What are some of the essential requirements to keep dance alive and growing?

Fall for Dance presents commissioned world premieres alongside pieces that are vital to preserving dance’s history. Alicia Graf Mack performs Geoffrey Holder’s 1968 Come Sunday in Program 4, which the choreographer originally created for his wife, Carmen de Lavallade. “I’m sure this piece will be performed next to something very new,” says Graf Mack. “It’s important to recognize that even though the piece is older, it resonates in the same way that current works do.”

How would you describe the state of dance today?

Fall for Dance embodies what the dance world is today: an extraor­dinarily wide variety of world premieres, classic works, and everything in between from well-known and up-and-coming artists, local and international.

What is the most important thing you are contributing to the world of dance?

Fall for Dance is the first time Swedish company Skånes Dansteater performs in the United States, with the US Premiere of Dare to Wreck in Program 3. “In the duet we expe­rience two different bodies and a wheelchair,” says Madeleine Månsson, performer and co-choreographer. “This is not the norm when we talk about the dancing body. But this is what society looks like. I will never be able to turn off my differences, and dance must follow. I want to reach a point where differ­ences are the norm.”

Favorite Venue:

City Center Choreography Fellow Caleb Teicher says: “Performing at City Center has become like touching homebase for me. Fall for Dance is the show I get to invite all my friends to because it’s affordable.” See his world premiere commission, the newly expanded Bzzzz on Program 1!

Coming Up:

See the full Festival lineup below! Tickets go on sale Sun Sep 8 at 11am.

PROGRAM 1 | TUE OCT 1 & WED OCT 2 8PM
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago A Picture of You Falling
Choreography by Crystal Pite
Vuyani Dance Theatre (South Africa) Rise | US Premiere*
Choreography by Gregory Maqoma
Misty Copeland New York City Center Commission | World Premiere
Choreography by Kyle Abraham
Caleb Teicher & Company Bzzzz, New York City Center Commission | World Premiere
Choreography by Caleb Teicher

PROGRAM 2 | THU OCT 3 & FRI OCT 4 8PM
Mark Morris Dance Group Eleven from Mozart Dances
Choreography by Mark Morris
Dyptik (France) Dans l’Engrenage | US Premiere*
Choreography by Mehdi Meghari and Souhail Marchiche
The Washington Ballet Shadow Lands | NY Premiere
Choreography by Dana Genshaft
Malevo (Argentina) Salvaje | US Premiere
Choreography by Matias Jaime

PROGRAM 3 | SAT OCT 5 8PM & SUN OCT 6 3PM
The Mariinsky Ballet (Russia) At the Wrong Time | US Premiere
Choreography by Alexander Sergeev
English National Ballet (United Kingdom) Dust Duet | US Premiere
Choreography by Akram Khan
Skånes Dansteater (Sweden) Dare to Wreck | US Premiere
Choreography by Madeleine Månsson & Peder Nilsson
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Lazarus (Act II)
Choreography by Rennie Harris

PROGRAM 4 | THU OCT 10 & FRI OCT 11 8PM
CNDC d’Angers (France) Beach Birds
Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Alicia Graf Mack Come Sunday
Choreography by Geoffrey Holder
MADBOOTS DANCE FOR US
Choreography by Jonathan Campbell & Austin Diaz
Tayeh Dance Unveiling New York City Center Co-Commission with Kaatsbaan | World Premiere
Choreography by Sonya Tayeh | Live music by Moses Sumney

PROGRAM 5 | SAT OCT 12 8PM & SUN OCT 13 3PM
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (Canada) Dance Me
Choreography by Andonis Foniadakis & Ihsan Rustem
Sara Mearns & Taylor Stanley New York City Center Commission | World Premiere
Choreography by Kim Brandstrup
Monica Bill Barnes & Company The Running Show*
Choreography by Monica Bill Barnes
Martha Graham Dance Company Chronicle
Choreography by Martha Graham

*Adapted for Fall for Dance 
Programs and casting subject to change