John Cage News

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will continue its national tour, showcasing the landmark production STILL/HERE across eight cities from February to May 2026.

M+ will present an exhibition titled SEEING SOUND, HEARING TIME, featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto's installation music, exploring the intersection of sound and visual art.

New York City Center will present two new visual art installations, 'Wonderful Town' by Angel Abreu and another by Mark Seliger, featuring collaborations with local students.

The 25th anniversary celebration of Flamenco Festival New York will feature programming that evokes this endless love affair between the city of skyscrapers and flamenco.

Gibney Company is launching an unprecedented five-year artistic partnership with Lucina Childs, naming her Resident Choreographer of Gibney Company from 2026 through 2030-a rare long-term residency rooted in continuity, rigor, and inquiry.

Artistic Director Yuval Sharon will depart from the Detroit Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season. Sharon has been with the company for six years. Learn more here!

Por primera vez en el Teatro Colón, se presentará la que Satie consideró su obra maestra: Sócrates (1918), un «dramasinfónico» basado en tres diálogos de Platón. Se trata de una obra sumamente particular, pocas veces interpretada en vivo.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and New York Theatre Ballet will present Kevin Iega Jeff's Letters to My Father: Final Chapter; All the Flowers Are Behind Us by Julian Donahue; and Merce Cunningham's How to Pass, Kick, Fall, and Run.

The Asheville Symphony and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center present The Music of John Cage, Lou Harrison, Arnold Schoenberg, and Amy Williams on October 21, 2025, at 7 PM in Asheville, NC.

Sierra Madre Playhouse will present Double Yolk, a concert featuring celebrated flutist Emi Ferguson and acclaimed clarinetist Joshua Rubin, on Friday, October 24, 2025, at 8:00 PM.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will host a three-night event series this fall featuring Aphorisms: A Tribute to Ursula Mamlok with New Chamber Ballet and a Momenta Quartet tribute to Stefan Wolpe and John Cage. Presented in conjunction with Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College, the programs celebrate the College’s lasting impact on dance and music.

The GRAMMY Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion (TCP) has announced its Chicago and touring schedules for the 2025-2026 season. As the first percussion ensemble ever to win a GRAMMY in the classical genre,

Works & Process has revealed that performance-only tickets are now available for their upcoming Gala Performance, Robert Rauschenberg Dance Collaborations, featuring works by Trisha Brown Dance Company and Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will present Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College, September 5, 2025–January 10, 2026. Featuring historic figures like John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg alongside new performances and public programs, the exhibition explores BMC’s radical influence on avant-garde performance.

The New York Historical will host The Guggenheim Fellowship at 100 from August 29–November 30, 2025, featuring letters, photos, and artifacts from a century of iconic Guggenheim Fellows including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Martha Graham.

Guild Hall will present Gibney Company, one of New York City's leading contemporary dance ensembles, in its East Hampton debut on Friday, July 11, 2025.

The Crossing will close its season with the world premiere of The Last Days of Immanuel Kant, a new work by renowned British composer Gavin Bryars. aThe premiere takes place on Saturday, June 14 at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphi, with select portions performed in New York on Friday, June 20 at St. Peter’s Church.

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills is announcing its 2025-2026 season led by performances of the Los Angeles premiere of the Atlantic Theater Company and Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of English by Sanaz Toossi (April 4 - 24, 2026).

In a moment when nearly all art has either an uber-famous name attached to it or hyper-social consciousness, art for the sake of art is refreshing. Gibney Company at the Joyce Theatre, running May 06-11th, is just that; two hours of creative self-expression unfolding with all of its quirks, flaws and daring attempts. 

Baryshnikov Arts will continue its 20th Anniversary year with IN CONVERSATION WITH MERCE: New Arrangements, a program of four dances with choreography by Merce Cunningham.