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Thu 1st
3:00pm

Teacher

Greenwich Dance Arts
Greenwich Dance Arts is looking for experienced teachers in dance, drama, cheer, double dutch & yoga for schools in Connecticut (Greenwich & Darien) & New York (Rye). The time range is 2:45pm-4:30pm & it pays $50 per hour. The days we are looking for teachers are Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays. You must create your own lesson plan, provide your own sound equipment, show up to locations on…

 
3:15pm

Teacher

Greenwich Dance Arts
Greenwich Dance Arts is looking for experienced teachers in dance, drama, cheer, double dutch & yoga for schools in Connecticut (Greenwich & Darien) & New York (Rye). The time range is 2:45pm-4:30pm & it pays $50 per hour. The days we are looking for teachers are Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays. You must create your own lesson plan, provide your own sound equipment, show up to locations on…

 
5:00pm
Photo from the performance

Migguel Anggelo's "English with an Accent" at Lincoln Center, Dec 1-3

Migguel Anggelo
MIGGUEL ANGGELO BRINGS ENGLISH WITH AN ACCENT TO LINCOLN CENTER’S CLARK STUDIO THEATER, DECEMBER 1-3 THE PRODUCTION COMBINES ORIGINAL MUSIC WITH DANCE AND THEATER; EXPLORES THE INTERSECTIONS OF HIS QUEER, LATINO AND IMMIGRANT IDENTITIES WATCH A PERFORMANCE TRAILER HERE ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME OUT ON DECEMBER 2; WATCH THE “SO IRONIC” MUSIC VIDEO HERE Migguel Anggelo is a Venezuelan-American…

 
6:30pm
Dardo Galletto me Agostina Mocibob dancing Tango

Open Tango Class

Dardo Galletto Studios
All Tango Classes are open to all levels. For a full list of classes visit: www.dardogallettostudios.com. Mon 630pm to 11pm Tue 630pm to 830pm Wed 530pm to 930pm Thu 530pm to 930pm Sun 1230pm to 530pm Professional dancers welcome! Prices online. www.dardogallettostudios.com Address: 151w 46th st 11th fl

 
7:00pm
John Kelly as queer artist Samuel Steward

Underneath the Skin

John Kelly
UNDERNEATH THE SKIN is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed carnal adventurer who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. A promising novelist and gifted scholar, Steward left the world of academia to reinvent himself as one of the 20th century’s most influential tattoo…

 
7:00pm
A white man with an army hat next to text that says "Afghanistan Is Not Funny"

Afghanistan Is Not Funny

SoHo Playhouse
Henry Naylor’s award-winning solo show, Afghanistan Is Not Funny, Off-Broadway comes to SoHo Playhouse. In 2002, UK comedian and 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First winner Henry Naylor (2018 Hollywood Fringe Best International nominee for “Echoes”) went to the Afghan Warzone with photographer Sam Maynard to conduct research for Naylor’s Edinburgh Fringe play “Finding Bin Laden.” They were…

 
7:00pm
John Kelly as Samuel Steward, a shirtless white man with colorful tattoos wearing a hat and smoking a cigarette.

Underneath the Skin

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Underneath the Skin is a dance-theater work by renowned performance artist John Kelly. This work for four performers is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed sexual adventurer, who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. This performance contains nudity, graphic images…

 
7:00pm
A Sherlock Carol

A Sherlock Carol

Emily McGill Entertainment
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.    When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge,…

 
7:00pm
Felice Lesser Dance Theater Trap Ist

Trap Ist

Felice Lesser Dance Theater
Felice Lesser’s new dance/drama/video/interactive technology work, Trap Ist will be premiered on December 1st at New York Live Arts in the Felice Lesser Dance Theater’s first season in New York City since 2017. This science fiction fantasy takes the audience on a journey in which we confront ageism, racism, the destruction of the environment, unwelcome immigrants, and what could happen if we don’t…

 
7:00pm
Alonso Guzman and Antonio Cangiano dancing Tango

Queer Tango Class In Times Square

Dardo & Alonso // Queer Tango Class
More info: ElToroMilonga.com Open Queer-friendly Tango Class In Times Square Studio. Everyone is welcome, dance professionals too. Taught by Dardo Galletto and Alonso Guzman in 151w 46th st 11th fl. Thursdays 7 o'clock $20/class.

 
7:30pm
Complexion's Dancer

Complexions Contemporary Ballet presents its 28th Season

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet returns celebrating its 28th Anniversary Season with two dynamic and inspiring programs. Under the direction of co-founding Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the company is “forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it has historically been” (The Guardian). Rhoden and Richardson have curated an eclectic offering featuring the…

 
7:30pm
American Dance Guild Festival

ADG Performance Festival - Return, Renew, Rejoice!

AMERICAN DANCE GUILD
THE AMERICAN DANCE GUILD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER The first LIVE ADG Performance Festival since the Covid Pandemic - Return, Renew, Rejoice! 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Choreographers Phyllis Lamhut and the late H.T. Chen. The 2022 Award for Distinguished Service to the Field to Christine Jowers, Creator of The Dance Enthusiast FEATURING 33 CONTEMPORARY…

 
8:00pm
A woman in a white blouse and red pants sits at a table leaning forward while gazing into her laptop screen, sitting profile.

2D + 3D = CommuniD

Ballaro Dance
Ballaro Dance presents "2D + 3D = CommuniD," an evening of dances created throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Developed non-traditionally, the Company used inventive virtual processes and outdoor explorations while in quarantine to find new approaches to  creativity, collaboration, and community. The unique hybrid concert format will bring 2D and 3D platforms - the virtual and live art-making worlds…

 
8:00pm
Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico, the nation's renowned Latinx dance organization recognized as one of America's Cultural Treasures, and the Kennedy Center, the National Cultural Center, announce the Washington, D.C. premiere of Doña Perón from November 30 - December 3, 2022, Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm. Tickets can be purchased online at kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/dance/2022-2023/ballet-hispanico,…

 
8:00pm
Bold text that reads "Julia Antinozzi, Jendaya Dash"

SPLIT BILL #38 featuring Jendaya Dash and Julia Antinozzi

Triskelion Arts
SPLIT BILL #38 featuring… Jendaya Dash Julia Antinozzi DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2022 8PM $20 in advance / $25 at the door Jendaya Dash For All That You Are For All That You Are is a multimedia performance collage that takes audiences on a patchy yet liberating journey of self-discovery and acceptance. This 20 minute one woman show explores the painful challenges of what it truly means to be vulnerable…

 
Fri 2nd
3:00pm
A spacious room with massage tables and hexagonally shaped windows. A group of people around massage tables watch a treatment.

Craniosacral Therapy: An Introductory Course

n/a
Craniosacral therapy is a non-invasive method of manual therapy. The therapist uses their hands with a very gentle touch to detect restrictions or blockages that may exist in a person's body. Through this conscious touch, the inherent mechanisms of self-healing that exist within each person's system are also activated. To enter into this field is to enter into contact a paradigm that believes…

 
3:15pm

Teacher

Greenwich Dance Arts
Greenwich Dance Arts is looking for experienced teachers in dance, drama, cheer, double dutch & yoga for schools in Connecticut (Greenwich & Darien) & New York (Rye). The time range is 2:45pm-4:30pm & it pays $50 per hour. The days we are looking for teachers are Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays. You must create your own lesson plan, provide your own sound equipment, show up to locations on…

 
5:00pm
Photo from the performance

Migguel Anggelo's "English with an Accent" at Lincoln Center, Dec 1-3

Migguel Anggelo
MIGGUEL ANGGELO BRINGS ENGLISH WITH AN ACCENT TO LINCOLN CENTER’S CLARK STUDIO THEATER, DECEMBER 1-3 THE PRODUCTION COMBINES ORIGINAL MUSIC WITH DANCE AND THEATER; EXPLORES THE INTERSECTIONS OF HIS QUEER, LATINO AND IMMIGRANT IDENTITIES WATCH A PERFORMANCE TRAILER HERE ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME OUT ON DECEMBER 2; WATCH THE “SO IRONIC” MUSIC VIDEO HERE Migguel Anggelo is a Venezuelan-American…

 
6:00pm
Odissi Dance classes

Learn Indian Temple dance Odissi

Usha Dance
Want to learn how to move like the sculptures on the walls of Indian temples? Join Radhika Jha, a performer and teacher who will offer classes in a unique movement style taught to her by the late Guru Surendranath Jena, at the Consulate General of India, E64th Street, New York from 6-7.30 pm every Friday. Inspired by the sculptures in the temples of Orissa and his own knowledge of tantric practices…

 
6:30pm

SYREN Modern Dance: Split Bill with kamrDANCE

SYREN Modern Dance
SYREN Modern Dance, New York City based company co-founded by Lynn Peterson and Kate Sutter, will share a split bill with kamrDANCE on December 2, 2022 at 6:30pm & 8:30pm at Arts on Site, Studio 3R, 12 St. Mark's Place, NYC. Tickets are $30 general admission. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit syrendance.org/calendar.   This performance is part of SYREN's 20th Anniversary…

 
6:30pm
Hand Percussionist and Dancer in Red Dress

Urban Jeli, Traditional Priests Rooted in American Places

VashtiDance Theater
Urban Jeli, Traditional Priests Rooted in American Places, is an interdisciplinary performance incorporating music, dance, and film in an exploration of African retentions and continuances in African American cultural traditions of dance and music from the perspectives of jeli or griots as living storytellers and the embodied spirituality of priests of traditional religions. The performance features…

 
7:00pm
arm reaches up into the air and catches the light

Nervous System Reset

Somalove Therapy
This class will guide you through movement awareness practices that assist you in rebalancing your nervous system. You will learn somatic grounding techniques and explore inner sensation through gentle movement. Prepare yourself to be ushered into deep states of relaxation and emerge feeling rejuvenated. No experience is necessary!  Teaching Artist: Lillian Stamey As a Somatic Movement facilitator,…

 
7:00pm
John Kelly as queer artist Samuel Steward

Underneath the Skin

John Kelly
UNDERNEATH THE SKIN is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed carnal adventurer who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. A promising novelist and gifted scholar, Steward left the world of academia to reinvent himself as one of the 20th century’s most influential tattoo…

 
7:00pm
A white man with an army hat next to text that says "Afghanistan Is Not Funny"

Afghanistan Is Not Funny

SoHo Playhouse
Henry Naylor’s award-winning solo show, Afghanistan Is Not Funny, Off-Broadway comes to SoHo Playhouse. In 2002, UK comedian and 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First winner Henry Naylor (2018 Hollywood Fringe Best International nominee for “Echoes”) went to the Afghan Warzone with photographer Sam Maynard to conduct research for Naylor’s Edinburgh Fringe play “Finding Bin Laden.” They were…

 
7:00pm
John Kelly as Samuel Steward, a shirtless white man with colorful tattoos wearing a hat and smoking a cigarette.

Underneath the Skin

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Underneath the Skin is a dance-theater work by renowned performance artist John Kelly. This work for four performers is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed sexual adventurer, who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. This performance contains nudity, graphic images…

 
7:00pm
Felice Lesser Dance Theater Trap Ist

Trap Ist

Felice Lesser Dance Theater
Felice Lesser’s new dance/drama/video/interactive technology work, Trap Ist will be premiered on December 1st at New York Live Arts in the Felice Lesser Dance Theater’s first season in New York City since 2017. This science fiction fantasy takes the audience on a journey in which we confront ageism, racism, the destruction of the environment, unwelcome immigrants, and what could happen if we don’t…

 
7:30pm
A dancer with hands on a steel I beam

Failing Forward, Again

STREB EXTREME ACTION
STREB EXTREME ACTION brings its thrilling feats of physicality, grace, strength, and risk back to SLAM! This fall’s performances, FAILING FORWARD AGAIN, will showcase new action, new stunts, and new ideas, along with some familiar favorites. FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN investigates Elizabeth Streb’s philosophy that failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and…

 
7:30pm
People's Choice Concert December 2nd and 3rd 7:30pm

People's Choice Concert

Spoke the Hub Dancing Inc
Director's Choice Concert Featuring New Dance by 32nd Pack Dance Company Friday and Saturday, December 2nd and 3rd: 7:30pm Gowanus Arts Annex: 298 Butler St. Brooklyn More info: www.spokethehub.org  718-408-3234

 
8:00pm
A woman in a white blouse and red pants sits at a table leaning forward while gazing into her laptop screen, sitting profile.

2D + 3D = CommuniD

Ballaro Dance
Ballaro Dance presents "2D + 3D = CommuniD," an evening of dances created throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Developed non-traditionally, the Company used inventive virtual processes and outdoor explorations while in quarantine to find new approaches to  creativity, collaboration, and community. The unique hybrid concert format will bring 2D and 3D platforms - the virtual and live art-making worlds…

 
8:00pm
A Sherlock Carol

A Sherlock Carol

Emily McGill Entertainment
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.    When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge,…

 
8:00pm
Complexion's Dancer

Complexions Contemporary Ballet presents its 28th Season

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet returns celebrating its 28th Anniversary Season with two dynamic and inspiring programs. Under the direction of co-founding Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the company is “forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it has historically been” (The Guardian). Rhoden and Richardson have curated an eclectic offering featuring the…

 
8:00pm
dancer jumping in front of black background

Princeton Dance Festival, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts

Lewis Center for the Arts
The 2022 Princeton Dance Festival will feature new and repertory works by Ronald K. Brown, Davalois Fearon, Sun Kim, Michael J. Love, Susan Marshall, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, and Caili Quan, performed by students in the Program in Dance at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The range of works includes rhythm tap, contemporary ballet, popping/hip-hop, modern influenced by African…

 
8:00pm
Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico, the nation's renowned Latinx dance organization recognized as one of America's Cultural Treasures, and the Kennedy Center, the National Cultural Center, announce the Washington, D.C. premiere of Doña Perón from November 30 - December 3, 2022, Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm. Tickets can be purchased online at kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/dance/2022-2023/ballet-hispanico,…

 
8:00pm
American Dance Guild Festival

ADG Performance Festival - Return, Renew, Rejoice!

AMERICAN DANCE GUILD
THE AMERICAN DANCE GUILD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER The first LIVE ADG Performance Festival since the Covid Pandemic - Return, Renew, Rejoice! 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Choreographers Phyllis Lamhut and the late H.T. Chen. The 2022 Award for Distinguished Service to the Field to Christine Jowers, Creator of The Dance Enthusiast FEATURING 33 CONTEMPORARY…

 
8:00pm
Film Festival - Tap Treasures

FIRST FRIDAY FILM FESTIVAL

American Tap Dance Foundation
The third installment of the American Tap Dance Foundation's First Friday Film Festival will be in-studio and livestreamed at 8pm on Dec. 2. Tap dance productions from the past will be revisited, direct from the ATDF archives. On Friday, Dec. 2,  the Festival will present Tap Treasures, first presented at The Duke On 42nd Street during Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival on July…

 
8:00pm
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s New York City Center Season November 30 – December 24, 2022

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, beloved as one of the world’s most popular dance companies, returns to New York City Center November 30 – December 24, 2022, for a season that has become a joyous winter tradition. Led by Artistic Director Robert Battle, Ailey’s extraordinary dancers will move audiences with world and company premieres by Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts, Paul Taylor, and Twyla…

 
8:00pm
Bold text that reads "Julia Antinozzi, Jendaya Dash"

SPLIT BILL #38 featuring Jendaya Dash and Julia Antinozzi

Triskelion Arts
SPLIT BILL #38 featuring… Jendaya Dash Julia Antinozzi DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2022 8PM $20 in advance / $25 at the door Jendaya Dash For All That You Are For All That You Are is a multimedia performance collage that takes audiences on a patchy yet liberating journey of self-discovery and acceptance. This 20 minute one woman show explores the painful challenges of what it truly means to be vulnerable…

 
8:00pm
Embroidery Digitizing

Embroidery Digitizing Service

Absolute Digitizing
Absolute Digitizing offers excellent quality embroidery digitizing service and vector conversion at rock bottom prices. We have an amazing team of talented digitizers and vector artists who only know to produce the best quality. Order now and get your complete files ready for production in less than one day.

 
8:00pm
Russian Masters Ballet Intensive official course of Vaganova Academy

RUSSIAN MASTERS BALLET CAMP - official course of Vaganova Academy

Russian Masters Ballet
Official Course of Vaganova Academy Intensive training in classical dance based on the original didactics of the Vaganova school of Saint Petersburg. The course offers a comprehensive curriculum developed by the most emblematic representatives of the best institution in the field of professional ballet.

 
8:30pm

SYREN Modern Dance: Split Bill with kamrDANCE

SYREN Modern Dance
SYREN Modern Dance, New York City based company co-founded by Lynn Peterson and Kate Sutter, will share a split bill with kamrDANCE on December 2, 2022 at 6:30pm & 8:30pm at Arts on Site, Studio 3R, 12 St. Mark's Place, NYC. Tickets are $30 general admission. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit syrendance.org/calendar.   This performance is part of SYREN's 20th Anniversary…

 
Sat 3rd
10:00am
Sofia is seen teaching an outdoor seated dance class to wheelchair users.

Adaptive Dance-style Fitness Classes

The Dancer Movement Corp
This 8 week series (10/29-12/17) is an adaptive fitness course designed for people with disabilities and chronic illness. Classes will be held every Saturday via Zoom at 10am EST. Modifications will be provided in class but a FREE one-on-one consultation is also included in the purchase of the 8 week pack. Classes will be an hour long mixture of strengthening, stretching, and dance-style fitness and…

 
11:00am
Click Clack Moo

NY Times Bestselling Children’s Classic Click Clack Moo Live On Stage at Tribeca PAC

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
(New York, NY) November 3, 2022 – BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the longest operating performance venue in lower Manhattan, proudly presents the next event in the 2022-2023 Family Series Season: Click Clack Moo on Saturday, December 3rd at 11:00AM. Cows that type? Hens on strike! Whoever heard of such a thing!" The cows go on strike and the chickens join them in solidarity. No blankets? No…

 
11:30am
Dancers watching another dancer move

Pedagogy: Reinventing Your Practice

Alexandra Beller/Dances
Pedagogy: Reinventing Your Practice  5 Saturdays @ The Floor 11:30 AM-5:30 PM NOVEMBER 12 DECEMBER 10 JANUARY 14 FEBURARY 11 MARCH 11   About this Course This course is intended for moderately to deeply experienced teachers who want to understand how to efficiently structure their material to work remotely, and who want to interrupt their habits and deepen their practices in the virtual or actual…

 
12:00pm
A spacious room with massage tables and hexagonally shaped windows. A group of people around massage tables watch a treatment.

Craniosacral Therapy: An Introductory Course

n/a
Craniosacral therapy is a non-invasive method of manual therapy. The therapist uses their hands with a very gentle touch to detect restrictions or blockages that may exist in a person's body. Through this conscious touch, the inherent mechanisms of self-healing that exist within each person's system are also activated. To enter into this field is to enter into contact a paradigm that believes…

 
12:00pm
Native American Social

Native American Social

Flushing Town Hall
Join us at Flushing Town Hall on December 3rd as we host the annual Native American Social in collaboration with NativeTec, Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc., and Niamuck Land Trust. This special event will feature artwork, dancing, drumming & singing, shared stories and community building over refreshments.  This year's Native American Social will feature the artwork of the following…

 
2:00pm
A Sherlock Carol

A Sherlock Carol

Emily McGill Entertainment
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.    When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge,…

 
2:00pm
Complexion's Dancer

Complexions Contemporary Ballet presents its 28th Season

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet returns celebrating its 28th Anniversary Season with two dynamic and inspiring programs. Under the direction of co-founding Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the company is “forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it has historically been” (The Guardian). Rhoden and Richardson have curated an eclectic offering featuring the…

 
2:00pm
Felice Lesser Dance Theater Trap Ist

Trap Ist

Felice Lesser Dance Theater
Felice Lesser’s new dance/drama/video/interactive technology work, Trap Ist will be premiered on December 1st at New York Live Arts in the Felice Lesser Dance Theater’s first season in New York City since 2017. This science fiction fantasy takes the audience on a journey in which we confront ageism, racism, the destruction of the environment, unwelcome immigrants, and what could happen if we don’t…

 
2:00pm
dancer jumping in front of black background

Princeton Dance Festival, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts

Lewis Center for the Arts
The 2022 Princeton Dance Festival will feature new and repertory works by Ronald K. Brown, Davalois Fearon, Sun Kim, Michael J. Love, Susan Marshall, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, and Caili Quan, performed by students in the Program in Dance at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The range of works includes rhythm tap, contemporary ballet, popping/hip-hop, modern influenced by African…

 
2:00pm
Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico, the nation's renowned Latinx dance organization recognized as one of America's Cultural Treasures, and the Kennedy Center, the National Cultural Center, announce the Washington, D.C. premiere of Doña Perón from November 30 - December 3, 2022, Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm. Tickets can be purchased online at kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/dance/2022-2023/ballet-hispanico,…

 
2:00pm
Photo of Ana Duncan on the beach

Isadora Duncan Technique Class

The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
Open level Isadora Duncan Technique class taught by rotating teachers and Company Members with Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company. Learn the joyous, expression of Isadora Duncan - musical, athletic, and emotive!   All classes are Hybrid - ZOOM & in-person options Wednesday 10AM - 11:30AM Thursday 10AM - 12PM Saturday 2PM - 3:30PM

 
2:15pm
Becky Brown teaching in the Ailey studios with students reaching arms out to the side

Contemporary Limon Class

Becky Brown Dance
In-Studio Limon Class with Becky Brown at the Ailey Extension. 75-min in person-only class offers weight-based Technique Exercises moving with breath and swinging momentum, building to Traveling & Movement Phrases. All are welcome. Let's move together again! 

 
5:00pm
A dancer with hands on a steel I beam

Failing Forward, Again

STREB EXTREME ACTION
STREB EXTREME ACTION brings its thrilling feats of physicality, grace, strength, and risk back to SLAM! This fall’s performances, FAILING FORWARD AGAIN, will showcase new action, new stunts, and new ideas, along with some familiar favorites. FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN investigates Elizabeth Streb’s philosophy that failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and…

 
5:00pm
A white man with an army hat next to text that says "Afghanistan Is Not Funny"

Afghanistan Is Not Funny

SoHo Playhouse
Henry Naylor’s award-winning solo show, Afghanistan Is Not Funny, Off-Broadway comes to SoHo Playhouse. In 2002, UK comedian and 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First winner Henry Naylor (2018 Hollywood Fringe Best International nominee for “Echoes”) went to the Afghan Warzone with photographer Sam Maynard to conduct research for Naylor’s Edinburgh Fringe play “Finding Bin Laden.” They were…

 
5:00pm
Photo from the performance

Migguel Anggelo's "English with an Accent" at Lincoln Center, Dec 1-3

Migguel Anggelo
MIGGUEL ANGGELO BRINGS ENGLISH WITH AN ACCENT TO LINCOLN CENTER’S CLARK STUDIO THEATER, DECEMBER 1-3 THE PRODUCTION COMBINES ORIGINAL MUSIC WITH DANCE AND THEATER; EXPLORES THE INTERSECTIONS OF HIS QUEER, LATINO AND IMMIGRANT IDENTITIES WATCH A PERFORMANCE TRAILER HERE ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME OUT ON DECEMBER 2; WATCH THE “SO IRONIC” MUSIC VIDEO HERE Migguel Anggelo is a Venezuelan-American…

 
6:00pm
Hand Percussionist and Dancer in Red Dress

Urban Jeli, Traditional Priests Rooted in American Places

VashtiDance Theater
Urban Jeli, Traditional Priests Rooted in American Places, is an interdisciplinary performance incorporating music, dance, and film in an exploration of African retentions and continuances in African American cultural traditions of dance and music from the perspectives of jeli or griots as living storytellers and the embodied spirituality of priests of traditional religions. The performance features…

 
7:00pm
John Kelly as queer artist Samuel Steward

Underneath the Skin

John Kelly
UNDERNEATH THE SKIN is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed carnal adventurer who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. A promising novelist and gifted scholar, Steward left the world of academia to reinvent himself as one of the 20th century’s most influential tattoo…

 
7:00pm
John Kelly as Samuel Steward, a shirtless white man with colorful tattoos wearing a hat and smoking a cigarette.

Underneath the Skin

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Underneath the Skin is a dance-theater work by renowned performance artist John Kelly. This work for four performers is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed sexual adventurer, who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. This performance contains nudity, graphic images…

 
7:00pm
Felice Lesser Dance Theater Trap Ist

Trap Ist

Felice Lesser Dance Theater
Felice Lesser’s new dance/drama/video/interactive technology work, Trap Ist will be premiered on December 1st at New York Live Arts in the Felice Lesser Dance Theater’s first season in New York City since 2017. This science fiction fantasy takes the audience on a journey in which we confront ageism, racism, the destruction of the environment, unwelcome immigrants, and what could happen if we don’t…

 
7:00pm
Dancer of the Ajkun Ballet Theatre

The Nutcracker

Ajkun Ballet Theatre
Multi-award choreographer Chiara Ajkun’s rendition of Tchaikovsky’s ballet performed by the dancers of the Ajkun Ballet Theatre. Enjoy complimentary photos and a post-performance chat with the artists and Seating close to the dancing. The Holiday season in NYC is always perfect with a family outing for The Nutcracker. Great for creating memories, the story of sweet little Clara, her toymaker…

 
7:00pm

CASTING DANCERS FOR NYC + NJ HIGH-END EVENTS

Total Entertainment
TITLE: CASTING DANCERS FOR NYC + NJ HIGH-END EVENTS     STARTING PAY IS $300 PER EVENT + TIPS   Casting attractive and outgoing Dancers for events.   Talent will act as interactive, motivational dancers at various high-end social and corporate events.   Seeking: exceptionally good looking, striking, very outgoing, high energy; must be a model/cheerleader/club goer type; great looks energy…

 
7:30pm
People's Choice Concert December 2nd and 3rd 7:30pm

People's Choice Concert

Spoke the Hub Dancing Inc
Director's Choice Concert Featuring New Dance by 32nd Pack Dance Company Friday and Saturday, December 2nd and 3rd: 7:30pm Gowanus Arts Annex: 298 Butler St. Brooklyn More info: www.spokethehub.org  718-408-3234

 
8:00pm
Ailey Citigroup Theater

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre to be featured in American Dance Guild Performance Festival: Return, Renew, Rejoice!

Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre will be featured in the American Dance Guild Performance Festival: Return, Renew, Rejoice!, on Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 8 pm at Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th St., NYC. The ADG Festival's participating artists represent a wide variety or aesthetic and cultural voices, reflecting the broad spectrum of American dance life and the diverse character of dance…

 
8:00pm

Winter Salon Performance

Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company
Join Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company as they present their intimate Winter Salon featuring exciting repertory favorites, live accompaniment by pianist Lauren Aloia, and opening remarks from Art Historian, Writer, Editor and IDDF Board of Trustees Member Bettina Funcke (Saturday) and Dance Writer, Journalist, Critic Tom Phillips (Sunday). In-person and Virtual tickets available. Company…

 
8:00pm
A woman in a white blouse and red pants sits at a table leaning forward while gazing into her laptop screen, sitting profile.

2D + 3D = CommuniD

Ballaro Dance
Ballaro Dance presents "2D + 3D = CommuniD," an evening of dances created throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Developed non-traditionally, the Company used inventive virtual processes and outdoor explorations while in quarantine to find new approaches to  creativity, collaboration, and community. The unique hybrid concert format will bring 2D and 3D platforms - the virtual and live art-making worlds…

 
8:00pm
A Sherlock Carol

A Sherlock Carol

Emily McGill Entertainment
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.    When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge,…

 
8:00pm
Complexion's Dancer

Complexions Contemporary Ballet presents its 28th Season

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet returns celebrating its 28th Anniversary Season with two dynamic and inspiring programs. Under the direction of co-founding Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the company is “forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it has historically been” (The Guardian). Rhoden and Richardson have curated an eclectic offering featuring the…

 
8:00pm
dancer jumping in front of black background

Princeton Dance Festival, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts

Lewis Center for the Arts
The 2022 Princeton Dance Festival will feature new and repertory works by Ronald K. Brown, Davalois Fearon, Sun Kim, Michael J. Love, Susan Marshall, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, and Caili Quan, performed by students in the Program in Dance at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The range of works includes rhythm tap, contemporary ballet, popping/hip-hop, modern influenced by African…

 
8:00pm
Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico and the Kennedy Center announce the Washington, D.C. Premiere of Doña Perón

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico, the nation's renowned Latinx dance organization recognized as one of America's Cultural Treasures, and the Kennedy Center, the National Cultural Center, announce the Washington, D.C. premiere of Doña Perón from November 30 - December 3, 2022, Wed - Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm. Tickets can be purchased online at kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/dance/2022-2023/ballet-hispanico,…

 
8:00pm
American Dance Guild Festival

ADG Performance Festival - Return, Renew, Rejoice!

AMERICAN DANCE GUILD
THE AMERICAN DANCE GUILD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER The first LIVE ADG Performance Festival since the Covid Pandemic - Return, Renew, Rejoice! 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Choreographers Phyllis Lamhut and the late H.T. Chen. The 2022 Award for Distinguished Service to the Field to Christine Jowers, Creator of The Dance Enthusiast FEATURING 33 CONTEMPORARY…

 
Sun 4th
12:30pm
Dardo Galletto me Agostina Mocibob dancing Tango

Open Tango Class

Dardo Galletto Studios
All Tango Classes are open to all levels. For a full list of classes visit: www.dardogallettostudios.com. Mon 630pm to 11pm Tue 630pm to 830pm Wed 530pm to 930pm Thu 530pm to 930pm Sun 1230pm to 530pm Professional dancers welcome! Prices online. www.dardogallettostudios.com Address: 151w 46th st 11th fl

 
2:00pm
John Kelly as queer artist Samuel Steward

Underneath the Skin

John Kelly
UNDERNEATH THE SKIN is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed carnal adventurer who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. A promising novelist and gifted scholar, Steward left the world of academia to reinvent himself as one of the 20th century’s most influential tattoo…

 
2:00pm
A Dancer's Christmas Flyer

Chevalier Ballet Presents Production of "A Dancer's Christmas"

Chevalier Ballet Company NYC
“A Dancer’s Christmas” Manhattan Movement and Arts Center Chevalier Ballet Company presents a showcase of dances from A Dancer’s Christmas, a 35 year Boston Holiday Tradition, created by choreographer Robert Vereecke. Chevalier Ballet is under the direction of Sara Knight/ Guest artists, Maresa D’Amore Morrison and Michelle Principi will also perform, as will a children’s cast. In its…

 
2:00pm
John Kelly as Samuel Steward, a shirtless white man with colorful tattoos wearing a hat and smoking a cigarette.

Underneath the Skin

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Underneath the Skin is a dance-theater work by renowned performance artist John Kelly. This work for four performers is based on the fantastical life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist, tattoo artist, author of erotic fiction, and unabashed sexual adventurer, who lived a bold life pursuing his physical and erotic desires through his art. This performance contains nudity, graphic images…

 
2:00pm
A Sherlock Carol

A Sherlock Carol

Emily McGill Entertainment
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.    When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge,…

 
2:00pm
Complexion's Dancer

Complexions Contemporary Ballet presents its 28th Season

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet returns celebrating its 28th Anniversary Season with two dynamic and inspiring programs. Under the direction of co-founding Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the company is “forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it has historically been” (The Guardian). Rhoden and Richardson have curated an eclectic offering featuring the…

 
2:00pm
dancer jumping in front of black background

Princeton Dance Festival, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts

Lewis Center for the Arts
The 2022 Princeton Dance Festival will feature new and repertory works by Ronald K. Brown, Davalois Fearon, Sun Kim, Michael J. Love, Susan Marshall, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Riener, and Caili Quan, performed by students in the Program in Dance at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The range of works includes rhythm tap, contemporary ballet, popping/hip-hop, modern influenced by African…

 
3:00pm
A dancer with hands on a steel I beam

Failing Forward, Again

STREB EXTREME ACTION
STREB EXTREME ACTION brings its thrilling feats of physicality, grace, strength, and risk back to SLAM! This fall’s performances, FAILING FORWARD AGAIN, will showcase new action, new stunts, and new ideas, along with some familiar favorites. FAILING FORWARD, AGAIN investigates Elizabeth Streb’s philosophy that failure is an integral part of the creative process, making space for discovery and…

 
3:00pm

Winter Salon Performance

Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company
Join Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company as they present their intimate Winter Salon featuring exciting repertory favorites, live accompaniment by pianist Lauren Aloia, and opening remarks from Art Historian, Writer, Editor and IDDF Board of Trustees Member Bettina Funcke (Saturday) and Dance Writer, Journalist, Critic Tom Phillips (Sunday). In-person and Virtual tickets available. Company…

 
3:00pm
A spacious room with massage tables and hexagonally shaped windows. A group of people around massage tables watch a treatment.

Craniosacral Therapy: An Introductory Course

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Craniosacral therapy is a non-invasive method of manual therapy. The therapist uses their hands with a very gentle touch to detect restrictions or blockages that may exist in a person's body. Through this conscious touch, the inherent mechanisms of self-healing that exist within each person's system are also activated. To enter into this field is to enter into contact a paradigm that believes…

 
5:00pm
Alessandra Belloni

Tarantata

I Giullari di Piazza
Grab your dancing shoes and join Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari di Piazza (The Jesters of the Square) for a merry performance of "Tarantata," an impeccably researched production of songs, tarantellas, and magic rituals used to cure the mythical bite of the tarantula, performed with authentic costumes and instruments.  The event is also to honor actor Armand Assante, actress Eleonora Pieroni, and…

 
6:00pm
Cathy Weis and Emily Climer

Sundays on Broadway

Sundays on Broadway
Cathy Weis Projects will present two Sundays on Broadway events in December. The evenings will feature new and in-progress works by choreographers Scott Heron, Daniel Lepkoff and Sakura Shimada, Jodi Melnick with Maya Lee-Parritz, Anat Shamgar, and Cathy Weis.  Choreographer and video artist Cathy Weis launched Sundays on Broadway in May 2014. This one-of-a-kind series of performances,…

 
7:00pm
A white man with an army hat next to text that says "Afghanistan Is Not Funny"

Afghanistan Is Not Funny

SoHo Playhouse
Henry Naylor’s award-winning solo show, Afghanistan Is Not Funny, Off-Broadway comes to SoHo Playhouse. In 2002, UK comedian and 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First winner Henry Naylor (2018 Hollywood Fringe Best International nominee for “Echoes”) went to the Afghan Warzone with photographer Sam Maynard to conduct research for Naylor’s Edinburgh Fringe play “Finding Bin Laden.” They were…

 
7:00pm
A Sherlock Carol

A Sherlock Carol

Emily McGill Entertainment
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.    When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge,…

 
7:00pm
Dancer of the Ajkun Ballet Theatre

The Nutcracker

Ajkun Ballet Theatre
Multi-award choreographer Chiara Ajkun’s rendition of Tchaikovsky’s ballet performed by the dancers of the Ajkun Ballet Theatre. Enjoy complimentary photos and a post-performance chat with the artists and Seating close to the dancing. The Holiday season in NYC is always perfect with a family outing for The Nutcracker. Great for creating memories, the story of sweet little Clara, her toymaker…

 
7:00pm
American Dance Guild Festival

ADG Performance Festival - Return, Renew, Rejoice!

AMERICAN DANCE GUILD
THE AMERICAN DANCE GUILD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER The first LIVE ADG Performance Festival since the Covid Pandemic - Return, Renew, Rejoice! 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Choreographers Phyllis Lamhut and the late H.T. Chen. The 2022 Award for Distinguished Service to the Field to Christine Jowers, Creator of The Dance Enthusiast FEATURING 33 CONTEMPORARY…

 
7:30pm
Works & Process 2022 Rotunda Holiday Concert

Works & Process 2022 Rotunda Holiday Concert

Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Celebrate the season with festive music. The seventeen-piece Eyal Vilner Big Band will perform as part of this beloved annual tradition, filling the museum’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda with joyous sound. In conjunction with Guggenheim Member Mondays, on December 5 the dancers of Jazz as Movement will perform, teach a Lindy Hop lesson, and all are invited to hit the dance floor…

 
Mon 5th
10:00am
Ballet Hispánico Hosts NYC Arts in Education Roundtable: A Dialogue with Paul Thompson

Ballet Hispánico Hosts NYC Arts in Education Roundtable: A Dialogue with Paul Thompson

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico will host an NYC Arts in Education Roundtable with Paul Thompson, Executive Director of the NYC DOE's Office of Arts and Special Projects (OASP), on December 5, 2022 at 10 a.m. at 167 W. 89th Street, NYC. The conversation, moderated by Roundtable Board Co-Chair Gary Padmore, will touch on the history of OASP and how it influences Paul's vision for its future. The discussion…

 
3:20pm

Teacher

Greenwich Dance Arts
Greenwich Dance Arts is looking for experienced teachers in dance, drama, cheer, double dutch & yoga for schools in Connecticut (Greenwich & Darien) & New York (Rye). The time range is 2:45pm-4:30pm & it pays $50 per hour. The days we are looking for teachers are Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays. You must create your own lesson plan, provide your own sound equipment, show up to locations on…

 
6:30pm
Dardo Galletto me Agostina Mocibob dancing Tango

Open Tango Class

Dardo Galletto Studios
All Tango Classes are open to all levels. For a full list of classes visit: www.dardogallettostudios.com. Mon 630pm to 11pm Tue 630pm to 830pm Wed 530pm to 930pm Thu 530pm to 930pm Sun 1230pm to 530pm Professional dancers welcome! Prices online. www.dardogallettostudios.com Address: 151w 46th st 11th fl

 
7:00pm
A Sherlock Carol

A Sherlock Carol

Emily McGill Entertainment
A Sherlock Carol, a holiday production by Mark Shanahan, returns to New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) for a six-week limited holiday engagement. Previews begin Monday, November 21, 2022, with opening night on Monday, November 28, 2022, and the final performance on Sunday, January 1, 2023.    When a grown-up Tiny Tim asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the peculiar death of Ebenezer Scrooge,…

 
7:00pm
Tango

ADVANCED TANGO & MILONGA GROUP CLASSES ON THE UPPER EASTSIDE MANHATTAN

NY TANGO SCHOOL NYC
ADVANCED TANGO CLASS 7 PM Advanced steps combinations for leaders and followers with adornments for both join us! Every week we work on the new topic so you can improve faster in your social dancing and look great on the dance floor & ADVANCED MILONGA CLASSES 8 pm Adv Milonga con traspie & lisa - New fun steps every week all Improvisational techniques for your every day dancing. . Both Advanced classes…

 
7:30pm
Works & Process 2022 Rotunda Holiday Concert

Works & Process 2022 Rotunda Holiday Concert

Works & Process at the Guggenheim
Celebrate the season with festive music. The seventeen-piece Eyal Vilner Big Band will perform as part of this beloved annual tradition, filling the museum’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda with joyous sound. In conjunction with Guggenheim Member Mondays, on December 5 the dancers of Jazz as Movement will perform, teach a Lindy Hop lesson, and all are invited to hit the dance floor…

 
7:45pm
Group of young dancers posed around each other with gold sequin top and black bottoms.

SHOOTING STARS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL

Shooting Stars NYC
SHOOTING STARS NYC TO MAKE HISTORY AT RADIO CITY AS FIRST CHILDREN’S DANCE COMPANY TO OPEN FOR WORLD RENOWNED CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR October 19, 2022 (New York, New York) - Shooting Stars NYC (SSDC), a NYC-based competitive dance company building confidence, teamwork, and leadership through competitive dance, announces that it will become the first-ever children’s dance studio to open the Radio…

 
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