
Performance Space New York
May 5 – 12
Performance artist, Knight will present a suite of performances for three weekends described as “an ongoing investigation into the sweetness of nothingness” in NOTHING#122: a bed, according to the release. Part one is a social experiment, transforming the Keith Haring Theatre into a host club. Part two is a choreographic and installation-based work that pares down and formalizes Nothing #122’s approach to intimacy using the bed as a site for all things beginning and ending—where everything and nothing happens. Part three sees Knight alone onstage, responding improvisationally to the space, its architecture, its audience, and more. Find out more here
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Chitrasena Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
May 9-12
Both companies come together to share the Odissi classical dance from India and traditional Kandyan dance from Sri Lanka in Āhuti, meaning “offering.” Find out more here
Dancing While Black/Various Artists
Virtual & In-person
May 10 – 13
Join the Dancing While Black community as they continue to celebrate their 10th anniversary with timeless events virtually and in-person with their partners BAAD!, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Find out more here
Kazunori Kumagai
Gibney Dance
May 11-13
Kumagai brings the world premiere of Tap Into the Light with a list of guest artists. Find out more here
Testu Collective and Yoko Murakami
The Trisk
May 11-13
Serena Stucke & Dan Tesene of Testu Collective will present existence in time, a transitory, site-specific performance and movement artist Yoko Murakami will be in the black box. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
NJPAC
May 12 - 14
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, led by artistic director Robert Battle, returns to NJPAC with “New Jersey Premieres” including Kyle Abraham’s Are You in Your Feelings?, In a Sentimental Mood by Jamar Roberts, and The “Classic Ailey” program with Survivors (1986), Reflections in D, Night Creature and Revelations. Find out more here
Catherine Galasso
Snug Harbor Performing Arts
May 12 - 14
Galasso's CITY OF WOM_N: HARBOR is part of an ongoing five-borough dance series, "in which historical memoir, contemporary interview, and abstract tableaux combine to form portraits of female luminaries, interrogating the criteria for who is remembered and how," notes the release. Find out more here
Joffrey Ballet Concert Group
The Riverside Theater
May 14
The Concert Group will appear in ballets by artistic director Bradley Shelver and Eric Trope plus guests will be Le Jeune Ballet of Blue Ash Ohio, under the direction of former Joffrey dancer Steve Beirens. Find out more here
Various Artists
WeisAcres
May 14
Cathy Weis Projects' Sundays on Broadway events which features new and in-progress works by artists with varied movement practices, Malcolm-x Betts + Factress & Dance Explosion! + Iris McCloughan & Jessie Young shares this evening of performances. Find out more here
Peter Chu
92nd Street Y
May 14 - 15
Chu bring two world premieres Conscious Shift and take-off and performs with Roger Van der Poel, a member of his company, Chuthis. The performances are live on May 14 and online May 15. Find out more here
Princess Lockerooo
New York Public Library
May 18
As part of the Works & Process series at The Guggenheim, Lockerooo will talk about the History of Waacking born in the 70s by Black, gay underground clubs. Find out more here