Karol Armitage, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Carolyn Dorfman, Francesca Harper,
Helen Simoneau, and Katarzyna Skarpetowska
New York Live Arts
June 11 – 16
Celebrating 7 years, “Women/Create! A Festival of Dance,” curated by Jennifer Muller/The Works will again feature works will feature prominent female choreographers and their companies including Muller/The Works, Armitage (Armitage Gone! Dance), Buglisi (Buglisi Dance Theatre), Dorfman (Carolyn Dorfman Dance), Harper (The Francesca Harper Project), Simoneau (Helen Simoneau Danse), and Skarpetowska. Find out more here
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AADT)
David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center
June 12 – 16
For their summer season, the led by artistic director Robert Battle, included is a world premiere by Darrell Grand Moultrie, Ronald K. Brown’s The Call, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Shelter, Rennie Harris’ Lazarus, and repertoire staple, Ailey’s Revelations. A special evening honoring dance icon Carmen de Lavallade, a close friend of Alvin Ailey who first introduced him to dance, is planned for the final performance. Find out more here
Various Artists
Bryant Park
June 14 – July 5
The Contemporary Dance Series, a four-week celebration of modern dance that falls on Fridays, will feature performances curated by Tiffany Rae-Fisher in partnership with Inception to Exhibition. The lineup begins with Jennifer Muller / The Works, Patrick O'Brien Dance Project, Talissa Bavaresco / BAVA Dance, Steps Conservatory (June 14); Buglisi Dance Theatre, VON HOWARD PROJECT, Beatrice Capote, LaGuardia Dance Ensemble (June 21); LaneCoArts, SYREN Modern Dance, JOLT Dance Project, Harlem Dance Ensemble and Dorothy Maynor Singers (June 28); and David Dorfman Dance, Francesca Harper Project, URBAN / TRIBE, Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts (July 5). All performances are FREE. Find out more here
Various Artists
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA)
June 15
Throughout the summer and until on October 26, MTA will support more than 25 artists working in a variety of disciplines for the 2019 Watershed Lab including Stephanie Acosta, Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum, Ballez, Lorene Bouboushian, mayfield brooks, Megan Byrne and Jennifer Kjos, Leslie Cuyjet, Lisa Fagan, Ellie Ga, Charlotte Gibbons, Madison Krekel, Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki, iele paloumpis, Jillian Peña, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal and Raha Behnam, Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, Tara Sheena, David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi. Featured on June 15, and curated by Jaime Shearn Coan and Tara Aisha Willis are: David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi. Find out more here
Various Artists
Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
June 15
For one evening only, celebrate the final presentations of Dance Caribbean Collective’s “New Traditions Choreographic Incubator Award & Caribbean Explorations Fellowship.” The choreographers are: Sade Bully (Dominica, Jamaica, USA), Persephone DaCosta (USA/T&T), Kevin L. McEwen (USA/T&T), Gabriela Silva (Brazil/USA) and Maria Rivera (USA – Puerto Rico), and Caribbean Explorations Fellow is Kyle Marshall (Jamaica – USA). Find out more and RSVP here
Joanna Kotze
The Yard
June 15
Kotze will present What will we be like when we get there” a multi-disciplinary performance collaboration, with choreographer/dancer Kotze, dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, visual artist Jonathan Allen, composer/musician Ryan Seaton, and lighting designer Kathy Kaufmann “…that combines movement, sound, and visual art in surprising, near chaotic ways, and resonates with the social and political time we are living in now,” according to the release. Find out more here
Ze’eva Cohen and Avri Ohana
Westbeth Gallery
June 15 – July 6
Cohen and Ohana will feature their work as independent artists exploring their own media and as collaborators who find inspiration from music. Avri Ohana is a multi-style artist whose new body of work presents paintings inspired by his love for classical music, opera and jazz, and Cohen will show a visual retrospective of her long career as dancer and choreographer containing photographs of her work taken by major dance photographers, as well as posters and videos. Find out more here