The latest news on performances of Dance in Brooklyn.
Commemorate Juneteenth With Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet June 18 At BAM
by A.A. Cristi - May 05, 2023
Brooklyn Choreographer Jamel Gaines and his dance theater company, Jamel Gaines Creative Outlet (JGCO), will mark Juneteenth 2023 with a program commemorating defining events in African American history and the fight for equal rights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sunday, June 18 at 2:00 p.m. T...
The Limón Dance Company To Perform At Green-Wood This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 05, 2023
Exploring The Underworld: The Limón Dance Company At Green-Wood will take place on May 18th , 7:00pm - 8:30pm and May 19th, 7:00pm - 8:30pm....
ChrisMastersDance Returns to Live Performance with MAUSOLEUM At BAM Fishman Space
by A.A. Cristi - May 02, 2023
After a ten-year hiatus from live performance, ChrisMastersDance returns to the stage with Mausoleum at BAM Fishman Space. Explore their investigation into our consumption of media and addiction to drama, featuring original music and choreography. Tickets available at bam.org....
Hybrid Movement Company & The Love Show Add An Additional Performance Of RIPE, April 30
by A.A. Cristi - April 24, 2023
Due to popular demand, Hybrid Movement Company & The Love Show are adding an additional performance of 'RIPE' on Sunday, April 30th....
CoreDance Contemporary Presents Premiere of RE-STRAIN-ED This May
by A.A. Cristi - April 24, 2023
CoreDance Contemporary presents, 'RE-STRAIN-ED', an evening length program of modern dance May 13 & 14 at The Mark O'Donnell Theatre at The Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY. On the bill for the night is Artistic Director McCormac's new evening length work of the same title....
Alvin Ailey to Return to BAM for First Time in More Than a Decade With Two Programs
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 11, 2023
The iconic Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will bring its passionate energy and dazzling technique back to BAM for the first time since 2010 with two exuberant programs of recent works, and classic audience favorites....
BAM to Present DanceAfrica Festival 2023 Featuring Dance, Music & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 06, 2023
This May BAM's DanceAfrica Festival will celebrate the artistic vitality and revolutionary history of Ghana, through dance, music, and community....
Award Winning Choreographer Candace Taylor Brings Joy To JACK This April
by A.A. Cristi - March 17, 2023
Award winning choreographer Candace Taylor brings joy to JACK with Candace Taylor: Effervescent Encounters, April 14 - 15 at 7:30 pm and April 16 at 3:00 pm. ...
Miro Magloire to Present New Chamber Ballet at Mark Morris Dance Center in February
by Blair Ingenthron - January 15, 2023
Miro Magloire will present his New Chamber Ballet in his full-evening work 'Sanctum,' created in collaboration with the Ekmeles vocal ensemble, at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, February 3 & 4, 7:30 PM....
Peter Stathas Dance Presents THERE'S MORE TO DO
by A.A. Cristi - January 09, 2023
Peter Stathas Dance presents There's More To Do, their first live presentations in New York City since February 2020. The performances will be held at the Mark Morris Dance Center, Duffy Studios, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217, on January 27 and 28, 2023 at 7:30pm. ...
White Wave Dance Accepting Applications For 22nd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 05, 2023
White Wave Dance is accepting applications for the 22nd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival, being presented June 22-25, 2023 at Mark Morris Dance Center....
White Wave Dance Now Accepting Applications For 22nd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 16, 2022
White Wave Dance is accepting applications for the 22nd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival, to be presented June 22-25, 2023 at Mark Morris Dance Center....
Dancers Collaborate on GOOD GRIEF, Coming to The Mark O'Donnell Theater in December
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 21, 2022
Curated by Cecly Placenti, Artistic Director of Six Degrees Dance, Good Grief is an evening of socially conscious contemporary dance to be presented on Friday, December 16, 2022 and Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center...
White Wave Dance Now Accepting Applications For 22nd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 21, 2022
White Wave Dance is accepting applications for the 22nd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival, being presented June 22-25, 2023 at Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NYC. ...
Robert Browning Associates and Roulette Present Guillermina Quiroga Company with Mariano Logiudice Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet
by A.A. Cristi - October 06, 2022
Famed Argentine dancer/choreographer Guillermina Quiroga, one of the world's leading tango dancers, will be joined by her longtime partner, Mariano Logiudice, dancers Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes, and the Latin Grammy award-winning Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet (bass, violin, bandoneon, piano) in...
BAM's Next Wave to Premiere Stefanie Batten Bland's EMBARQUED: STORIES OF SOIL in November
by Blair Ingenthron - October 06, 2022
Stefanie Batten Bland's EMBARQUED: STORIES OF SOIL will premiere at BAM Next Wave 2022. The performances will take place at BAM Fisher Fishman Space (321 Ashland Pl.) Nov 1—5 at 7:30pm. The evening-length piece explores ideas of memory and memorialization through the lens of African ancestral stor...
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation to Present IT WAS ALL A DREAM: A Musical 20th Anniversary Celebration
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 16, 2022
The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa African American Dance Theater, founded by Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation in 2002, will be premiering their new original musical It Was All a Dream, in celebration of the Foundation's 20th Anniversary on August 20, 2022 at 7pm at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center....
White Wave Dance Announces IYOUUSWE III Live At The Archway In DUMBO, August 25
by A.A. Cristi - August 09, 2022
WHITE WAVE Dance announces iyouuswe III as part of the free Live at the Archway in DUMBO series on August 25, 2022 at 6PM at155 Water St, Brooklyn, NYC....
BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! Presents Ragamala Dance Company: Sacred Earth With Live Music, July 22
by A.A. Cristi - June 30, 2022
Ragamala Dance Company's Sacred Earth will be presented on July 22, 2022 at 8pm as part of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! At the Lena Horne Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY....
Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland to Present EMBARQUED: STORIES OF SOIL At Bates Dance Festival and BAM
by A.A. Cristi - June 29, 2022
Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland's newest work, Embarqued: Stories of Soil, a dance-theatre work that interrogates existing relationships to memorials, will be presented at the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME, July 23–24, and will have its New York premiere at BAM, November 1–5, as part...
Arts Leader Kendra J. Ross Heads 9th Annual STooPS BEDSTUY ARTS CRAWL
by A.A. Cristi - June 15, 2022
STooPS BedStuy, an annual celebration of creativity in Brooklyn named the New York Times' Best Dance of 2020, Best of Street, returns this year to Bedford-Stuyvesant for an afternoon of dance, music, spoken word, theater, visual art, conversations, workshops, and more on July 30, from 12:00-6:00 P.M...
Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center Presents 46th Dance Season, June 22-25
by A.A. Cristi - June 13, 2022
Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC) will hold its 46th Dance Season from June 22-25 at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center in Brooklyn. ...
Brooklyn Ballet Kicks Off 20th Season With Free Programming And A Return To Their Roots
by A.A. Cristi - June 08, 2022
Brooklyn Ballet, a unique and interdisciplinary dance company that confronts convention and defies expectation, launches their 20th Anniversary with free community performances, classes, and a celebratory homage to their humble beginnings, June 11-12, and June 23....
Jody Oberfelder Projects Present Free Interactive Mobile Dance In Brooklyn
by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2022
Jody Oberfelder Projects, known for their immersive dance experiences of inventive athleticism, wit, and whimsy, presents Walking to Present, an on-the-move immersive and site-specific dance performance that travels through Brooklyn landmarks and select noteworthy sites in an exploration of time, pl...
Principal Cast Announced for English National Ballet's GISELLE by Akram Khan at BAM
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 16, 2022
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) announced today the principal cast for the New York premiere of the English National Ballet’s (ENB) Giselle, directed and choreographed by Akram Khan. Find out who is in the cast and how to get tickets....
Magloire's New Chamber Ballet Returns to Mark Morris Dance Center With THE NIGHT
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2022
Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet returns to the Mark Morris Dance Center with a revival of Magloire's The Night, premiered in 2019, and revived as a tribute to composer Wolfgang Rihm on this year of his 70th birthday. Performances are June 3 & 4 at 7:30 PM at the Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Laf...
BAM to Present DanceAfrica Festival 2022 Featuring New Events and Annual Favorites
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 28, 2022
BAM's annual DanceAfrica, the country's largest showcase of African dance, will return to the Howard Gilman Opera House this May with DanceAfrica 2022: HOMEGROWN. ...
GALLIM to Make Debut at Chelsea Factory With BLUSH
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 25, 2022
Brooklyn-based movement company GALLIM will make its debut at Chelsea Factory with GALLIM’s 2009 seminal work, BLUSH. On this eve of GALLIM’s 15-year anniversary, six extraordinary dance artists bring Miller’s pulsating movement to the stage at the landmarked Chelsea Factory for seven pe...
651 Announces Additional Details For Its 2022 FOREWORD, FORWARD: A Bridge Season
by A.A. Cristi - March 04, 2022
651 ARTS, Brooklyn's premier institution for the African Diasporic performing arts, today unveiled additional details for its 2022 season - FOREWORD, FORWARD: A Bridge Season. ...
Brooklyn Ballet Announces New Collaboration With Poet Jasmine Mans
by A.A. Cristi - February 28, 2022
Brooklyn Ballet, a unique and interdisciplinary dance company that confronts convention and defies expectation, presents Sonic Relief, an unprecedented evening of dance that bridges ballet and street dance with culture, activism and history, March 24-27 at The Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Actors Fu...
Dance Parade to Host Dance Programs In Brooklyn, Bronx & Manhattan Schools
by A.A. Cristi - February 17, 2022
Dance Parade, one of the annual highlights of the NYC dance scene, also has a thriving program of dance in schools, taking place now through May, when the students will also participate in the next Dance Parade. The grand celebration of dance will take place LIVE this year on May 21st with 150 par...
Mark Morris Dance Group Celebrates Valentine's Day With LAYLA AND MAJNUN WEEK, February 14-20, 2022
by A.A. Cristi - February 01, 2022
The Mark Morris Dance Group will continue its digital programming during its 2021-2022 Season with “Layla and Majnun Week” – a weeklong celebration of Morris's Layla and Majnun featuring online and in-person events and digital archival content, February 14-20, 2022....
Dance For PD Launches The Lucy Bowen Award For Inclusive Choreography
by A.A. Cristi - January 28, 2022
The Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD program has launched a new award that aims to support choreographers who want to create a new dance in collaboration with and publicly performed by people living with Parkinson's. ...
BAM to Present New York City Premiere of Pam Tanowitz's FOUR QUARTERS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 28, 2022
After much anticipation following its critically acclaimed 2018 world premiere at the Fisher Center at Bard, Four Quartets will be presented at BAM from Feb 10—12. Along with a score by the renowned Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho played live by The Knights, and iconic painter Brice Marden, choreo...
National Dance Institute Names Fredrick Earl Mosley As Helen Stambler Neuberger Artist-in-Residence
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 27, 2022
National Dance Institute is welcoming Fredrick Earl Mosley as its Helen Stambler Neuberger Artist-in-Residence for 2021-2022. The one-year residency supports the creative process of an artist of color and is designed to cultivate racially diverse artistry throughout NDI's programming....
Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation Postpones IT WAS ALL A DREAM: A MUSICAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2022
The Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation's kickoff for its 20th Anniversary celebration event, It Was All a Dream: A Musical, scheduled at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center....
Davalois Fearon Dance Virtual Theater Presents The Virtual Premiere Of MAS-IN-POVERTY-ATION
by A.A. Cristi - December 02, 2021
Davalois Fearon Dance has announced the virtual premiere of Mas-In-Poverty-Ation by Bronx artist Loreal Quiroz as a part of the DFD Commission Initiative. ...
CLYMOVE Dance Company Premieres FEMMENISTO CHAPTER ONE At Triskelion Arts
by A.A. Cristi - November 29, 2021
CLYMOVE Dance will present an evening-length concert dance piece choreographed by Clymene Aldinger, former Principal Dancer with Elisa Monte Dance (2009-2017) and Monte's last protégé, on December 16th and 17th, 2021, 8 PM, at Triskelion Arts Theater, in Brooklyn, New York. ...
Brooklyn Irish Dance Company to Present A CELTIC CHRISTMAS STORY
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 16, 2021
Brooklyn Irish Dance Company will return to the stage this December for their third holiday season with their production A Celtic Christmas Story at New York's Sheen Center....
Brooklyn Ballet Returns To Kings Theatre With Culturally Inclusive Production Of THE NUTCRACKER
by A.A. Cristi - October 18, 2021
Brooklyn Ballet, a unique and interdisciplinary dance company rooted in the classical idiom, presents two performances of The Brooklyn Nutcracker, at the majestic Kings Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Saturday, December 11, 2021. ...