2nd Best Dance Company Photo: Ingrid Holmquist Hannah Garner's 2nd Best Dance Company
Triskelion Arts
December 9-11
Slumber is a new evening-length work by Garner's 2nd Best Dance Company "...that walks the fuzzy line between dance and play to share a well-known story about waiting: Sleeping Beauty. Slumber counters the perception that waiting is a passive state, wonders how we make meaning, and questions what is valued in live performance and, subsequently, what is valued in life itself," notes the release. Find out more here
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Baryshnikov Arts Center’s (BAC)
November 29 - December 13
Virtual
Lloyd’s Trip Gloss, "...a textured collage of movement, sound, and visuals exploring the ways live performance," according to the release, continues as part of BAC's Fall 2021 Digital Season . Find out more here
Parsons Dance
The Joyce
November 30 - December 12
In a program of premieres and repertory, three of the premieres are by artistic director, David Parsons and two are by guest choreographers Matthew Neenan and Chanel DaSilva. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
City Center
December 1 - 19
AAADT returns to New York City Center for a three-week season of premieres, new productions, repertory favorites, Ailey classics, it celebrates a decade of artistic airector Robert Battle’s leadership, the 50th anniversary of Alvin Ailey’s Cry, the artistry of resident choreographer Jamar Roberts, and more. Find out more here
AXIS Dance Company
The Joyce
December 7-12
Virtual
This free event marks the Company's premiere on The Joyce’s digital stage with a robust program. Find out more here
Raja Feather Kelly/the feath3r theory
New York Live Arts
December 8-10
Kelly, a Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program at NYLA will premiere WEDNESDAY, a new dance-theater documentary with his dance, theater, and media company the feath3r theory. Kelly and the Company reimagines the film Dog Day Afternoon as "...a Queer-fantasia where psychological realism meets pop soap opera. Music, movement, and speech are inseparable in this theatre verité live documentary that searches for the true motivations behind the infamous Brooklyn bank robbery at the center of the 1975 cinematic-drama “Dog Day Afternoon," notes the release. Find out more here
Laura Peterson
Dixon Place
December 8-11
Peterson will present Interglacial "...a new multidisciplinary dance work explor[ing] the urgent topic of global climate emergency, inspired by minimalist geometric art and Land Art of the 1960s and ’70s," notes the release. Find out more here
Judson Memorial Church
December 9 & 16
The fall 2021 curatorial team, guest artist/curator Hilary Brown-Istrefi, Philip Treviño, and Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte brings Pioneers Go East Collective’s CROSSROADS to Judson Memorial Church. Featured will be Sheree Campbell, Yoshiko Chuma and Dane Terry, Film by Anabella Lenzu, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata), Film by Yuan Liu, Film by Janessa Clark, Jasmine Hearn and more. Find out more here
evan ray suzuki and Hannah Marie Kallenbach & Alexander Paris
JACK
December 10
For this double bill and as part of their "Radical Acts" season, suzuki will present ~d r e a m c o r e~ and Kallenbach & Paris Sitting in the Bullshit. Find out more here
Nimbus Dance
Nimbus Arts Center
December 10 - 23
Nimbus Dance presents their Jersey City Nutcracker an adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s timeless classic which takes place in Jersey City and weaves together themes of magic, adventure, family, and friendship. Find out more here
Jared Grimes’s Christmas In The Lab
The Lucille Lortel Theatre
December 11
Grimes will share movement and tap as he explores favorite Christmas songs and more. Find out more here
Ice Theatre of New York
Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park
December 11
The Company will perform at the Winter Holiday Skating Celebration and Tree Lighting and will be joined by apprentice performers, synchronized skaters from The Skyliners, members of the young women’s empowerment group Figure Skating in Harlem, performers from the Riverbank Figure Skating Club, and the Sky Rink All Stars. Find out more here.
Dances Patrelle
The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
December 11-12
This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Yorkville Nutcracker, set in 1895, and takes the audience on a tour through Olde New York’s most beloved landmarks, including a holiday party at Gracie Mansion, dancing at the Crystal Palace in the New York Botanical Garden, and skating in Central Park. Find out more here
¡Parranda! Around the Diaspora
December 12
Virtual
Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance celebrates the holidays with performances Choreographed by: Batalá NYC – Brazilian Drum, Danielle Lima – Samba, Darian Parker – Guinean & Malian Dance, Julio Jean – Afro-Haitian, Kendra J. Ross – Line-Dancing. Find out more here
Triskelion Arts
December 9-11
Slumber is a new evening-length work by Garner's 2nd Best Dance Company "...that walks the fuzzy line between dance and play to share a well-known story about waiting: Sleeping Beauty. Slumber counters the perception that waiting is a passive state, wonders how we make meaning, and questions what is valued in live performance and, subsequently, what is valued in life itself," notes the release. Find out more here
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Baryshnikov Arts Center’s (BAC)
November 29 - December 13
Virtual
Lloyd’s Trip Gloss, "...a textured collage of movement, sound, and visuals exploring the ways live performance," according to the release, continues as part of BAC's Fall 2021 Digital Season . Find out more here
Parsons Dance
The Joyce
November 30 - December 12
In a program of premieres and repertory, three of the premieres are by artistic director, David Parsons and two are by guest choreographers Matthew Neenan and Chanel DaSilva. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT)
City Center
December 1 - 19
AAADT returns to New York City Center for a three-week season of premieres, new productions, repertory favorites, Ailey classics, it celebrates a decade of artistic airector Robert Battle’s leadership, the 50th anniversary of Alvin Ailey’s Cry, the artistry of resident choreographer Jamar Roberts, and more. Find out more here
AXIS Dance Company
The Joyce
December 7-12
Virtual
This free event marks the Company's premiere on The Joyce’s digital stage with a robust program. Find out more here
Raja Feather Kelly/the feath3r theory
New York Live Arts
December 8-10
Kelly, a Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program at NYLA will premiere WEDNESDAY, a new dance-theater documentary with his dance, theater, and media company the feath3r theory. Kelly and the Company reimagines the film Dog Day Afternoon as "...a Queer-fantasia where psychological realism meets pop soap opera. Music, movement, and speech are inseparable in this theatre verité live documentary that searches for the true motivations behind the infamous Brooklyn bank robbery at the center of the 1975 cinematic-drama “Dog Day Afternoon," notes the release. Find out more here
Laura Peterson
Dixon Place
December 8-11
Peterson will present Interglacial "...a new multidisciplinary dance work explor[ing] the urgent topic of global climate emergency, inspired by minimalist geometric art and Land Art of the 1960s and ’70s," notes the release. Find out more here
Judson Memorial Church
December 9 & 16
The fall 2021 curatorial team, guest artist/curator Hilary Brown-Istrefi, Philip Treviño, and Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte brings Pioneers Go East Collective’s CROSSROADS to Judson Memorial Church. Featured will be Sheree Campbell, Yoshiko Chuma and Dane Terry, Film by Anabella Lenzu, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata), Film by Yuan Liu, Film by Janessa Clark, Jasmine Hearn and more. Find out more here
evan ray suzuki and Hannah Marie Kallenbach & Alexander Paris
JACK
December 10
For this double bill and as part of their "Radical Acts" season, suzuki will present ~d r e a m c o r e~ and Kallenbach & Paris Sitting in the Bullshit. Find out more here
Nimbus Dance
Nimbus Arts Center
December 10 - 23
Nimbus Dance presents their Jersey City Nutcracker an adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s timeless classic which takes place in Jersey City and weaves together themes of magic, adventure, family, and friendship. Find out more here
Jared Grimes’s Christmas In The Lab
The Lucille Lortel Theatre
December 11
Grimes will share movement and tap as he explores favorite Christmas songs and more. Find out more here
Ice Theatre of New York
Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park
December 11
The Company will perform at the Winter Holiday Skating Celebration and Tree Lighting and will be joined by apprentice performers, synchronized skaters from The Skyliners, members of the young women’s empowerment group Figure Skating in Harlem, performers from the Riverbank Figure Skating Club, and the Sky Rink All Stars. Find out more here.
Dances Patrelle
The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
December 11-12
This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Yorkville Nutcracker, set in 1895, and takes the audience on a tour through Olde New York’s most beloved landmarks, including a holiday party at Gracie Mansion, dancing at the Crystal Palace in the New York Botanical Garden, and skating in Central Park. Find out more here
¡Parranda! Around the Diaspora
December 12
Virtual
Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance celebrates the holidays with performances Choreographed by: Batalá NYC – Brazilian Drum, Danielle Lima – Samba, Darian Parker – Guinean & Malian Dance, Julio Jean – Afro-Haitian, Kendra J. Ross – Line-Dancing. Find out more here
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