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

​Roderick George and Seth Parker Woods
92NY Tish Music
November 19

Parker Woods (cellist/narrator/ movement) and George (choreographer/dancer) will present the world premiere or Difficult Grace.
The multimedia work centered on the Great Migration will feature film, visual art, the poetry of Amiri Baraka and Dudley Randall, and music written for and with Woods by Freida Abtan, Monty Adkins, Fredrick Gifford, Michael Gordon, Nathalie Joachim, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. This production also includes newly commissioned music by Ted Hearne and Devonté Hynes, a.k.a. Blood Orange.  There is also an virtual version on November 22.  Find out more here 

​Garth Fagan Dance
The Joyce
November 15 – 20
Garth Fagan Dance is back at The Joyce for the company’s 52nd anniversary season.  Slated for this season’s program world premieres by Fagan and Norwood Pennewell and works from the repertory.  Find out more here 

LayeRhythm (On The Move) with The Hood Lockers
Gibney
November 17
Presented with Works & Process and 92NY with community partner Hi-ARTS, LayeRhythm,,led by Mai Lê Hô offers up their mix of freestyle dance, live music, and audience interaction, from the street and club dance cultures. Find out more here 

Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
Danspace
November 17 – 19
Núñez, a visually impaired choreographer and disability advocate is expanding audio description as an art form in his latest work, The Circle or Prophetic Dream “…anthropological research on how the body and sound inhabit social space as new forms of nomadism, in the midst of the current international migration crisis caused by displacement, climate change and land appropriation,” according to the release.  Find out more here  

Zoe Rabinowitz and Galen Bremer
The Trisk
November 17 - 18 
Rabinowitz and Brenner's premiere of This Is How We Remember is a meditation on loss and wonder - both personal and collective - and looks at our responsibility to remember ourselves to one another in the face of grief. Find out more here 

Alpha-Omega
LaMama
November 18 – 20
Alpha-Omega will celebrate their 50th anniversary season with the premiere of Once Upon El Barrio, conceived and choreographed by artistic director, Enrique Cruz DeJesus.  Find out more here 

Daniel Fetecua Soto and Blakeley White-McGuire
Westbeth Studio Theater
November 18 - 19 
Soto and White-McGuire will present The Tongue of the Flame a dance/theater duet and a project of C.A.V.E.S, danced to original music by Colombian composer Pablo Mayor.  Find out more here 

Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet
Mark Morris Dance Center
November 18 – 19
Maglorie will present the world premiere of yet-to-be-named ballet.  Find out more here 

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce
November 22 - Dec 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  

2nd Best Dance Company
November 11-12
TRISK
The choreographer Hannah Garner and her company, 2nd Best Dance Company will present RED, "...a piece that walks the fuzzy, shag-carpet line between dance performance and narrative play, leaning into both text and movement to tell an abstracted version of a well known fictional story of survival: Little Red Riding Hood. By cycling through distinct characters, both true to the original story and entirely new, 2nd Best Dance Company explores how we confront the many-faced “big bads” that lurk on our personal wooded paths," according to the release.  Find out more here
Ayodele Casel
November 2 – 13
The Joyce
Returning for an in-person presentation of Chasing Magic, her 2019 digital Joyce debut, the tap dancer Ayodele Casel will again be joined by jazz musician and composer Arturo O’Farrill. Directed by frequent collaborator Torya Beard—who also served as creative director for Casel’s Joyce debut—“…the piece is an ode to craft and community, a celebratory display of artistic encounters that endure no matter when and where you leave them,” according to the release. Find out more here ​

Various Artists
November 9–12
Gibney
Emerging choreographers Alexander Anderson and Jie-Hung Connie Shiau (Gibney Company artistic associates) and Chuck Wilt (UNA Productions artistic director) will present new works at Gibney.  Find out more here 

Serge Aimé Coulibaly
November 11 – 12
NYU Skirball
The Burkina Faso choreographer, Coulibaly and his Faso Danse Théâtre will premiere Wakatt, with live music by Magic Malik Orchestra at NYU Skirball. Wakatt which means "our times" in the Mooré language of Burkina Faso, features 10 dancers and three musicians.  Find out more here 

Dee Dee Bridgewater and Savion Glover
November 12
NJPAC
Tapa dancer Savion Glover and vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater come together in  “Interpretations” for an evening of jazz in solo sets of dance and improvisation.  Find out m ore here 

Edisa Weeks
November 12 - 13
Kupferberg Center for the Arts
Weeks' ’world premiere of Action Songs/Protest Dances, a live music and dance event will feature five original songs commissioned by composers/musicians Taina Asili, Spirit McIntyre, and Martha Redbone. Three of the songs are inspired by the life, speeches, and writings of civil rights activist James Forman (1928-2005), whose personal archives are housed at the Queens College Rosenthal Library; and two are about social justice issues in America today. Find out more here 

Neil Greenberg
November 12 - 20
LaMama
Greenberg will present the world premiere of Betsy a new dance exploring the phenomenon of performance itself. Find out  more here 

Ephrat Asherie Dance and NYC Club Legends
November 13-14
The Guggenheim
Commissioned by Works & Process, UNDERSCORED is a multi-faceted project that acts as a living archive of five generations of NYC club dancers such as Archie Burnett, Michele Saunders, and Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune and Ephrat Asherie Dance company.  Find out more here

Garth Fagan Dance
November 15-20
The Joyce
for the company’s 52nd anniversary season.  Slated for this season’s program world premieres by Fagan and Norwood Pennewell and works from the repertory.  Find out more here

Gisèle Vienne
BAM
October 13–15
In the US premiere of CROWD, the French choreographer Gisèle Vienne "...transports audiences to a 1990’s Detroit rave, and a night spent losing oneself in the crowd. The air throbs with pulsing beats from the radical EDM artists of 90s Detroit. Time ebbs and flows, capturing a moment of explosive synchronicity or slowing down to illuminate the tiniest movements, as 15 individual stories emerge and are subsumed by the group," according to the release.  Find out more here 



Anabella Lenzu
Sanctuary Space, The Center at West Park
October 13-15
Lenzu will present the world premiere of The night that you stopped acting/ La noche que dejaste de actuar which "...confronts the absurdity and irony of life, while being an artist and a spectator in today’s world. The work reflects Anabella Lenzu’s experience as a Latina artist living in New York and comes from a deep examination of her motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant," according to the release. Find out  more here 

Various Artists
October 15
David Dupuy Studios
This group of artists with a shared heritage of Middle Eastern-North African (MENA) backgrounds come together  to create a multi-level performance piece that integrates dance, music, art, spoken word, calligraphy, and more Roses In Sand.  Find out more here

Twyla Tharp
October 19 – 23
New York City Center
Tharp revisits two iconic works, In the Upper Room and Nine Sinatra Songs set to music by Frank Sinatra.  Find out more here   
Fouad Boussouf
The Joyce Theater
October18 - 23 
Moroccan choreographer Boussouf offers the New York premiere of Näss (People), inspired by an array of dance traditions and comprised of a corps of seven dancers that respond to beats of percussion and electronic music.  Find out more here

Emily Johnson
New Live Arts
October 20-22
Johnson will present her newest dance performance and process, Being Future Being, which delves into the power of creation, with new stories that seek to sustain a world that must begin again. Find out more here

Marjani Forté-Saunders + Everett Saunders
Abrons Art Center
October 6 - 8
Forté-Saunders and Saunders will present PROPHET a 4 year archival, research, & multi-genre storytelling project on the life-journey of a Lyricist. Manifesting as a Performance Work, an Ethnographic Memoir, an Experimental Film, and Album, Prophet...illuminates the distinctive practices, systems, philosophies, and political ideologies that have shaped Hip Hop’s Emcee/Lyricists.  Prophet also traces the evolution from Emcee to Lyricist and invites audiences to enter a world of mindpower, bravery, self-determination, and triumph––facets of the artist’s quest for self-realization. Using text, sound, film, and performance, Prophet: The Order of the Lyricist makes its own imaginative and embodied contribution to the scholarly, civic, and ancient legacies of radical Black expression. Find out more here

Malpaso Dance Company
The Joyce
October 4-9
​Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company returns to New York with a program that includes woman with water by Mats Ek, Elemental by Robyn Mineko Williams, plus more. Find out more here 

Constanza Macras/Dorky Park
BAM
October 5-8
Berlin-based Argentinian choreographer Macras offers Open for Everything, giving attention to "...the most misunderstood and mistreated groups in Europe—the Roma.  Mixing music, dance, storytelling...it offers a reflection of the diverse paths taken by Romani people in a borderless but still nationality-bound Europe." notes the release.  Find out more here 

Yvonne Rainer
New York Live Arts
October 5 -8
New York Live Arts and Performa co-present the world premiere Rainer’s  “HELLZAPOPPIN’: What about the bees?” A  work for nine performers that reflects on America’s ongoing reckoning with systemic racism. Rainer has announced that this would be her “last dance.”  Find out more here

Triskelion Arts/Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute
Triskelion Arts
October 6-8
For this collaboration, the companies will present the world premiere of The Slowest Wave, combining butoh and neuroscience.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Arts On Site
October 7
For the MADE BY WOMEN festival, presented by Dual Rivet, featured will be works by Dual Rivet, Rachel Lockhart, Courtney Conovan, DoubleTake Dance, Joelle Santiago, Larissa Leung, Mayu Nakaya.  Find out more here

Ishmael Houston-Jones
Virtual/Black Diaspora
October 8
Houston-Jones will be the guest for this Black Diaspora event.  These events are open to a Black- or Afro-Latinx-identifying audience only. RSVP and find out more here

LaTasha Barnes
The Joyce
October 11-16
LaTasha Barnes’ The Jazz Continuum which "...centers the prolific artistry of Jazz music and dance as a cornerstone of Black American dance forms," according the release, will feature an intergenerational and multi-disciplinary cast of Black dancers and musicians. Find out more here

GrahamaDeconstructed
Martha Graham Studio Theater
October 11–12
The evening will focus on the geometry of Diversion of Angels (1948) made in order to appreciate the complex play of memory and emotion embedded in its design. Using danced excerpts as illustration, Janet Eilber will dissect the intricate structure of this dance. Find out more here 

Beau Bree Rhee
The Kitchen (at Chelsea building)
October 12 & 20
Beau Bree Rhee’s Shadow of the Sea a “dance poem” that begins by coalescing the shadows of historic and future waters. Find out more here 

Seán Curran Company and Darrah Carr Dance
Irish Arts Center
Sept 29 - Oct 2For this coming together, "Curran and Carr evoke the spirit, life, and celebration of the Irish céilí in the world premiere of a new work that merges contemporary choreography and modern Irish form into a vibrant transformation of social dance. 
Along with a multigenerational cast of performers from both companies, and musicians Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna, whose score connects the dots between their experience as composers/improvisers in NYC and their deep admiration for Irish music, the award-winning choreographers explore the idea of coming together for a céilí that simultaneously embraces tradition and innovation," according to the release.  Find out more here 

​​Various Artists
New York City Center
Sept 21 – Oct 2
For the 19th Fall for Dance Festival at City Center, the international array of dance artists, companies and works featured in five programs includes Pam Tanowitz, Christopher Wheeldon, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bavarian State Ballet (Germany), Compagnie Hervé Koubi (France), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Dutch National Ballet (Netherlands), Gibney Dance, Kyiv City Ballet (Ukraine), Nrityagram Dance Ensemble (India), and San Francisco Ballet. Find out more here 

Leslie Parker
DanspaceProject
Sept 26-Oct 1
Parker continues a multiyear project with a creative residency at Danspace Project to explore the archives and the physical location of Danspace from the 1950s to the present for the world premiere of Divination Tools: imagine home. Find out more here 

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
The Joyce
Sept 27- Oct 2
Returning to the Joyce with repertory and new works led by Barrio and Artistic Director Martín Santangelo, on the program is In ni bien ni mal, todo lo contrario (neither good nor bad, just the opposite), and more.  Find out more here
 
Boy Friday
Trisk
Sept 29 - Oct 1
You Always Do This to Me is a dance-play that finds the audience and the performer caught in a tangled relationship and asks the audience, “How do we keep ending up here together?”  Find out more here 

Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
Gibney
Sept 29 - Oct 1
Green and Dance Entropy will present the premiere of HOME, an international collaborative dance project, with choreographers from six countries: Maria Naidu (Sweden), Ashley Lobo (India), Souleymane Badolo (Burkina Faso), Sandra Paola López Ramírez (Colombia), Bassam Abou Diab (Lebanon), and Green (US). Find out more here 

​Ping Chong
LaMama
Sept 30 – Oct 16
Celebrating 50 years of work, Ping Chong, the Founder and Artistic Director of  Ping Chong + Company will present a reimagining of Lazarus 1972–2022. Lazarus was Ping Chong’s first independently created theater production.  Find out more here

TRIBE
JACK
Oct 1
TRIBE: Solace of RED - Vol. II is the culmination of a performance residency that explores Artistic Director Shamel Pitts multidisciplinary work of five artists from TRIBE’s arts collective. Find out more here 

Dancing While Black/Various Artists
Virtual
Oct 1
For Dancing While Black's Virtual Marketplace, a full day of intergenerational wisdom — tapping into how we care for our bodies, spirits, and communities. Join experts from our DWB community, whose practices expand what dance is.  Register and find out more here 

Various Artists/Fall for Dance Festival
City Center
Sept 21 – Oct 2
For the 19th Fall for Dance Festival, the international array of dance artists, companies and works featured in five programs includes Pam Tanowitz, Christopher Wheeldon, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bavarian State Ballet (Germany), Compagnie Hervé Koubi (France), Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Dutch National Ballet (Netherlands), Gibney Dance, Kyiv City Ballet (Ukraine), Nrityagram Dance Ensemble (India), and San Francisco Ballet. Find out more here  

Alan Cumming & Steven Hoggett
The Joyce
Sept 20 - 25
The Scottish author and actor Cumming, and choreographer Hoggett will present Burn, a new creation that explores the poverty, struggle, and success of Robert Burns. Find out more here 

Albert Ibokwe Khoza
NYLA
Sept 22-24
South African choreographer Robyn Orlin presents Albert Ibokwe Khoza in And so you see... our honourable blue sky and ever enduring sun... can only be consumed slice by slice... Find out more here

UNA Productions
92Y
Sept 23
Chuck Wilt and Dancers of UNA Productions follows the in-person performance (9/22) with the online presentation of Grass is Green the evening-length work for seven dancers and drag queen/live cellist/live pianist, Rose Nylons. Find out more here 
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Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods
NYU Skirball
Sept 23 - 24
The North American premiere of Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods’ VIOLET (2011) danced by five dancers is described as "...revealingly simultaneously and singularly a landscape of energetic patterns and kinetic sculptures, a charged terrain of options," notes the release.  Find out more here 

ArtBath - Various Artists
Blue Building
Sept 24
For their fall season of immersive performance salons, the salons will take place on September 24 (Tiffany Mangulabnan-dancer), November 12 (Devon Teuscher Principal dancer, American Ballet Theater), and December 3 (Xin Ying Principal dancer, Martha Graham Company).  Find out more here 

Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS Dance
Virtual
Sept 24
Weeks’ DELIRIOUS Dance Roots Party returns and will include a discussion with Brooke and Ashley Diamond from the Free Ashley Diamond Campaign. Find out more and register here  

EMERGE125
Bryant Park
Sept 26
EMERGE125, Classical Theatre of Harlem, St. Ann's Warehouse and Little Amal partner as part of #LittleAmalWalksNYC, the twelve feet tall, ten year old puppet as she journeys to New York City as a beacon of hope and a larger-than-life symbol of the American immigrant experience.  Find out more here 

Leslie Parker
Danspace
Sept 26-Oct 1
Parker continues a multiyear project with a creative residency to explore the archives and the physical location of Danspace from the 1950s to the present for the world premiere of Divination Tools: imagine home. Find out more here 

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
The Joyce
Sept 27- Oct 2
The Company returns to the Joyce with repertory and new works led by Barrio and Artistic Director Martín Santangelo.  On the program is In ni bien ni mal, todo lo contrario (neither good nor bad, just the opposite), and more.  Find out more here
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Kyle Abraham
Lincoln Center
Sept 28
Abraham will premiere a new work at New York City Ballet’s tenth annual Fall Fashion Gala at Lincoln Center. Also, on the program are works by Gianna Reisen, Justin Peck, and a finale from the George Balanchine Symphony in C. Find out more here 

Nora Chipaumire
Peak Peformances
September 16-18
Conceived as an African opera, choreographer nora chipaumire’s newest performance investigates the legend of Nehanda, a powerful Zimbabwean spirit venerated by the Shona people who inhabits only women. In 1896-97, Nehanda’s medium was a heroic revolutionary leader who orchestrated the first uprisings in British-occupied Southern Rhodesia. Together with four comrades, she was captured and, after getting an expedited and unjust trial, executed by the British colonizers, who were so scared that they ordered her bones and the skull to be sent to the UK.

Nehanda offers legal and philosophical defense for these first historic heroes of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle with a libretto based on the infamous court case “The Queen [Victoria] vs. Nehanda” (1898). The operatic, movement-based theater performance is an immersive, participatory and durational spectacle where participants can collectively perform and investigate the process of law-making and its crucial role in the European colonial project.​  Find out more here

Lydia Johnson
NYLA
September 15 - 17
The ensemble plus guest Craig Hall  will present three world premieres, For Eli, Glide Path and a yet untitled work featuring guest Hall.  Find out more here

Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble
Diego Salazar Artist Studios
September 17-18
In a special program that surrounds the audience with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop, on the program is Asa Nisi Masa, and more. Find out more here

Various Artists
Arts On Site
September 15-16
The Diaspora Fest: A Celebration of Black Performing Artists (9/16), a festival that highlights Black performing artists through a myriad of artistic backgrounds is curated by Wills Stone.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Joe's Pub
September 17
Dance Now!/Astor Live will feature excepts from TAKE Dance: Somewhere Familiar Melodies and Megan Williams Dance Projects: One Woman Show.  Find out more here

​Emily Johnson/Catalyst
NYLA
September 8-10
Johnson's new evening-length performance, Being Future Being," integrates movement, images, story, and sound in a kinetically rich social architecture that centers Indigenous thrivance," notes the release.  Find out more here

John Jasperse Projects
NYU Skirball
September 9-10
Jasperse presents the world premiere of Visitation, "loosely draws on spiritualism, mesmerism, the occult, hysteria, and the exoticization of myth," according to the release.  Find out more here

KEIGWIN + COMPANY
Domino Park
September 9 - 10
The Company will premiere Rhapsody, a community work, featuring live music dancers, neighbors, and community members. Find out more here

binbinFactory
Seward Park
September 10 & 17
Performed by Deborah Jackson, Masumi Kishimoto, Yoshiko Furuse, Rie Fukuzawa, Satoshi Haga, the new site-specific performance "Quiet Wave #3" will be presented in Seward Park, "one of the parks without borders, is an incredible place with mature trees, beautiful landscapes, and the unique community with rich histort," notes the release.  Find out more here

Buglisi Dance Theatre/Table of Silence Project 9/11
Josie Robertson Plaza/Lincoln Center
September 11
Bublisi Dance Theatre, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Dance/NYC, present an in-person and livestreamed performance of the Table of Silence Project 9/11, the annual free public ritual for peace conceived and choreographed by Jacqulyn Buglis with more than 100+ dancers.  Find out more here

Benjamin Akio Kimitch
The Shed
August 4-6
In Tiger Hands, Kimitch "...dreams beyond the worn-out mantra of East-meets-West. Inspired by his formative training in Chinese dance and intimate encounters with Peking opera, Kimitch’s vision for his first production in five years is one of world making. With this performance, Kimitch continues a body of dance works that honor grief for his late mother, a third-generation sansei Japanese American, amateur taiko drummer, and folk dancer. “Tiger hands,” a Peking opera posture conventionally reserved for male characters, represents for Kimitch both a later-life reconnection to his formative non-Western dance training and cues for how he might enliven the early experimental energy that birthed this artform. Kimitch invites a diverse group of creative collaborators in his cosmic, sunrise-colored search for authentic personal expression, using elements of Peking opera as a transformative source of beauty and strength."  Find out more here​

Black Grace
The Joyce
August 2-7
Black Grace, the New Zealand company, known for their fusion of contemporary and traditional Pacific dance, under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Neil Ieremia (ONZM) will present new and repertory works. Find out more here

Tiona Nekkia McClodden + Talk with Mikki Shepard
The Shed
August 3- December 11
McClodden's multidisciplinary exhibition The Trace of an Implied Presence explores contemporary Black dance.  Also join McClodden in conversation with cultural worker, producer and presenter Mikki Shepard (8/5) who has been a vital collaborator for McClodden throughout the making of this new work. Together they will discuss the legacy of Dance Black America, the materiality of the archive, cultural production, and its reverberations in the Black dance community today. Find out more here & here

Various Artists
Gibney
August 4-6
For the seventh year, Doug Varone's DEVICES, a week-long intensive and summer-long mentorship program designed for emerging choreographers will feature works by Alexis Diggs, Francesca Dominguez, Brian Golden, Molly Matutat, Mamiko Nakatsugawa, Nicole Pierce, Da’Shown Rawl and Zoe Walders.  Find out more here

Various Artists
​Arts On Site
August 5-6
In an evening curated by Louise Benkelman, performances will be by Dylan Baker, Emily Jerant-Hendrickson, Elliott Keller and Mar Undag, Amber Sloan, & Emily Tellier. Find out more here

Various Artists
Various NYC Parks
August 5 – 28
Central Park SummerStage continues its dance series with:  Maimouna Keita African Dance Company (8/5); Urban Bush Women / Cheri L. Stokes (8/12); Omar Edwards | tap master / Latasha Barnes: excerpts from the jazz continuum (8/19); and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (8/28).  Find out more here 
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Maria Bauman/MB Dance + Various Artists
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange
August 6
For the site-responsive, immersive performance-ritual built around Black Queer survival techniques such as place-claiming and world-building, Bauman and MBDance will present Desire: A Sankofa Dream. This performance is the kick-off to our QTPOC Sankofa Dreaming weekend! Find out more here
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Various Artists
Lincoln Center
August 6-7
​Kyle Abraham has two Lincoln Center events as part of the Summer for the City series.  This weekend is Abraham’s curation titled Reunions, featuring alumni of his company - Rena Butler, Kayla Farish, Vinson Fraley, Nicole Mannerino, Chalvar Monteiro, Jie-Hung Connie Shiau, and Maleek Washington. Each will share their own work. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Snug Harbor
August 6-7
The inaugural Snug Harbor Dance Festival happens this weekend with an array of dance styles staged throughout Snug Harbor’s historic grounds and gardens. The lineup includes: Catherine Galasso (PASS artist in residence at Snug Harbor), Rochelle Jamila Wilbun, Pigeonwing Dance Company, Ballet Imagination, Bella Ru Dance Company, Kinesis Project dance theatre, 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea, Anjoli Chadha, Melisande Echanique, Amelia Dawe Sanders, and more.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Ailey Citigroup Theater
August 6-8
"Erasing Borders" and "India @ 75" Dance Festival will feature various artists in various programs.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Damrosh Park/Lincoln Center
August 9 -13
“BAAND Together Dance Festival” returns as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City series. The five New York companies that make up BAAND Together are: Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Find out more here 

Rennie Harris
The Joyce
August 10 – 14
Harris returns to The Joyce with the evening-length, New York Premiere of LIFTED: A Gospel House Musical, “…centered on the story of one young black man and his path to healing and redemption through faith and community,” notes the release. Find out more here