Shamar Watt Shamar Watt
Roulette
Mar. 1
As part of Roulette’s annual "Mixology Festival" which has been highlighting new approaches to technology in music and media arts since 1991, this in-person, triple bill event features Joy Guidry (bassoonist, versatile improviser, performance artist, and composer), Kwami Winfield (multi-disciplinary musician, composer, and improviser) join interdisciplinary artist Watt as part of Roulette's "Mixology Festival 2025." A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance. Find out more here
Ishmael Houston-Jones/Fred Holland
Danspace Project
Feb. 27 - Mar. 1
Houston-Jones will present OO-GA-LA Reimagined (The Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones 1983 Duet Danced into the 21st Century), performed by AJ Wilmore, Stephanie Hewett, and Kris Lee. Houston-Jones writes: "In 1983 at the Danspace Project festival Contact at 10th and 2nd which celebrated the 11th year that Steve Paxton named the form Contact Improvisation, Fred Holland and I were invited to perform a duet on the Partners Program along with Steve and Nancy Stark Smith and others. Fred and I, who considered ourselves to be the Black Punks of Contact, decided to do our C.I. duet by doing everything wrong." notes the release. Find out more here
Douglas Dunn + Dancers
Judson Memorial Church
Feb. 19-Mar. 1
The first week features BODY / SHADOW, a collaborative project with Dunn, music by Paul J. Botelho, libretto, video, and set design by Brice Brown, and visual media design by Steve Gibson. The second week brings a world premiere by Dunn with visual design by Mimi Gross, poetry by Anne Waldman, a commissioned score by Jerome Begin, played live by Begin and String Noise, and lighting design by Miriam Crowe. Find out more here
Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi
The Joyce
Feb. 25-Mar. 9
Led by Buenos Aires’ tango dancers , the Joyce will present Tango After Dark “…that fuses the rich traditions of tango with a contemporary flair,” by creator and choreographer Cornejo. Find out more here
Various Artists
Arts On Site
Feb 28
Continuing to cultivate creative spaces to support artists and encourage community collaboration, weekly, this week features Room 5 / Velvet Pistol / Omri Drumlevich - Garrett Parker, Emily Tarrier, and Emory Campbell. Find out more here
AbunDance Academy of the Arts 3rd annual AbunDance Awards
Crown Hill Theatre
Mar. 2
AbunDance Awards honors Excellence, Vision and Leadership in Dance and beyond. This year's honorees include Dyane Harvey Salaam, Jackie Jeffries, Youssouf Koumbassa, Michael Manswell, Shirley Black Brown Coward, Carolyn Devore, Kim Holmes and Joan Myers Brown. The event will also include live performances by AbunDance Academy, Balance Dance Theatre, Something Positive and surprised guests Find out more here
Various Artists
92nd Street Y
Mar. 3 –9
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center season continues with Harkness Dance Center – Celebrating 90 Years, performances and more throughout the Harkness Dance Center, as well as the New York Public Library. Featured events are: Art Bath x 92NY in shared experiences with Xin Ying and Katherine Crockett, John Manzari & Dancers, Joey Arias, Flower Shark, Christopher Williams, plus film footage, live DJ sets and more (3/6 – 3/7); DEL Movement Sentence Choir, Baye & Asa and DEL Facilitator Randi Sloan, plus Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance, PHILADANCO! (3/8) and Graham, Limón, Ailey: "Tracing Three Generations of Titans of Dance at 92NY" at New York Public Library (3/10). Find out more here
Kayla Farrish
Chelsea Factory
Mar. 6-8
Farrish and collaborators will present Put Away the Fire, dear, "...a dance-theater work that unravels American cinema, following six marginalized characters who they defy inherited roles and reimagine their own narratives as the piece unfolds. Jumping through portals between reality and film, they reclaim power with inspiration from Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar Micheaux, Ethel Waters, Bojangles and onwards," notes the release. Find out more here
Taylor Stanley and Alec Knight
Carvalho Park
Mar. 4, 8 & 15
The performance series at Carvalho Park returns with a newly commissioned work by New York City Ballet principal Stanley, Knight, and UK-based sculptor and installation artist Nicola Turner. Stanley and Knight will engage with Turner’s site-responsive installation, "Fabric of Undoing", for a new work titled "Ephemeral solace (in passing)". Find out more here
Kaisha Kancey
Trisk
Mar. 6-8
Kancey will present The Closties Variety Hour, a show that surrounds themes of reminiscence, mystery, and surreality. Find out more here
Batsheva Dance Company
BAM
Mar 6-8
Ohad Naharin and his company returns to BAM with MOMO. The work has two souls, "one sends long roots to the depths of the earth, embodying archetypes and myths of hardened, raw, masculinity; the other is in a constant search for a distinct DNA," notes the release. The soundtrack is composed mostly of the album "Landfall" Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet. Find out more here
Various Artists
City Center
Mar. 6-9
For over 20 years, the Flamenco Festival has brought flamenco dancers and musicians from Spain City Center. This year’s festival features Alfonso Losa & Patricia Guerrero, Compañía Manuel Liñán, and Compañía Eva Yerbabuena. Find out more here
Roulette
Mar. 1
As part of Roulette’s annual "Mixology Festival" which has been highlighting new approaches to technology in music and media arts since 1991, this in-person, triple bill event features Joy Guidry (bassoonist, versatile improviser, performance artist, and composer), Kwami Winfield (multi-disciplinary musician, composer, and improviser) join interdisciplinary artist Watt as part of Roulette's "Mixology Festival 2025." A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance. Find out more here
Ishmael Houston-Jones/Fred Holland
Danspace Project
Feb. 27 - Mar. 1
Houston-Jones will present OO-GA-LA Reimagined (The Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones 1983 Duet Danced into the 21st Century), performed by AJ Wilmore, Stephanie Hewett, and Kris Lee. Houston-Jones writes: "In 1983 at the Danspace Project festival Contact at 10th and 2nd which celebrated the 11th year that Steve Paxton named the form Contact Improvisation, Fred Holland and I were invited to perform a duet on the Partners Program along with Steve and Nancy Stark Smith and others. Fred and I, who considered ourselves to be the Black Punks of Contact, decided to do our C.I. duet by doing everything wrong." notes the release. Find out more here
Douglas Dunn + Dancers
Judson Memorial Church
Feb. 19-Mar. 1
The first week features BODY / SHADOW, a collaborative project with Dunn, music by Paul J. Botelho, libretto, video, and set design by Brice Brown, and visual media design by Steve Gibson. The second week brings a world premiere by Dunn with visual design by Mimi Gross, poetry by Anne Waldman, a commissioned score by Jerome Begin, played live by Begin and String Noise, and lighting design by Miriam Crowe. Find out more here
Germán Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi
The Joyce
Feb. 25-Mar. 9
Led by Buenos Aires’ tango dancers , the Joyce will present Tango After Dark “…that fuses the rich traditions of tango with a contemporary flair,” by creator and choreographer Cornejo. Find out more here
Various Artists
Arts On Site
Feb 28
Continuing to cultivate creative spaces to support artists and encourage community collaboration, weekly, this week features Room 5 / Velvet Pistol / Omri Drumlevich - Garrett Parker, Emily Tarrier, and Emory Campbell. Find out more here
AbunDance Academy of the Arts 3rd annual AbunDance Awards
Crown Hill Theatre
Mar. 2
AbunDance Awards honors Excellence, Vision and Leadership in Dance and beyond. This year's honorees include Dyane Harvey Salaam, Jackie Jeffries, Youssouf Koumbassa, Michael Manswell, Shirley Black Brown Coward, Carolyn Devore, Kim Holmes and Joan Myers Brown. The event will also include live performances by AbunDance Academy, Balance Dance Theatre, Something Positive and surprised guests Find out more here
Various Artists
92nd Street Y
Mar. 3 –9
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center season continues with Harkness Dance Center – Celebrating 90 Years, performances and more throughout the Harkness Dance Center, as well as the New York Public Library. Featured events are: Art Bath x 92NY in shared experiences with Xin Ying and Katherine Crockett, John Manzari & Dancers, Joey Arias, Flower Shark, Christopher Williams, plus film footage, live DJ sets and more (3/6 – 3/7); DEL Movement Sentence Choir, Baye & Asa and DEL Facilitator Randi Sloan, plus Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance, PHILADANCO! (3/8) and Graham, Limón, Ailey: "Tracing Three Generations of Titans of Dance at 92NY" at New York Public Library (3/10). Find out more here
Kayla Farrish
Chelsea Factory
Mar. 6-8
Farrish and collaborators will present Put Away the Fire, dear, "...a dance-theater work that unravels American cinema, following six marginalized characters who they defy inherited roles and reimagine their own narratives as the piece unfolds. Jumping through portals between reality and film, they reclaim power with inspiration from Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar Micheaux, Ethel Waters, Bojangles and onwards," notes the release. Find out more here
Taylor Stanley and Alec Knight
Carvalho Park
Mar. 4, 8 & 15
The performance series at Carvalho Park returns with a newly commissioned work by New York City Ballet principal Stanley, Knight, and UK-based sculptor and installation artist Nicola Turner. Stanley and Knight will engage with Turner’s site-responsive installation, "Fabric of Undoing", for a new work titled "Ephemeral solace (in passing)". Find out more here
Kaisha Kancey
Trisk
Mar. 6-8
Kancey will present The Closties Variety Hour, a show that surrounds themes of reminiscence, mystery, and surreality. Find out more here
Batsheva Dance Company
BAM
Mar 6-8
Ohad Naharin and his company returns to BAM with MOMO. The work has two souls, "one sends long roots to the depths of the earth, embodying archetypes and myths of hardened, raw, masculinity; the other is in a constant search for a distinct DNA," notes the release. The soundtrack is composed mostly of the album "Landfall" Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet. Find out more here
Various Artists
City Center
Mar. 6-9
For over 20 years, the Flamenco Festival has brought flamenco dancers and musicians from Spain City Center. This year’s festival features Alfonso Losa & Patricia Guerrero, Compañía Manuel Liñán, and Compañía Eva Yerbabuena. Find out more here
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