Enjoy this month of dance inside and outside. Topping the calendar is MBDance, under founder, choreographer, and director Maria Bauman’s world premiere of These are the bodies that have not borne “ … which combines land art, choreography, original music, soil ecologies, and ritual: a reckoning and a healing offering for those contending with the courage it takes to desire,” notes the release. Performances will take place as part of the Snug Harbor Dance Festival on Staten Island, Aug. 23-24. Bauman offers: “As Black queer and trans folks who have not birthed children, we offer our dancing bodies in an outdoor public setting as evidence and reminder of our inherent worth, obstructing institutional efforts to vilify and invisible-ize us.” The cast includes Graciella Ye’Tsunami, Rochelle Jamila, AJ Wilmore, Angel Edwards, Myssi Robinson, Audrey Hailes, and Bauman. For more information, visit snug-harbor.org.
ALSO THIS MONTH:
Aug. 7: Ballet Hispánico, under artistic director and CEO, Eduardo Vilaro, will perform as part of the Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park.
The program will include Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s House of Mad’moiselle, plus an excerpt from Ochoa’s Sombrerisimo, and an excerpt from Alejandro Cervera’s Tango Vitrola. For more information, visit cityparksfoundation.org.
Aug. 12-16: Battery Dance Festival, in partnership with Battery Park City Authority at the Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park returns after a two-year pause during renovations. The program will include various dance companies including indigenous performer Marie Poncé, followed by tap-dancer John Manzari, Turkish-Dutch choreographer Rutkay Özpinar and Limón Dance Company and many national and international companies. For more information, visit batterydance.org.
Aug. 22-24: At the David A. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Hong Kong Ballet will present the New York premiere of The Butterfly Lovers, “a legendary Chinese folktale about humble scholar Liang Shanbo and aristocratic heiress Zhu Yingtai, who disguises herself as a boy in order to study at a prestigious academy, according to the release. For more information, visit davidhkochtheater.com.