Dance
The best dance performances and dance events in NYC
- Rennie Harris
- Irina Dvorovenko
- Jack Ferver
- Sara Mearns
- François Chaignaud and Marie-Caroline...
Rennie Harris
Rennie Harris talks about hip-hop and RHAW—Rennie Harris Awe-inspiring Works—which performs at the New Victory Theater.
Irina Dvorovenko
Ballerina Irina Dvorovenko talks about starring in the Encores! presentation of On Your Toes and her career at American Ballet Theatre.
Jack Ferver
The witty Jack Ferver talks about his new work, All of a Sudden.
Sara Mearns
The New York City Ballet principal talks about her new outlook on dancing.
François Chaignaud and Marie-Caroline...
François Chaignaud and Marie-Caroline Hominal shake things up at the Invisible Dog with Duchesses, their naked hula-hoop dance.
Critics’ picks: Dance
New York City Ballet Spring 2013
- Critics choice
This season promises more Balanchine and Robbins, along with premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Justin Peck.
- David H. Koch Theater (at Lincoln Center) 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, at 63rd St
- Sun May 19 - Sun Jun 9
American Ballet Theatre 2013 Spring Season
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
ABT returns to the Metropolitan Opera House with the premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's Shostakovich trilogy, as well as the company debut of Frederick Ashton's A Month in the Country and a new
- Metropolitan Opera House (at Lincoln Center) Lincoln Center Plaza, at 65th St
- Mon May 20 - Sat Jul 6
RHAW
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Rennie Harris Awe-inspiring Works (RHAW) offers a street-dance program.
- New Victory Theater 209 W 42nd St, between Seventh and Eighth Aves
- Sun May 19 - Sun May 26
"100 Years of Flamenco in NYC"
- Free
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana present this exhibit featuring costumes, castanets, engravings and photographs.
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, at 66th St
- Mon May 20 - Sat Aug 3
Merce Cunningham
Dance in pictures
Pam Tanowitz [slide show]
Pam Tanowitz unveils her newest dance, The Spectators, which features dancers Andrew Champlin, Maggie Cloud, Dylan Crossman, Pierre Guilbault, Sarah Haarmann and Melissa Toogood.
Royal Ballet of Cambodia [slide show]
As part of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia's recent performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the company presented an intimate master class.
Vicky Shick [slide show]
Choreographer Vicky Shick collaborates with Barbara Kilpatrick in Everything You See at Danspace Project April 18–20.
Dance Theatre of Harlem [slide show]
The Dance Theatre of Harlem made its historic return to the New York stage in April, performing works by George Balanchine, Robert Garland and more at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Top dance stories
The new Romeos
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
NYCB introduces two new heartthrobs: Zachary Catazaro and Taylor Stanley.
Pam Tanowitz
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
What do Ashley Tuttle, Morton Feldman and the FLUX Quartet add up to? The Blue Ballet.
Elizabeth Streb
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Before she conquers the Olympics, the hardware junkie takes over the Park Avenue Armory.
Christopher Wheeldon
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The choreographer is back at New York City Ballet for a triple bill.
New York's best: Dance
Joyce Theater
- Price band: 1/4
The intimate space, once a cinema, is a fine setting for dance. Of the 472 seats at the Joyce, there’s not a single bad one. Companies and choreographers who present work here, including Ballet
- 175 Eighth Ave, (at 19th St)
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
This gorgeous, high-ceilinged sanctuary for downtown dance is at its most sublime when the music is live. The work of choreographers who take on the four-sided performance space ranges from pure
- 131 E 10th St, (at Second Ave)
The Kitchen
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
- Free
Best known as an avant-garde theater space, the Kitchen also offers experimental dance by inventive, often provocative artists.
- 512 W 19th St, (between Tenth and Eleventh Aves)
New York City Center
- Price band: 2/4
Before Lincoln Center changed the cultural geography of New York, this was the home of the New York City Ballet (originally known as the Ballet Society). City Center’s lavish decor is golden, as are
- 131 W 55th St, (between Sixth and Seventh Aves)
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