As part of the Powerhouse International festival curated by David Binder at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, Brooklyn, Oct. 28-30, the Brussels-based Choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana draws upon her Madagascan origins and diasporic experience to tell the story she longed to hear as a child in “Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna.” The title translates from Malagasy to “comparison, transference, and rivalry” — a conversation between bodies, histories, and sounds. Ratisifandrihana’s cast rounds out with Guitarist Joël Rabesolo, and Performers Audrey Merilus and Stanley Ollivier, who meld dance, music, and storytelling. “The piece reflects their entangled histories — rooted in Madagascar, Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, and shaped by life in France and Belgium, where they all live today. Voices, gestures, and rhythms overlap, reminding us that bodies, like words, hold memory, and sometimes speak what can’t be said,” according to the release. The performance is co-presented with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival. For more information, visit allianceny.org
STILL RUNNING:
Sept. 16-Oct. 12: New York City Ballet continues their season at the David H. Koch Theater, including the premiere of a new work by former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Resident Choreographer, Jamar Roberts, Justin Peck’s “Heatscape,” Ulysses Dove’s “Red Angels,” Peter Martins’ “Zakouski,” and Gianna Reisen’s “Signs,” and so much more. For more information, visit nycballet.com.
ALSO THIS MONTH:
Oct. 2-4: At Danspace, Elliot Reed’s “Profanity Only Upsets the Living,” “a solo that celebrates the gift of mourning — the universal yet profoundly isolating experience,” will premiere, notes the release. For more information, visit danspaceproject.org.
Oct. 8-9: As part of BAM’s Next Wave season at the nearby venue, Roulette, the genre-defying Zimbabwean Artist, Nora Chipaumire, will transform Roulette into a Zimbabwean shabini — an informal house-based bar — where music, movement, and memory collide in a bold act of resistance in “Dambudzo.” Titled after the Shona word for ‘trouble,’ “Dambudzo” combines sound, painting, sculpture, and performance inspired by radical African thinkers such as Dambudzo Marechera, Steve Biko, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. For more information, visit bam.org.
Oct. 9-11: Kinetic Light, the disability arts company, under Founder and Artistic Director Alice Sheppard, Founding Member Laurel Lawson, and Collaborating Artists Tatiana Cholewa and Kayla Hamilton, will offer the world premiere of its newest work, “The Next TiMes” at New York Live Arts. For more information, visit newyorklivearts.org
Oct. 14-19: The Limón Dance Company returns to The Joyce Theater as part of the company’s 80 history with the restaging of Limón’s 1942 solo “Chaconne and The Emperor Jones (1956),” plus the world premiere of Mexican Choreographer Diego Vega Solorza’s “Jamelgos.” For more information, visit joyce.org
Oct. 15-Oct. 17: At New York Live Arts, Wanjiru Kamuyu will premiere “Fragmented Shadows.” “Grounded in epigenetic and psychosomatic research, Kamuyu offers voice and light to embodied legacies of inherited and personal suffering. She asks, How can we use the body as a site of liberation, a site of healing?” according to the release.
These performances are part of L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival, and co-presented with New York Live Arts. For more information, visit lallianceny.org.
Oct. 15-Nov. 1: At the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, this season for the American Ballet Theatre includes the final performance of Misty Copeland, the first Black female Principal Dancer in the Company’s 85-year history (Oct. 22), the world premiere of “Juliano Nunes’ Have We Met?!” (Oct. 29), plus Twyla Tharp’s “Sextet,” Michel Fokine’s “Les Sylphides,” Antony Tudor’s “Gala Performance,” and Agnes de Mille’s “Rodeo.” For more information, visit abt.org
Oct. 16-18: Symara Sarai brings “The LOVE piece,” a new evening-length solo engaging in a love study; exploring ideas around romantic love, first love, and self-love. For more information, visit danspaceproject.org.
Oct. 16-19: The Ballerina Tiler Peck returns to New York City Center in “Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends,” an encore presentation of the program she curated for the inaugural Artists at the Center. The show features Peck alongside India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Michelle Dorrance, Jovani Furlan, Christopher Grant, Lex Ishimoto, Brooklyn Mack, Aaron Marcellus, Roman Mejia, Jillian Meyers, Mira Nadon, Quinn Starner, Byron Tittle, and Penelope Wendtlandt. On the program are works by William Forsythe, Peck, Alonzo King, and a collaboration between Peck and Tap Dancer Michelle Dorrance. For more information, visit ycitycenter.org.
Oct. 17-18: Continuing the “Women Move the World” season at The 92nd Street Y, the Harkness Mainstage Series 2025/26 season will present YY DANCE COMPANY in the world premiere of “Elsewhere,” “the final chapter in the trilogy that explores the mystery of our existence and of the world we all share by Chinese American Choreographer Yue Yin Blending Chinese, Mongolian, and Tibetan dance with contemporary movement,” notes the release. For more information, visit https://www.92ny.org/culture-arts/school-of-the-arts/dance/performances
Oct. 25: The work-in-development series, “DraftWork” at Danspace curated by Choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones since the ’90s, will feature Annie Wang and Dorchel Haqq. DraftWork is free, open to all, and followed by questions and conversation between the artists, curator, and audience. For more information, visit https://danspaceproject.org/calendar/
Oct 28-Nov 1: Compagnie Dyptik, as part of L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival at The Joyce, will offer the North American premiere of “Le Grand Bal,” a “ … hypnotic work that blends modern and hip hop dance styles into a frenetic dance fever,” according to the release. For more information, visit https://lallianceny.org/event/le-grand-bal/