The fall season of dance begins now. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, upon invitation by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “to make a work in response to our current American moment,” will premiere “Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn!” The 19-person ensemble piece blends choreography and a live original score by Samora Pinderhughes to powerfully weave together reflections on loss, love, freedom, and resilience. “Jones and Pinderhughes’ collaboration forges an intergenerational bridge as both artists search within themselves and their respective creative interests to meditate on loss, and their distinct responses to the 25-year aftermath of 9/11 and other cataclysms spiraling into our era of loss of freedom, speech, movement, and justice,” notes the release. “Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn!”, a world premiere will run Sept. 10 and 12-13 at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park. Performances are free with RSVP at newyorklivearts.org.
ALSO THIS MONTH:
Sept. 7 – 21: For Citizen Arts International: A Citywide Festival of Multidisciplinary performance in public spaces, there will be free performances from across the globe in neighborhoods throughout NYC’s five boroughs. Find out more at citizenartsinternational.org.
Sept. 12: Creative Performances presents “StylePointe,” bringing together some of New York City’s emerging and established fashion designers to showcase their collections in collaboration with choreographers during New York Fashion Week. Featured dance companies are: Dance Visions NY, DoubleTake Dance, Katie Binder, Leighann Kowalsky, Michelle Thompson, and Taylor Gordon. Find out more at dixonplace.org/.
Sept. 12: At Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s 2026 Annual Festival in Tivoli, NY, the festival closes with performances by EVIDENCE, MasterZ at Work, and more. Find out more at kaatsbaan.org.
Sept. 15 – Nov. 21: The multidisciplinary festival that celebrates the convergence of Black and Latinx artistry through dance, theater, music, literature, ritual, and performance, The BlakTinX Performance Series, returns to BAAD! Find out more at baadbronx.org.
Sept. 16 – 20: At The Mark O’Donnell Theater, celebrating 50 years, the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center will offer tributes to the visionaries who built the organization and will honor Ms. Thelma Hill, Larry Phillips, Melvin C. Davis, and Alex Smith, Jr. See the impressive list of longstanding artists and find out more at thelmahill.org.
Sept. 17: A.I.M by Kyle Abraham brings Abraham’s newest collaborative work, “White Space”, made with composers Jason Moran and Nico Muhly, to Peak Performance in Montclair, New Jersey. Find out more at peakperfs.org.
Sept. 17: As part of “OPEN STUDIOS” at CPR, Stefanie Batten Bland curates an evening that explores the audience/performer relationship within other spaces with Mizuho Kappa, JoyBoy, and Miguel Miranda. Find out more at cprnyc.org.
Sept. 18 – 19: Miro Magloire New Chamber Ballet returns to Mark Morris Dance Center with repertoire and new works. Find out more at newchamberballet.com.
Sept. 18 – 20: China Arts and Entertainment Group presents the New York debut of the dance drama “MULAN” choreographed by Zhou Liya and Han Zhen, produced and performed by China Ningbo Performance & Arts Group, at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Find out more at davidhkochtheater.com.
Sept. 19: Ayodele Casel is joined by collaborators — including a USA Solo Beatbox Champion, a sand dancer, a body percussionist, and others — for a special performance with live music that explores the body as an instrument, presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Musical Bodies.” Find out more at metmuseum.org.
Sept. 19 – 20: Ballet Hispánico will perform excerpts of works by Artistic Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro and Pedro Ruiz, plus a screening of the documentary “The Essence of Us,” directed by Nel Shelby, filmed in Cuba, and captures Ruiz’s process while creating a new work on Malpaso Dance Company. Find out more at 92ny.org.
Sept. 22 – May 30: New York City Ballet’s 2026-27 Season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center with repertory works, premieres, plus additional works by Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts, and more. Find out more at nycballet.com.
Sept. 22 – Oct. 3: The 23rd annual Fall for Dance Festival will again offer an international array of dance artists and companies in five programs. Featured will be works by Robbie Fairchild, Pony Cam, the Vienna State Ballet, Lior Tavori Dance Company, PHILADANCO!, Juan Tomás De la Molía, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Miami City Ballet, and Martha Graham Dance Company. Find out more at nycitycenter.org.
Sept. 23 – 25: Bey.nd The Black Box returns to TRISK with “THE BLACK BLACK BLACK WEEK” and will feature performances by Imani Gaudin, Catherine Kirk,
Curtis Thomas, Alexander Diaz, Alexa Grae, Myssi Robinson, Maria Bauman,
Kayla Farrish, and Dava Huesca. Find out more at triskelionarts.org.
Sept. 24: As part of “OPEN STUDIOS” at CPR in the evening titled “not even tomorrow can deliver you from today,” curated by Keioui Keijaun Thomas, Alex Patrick Dyck, Zora Jade Khiry, and Maxi Hawkeye Canion are featured. Find out more at cprnyc.org.
Sept. 24 – 26: At Baryshnikov Arts, Kashia Kancey will premiere “I Believed It Too,” a dance-theatre work that explores labor, desire, performance, and self-destruction through a boisterous, sweaty, and glamorous concert centered on a performer trapped inside a destructive false reality. Find out more at baryshnikovarts.org.
Sept. 25 – 26: Barkha Patel will present “icchā,” a 60-minute solo kathak work weaving original music, film, set design, and Gujarati folk form garba that explores the body as a vessel for ancestral memory and inherited longing. Find out more at https://tickets.tribecapac.org/.
