March 17 –
June 24
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American Ballet Theatre (ABT)
March 23-April 18
New York City Center presents their ABT Live from City Center | A Ratmansky Celebration, featuring American Ballet Theatre filmed live on the City Center stage, the program marks ABT’s return to the theater for their first full evening program at City Center since 2012. Hosted by Susan Fales-Hill, highlights include excerpts from The Seasons (2019), Seven Sonatas (2009), and The Sleeping Beauty (2015), and Bernstein in a Bubble, a World Premiere set to the music of Leonard Bernstein. "The new work, Ratmansky’s first since March 2020, was created in January and February of this year during a quarantined “ballet bubble” in Silver Bay, New York. The program features ABT dancers Aran Bell, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Herman Cornejo, Patrick Frenette, Carlos Gonzalez, Blaine Hoven, Catherine Hurlin, Tyler Maloney, Luciana Paris, Devon Teuscher, Cassandra Trenary, and James Whiteside," notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
April 4-18
On Sundays, the "Works & Process" series continues with Ladies of Hip-Hop: Black Dancing Bodies Project × (4/11), and Jamar Roberts and David Watson (4/18) artists from Intergenerational performing arts series “Works & Process” at the Guggenheim, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will present newly commissioned video performances developed during Works & Process bubble residencies at Bethany Arts Community, Catskill Mountain Foundation, and Mount Tremper Arts. Find out more here
Raja Feather Kelly
April 8 – 10
Kelly’s HYSTERIA returns to New York Live Arts’ lobby, for another round of his socially distanced outdoor performances. Find out more here
Desmond Richardson
April 8
Richardson created Without Further Delay for nine 2021 YoungArts award winners from across the country, and features a new score by Terence Blanchard. Find out more here
Iele paloumpis & Alice Shepard
April 9
Danspace Project’s "Conversations Without Walls" a virtual series, brings together paloumpis and Sheppard. Find out more here
Kyle Abraham
April 8 - 22
Abraham's yet-to-be-named premiere for New York City Ballet’s 2021 digital season created after a three-week COVID-compliant residency bubble at the Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, will feature dancers - India Bradley, Jonathan Fahoury, Christopher
Grant, Claire Kretzschmar, Lauren Lovette, Taylor Stanley, KJ Takahashi, and Sebastian Villarini-Velez. Find out more here
Ayodele CAsel
April 8 – 21
At the Joyce, Casel will perform live and audiences can view the world premiere on demand “…inspired by her relationship with tap and the joy she finds in living,” according to the release. Collaborators are director Torya Beard, filmmaker Kurt Csolak, plus music and arrangements from Crystal Monee Hall and Annastasia Victory. Find out more here
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
April 8 - 15
As part of Baryshnikov Arts Center's PlayBAC series De Keersmaeker brings the 2019 New York premiere of De Keersmaeker's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night). Find out more here
Various Artists
April 9-25
Virtually for the 92 nd Street Y, the “Future Dance Festival” will present a total of 21 works, with seven shown on each weekend, chosen by panelists Kyle Abraham, Janet Eilber, Jennifer Stahl, Jessica Tong, Victor Quijada, Eduardo Vilaro and Taryn Kaschock Russell, 92Y Harkness Dance Center director. Find out more here
Various Artists
April 10
This [Virtual] Movement Research Festival GPS Chats offers conversations with artists that have participated in the first exchange in 2013 and the last exchange before the pandemic hit in 2020. We'll be joined by the organizers from Mexico Laboratorio: Condensación and Segundo Piso in a conversation moderated by Levi Gonzalez. These artistic exchanges between the US and Mexico have created space for a more expansive dialogue on the realities, challenges and possibilities of being a working artist within and across these two countries' borders. Find out more here