Abrons Arts Center
May 19-21 @ 7PM
In VITRUVIAN, a solo performance Herman "...explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. Movement and visual design tell an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses several hemispheres." according to the press release." Find out more here
New York City Ballet
Lincoln Center
April 19 - May 29
NYCB’s 2022 spring season will include an array of programs featuring works by the Company’s co-Founding Choreographers – Serenade by George Balanchine and The Goldberg Variations by Jerome Robbins. Programs will also feature works by Silas Farley, Jamar Roberts (Emanon – In Two Movements), Pam Tanowitz (Gustave le Gray No. 1), featuring Dancers from New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem, plus Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante, Divertimento No. 15, The Four Temperaments, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Robbins’ Afternoon of a Faun, The Four Seasons, and more. Find out more here
Various Artists
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)
April 30 - May 22
The 2022 Spring Artists in Residence (AIR) Performance Series will feature 2021/22 AIR cohort Yo-Yo Lin (5/14), Andrea Ambam (5/21 & 22), and Shenny de Los Angeles. Find out more here
STREB SLAM
Home Studio/Brooklyn
May 7 - 29
For their return season, the Company presents FAILING FORWARD, which follows artistic director Elizabeth Streb’s philosophy that "...failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and innovation and leading to unexpected, surprising and true original moves," notes the release. Find out more here
Stephen Petronio Company
The Joyce
May 17 - 22
The Company returns to the Joyce with a trio of works including the world premiere of New New Prayer for Now, set to commissioned score by Monstah Black with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC), under the direction of Francisco J. Nuñez, a re-staging Petronio’s Bloom (2006), a collaboration with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, with live performance by the YPC, and a tribute to Petronio’s history with Trisha Brown in a re-staging of her 1973 work, Group Primary Accumulation. Find out more here
Donna Uchizono
BAC
May 18 - 21
Uchizono's new evening-length work, Wings of Iron "...examines what it takes to remain humane in these charged times, providing a framework for both performer and audience to share the weight of a vulnerability that is simultaneously public and private," according to the release. Find out more here
Abby Zbikowski/Abby Z and the New Utility
NYLA
May 18 - 22
Zbikowski offers the world premiere of RADIOACTIVE PRACTICE, the newest evening-length work. Find out more here
Laurie Berg
The Chocolate Factory
May 19 - 21
Berg will present the world premiere of FOMO:DIPTYCH, "A densely layered performance installation to study the diptych: as a form, a way of viewing, listening, feeling, and consuming. A place where missing something is guaranteed (and ok)," notes the release. Find out more here
binbinFactory/Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa
Theater Row
May 19-22
Haga and Fukuzawa will present an original work as part of the 3rd Paymakers' Redux: Out of the Box's series. Find out more here
Ariel Rivka Dance
Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
May 20
Ariel Rivka Dance opens up space for self-reflection in the company's expansive 2022 Spring Season program, featuring the world premiere of What You Want, plus company repertoire. Find out more here
Battery Dance
Schimmel Center
May 20
Battery Dance presents the World Premieres of three works of choreography, each inspired by the painting and legacy of Hans Hofmann. Find out more here
Arthurs Avilés
Arts on Site
May 20-21
Avilés will dance James Waring's FEATHERS (to Barbette)! Find out more here
Various Artists
Mark Morris Dance Center
May 21-22
As part of the Periapsis Music & Dance series bringing choreographers and musicians together, on the program titled UNBEKNOWNST will be choreography by Rohan Bhargava, PeiJu Chien-Pott, Da’ Von Doane, Gabrielle Lamb, and Evita Zacharioglou and music by Annie Nikunen and Jonathan Howard Katz, with a soundscape by Spencer Robelen. Featuring guest musicians Jeffrey Zeigler and Melinda Faylor. Costumes for two pieces by Lauren Carmen. Find out more here
Various Artists/Dancing While Black
BAAD!
May 22
The Sankofa Story Circles opens a year of DWB 10th Anniversary programming — all rooted in deepening community building, resource sharing and, of course, celebration. This afternoon of storytelling will be facilitated by Wendi Moore-O’Neal, who led our 5th anniversary DWB Story Circle in 2017. RSVP and find out more here
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
NJPAC
May 21
The company will present Celebrating the Legacy of Nai-Ni Chen and the Year of the Water Tiger. . Find out more here