Photo of Blondell Cummings by Kei Orihara. Courtesy The Estate of Blondell Cummings. | Photo of Marjani Forté-Saunders courtesy of City of Santa Monca, Cultural Affairs by Asha Moné of HRDWRKER Marjani Forté-Saunders
Danspace Project
May 29 - 31
As part of Danspace Project’s 50th Anniversary season, Blondell Cummings’ Chicken Soup (1981), a solo based on her childhood memories of her grandmother in the kitchen, performed in 1982 as part of the Parallels series curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones at Danspace Project, will be remembered, reimagined, and performed by Forté-Saunders. On Cummings' work, Forté-Saunders has said, “I brought her with me, and we danced together, for a moment. Chicken Soup shows a Black woman in her own kitchen, scrubbing her own floors, snapping her own peas, wielding her own frying pan. By evoking this work, we get to examine those kitchen tools as portals—bending time to further the narrative of space, character, and rite.” Find out more here
NYCB
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center
Sept. 16- May 31
Curated by Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, in collaboration with Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford and Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck. Featured will be world premieres and new works by Jamar Roberts, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum and more. Find out more here
EMERGE125
El Museo del Barrio
May 29-31
The Harlem-based, Black female-led dance company's 2025 season will feature repertory and restaged works by artistic director Tiffany Rea Fisher. Find out more here
Tushrik Fredericks
Triskelion
May 29-31
Fredericks' til infiniti "...explores the variety of black and brown fantasies and utopias through diverse and multi-dimensional physical expressions..." Find out more here
Graham 2
Martha Graham Studio Theater
May 29 - 31
Opening with Ted Shawn’s Serenata Morisca (1916), plus an all-Graham classics program featuring Prelude to Action from Chronicle (1936) and Deep Song (1937), Heart Suite (1946) and more. Find out more here
Ballet Hispánico
New York City Center
May 29-Jun. 1
Led by artistic director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro, Ballet Hispánico celebrates the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s classic opera “Carmen” with a reimagining of Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s CARMEN.maquia. Find out more here
Danspace Project
May 29 - 31
As part of Danspace Project’s 50th Anniversary season, Blondell Cummings’ Chicken Soup (1981), a solo based on her childhood memories of her grandmother in the kitchen, performed in 1982 as part of the Parallels series curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones at Danspace Project, will be remembered, reimagined, and performed by Forté-Saunders. On Cummings' work, Forté-Saunders has said, “I brought her with me, and we danced together, for a moment. Chicken Soup shows a Black woman in her own kitchen, scrubbing her own floors, snapping her own peas, wielding her own frying pan. By evoking this work, we get to examine those kitchen tools as portals—bending time to further the narrative of space, character, and rite.” Find out more here
NYCB
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center
Sept. 16- May 31
Curated by Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, in collaboration with Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford and Resident Choreographer and Artistic Advisor Justin Peck. Featured will be world premieres and new works by Jamar Roberts, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum and more. Find out more here
EMERGE125
El Museo del Barrio
May 29-31
The Harlem-based, Black female-led dance company's 2025 season will feature repertory and restaged works by artistic director Tiffany Rea Fisher. Find out more here
Tushrik Fredericks
Triskelion
May 29-31
Fredericks' til infiniti "...explores the variety of black and brown fantasies and utopias through diverse and multi-dimensional physical expressions..." Find out more here
Graham 2
Martha Graham Studio Theater
May 29 - 31
Opening with Ted Shawn’s Serenata Morisca (1916), plus an all-Graham classics program featuring Prelude to Action from Chronicle (1936) and Deep Song (1937), Heart Suite (1946) and more. Find out more here
Ballet Hispánico
New York City Center
May 29-Jun. 1
Led by artistic director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro, Ballet Hispánico celebrates the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s classic opera “Carmen” with a reimagining of Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s CARMEN.maquia. Find out more here
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