BAM’s annual DanceAfrica Festival will return to Brooklyn from May 16-28, 2026. The long-running celebration of African and diasporic dance and culture will feature performances, films, dance classes, and community events across the BAM campus.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will present its 2026 Summer Season featuring Kelli O’Hara, Yuja Wang, Punch Brothers, and Gil Shaham. The lineup spans classical, jazz, dance, and family programming across multiple venues.
Samaw Dance will present DIFFRACTION DANCE FESTIVAL at Mark Morris Dance Center's Duffy Theater in Brooklyn, gathering 16 AAPI+ artists and companies spanning house, hip hop, waacking, and contemporary dance during AAPI Heritage Month.
The American Dance Festival has announced its 2026 season in Durham, North Carolina. The lineup includes 49 performances, world premieres, and international collaborations. The festival will run from late May through July across multiple venues.
Caramoor will present a vibrant lineup of over thirty performances from June 20 to August 2, 2026, featuring a diverse range of music and arts events.
Dancer, choreographer, and director, Caleb Teicher, will join Works & Process as the inaugural Artist Curator in Residence. Teicher will serve a two-year term, the Works & Process Artist Curator in Residence.
In 'Plan C' Hook & Eye Theater's darkly funny, time-collapsing caper of resistance, resourcefulness, and rebellion, 17th-century espionage collides with a modern small-town shop.
Today’s subject Susan Jaffe is currently living her theatre and dance lives as the Artistic Director of One the country’ finest dance companies American Ballet Theatre (ABT). She assumed the post in December of 2022. ABT is coming to town this week for a weeklong engagement of the Christopher Wheeldon choreographed The Winter’s Tale. The show performs in the Opera House at Kennedy Center from February 11th through 15th.
WHITE WAVE Dance has extended the application deadline for its 25th Annual DUMBO Dance Festival, taking place June 26–28, 2026. The three-day festival will present more than 50 contemporary dance companies from New York and around the world.
BAM announced two additional programs for its Winter/Spring 2026 season, as well as programming details for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, DanceAfrica, and BAM's Fisher Takeovers.
Carnegie Hall has announced its schedule of partner events presented by leading cultural and academic institutions across New York City and beyond from February through July 2026 as part of the Hall's United in Sound: America at 250 festival.
New Chamber Ballet will present Stargazing, a contemporary ballet by Miro Magloire, at the Mark Morris Dance Center. The program features live music and an in-the-round staging. Performances will take place in Brooklyn.
Dixon Place will present the prestigious Bessies award ceremony, recognizing outstanding dance and performance artists, on January 20. This event highlights the achievements in dance and provides a platform for artists to be acknowledged.
Sophie Rossman and Luke Wisniewski will present DISTANT IMAGE OF TINY WORLD, an archival theatre piece inspired by NASA's Golden Record, on January 16 at ART NY in collaboration with RE/VENUE.
The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) will present Heidi Latsky Dance's WHO AM I NOW? When our worlds turn upside down, what are the stories we tell? at Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has appointed Donald Borror to the newly created position of Director, Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance.
The Joyce Theater Foundation has revealed its programming for the Spring/Summer 2026 season in the newly named Tino & Rajika Puri Auditorium at The Joyce Theater.
Dance for PD, a program of Mark Morris Dance Group, has announced the 2025 recipients of the Bowen Award for Inclusive Choreography. Learn more about them here!
New Chamber Ballet will perform a program of five short works on November 21 and 22 at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Each dance will be set to a recently commissioned score by emerging composers affiliated with the Manhattan School of Music partnership.
Internationally-acclaimed Ballet Hispánico - the nation's renowned Latino dance organization - welcomes five new dancers to the professional company. Ballet Hispánico will travel to stages around the world.
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