Larry Keigwin News

The Paul Taylor Dance Company (PTDC) will return to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for its highly-anticipated New York City Season from November 1 to November 13, 2022.

From June 24-July 1, 2022, Samantha Shay's short film Mother Melancholia will be available to screen online worldwide.

Garnet Henderson, NYC-based choreographer, performer, and journalist, is producing and performing in an unconventional, immersive dance experience utilizing Inwood Hill Park as the performance space. The new work, SOLACE, celebrates the beauty and relief found in our city's green spaces, particularly in upper Manhattan. Henderson will be joined by four other professional dancers for performances at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, June 26.

Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre will present the premiere of THE FINAL VEIL, a unique blend of theater, opera and dance. It tells the true story of Franceska Mann, a Polish-Jewish dancer who demonstrated resistance and strength amid the horrors of the Holocaust.

A new play by ex-Israeli soldier Jonathan Hirsch. Set in a military bunker on the outskirts of combat, this sobering comedy about a squad of four soldiers weaves through the final ninety minutes of someone's life.

From May 9-15, Samantha Shay’s short film Mother Melancholia will be available for on-demand viewing via pay what you can, and all funds raised will go towards aiding the Ukrainian people. The film is a multi-layered portrait of four women set to a soundtrack for the end of the world. As part of the Under Construction Festival and in partnership with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, this special digital programming event will be available at bit.ly/MotherMelancholia. 

Amy Hall Garner and Omar Román De Jesús were selected by Artistic Director Michael Novak to choreograph through the Taylor Company Commissions program, to be premiered during fall 2022.

Symphony Space will present Wall to Wall Selected Shorts, a monumental celebration of short fiction, March 26 in Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp theater in New York City (2537 Broadway at 95th Street).

Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform at the inaugural City Center Dance Festival from March 24-31, at New York City Center.

Creative people create, and during Covid, Christine Jowers, Janis Brenner, and JoAnna Mendl Shaw turned their attention to 'visual choreography.' The three dancer/choreographers have joined forces to show their 'Doodles, Collages, and Paintings: Dancers Pivot to Visual Choreography,'

March and April 2022 at the Center for the Arts at George Mason University continues its season with exciting in-person programming for the 2021/2022 Great Performances at Mason with three engagements from Mason Artists-in-Residence, including the artists from SW!NG OUT, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and Maria Schneider, plus signature events from Mason's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Three weeks of New York's finest dance companies. World and New York premieres. And some of the most exciting repertory to hit our stages in years. The first City Center Dance Festival showcases New York companies making their triumphant return to the City Center stage after more than two years away.

Symphony Space will present Wall to Wall Selected Shorts, employing the day-long-marathon approach of its Wall to Wall series in a monumental celebration of the organization’s pioneering literature-in-performance program, Selected Shorts, March 26 in Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp theater in New York City.

The Paul Taylor Dance Company has announced additions to the organization. Jessica Ferretti and Austin Kelly have joined the world-renowned Company, and Michael Apuzzo and alumnus Richard Chen See will join the administrative team.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Lloyd A. Boyd III about his career and the season ahead for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for our 'Dancer Spotlight.'

Symphony Space today made livestreaming tickets available for its robust, wide-ranging 2021-22 season, realizing its ambition to emerge from the COVID-19 shutdown as an institution committed to a hybrid model, with live events streamed in real time to audiences straight from Symphony Space’s stages in Manhattan.

Symphony Space will welcome audiences back into its New York City home this season for a wide range of memorable events that take place for one night only, and only at Symphony Space.

Charles Dennis Productions has announced the presentation of Avant-Garde-Arama Lands in Woodstock, a festival of short works of dance, film, music, performance art, poetry and puppetry.

Broadway On Demand has shared its current and upcoming June programming lineup including titles and events that celebrate PRIDE, the U.S. Premiere of In Pieces, a new musical by Joey Contreras, the Signature Theatre production of After Midnight starring Christopher Jackson, and more.

A.C.T. will present a special online screening of the record-breaking musical, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, The Musical.