Michelle Dorrance News

The Blue Ribbon Children's Festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2021 with a 30-minute online program designed to share the love of the arts through dance with young people of all ages. This year's Blue Ribbon Children's Festival will premiere on The Music Center Offstage virtual platform on March 2, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. PT, and will expand its traditional invitation to fifth graders to include students in grades 3–12 throughout Los Angeles County and their families to reflect the current distance learning environment; 

M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Chicago’s premier tap collective, has announced new video content created by principal dancers Star Dixon, Donnetta Jackson and KJ Sheldon celebrating and commemorating Black History and Women’s History months. The videos will premiere in February and March on M.A.D.D. Rhythms’ YouTube channel.

In what continues to be a challenging time for dancemakers to find ways to make and present work, the Pillow has deepened many of its preexisting relationships with artists as well as opened its doors for new ventures, resulting in a diverse and provocative array of artistic projects from January through June.

Shuttered by the pandemic in March of 2020 and unable to present live performances, Hudson Valley’s Bridge Street Theatre has announced a four-month dance residency program utilizing the theater’s resources to nourish performing artists and develop new works during the current health crisis.

The Public Theater and Joe's Pub will present Toshi Reagon's Post-Election Concert which will be streamed live from Joe's Pub on November 4 at 7pm ET via YouTube - RSVP Here or Set a YouTube Reminder.

Typically, during the school year, rows of school buses line up outside 92Y's Manhattan doors for thousands of children to attend concerts, dance performances, and talks as part of their arts education. With the pandemic, 92Y created a solution available to schools nationwide, not just near NYC, whether remote or in person: Young Leaders Series.

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that Flying Over Sunset and Intimate Apparel are now hoping to reopen in fall of 2021.

This week's Theater Stories features The Belasco Theater! Learn about the legendary theater-maker David Belasco, the history of the theater's Broadway plays, the apartment built above the theater and more!

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts opens its fall 2020 digital season on Thursday, October 1 at 7 PM, with There's No Plan For This, a fully improvised, interdisciplinary performance by choreographer/dancer Caleb Teicher and beatboxer Chris Celiz, which will be streamed live in real time from the Annenberg Center.

The Harkness Dance Center announces a new Artist Workshop Series of online master classes with current and former Artists in Residence, featured choreographers and presented performers. Workshops take place every other Saturday throughout the fall starting on Saturday, September 26, offering access to some of the most engaging, insightful, and motivational artists currently creating work in the dance world.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, is proud to announce new initiatives and partnerships that collectively support performing artists and their creative process.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, has announced new initiatives and partnerships that collectively support performing artists and their creative process.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce two outdoor workshops held live and in-person on the grounds of the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum in Sag Harbor. All attendees will have their temperature checked upon arrival, must wear masks, and must remain socially distanced from other attendees.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim has announced August premieres for Works & Process Artists (WPA) Virtual Commissions.

Emmy Award winner Debbie Allen has signed on to be part of Chloé and Maud Productions Tap Into Empowerment Experience hosted by Syncopated Ladies Founder Chloé Arnold and her sister, internationally renowned tap dancer Maud Arnold.

Chloé and Maud Productions will present Tap Into Empowerment! hosted by Emmy Award nominated choreographer Chloé Arnold and her sister, internationally renowned tap dancer Maud Arnold August 7-9, 2020.

Battery Dance has announced the 39th Annual Battery Dance Festival with FREE virtual performances from August 14-22, 2020, available online nightly 7pm - 8pm via YouTube. For more information, visit batterydance.org/battery-dance-festival. Films will remain only through August 31, 2020.

New York City Center President & CEO Arlene Shuler today announced New York City Center Live @ Home virtual programming.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, has announced July premieres for Works & Process Artists (WPA) Virtual Commissions.

Lincoln Center Theater, which had hoped to reopen its productions of the new opera Intimate Apparel at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and  the new musical Flying Over Sunset at the Vivian Beaumont Theater this fall, now plans to reopen both productions in spring 2021.