Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
Gibney Center
May 10-12
The Company will present the world premiere of Last Ward which "...follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room," notes the release. Written and directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi with choreography and music by Samar Haddad King, Last Ward blends dance and theater (in Arabic with English subtitles) in a highly-visual evening-length performance. Find out morehere
New York City Ballet (NYCB)
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
L.A. Dance Project
Joyce Theater
May 3-15
For two weeks in two programs: Program A a restaging of Bella Lewitzky’s 1970 work Kinaesonata, plus more, and in Program B, Company member and former NYCB principal dancer Janie Taylor’s Night Bloom and the New York premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s 2021 work Solo at Dusk. 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
Ogemdi Ude
Danspace Project
May 12 - 14
Danspace Project’s Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) continues with the premiere of Ogemdi Ude’s I know exactly what you mean. Made in collaboration with performers Selah V. Hampton and Symara Johnson, "...this evening-length dance calls on nostalgic Black music and personal narratives as a means to playfully explore the roles of storytelling and lying in recovering cultural memory, establishing kinship amongst Black folks, and processing personal grief," notes the release. Find out more here
Rebecca Gual
BAAD!
May 13 - 14
As part of The Boogie Down Dance Series which runs until May 27, Gual will present Hum In The Hollow, the culminating work for the 8th annual "Dancing Futures: Artist & Mentor Collaborative Residency." Find out more here
Molissa Fenley, Jon Kinzel, Mariana Valencia
Cathy Weis Studio
May 15
Fenley, Kinzel and Valencia will share an evening of new and in-progress works. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Guggenheim
May 15-16
For this event, creative directors Chris Celiz and b-boy Anthony Vito Rodriguez “Invertebrate." fuse "...the virtuosic music-making of beatbox with awe-inspiring street dance in The Missing Element, commissioned by Works & Process," notes the release. Find out more here
Gibney Center
May 10-12
The Company will present the world premiere of Last Ward which "...follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room," notes the release. Written and directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi with choreography and music by Samar Haddad King, Last Ward blends dance and theater (in Arabic with English subtitles) in a highly-visual evening-length performance. Find out more
New York City Ballet (NYCB)
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
L.A. Dance Project
Joyce Theater
May 3-15
For two weeks in two programs: Program A a restaging of Bella Lewitzky’s 1970 work Kinaesonata, plus more, and in Program B, Company member and former NYCB principal dancer Janie Taylor’s Night Bloom and the New York premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith’s 2021 work Solo at Dusk. 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
Ogemdi Ude
Danspace Project
May 12 - 14
Danspace Project’s Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) continues with the premiere of Ogemdi Ude’s I know exactly what you mean. Made in collaboration with performers Selah V. Hampton and Symara Johnson, "...this evening-length dance calls on nostalgic Black music and personal narratives as a means to playfully explore the roles of storytelling and lying in recovering cultural memory, establishing kinship amongst Black folks, and processing personal grief," notes the release. Find out more here
Rebecca Gual
BAAD!
May 13 - 14
As part of The Boogie Down Dance Series which runs until May 27, Gual will present Hum In The Hollow, the culminating work for the 8th annual "Dancing Futures: Artist & Mentor Collaborative Residency." Find out more here
Molissa Fenley, Jon Kinzel, Mariana Valencia
Cathy Weis Studio
May 15
Fenley, Kinzel and Valencia will share an evening of new and in-progress works. Find out more here
Various Artists
The Guggenheim
May 15-16
For this event, creative directors Chris Celiz and b-boy Anthony Vito Rodriguez “Invertebrate." fuse "...the virtuosic music-making of beatbox with awe-inspiring street dance in The Missing Element, commissioned by Works & Process," notes the release. Find out more here
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