Apr. 5-6
NYU Skirball
Feather Kelly's The Absolute Future (or Death, Loneliness, and The Absolute Future of the Multiverse, or How to Cover the Sun with Mud), is a devised danced-theatre performance about a group of friends who attempt to watch The Great American Eclipse (April 8, 2024) and miss it. Created by Kelly with original composition by Christoph Mateka, the shows happen at NYU Skirball. Find out more here
Various Artists
Apr. 2-7
The Joyce
Celebrate the iconic drummer, composer, and activist Max Roach’s 100th birthday in an evening of works made in tribute to this legendary Jazz pioneer’s greatest works. Slated for the celebration is a new work by Ronald K. Brown for the Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company and Brown’s own EVIDENCE, A Dance Company; the streetdance storytelling of Rennie Harris Puremovement; and tap artist Ayodele Casel. Find out more here
Nederlands Dance Theater NDT)
Apr. 3-6
New York City Center
NDT returns with William Forsythe's N.N.N.N., NDT dancers, Imre van Opstal and Marne van Opstal's The Point Being, and Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar's Jakie. Find out more here
cullen+them
Apr. 4-5
Arts On Site
Cullen's begin /again is "...an existential, theatrical event about staying connected while things fall apart, and the inevitability and promise of change" according to the release. Find out more here
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
Apr. 5-6
The Invisible Dog
Durational Duet (a re-imagining of Gloria, 2021) redefines love beyond heteropatriarchal constraints, based on matriarchal and mammalian notions of the dyad—a pair fitting together toward nourishment and impenetrability. Find out more here
Megan Williams Dance Projects
Apr. 5-7
Mark Morris Dance Center
The Company will premiere the evening-length work, Smile, though your heart is aching, by Williams to music by Eve Beglarian. Find out more here
Various Artists
Apr. 6
Danspace Project
DraftWork series will host Martita Abril + Jade Manns + Glenn Potter Takata for this afternoon’s free, informal showing of new works in varying stages of development. Showings are followed by a reception, conversation, and Q&A between the artists and DraftWork curator, Ishmael Houston-Jones. Find out more here
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Apr. 6
The Purchase PAC
The program includes world premieres Shell of a Shell of the Shell by Rena Butler, Someday Soon by Keerati Jinakunwiphat and Abraham's MotorRover. Find out more here
Donna Uchizono
Apr. 7
The Chocolate Factory
Donna Uchizono, alongside artists Joanna Kotze, Antonio Ramos, and Jordan Lloyd, will offer a series of dance dedications exploring the body’s expansive capacity to listen. Grounded in the question “if you were to dedicate a dance to a person, who would that be?.” Find out more here
Merce Cunningham: The Events at Dia Beacon
Apr. 8
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL)
NYPL will present the world premiere of the 40-minute film drawing on footage from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s unique, site-specific Events at Dia Beacon in 2008 and 2009. Find out more here
Ailey II
Apr. 9-14
The Joyce Theater
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Ailey II, under artistic director, Francesca Harper will present Harper’s Luminous; Baye & Asa’s John 4:20; excerpts from Alvin Ailey classics; Divining by artistic director emerita Judith Jamison, and Enemy in the Figure by William Forsythe. Find out more here
K'Arts of Seoul
Apr. 10
Kaye Playhouse
The Company makes their New York debut in a full evening of excerpts from the classics along with original dances, as part of the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition 2024. Find out more here
Leslie Cuyjet
Apr. 10-13
The Chocolate Factory
Cuyjet will premiere For All Your Life, a new dance performance, film and social experiment “…that investigates the value of Black life and Black death; scrutinizing the mechanism of life insurance through the prism of the underwriting process,” notes the release. Find out more here
Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH)
Apr. 11-14
New York City Center
For artistic director, Robert Garland’s inaugural season, DTH will offer a collection of classic and contemporary works in three performances. On the program is Garland’s Nyman String Quartet No. 2, George Balanchine’s Pas de Dix, William Forsythe’s Blake Works IV (The Barre Project) and Robert Bondara’s Take Me With You. Find out more here