The Joyce
November 8-12
Marshall and Company, in their Joyce Theater debut, will offer three New York premieres by founder/artistic director Kyle Marshall, as they celebrate their 10th anniversary. Included on the program is Ruin which investigates humans’ physical relationship to sound and uses dynamic listening devices designed and monitored live by sound collaborator Cal Fish. Plus, the solo, Alice, dedicated to those on the verge of transformation, guided by the music of Alice Coltrane and inspired by KMC's Creative Director, Edo Tastic, and Onyx commemorating the Black and Brown artists who spearheaded the revolutionary genre of Rock and Roll, and will feature a soundscape collage by Kwami Winfield, sampling from Little Richard, Betty Davis, Death, James Brown, LaVern Baker, Tina Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Ann Peebles and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Find out more here
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Lincoln Center Season
Oct. 31-Nov. 12
The Taylor dancers can be seen nine works by Taylor, plus world premieres by resident choreographer Lauren Lovette and Taylor commissioned choreographer Larry Keigwin, along with the return of Amy Hall Garner's Somewhere in the Middle and Ulysses Dove's Vespers. All accompanied by live music from the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Find out more here
Bill T. Jones & Marc Barmuthi Joseph
PAC NYC
Nov. 8-18
At the Perelman Center, choreographer, dancer, director and writer Bill T. Jones and poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph will present the world premiere of Watch Night which fuses melodies rooted in spirituals, percussive breath and opera with slam poetry. Jones and Joseph are joined by collaborators, composer Tamar-kali and dramaturg Lauren Whitehead. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Guggenheim
Nov. 9
Under artistic director Cal Hunt and the street dancers of It’s Showtime NYC!, with a commission by “Works & Process,” the artists will share an in-process performance of Pyramid with composer and cellist Johnathan “Akuma” Moore. Find out more here
Jamal Jackson Dance Company
Trisk
Nov. 9-11 & 16-18
The Company will present TEETH a dance and theater work that takes a classroom of young students on a journey to explore their identities, experiences, and roles in shaping the United States of America during its quest for independence at the end of the 18th century. Find out more here
Various Artists
National Stardust & Onyx Studio
Nov. 9-11
The MAXlive 2023 series continues featuring works from Lisa Jamhoury, Modesto “Flako” Jimenez, Musicians from The Knights and Paula Matthusen, Kate Ladenheim, Paul Pinto and Kameron Neal, Matt Romein with Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey, Sister Sylvester, Mike Tyus and Luca Renzi. Find out more here
Pam Tanowitz
New York City Center
Nov. 9-11
The NYC premiere of Tanowitz's Song of Songs fuses choreography mined and abstracted from Jewish folk dance with David Lang’s choral settings of the Biblical love poem and is performed live by six musicians. Find out more here
Samita Sinha
Danspace Project
Nov. 9-11
Artist and composer Samita Sinha brings Tremor where voices in relationship to a live, sonic environment are conjured by composer Ash Fure, within a space designed by architect Sunil Bald. Sinha is joined by performer Okwui Okpokwasili. Find out more here
Various Artists
BAAD!
Nov. 11
With local choreographers in the Bronx, BAAD! presents “Simply the Best: Tina Turner Dance Tribute” featuring works by Malinda Ray Allen & Michelle Smith, Ian Fernandez, Darius Gregory, Rush Johnston, Nuludanza and more for the signature “Dance Compilation” series. Find out more here
Lydia Johnson Dance
Graham Studio Theater
Nov. 11
The season will feature a premiere for ten dancers, including guest artist MaliQ Williams, plus the return of 2022’s For Eli, set to five Chopin pieces. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Guggenheim
Nov. 12
Hip-Hop artists Kwikstep and Rokafella will present the culmination of their residency in a one-night-only show-and-tell in Wus Poppin, as part of the “Works and Process” series. Find out more here
Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins, Cathy Weis and Isa Spector
WeisAcres
Nov. 12
The "Sundays on Broadway" series, an evening of sharing by co-curators Jade Manns and Cathy Weis returns with a performance video by Monson, plus performances by Parkins, Spector, and Weis with Monson. Find out more here
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce
Nov. 14-26
The Company will celebrate its 29th season under the direction of co-founding artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson in a two-week season. In three programs there will be world premieres by Rhoden, Abdul Latif and Jenn Freeman, and company premieres by Ricardo Amarante and Justin Peck. Find out more here
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The Center for Ballet Arts
Nov. 15
The Company will kick off their 2023-24 season with a selection of classic and new works by artistic director, Tiffany Rea-Fisher. Find out more and RSVP here
Akram Khan
Lincoln Center
Nov. 16-18
Khan will offer the New York premiere of Jungle Book reimagined, “…a rethinking of the Rudyard Kipling classic The Jungle Book, which updates the original's colonizer-centric perspective to tell the story of the young girl Mowgli as a refugee child stranded by the cruel realities of climate change,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
NYLA
Nov. 16-18
Juni One Set, a collaboration of Senga Nengudi, eddy kwon, and Haruko Crow Nishimura & Joshua Kohl of Degenerate Art Ensemble come together to present Boy mother / faceless bloom, a blend of mythology and autobiography, drawing from the diverse lineages of queer, anti-colonial, and care-based artistic practices. Find out more here