After 22 years, DANCENOW will present its final season, offering new and non-traditional repertory work from a roster of 17 artists it has promoted for the past two-plus decades. The two-day run, Sept. 5-6, will offer two different programs of 8 artists each night. Performances will again take place on the tiny stage at Joe’s Pub, with longtime host TruDee (Deborah Lohse). Performance include works by Amber Sloan, Tsiambwom M. Akuchu, Jane Comfort and Company, Sarah Chien, The Bang, Group, Doron Perk/More Fish, BinBinFactory, Cori marquis + the nines [IX], Megan Williams Dance Project, TAKE Dance, Nicole Wolcott, Claire Porter/PORTABLES, Jamal Jackson and Company, Doug Elkins choreography, Nicole Vaughan-Diaz and Symara Johnson. For more information: visit dancenownyc.org.
THIS MONTH:
Sept. 11: The American Tap Dance Foundation will present the 2024 and 2025 Tap City Awards at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, located within the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. This special event will honor recipients of the ATDF Hoofer Awards, Tap Preservation Awards, and inductees into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame for both 2024 and 2025. The evening will include surprise guests, archival film clips, and live performances, celebrating the rich legacy and vibrant future of tap dance. Honorees will include Dick Van Dyke, Tommy Tune, Lisa La Touche, the late Billy Strayhorn and more. This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information visit atdf.org.
Sept. 12-13: Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet returns to Mark Morris Dance Center, a program of premieres: a solo for Rachele Perla and a company work to music by Tonia Ko. For more information visit newchamberballet.com.
Sept. 13: LaTasha Barnes and an all-female swing band opens The 92nd Street Y season dedicated to women titled “Women Move the World,” with works by women. Barnes will present Swing Out Loud: Women Move The World, a swing dance party, a lesson, a tribute, and a celebration. For more information visit 92ny.org.
Sept. 14: As part of the “Works & Process” series, experience a preview of Jamar Roberts’ new commission for New York City Ballet. For more information visit worksandprocess.org.
Sept. 16-27: For the 22nd year, the annual Fall for Dance Festival returns with five programs of works performed or choreographed by Jeroboam Bozeman, Anna Greenberg, Sara Mearns, and Jamar Roberts, Dario Natarelli in a swooning solo created with Michelle Dorrance, San Francisco Ballet with the New York premiere of Akram Khan’s Dust, Clara Furey/Bent Hollow, Lil Buck and opera singer Davóne Tines, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Gibney Company in Lucinda Childs’s Three Dances (for prepared piano) John Cage, Hannah O’Neill & Hugo Marchand in Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon of a Faun, kNoname Artist│Roderick George, Ballet BC, Dutch National Ballet, Argentina’s Social Tango Project, The Stuttgart Ballet, I-Ling Liu X Dance on Fluid brings Taiwanese choreographer I-Ling Liu and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. For more information visit nycitycenter.org.
Sept. 19-21: Ayodele Casel and Kayla Farrish will share works and discussions at Kaatsbaan. Casel will present a new work with music by Max Roach and Cecil Taylor at Kaatsbaan and Farrish promises two new works that draw on Black histories and jazz’s reimagination. Post show talks with both artists will follow each performance. For more information visit kaatsbaan.org.
Sept. 19-28: Edisa Weeks’ DELIRIOUS Dances will present Wastelandia, “ … a performance ritual constructed from recycled plastic that invites the audience to engage in a multilayered visual and immersive experience,” notes the release, at The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art. For more information visit snug-harbor.org.
Sept. 20-21: “The Erasing Borders Dance Festival,” returns for their seventeenth annual festival and will feature Bharatanatyam artist Priyadarsini Govind, Rama Vaidyanathan with Dakshina and Sannidhi. Performances will take place at Ailey Citigroup Theater. For more information visit iaac.us.
Sept. 22: As part of the “Works & Process” series at The Guggenheim, Dance Theatre of Harlem will offer an evening titled “Art of the Duet” for the revival of Firebird set for 2026. Initially premiered in 1982, Firebird features choreography by John Taras, a score by Stravinsky plus sets and costumes by Geoffrey Holder. For more information visit worksandprocess.org.
Sept. 25-27: A. I. M by Kyle Abraham to the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center with three works: 2×4, by Abraham set to a score by Shelley Washington with music performed live by two baritone saxophonists, The Gettin‘, a work for six dancers created in collaboration with visual artist Glenn Ligon and set to live music by jazz artist Robert Glasper, and If We Were a Love Song, a series of poetic vignettes set to some of Nina Simone’s performed live by singer/songwriter Baby Rose. For more information visit lincolncenter.org.
Sept. 28: Choreographer, director, and painter Shen Wei of Sen Wei Dance Arts, as part of “Works & Process,” will join American Dance Festival executive director Jodee Nimerichter as they discuss Wei’s newest commission. Michelle Yun, Executive Director, Katonah Museum of Art, will also join the panel. For more information visit worksandprocess.org.