
Jan. 28-Feb. 2
The Joyce Theater
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs What The Day Owes To The Night, "...a gravity-defying work blending capoeira, martial arts, and contemporary dance. Inspired by Algerian author Yasmina Khadra’s novel, What The Day Owes To The Night traces Koubi’s own personal lineage as a French-Algerian choreographer. After learning about his family’s Algerian roots, Koubi returned to the country of his ancestors to collaborate with streetdance performers from across the Mediterranean basin," according to the release. This performance is supported by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels. Find out more here
Laura Peralta and IMGE Dance
Feb. 1
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
In Entre Líneas, Afro-Dominican Flamenco artist Peralta "...uses the individual symbolic elements of Flamenco – the dress, the shawl, the guitar, rhythm, masculinity, and femininity – to examine the tension between tradition and self-expression..." notes the release. Find out more here
Nai-Ni Chen Dance
Feb. 1-2
NJPAC
Celebrating the coming of spring 2025 and The Year of The Snake, Nai-Ni Chen Dance continues their Newark tradition for over two decades, with dance, acrobatics and music to invoke the spirit of the snake. Find out more here
Varioius Artists
Feb. 2
92nd Street Y
As part of drummer/composer Allison Miller’s immersive multimedia work Rivers in Our Veins, Michelle Dorrance, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Maleek Washington and Luke Hickey will be featured. Find out more here
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar + Urban Bush Women
Feb. 5-8
Perelman Performing Arts Center.
SCAT!...The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar, conceived, directed and co-choreographed by Zollar "… Through song, dance, and storytelling, [they] tell the powerful love story of two people making their way through the Great Migration, inspired by Zollar’s childhood in Kansas City’s Black neighborhoods,” according to the release. Find out more here
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Feb. 5-9
The Joyce Theater
Brown & Dancers brings I AM, a new work expanding Brown’s trilogy: Mr. TOL E. RAncE (2012), BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play (2015), and ink (2017) that “…disrupt our understanding of the past, while I AM shifts the scope of her bold queries into the future. Inspired by a narrative within the drama television series Lovecraft Country, Brown imagines a creative space for cultural liberation,” notes the release. Find out more here