Joe’s Pub
August 9
Brown Girls Burlesque presents Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Vol.3 LoveSexy, a “A stripping, shimmying stiletto filled fete celebrating His Royal Badness, Prince,” according to the release. The event and performers are described as follows: “Lovely DJ Lady Natasha Diggs, of Mobile Mondays, is on the royal decks slinging sexy tracks dripping in paisley for all to keep the house quaking. Chicava HoneyChild, burlesque queen Perle Noire, BGB ALL-STARS Jazabel Jade and Sophie Sucre, lead a cast of Burlesque’s sexiest danseurs on a hot summer nights ride through Prince’s mighty musical court. The BGB Lovelies want to Take U with them. Won’t U join them 4 the ride?” Find out more here
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
August 7-9
For his 12th opera, director/choreographer Mark Morris returns to the Mostly Mozart Festival with the premiere Acis and Galatea, a new, fully-staged opera ballet to Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s “Acis And Galatea.” The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale will perform under Nicholas McGegan, conductor. Find out more here
Ragamala Dance with Rudresh Mahanthappa
Aparna Ramaswamy and Ranee Ramaswamy
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
Chinese American Arts Council Dancers
Lincoln Center out of Doors/Damrosch Park Bandshell
August 7
See contemporary and traditional works from three companies in one evening. Find out more here
Six Degrees Dance Company
Speyer Hall at University Settlement
August 8 – 9
Cecly Placenti's Six Degrees Dance presents six companies from New York, New Jersey, and Boston including: Inclined Dance Project, Crooked Mouth, the Kennedy Dancers, Angie Moon Dance Theatre, 1000 Virtues Dance, and Six Degrees Dance. Find out more here