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Tue 1st
7:00pm

Bully the Bully: Artists Against Hate

Taino Theatre
Innately, we are all the same. There is little that differentiates us in terms of bones and matter and DNA - but there is, always has been, and maybe always will be a yearning for us to be different from one another. While some choose to see differences as positive and contributing to a full and well rounded human society, some choose to bully those who step away from their norms. An original mixed…

 
7:30pm
Three dancers is muted colors like a soft grey and black, turning in motion with wooden chairs behind them.

Rosas danst Rosas

New York Live Arts
In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst Rosas, a performance that has since become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. Building on the minimalism initiated in Fase, abstract movements constitute the basis of a layered choreographic structure in which repetition plays the lead role. Four female dancers dance themselves, again and again in…

 
8:00pm
2019 Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival - Program 1

Multiple
For sixteen seasons, the Festival has welcomed existing and new dance lovers to experience an international array of dance artists. The 2019 line-up includes artists from Argentina, Canada, France, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In keeping with City Center’s founding mission to make the arts accessible to everyone, all tickets are $15.  Program…

 
Wed 2nd
7:30pm
Three dancers is muted colors like a soft grey and black, turning in motion with wooden chairs behind them.

Rosas danst Rosas

New York Live Arts
In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst Rosas, a performance that has since become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. Building on the minimalism initiated in Fase, abstract movements constitute the basis of a layered choreographic structure in which repetition plays the lead role. Four female dancers dance themselves, again and again in…

 
8:00pm
2019 Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival - Program 1

Multiple
For sixteen seasons, the Festival has welcomed existing and new dance lovers to experience an international array of dance artists. The 2019 line-up includes artists from Argentina, Canada, France, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In keeping with City Center’s founding mission to make the arts accessible to everyone, all tickets are $15.  Program…

 
Thu 3rd
5:00pm
Micayla Wynn

Micayla Wynn WInter Follies 2019 People's Choice Winner

Spoke the Hub
Winter Follies 2019 People's Choice Winner Micayla Wynn presents a program of new work at Old First Reformed Church on Nov 2 @ 7:30pm and Nov 3 @ 5pm.  

 
7:00pm
Soaking WET

Soaking Wet

Soaking WET
After 15 years, curator David Parker and producer Jeffrey Kazin announce the grand finale of the Soaking WET series with one-hour performances by Keely Garfield Dance (Program A), and Beyond the Bang Group (Program B). Program A: Keely Garfield Dance will perform Garfield's work-in-progress "The Invisible Project," in which she is joined by Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Doug LeCours, Angie Pittman,…

 
7:00pm
Stefanie Batten Bland Company

Look Who’s Coming to Dinner

Stephanie Batten Bland
Co-presented as part of Crossing the Line Festival, produced by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Jerome Robbins Award–winning choreographic artist and filmmaker, Stefanie Batten Bland makes her Crossing the Line Festival debut with the world premiere of Look Who’s Coming to Dinner. Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer…

 
7:30pm
The American Dance Guild Festival

The American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2019

The American Dance Guild
THE AMERICAN DANCE GUILD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER - SHAPING THE NOW: DANCE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES October 3 through October 6 - Dedicated to past ADG President: Muriel Manings Featuring 33 Contemporary Choreographers and Honoring Modern Dance Innovators  - 2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Dance Advocate Jody Gottfried Arnhold, Choreographer Gus Solomons jr and Abdel…

 
7:30pm
Three dancers is muted colors like a soft grey and black, turning in motion with wooden chairs behind them.

Rosas danst Rosas

New York Live Arts
In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst Rosas, a performance that has since become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. Building on the minimalism initiated in Fase, abstract movements constitute the basis of a layered choreographic structure in which repetition plays the lead role. Four female dancers dance themselves, again and again in…

 
8:00pm
2019 Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival - Program 2

Multiple
For sixteen seasons, the Festival has welcomed existing and new dance lovers to experience an international array of dance artists. The 2019 line-up includes artists from Argentina, Canada, France, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In keeping with City Center’s founding mission to make the arts accessible to everyone, all tickets are $15.    Program…

 
8:30pm
Soaking WET

Soaking Wet

Soaking WET
After 15 years, curator David Parker and producer Jeffrey Kazin announce the grand finale of the Soaking WET series with one-hour performances by Keely Garfield Dance (Program A), and Beyond the Bang Group (Program B). Program A: Keely Garfield Dance will perform Garfield's work-in-progress "The Invisible Project," in which she is joined by Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Doug LeCours, Angie Pittman,…

 
Fri 4th
5:00pm
BodyStories Presents Inwood Erases Hate with Love

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance Presents Inwood Erases Hate with Love

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance
We at BodyStories could not be more excited to announce our upcoming project Inwood Erases Hate with Love—an arts-based, outdoor celebration centering around social justice for immigrant communities. The event will include music, dance performance, audience participation, and the creation and unveiling of the community-created banner, while actively incorporating stories of immigration, shared by…

 
7:00pm
SPS Oct 4th Flyer

Introduction to Salon Performance Series

Mark DeGarmo Dance
This is a FREE event offered through FABnyc's Open Arts LES. Attendees will receive a SPECIAL DISCOUNT on SPS tickets for Oct 10th! Join us for our introduction to the Salon Performance Series. During our event, Mark DeGarmo Dance will share Moveable Movements, an ongoing video series that captures Mark DeGarmo's improvisational dance trip through NYC. We will also discuss the opportunity…

 
7:00pm
Soaking WET

Soaking Wet

Soaking WET
After 15 years, curator David Parker and producer Jeffrey Kazin announce the grand finale of the Soaking WET series with one-hour performances by Keely Garfield Dance (Program A), and Beyond the Bang Group (Program B). Program A: Keely Garfield Dance will perform Garfield's work-in-progress "The Invisible Project," in which she is joined by Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Doug LeCours, Angie Pittman,…

 
7:00pm
Stefanie Batten Bland Company

Look Who’s Coming to Dinner

Stephanie Batten Bland
Co-presented as part of Crossing the Line Festival, produced by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Jerome Robbins Award–winning choreographic artist and filmmaker, Stefanie Batten Bland makes her Crossing the Line Festival debut with the world premiere of Look Who’s Coming to Dinner. Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer…

 
7:30pm
Three dancers is muted colors like a soft grey and black, turning in motion with wooden chairs behind them.

Rosas danst Rosas

New York Live Arts
In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst Rosas, a performance that has since become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. Building on the minimalism initiated in Fase, abstract movements constitute the basis of a layered choreographic structure in which repetition plays the lead role. Four female dancers dance themselves, again and again in…

 
8:00pm
NimbusPRESENTS: Thrive - Stage Door Series with Arthur Aviles, Felix Rodriguez and Dr. Edgar Rivera Colon

NimbusPRESENTS: Stage Door Series Thrive -with Arthur Avilés, Felix Rodriguez and Dr. Edgar Rivera Colón

Nimbus Dance
NimbusPRESENTS: Stage Door Series Thrive will bring together two important scholar/writers of the uptown and Harlem Ball scenes. Edgar Rivera Colón and Felix Rodriguez will converse, recite, reminisce and share rare video footage of an underground culture only recently reemerged in the broader public eye in the FX television series, Pose. Bringing your own beats to walk the runway! Yassss!!! Disco…

 
8:00pm
Sustainable Sneakers

NYC Based Brand Seeking Models for Photo Shoot

Studio Institute
Creative agency is currently casting 1-4 dancers (between ages 18-30) who can model footwear in an upcoming photo and video shoot. The shoot will take place on October 4th here in NYC. The brand is a sustainable start-up launching Fall 2019, and is seeking fresh faces who are comfortable moving in front of the camera for their web and social content. Shoot will involve making dynamic shapes with…

 
8:00pm
The American Dance Guild Festival

The American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2019

The American Dance Guild
THE AMERICAN DANCE GUILD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER - SHAPING THE NOW: DANCE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES October 3 through October 6 - Dedicated to past ADG President: Muriel Manings Featuring 33 Contemporary Choreographers and Honoring Modern Dance Innovators  - 2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Dance Advocate Jody Gottfried Arnhold, Choreographer Gus Solomons jr and Abdel…

 
8:00pm

COLORING — New York Premiere

92nd Street Y
COLORING is a 75-minute work for eight dancers and one guest drag queen/live cellist. Inspired by themes of identity and unity, COLORING asks the question “What do we have in common?”

 
8:00pm
2019 Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival - Program 2

Multiple
For sixteen seasons, the Festival has welcomed existing and new dance lovers to experience an international array of dance artists. The 2019 line-up includes artists from Argentina, Canada, France, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In keeping with City Center’s founding mission to make the arts accessible to everyone, all tickets are $15.    Program…

 
8:00pm
Hip Hop Dancer for The Ride

The Ride

The Ride
Casting for the role of HIP HOP performer (M/F) and FEMALE BALLET performer in "The Ride," a Drama Desk-nominated experience that is part tour/part show. Must be comfortable dancing outside, take direction well, be very personable, positive and charismatic while dancing. Synopsis: "The Ride" takes place on a stadium seated bus (like an indoor theatre) and takes an audience to tourist attractions around…

 
8:00pm
JUMATATU M POE & JERMONE DONTE BEACHAM

LET ‘IM MOVE YOU: THIS IS A SUCCESS AND A STUDY

Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!
Let ‘im Move You, a series of performance and installation works, is a continuation of jumatatu and Donte’s work within and in response to J-Sette’s movement vocabulary and Black queer performance aesthetics. In A Study, performed by the artists, J-Sette is a base of experimentation into the role of strategy both in dance making and social design. This Is a Success, the second performance work…

 
8:00pm
The Ruins

INTERNATIONAL WWW Looking For Dancers

Modern Limbic
Looking for dancers for an easy assignment!  Please review the material from the video link I have attached and send your own video performing the choreography.  You can include your own creative elements!  If you would like any feedback before or during your process, you can always ask.  The piece is performed to an original score of music with spoken word, both also available upon request. This…

 
8:30pm
Soaking WET

Soaking Wet

Soaking WET
After 15 years, curator David Parker and producer Jeffrey Kazin announce the grand finale of the Soaking WET series with one-hour performances by Keely Garfield Dance (Program A), and Beyond the Bang Group (Program B). Program A: Keely Garfield Dance will perform Garfield's work-in-progress "The Invisible Project," in which she is joined by Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Doug LeCours, Angie Pittman,…

 
Sat 5th
2:00pm
Ivanka Figueroa

Not a Single Carmen More! (Ni Una Carmen Mas!)

choreographer Gabriela Estrada
Choreographer Gabriela Estrada will present the solo "Not a Single Carmen More!," (Ni Una Carmen Mas!), danced by Mexico's Ivanka Figueroa on October 5th, named a Day of Action Against Domestic Violence.   The solo will be part of the performance "Mourning Loss/Celebrating Survival," a program designed to raise awareness of the scourge of domestic violence.  Other artists on the program, which…

 
2:00pm
Charlotta Öfverholm

LUCKY & DANCE OR DIE PERFORMANCE AND FILM SCREENING WITH CHARLOTTA ÖFVERHOLM

CHARLOTTA ÖFVERHOLM
At this dual event with Charlotta Öfverholm, Scandinavia House presents the live performance Lucky (2018) and the film Dance or Die (2019). Charlotta Öfverholm’s entire adult life, as well as a large part of her childhood and early years, has been filled with the world of dance. As a performer and choreographer with some of the world’s most renowned artists, she has constantly strived for…

 
5:00pm
Intervention Performance.

BlakTinX 2019: Intervention

Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
The Interventions are pop up performances of This Is a Formation that will happen in various historically and/or predominantly Black neighborhoods in various locations throughout New York. Please follow the project on Instagram at @_move_you_ for information about related performance events happening in various neighborhoods in the Bronx and Manhattan.

 
7:00pm
dancer arching and reaching back

DTCB Showcase Performance at Talent Unlimited HS

Dancewave
Dancewave presents the 9th Annual Dancewave Through College & Beyond, co-presented by Dance Magazine. During Dancewave's nationwide college connection event, attendees and the general public are invited to enjoy a live stage performance of select college dance programs and special guest artists. Special Guest Performances: Douglas Gillespie Gleich Dances Featured Colleges: Marymount Manhattan…

 
7:00pm
Soaking WET

Soaking Wet

Soaking WET
After 15 years, curator David Parker and producer Jeffrey Kazin announce the grand finale of the Soaking WET series with one-hour performances by Keely Garfield Dance (Program A), and Beyond the Bang Group (Program B). Program A: Keely Garfield Dance will perform Garfield's work-in-progress "The Invisible Project," in which she is joined by Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Doug LeCours, Angie Pittman,…

 
7:00pm
Stefanie Batten Bland Company

Look Who’s Coming to Dinner

Stephanie Batten Bland
Co-presented as part of Crossing the Line Festival, produced by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) Jerome Robbins Award–winning choreographic artist and filmmaker, Stefanie Batten Bland makes her Crossing the Line Festival debut with the world premiere of Look Who’s Coming to Dinner. Inspired by the 1967 Stanley Kramer film starring Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer…

 
7:30pm
Three dancers is muted colors like a soft grey and black, turning in motion with wooden chairs behind them.

Rosas danst Rosas

New York Live Arts
In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst Rosas, a performance that has since become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. Building on the minimalism initiated in Fase, abstract movements constitute the basis of a layered choreographic structure in which repetition plays the lead role. Four female dancers dance themselves, again and again in…

 
8:00pm
NimbusPRESENTS: OFFLINE Thrive Saturday, October 5th, 2019

NimbusPRESENTS: OFFLINE Thrive, Curated by Arthur Avilés

Nimbus Dance
NimbusPRESENTS: OFFLINE, now entering its fourth year, is a series of curated performances presenting the work of emerging to mid-career choreographers from the New Jersey/New York area and beyond. Designed to address the limited amount of space available for the creation and performance of new dance in Jersey City, OFFLINE provides audiences and artists the opportunity to have intimate and meaningful…

 
8:00pm
Solo dancer stands on a rocky beach.

Triskelion Arts Presents Treeline Dance Works

Treeline Dance Works
Triskelion Arts’ Presents features Treeline Dance Works from Saturday, October 5-Sunday, October 6, 2019 in the Muriel Schulman Theater at 8:00 PM. Treeline Dance Works is a Chicago and New York City-based contemporary dance co-op. The company honors the artistic voices of its multiple collaborators through joint investment in movement research. Its newest evening-length choreography entitled In…

 
8:00pm
Group partnering photo of four people

Treeline Dance Works

Triskelion Arts
In the belly of a crane / our secrets rest considers temporal enfolding of past-, present-, and future-embodied collectives. Choreographed and performed by Treeline Dance Works, the theater transforms into a portal where intimate exchanges take place and an ethics of care is practiced. The work explores the proximity between cooperative patterns found in nature and forms of relationality in performance…

 
8:00pm
The American Dance Guild Festival

The American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2019

The American Dance Guild
THE AMERICAN DANCE GUILD PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO AILEY CITIGROUP THEATER - SHAPING THE NOW: DANCE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES October 3 through October 6 - Dedicated to past ADG President: Muriel Manings Featuring 33 Contemporary Choreographers and Honoring Modern Dance Innovators  - 2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards to Dance Advocate Jody Gottfried Arnhold, Choreographer Gus Solomons jr and Abdel…

 
8:00pm

COLORING — New York Premiere

92nd Street Y
COLORING is a 75-minute work for eight dancers and one guest drag queen/live cellist. Inspired by themes of identity and unity, COLORING asks the question “What do we have in common?”

 
8:00pm
Peder Nilsson and Madeleine Månsson in Dare to Wreck

Fall for Dance Festival - Program 3

Multiple
For sixteen seasons, the Fall for Dance Festival has welcomed existing and new dance lovers to experience an international array of dance artists. The 2019 line-up includes artists from Argentina, Canada, France, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In keeping with City Center’s founding mission to make the arts accessible to everyone, all tickets…

 
8:00pm
JUMATATU M POE & JERMONE DONTE BEACHAM

LET ‘IM MOVE YOU: THIS IS A SUCCESS AND A STUDY

Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!
Let ‘im Move You, a series of performance and installation works, is a continuation of jumatatu and Donte’s work within and in response to J-Sette’s movement vocabulary and Black queer performance aesthetics. In A Study, performed by the artists, J-Sette is a base of experimentation into the role of strategy both in dance making and social design. This Is a Success, the second performance work…

 
8:30pm
Soaking WET

Soaking Wet

Soaking WET
After 15 years, curator David Parker and producer Jeffrey Kazin announce the grand finale of the Soaking WET series with one-hour performances by Keely Garfield Dance (Program A), and Beyond the Bang Group (Program B). Program A: Keely Garfield Dance will perform Garfield's work-in-progress "The Invisible Project," in which she is joined by Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Doug LeCours, Angie Pittman,…

 
10:00pm
QUEER SLOW JAM PARTY- BlakTinx

QUEER SLOW JAM PARTY

BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
Maybe less of a throwback and more of a reclaiming: we are about to transform those memories of high school dances that many of us didn’t attend – at least not in the way we wanted to.  Let’s get close and see what we can get up to way down below 95 bpm. Let’s be people dancing up on other people, when we want to and when we are wanted. Let’s give our permission for the proximity that we…

 
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