Leslie Cuyjet @ The Kitchen at Westbeth in With Marion

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater @ BAM
in Ronald K. Brown's Dancing Spirit
& Kyle Abraham's Are You In Your Feelings

nora chipaumire @ Lincoln Center in Nehanda

Edisa Weeks/Delirious Dances @ 651ARTS at  Mark O’Donnell Theater in RITES: Liberty

Gregory Maqoma @ BAM in Broken Chord

Trajel Harrell @ BAM in Koln Concert

Koma Otake
Dec.14-16 
Dance Space Project
Otake brings his latest solo, You, performing numerous times over the last two decades as part of Eiko & Koma. “In dancing this trilogy, I engage and converse with various You but one at a time. Friends, parents, siblings, spirits, streets, fields, and objects with personal memories all inspire and create memorable moments,” writes Koma. “The stage is all white. My painting hangs loosely. My movements are stormy and absurd. Dancing with You brings back memories, but a moment later, I dig my head into the ground, missing You.”
Find out more here 

​Sidra Bell and Derek Fordjour
Nov. 11–Dec. 16
Petzel Gallery
From a series of collaborative conversations between choreographer Bell and vusual artist Fordjour, they created Arena, an ensemble movement piece.  The collaborative team also includes musical accompaniment from Hannah Mayree performed by LaJeromeny Brown, Morgan Amirah Burns, Quaba Venza Ernest, Waverly Fredericks and Robenson Mathurin atop a dirt floor. Arena is "Informed by the artist’s oeuvre, costuming, lighting design, a custom tent and a sculptural seating structure combine to form completely original staging. Informed by a mutual interest in African-American cultural traditions and practices, [and] takes inspiration from sources as far ranging as vaudeville, voguing, hip hop culture and expressions of identity," according to the release. Find out more here

New York City Ballet (NYCB)
Nov. 24 - Dec. 31
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Based on the Alexandre Dumas père version of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), George Balanchine's The Nutcracker® is one of the most complex ballets in the Company's active repertory and provides an unforgettable spark to the holiday season. Find out more here 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Nov. 29-Dec. 31
New York City Center
For their 65th anniversary AAADT will feature premieres by former company member Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish and Amy Hall Garner, plus new productions of Ronald K. Brown’s Dancing Spirit, Alonzo King’s Following the Subtle Current Upstream, Jamar Roberts’ Ode, and Hans van Manen’s Solo. Also part of the season are Ailey classics including Revelations and much more.  Find out more here 

Jenn Freeman and  Sonya Tayeh
Dec. 8-23 
Perelman Performaning Arts Center
​Is It Thursday Yet? co-created, co-choreographed, and performed by Freeman, co-created, co-choreographed, and directed by Tayeh and composed and performed by Holland Andrews, is a mix of dance, live music and home video footage. Find out more here 

Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson and Donna Uchizono
Dec. 10-16
Perelman Performaning Arts Center
​The March, by Big Dance Theater, with choreography by Kuumba, Parson and Uchizono, is an intergenerational coming together in an evening of contemporary dance in three parts, presented in-the-round.  Find out more here

Caleb Teicher 
Dec. 12-17
Joyce Theater 
Bzzz, created by Caleb Teicher (director of the hit show SW!NG OUT), a mix of tap dance and beatboxing, explores the rhythmic potential of sound. Find out more here

Seán Curran Company and Darrah Carr Dance
Dec. 14-17
Irish Arts Center
Seán Curran Company and Darrah Carr Dance return to IAC with Céilí, their 2022 interpretation of Irish social dance, merging contemporary choreography with Irish tradition and set to a score and live performance by Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna  Find out more here 

Dances Patrelle
Dec. 14-17
The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
Patrelle's The Yorkville Nutcracker, a  tour of 1895 New York City, begins with a Christmas Eve party at Gracie Mansion attended by dignitaries from around the world, then a midnight skate on the ponds of Cental Park, and finally a sleigh-ride to the Grand Conservatory of the Bronx Botanical Gardens. Find out more here 

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and Flamenco Vivo
Dec. 15-16
The Chelsea Factory
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s Navidad Flamenca and Flamenco Vivo: ¡En Comunidad! offers a celebration of the holidays for the whole family with live music, flamenco and villancicos (carols) and workshops. These events are free.  Find out more here and here

Various Artists
Dec. 16
3AM Theatre
Boundless Motion, 3AM Theatre's residency program for artists offers a culminating performance which includes dialogue across multiple performing art mediums. Find out more here

The Bang Group: Nut/Cracked
Dec. 16- 19
92NY
The Group's Nut/Cracked by choreographer David Parker, packs tap, vaudeville, ballet, disco, contemporary dance, toe-tapping into a contemporize telling of the traditional story alongside music by Tchaikovsky, arrangements by Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians.  Find out more here

State Ballet Theater of Ukraine
Dec. 17
NJPAC 
The State Ballet Theater of Ukraine returns with The Nutcracker, set to Tchaikovsky's classic score and featuring brand new choreography and productions by Andrey Litvinov. Find out more here 

Jacob Burckhardt, Vicky Shick, Cathy Weis
Dec. 17
WeisAcres
The "Sundays on Broadway" series, an evening of sharing returns with performances by Burckhardt, Shick, and a showing by Weis. Find out more here

Jenn Freeman/Sonya Tayeh
Dec 8—23
Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson, Donna Uchizono
Dec. 10-16
Perelman Performing Arts Center 


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Is It Thursday Yet? co-created, co-choreographed, and performed by Jenn Freeman, co-created, co-choreographed, and directed by Sonya Tayeh and composed and performed by Holland Andrews, is a mix of dance, live music and home video footage that invites audiences into the "...unique complexities of dancer and choreographer Freeman’s life following her Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis at age 33. Since then, she has navigated an endless sea of epiphanies, examining childhood memories through this new lens.

The March, by Big Dance Theater, with choreography by Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson and Donna Uchizono, is an intergenerational coming together with Kuumba, Parson and Uchizono who join forces to create  an evening of contemporary dance in three parts, presented in-the-round.  In Uchizono's Big small feat, Kuumba's NYSea and Parson's The Oath, the trio "interrogate our very human compulsion to move together in time. How does it change us, shape us, deepen us, and lift us? How has it been used, weaponized, sexualized, and politicized? What is the power of moving in precise unison? What happens when we dance together? And what happens when we don’t?," according to the release.  Find out more here and here

​Limón Dance Company
New York Live Arts
Dec. 7-9
The Limón Dance Company offers Women's Stories, a program that centers the female perspective and highlights the women who shaped the company’s canon. The night includes the World Premiere of I Must Be Circumstanced, Hilla Ben Ari's reimagination of Limón's The Moor's Pavane and more.  José Limón Dance Foundation dedicates these performances in honor of former Limón dancer, the late Jennifer Muller.  Find out more here 

Sidra Bell and Derek Fordjour
Nov. 11–Dec. 16
Petzel Gallery
From a series of collaborative conversations between choreographer Bell and vusual artist Fordjour, they created Arena, an ensemble movement piece.  The collaborative team also includes musical accompaniment from Hannah Mayree performed by LaJeromeny Brown, Morgan Amirah Burns, Quaba Venza Ernest, Waverly Fredericks and Robenson Mathurin atop a dirt floor. Arena is "Informed by the artist’s oeuvre, costuming, lighting design, a custom tent and a sculptural seating structure combine to form completely original staging. Informed by a mutual interest in African-American cultural traditions and practices, [and] takes inspiration from sources as far ranging as vaudeville, voguing, hip hop culture and expressions of identity," according to the release. Find out more here

Germaine Acogny/Malou Airaudo + a cast of 36 dancers from 14 African countries
Nov. 29-Dec 14
Park Avenue Armory
The New York premiere of The Rite of Spring/common ground[s], a homage to the late choreographer Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring (1975).  Senegalese performer and choreographer Acogny (“the mother of contemporary African dance) who brings this work to life with the dancers from 13 African countries, is also on the program in the new duet, common ground[s], created, performed, and inspired by the lives of Acogny and Malou Airaudo, who performed leading roles in many of Bausch’s early works. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Nov. 28-Dec. 10
The Joyce
The series of five choreographic sequences titled “Dancing with Glass – The Piano Etudes” set to selections from Phillip Glass’ signature work will be presented by guest performers, musicians, and innovators including Maki Namekawa, Lucinda Childs, Chanon Judson, Justin Peck, Leonardo Sandoval, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Or Schraiber. Find out more here 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Nov. 29-Dec. 31
New York City Center
For their 65th anniversary AAADT will feature premieres by former company member Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish and Amy Hall Garner, plus new productions of Ronald K. Brown’s Dancing Spirit, Alonzo King’s Following the Subtle Current Upstream, Jamar Roberts’ Ode, and Hans van Manen’s Solo. Also part of the season are Ailey classics including Revelations and much more.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Harlem Stage
Dec. 9
The 2023 WaterWorks Emerging Artists cohort including choreographer and dancer Bobby Morgan; singer/songwriter Hannah Lemmons aka LEMMONS; pianist Mary Prescott; composer and trumpeter, Kalí Rodríguez-Peña, and interdisciplinary performing artist and painter Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson, offers a culminating work-in-progress showcase.. Find out more here 

Jim Neu with Deborah Auer and Harry Mann + Jennifer Miller + Owen Prum + video by Cathy Weis  
WeisAcres
Dec. 10
"Sundays on Broadway," an ongoing series of performances, film screenings, and discussions continues with works by Neu, Auer, Mann, Miller, Prum and Weis.  Find out more here 

Sergei Prokofiev with Isaac Mizrahi
The Guggenheim
Dec. 10
Mizrahi narrates and directs Prokofiev’s children’s classic, Peter & the Wolf, accompanied by Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, conducted by Michael P. Atkinson. Find out more here ​

Sidra Bell and Derek Fordjour
Nov. 11–Dec. 16
Petzel Gallery
From a series of collaborative conversations between choreographer Bell and vusual artist Fordjour, they created Arena, an ensemble movement piece.  The collaborative team also includes musical accompaniment from Hannah Mayree performed by LaJeromeny Brown, Morgan Amirah Burns, Quaba Venza Ernest, Waverly Fredericks and Robenson Mathurin atop a dirt floor. Arena is "Informed by the artist’s oeuvre, costuming, lighting design, a custom tent and a sculptural seating structure combine to form completely original staging. Informed by a mutual interest in African-American cultural traditions and practices, [and] takes inspiration from sources as far ranging as vaudeville, voguing, hip hop culture and expressions of identity," according to the release.  
Find out more here

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
Nov. 28-Dec. 2
BAM
Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, and writer Okpokwasili and director, visual artist, and sound designer Born will present their new cross- disciplinary performance adaku, part 1: the road opens, the first chapter of a larger speculative mythology, a precolonial African village is at the cusp of a major upheaval. Find out more here 

Germaine Acogny/Malou Airaudo + a cast of 36 dancers from 14 African countries
Nov. 29-Dec 14
Park Avenue Armory
The New York premiere of The Rite of Spring/common ground[s], a homage to the late choreographer Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring (1975).  Senegalese performer and choreographer Acogny (“the mother of contemporary African dance) who brings this work to life with the dancers from 13 African countries, is also on the program in the new duet, common ground[s], created, performed, and inspired by the lives of Acogny and Malou Airaudo, who performed leading roles in many of Bausch’s early works. Find out more here 

Leslie Cuyjet
Nov. 30–Dec 2
The Kitchen at Westbeth
In With Marion, Cuyhet  “…mines her family archive to construct a performance from memory and research surrounding her great aunt, Marion Cuyjet—who founded Judimar School of Dance in 1948, training Black dancers (including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director emerita Judith Jamison) in Philadelphia, where they were forbidden from training in white studios,” according to the release. Find out more here  

Various Artists
Nov. 28-Dec. 10
The Joyce
The series of five choreographic sequences titled “Dancing with Glass – The Piano Etudes” set to selections from Phillip Glass’ signature work will be presented by guest performers, musicians, and innovators including Maki Namekawa, Lucinda Childs, Chanon Judson, Justin Peck, Leonardo Sandoval, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Or Schraiber. Find out more here 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Nov. 29-Dec. 31
New York City Center
For their 65th anniversary AAADT will feature premieres by former company member Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish and Amy Hall Garner, plus new productions of Ronald K. Brown’s Dancing Spirit, Alonzo King’s Following the Subtle Current Upstream, Jamar Roberts’ Ode, and Hans van Manen’s Solo. Also part of the season are Ailey classics including Revelations and much more.  Find out more here 

Stephen Shynes and Grace Yi-Li Tong
Nov. 30-Dec. 1
Trisk
In Trisk’s “Split Bill” series, NYC-based movement artists Shynes and Yi-Li Tong are featured. Find out more here 

YY Dance Company
Nov. 30–Dec. 2
Gibney
The Company brings Ripple and Through The Fracture of Light to Gibney. Find out  more here 

Various Artists
Dec. 1-2
Arts On Site
WADEintoACTIVISM, a 16 day performing arts festival curated and produced by WADE will present works by female and historically underrepresented artists and conversations with feminist allies surrounding gender-based violence.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Dec 3
The Guggenheim
Lar Lubovitch at 80: Art of the Duet is the impetus to celebrate Lubovitch with dancers from Bruce Wood Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet.  Find out more here  ​

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