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Some Dance This Weekend~

8/4/2022

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PictureBenjamin Akio Kimitch performing at Movement Research at the Judson Church, 2022. Photo: Whitney Browne.
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 

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Some Dance This Weekend~

7/29/2022

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​Dormeshia
The Joyce
July 26 - 31

Dormeshia returns to The Joyce Theater with the world premiere of Rhythm is Life which “celebrates both the art form she dominates and life itself.” This newest work of “…percussive perfection draws on the collective pulse of life to create a meditative voyage of music and dance,” according to the release. Dormeshia will be joined other favored tappers and a live band. Find out more here

Various Artists
Little Island
July 20 – 31

Little Island’s Music & Dance Festival, co-curated by Ayodele Casel, Michael McElroy and Torya Beard will celebrate blues, jazz, hip hop, soul, Broadway and more. Guest includes Brinae Ali, Luke Hickey, Barkha Patel, Max Pollak, Soles of Duende; Generation Dance! Featuring Laraine Goodman, Kevin Iega Jeff, Earl Mosley; Soul to Soul: Black Women in Music featuring Capathia Jenkins, Lillias White, Melonie Daniels and hosted by Phylicia Rashad and Michael McElroy; and Maurice Chestnut’s Beats, Rhymes, and Tap Shoes and more.  Find out more here 

Kensaku Shinohara
JACK
July 28 – 30

Shinohara shares a solo that reflects on sexuality, objectification, intimacy, dominance and boundaries. The series is curated by Stacy Grossfield as part of her Images // Landscapes.  Find out more here 

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Some Dance This Weekend~

7/14/2022

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Neil Greenberg
The New York City AIDS Memorial
July 21-23

Neil Greenberg's The Disco Project Remix, a site specific and live returns with and updated remix that stages elements of the original 1995 choreography in a response to the site’s current exhibition, Songs for a Memorial by Steven Evans.Performed beneath Evans’ sculptural installation of classic disco song titles rendered in glowing neon, some - like “Never Can Say Goodbye” and “Do You Wanna Funk?” The event is free and open to the public.

The Disco Project Remix is curated by musician and artist Nick Hallett, as the launch of an ongoing series of unique live art events at the New York City AIDS Memorial.​  Find out more here
Ladies of Hip Hop
July 13 – 17
Gibney & Chelsea Factory

For the 18th annual Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival, the community offers a five-day Festival with a panel discussion, workshops, and performances.  The five-day Festival kicks off July 13 with an opening reception and continues with a MAKING HERSTORY panel discussion; two days of workshops; and two nights of performances.  The One-on-One Hip-Hop, Breaking, Waacking and House Battle closes the Festival.  Find out more here 

Hope Boykin Dance
Chelsea Factory
July 15-16

Boykin will present a program inspired by her self-published collection MOMENTS "...which serves as the beginning of a commitment to use words with movement to meaningfully represent her ideas, thoughts, feelings, and emotions..."  Find out more here

Various Artists
The Invisible Dog
July 16 

For the 2nd Edition of "Dance Films" at The Invisible Dog Art Center featured will be films from international artists.  O Samba do Crioulo Doido: Ruler and Compass (2020, 15mn) by Calixto Neto (Brazil); Nioun Rec (2021 - 9mn) by Amala Dianor and Grégoire Korganow (France); and A Young Girl in Her Nineties (Une jeune fille de 90 ans) (2016 - 85mn) by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Yann Coridian. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Little Island
July 20 – 31

Little Island’s "Music & Dance Festival," co-curated by Ayodele Casel, Michael McElroy and Torya Beard will celebrate blues, jazz, hip hop, soul, Broadway and more. Guest includes Brinae Ali, Luke Hickey, Barkha Patel, Max Pollak, Soles of Duende; Generation Dance! Featuring Laraine Goodman, Kevin Iega Jeff, Earl Mosley; Soul to Soul: Black Women in Music featuring Capathia Jenkins, Lillias White, Melonie Daniels and hosted by Phylicia Rashad and Michael McElroy; and Maurice Chestnut’s Beats, Rhymes, and Tap Shoes and more. Find out more here 

Ragamala Dance Company 
Lena Horne Bandshell
July 22

Ragamala Dance Company will present Sacred Earth as part of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Find out more here 

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Some Dance This Weekend~

7/7/2022

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​NYC Tap Festival
Various Venues
July 
4-10

Back to live and in-person events, the NYC Tap Festival, the American Tap Dance Foundation's week-long tap festival returns with tap dance workshops, performances and special events including the “Copasetic” Boat Ride (July 6), Tap Future performances and ATDF Tap Dance Awards (July 8), Rhythm in Motion concert (July 9) and “Tap It Out” (July 10). 

Directed and Curated by ATDF Artistic Director Tony Waag, the Rhythm in Motion concert ill showcase "boundary breaking" tappers and choreographers, and will include: Jared Alexander, Vikas Arun, Felipe Galganni, Dexter Jones, Kaleena Miller, Ivan Owens, Demi Remick, Tamii Sakurai, and the ACM Collective. The Festival will close with TAP IT OUT a free, public outdoor tap dance event at Father Duffy Square/Times Square.  Find out more here 

American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House
June 13 - July 16

American Ballet Theatre continues their return season with the fourth week of performances with four performances of the American Splendor repertory program.  Included is 75th Anniversary performances of George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, the New York Premiere of Alonzo King’s Single Eye, and Jessica Lang’s ZigZag. For more information visit www.abt.org

jaamil olawale kosoko
BAAD!
July 9

kosoko, the Nigerian American author, performance artist, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent will perform Black Body Amnesia, "Inspired by Audre Lorde’s concept of biomythography, Kosoko mixes personal history, biography, and mythology to tell a complex narrative rooted within a queer, Black, self-defined, and feminist imagination," according to the release. Find out more here 

Ladies of Hip Hop
July 13 – 17
Gibney & Chelsea Factory

For the 18th annual Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival, the community offers a five-day Festival with a panel discussion, workshops, and performances.  The five-day Festival kicks off July 13 with an opening reception and continues with a MAKING HERSTORY panel discussion; two days of workshops; and two nights of performances.  The One-on-One Hip-Hop, Breaking, Waacking and House Battle closes the Festival.  Find out more here 

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Some Dance This Weekend~

6/30/2022

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Picturejaamil olawale kosoko Photo: Eric Carter
jaamil olawale kosoko
Jul 7 & 9
Various Venues

The Nigerian American author, performance artist, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent originally from Detroit, MI, comes to NYC.   On July 7, they will be included within the The Museum of Arts and Design’s exhibition, "Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art" to accompany their film Chameleon: A Visual Album, Garmenting kosoko will perform an excerpt from their new living artwork, Black Body Amnesia. Find out more here
On July 9, kosoko will perform Black Body Amnesia again at BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance.  Find out more here

​Christopher Williams
Jun 28 - Jul 3
Joyce Theater

Williams makes his Joyce debut with the New York premiere of his own queer versions of Ballet Russes works. York City Ballet principal dancer Taylor Stanley leads a cast of contemporary dancers, both as “Queen of the Sylphs” in Williams’s reimagining of Les Sylphides, as well as performing the title role in his new version of Nijinsky’s The Afternoon of a Faun. Find out more here

Milka Djordjevich
Jun 30 - Jul 1
NYLA

Djordjevich, as part of the NYLA Live Feed creative residency and commissioning  program will present CORPS which "...explores how labor and gender are addressed under the lens of regimented movement," notes the release.  Find out more here

Miro Magloire's New Chamber
Jul 1
Mark Morris Dance Center

The Company returns with a revival of Magloire's The Night, premiered in 2019, and revived as a tribute to composer Wolfgang Rihm on this year of his 70th birthday.  Find out more here

​Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival
Jul 4 - 10
Various Venues

Returning to live events since 2019, included will be: Tap it Out, a free tap dance extravaganza in the middle of Times Square; Tap into Your Story, with choreography based on the pandemic experience; Rhythm in Motion, showing fresh and innovative new tap choreography; The ATDF Tap Dance Awards, plus a Copasetic Boat Ride and more.  Find out more here

Momix
Jul 6 - 24
Joyce Theater

The company’s latest creation, ALICE, an evening-length work created by founder and Artistic Director Moses Pendleton, is based in "...the curious and absurd world set forth in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland," according to the release.  Find out more here 

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Some Dance This Weekend~

6/24/2022

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PictureTaylor Stanley in Christopher Williams' "Les Sylphides" Photo: Marc Safran
Christopher Williams
Jun 28 - Jul 3
Joyce Theater

Williams makes his Joyce debut with the New York premiere of his own queer versions of Ballet Russes works. York City Ballet principal dancer Taylor Stanley leads a cast of contemporary dancers, both as “Queen of the Sylphs” in Williams’s reimagining of Les Sylphides, as well as performing the title role in his new version of Nijinsky’s The Afternoon of a Faun. Find out more here

American Ballet Theatre
Jun 13 - Jul 16
MET

Premieres for this summer season includes  Alonzo King's Single Eye, Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage, Jessica Lang’s ZigZag, classic works by George Balanchine and more.  Find out more here

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
Jun 21- 26
Joyce Theater

See the Company in FRONTERAS created by flamenco artists José Maldonado and Karen Lugo, with live accompaniment and an original score by Jose Luis de la Paz.  Find out more here  

Various Artists/Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center
Jun 22- 25
Mark O'Donnell Theater

For their 46th season, the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center will present their PEEKS Works-In-Development program featuring works by Dance Theatre of Harlem's Dylan Santos, plus works by Winston Dynamite Brown, Courtney Renee Cochran, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Davalois Fearon and Francesca Harper.  Find out more here  

Larissa Velez-Jackson
Jun 22-25
The Chocolate Factory Theater

See the world premiere of Protecting Complexity with the Star Pû Method, a new evening-length performance by Velez-Jackson.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jun 22-26
(Virtual)

WHITE WAVE Dance presents the 21st Annual Virtual Dumbo Dance Festival featuring 60 national and international companies including Buglisi Dance Theatre, A.L.A.H., Limón2, Hyonok Kim Dance Arts and two of the most eclectic companies from South Korea: chagmu center|KIM / MEA JA, UBIN Dance|Na-Hyun Lee, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company and more.  Find out more here 

ANIKAYA/Wendy Jehlen
Jun 23-25
Gibney Center

The movement-based performance project "The Women Gather," under the direction of Founder/Artistic Director Wendy Jehlen, weaves together music, dance, storytelling, and ritual. "Performed by eight women from five countries, the work centers women’s experience, with a conscious awareness of the diversity of gender presentation within women," notes the release.  Find out more here
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Jonathan Fredrickson
Jun 23-26
The 92nd Street Y

The Harkness Dance Center’s Mainstage Series closes with Fredrickson’s GOODBYE MONTANA, an evening-length world premiere dance theater piece with music by Oleg Stepanov. Find out more here

Various Artists
Jun 24 - 26
Cumbe

Cumbe presents “Dunham: Legends & Legacy” in honor of dance pioneer and humanitarian Katherine Dunham in workshops, conversations, and a performance to expand awareness of Katherine Dunham’s life and work and the Dunham dance technique. Special events include Dunham Technique classes with master instructors Godboldo, Rachel Tavernier and Keith Williams. The event culminates with “Legends & Legacy,” a day of talks and performances centered in Dunham Technique and featuring Dr. Halifu Osumare.  Find out more here

Mariana Valencia
Jun 24 – 26
Abrons Arts Center

See Heera, a duet created and performed by choreographer Valencia and Abrons Arts Center Urban Youth Theater student Heera Gandu. According to the release, Heera “uses dance and dialogue to share stories about the role of public space in coming of age.” Find out more here 

Parijat Desai
Jun 27
Gibney Dance Center

Choreographer Desai with her Company, parijatadancecompany will offer an in process showing of How Do I Become WE at Gibney Dance Center. Find out more here 

Despina Stamos and Regina Nejman
Jun 28 - 29
Anita's Way

Stamos and Nejman have created a series of concise duets inspired by their own shared proximity and distance. These are lunchtime performances, and audience members are invited to bring their lunch.  Find out more here 

Milka Djordjevich
Jun 30 - Jul 1
NYLA

Djordjevich, as part of the NYLA Live Feed creative residency and commissioning  program will present CORPS which "...explores how labor and gender are addressed under the lens of regimented movement," notes the release.  Find out more here

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Some Dance This Weekend~

6/16/2022

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Gibney Company
Jun 14 – 18
NYLA

Gibney Company will have their season titled Up Close with three world premieres - Re | Build | Construct by Rena Butler, Dance Me to the End of Love by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, and A Measurable Existence by Yin Yue. Find out more here 

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Jun 14 - 19
Joyce Theater

The Company offers programs with early works choreographed by Taylor including Tracer, Fibers and Aureole, along with the world premiere of Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Michelle Manzanales, plus the New York premiere of A Call for Softer Landings by Peter Chu.  Find out more here

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Jun 15 – 19
Lincoln Center

AAADT returns to Lincoln Center after a three-year absence and celebrates a decade of Artistic Director Robert Battle’s leadership. Featured works for the season is Ailey Resident Choreographer Jamar Roberts’ In a Sentimental Mood, Paul Taylor’s DUET, Aszure Barton’s BUSK, plus the Ailey Spirit Gala which brings together dancers from Ailey II, The Ailey School, and students from AileyCamp, and so much more.  Find out more here 

Soles of Duende
Jun 16-18
Gibney

As part of the “Spotlight Series,” Soles of Duende artists Amanda Castro (Tap), Arielle Rosales (Flamenco) and Brinda Guha (Kathak) will present the evening titled Can We Dance Here?  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jun 18
Bryant Park

As part of Bryant Park Picnic Performances, Tiffany Rea-Fisher curates the Contemporary Dance series and will close with performances by Josh Johnson, Music From The Sole, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance and More.  Find out more here 

Ni’Ja Whitson
Jun 21
Weeksville Heritage Center

Whitson will present The Unarrival Experiments "a constellation of art/works that centers the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy through a Black, Queer, and Transembodied lens. Dark Dive will be an experiment for audiences and performers in near complete darkness in a performance that challenges pursuits of the “blackest black," notes the release.  Find out more here

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
Jun 21- 26
Joyce Theater

See the Company in FRONTERAS created by flamenco artists José Maldonado and Karen Lugo, with live accompaniment and an original score by Jose Luis de la Paz.  Find out more here  

Buglisi Dance Theatre
Jun 22-23
The Chelsea Factory

The Company will present the world premiere of The Threads Project #1 “Universal Dialogues” a collaboration with eight  choreographers—Alexander Anderson, Jennifer Archibald, Sidra Bell, PeiJu Chien-Pott, Daniel Fetecua, Loni Landon, Jesse Obremski, and Blakeley White-McGuire.  Find out more here 

Various Artists/Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center
Jun 22- 25
Mark O'Donnell Theater

For their 46th season, the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center will present their PEEKS Works-In-Development program featuring works by Dance Theatre of Harlem's Dylan Santos, plus works by Winston Dynamite Brown, Courtney Renee Cochran, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Davalois Fearon and Francesca Harper.  Find out more here  

Larissa Velez-Jackson
Jun 22-25
The Chocolate Factory Theater

See the world premiere of Protecting Complexity with the Star Pû Method, a new evening-length performance by Velez-Jackson.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jun 22-26
(Virtual)

WHITE WAVE Dance presents the 21st Annual Virtual Dumbo Dance Festival featuring 60 national and international companies including Buglisi Dance Theatre, A.L.A.H., Limón2, Hyonok Kim Dance Arts and two of the most eclectic companies from South Korea: chagmu center|KIM / MEA JA, UBIN Dance|Na-Hyun Lee, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company and more.  Find out more here 

ANIKAYA/Wendy Jehlen
Jun 23-25

Gibney Center

The movement-based performance project "The Women Gather," under the direction of Founder/Artistic Director Wendy Jehlen, weaves together music, dance, storytelling, and ritual. "Performed by eight women from five countries, the work centers women’s experience, with a conscious awareness of the diversity of gender presentation within women," notes the release.  Find out more here
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Jonathan Fredrickson
Jun 23-26

The 92nd Street Y

The Harkness Dance Center’s Mainstage Series closes with Fredrickson’s GOODBYE MONTANA, an evening-length world premiere dance theater piece with music by Oleg Stepanov. Find out more here 

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Some Dance This Weekend~

6/11/2022

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PictureBill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Photo: Maria Baranova
​Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company
June 9-12
PEAK Performances
 
The Company brings the world premiere of Curriculum II.  Conceived and directed by artistic director, Jones, choreographed by Jones with associate artistic director Janet Wong and the Company, Curriculum II described in the release as “A poetic quilt of text, narration as philosophical lecture, live singing, and soundscore, Curriculum II features the rich archive of Jones’s movement phrases, which are mostly non-theatrical, non-psychological, non-narrative, and made with the intention of clarity and form.” Jones adds, “I have oscillated between two or more polarities my entire career: love, mortality, and what it means to be human.” Curriculum II is also a highlight of the Company’s 40th Anniversary Season. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jun 7-16
National Stardust

National Stardust’s The Future Is…Festival which supports work by composers and choreographers developing new work through residencies co-produced with the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU will feature composer Molly Joyce and choreographer/dancer Jerron Herman (6/9), plus conversations and inventive brainstorming with Miriam Parker, Brianna Mims, Alice Sheppard, Nona Hendryx, and many others (6/14 and 6/15). Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jun 9- 12
Abrons Arts Center

New Dance Alliance (NDA) returns with the 36th annual Performance Mix Festival bringing together 30 artists curated by NDA founder and director Karen Bernard and artist panel Martita Abril, Leslie Cuyjet, Camilo Godoy, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, and Marion Spencer. Find out more here 

devynn emory
Jun 9
Gibney Center
As part of the "Spotlight Series," emory will present Cindy Sessions, a three-night virtual performance series featuring emory, Elisa Harkins and Joseph M. Pierce, with cinematography, sound, and video editing by Jorge Cousineau. Find out more here 

mayfield brooks
Jun 9-11
Danspace Project

Danspace’s Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) concludes with the premiere of Sensoria: An Opera Strange, a new work by brooks.  Audiences are encouraged to arrive at sunset, by 7:30pm.  The series is curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor, the Platform marked Danspace’s return to live performance after 2 years. Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jun 10 – 11
Bryant Park

As part of Bryant Park Picnic Performances, Tiffany Rea-Fisher curates the Contemporary Dance series with contemporary dance from EMERGE125 under artistic director, Rea-Fisher and tap from Ayodele Casel (6/10), then Ballet Hispánico's social Latin dance class, tap from Music From the Sole and ’ contemporary dance from Dance Heginbotham (6/11).  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Jun 11
Riverside Park

The Irish Arts Center Dance and Music Festival's annual event returns with artists from the Ivory Coast and Indian Kuchipudi traditions alongside performers from Irish troupes. Find out more here 

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Jun 12
Hostos Center for the Arts

The Company will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and more in an afternoon performance.  Find out more here 

Nami Yamamoto
Jun 14 – 16
Roulette

Yamamoto will present Trooper’s Brother a work that began in 2018 and encouraged by one of Yamamoto’s dancers, Anna Vomacka.  The dancers will explore movements by manipulating objects from body parts with Takemi Kitamura and Leah Ogawa.  Find out more here 

Gibney Company
Jun 14 – 18
NYLA

Gibney Company will have their season titled Up Close with three world premieres - Re | Build | Construct by Rena Butler, Dance Me to the End of Love by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, and A Measurable Existence by Yin Yue. For more information visit https://newyorklivearts.org/event/up-close/

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
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Jun 15 – 19
Lincoln Center

AAADT returns to Lincoln Center after a three-year absence that caps a decade of Artistic Director Robert Battle’s leadership. Featured works for the season is Ailey Resident Choreographer Jamar Roberts’ In a Sentimental Mood, Paul Taylor’s DUET, Aszure Barton’s BUSK, plus the Ailey Spirit Gala which brings together dancers from Ailey II, The Ailey School, and students from AileyCamp, and so much more.  Find out more here 

Soles of Duende
Jun 16-18
Gibney

As part of the “Spotlight Series,” Soles of Duende artists Amanda Castro (Tap), Arielle Rosales (Flamenco) and Brinda Guha (Kathak) will present the evening titled Can We Dance Here?  Find out more here 

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Some Dance This Weekend~

5/20/2022

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PictureJerron Herman VITRUVIAN
Jerron Herman
Abrons Arts Center
May 19-21 @ 7PM

In VITRUVIAN, a solo performance Herman "...explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. Movement and visual design tell an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses several hemispheres." according to the press release."  Find out more here


New York City Ballet
Lincoln Center
April 19 - May 29

NYCB​’s 2022 spring season will include an array of programs featuring works by the Company’s co-Founding Choreographers – Serenade by George Balanchine and The Goldberg Variations by Jerome Robbins.  Programs will also feature works by Silas Farley, Jamar Roberts (Emanon – In Two Movements), Pam Tanowitz (Gustave le Gray No. 1), featuring Dancers from New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem, plus Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Divertimento No. 15, The Four Temperaments, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, The Four Seasons, and more.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
April 30 - May 22

The 2022 Spring Artists in Residence (AIR) Performance Series will feature 2021/22 AIR cohort Yo-Yo Lin (5/14), Andrea Ambam (5/21 & 22), and Shenny de Los Angeles. Find out more here

STREB SLAM
Home Studio/Brooklyn
May 7 - 29

For their return season, the Company presents FAILING FORWARD, which follows artistic director Elizabeth 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 true original moves," notes the release.  Find out more here 

Stephen Petronio Company 
The Joyce
May 17 - 22

The Company returns to the Joyce with a trio of works including the world premiere of New New Prayer for Now, set to commissioned score by Monstah Black with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC), under the direction of Francisco J. Nuñez, a re-staging Petronio’s Bloom (2006), a collaboration with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, with live performance by the YPC, and a tribute to Petronio’s history with Trisha Brown in a re-staging of her 1973 work, Group Primary Accumulation.  Find out more here

Donna Uchizono
BAC
May 18 - 21

Uchizono's new evening-length work, Wings of Iron "...examines what it takes to remain humane in these charged times, providing a framework for both performer and audience to share the weight of a vulnerability that is simultaneously public and private," according to the release.  Find out more here

Abby Zbikowski/Abby Z and the New Utility
NYLA
May 18 - 22

Zbikowski offers the world premiere of RADIOACTIVE PRACTICE, the newest evening-length work.  Find out more here

Laurie Berg
The Chocolate Factory
May 19 - 21

Berg will present the world premiere of FOMO:DIPTYCH, "A densely layered performance installation to study the diptych: as a form, a way of viewing, listening, feeling, and consuming. A place where missing something is guaranteed (and ok)," notes the release.  Find out more here

binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa
Theater Row
May 19-22

Haga and Fukuzawa will present an original work as part of the 3rd Paymakers' Redux: Out of the Box's series.  Find out more here

Ariel Rivka Dance
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
May 20

Ariel Rivka Dance opens up space for self-reflection in the company's expansive 2022 Spring Season program, featuring the world premiere of What You Want, plus company repertoire. Find out more here

Battery Dance
Schimmel Center
May 20

Battery Dance presents the World Premieres of three works of choreography, each inspired by the painting and legacy of Hans Hofmann. Find out more here

Arthurs Avilés
Arts on Site
May 20-21

Avilés will dance James Waring's FEATHERS (to Barbette)!  Find out more here

Various Artists
Mark Morris Dance Center
May 21-22

As part of the Periapsis Music & Dance series bringing choreographers and musicians together, on the program titled UNBEKNOWNST will be choreography by Rohan Bhargava, PeiJu Chien-Pott, Da’ Von Doane, Gabrielle Lamb, and Evita Zacharioglou and music by Annie Nikunen and Jonathan Howard Katz, with a soundscape by Spencer Robelen. Featuring guest musicians Jeffrey Zeigler and Melinda Faylor. Costumes for two pieces by Lauren Carmen.  Find out more here

Various Artists/Dancing While Black
BAAD!
May 22

The Sankofa Story Circles opens a year of DWB 10th Anniversary programming — all rooted in deepening community building, resource sharing and, of course, celebration. This afternoon of storytelling will be facilitated by Wendi Moore-O’Neal, who led our 5th anniversary DWB Story Circle in 2017. RSVP and find out more here

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
NJPAC
May 21

The company will present Celebrating the Legacy of Nai-Ni Chen and the Year of the Water Tiger. .  Find out more here

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Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
Gibney Center
May 10-12

The Company will present the world premiere of Last Ward which "...follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room," notes the release. Written and directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi with choreography and music by Samar Haddad King, Last Ward blends dance and theater (in Arabic with English subtitles) in a highly-visual evening-length performance. Find out more here
​New York City Ballet (NYCB)
Lincoln Center
April 19 - May 29

NYCB​’s 2022 spring season will include an array of programs featuring works by the Company’s co-Founding Choreographers – Serenade by George Balanchine and The Goldberg Variations by Jerome Robbins.  Programs will also feature works by Silas Farley, Jamar Roberts (Emanon – In Two Movements), Pam Tanowitz (Gustave le Gray No. 1), featuring Dancers from New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem, plus Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Divertimento No. 15, The Four Temperaments, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, The Four Seasons, and more.  Find out more here

Various Artists
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
April 30 - May 22

The 2022 Spring Artists in Residence (AIR) Performance Series will feature 2021/22 AIR cohort Yo-Yo Lin (5/14), Andrea Ambam (5/21 & 22), and Shenny de Los Angeles. Find out more here

L.A. Dance Project
Joyce Theater
May 3-15

For two weeks  in two programs: Program A a restaging of Bella Lewitzky’s 1970 work Kinaesonata, plus more, and in Program B, Company member and former NYCB principal dancer Janie Taylor’s Night Bloom and the New York premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s 2021 work Solo at Dusk. Find out more here.

STREB SLAM
Home Studio/Brooklyn
May 7 - 29
For their return season, the Company presents FAILING FORWARD, which follows artistic director Elizabeth 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 true original moves," notes the release.  Find out more here 

Ogemdi Ude
Danspace Project
May 12 - 14

Danspace Project’s Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) continues with the premiere of Ogemdi Ude’s I know exactly what you mean. Made in collaboration with performers Selah V. Hampton and Symara Johnson, "...this evening-length dance calls on nostalgic Black music and personal narratives as a means to playfully explore the roles of storytelling and lying in recovering cultural memory, establishing kinship amongst Black folks, and processing personal grief," notes the release.  Find out more here 

Rebecca Gual
BAAD!
May 13 - 14

As part of The Boogie Down Dance Series which runs until May 27, Gual will present Hum In The Hollow, the culminating work for the 8th annual "Dancing Futures: Artist & Mentor Collaborative Residency."  Find out more here 

Molissa Fenley, Jon Kinzel, Mariana Valencia
Cathy Weis Studio
May 15
 

Fenley, Kinzel and Valencia will share an evening of new and in-progress works.  Find out more here

Various Artists
The Guggenheim
May 15-16

For this event, creative directors Chris Celiz and b-boy Anthony Vito Rodriguez “Invertebrate." fuse "...the virtuosic music-making of beatbox with awe-inspiring street dance in The Missing Element, commissioned by Works & Process," notes the release.  Find out more here

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