Matthew Westerby Company Performance Season 2025 At the Murray Haber Theatre at Hudson Guild (446 West 26th St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.) Thursday through Saturday, April 24, 25, 26 at 7:30pm and Sunday, April 27 at 5pm. Tickets are $30 General Admission, $20 for students, artists, older adults. To purchase, click here —ALSO— MWC’s […]
Gather Round: Street and Club Dance Battles A 4-Part Outdoor Series, Free and Open to the Public 4:30pm to 6:30pm Wednesday, September 4, 11, 18 & 25 At Manhattan West Plaza (385 Ninth Ave.) BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Manhattan West in partnership with the Guggenheim’s Works & Process presents an exhilarating, athletic, and competitive edition of their […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Bryant Park Picnic Performances: Family Day Saturday, August 10, 5pm At Bryant Park, 1080 Sixth Ave. Click here for more Picnic Performances info, including livestream viewing Check @bryantparknyc for rain cancellation weather updates If you have the constitution to watch dance outdoors in high summer, enjoy hanging out with little kids, and […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The performing careers of ballet dancers are notoriously short, so it behooves an artist to plan ahead. Calvin Royal III, only the third person of color to achieve the rank of principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, has been dancing for more than 20 years and is still at it. Now […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Pilobolus: July 23-August 11 at The Joyce Theater | This unique, Connecticut-based ensemble—founded at Dartmouth College in 1971 and sometimes called “the dance equivalent of a rock band”—turned 50 on the cusp of the pandemic, so it’s stretching out the anniversary celebration, returning to the Joyce for a three-week season. Two different […]
NOTE: Rain plans are up to each organization. Check the hosting organization’s website in the event of cancellation or a location change for outdoor programs. BY SCOTT STIFFLER | What do you do for Year #2, when your demand during your debut handily exceeded expectations? If you’re the West Side Fest, the first thing you […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Smuin Contemporary Ballet: July 9-14 at The Joyce Theater | Michael Smuin (1938-2007), one of ballet’s more entertaining choreographers, came out of the American west and danced with ABT and the San Francisco Ballet before turning to choreography at the age of 27. He collapsed and died of a heart attack in […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | If, after a serious dose of the latest dance technology—via February 9-12’s Dance on Camera festival—your idea of a good terpsichorean time still involves sharing a room with live dancers moving to music, get yourself to the Joyce Theater, where Twyla Tharp, now in her ninth decade and as sharp as […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The 2024 Dance on Camera festival, running February 9-12 at Lincoln Center, is particularly rich and diverse. The world’s longest-running assemblage of dance film—now in its 52nd year—presents, in 11 different programs, a mix of shorts and features from around the world. Up first (Feb. 9, 7pm) is the full-length Swan […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | October is, in its way, our most colorful month, and a reprise of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s Curriculum II—a rich stew of language, idea, movement phrases, and buckets of bright paint applied to the bodies of 10 gorgeous, diverse dancers—seems a good way of welcoming it to town. From its […]