
92y
Apr. 22-26
The Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, a multi-night performance and workshop program offering rhythm-based dance forms including tap, hip hop and street dance, Kathak Indian dance, flamenco, Appalachian flatfooting, Irish step dance, live music and more. Find out more here
Various Artist
Baryshnikov Arts
April 24–26
SISSY a modern-day reimagining of Sisyphus, expressed through dance and explored from a female perspective, taking place between the worlds of a theater and a miles-long rock quarry. Find out more here
Various Artists
La Mama
Apr. 25-27
Alexis Chartrand and Nic Gareiss, and Megumi Eda shares a program as part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Find out more here
Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet
Mark Morris Dance Center
Apr. 25 – 26
Magloire’s 2023 work, Well, inspired by the compositions of contemporary composer Anthony Cheung will be presented. Find out more here
Reggie Wilson
Danspace Project
Apr. 26
Danspace Project’s Platform 2018: Dancing Grounds curated by Wilson inspired an extensive Philadelphia project which featured eight Philly choreographers at three historic churches in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia project resulted in a documentary film entitled GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!… and others merely shaking produced by Deborah Thomas, directed by Gordon Divine Asaan, and curated by Reggie Wilson. This program will include a screening of the documentary of the 2019 Philadelphia series and reflections on the 2018 Danspace Platform. Find out more here
Various Artists
La Mama
Apr. 25-27
Jesse Zaritt and Pamela Pietro, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd shares a program as part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Find out more here
A film by Emily Coates
WeisAcres
Apr. 27
Invisible Universe is a feature-length experimental documentary and dance film by Emily Coates that chronicles spontaneous collaborations between leading dance artists and scientists encountering each other for the first time within the Wright Laboratory. Find out more here
Various Artists
La Mama
Apr. 26-27
As part of the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival and at Community Arts Space, Amalia Suryani will premiere of Ta’na Nirau, “…rooted in the dance, music, and storytelling traditions of the Dayak tribes of Borneo, Indonesia, who are grappling with multiple existential challenges,” notes the release. Fin out more here
Brenda Bufalino & Company
92Y
April 27
As part of the "Works & Process" series Bufalino closes the inaugural Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival with stories and work spanning a lifetime, Bufalino starts with the film The White Buffalo Suite, which her company the American Tap Dance Orchestra premiered in 1990. Her cast of collaborators includes dancers Alice Baum, Tammy Sakuri, and Dylan Szuch as well as accordion player and pianist Ben Rosenbaum and bass player Joe Fonda. Find out more here
Various Artists
CPR
April 27
Nico Cabalquinto is the guest curator for OPEN STUDIOS, and invites Fernando Gregório, Kevin Peter He, and MIZU to share works in development. Find out more here
The Trisha Brown Dance Company
The Joyce
Apr. 29 - May 4
The Company with a program celebrating Brown’s Unstable Molecular Structure cycle, a period which introduced the geometric style that remains a hallmark of her work. The program will feature Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980) and Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981), plus a new commissioned piece, Time again, by choreographer Lee Serle in collaboration with Colombian visual artist Mateo López. Find out more here
Darcel Haqq
CPR
Apr. 29
As part of the "Open Air" series, Haqq will present closed mouths dont get fed, an immersive performance installation that explores the genesis of human consciousness, and examines the formative moments when we first recognize our desires and develop the autonomy to express them. Find out more here