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Tue 1st
6:00pm
Michelle Coffey, Kathy Halbreich, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

Rebel Angels

Danspace Project Gala 2018: Honoring Michelle Coffey, Kathy Halbreich, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Danspace Project honors Rebel Angels Michelle Coffey, Kathy Halbreich, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollara?? for their innovative leadership and far-reaching contributions to dance, art, and culture. Introductory Remarks Roberto Bedoya, Adrienne Edwards, Marguerite Hemmings, and Ralph Lemon Performances* (Performance-only tickets are available!) Art Baron and Friends – New Orleans Edition, Morgan Bassichis,…

 
7:00pm
7 women in moss green costumes holding bamboo sticks reaching towards with sky

Buglisi Dance Theatre opens 25th Anniversary Season

Buglisi Dance Theatre
Two performances only! Preview of Jacqulyn Buglisi's "Moss #5 Variation: Dialogues on What Makes Us Human" with commissioned music by Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal; revivals and BDT favorites including Bare to the Wall Suite with guest artists from the Martha Graham Dance Company; Ari Mayzick in Prelude, Virginie Mecene and Kevin Predmore in The Kiss, Guest Artist Blakeley White-McGuire,…

 
7:00pm
Requiem

Buglisi Dance Theatre

Buglisi Dance Theatre
The Buglisi Dance Theatre launches its 25th Anniversary season with performances May 1 & 2, including a preview of Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi's "Moss #5 Variation: Dialogues on what makes us Human."  The Company will be joined by guests Blakeley White-McGuire, former principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen and Lloyd Knight, current Graham company members.…

 
8:00pm
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Arch Ballet Spring Season

Arch Ballet
Arch Ballet's Spring Season 2018 Experience Arch Ballet's Spring Season with three evening performances Sunday, April 29 - Tuesday, May 1 at 8:00pm at the Davenport Theatre, New York City. Celebrate with Arch Ballet at our Benefactor Spring Soiree, post-performance Tuesday, May 1. "fabled haven for those bent on innovation" (The Inquirer)  "intriguing, mesmeric, and hard to stop watching...…

 
8:00pm
Photo by Francisco Amaral

Yumiko Yoshioka's "100 Light Years of Solitude"

Triskelion Arts
Yumiko Yoshioka, a guest curated event by Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute May 1, 2018 at 8pm Triskelion Arts’ Muriel Schulman Theater 106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 – Enter on Banker Street Tickets: $18 in advance | $22 at the door Purchase: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yumiko-yoshioka-guest-curated-event-by-vangeline-theaterny-butoh-institute-tickets-39531069493 Triskelion…

 
Wed 2nd
7:00pm
7 women in moss green costumes holding bamboo sticks reaching towards with sky

Buglisi Dance Theatre opens 25th Anniversary Season

Buglisi Dance Theatre
Two performances only! Preview of Jacqulyn Buglisi's "Moss #5 Variation: Dialogues on What Makes Us Human" with commissioned music by Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal; revivals and BDT favorites including Bare to the Wall Suite with guest artists from the Martha Graham Dance Company; Ari Mayzick in Prelude, Virginie Mecene and Kevin Predmore in The Kiss, Guest Artist Blakeley White-McGuire,…

 
7:00pm
Requiem

Buglisi Dance Theatre

Buglisi Dance Theatre
The Buglisi Dance Theatre launches its 25th Anniversary season with performances May 1 & 2, including a preview of Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi's "Moss #5 Variation: Dialogues on what makes us Human."  The Company will be joined by guests Blakeley White-McGuire, former principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen and Lloyd Knight, current Graham company members.…

 
7:30pm
The Dance Center Shows 2018

The Dance Center Shows 2018

Mark Morris Dance Group
The Mark Morris Dance Group will present a two week, ten performance engagement with two different programs in the intimate James and Martha Duffy Performance Space.  Lou 100: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Harrison Created in celebration of Lou Harrison's centennial, an evening of works all performed to the music of the late Lou Harrison, Morris' friend and collaborator and featuring the New…

 
8:00pm
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RIOULT DANCE NY
Experience three breathtaking works choreographed by Pascal Rioult featuring music by Russian composers throughout the centuries who have found their inspiration through dance. The engagement features the World Premiere of “Nostalghia" with an original score by wunderkind Polina Nazaykinskaya, performed live. Also on the program is "Dream Suite" (Tchaikovsky), Rioult’s contemporary take on…

 
Thu 3rd
7:00pm
The fist 4 events are part od Dancing While Black's 5th anniversary.

Boogie Dance Dance 2018

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
DWB FESTIVAL / DANCE FUTURES THURSDAY, MAY 3 | 7PM Featuring AATT Academy and MOVE(NYC). Celebrate the future of Black dance making with Bronx youth and families.The evening will also feature a post-performance conversation on dance training with Arthur Aviles and Chanel DaSilva. DWB FESTIVAL / LIVING OUR LEGACIES  FRIDAY, MAY 4 | 8PM Experience the work of three current Dancing While…

 
7:30pm
Buy Tickets

WRITTEN FOR DANCE

RIOULT DANCE NY
Experience three breathtaking works choreographed by Pascal Rioult featuring music by Russian composers throughout the centuries who have found their inspiration through dance. The engagement features the World Premiere of “Nostalghia" with an original score by wunderkind Polina Nazaykinskaya, performed live. Also on the program is "Dream Suite" (Tchaikovsky), Rioult’s contemporary take on…

 
7:30pm
Poster of Concert

Hunter Dance Company Presents: 2018 Spring Concert

Hunter College
Hunter College Dance Department Presents: The Hunter Dance Company 2018 Spring Concert The Hunter Dance Company 2018 Spring Concert features renowned choreography by Doug Varone and Vicky Shick, and original student choreography: Of the Earth Far Below by Doug Varone (partially funded by the Harkness Foundation for Dance) Some of Us by Vicky Shick Student choreography by Carissa Fodera, Shanik…

 
7:30pm
The Dance Center Shows 2018

The Dance Center Shows 2018

Mark Morris Dance Group
The Mark Morris Dance Group will present a two week, ten performance engagement with two different programs in the intimate James and Martha Duffy Performance Space.  Lou 100: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Harrison Created in celebration of Lou Harrison's centennial, an evening of works all performed to the music of the late Lou Harrison, Morris' friend and collaborator and featuring the New…

 
7:30pm
Four women embracing in a circle

ModArts Dance Collective (MADC) presents Aspire | Inspire, a dance concert

ModArts Dance Collective
ModArts Dance Collective (MADC) is proud to announce its NYC season on May 3-4, 2018 7:30 PM at Downtown Art - 70 East Fourth Street (elevator accessible), New York, NY 10003. MADC will be premiering two new works and performing three repertory pieces. The concert will be 65 minutes without an intermission. Tickets are $12 online and $15 payable cash or credit card (+ 2.75% processing fee) at the…

 
7:30pm
"Trashed" by Winifred Haun & Emma Serjeant

Winifred Haun & Dancers with BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance

Winifred Haun & Dancers
Chicago  -- Winifred Haun & Dancers will present their award winning work, Trashed, on May 3 & 4 at Hamlin Park Studio Theater.  Trashed is choreographed by Winifred Haun and renowned Australian Circus Art, Emma Serjeant.  The program will also include a performance by the critically acclaimed BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance of New York. Program details will be released in mid-March. Winifred…

 
8:00pm
Photo by Sam Polcer

Triskelion Arts Presents... Matthew Westerby Company

Triskelion Arts
Triskelion Arts Presents... Matthew Westerby Company May 3 - 5, 2018 at 8pm Triskelion Arts’ Muriel Schulman Theater 106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 – Enter on Banker Street Tickets: $18 in advance | $22 at the door Purchase: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/triskelion-arts-presents-matthew-westerby-company-tickets-39531160766 Westerby's latest work explores the contrast of the faces…

 
Fri 4th
7:30pm
Split-Bill: eSKay Arts Collective and Allison Brzezinski

First Friday Series at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning

eSKay Arts Collective and Allison Brzezinski
Get your feet on the floor! May First Friday showcases women choreographers’ new work!  The eSKay Arts Collective is a collaboration of artists who share resources to exploit their talents and support each other. Founded by Shannon Reynolds and Kelly Flansburg in 2016 they’ve already reached a high level of success performing around the U.S and other countries. Both Flansburg and Reynolds have…

 
7:30pm
Until Our Hearts Stop

UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods
“A Bauschian take on intimacy…. The performers gasp, pant and get squashed.  They pull their clothes on and off. The manic succession of intimacies – lick this, bite this – mocks the rigidly sequential choreography of porn...But it’s all done with a bouncy good cheer.” – the Guardian (U.K.) NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods’ Until Our Hearts Stop,…

 
7:30pm
Poster of Concert

Hunter Dance Company Presents: 2018 Spring Concert

Hunter College
Hunter College Dance Department Presents: The Hunter Dance Company 2018 Spring Concert The Hunter Dance Company 2018 Spring Concert features renowned choreography by Doug Varone and Vicky Shick, and original student choreography: Of the Earth Far Below by Doug Varone (partially funded by the Harkness Foundation for Dance) Some of Us by Vicky Shick Student choreography by Carissa Fodera, Shanik…

 
7:30pm
The Dance Center Shows 2018

The Dance Center Shows 2018

Mark Morris Dance Group
The Mark Morris Dance Group will present a two week, ten performance engagement with two different programs in the intimate James and Martha Duffy Performance Space.  Lou 100: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Harrison Created in celebration of Lou Harrison's centennial, an evening of works all performed to the music of the late Lou Harrison, Morris' friend and collaborator and featuring the New…

 
7:30pm
Four women embracing in a circle

ModArts Dance Collective (MADC) presents Aspire | Inspire, a dance concert

ModArts Dance Collective
ModArts Dance Collective (MADC) is proud to announce its NYC season on May 3-4, 2018 7:30 PM at Downtown Art - 70 East Fourth Street (elevator accessible), New York, NY 10003. MADC will be premiering two new works and performing three repertory pieces. The concert will be 65 minutes without an intermission. Tickets are $12 online and $15 payable cash or credit card (+ 2.75% processing fee) at the…

 
7:30pm
"Trashed" by Winifred Haun & Emma Serjeant

Winifred Haun & Dancers with BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance

Winifred Haun & Dancers
Chicago  -- Winifred Haun & Dancers will present their award winning work, Trashed, on May 3 & 4 at Hamlin Park Studio Theater.  Trashed is choreographed by Winifred Haun and renowned Australian Circus Art, Emma Serjeant.  The program will also include a performance by the critically acclaimed BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance of New York. Program details will be released in mid-March. Winifred…

 
7:30pm
Aunts is Dance

2017-2018 Dance Presentations

NYU Skirball
Highlights include: A FREE event opens the season: Aunts Dance Party transforms the Skirball’s lobby, dressing rooms and hallways into a giant dance club American premiere of Mette Ingvartsen’s 7 Pleasures explores the politics of nudity Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula questions the morality of war in the American premiere of In Search of Dinozord, set in a war-ravaged Republic of…

 
8:00pm
Self Love Kinda Thing

Self Love Kinda Thing

ChristinaNoel & The Creature
ChristinaNoel & The Creature presents  Self Love Kinda Thing Tickets: $18 Student/Artist $25 General Admission $40 VIP Reception @ 6:30pm Friday May 4 https://www.artful.ly/store/events/14882 For their sixth annual full-length performance, ChristinaNoel & The Creature presents Self Love Kinda Thing. This dance theater piece is the latest collaboration between ChristinaNoel Reaves, Aeric Meredith-Goujon,…

 
8:00pm
The fist 4 events are part od Dancing While Black's 5th anniversary.

Boogie Dance Dance 2018

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
DWB FESTIVAL / DANCE FUTURES THURSDAY, MAY 3 | 7PM Featuring AATT Academy and MOVE(NYC). Celebrate the future of Black dance making with Bronx youth and families.The evening will also feature a post-performance conversation on dance training with Arthur Aviles and Chanel DaSilva. DWB FESTIVAL / LIVING OUR LEGACIES  FRIDAY, MAY 4 | 8PM Experience the work of three current Dancing While…

 
8:00pm
Photo by Sam Polcer

Triskelion Arts Presents... Matthew Westerby Company

Triskelion Arts
Triskelion Arts Presents... Matthew Westerby Company May 3 - 5, 2018 at 8pm Triskelion Arts’ Muriel Schulman Theater 106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 – Enter on Banker Street Tickets: $18 in advance | $22 at the door Purchase: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/triskelion-arts-presents-matthew-westerby-company-tickets-39531160766 Westerby's latest work explores the contrast of the faces…

 
Sat 5th
6:00pm
"What Will You Do When You Feel Their Absence?"

What Will You Do When You Feel Their Absence?

Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble
Please join is at the beautiful Mark Morris Dance Center, diagonally across from the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, for this intimate performance by the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble that will include the New York City premiere of What Will You Do When You Feel Their Absence?  The performance is free and followed by a Meet-the-Artists reception. What Will You Do When You feel Their Absence?…

 
6:00pm
RASHAAD NEWSOME

LIVE FEED IN-PROCESS - FIVE

RASHAAD NEWSOME
Newsome’s FIVE explores Voguing, a competitive dance form created by a subculture of Black and Latino LGBTQ and GNC New Yorkers in the 1970’s. Accompanied by a makeshift orchestra, five dancers perform five individual elements of vogue fem.

 
6:30pm
The fist 4 events are part od Dancing While Black's 5th anniversary.

Boogie Dance Dance 2018

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
DWB FESTIVAL / DANCE FUTURES THURSDAY, MAY 3 | 7PM Featuring AATT Academy and MOVE(NYC). Celebrate the future of Black dance making with Bronx youth and families.The evening will also feature a post-performance conversation on dance training with Arthur Aviles and Chanel DaSilva. DWB FESTIVAL / LIVING OUR LEGACIES  FRIDAY, MAY 4 | 8PM Experience the work of three current Dancing While…

 
7:00pm
Show Logo

1.1.17

Linden Movement Lab
New company premieres politically charged evening-length work 1.1.17 Join this fierce cast of female dancers to process what is often challenging to consider alone: the current state of our nation. 1.1.17 is the physical manifestation of a shared imperative, an urgent physical and mental need to respond to what is happening around us. Based on research, articles, memes, comedians’ commentary and…

 
7:30pm
Until Our Hearts Stop

UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods
“A Bauschian take on intimacy…. The performers gasp, pant and get squashed.  They pull their clothes on and off. The manic succession of intimacies – lick this, bite this – mocks the rigidly sequential choreography of porn...But it’s all done with a bouncy good cheer.” – the Guardian (U.K.) NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods’ Until Our Hearts Stop,…

 
7:30pm
Poster of Concert

Hunter Dance Company Presents: 2018 Spring Concert

Hunter College
Hunter College Dance Department Presents: The Hunter Dance Company 2018 Spring Concert The Hunter Dance Company 2018 Spring Concert features renowned choreography by Doug Varone and Vicky Shick, and original student choreography: Of the Earth Far Below by Doug Varone (partially funded by the Harkness Foundation for Dance) Some of Us by Vicky Shick Student choreography by Carissa Fodera, Shanik…

 
7:30pm
The Dance Center Shows 2018

The Dance Center Shows 2018

Mark Morris Dance Group
The Mark Morris Dance Group will present a two week, ten performance engagement with two different programs in the intimate James and Martha Duffy Performance Space.  Lou 100: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Harrison Created in celebration of Lou Harrison's centennial, an evening of works all performed to the music of the late Lou Harrison, Morris' friend and collaborator and featuring the New…

 
7:30pm
Aunts is Dance

2017-2018 Dance Presentations

NYU Skirball
Highlights include: A FREE event opens the season: Aunts Dance Party transforms the Skirball’s lobby, dressing rooms and hallways into a giant dance club American premiere of Mette Ingvartsen’s 7 Pleasures explores the politics of nudity Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula questions the morality of war in the American premiere of In Search of Dinozord, set in a war-ravaged Republic of…

 
8:00pm
The fist 4 events are part od Dancing While Black's 5th anniversary.

Boogie Dance Dance 2018

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
DWB FESTIVAL / DANCE FUTURES THURSDAY, MAY 3 | 7PM Featuring AATT Academy and MOVE(NYC). Celebrate the future of Black dance making with Bronx youth and families.The evening will also feature a post-performance conversation on dance training with Arthur Aviles and Chanel DaSilva. DWB FESTIVAL / LIVING OUR LEGACIES  FRIDAY, MAY 4 | 8PM Experience the work of three current Dancing While…

 
8:00pm
Photo by Sam Polcer

Triskelion Arts Presents... Matthew Westerby Company

Triskelion Arts
Triskelion Arts Presents... Matthew Westerby Company May 3 - 5, 2018 at 8pm Triskelion Arts’ Muriel Schulman Theater 106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 – Enter on Banker Street Tickets: $18 in advance | $22 at the door Purchase: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/triskelion-arts-presents-matthew-westerby-company-tickets-39531160766 Westerby's latest work explores the contrast of the faces…

 
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