Dance
The best dance performances and dance events in NYC
K'Arts Ballet: Song of the Mermaid
South Korea's SunHee Kim creates a new ballet from Hans Christian Andersen's cautionary fish-out-of-water tale, The Little Mermaid
White Light Festival 2018
Lincoln Center's luminous multidisciplinary fall festival celebrates the spiritual power of dance, music and theater.
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
MoMA goes to church in a major exhibition about the postmodern pathbreakers
Company XIV: Ferdinand—Boylesque Bullfight
Austin McCormick and his fancy-naughty troupe grind through The Story of Ferdinand
Critics’ picks: Dance
Sankofa Danzafro: The City of Others
The Colombian dance company combines Afro-Colombian and contemporary choreography with live singing and drumming.
American Ballet Theatre Fall 2018
The venerable company returns to the Met with world premieres of dances by Michelle Dorrance and Jessica Lang.
Maureen Fleming: Wildflowers, a feminine genesis
The unique Fleming creates spiritual, meditative, butoh-inflected solo works that reflect her training in Japan.
The New York Butoh Institute Festival 2018
Vangeline curates this showcase for the avant-garde minimalist art form, with performances that highlight the work of female dancers.
Sean Curran Company: Everywhere All the Time
Curran and his company celebrate their 20th anniversary with two pieces from their early years and one New York premiere.
Luca Veggetti: Watermill
Italian director-choreographer Veggetti re-creates Jerome Robbins's rarely seen 1972 dance-theater work, set on a lonely stretch of beach.
