The Joyce Theater
March 8 – 13
The Company will present the second season of “Bloodlines,” "...a multiyear project that embraces significant works by inspirational trailblazers of American postmodern dance. This season will feature Trisha Brown’s Glacial Decoy (1979), a dance for five women which uses the edges of the stage …to magnify the reach of dance beyond its frame,” notes the release, and her first work for the proscenium stage. Also slated for the season is Petronio’s MiddleSexGorge (1990), celebrating their 25th anniversary, and the premiere of Big Daddy (Deluxe). Find out more here
Jo Strømgren Kompani
Abrons Art Center
March 9-12
Norway’s Strømgren Kompani returns to New York with The Hospital described as a “…darkly humorous mix of dance and theater…set in a remote, empty hospital where three nurses try to endure the lack of patients by injuring then treating each other,” according to the release. Find out more here
Stacy Grossfield Dance
JACK
March 9 – 13
Grossfield will premiere hot dark matter, “…a work made specifically for JACK’s architecture, with the choreographer and her collaborators molding the performance space into a murky, surreal dreamscape," notes the release. Find out more here
Lydia Johnson Dance
Ailey Citigroup Theater
March 10-12
A program of company favorites and the world premiere of a work set to a new version of classic jazz standards including "I'm Old Fashioned" by Jerome Kern is promised. Find out more here
The Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble
Theater at the 14th Street Y
March 9-13
In a program of works by legendary modern dance choreographer Anna Sokolow, the Company will present Ride the Culture Loop, created in 1975 and the premiere of We Remember by guest choreographer and former company member Rae Ballard. Other Sokolow works slated for this season are Steps of Silence (1968) and Kurt Weill (1988). Find out more here
The Flamenco Festival
Various venues
March 2 – 19
For a bit more than two full weeks, The Flamenco Festival returns to New York with performances at BAM, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City Center and Joe’s Pub featuring Farruquito, Compañía Manuel Liñán, Compañía Rocío Molina, Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía and Nélida Tirado, to name only a few. Find out more here
March 10
NJPAC
Russian National Ballet
The Russian National Ballet, a company of 50 dancers, comes to NJPAC with Cinderella directed by founder, artistic director and former Bolshoi ballerina, Elena Radchenko. Find out more here
BOOMERANG
Dixon Place
March 11 - 26
Choreographer & co-artistic director Kora Radella plus performer & co-artistic director Matty Davis of BOOMERANG brings Repercussion “…a percussively visceral and psychologically dynamic performance that leaves audiences reconciling with the possibilities of their own bodies,” notes the release. Find out more here
BAAD! ASS WOMEN FESTIVAL
BAAD!
March 11 - 12
For the 16th annual BAAD!ASS WOMEN FESTIVAL two evenings are slated: EXPERIMENTAL WOMEN (3/11) a shared evening of works by Alicia Raquel, Fana Fraser, and Herbert H Dance Company with live music by Skin Against Metal, and SOLE SISTERS: Compilation Dance Concert (3/12): featuring choreographers from the Bronx and beyond including: Katherine Bergstrom, Cassandra Borges & James LaTeek, cocomotion, Katie Kilbourn/Borne Dance Company, Beverly Lopez & Lourdes “Loli” Santiago, Mariah Ella Mason, Cynthia Paniagua, Noele Phillips, Donna Racine Wilson-Mariscal and Ola Slavin. Find out more here
The CURRENT SESSIONS Volume VI, Issue I.
The Wild Project Theater
March 11 - 13
The CURRENT SESSIONS presents the 10th edition of their biannual performance series with works by Alessandra Giambelli + Dancers, Charlotte Colmant, ChristinaNoel and the Creature, Holly Wilder // Wilder Project, Kathleen Kelley, Moriah Ella Mason, Project|Oracle, Teddy Tedholm // tedted Performance Group, and Tsai Hsi Hung + Huang-Lei Hui // Cross Move. Find out more here
Peridance Contemporary Dance Company
Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance
March 12 - 13
See the resident company in works by Igal Perry, Charlotta Öfverholm and Jae Man Joo. Find out more here
Various Artists
Movement Research at the Judson Church
March 14
Don’t miss this free, ongoing, Monday night performance series of experimentation and works-in-progress. This week’s featured artists are Ursula Eagly, Jess Goldschmidt, Leonard Cruz Tanztheater, Jennifer Monson and Jennifer Miller. Find out more here