Danspace Project
Oct. 5-7
At Danspace Project, NYC and Twin-Cities based artist Leslie Parker brings her Divination Tools: imagine home, the latest iteration of Parker’s “Call to Remember,” an epic, multi-year project exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance. Divination Tools: imagine home brings together a collective of Black visual artists, musicians, and femme dance artists to experiment and to expand notions of improvisation and lineage through these art forms.
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Various Artists
New York City Center
Sept. 27–Oct. 8
The 20th Fall for Dance Festival returns with 4 diverse programs - On the programs will be Ballet BC, Caleb Teicher, Gibney Company, Côté Danse, Sara Mearns, Madrid’s Sergio Bernal Dance Company, Adesola Osakalumi, Hawaiian hula halau Kaleoolakaikahikinaokalā, and so much more. Find out more here
Olivier Tarpaga Dance Project
The Joyce
Oct. 3-8
In his debut at the Joyce, the Burkina Faso-born, choreographer and composer Tarpaga will premiere Once the dust settles, flowers bloom with his company Olivier Tarpaga Dance Project. The evening-length work that “gives voice to the refugees of his homeland. Tarpaga addresses the fragility of individual autonomy in the wake of religious extremism, chronicling stories of women and children fighting against oppressive systems of violence…[but]…offers the promise of hope through unity,” notes the release. Find out more here
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company
NYLA
Oct. 4-7
The Company's Curriculum II, “The poetic quilt - sewn of text, lecture as narration, live song, sound and visual installation,” notes the release, returns to the company’s home. Find out more here
Takahiro Yamamoto
The Chocolate Factory
Oct. 5-7
Oregon-based choreographer Yamamoto’s NOTHINGBEING, which “uses highly physical movement, communal meditation, and the internal activation of sensory memories to construct a sustained and complex meditation on subjectivity and erasure within and between states of “nothingness” and ‘being,’” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Broadway Presbyterian Church
Oct. 6
Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup and David Shenk present the latest installment of the Moving Memory project: fill in the blank bringing together artists, caregivers, and seniors to create a community of care. Find out more here
Various Artists
Arts On Site
Oct. 6-7
Dual Rivet presents their 3rd annual MADE BY WOMEN Festival, highlighting women* choreographers & filmmakers. Featured choreographers are: Kashia Kancey, Olga Rabetskaya / OR Dance Projects, Khala Brannigan, Dual Rivet, Majella Bess, Laja Field, Jessie Lee Thorn, Dorchel Haqq/ LLAB, Ashley Pierre-Louis and Ke'Ron Wilson. Find out more here
Aliesha Bryan and Orlando Hernández
BAAD!
Oct. 6-7
Flamenco dancer Bryan debuts El Mensaje, a work on climate change and Hernández revisits Si así lo hicieseis, haréis bien…, a 2017 solo on the legacies of colonial violence. Find out more here
Martha Graham Dance Company
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oct. 7-10
Six of Graham’s solos from the 1930s will be presented as part of MetLiveArts Fall 2023 Season The performances are presented by MetLiveArts as part of GRAHAM100, a three-season celebration of the Company’s 100th anniversary. Find out more here
American Ballet Theatre
Guggenheim Museum
Oct. 8
As part of the Works & Process series, the newly appointed Artistic Director Susan Jaffe leads a program illuminating how the art of storytelling is at the heart of American Ballet Theatre. Members of ABT’s artistic team participate in the discussion, and dancers perform highlights of iconic classics and one-act story ballets. Find out more here