Before the show begins, we see more than 80 pairs of shoes covering the stage, and then the 9 performers and musicians in  “African Exodus” take the stage with a glorious offering of music, dance and story. Their tale,  “...an experimental, metaphysical journey through the African migratory experience,” is punctuated with stomping, clapping, shuffling or mangling shoes, and we were deeply attentive. Audience members were invited to join in and they, like the shoes, became part of the storytelling. The shoes and the people comingle in a community circle during a long and welcoming song. The visitors would be asked to leave, but the song, dance and story continued. The performers and musicians are: Xolisile Bongwana, Thabo Gwadiso, Dikeledi Modubu,  Sbusiso Shozi,  Simphiwe Skhakhane, Lindokuhle Thabede, Thulani Zwane, Micca Manganye, 
Volley Nchabeleng

“African Exodus” is a project from The Centre for the Less Good Idea, co-founded by William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lace. 

African Exodus
Feb 27—Mar 2, 2025
Perelman Performing Arts Center

​The sparse stage and single performer (well, a doppelganger shows up much later), framed by stark lights that outline the stage for the actress Isabelle Huppert in Robert Wilson's “Martha Said What She said” at NYU Skirball, immediately sets an ominous tone. Directed and designed by Wilson, the story charts the life and torments of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots the sovereign whose passions cost her a crown. Although brilliantly performed in French, sadly, the English surtitles needed for English speakers took precedence over just being rapt by Huppert's facial expressions and her elliptic movements.

“Mary Said What She Said" is written by novelist and playwright Darryl Pinckney, with a score by composer Ludovico Einaudi. 

February 27 – March 2 at NYU Skirball.

Shamar Watt
Roulette
Mar. 1
As part of Roulette’s annual "Mixology Festival" which has been highlighting new approaches to technology in music and media arts since 1991, this in-person, triple bill event features Joy Guidry (bassoonist, versatile improviser, performance artist, and composer), Kwami Winfield (multi-disciplinary musician, composer, and improviser) join interdisciplinary artist Watt as part of Roulette's "Mixology Festival 2025." A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance. Find out more here  ​

Ishmael Houston-Jones/Fred Holland
Danspace Project
Feb. 27 - Mar. 1
Houston-Jones will present OO-GA-LA Reimagined (The Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones 1983 Duet Danced into the 21st Century), performed by AJ Wilmore, Stephanie Hewett, and Kris Lee.  Houston-Jones writes: "In 1983 at the Danspace Project festival Contact at 10th and 2nd which celebrated the 11th year that Steve Paxton named the form Contact Improvisation, Fred Holland and I were invited to perform a duet on the Partners Program along with Steve and Nancy Stark Smith and others. Fred and I, who considered ourselves to be the Black Punks of Contact, decided to do our C.I. duet by doing everything wrong." notes the release.  Find out more here 

Douglas Dunn + Dancers
Judson Memorial Church
Feb. 19-Mar. 1
The first week features BODY / SHADOW, a collaborative project with Dunn, music by Paul J. Botelho, libretto, video, and set design by Brice Brown, and visual media design by Steve Gibson. The second week brings a world premiere by Dunn with visual design by Mimi Gross, poetry by Anne Waldman, a commissioned score by Jerome Begin, played live by Begin and String Noise, and lighting design by Miriam Crowe.  Find out more here 

Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi
The Joyce
Feb. 25-Mar. 9
Led by Buenos Aires’ tango dancers , the Joyce will present Tango After Dark “…that fuses the rich traditions of tango with a contemporary flair,” by creator and choreographer Cornejo.  Find out more here  

Various Artists
Arts On Site
Feb 28
Continuing to cultivate creative spaces to support artists and encourage community collaboration, weekly, this week features  Room 5 / Velvet Pistol / Omri Drumlevich - Garrett Parker, Emily Tarrier, and Emory Campbell.  Find out more here 

AbunDance Academy of the Arts 3rd annual AbunDance Awards
Crown Hill Theatre
Mar. 2
AbunDance Awards honors Excellence, Vision and Leadership in Dance and beyond. This year's honorees include Dyane Harvey Salaam, Jackie Jeffries, Youssouf Koumbassa, Michael Manswell, Shirley Black Brown Coward, Carolyn Devore, Kim Holmes and Joan Myers Brown.  The event will also include live performances by AbunDance Academy, Balance Dance Theatre, Something Positive and surprised guests​  Find out more here

Various Artists
92nd Street Y
Mar. 3 –9
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center season continues with Harkness Dance Center – Celebrating 90 Years, performances and more throughout the Harkness Dance Center, as well as the New York Public Library. Featured events are: Art Bath x 92NY in shared experiences with Xin Ying and Katherine Crockett, John Manzari & Dancers, Joey Arias, Flower Shark, Christopher Williams, plus film footage, live DJ sets and more (3/6 – 3/7); DEL Movement Sentence Choir, Baye & Asa and DEL Facilitator Randi Sloan, plus Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance, PHILADANCO! (3/8) and Graham, Limón, Ailey: "Tracing Three Generations of Titans of Dance at 92NY" at New York Public Library (3/10).  Find out more here 

Kayla Farrish
Chelsea Factory
Mar. 6-8
Farrish and collaborators will present Put Away the Fire, dear, "...a dance-theater work that unravels American cinema, following six marginalized characters who they defy inherited roles and reimagine their own narratives as the piece unfolds. Jumping through portals between reality and film, they reclaim power with inspiration from Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar Micheaux, Ethel Waters, Bojangles and onwards," notes the release.   Find out more here 

Taylor Stanley and Alec Knight
Carvalho Park
Mar. 4, 8 & 15
The performance series at Carvalho Park returns with a newly commissioned work by New York City Ballet principal Stanley, Knight, and UK-based sculptor and installation artist Nicola Turner. Stanley and Knight will engage with Turner’s site-responsive installation, "Fabric of Undoing", for a new work titled "Ephemeral solace (in passing)".  Find out more here 

Kaisha Kancey
Trisk
Mar. 6-8
Kancey will present The Closties Variety Hour,  a show that surrounds themes of reminiscence, mystery, and surreality. Find out more here 

Batsheva Dance Company
​BAM
Mar 6-8
Ohad Naharin and his company returns to BAM with MOMO. The work has two souls, "one sends long roots to the depths of the earth, embodying archetypes and myths of hardened, raw, masculinity; the other is in a constant search for a distinct DNA," notes the release.  The soundtrack is composed mostly of the album "Landfall" Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet.  ​Find out more here  

Various Artists
City Center
Mar. 6-9
For over 20 years, the Flamenco Festival has brought flamenco dancers and musicians from Spain City Center. This year’s festival features Alfonso Losa & Patricia Guerrero, Compañía Manuel Liñán, and Compañía Eva Yerbabuena. Find out more here 

​New York City Center announces
applications are open for third edition of
Street Dance Ambassadors

 Free, eight-week program provides stipend to participants to
learn from and network with industry leaders, March 29 – May 17




Interested dancers, with previous experience encouraged, can submit their application
​HERE
by Monday, March 6 at noon.
All participants receive a stipend and lunch will be provided. 

AUDITION ALERT

​A.I.M is seeking dynamic and virtuosic dancers for future performance and touring seasons to fill a paid full-time position*. Applicants will submit an audition application form and those selected will be invited to an in-person audition Fri, April 18th. Applicants must show an interest in an investigative process that includes an open mind and a willingness to work in a collaborative group environment. A.I.M performs domestically and internationally approximately 25 weeks of a calendar year. Community engagement is a central tenet of A.I.M’s organizational activities, with A.I.M company members leading workshops and technique classes of various levels. 

A.I.M artistic personnel consists of full-time and part-time dancers. Compensation currently ranges from $46k-$66K/year for full-time dancers and $22-$30/hour for part-time dancers; commensurate with experience, based on company tenure, and reviewed annually for cost-of-living and merit-based increases. Dancers receive an annual length of service increase after five-years of employment. Full-time dancers are supported with 52-week salaries, health insurance, and paid vacations/sick days. All A.I.M dancers receive creation royalties in perpetuity, applicable retirement contributions, and bodywork.

*Please note: We are currently seeking a mature, male-presenting artist to begin working with the company in May. Artists of any gender identity are welcome to apply.

Application/Audition Process for Interested Dancers:

Applicants will submit an Audition Application Form that includes headshot, bio, and a movement sample*. Those selected will be invited to an in-person audition Fri, April 18th, in Brooklyn, NY. Applicants should be available for the full audition Fri, April 18th, 10am-6pm, and for potential callbacks Sat, April 19th, 10am-6pm. 

Audition application forms are open now through Fri, March 14th. Those selected will be notified by Fri, March 28th.

*The movement sample video should be no longer than 60 seconds in length, unedited, of yourself with no other dancers pictured.

Additionally, we’d love for you to include a brief verbal introduction stating your name, pronouns, where you’re from and a fun fact about yourself. This can be included in the movement sample, or a separate video if needed, but total length should not exceed 60 seconds.

The movement can be improvisation, your own choreography, or someone else's choreography with their permission. We kindly ask that you refrain from submitting a dance reel, highly edited, or multiple choreographers work. Samples should be material you feel best showcases your artistry as a dancer.

Videos must be uploaded to YouTube/Vimeo. The video may be private but should not have a password. This video will be used for the sole expressed purpose of this application.

​APPLY

Ishmael Houston-Jones/Fred Holland
Danspace Project
Feb. 27 - Mar. 1
Houston-Jones will present OO-GA-LA Reimagined (The Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones 1983 Duet Danced into the 21st Century), performed by AJ Wilmore, Stephanie Hewett, and Kris Lee.

Houston-Jones writes: "In 1983 at the Danspace Project festival Contact at 10th and 2nd which celebrated the 11th year that Steve Paxton named the form Contact Improvisation, Fred Holland and I were invited to perform a duet on the Partners Program along with Steve and Nancy Stark Smith and others. Fred and I, who considered ourselves to be the Black Punks of Contact, decided to do our C.I. duet by doing everything wrong. We rehearsed in East Village bars like the Pyramid Club on Avenue A after midnight and were given a cassette tape of sound loops from Kung Fu movies compiled by composer Mark Larson. But it was Fred who named the first ‘wrong’ item in our unpublished score when he said, ‘We are Black.’ We were one of very few people of color included in the festival or inhabiting the C.I. milieu at all. The videos of the two performances of OO-GA-LA by Cathy Weis and Lisa Nelson were largely unseen after the festival until found by Karen Nelson in the early 2000s. I've chosen to give the Wrong Contact Score to three AFAB dancers of color who are extraordinary performers, highly skilled improvisors, and innovative DJs to Queer this duet from 40 years and bring it to a new generation."  Find out more here 

Douglas Dunn + Dancers
Judson Memorial Church
Feb. 19-Mar. 1
The first week features BODY / SHADOW, a collaborative project with Dunn, music by Paul J. Botelho, libretto, video, and set design by Brice Brown, and visual media design by Steve Gibson. The second week brings a world premiere by Dunn with visual design by Mimi Gross, poetry by Anne Waldman, a commissioned score by Jerome Begin, played live by Begin and String Noise, and lighting design by Miriam Crowe.  Find out more here 

Various Artists
Arts On Site
Feb 21 - 22
Continuing to cultivate creative spaces to support artists and encourage community collaboration, weekly, this week features Era Dance Company and Suzzanne Ponomarenko Dance (2/21) and Free Mind: The Dance Company Showcase (2/22).  Find out more here 

Paul Taylor Dance Company
Taylor Dance East
Feb. 22
Experience the Paul Taylor Dance Company in Mr. Taylor's Scudorama (1963) and Esplanade (1975). Space is limited. Registration is required.  Choose only one performance (1pm or 3pm) to attend. Guests will be ticketed on a first-come, first-served basis.  Each registration is individual - one ticket per per person is available.  ​Find out more here

Various Artists
BAAD!
Feb. 22
For the Queer Movie Movers Dance Compilation, seven choreographers will present short dance and body-oriented performance pieces set to iconic movie music, celebrating queer resilience through the power of cinematic soundtracks. The artists are:  Filip Condeescu, Christopher Cortez, Peter Elizalde, Seph Figueroa, Keith Reeves, Omari Simmons, and Ariana Speight. Find out more here

Various Artists
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Feb 22
MODArts Dance Collective (MADC) will host its free Works in Progress (WIP) Showing of the 2025 Collective Thread Residency Artists.  This intimate showing will highlight each artist's creative process culminating the tenure of the six Saturday residency program. Find out more here 

Anabella Lenzu
Peridance Center
Feb. 23
Lenzu will offer a book launch and reading of her book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures explores how technique is a philosophy and a theory, and how the body is an instrument for expression.  Admission is free.  RSVP and find out more here 

Ephrat Asherie and Adesola Osakalumi
New York City Center
Feb. 24
In Studio 5, the annual Black History Month | Street Dance Edition celebration continues with Asherie and Osakalumi.  Find out more here 

Neta Pulvermacherher
Center for Jewish History
Feb. 24–26
Pulvermacherher brings the New York premiere of The Archive a funny a "...deeply moving investigation of her German-Jewish family history," according to the release. Find out more here 

Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi
The Joyce
Feb. 25-Mar. 9
Led by Buenos Aires’ tango dancers , the Joyce will present Tango After Dark “…that fuses the rich traditions of tango with a contemporary flair,” by creator and choreographer Cornejo.  Find out more here  

​Martha Hill Awards - February 24 @ 6:00pm
Manhattan Penthouse

Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, the Martha Hill Dance Fund has announced the honorees of the 2025 Martha Hill Awards to be presented at 6:00 P.M. on Monday, February 24 at Manhattan Penthouse, 80 Fifth Avenue in New York City. This year, dance industry leaders Janet Eilber, Mercedes Ellington, and Lar Lubovitch will receive the Fund’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell will receive the Mid-Career Award. The Martha Hill Dance Fund perpetuates the legacy of Martha Hill whose influence in the world of dance and performance is immeasurable. The Martha Hill Dance Fund ensures access to Hill’s work through published materials, film, digital archives, and other projects established in her name.

Janet Eilder, Mercedes Ellington and Lar Lubovitch
to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell to receive Mid-Career Award
​
The 2025 Martha Hill Awards Gala will be hosted by Nigel Campbell.

For more information about The Martha Hill Fund and Awards Gala, find out more here  

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MOPTOP AUDITION TO BE ANNOUNCED! 

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Join us as we celebrate creativity, foster growth, and elevate our artistry to new heights. Don’t miss your chance to shine--
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TO SIGN UP
Please fill out the the Google Form linked below.
Don't forget to let us know which song  you will be performing to.
Note: You may be asked to select an alternate song should your song already be selected.

A copy of your submission will be emailed to you for your records.

Selected choreographers will receive a separate email confirmation from the BAAD! Programming Staff along with request for additional details and materials.

If you are experiencing any issues with the form, please email: [email protected].

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