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Mon 1st
9:00am
Affordable Studio Rentals!

Affordable Studio Rentals

Dance Project of Washington Heights
Dance Project of Washington Heights has affordable studio rentals starting at JUST $10 for artists. A one minute walk from the A-train, conveniently located at 350 Fort Washington Ave, NY, NY 10033. Email: studiomanager@danceprojectwh.org  Call: 646-410-0356...Ask about our event rates or use our meeting/work space, too! Or click here!

 
11:00am
Anabella Lenzu

1-ON-1 CHOREOGRAPHIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Anabella Lenzu
1-ON-1 CHOREOGRAPHIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Go deeper, Get advice! Support for aspiring and professional choreographers to find your voice as artists! 1-ON-1 Choreographic Mentorship is a unique program that offers a personally tailored opportunity for aspiring and professional choreographers. The program is guided by Anabella Lenzu, a choreographer and educator with 33 years of experience investigating…

 
8:00pm
 Dance

Seeking NYC Artists for 2023 Season

Tabula Rasa Dance Theater
Tabula Rasa Dance Theater is seeking new New York City artists for its 2023 June Performance Season. All genders welcome. Must be over 21 years old. To apply please send your resume, a clear headshot (close-up) and full-length picture. Dance video is required. Deadline: March 20th, 2023 The artistic director will make a pre-selection based on the information you have provided, including the…

 
Tue 2nd
6:00pm
Archana Arts and the Consulate General of India Present: NYC Kathak Classes

Kathak (Indian Classical Dance) Classes in NYC

Archana Arts
ARCHANA ARTS & CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA PRESENT: NYC KATHAK CLASSES

 
7:30pm
Absolute Beginners Workshop

Absolute Beginners Workshop

Flamenco NYC
Absolute Beginners is the ideal workshop to start dancing flamenco. We will cover and practice all basic aspects for students without prior flamenco dance experience. Classes will focus on strong footwork, upper body coordination, understanding flamenco music and compás, proper posture and breathing. We will begin to develop the muscle strength and dance skills necessary for flamenco dance as we learn…

 
Wed 3rd
10:25am
Group Class working out in a bright studio using resistance bands

Crosstrain with ChaiseFitness!

ChaiseFitness
ChaiseFitness Calling all performers! Take advantage of our new Performance Artist Class Rate we are offering. Our co-founder Rachel Piskin is a former New York City Ballet dancer and wants to help support the dance community by offering this special rate for dancers to crosstrain with us — building strong lean muscles, supplementing their dance training.  The rate is $18 per class and…

 
11:00am

Rare Opportunity to Study By Invitation Only

Albano Ballet Company of America Inc.
On Wednesdays: 11am to 12:30pm Learn the Russian Imperial Ballet System (Nikolai Legat)  and the  Albano American Ballet Method: Law of Centers, Theory of Rotors/Counter-stretch. International Reputation - Albano trains soloists and principal dancers for companies around the world. Requisite: Serious intention and desire to perform or teach. At the Creative Cultural Center St. Veronica 149…

 
1:00pm
Limón Dance Spring Season

Limón Dance Company's Spring Season / May 3 - 19, 2023

Limón Dance Company
Limón Dance Company kicks off its highly anticipated 2023 Spring Season with an ambitious tour that spans three venues across Manhattan and Brooklyn. With performances taking place Wednesday, May 3 through Friday, May 19, 2023, Artistic Director Dante Puleio will bring Limón’s unique brand of storytelling and choreographic craftsmanship to City College’s Aaron Davis Hall (160 Convent Ave, West…

 
3:15pm
Flyer with the information for the Dancing Classrooms Academy. Address for JCAL, dates and registration link.

Dancing Classrooms Academy

Dancing Classrooms
Dancing Classrooms will collaborate with Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) in Queens this October to relaunch its beloved “Dancing Classrooms Academy”-- free, weekly afterschool social and ballroom dance classes for New York City students in the 6th through the 8th grade..  The Academy is an opportunity for students to immerse themselves into Merengue, Fox Trot, Rumba, Tango, Swing, Waltz,…

 
6:00pm
Bryant Park Dance Party: Salsa Dura (New York Salsa)

Bryant Park Dance Party: Salsa Dura (New York Salsa)

La Excelencia
6pm: Dance Instruction with Marlon Mills and Talia Castro-Pozo 7pm: Live Dance Music with La Excelencia   Inspired by the salsa sounds of the 1970s and the sociopolitical landscape of today, La Excelencia is an award-winning band from New York City that combines traditional salsa elements with a modern and unapologetic sound. Their music invigorates social mindedness amidst a powerful and danceable…

 
7:30pm
Absolute Beginners Workshop

Absolute Beginners Workshop

Flamenco NYC
Absolute Beginners is the ideal workshop to start dancing flamenco. We will cover and practice all basic aspects for students without prior flamenco dance experience. Classes will focus on strong footwork, upper body coordination, understanding flamenco music and compás, proper posture and breathing. We will begin to develop the muscle strength and dance skills necessary for flamenco dance as we learn…

 
Thu 4th
10:25am
Group Class working out in a bright studio using resistance bands

Crosstrain with ChaiseFitness!

ChaiseFitness
ChaiseFitness Calling all performers! Take advantage of our new Performance Artist Class Rate we are offering. Our co-founder Rachel Piskin is a former New York City Ballet dancer and wants to help support the dance community by offering this special rate for dancers to crosstrain with us — building strong lean muscles, supplementing their dance training.  The rate is $18 per class and…

 
2:00pm
Baryshnikov Arts Center announces New York Premiere of Miguel Gutierrez's I as another

Baryshnikov Arts Center announces New York Premiere of Miguel Gutierrez's I as another

Baryshnikov Arts Center
Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) announces the New York premiere of Miguel Gutierrez's I as another (2022) on May 4-7, 2023 at BAC's Jerome Roberts Theater, 450 W. 37th Street, NYC. Tickets are $25 and are available at bacnyc.org/performances/performance/miguel-gutierrez.   I as another is Miguel Gutierrez's newest work, a duet performed with Laila Franklin. The piece takes place in a…

 
6:00pm
Bryant Park Dance Party: Tango Argentino Tradicional

Bryant Park Dance Party: Tango Argentino Tradicional

Pedro Giraudo
6pm: Dance Instruction with Mariana Parma and Leo Sardella 7pm: Live Dance Music with Pedro Giraudo   Latin Grammy Award-winning bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Pedro Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in 2015; since,…

 
7:00pm
MDD Logo

13th Annual Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change (SPS) 2023

Mark DeGarmo Dance
Mark DeGarmo Dance (MDD) will conclude its 13th annual Virtual Salon Performance Series for Social Change (SPS) 2023 featuring Global, U.S., New York City and State Emerging and Established Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Latino, and Other; LGBTQIA+, Seniors, and Women Performing Artists on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 7 PM ET on a Live Online Interactive Zoom Broadcast*.   MDD’s…

 
7:30pm
nia love UNDERcurrents at Harlem Stage

nia love: UNDERcurrents

nia love
Harlem Stage presents WaterWorks Established artist, Bessie and Herb Alpert Award-winning dancer and choreographer, nia love, and her collaborators, in UNDERcurrents. Through dance and live music, the work explores themes of water and doors and centers the infamous Middle Passage, where human beings were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to a life of enslavement, as “the door of no return.”…

 
7:30pm
SYREN Modern Dance and Gibney's POP Series present Ithaka

SYREN Modern Dance and Gibney's POP Series present Ithaka

SYREN Modern Dance
As SYREN celebrates its 20-year anniversary, the company is proud to present Ithaka, a nine-section modern dance created by Kate Sutter in collaboration with the dancers of SYREN and set to the lively and dynamic music of LA-based composer and producer Calimossa. The performances will take place for three evenings only, from May 4-6, 2023 at 7:30pm at Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway…

 
7:30pm
mage Description: Lead Photographer: Alice Chacon, Assistant Photographer: Emilee Pratt, five dancers, all costumed in bright or

Syren Modern Dance Premiers Ithaka at Gibney Studio

Syren Modern Dance
Ithaka As SYREN celebrates its 20-year anniversary, the company is proud to present Ithaka, a nine-section modern dance created by Kate Sutter in collaboration with the dancers of SYREN and set to the lively and dynamic music of LA-based composer and producer Calimossa. Like the beloved Constantine Cavafy poem from which it takes its name, Ithaka honors and celebrates the idea of “the journey”…

 
8:00pm
From left to right: Flamenco Artists Barbara Martinez, Rebeca Tomas, Elisabet Torras, Juana Cala seated on chairs and conversing

Las SinSombrero Flamenco

Danza España
Danza España presents its premiere "Las SinSombrero Flamenco", May 4 - 21, 2023 at Thalia Spanish Theatre, where the company has performed since 1989.  "Las SinSombrero Flamenco" is an homage to the Spanish Women Artists of "The Generation of 1927", known as Las SinSombrero (The Hatless), who believed in a fair society seeking autonomy, professional careers, and intellectual freedom equal to men. Yloy…

 
8:00pm
Join us for an epic night of hip-hop greatness as this legendary artist takes the KCA stage to bring the house down.

QC Student Association Presents Waka Flocka Flame

Kupferberg Center for the Arts
Get ready to turn up the heat as the annual QC Student Association concert returns with the one and only Waka Flocka Flame! Join us for an epic night of hip-hop greatness as this legendary artist takes the KCA stage to bring the house down. Waka Flocka Flame is known for his high-energy performances and electrifying beats, and this event promises to be no exception. Born Juaquin James Malphurs, the…

 
8:00pm
Four dance artists wearing floral masks and gloves, pulling, pushing, and cradling one another mid-performance.

Yes and Yes

Liz Roche Company
Yes and Yes takes its title from the final episode of Ulysses, which both begins and ends with a “yes.” This work from the acclaimed Irish contemporary choreographer Liz Roche journeys through the chapters of James Joyce's seminal novel to explore its sensuality, absurdity, release, and resignation in movement with four extraordinary dancers and through film, sound, and design. Performed by…

 
Fri 5th
10:25am
Group Class working out in a bright studio using resistance bands

Crosstrain with ChaiseFitness!

ChaiseFitness
ChaiseFitness Calling all performers! Take advantage of our new Performance Artist Class Rate we are offering. Our co-founder Rachel Piskin is a former New York City Ballet dancer and wants to help support the dance community by offering this special rate for dancers to crosstrain with us — building strong lean muscles, supplementing their dance training.  The rate is $18 per class and…

 
5:30pm
Dancers Exercising in a White Studio

LEIMAY LUDUS Lab Training Group

LEIMAY
LEIMAY LUDUS Lab Training Group! Join our new in-person Training Group by participating in 9 weekly sessions, every Friday from 5:30-7:30 PM starting March 17th at CAVE home of LEIMAY. The LEIMAY LUDUS Lab Training Group is an intimate group of committed artists dedicated to moving together, training, experimenting, and exploring LEIMAY LUDUS. Schedule: 9 weeks Fridays March 17 - May…

 
5:30pm
Dancers Exercising in a White Studio

LEIMAY LUDUS Lab Training Group

LEIMAY
LEIMAY LUDUS Lab Training Group! Join our new in-person Training Group by participating in 9 weekly sessions, every Friday from 5:30-7:30 PM starting March 17th at CAVE home of LEIMAY. The LEIMAY LUDUS Lab Training Group is an intimate group of committed artists dedicated to moving together, training, experimenting, and exploring LEIMAY LUDUS. Schedule: 9 weeks Fridays March 17 - May…

 
6:00pm
Odissi Dance classes

Learn Indian Temple dance Odissi

Usha Dance
Want to learn how to move like the sculptures on the walls of Indian temples? Join Radhika Jha, a performer and teacher who will offer classes in a unique movement style taught to her by the late Guru Surendranath Jena, at the Consulate General of India, E64th Street, New York from 6-7.30 pm every Friday. Inspired by the sculptures in the temples of Orissa and his own knowledge of tantric practices…

 
7:00pm
A Salute to the Copasetics

First Friday Film Festival: "A SALUTE TO THE COPASETICS"" (VIRTUAL)

American Tap Dance Foundation
THE AMERICAN TAP DANCE FOUNDATION'S FIRST FRIDAY FILM FESTIVAL CONTINUES ON FRIDAY, MAY 5 AT 7PM ET WITH “A SALUTE TO THE COPASETICS” In Honor of National Tap Dance Day - An ATDF Livestream Production The American Tap Dance Foundation's First Friday Film Festival will return on Friday, May 5 from 7-9pm ET, with A Salute to the Copasetics - LIVESTREAMED. Registration and link can…

 
7:00pm
Elena Zahlmann in Song Before Spring

Legends & Visionaries

New York Theatre Ballet
WORLD PREMIERE OF NEW YORK THEATRE BALLET’S VIBRANT BLUE, CHOREOGRAPHED BY ARTHUR AVILÉS, TO HIGHLIGHT “LEGENDS & VISIONARIES” PROGRAM AT FLORENCE GOULD HALL, MAY 5 & 6 AT 7:00PM The World Premiere of Vibrant Blue, choreographed by Arthur Avilés, will highlight New York Theatre Ballet’s (NYTB) Spring 2023 performances May 5 and 6 at 7:00PM at Florence Gould Hall in New York City. Vibrant…

 
7:00pm
hands coming together

Nervous System Reset

Lillian Kemanis
This class will guide you through an open movement practice that will usher you into deep states of sensory awareness. You will learn how to listen to the body and follow movement impulse. Prepare to be submerged into expansive relaxation and leave feeling rejuvenated. No experience is necessary! Classes are a suggested donation of $10-25 (cash or Venmo)

 
7:00pm

Ice Theatre of New York 2023 Home Season Performances and Benefit Gala

Ice Theatre of New York
Ice Theatre of New York® (ITNY) announces the 2023 Home Season Performances on Friday, May 5 at 7 PM and Saturday, May 6 at 7:00 PM with a Benefit Gala and Performance on Monday, May 8 at 6:30 PM. All performances will take place at Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers. The performances will feature innovative choreography by the ITNY Ensemble with guest artists US Open Champion & ITNY's 2023 Choreography…

 
7:00pm
Ice Theatre of New York's Home Season Poster, Dates May 5 & 6 at 7 PM and May 8th at 6:30 PM

2023 Home Season

Ice Theatre of New York, Inc.
ITNY'S 2023 Home Season Performances will take place on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6 at 7PM - the Benefit Gala Performance will be on Monday, May 8 at 6:30PM. Performances by the Ice Theatre of New York Professional Ensemble, Youth Performing Apprentices, Performing Apprentices Oona and Gage Brown, and Guest Artist Rohene Ward! Our 2023 Gala Honoree Jason Brown, will join us…

 
7:30pm
nia love UNDERcurrents at Harlem Stage

nia love: UNDERcurrents

nia love
Harlem Stage presents WaterWorks Established artist, Bessie and Herb Alpert Award-winning dancer and choreographer, nia love, and her collaborators, in UNDERcurrents. Through dance and live music, the work explores themes of water and doors and centers the infamous Middle Passage, where human beings were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to a life of enslavement, as “the door of no return.”…

 
7:30pm
SYREN Modern Dance and Gibney's POP Series present Ithaka

SYREN Modern Dance and Gibney's POP Series present Ithaka

SYREN Modern Dance
As SYREN celebrates its 20-year anniversary, the company is proud to present Ithaka, a nine-section modern dance created by Kate Sutter in collaboration with the dancers of SYREN and set to the lively and dynamic music of LA-based composer and producer Calimossa. The performances will take place for three evenings only, from May 4-6, 2023 at 7:30pm at Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway…

 
7:30pm
mage Description: Lead Photographer: Alice Chacon, Assistant Photographer: Emilee Pratt, five dancers, all costumed in bright or

Syren Modern Dance Premiers Ithaka at Gibney Studio

Syren Modern Dance
Ithaka As SYREN celebrates its 20-year anniversary, the company is proud to present Ithaka, a nine-section modern dance created by Kate Sutter in collaboration with the dancers of SYREN and set to the lively and dynamic music of LA-based composer and producer Calimossa. Like the beloved Constantine Cavafy poem from which it takes its name, Ithaka honors and celebrates the idea of “the journey”…

 
7:30pm
Dancer soaring through air with Time Machine written on top

STREB EXTREME ACTION presents Time Machine

STREB EXTREME ACTION
"TIME MACHINE" is a journey through Elizabeth Streb’s career that explores her classic solos from the 70s and 80s, early equipment experimentations from the 90s, and jaw-dropping extreme action opuses with the large scale “action machines” the company has since become known for from the early 21st century. This historic look back connects the line from the company's experimental past to the…

 
7:30pm
Baryshnikov Arts Center announces New York Premiere of Miguel Gutierrez's I as another

Baryshnikov Arts Center announces New York Premiere of Miguel Gutierrez's I as another

Baryshnikov Arts Center
Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) announces the New York premiere of Miguel Gutierrez's I as another (2022) on May 4-7, 2023 at BAC's Jerome Roberts Theater, 450 W. 37th Street, NYC. Tickets are $25 and are available at bacnyc.org/performances/performance/miguel-gutierrez.   I as another is Miguel Gutierrez's newest work, a duet performed with Laila Franklin. The piece takes place in a…

 
8:00pm
APSARA

INDIA UNLEASHED: APSARAS - celestial dancers descend from the heavens

The India Center
An Apsara is a celestial being in Indian Culture. They figure prominently in sculpture, dance, literature and paintings in India. The Apsaras who are described as beautiful, youthful and elegant are experts in the art of dancing. They are often wives of gandharvas, the court musicians of the King of the gods, Indra. The Apsaras reside in the palaces of the gods and entertain them by dancing to…

 
8:00pm
Two dances face each other holding hands while they extend their other arm the ceiling

"Alvin Ailey New Directions" | NOW STREAMING FREE

ALL ARTS
Take a look inside Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's New Directions Choreography Lab in a new eight-part digital series from ALL ARTS.  Alvin Ailey New Directions follows choreographers Quilan “Cue” Arnold and Maria Bauman as they explore what it means to be an artist.  Watch free on the ALL ARTS app or stream at AllArts.org. 

 
8:00pm
From left to right: Flamenco Artists Barbara Martinez, Rebeca Tomas, Elisabet Torras, Juana Cala seated on chairs and conversing

Las SinSombrero Flamenco

Danza España
Danza España presents its premiere "Las SinSombrero Flamenco", May 4 - 21, 2023 at Thalia Spanish Theatre, where the company has performed since 1989.  "Las SinSombrero Flamenco" is an homage to the Spanish Women Artists of "The Generation of 1927", known as Las SinSombrero (The Hatless), who believed in a fair society seeking autonomy, professional careers, and intellectual freedom equal to men. Yloy…

 
8:00pm
A photo of someone dancing with Alma Dance written across

Take Root Presents: Alma Dance Company and wonderland wizehart

Dance Entropy/Green Space
Womb Creature: With the howl of an endless line of women in her bloodline, she pushes into the world. She has teeth, claws. She moves free of borders. Her being is vast, echoing forward in space and backward in time to the beginning seed of humanity. She is the mucky root, primordial mud, the voice singing over lost and stolen bones. Performed by Roberta Samet, Dr. Angela Fatou Gittens, Natalia Munoz,…

 
8:00pm
Four dance artists wearing floral masks and gloves, pulling, pushing, and cradling one another mid-performance.

Yes and Yes

Liz Roche Company
Yes and Yes takes its title from the final episode of Ulysses, which both begins and ends with a “yes.” This work from the acclaimed Irish contemporary choreographer Liz Roche journeys through the chapters of James Joyce's seminal novel to explore its sensuality, absurdity, release, and resignation in movement with four extraordinary dancers and through film, sound, and design. Performed by…

 
8:00pm
Group Class working out in a bright studio using resistance bands

Crosstrain with ChaiseFitness!

ChaiseFitness
ChaiseFitness Calling all performers! Take advantage of our new Performance Artist Class Rate we are offering. Our co-founder Rachel Piskin is a former New York City Ballet dancer and wants to help support the dance community by offering this special rate for dancers to crosstrain with us — building strong lean muscles, supplementing their dance training.  The rate is $18 per class and…

 
8:00pm
Battery Dance Now Accepting Applications for  Young Voices in Dance - DEADLINE: May 5, 2023

Battery Dance Now Accepting Applications for Young Voices in Dance - DEADLINE: May 5, 2023

Battery Dance
  Battery Dance is now accepting applications for Young Voices in Dance. Applications must be submitted online by May 5, 2023 at batterydance.org/apply-young-voices-in-dance-open.   Young Voices in Dance, Battery Dance Festival's newest addition, celebrates the next generation of choreographers. The program highlights the intellectual curiosity, innovation, and artistic excellence of youth…

 
8:00pm
Photo of room, featuring mirror wall and sprung-wood floor

Subsidized Rehearsal Space

University Settlement
Thanks to a generouse grant from NYSCA, University Settlement is now offering subsidized rehearsal space at its Houston Street Center, 273 Bowery. Room Details Sprung-wood floor. Mirrored wall.  Maximum Capacity: 50 people Dimensions: 72 ft. x 16 ft. ( 1,115 sq feet) Amenities: Restroom Water fountain Tables/chairs upon request Heating/AC and fans Speaker and projector available upon request   Eligibility:…

 
8:00pm
MDD and NYSCA Logos

Mark DeGarmo Dance Awarded $168,500 Over 3 Years by the New York State Council on the Arts

Mark DeGarmo Dance
New York, New York - Mark DeGarmo Dance announced today three grants totaling $168,500 from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector. Following New York State’s historic investment for The Arts, NYSCA has awarded $90 million since Spring 2022 to a record number of artists and organizations across the state. The first two, Regrowth…

 
8:00pm
Embroidery Digitizing

Embroidery Digitizing Service

Absolute Digitizing
Absolute Digitizing offers excellent quality embroidery digitizing service and vector conversion at rock bottom prices. We have an amazing team of talented digitizers and vector artists who only know to produce the best quality. Order now and get your complete files ready for production in less than one day.

 
8:00pm
Russian Masters Ballet Intensive official course of Vaganova Academy

RUSSIAN MASTERS BALLET CAMP - official course of Vaganova Academy

Russian Masters Ballet
Official Course of Vaganova Academy Intensive training in classical dance based on the original didactics of the Vaganova school of Saint Petersburg. The course offers a comprehensive curriculum developed by the most emblematic representatives of the best institution in the field of professional ballet.

 

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