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Sat 1st
11:00am
A black and white photo of a woman putting a blindfold on.

FREE Performance: He’s Not Touching Her

Sarah Nagle and Justin Ross
This is a FREE durational performance occurring on 11/29 and 11/30 12pm-6pm, and 12/1 11am-3pm in partnership with Chashama. Dancers are in a storefront, and viewers watch from the sidewalk on 37th street (close to 8th Avenue).  He’s Not Touching Her is a conceptual performance game designed to expose the gender socialization that leaves female-identifying people vulnerable to patterns of abuse…

 
2:00pm
Twyla Tharp captured in a pose

Twyla Tharp Dance at The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater
The Joyce presents one of this century’s most acclaimed artists, Twyla Tharp, in a program focused on her early dances. In Minimalism and Me, Tharp recollects the creation of her seminal early works and their relationship to the minimalist period in visual art.   Curtain Chat: Thu, Nov 15 Family Matinee: Sat, Dec 1   *No performance Thu, Nov 22 (Thanksgiving) **The only Sunday evening…

 
7:30pm
Show Art for The Eleventh Hour!

The Eleventh Hour! - An original and irreverent rock musical comedy. #SaveYourBrain

Smugbug Productions
The Eleventh Hour! A NEW sci-fi musical comedy about the end of the world -- where else -- a basement in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Chronicling the fabled New Brunswick basement music scene during the apocalypse, this new show, shich had its premiere as part of New York Theater Festival WINTERFEST back in January 2018, includes a basement rocker, his astrophysicist ex-girlfriend, a Medieval Times…

 
8:00pm
Twyla Tharp captured in a pose

Twyla Tharp Dance at The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater
The Joyce presents one of this century’s most acclaimed artists, Twyla Tharp, in a program focused on her early dances. In Minimalism and Me, Tharp recollects the creation of her seminal early works and their relationship to the minimalist period in visual art.   Curtain Chat: Thu, Nov 15 Family Matinee: Sat, Dec 1   *No performance Thu, Nov 22 (Thanksgiving) **The only Sunday evening…

 
Sun 2nd
12:00pm
MISS HILL: MAKING DANCE MATTER

FILM SHOWING OF MARTHA HILL MAKING DANCE MATTER

CHEN DANCE CENTER
Free showing of Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter on December 2, 2018 at 12:00pm A documentary that tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of a woman whose life was defined by her love for dance. Martha Hill emerges as dance’s secret weapon, someone who fought against great odds to establish dance as a legitimate art form in America. Through archival footage, lively interviews with dance notables,…

 
2:00pm
Twyla Tharp captured in a pose

Twyla Tharp Dance at The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater
The Joyce presents one of this century’s most acclaimed artists, Twyla Tharp, in a program focused on her early dances. In Minimalism and Me, Tharp recollects the creation of her seminal early works and their relationship to the minimalist period in visual art.   Curtain Chat: Thu, Nov 15 Family Matinee: Sat, Dec 1   *No performance Thu, Nov 22 (Thanksgiving) **The only Sunday evening…

 
4:00pm
Japanese/Okinawan traditional dancer and choreographer Junko Fisher

GOHENGE

Junko Enterprises Inc.
Junko Enterprises Inc. presents Japanese/Okinawan traditional dancer and choreographer Junko Fisher in GOHENGE, an original choreographed show featuring five different characters dancing to different genres of music, including classical, Japanese folk music, and Kabuki music. Special guest performance by shakuhachi (Japanese flute) Master Daniel Nyohaku Soergel. Tickets are $25, available via www.ovationtix.com;…

 
6:00pm
Left: Davidson Gigliotti and Leo (top) and Stuart Sherman (bottom), stills from video by Davidson Gigliotti; Jennifer Monson and

Sundays on Broadway presents Jennifer Monson; Christopher Williams; Stuart Sherman video by Davidson Gigliotti

Cathy Weis Projects
Join us for an evening of video and dance with works by Davidson Gigliotti, Jennifer Monson, and Christopher Williams, curated by Cathy Weis. Davidson Gigliotti will show his video Close-Up Magic: Seven Tabletop Spectacles by Stuart Sherman. Stuart Sherman was a performance-art star in New York in the late 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and his work still resonates. He was a master of close-up…

 
7:30pm
Twyla Tharp captured in a pose

Twyla Tharp Dance at The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater
The Joyce presents one of this century’s most acclaimed artists, Twyla Tharp, in a program focused on her early dances. In Minimalism and Me, Tharp recollects the creation of her seminal early works and their relationship to the minimalist period in visual art.   Curtain Chat: Thu, Nov 15 Family Matinee: Sat, Dec 1   *No performance Thu, Nov 22 (Thanksgiving) **The only Sunday evening…

 
8:00pm
Poster for the performance festival

Super 8 Movements : Movement and performance on Film

MONO NO AWARE
Super 8 Movements is a program of projection performances that incorporate a moving image component on Super 8mm film.  Curated by Brighid Greene, this will be the world premiere of 4 new pieces by ANIMALS performance group, Laurel Atwell, Stephanie Gould and percussionist / choreographer Jason Bernard Lucas.  This program is opening night of a 5-night cinema-arts festival MONO NO AWARE XI and is…

 
Mon 3rd
6:00pm
Image of "A Life Not Still" by Tyler Gilstrap

NYDP FREE Performances!

New York Dance Project
New York Dance Project is hosting FREE performances at the Center at West Park (86th Street & Amsterdam) on Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd & 4th, showcasing a wide range of dance, from classical to exciting new choreography. Featuring works by Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, Dwight Rhoden, Tyler Gilstrap, Larry Keigwin, and more! Join us for a night to remember. 

 
7:30pm
Image of "A Life Not Still" by Tyler Gilstrap

NYDP FREE Performances!

New York Dance Project
New York Dance Project is hosting FREE performances at the Center at West Park (86th Street & Amsterdam) on Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd & 4th, showcasing a wide range of dance, from classical to exciting new choreography. Featuring works by Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, Dwight Rhoden, Tyler Gilstrap, Larry Keigwin, and more! Join us for a night to remember. 

 
8:00pm
Movement Research at Judson Church

Movement Research at Judson Church

Movement Research
Movement Research at Judson Church November 12 - December 10, 2018 MON 8:00 pm A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial…

 
Tue 4th
4:00pm
Image of "A Life Not Still" by Tyler Gilstrap

NYDP FREE Performances!

New York Dance Project
New York Dance Project is hosting FREE performances at the Center at West Park (86th Street & Amsterdam) on Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd & 4th, showcasing a wide range of dance, from classical to exciting new choreography. Featuring works by Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, Dwight Rhoden, Tyler Gilstrap, Larry Keigwin, and more! Join us for a night to remember. 

 
6:00pm
Image of "A Life Not Still" by Tyler Gilstrap

NYDP FREE Performances!

New York Dance Project
New York Dance Project is hosting FREE performances at the Center at West Park (86th Street & Amsterdam) on Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd & 4th, showcasing a wide range of dance, from classical to exciting new choreography. Featuring works by Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, Dwight Rhoden, Tyler Gilstrap, Larry Keigwin, and more! Join us for a night to remember. 

 
7:00pm
photo by Daim Lee

Open Performance

Movement Research
Open Performance TUES 7:00 - 8:30 pm November 13 - December 18 A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress by artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion customarily moderated by a current or former Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, where we experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform…

 
7:30pm
Image of "A Life Not Still" by Tyler Gilstrap

NYDP FREE Performances!

New York Dance Project
New York Dance Project is hosting FREE performances at the Center at West Park (86th Street & Amsterdam) on Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd & 4th, showcasing a wide range of dance, from classical to exciting new choreography. Featuring works by Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey, Dwight Rhoden, Tyler Gilstrap, Larry Keigwin, and more! Join us for a night to remember. 

 
7:30pm
Twyla Tharp captured in a pose

Twyla Tharp Dance at The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater
The Joyce presents one of this century’s most acclaimed artists, Twyla Tharp, in a program focused on her early dances. In Minimalism and Me, Tharp recollects the creation of her seminal early works and their relationship to the minimalist period in visual art.   Curtain Chat: Thu, Nov 15 Family Matinee: Sat, Dec 1   *No performance Thu, Nov 22 (Thanksgiving) **The only Sunday evening…

 
Wed 5th
7:00pm
Poster for the performance festival

Super 8 Movements : Movement and performance on Film

MONO NO AWARE
Super 8 Movements is a program of projection performances that incorporate a moving image component on Super 8mm film.  Curated by Brighid Greene, this will be the world premiere of 4 new pieces by ANIMALS performance group, Laurel Atwell, Stephanie Gould and percussionist / choreographer Jason Bernard Lucas.  This program is opening night of a 5-night cinema-arts festival MONO NO AWARE XI and is…

 
7:30pm
Twyla Tharp captured in a pose

Twyla Tharp Dance at The Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater
The Joyce presents one of this century’s most acclaimed artists, Twyla Tharp, in a program focused on her early dances. In Minimalism and Me, Tharp recollects the creation of her seminal early works and their relationship to the minimalist period in visual art.   Curtain Chat: Thu, Nov 15 Family Matinee: Sat, Dec 1   *No performance Thu, Nov 22 (Thanksgiving) **The only Sunday evening…

 
Dance injury prevention workshop. Saturday, 1/24 2026 4pm-7pm

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