Lincoln Center
August 14
Gaines' Creative Outlet will perform at the Josie Robertson Plaza a re-imagined outdoor campus as part of Restart Stages. Find out more here
Various Artists - In-Person & Virtual
92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival
July 31 - August 15
Dance is back at the 92nd Street Y with the fourth annual 92Y Mobile Dance Film Festival -- the first in-person dance program since the pandemic shut 92Y’s doors in March 2020. MDFF 2021 features three Official Selection programs with a total of 36 films plus a 17-film Student Film Program. Find out more here
Various Artists
Little Island
August 11- Sept 5
The new NYC FREE, a month-long arts festival celebrating the creativity of New York City’s artists will feature composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, poets and writers, and comedians. Under artistic direction from Festival Producer Mikki Shepard, there will be curated evenings from Tariq Al-Sabir, Ronald K. Brown, Dormeshia, Robert Garland & Misty Copeland, Alphonso Horne, Paolo Javier, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Georgina Pazcoguin, Conrad Tao, Adam Tendler, Awoye Timpo, Shirazette Tinnin, Eduardo Vilaro–– to curate this one-time festival. Find out more here
Netta Yerushalmy - In-Person
The Yard
August 13 - 14
See a work-in-process showing of MOVEMENT "...a new evening-length dance work that “steals” movement quotes from an expansive range of dance across genres, cultures, and idioms, in order to experiment with pluralism and discord as guiding creative and political principles," according to the release. Find out more here
Various Artists - In-Person
Studio 3R Performance Space
August 14
At this new performance space in the East Village, Studio 3R features a series of evening length works of music, theater, and dance from artists. See Thryn Saxon and Brad Beakes + Dual Rivet HRYN SAXON & BRAD BEAKES | DUAL RIVET
Saturday, 8/14 from 6:30 & 8:30PM. Find out more here here
Various Artists - In-Person & Virtual
Battery Dance Festival
August 12 – 14
The 40th Annual Battery Dance Festival with international dance films and in-person performances at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park. The virtual films are from Puerto Rico, Mexico, South Korean, Tanzania, Australia and more, while the in-person/livestreamed performances will feature an evening of dances by Indian artists, another with titled “Young Voices in Dance,” plus even more from Jon Lehrer Dance Company, MorDance, Battery Dance, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, New York Theatre Ballet, Christopher Williams, Flamenco Vivo II, Galletto y Guzmán, Beatrice Capote and many more. Find out more here
Various Artists - In-Person
Bryant Park Pinic Performances
August 16, 20 & 27
Dance Curator, Tiffany Rae-Fisher again welcomes audiences to Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances this summer with Limón Dance Company and Music From The Sole (August 16), Paul Taylor Dance Company and EMERGE125, formerly Elisa Monte Dance (August 20), and Ballet Hispánico and Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (August 27). Find out more here