Listings and advertisements on Dance.NYC are all user-generated. The inclusion of content by any user does not constitute an endorsement by Dance/NYC of that individual or organization's views. To learn more about posting free listings and purchasing low-cost advertisements to reach Dance/NYC's audiences, visit Dance.NYC/place-free-listings-and-purchase-ads. Please write to info@dance.nyc if you have any questions or would like to flag a listing or advertisement.

<  

April 2025

  >
SMTWTFS
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930   

 

Find More Dance Events
 


< April 2025 >

View as: 1 Day | 3 Days | 5 Days

< >
Tue 1st
7:30pm
Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater
The world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater for its 99th season featuring 11 works across three programs titled Dances of the Mind, April 1-13, 2025. The Company will also present a special opening night gala performance on April 1, a family matinee, and its biennial University Partners Showcase featuring university and high school dancers from around the country. Two…

 
Wed 2nd
6:30pm
Carolyn Dorfman Dance will perform an excerpt from "The Attitude of Doing" at the Maplewood Country Club on April 2.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance To Host Benefit

Carolyn Dorfman Dance
Carolyn Dorfman Dance To Host REACH 2025 Benefit Fundraiser Featuring Dance FRIENDZY2! April 2 at Maplewood Country Club   UNION, NJ — An evening benefiting the arts education and community impact of  Carolyn Dorfman Dance will be held on Wednesday, April 2, at the Maplewood Country Club, 28 Baker Street, Maplewood. The event, billed as REACH “an evening of fundraising and recognition,”…

 
7:30pm
Ailey II 2025 Season Image. Photo by Nir Arieli.

Ailey II’s New York Season at The Ailey Citigroup Theater March 26 – April 6

Ailey II
Ailey II, the celebrated second company to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to The Ailey Citigroup Theater from March 26–April 6. Bringing their “off-the-charts-energy” (The New Yorker) to the stage, Ailey II presents two spectacular programs featuring a new work by Houston Thomas and returning favorites by Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Baye & Asa, and Ailey II Artistic Director Francesca…

 
7:30pm
Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater
The world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater for its 99th season featuring 11 works across three programs titled Dances of the Mind, April 1-13, 2025. The Company will also present a special opening night gala performance on April 1, a family matinee, and its biennial University Partners Showcase featuring university and high school dancers from around the country. Two…

 
Thu 3rd
7:30pm
María in a rehearsal at the Brooklyn Peace Center

Lxl Residency: María Paula Morera presents Swing de Amor

Little by little Brooklyn
A dance performance developed by María Paula Morera Núñez. This piece is an exploration of Swing Criollo, a Costa Rican dance style that emerged in the 1950s in the dance salons of the capital. Known for its brincadito (jumping step) to cumbia music, Swing Criollo was influenced by the big North American swing bands of the time. Swing de Amor is a love letter to childhood, a place, and a sense…

 
7:30pm
Ailey II 2025 Season Image. Photo by Nir Arieli.

Ailey II’s New York Season at The Ailey Citigroup Theater March 26 – April 6

Ailey II
Ailey II, the celebrated second company to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to The Ailey Citigroup Theater from March 26–April 6. Bringing their “off-the-charts-energy” (The New Yorker) to the stage, Ailey II presents two spectacular programs featuring a new work by Houston Thomas and returning favorites by Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Baye & Asa, and Ailey II Artistic Director Francesca…

 
7:30pm
Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater
The world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater for its 99th season featuring 11 works across three programs titled Dances of the Mind, April 1-13, 2025. The Company will also present a special opening night gala performance on April 1, a family matinee, and its biennial University Partners Showcase featuring university and high school dancers from around the country. Two…

 
Fri 4th
7:30pm
Ballet Hispánico’s Second Company BHDos to perform at ICONS Dance Festival

Ballet Hispánico’s Second Company BHDos to perform at ICONS Dance Festival

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Hispanic cultural organization, recognized by the Ford Foundation as one of America’s Cultural Treasures, announces BHDos, the ensemble’s Second Company, will perform as part of the ICONS Dance Festival on Friday, April 4 at 7:30pm and April 5 at 3:30pm & 7:30pm. Performances are at the Mark Morris Dance Center Theater, 3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY…

 
7:30pm
Ailey II 2025 Season Image. Photo by Nir Arieli.

Ailey II’s New York Season at The Ailey Citigroup Theater March 26 – April 6

Ailey II
Ailey II, the celebrated second company to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to The Ailey Citigroup Theater from March 26–April 6. Bringing their “off-the-charts-energy” (The New Yorker) to the stage, Ailey II presents two spectacular programs featuring a new work by Houston Thomas and returning favorites by Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Baye & Asa, and Ailey II Artistic Director Francesca…

 
7:30pm
Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater
The world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater for its 99th season featuring 11 works across three programs titled Dances of the Mind, April 1-13, 2025. The Company will also present a special opening night gala performance on April 1, a family matinee, and its biennial University Partners Showcase featuring university and high school dancers from around the country. Two…

 
8:00pm
Ther performance stage

Macbeth in Stride: A Musical by Whitney White

The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater
What’s the story that framed you before you were even you? Macbeth in Stride, by Obie Award-winning theater artist Whitney White, employs the musical styles of rock, pop, gospel, and R&B to investigate some of the most familiar narratives of Shakespeare’s “Scottish play.” The musical preserves the madness, mystery, and macabre while infusing its own twist of irony, indulgence, and introspection,…

 
8:00pm
A female Flamenco Dancer with a shawl in front of a brick wall

Fuerza Flamenca

Danza España
Danza España and Thalia Spanish Theatre present Fuerza Flamenca, a show that spotlights five of New York's most influential Flamenco dancers who have significantly shaped the city's Flamenco scene over the past 50 years. The show celebrates their contributions and delves into the emotional, mental and physical experiences of life's journey, through a powerful blend of live music, dance, poetry…

 
8:00pm
Dancer flying in the air

THEATER FOR THE NEW THEATER and Executive Director Crystal Field PRESENTS ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE: AN EVENING OF MODERN DANCE

Alison Cook Beatty Dance
PROGRAM A: Performance on April 4th at 8 PM -WORLD PREMIERE -“Bist du bei Mir, Through The Panes”    A short duet to Bach's Stolzel: Bist Du Bei Mir,    “If you are with me, I go with joy”    “And take me by the hand”    “With joy and happiness”    “To my death and to my rest”     Alison was inspired by the music, Love and Home. -Intermission - “Heroic Departure”  …

 
9:50pm
Male dancer supports female dancer

Stay

Ara Dance Project
Ara Dance Project will present Stay as part of the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival with FRIGID New York at wild project (195 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009). Stay is a showcase of contemporary dance from five NYC choreographers that invites us to linger in moments of delight, of meaning, of growth, even of difficulty—and to be transformed by them. This inspiring show will feature eight solo and…

 
Sat 5th
2:00pm
Ailey II 2025 Season Image. Photo by Nir Arieli.

Ailey II’s New York Season at The Ailey Citigroup Theater March 26 – April 6

Ailey II
Ailey II, the celebrated second company to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to The Ailey Citigroup Theater from March 26–April 6. Bringing their “off-the-charts-energy” (The New Yorker) to the stage, Ailey II presents two spectacular programs featuring a new work by Houston Thomas and returning favorites by Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Baye & Asa, and Ailey II Artistic Director Francesca…

 
2:00pm
Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater
The world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater for its 99th season featuring 11 works across three programs titled Dances of the Mind, April 1-13, 2025. The Company will also present a special opening night gala performance on April 1, a family matinee, and its biennial University Partners Showcase featuring university and high school dancers from around the country. Two…

 
3:30pm
Ballet Hispánico’s Second Company BHDos to perform at ICONS Dance Festival

Ballet Hispánico’s Second Company BHDos to perform at ICONS Dance Festival

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Hispanic cultural organization, recognized by the Ford Foundation as one of America’s Cultural Treasures, announces BHDos, the ensemble’s Second Company, will perform as part of the ICONS Dance Festival on Friday, April 4 at 7:30pm and April 5 at 3:30pm & 7:30pm. Performances are at the Mark Morris Dance Center Theater, 3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY…

 
6:30pm
Three dancers are bending backwards at different levels, creating the illusion of a flower blooming in a lavender field.

SMDT at Arts on Site

Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre
 Join Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, directed by Billy Blanken, for an evening of dance featuring live music by composer Dr. Nick Virzi and cellist Molly Aronson along with artwork by Lauren Woods.  SMDT at Arts on Site- Studio 3R 12 St. Markss PL New York, NY 10003 PERFORMANCES Sat, April 5th 6:30pm & 8:30pm Sun, April 6th 2:30pm & 4:30pm Featuring perfomances by Tanya Trombly, Alexandra Skibinski,…

 
7:30pm
Ballet Hispánico’s Second Company BHDos to perform at ICONS Dance Festival

Ballet Hispánico’s Second Company BHDos to perform at ICONS Dance Festival

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico, the nation’s largest Hispanic cultural organization, recognized by the Ford Foundation as one of America’s Cultural Treasures, announces BHDos, the ensemble’s Second Company, will perform as part of the ICONS Dance Festival on Friday, April 4 at 7:30pm and April 5 at 3:30pm & 7:30pm. Performances are at the Mark Morris Dance Center Theater, 3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY…

 
7:30pm
A female flamenco dancer passionately flicking her black skirt.

Tablao Flamenco at (Le) Poisson Rouge

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
In Andalucía the cool nights sizzle and crackle with energy from its famous tablaos. These café-style venues showcase flamenco at its most raw, creative, and authentic – where performers create by instinct and improvisation – showcase unbelievable technique – and create living art through the interplay between dancers, musicians, and audience. Now you can experience this type of Andalucían…

 
7:30pm
Ailey II 2025 Season Image. Photo by Nir Arieli.

Ailey II’s New York Season at The Ailey Citigroup Theater March 26 – April 6

Ailey II
Ailey II, the celebrated second company to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to The Ailey Citigroup Theater from March 26–April 6. Bringing their “off-the-charts-energy” (The New Yorker) to the stage, Ailey II presents two spectacular programs featuring a new work by Houston Thomas and returning favorites by Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, Baye & Asa, and Ailey II Artistic Director Francesca…

 
7:30pm
Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater

Martha Graham Dance Company presents NY Season at The Joyce Theater
The world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater for its 99th season featuring 11 works across three programs titled Dances of the Mind, April 1-13, 2025. The Company will also present a special opening night gala performance on April 1, a family matinee, and its biennial University Partners Showcase featuring university and high school dancers from around the country. Two…

 
8:00pm
Ther performance stage

Macbeth in Stride: A Musical by Whitney White

The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater
What’s the story that framed you before you were even you? Macbeth in Stride, by Obie Award-winning theater artist Whitney White, employs the musical styles of rock, pop, gospel, and R&B to investigate some of the most familiar narratives of Shakespeare’s “Scottish play.” The musical preserves the madness, mystery, and macabre while infusing its own twist of irony, indulgence, and introspection,…

 
8:00pm
A female Flamenco Dancer with a shawl in front of a brick wall

Fuerza Flamenca

Danza España
Danza España and Thalia Spanish Theatre present Fuerza Flamenca, a show that spotlights five of New York's most influential Flamenco dancers who have significantly shaped the city's Flamenco scene over the past 50 years. The show celebrates their contributions and delves into the emotional, mental and physical experiences of life's journey, through a powerful blend of live music, dance, poetry…

 
8:00pm
Dancer flying in the air

THEATER FOR THE NEW THEATER and Executive Director Crystal Field PRESENTS ALISON COOK BEATTY DANCE: AN EVENING OF MODERN DANCE

Alison Cook Beatty Dance
PROGRAM A: Performance on April 4th at 8 PM -WORLD PREMIERE -“Bist du bei Mir, Through The Panes”    A short duet to Bach's Stolzel: Bist Du Bei Mir,    “If you are with me, I go with joy”    “And take me by the hand”    “With joy and happiness”    “To my death and to my rest”     Alison was inspired by the music, Love and Home. -Intermission - “Heroic Departure”  …

 
8:30pm
Three dancers are bending backwards at different levels, creating the illusion of a flower blooming in a lavender field.

SMDT at Arts on Site

Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre
 Join Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, directed by Billy Blanken, for an evening of dance featuring live music by composer Dr. Nick Virzi and cellist Molly Aronson along with artwork by Lauren Woods.  SMDT at Arts on Site- Studio 3R 12 St. Markss PL New York, NY 10003 PERFORMANCES Sat, April 5th 6:30pm & 8:30pm Sun, April 6th 2:30pm & 4:30pm Featuring perfomances by Tanya Trombly, Alexandra Skibinski,…

 

Sign up for Dance/NYC News