Modern Dance Group News

Festival Napa Valley announces its 2024 Summer Season featuring international stars and emerging talent in classical, jazz, contemporary, opera, and dance performances, along with Napa Valley's renowned food, wine, and hospitality.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced its upcoming 2023-24 season of dance including the NJPAC debut of the Limón Dance Company, a world premiere, celebrations of Kwanzaa, the Lunar New Year, St. Patrick's Day, and Mother's Day, and more. In what has become an annual tradition, the winter season welcomes two different productions of the Nutcracker: the traditional classical version by the State Ballet Theater of Ukraine followed by a spectacular re-imagined contemporary version,

Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances this summer continues with six esteemed New York City-based dance companies showcasing their work on the Bryant Park stage. The Dance series begins on August 16 with American Modern dance vanguards Limón Dance Company as well as tap dance from Music From The Sole and more.

WHITE WATER DUST is coming to National Centre For The Performing Arts in China from April 18 to 21, 2019.

ZviDance returns to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival with their newest collaborative work Escher/Bacon/Rothko on the Doris Duke Theatre stage, July 20-24. In this riveting mixed-medium choreographic endeavor, Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner and the company members of ZviDance draw inspiration from distinguished visual artists of the 20th century to question notions of modernity.  Escher/Bacon/Rothko provides an intelligent visual experience for audiences as it seamlessly transforms one-dimensional artwork into a three-dimensional performance.

America Now:  Pilobolus and Portraiture Friday, May 22 | 7 to 10 p.m. | Kogod Courtyard INNOVATION has been at the heart of American ideals since the Declaration of Independence. America Now, a new Smithsonian series, highlights innovation in art, history, and culture. See performances and join workshops by acclaimed dance group Pilobolus. View Bo Gehring's innovative portraits of the modern dance group on huge screens, and sit for your own video portrait by Bo Gehring and share it on social media. This event is free and is made possible by the generous support of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Foundation.

Led by Mavis, a patient and talented dancer and accompanied by the acerbic Mrs. Fraser on piano, Stepping Out follows the ups and downs of nine women and one man who meet weekly in a church hall for a beginning tap class.

Led by Mavis, a patient and talented dancer and accompanied by the acerbic Mrs. Fraser on piano, Stepping Out follows the ups and downs of nine women and one man who meet weekly in a church hall for a beginning tap class.

Art Kibbutz NYC announces a unique global project at the nexus of sound, spirit and technology.

Art Kibbutz NYC announces a unique global project at the nexus of sound, spirit and technology.

Danza Contemporanea de Cuba will make its long-awaited, highly anticipated U.S. debut this spring with a two-week engagement at The Joyce Theater from May 10 - 22.

LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS 09 - AUGUST 5 - 23 39th Season of FREE Performances Announced! Opening Night Features Debut of BANG ON A CAN's Asphalt Orchestra with Works Commissioned for Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary and concert FEATURING The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Guest Simon Shaheen and the NY Debut of amir Elsaffar's two rivers large ensemble.

LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS 09 - AUGUST 5 - 23 39th Season of FREE Performances Announced! Opening Night Features Debut of BANG ON A CAN's Asphalt Orchestra with Works Commissioned for Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary and concert FEATURING The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Guest Simon Shaheen and the NY Debut of amir Elsaffar's two rivers large ensemble.

LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS 09 - AUGUST 5 - 23 39th Season of FREE Performances Announced! Opening Night Features Debut of BANG ON A CAN's Asphalt Orchestra with Works Commissioned for Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary and concert FEATURING The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Guest Simon Shaheen and the NY Debut of amir Elsaffar's two rivers large ensemble.

Following a celebratory New York season, which opened with a December 3rd Golden Anniversary Gala with Oprah Winfrey as Honorary Chair and Honored Guest, and the Empire State building shining in golden tribute, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) will now bring the beauty, power, passion and artistry that are its hallmarks to audiences across the United States. As part of a 50-city global tour in celebration of AAADT's 50th Anniversary, a 26-city U.S. tour will begin February 3rd at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center and continue through May 24th with visits to Atlanta, GA; Tucson, AZ; Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Miami, FL; Boston, MA; Newark, NJ and other cities. Led by renowned Artistic Director Judith Jamison, the Company will present a diverse repertory of exciting premieres, dramatic new productions, revered classics, and repertory favorites. AAADT company member Hope Boykin's Go in Grace; an innovative collaboration with Grammy-Award winning female a cappella musical group Sweet Honey In The Rock, who will perform their original score live onstage with the dancers, will be performed in 10 different cities including Atlanta, GA and Newark, NJ. Acclaimed Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti was so inspired by the dancers that he cast the entire company in Festa Barocca, his first world premiere for an American modern dance group, and one of the rare occasions to see all the Ailey artists together on the stage. A retrospective of Alvin Ailey's phenomenal choreographic career will be presented in a new Anniversary Highlights program that includes excerpts of over a dozen ballets. Spanning each decade, from Blues Suite, the dance that launched the Company in 1958, to Opus McShann, his final piece thirty years later, the program will also include his masterpiece Revelations in its entirety.

NEW THIS WEEK! A Chorus Line at Winters Lane! New Show at Performance Workshop and Creative Alliance! Help Wanted at Spotlighters!

Five-time Tony Award winner and Honorary Academy Award winning choreographer Michael Kidd passed away on December 23 in Los Angeles from cancer. Kidd was 92, as reported by the New York Times.