ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE BUGLISI DANCE THEATRE ELISA MONTE DANCE JENNIFER MULLER/THE WORKS Armitage / Buglisi / Monte / Muller – LIVE!
New York Live Arts
June 13 – 17
Armitage Gone! Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Elisa Monte Dance, and Jennifer Muller/The Works come together in five shared evenings of pPerformances featuring 6 pPieces – 3 premieres – and 35 dancers. The program includes (in order of appearance): Buglisi Dance Theatre’s MOSS 1 (premiere) by Jacqulyn Buglisi; Armitage Gone! Dance’s WALLS (excerpt) (preview) by Karole Armitage; Elisa Monte Dance’s DAY'S RESIDUE by Elisa Monte; Jennifer Muller/The Works’ THE SPOTTED OWL (excerpt) by Jennifer Muller; Elisa Monte Dance’s 1:3:4:1(US premiere)by Tiffany Rea-Fisher (Artistic Director); and Armitage Gone! Dance’s EXCERPT FROM LIGETI ESSAYS by Armitage. Find out more here
Out Like That! Festival
BAAD!
June 8 - 24
Now celebrating 17 years, The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) has marked LGBTQ pride month by presenting the “…Bronx’s only consistent gay pride,” returning with a lineup of dance, theatre, film and performances featuring queer artists from the Bronx and beyond, notes the release. On the bill: Richard Rivera/Physual (June 16 & 17); #Queer #SouthAsian #Diaspora (June 18); and the “Courageous Conversations: Strategies for Living and Loving in America” with Kiara St. James and Jamal T. Lewis (June 19 /Free). Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Lincoln Center
June 14-18
AAADT returns to Lincoln Center for one-week only beginning with the “Musical Inspirations” program featuring the premiere of Robert Battle’s Mass, plus Battle’s Ella (2016) and the 2016 new production of Billy Wilson’s The Winter in Lisbon (June 14). The Ailey Spirit Gala benefit honoring Board Vice Chairman Stephen Meringoff raises funds to support scholarships for students of The Ailey School and Ailey’s Arts in Education & Community Programs (June 15). The “Global Voices” program featuring Mauro Bigonzetti’s Deep, Johan Inger’s Walking Mad and Maurice Ravel’s Boléro (June 16) and “The Bold Visions” program featuring Ailey dancer Hope Boykin’s r-Evolution, Dream and Kyle Abraham’s Untitled America (June 17). Some programs repeat. Find out more here
Benjamin Millepied/L.A. Dance Project
Joyce Theater
June 13 – 25
Returning to The Joyce with two mixed bill programs L.A. Dance Project, conceived by Artistic Director Millepied: Program One includes the world premiere of Millepied’s’ In Silence We Speak, plus Yag by Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company Ohad Naharin, and Millepied’s Hearts & Arrows (2014). Program Two includes Murder Ballades (2013) by Justin Peck, Merce Cunningham’s “MinEvent” and the world premieres of Millepied’s Orpheus Highway and In Silence We Speak. Find out more here
River to River Festival – Various Artists
Various Venues
June 14 – 25
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents the 16th annual “River To River Festival,” a free arts festival that promises to “…explore and celebrate diversity in all its forms over 100+ performances and events ...across Lower Manhattan and Governors Island,” according to the release. The lineup includes: The Dance Cartel (June 14, 21 & 25); Netta Yerushalmy (June 15 & 19); Joshua Frankel, Judd Greenstein, Will Rawls, Tracy K. Smith (June15 & 17 – 18); Jodi Melnick (June 16 & 17 – 18); Wally Cardona, Jennifer Lacey and multiple collaborators in The Set Up: Island Ghost Sleep Princess Time Story Show (June 17–18, June 23–24, & June 24–25); Maria Hassabi (June 23 & 25), to name a few. Find out more here
Victory Dance Project
June 15 – 18
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
Under the Artistic Director Amy Jordan, the season will open with a celebration honoring Broadway legend Chita Rivera, who will be presented with the company’s “Woman of Valor Award.” The program, entitled From This Moment On will also include a world premiere as well pieces from the company’s repertory. Special performances will feature students from Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance company. Find out more here
Paloma McGregor
New York Live Arts
June 16 – 17
In McGregor’s iterative performance project, “Building a Better Fishtrap,” the work “…is rooted in the reclamation of her 91-year-old father’s vanishing fishing tradition,” notes the release. Collaborators are currently in a 10-day creative process at the Bronx River, Hudson River, and New York Live Arts as part of McGregor's 2016-18 NYLA Live Feed residency. Find out more here
ESMÉ BOYCE
92nd Street Y
June 16 - 18
Boyce will premiere Interrobang, “…rooted in the Dada art movement...[and which]…strives for a balance of grace, humor and abandon, rendering a kinetic world with painterly detail,” notes the release. Also on the program is Boyce’s Dark and Pretty Flat (2014) Find out more here
Bryant Park Presents Contemporary Dance – Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 16 – 30
The Contemporary Dance series curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher and Donna Salgador returns with a lineup that includes: David Fernandez’s Some Dance Company, Da’ Von Doane & Artists of the Shift and more (June 16); Martha Graham Dance Company, Kinetic Architecture Dance Theatre and more (June 23); and CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, Island Moving Company and Thomas/Ortiz Dance (June 30). Find out more here
Martita Goshen
Paul Taylor Studio
June 16 – 17
Goshen presents the premiere of Sanctuary, “…her final work honoring the legacy, greatness and goodness of the magnificent racehorse Barbaro, who died tragically,” notes the release. Find out more here
New York Live Arts
June 13 – 17
Armitage Gone! Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Elisa Monte Dance, and Jennifer Muller/The Works come together in five shared evenings of pPerformances featuring 6 pPieces – 3 premieres – and 35 dancers. The program includes (in order of appearance): Buglisi Dance Theatre’s MOSS 1 (premiere) by Jacqulyn Buglisi; Armitage Gone! Dance’s WALLS (excerpt) (preview) by Karole Armitage; Elisa Monte Dance’s DAY'S RESIDUE by Elisa Monte; Jennifer Muller/The Works’ THE SPOTTED OWL (excerpt) by Jennifer Muller; Elisa Monte Dance’s 1:3:4:1(US premiere)by Tiffany Rea-Fisher (Artistic Director); and Armitage Gone! Dance’s EXCERPT FROM LIGETI ESSAYS by Armitage. Find out more here
Out Like That! Festival
BAAD!
June 8 - 24
Now celebrating 17 years, The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!) has marked LGBTQ pride month by presenting the “…Bronx’s only consistent gay pride,” returning with a lineup of dance, theatre, film and performances featuring queer artists from the Bronx and beyond, notes the release. On the bill: Richard Rivera/Physual (June 16 & 17); #Queer #SouthAsian #Diaspora (June 18); and the “Courageous Conversations: Strategies for Living and Loving in America” with Kiara St. James and Jamal T. Lewis (June 19 /Free). Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
Lincoln Center
June 14-18
AAADT returns to Lincoln Center for one-week only beginning with the “Musical Inspirations” program featuring the premiere of Robert Battle’s Mass, plus Battle’s Ella (2016) and the 2016 new production of Billy Wilson’s The Winter in Lisbon (June 14). The Ailey Spirit Gala benefit honoring Board Vice Chairman Stephen Meringoff raises funds to support scholarships for students of The Ailey School and Ailey’s Arts in Education & Community Programs (June 15). The “Global Voices” program featuring Mauro Bigonzetti’s Deep, Johan Inger’s Walking Mad and Maurice Ravel’s Boléro (June 16) and “The Bold Visions” program featuring Ailey dancer Hope Boykin’s r-Evolution, Dream and Kyle Abraham’s Untitled America (June 17). Some programs repeat. Find out more here
Benjamin Millepied/L.A. Dance Project
Joyce Theater
June 13 – 25
Returning to The Joyce with two mixed bill programs L.A. Dance Project, conceived by Artistic Director Millepied: Program One includes the world premiere of Millepied’s’ In Silence We Speak, plus Yag by Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company Ohad Naharin, and Millepied’s Hearts & Arrows (2014). Program Two includes Murder Ballades (2013) by Justin Peck, Merce Cunningham’s “MinEvent” and the world premieres of Millepied’s Orpheus Highway and In Silence We Speak. Find out more here
River to River Festival – Various Artists
Various Venues
June 14 – 25
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents the 16th annual “River To River Festival,” a free arts festival that promises to “…explore and celebrate diversity in all its forms over 100+ performances and events ...across Lower Manhattan and Governors Island,” according to the release. The lineup includes: The Dance Cartel (June 14, 21 & 25); Netta Yerushalmy (June 15 & 19); Joshua Frankel, Judd Greenstein, Will Rawls, Tracy K. Smith (June15 & 17 – 18); Jodi Melnick (June 16 & 17 – 18); Wally Cardona, Jennifer Lacey and multiple collaborators in The Set Up: Island Ghost Sleep Princess Time Story Show (June 17–18, June 23–24, & June 24–25); Maria Hassabi (June 23 & 25), to name a few. Find out more here
Victory Dance Project
June 15 – 18
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
Under the Artistic Director Amy Jordan, the season will open with a celebration honoring Broadway legend Chita Rivera, who will be presented with the company’s “Woman of Valor Award.” The program, entitled From This Moment On will also include a world premiere as well pieces from the company’s repertory. Special performances will feature students from Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance company. Find out more here
Paloma McGregor
New York Live Arts
June 16 – 17
In McGregor’s iterative performance project, “Building a Better Fishtrap,” the work “…is rooted in the reclamation of her 91-year-old father’s vanishing fishing tradition,” notes the release. Collaborators are currently in a 10-day creative process at the Bronx River, Hudson River, and New York Live Arts as part of McGregor's 2016-18 NYLA Live Feed residency. Find out more here
ESMÉ BOYCE
92nd Street Y
June 16 - 18
Boyce will premiere Interrobang, “…rooted in the Dada art movement...[and which]…strives for a balance of grace, humor and abandon, rendering a kinetic world with painterly detail,” notes the release. Also on the program is Boyce’s Dark and Pretty Flat (2014) Find out more here
Bryant Park Presents Contemporary Dance – Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 16 – 30
The Contemporary Dance series curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher and Donna Salgador returns with a lineup that includes: David Fernandez’s Some Dance Company, Da’ Von Doane & Artists of the Shift and more (June 16); Martha Graham Dance Company, Kinetic Architecture Dance Theatre and more (June 23); and CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, Island Moving Company and Thomas/Ortiz Dance (June 30). Find out more here
Martita Goshen
Paul Taylor Studio
June 16 – 17
Goshen presents the premiere of Sanctuary, “…her final work honoring the legacy, greatness and goodness of the magnificent racehorse Barbaro, who died tragically,” notes the release. Find out more here
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