Bryant Park Stage
June 22 – July 29
As part of the "Bryant Park Picnics" program, the “Contemporary Dance Series” curated by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, will offer four Friday evenings of modern dance. The lineup includes: Graham 2, Eryc Taylor Dance, AThomasProject, and Harlem School of the Arts (June 22 ), Mindy Jackson, NOW Dance Project, and Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (June 29), Tiffany Mills Company, Monteleone Dance, and Steps Summer (July 6), Tina Croll + Company, Kate Weare Company, KineticArchitecture Dance, Bryn Cohn + Artists, and Diva Dance (July 13), and Hope Boykin Dance, Julia Ehrstrand, Gabrielle Lamb, and Earl Mosely Institute of the Arts (July 20). Find out more here
Various Artists
Various Venues
June 15 – 24
The always-free “River To River Festival” continues with It’s Showtime NYC (6/18 – 22) on the steps of the Federal Hall, an evening of salsa with Los Hacheros (6/23), and Naomi Goldberg Haas and visual artist Laura Nova (June 22 & 24). Find out more here
Various Artists
The Joyce Theater
June 19 – 23
As an official partner with Pride Week, the Joyce joins New York City’s annual LGBTQ Pride festivities by presenting two queer contemporary dance companies, MADBOOTS DANCE and Sean Dorsey Dance. Find out more here
Leimay Ensemble
New York City College of Technology
June 20 – 21
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya and the LEIMAY Ensemble will present LEIMAY Unplugged, a companion to an earlier work, BECOMING Pentology. Find out more here
Vencl Dance
Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
June 21-23
Vencl will offer Critical Junctures, an evening of contemporary dance with music by Arlene Sierra. Find out more here
Molissa Fenley and Company
Danspace Project
June 21 – 23
In collaboration with percussionist Frank Cassara and violist Ralph Farris, Fenley will present an evening of dance and live music, with scores by four contemporary composers. The program features four dances from Fenley’s Water Table, three of which are New York premieres. The program also includes a new configuration of Fenley’s 1979 work Mix. Find out more here
Choreoquest Afro Pas De Deux Festival
RestorationART
June 22 – 23
The Festival returns with works by Davalois Fearon, Germaul Barnes, Angel Chinn, Rosamund S. King, Sekou McMiller, Johnnie Mercer, Edisa Weeks and Nathan Trice to again “…explore the complex and artificial binaries of gender, sexuality, nationality and more,” according to the release. Find out more here
Lawrence Goldhuber | Erick Montes
BAAD!
June 22
As part of BAAD!’s “Out Like That” series, Goldhuber and Montes, alums of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, brings Goldhuber’s Apple v. Oranges Montes’ Otherwise to BAAD! Find out more here
Catherine Cabeen and Kristina Berger
Pangea
June 22 -23
Glitter in the Gutter, is the title given to Cabeen and Berger’s “…intimate evening of bawdy dance-theater...” according to the release. Find out more here
Various Artists - Angela’s Pulse
The Bronx River
June 23
The annual one-day-only event, created through collaboration with artists and community members, Paloma McGregor’s iterative Fishtrap project; rooted in the reclamation of her 92-year-old father’s vanishing fishing tradition titled “Building a Better Fish trap” returns. Made in collaboration with Angela’s Pulse and New York Live Arts, audiences will again be taken “…by boat on a 1.5-mile stretch of the once embattled waterway.” Tickets must be purchased in advance. Find out more here
NIC Kay
BAM/Fisher
June 23
"EVERYBOOTY 2018" descends on BAM this Pride weekend for “…a four-floor, more-is-more art party with the glitteriest critters of the queer art and nightlife worlds,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
New York Live Arts
June 24
The HOUSE PARTY “…a building wide and sidewalk celebration in the historic gayborhood, Chelsea, just blocks from the pride march," notes the release, happens for one-day-only. Find out more here
Various Artists – “A Day of Healing and Movement”
JACK
June 24
JACK partners with healing practitioners from MINKA Brooklyn, plus dance artists RAKIA! and Marguerite Hemmings for a day of healing and movement as part of their Reparations365 series, exploring distributive justice for Black Americans. Find out more here
Various Artists
Dixon Place
June 24 - 25
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company presents the 3rd Annual “SoloDuo Dance Festival” featuring 28 dancemakers from the New York Metro area, across the U.S., Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico, Japan and Korea. Find out more here