City Center's super-affordable festival is an annual feast for dance lovers. Each evening features a sampling of international superstars and local favorites: 15 shows take part in five different programs, each performed just twice for only $20 a pop. This lineup for this year's 20th-anniversary edition includes seven foreign companies and the world premieres of two commissioned works, by Adesola Osakalumi and the team of Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance. The shows tend to sell out fast, for good reason, so snap them up quick if you can.
The complete 2023 lineup is below; for more details about the shows, visit the festival's web page.
Program 1 (September 27 and 28 at 8pm):
Ballet BC: The Statement (Crystal Pite)
Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher: Rhapsody in Blue (Teicher)
Gibney Company: Oh Courage! (Sonya Tayeh)
Program 2 (September 29 and 30 at 8pm):
Côté Danse: StayX (Dix) (Guillaume Côté)
Sara Mearns and Davóne Tines: Mass (Bobbi Jene Smith)
Sergio Bernal Dance Company: Farruca | Orgía | Folia | Soleá (Sergio Bernal with Jose Manuel Alvarez, Joaquín de Luz and Antonio Ruiz Soler)
Program 3 (October 3 and 4 at 8pm):
Houston Ballet: Clear (Stanton Welch)
Jam on the Groove 3 for 30 (GhettOriginal Productions Dance Co.; restaged by Adesola Osakalumi)
Kaleoolakaikahikinaokalā: Hawaiki (The Homeland) (Kumu Kaleo Trinidad, Randie Kamuela Fong, Kumu Edith Kanakaʻole, Kumu Maiki Aiu Lake and Holoua Stender)
Program 4 (October 5 and 6 at 8pm):
Limón Dance Company: Suite from A Choreographic Offering (José Limón)
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Interlinked (Juliano Nunes)
Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance (Asherie and Dorrance)
Program 5 (October 7 at 8pm, October 8 at 3pm):
Bijayini Satpathy: Sitāharan oornratī (Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra)
Germain Louvet and Hugo Marchand of Paris Opera Ballet: Songs of a Wayfarer (Maurice Béjart)
Grupo Corpo: Gira (Rodrigo Pederneiras)