Dance
The best dance performances and dance events in NYC
- Sam Miller
- Marshall Davis Jr.
- Alexandre Hammoudi
- Clara Miller and Isabella LaFreniere
- Jennie Somogyi
Sam Miller
Sam Miller talks about his exciting River to River Festival, which takes place this summer in lower Manhattan.
Marshall Davis Jr.
Tap dancer Marshall Davis Jr. talks about dancing for Savion Glover at the Joyce Theater.
Alexandre Hammoudi
American Ballet Theatre soloist Alexandre Hammoudi talks about his career and his busy spring: He'll dance Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty.
Clara Miller and Isabella LaFreniere
School of American Ballet students Clara Miller and Isabella LaFreniere talk about dancing Balanchine at this year's Workshop Performances.
Jennie Somogyi
Principal dancer Jennie Somogyi talks about returning to New York City Ballet after tearing her Achilles tendon.
Critics’ picks: Dance
Savion Glover
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
The tap sensation—joined by his ensemble—returns to the Joyce in STePz. Dancers are Ayodele Casel, Marshall Davis Jr., Robyn Watson and Sarah Savelli.
- Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave, at 19th St
- Tue Jun 18 - Sat Jul 6
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
- Fri May 31 - Sat Jul 6
"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
- Fri May 31 - Sat Aug 3
- Avery Fisher Hall (at Lincoln Center) 132 W 65th St, at Broadway
- Thu Jun 27 - Sat Jun 29
Merce Cunningham
Dance in pictures
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater [slide show]
For its first season at Lincoln Center in 13 years, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater presents Four Corners, a new work by choreographer Ronald K. Brown. Simone Messmer The ABT dancer is on the
Joanna Kotze [slide show]
Choreographer Joanna Kotze unveils her new It happened it had happened it is happening it will happen at Danspace Project.
Darrell Jones [slide show]
Darrell Jones explores the possibilities of voguing and house dance in Hoo-Ha (for your eyes only).
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.
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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Sleep No More
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