Dance List 1
Here it is! Your first monthly list of dance shows (and a few dance talks, screenings, and exhibitions) coming up in NYC. This inaugural edition of “dance list” (working title) hits all five boroughs, from the Snug Harbor Dance Festival in Staten Island to the BlakTinX Performance Series at BAAD! in the Bronx. It includes events happening tonight (Thursday, Sept. 21) through the last full week of October.
This list is not comprehensive and not trying to be, though as you’ll see, it is extensive! There is a lot going on (my own October calendar remains a puzzle), and I hope this gives you a broad sense of all that’s out there, dance-wise. For more on what I’m most excited and curious about in the weeks ahead, sign up for the paid version of this newsletter, which will come out every other weekend starting this Sunday.
A few notes for navigating the list:
The events are listed in order of opening date. Where listed as “through” a certain date, the event has already opened.
* = free or sliding-scale ticket options
^ = in-person and virtual options
For festivals, mixed bills, and multi-program seasons, I haven’t listed all featured works or choreographers, so be sure to click through for more info.
The info below is current as of the last time I checked, but things can change (and while I strive for accuracy, I will inevitably make a few mistakes!) Please visit the event website for up-to-date details and full date/time info.
Look out for another list (November shows) coming your way on the third Thursday of October. And as always, feel free to share this with anyone you think would enjoy it.
Happy dance-going,
Siobhan
Performances
Sept. 21 to 24 (this weekend)
Sept. 21-22: Bijayini Satpathy, ABHIPSAA at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Sept. 21-23: Mia Martelli, Sitting by a body of water in the dark (on a split bill with playwright Justin Maxwell) at The Brick
Sept. 22-23: Wanjiru Kamuyu, A disguised welcome… at the Chocolate Factory
Sept. 22-23: Miro Magloire/New Chamber Ballet at Mark Morris Dance Center
*Sept. 23: DraftWork at Danspace Project (Nicole Mannarino, Taylor Stanley, ms. z tye)
*Sept. 23-24: Snug Harbor Dance Festival at Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Through Sept. 22: serpentwithfeet, Wu Tsang & Raja Feather Kelly, Heart of Brick at the Joyce Theater
Through Sept. 23: Beyond the Black Box, The “Black Black Black” Week at Triskelion Arts
Through Oct. 15: New York City Ballet fall season at David H. Koch Theater
Week of Monday, Sept. 25
*Sept. 25: Movement Research at the Judson Church (Sugar Vendil/Isogram, Chloe London)
Sept. 26, Grand Kyiv Ballet, Snow White at Kings Theatre
Sept. 27: Smaïl Kanouté, Never Twenty One at New York Live Arts
Sept. 27-Oct. 1: BalletX at the Joyce Theater (works by Jennifer Archibald, Matthew Neenan, Jamar Roberts)
Sept. 27-Oct. 8: Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center
Sept. 28-29: Paul Lazar, Cage Shuffle at Japan Society
Sept. 28-30: VIM VIGOR, PUNCHLINE at Gibney
^Sept. 29-30: Dorrance Dance at 92nd Street Y (works by Elizabeth Burke, Luke Hickey, Claudia Rahardjanoto, and Michelle Dorrance)
Through Oct. 15: New York City Ballet fall season at David H. Koch Theater
Week of Monday, Oct. 2
Oct. 2: Raja Feather Kelly / the feath3r theory at Works & Process at the Guggenheim
*Oct. 2: Movement Research at the Judson Church (Rebecca Pappas, Rochelle Wilbun, Maxi Hawkeye Canion)
Oct. 3-8: Olivier Tarpaga Dance Project, Once the dust settles, flowers bloom at the Joyce Theater
Oct. 4-7: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Curriculum II at New York Live Arts
Oct. 5-7, Leslie Parker Dance Project, Divination Tools: imagine home at Danspace Project
Oct. 5-7: Takahiro Yamamoto, NOTHINGBEING at the Chocolate Factory
^*Oct. 6: Fierce Footwork by Aliesha Bryan & Orlando Hernández at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Oct. 6-8: New York Theatre Ballet, “Legends and Visionaries” (works by Merce Cunningham, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Steven Melendez, Amanda Treiber) and “Once Upon a Ballet” at Florence Gould Hall
Oct. 7: Martha Graham Dance Company, “Radical Dance for the People” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oct. 8: “American Ballet Theatre: The Art of Storytelling” at Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Through Oct. 8: Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center
Through Oct. 15: New York City Ballet fall season at David H. Koch Theater
Week of Monday, Oct. 9
Oct. 10: Martha Graham Dance Company, “Radical Dance for the People” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oct. 10-15: Malpaso Dance Company at the Joyce Theater
*Oct. 12-14: Lili Dekker and Owen Prum at PAGEANT
Oct. 12-14: Stuart B. Meyers, The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds at Triskelion Arts
Oct. 12-15: DELIRIOUS Dances/Edisa Weeks, 3 RITES: Liberty at Mark O’Donnell Theater
Oct. 12-15: Christopher Williams, Jeux + A Child’s Tale at Baryshnikov Arts Center
^*Oct. 13-14: Maria Bauman/MBDance, These are the bodies that have not borne (work-in-progress showing) at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Oct. 13-14: E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE at Harlem Stage (works by Brown and Joya Powell)
Oct. 15: “San Francisco Ballet: New Vision” at Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Through Oct. 15: New York City Ballet fall season at David H. Koch Theater
Week of Monday, Oct. 16
Oct. 16: Movement Research at the Judson Church (Colectiva Flamenco Rosado, Estrellx Supernova/EHQS/IZAR, Katy Pyle)
Oct. 17-22: Hope Boykin Dance, States of Hope at the Joyce Theater
*Oct. 18-20: Ayano Elson, Shadows Later at PAGEANT
Oct. 18-29: American Ballet Theatre fall season at David H. Koch Theater
Oct. 19-20: Erick Montes, Small:2Big; the end of theory, at Triskelion Arts
Oct. 19-21: Lyon Opera Ballet, Lucinda Childs’ Dance at New York City Center
Oct. 19-21: Gregory Maqoma, Broken Chord at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Oct. 19-21: Antonio Ramos and the Gangbangers, CEREMONIA at Abrons Arts Center
Oct. 19-21: Dana Reitz, current at Roulette
Oct. 19-21: Gillian Walsh, Wilderness at Danspace Project
Oct. 20-21: Rone & (La)Horde, Room with a View at NYU Skirball
Oct. 20-28: chameckilerner, Aging Prelude at the Chocolate Factory
Oct. 20-Nov. 5: Nicole Mannarino, 10 Seconds til Midnight at Kestrels
Oct. 21-23: Gisèle Vienne, L’Etang at New York Live Arts
Oct. 21-Nov. 5: Michael Keegan-Dolan, How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons at St. Ann’s Warehouse
*Oct. 22: Open AiR: Benae Beamon, Re(verb) at Center for Performance Research
Week of Monday, Oct. 23
*Oct. 23: Movement Research at the Judson Church (Mor Mendel, Violeta Tellez, Carne Viva Dance Theatre)
Oct. 24-Nov. 5: Sankai Juku, KŌSA at the Joyce Theater
Oct. 25-26: An Evening with (La)Horde: With Lucinda Childs & Lasseindra Ninja at NYU Skirball
^*Oct. 26-27: Arthur Aviles, Untitled Series: Homeage II at BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Oct. 26-27: Dorothée Munyaneza, Mailles at New York Live Arts
Oct. 27-28: Paul J. Botelho, Brice Brown, Douglas Dunn, and Steve Gibson, BODY/SHADOW at Judson Memorial Church
Oct. 27-29: Rachid Ouramdane, Corps extrêmes at Brooklyn Academy of Music
*Oct. 28: DraftWork at Danspace Project (Wendell Gray II, Anna Sperber)
Oct. 28-29: Boris Charmatz, Somnole at NYU Skirball
Oct. 29-30: “Dance Theatre of Harlem Diaspora” at Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Through Oct. 28: chameckilerner, Aging Prelude at the Chocolate Factory
Through Oct. 29: American Ballet Theatre fall season at David H. Koch Theater
Through Nov. 5: Nicole Mannarino, 10 Seconds til Midnight at Kestrels
Through Nov. 5: Michael Keegan-Dolan, How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Exhibitions, Screenings & Talks
*Sept. 30-Feb. 4: Ligia Lewis, study now steady at CARA, with durational performances Thursdays-Sundays (except Nov. 20-26 and Dec. 18-Jan. 12)
^Oct. 2: Alexei Ratmansky and Marina Harss in Conversation with Sara Mearns: The Boy from Kyiv at 92nd Street Y
*Oct. 6: With Womens Work (Projected Redux) with Ayano Elson, Mariana Valencia, Ogemdi Ude and Laurie Berg at Issue Project Room
*Through Oct. 1: David Michalek, Slow Dancing/NYCB, Lincoln Center Plaza
*Through Nov. 19: Liz Magic Laser, Convulsive States at Pioneer Works
*Through March 16, “Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900-1955” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts