cultural resistance. The programs—designed for artists who are either beginning their careers or feeling a sense of urgency to move into new territory—provide an opportunity to spend an intensive period of training, exchange, mentorship, and challenging conversations with a specific focus on racial justice and cultural transformation. Rather than training in one specific craft, participants immerse themselves in a challenging, supportive environment, engaging with multiple lineages and approaches to art-making. They delve into issues of personal significance as they engage in the work, and with one another, as their whole selves. Participants leave the programs having deeply researched questions that become the heart of their artistic and activist work.

Read more here

Announcing our 2022–23 Black Artists Space to Create and LiftOff Residency Artists

The 2022/2023 Black Artists Space to Create Residency artists are
Alexander Diaz, Ayan Felix, and Miriam Parker - read more here

LiftOff Residency • Winter 2023 •
Kavya Krishna, Celeste Sloman, Ursula Eagly, Andrew Grenier.- read more here

AND 

LiftOff Residency • Spring 2023 •
​Agostina Petroff, Ebru Yildiz, Alison Kopit, and Shannon Yu - read more here 

​The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) in partnership with dance Immersion will honor Rosemary (pictured L - R) Rosemary James, Germaine Acogny, Ola Skanks, John Alleyne, and Don Jordan  at the 33rd Annual International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance, being held on January 25-29, 2023 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Ailey Citigroup Theater
December 1 - 4
The American Dance Guild returns to live performance with showings of 33 contemporary choreographers and this year honors will go to choreographers Phyllis Lamhut and the late H.T. Chen, winners of ADG’s Lifetime Achievement Award. An Award for Distinguished Service to the Field will be presented to Christine Jowers, founder of The Dance Enthusiast. Find out more here

Streb Extreme Action
Streb SLAM
November 18 – December 18
Elizabeth Streb’s FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN continues their month-long season and "investigates Streb’s philosophy that failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and innovation and leading to unexpected, surprising and truly original moves," according to the release.  Find out more here
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce
November 22 - December 4
The Company celebrates their 28th anniversary season with two programs under co-founding artistic directors, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. On the programs will be the world premiere of Rhoden's Endgame, and William Forsythe’s Slingerland, plus from repertory works. Find out more here  

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
November 30 – December 24
Under Artistic Director Robert Battle, the Company's winter tradition of world and company premieres continues with works by Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts, Paul Taylor, and Twyla Tharp.  The season will also include repertory and new productions, such as Revelations and Survivors, respectively.  Find out more here

Jendaya Dash and Julia Antinozzi
Triskelion
December 1 - 2
For the new Our SPLIT BILL program, movement-based and performance artists, Dash and Antinozzi offer contrasting works.  Find out more here 

Ballaro Dance
Gibney
December 1 – 3
Ballaro Dance presents 2D + 3D = CommuniD, an evening of dances created throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and will be presented in a hybrid concert format.  Find out more here

kamrDANCE and SYREN Modern Dance
Arts on Site
December 2
KamrDANCE who fuses tap and contemporary dance and SYREN Modern Dance the-based female-founded non-profit organization will share an evening.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Art Bath
​December 3 
Xin Ying, principal dancer with the Martha Graham Company is joined by Christian Van Horn (Operatic bass-baritone), 
Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble String Quartet and harp, Friedrich Heinrich Kern (Glass harmonica, electronic composer), and Justin Robinson (Painter).  Find out  more here
 
Various Artists
Cathy Weis Projects
December 4
Weis' Sundays on Broadways, evenings that features new and in-progress works by choreographers will feature Scott Heron, Daniel Lepkoff and Sakura Shimada, and Cathy Weis. Find out more here 

Dorrance Dance
The Joyce
December 7-18
In the company’s first appearance since 2019’s holiday tap The Nutcracker Suite, founder and artistic director Michelle Dorrance brings two world premiere works in collaboration with the women of the Off-Broadway sensation STOMP and musician and company member Aaron Marcellus. Find out more here

Ivy Baldwin
The Chocolate Factory
December 7 - 17
Made specifically for the Chocolate Factory Theater’s new space, Baldwin's Folds "...revels in four dancers’ vulnerable, molting, and triumphant bodies; their operatic and primal voices; and the real-time morphing and mending of a large visual art installation made in collaboration with Ukrainian visual artist Inna Babaeva," notes the release. Choreography and performance is Baldwin with Katie Dean, Kayvon Pourazar, and Saúl Ulerio. Find out more here