The dance calendar for September is full!
Through Sept. 25: Every Wednesday in September at Manhattan West, “Gather Round,” a free outdoor dance and music series, in partnership with Works & Process and inspired by the competitions of the summer Olympics in Paris, will feature a celebration of street and club dance battles.
For more information, visit www.manhattanwestnyc.com.
Sept. 17–19: The “Black Black Black” week, curated by Beyond the Black Box, returns to the Trisk with a three-day gathering of dancers, choreographers, and multidisciplinary artists.
For more information, visit www.triskelionarts.org.
Sept. 18–29: The annual 10-day event Fall for Dance Festival returns to City Center with five programs. Slated for this season is the National Ballet of Ukraine, collective kNoname Artist– Roderick George, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, GALLIM, M.A.D.D. Rhythms, A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham, Italy’s CCN/Aterballeto, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Tiler Peck, Herman Cornejo, and much more.
For more information, visit www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/FallforDance/.
Sept. 20: Step Afrika! brings their step tradition of percussive dance, call-and-response, and polyrhythmic symphony to Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.
For more information, visit www.lincolncenter.org.
Sept. 21–23: Erasing Borders, the festival of East Indian dance, presented by the Indo-American Arts Council, will be at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, with programs of all styles of Indian dance and music; live and livestreamed.
For more information, visit www.eventbrite.com.
Sept. 28: Alethea Pace’s “between wave and water,” “… a performance walk rooted in remembering and reclaiming the history of an African burial ground in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx [that] combines dance, storytelling, and song …,” will be presented at Joseph Rodman Drake Park/Enslaved African Burial Ground. Part of Pace’s Civic Practice Partnership Residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For more information, visit www.eventbrite.com.