
The Shed
July 24 – August 17
Maze, an “…immersive dance-theater piece co-directed by choreographer Gray (The D.R.E.A.M. Ring) and theater artist Schaal (Go Forth, Jack &), premieres with performances by masters of flexn, a form of street dance created in Brooklyn, New York, with roots in Jamaican bruk up,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Gibney Dance Center (280 Broadway)
August 1 – 3
As part of Gibney’s POP (Performance Opportunity Project) Doug Varone brings his DEVICES, a week-long intensive and summer-long mentorship program designed for emerging choreographers. For this sixth season, original works will be presented by Bianca Brengman, Sarah Carlson, Adeene Denton, Kathleen Fotheringham, Francisco Graciano, Jeffrey Gunshol, Alison Machabee, Andrew Merrell, Trevor Naumann, Courtney Ozovek, Jenna Valez, and Alyssandra Wu. Find out more here
Malpaso Dance Company
The Yard
August 1-3
Malpaso Dance Company returns to Martha’s Vineyard with works by artistic director Osnel Delgado, featuring Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, plus Ohad Naharin, Beatriz Garcia and Robyn Mineko Williams. Find out more here
Boy Blue
Gerald Lynch Theater at John J. College
August 1 – 3
As part of the “Mostly Mozart Festival” the East London company returns to Lincoln Center with its dance-theater work Blak Whyte Gray (2017). Find out more here
Caleb Teicher & Company
Damrosch Park
August 2
On the same bill at Teicher & Company will be Liza with a “Z” (rare screening of Liza Minnelli's seminal special), and students of LaGuardia High School will perform "Sing, Sing, Sing" from Bob Fosse's DANCIN' (1978), all part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival. Find out more here
Renegade Performance Group (RPG)
Socrates Sculpture Park
August 3 & 10
Artistic director André M. Zachery and RPG will premiere Ephemera “…an Afrofuturist site-specific dance and media work…expounding on the body as a living-archive …activating the current exhibition, “Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space,” at Socrates Sculpture Park, notes the release. Find out more here