The season of dance just keeps getting better. Be sure to see what shows are still running since the September calendar. Highlighting this month’s calendar is “Toi, moi, Tituba…” by Dorothée Munyaneza to be presented at New York Live Arts, Oct. 23 – 24. “Toi, moi, Tituba…’ “is based on French philosopher Elsa Dorlin’s essay on Maryse Condé’s heroine Tituba. As a Black woman and so-called witch, Tituba gives a voice to those who are silenced by force. Inspired by this story, Munyaneza uses her own body as an archive, and with composer Khyam Allami, presents a multiplicity of silenced voices and perspectives to revive memories and celebrate them through dance and music,” according to the release. “Toi, moi, Tituba…” is presented in association with BAM, L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival, and Villa Albertine. Find out more at https://newyorklivearts.org/.
STILL RUNNING:
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. 22, 2026 – May 30, 2027: 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.
ALSO THIS MONTH:
Oct. 6 – 10: Celebrating their 80th anniversary, the Limón Dance Company returns to The Joyce under Artistic Director Dante Puleio. Slated for this season is José Limón’s “Mazurkas” (1958), choreographed by Aszure Barton and composed by Ambrose Akinmusire who join their take on Limón’s description of a lost Doris Humphrey work created. Find out more at joyce.org.
Oct. 7: The intergenerational dance company, Dances For A Variable Population returns to The New York Botanical Garden with a free performance of “REVIVAL 10: Retrospective,” choreographed by Artistic Director Emerita Naomi Goldberg Haas. Find out more at nybg.org.
Oct. 8: For OPEN AiR at CPR, Erica Enriquez’s “MOVING COMPANY” explores how bodies and memories are carried through movement. Find out more at cprnyc.org.
Oct. 8 – 10: Benjamin Akio Kimitch will be at New York Live Arts and will “conjure a fantasy Japanese American court dance where history presses against memory, and memory against imagination,” the release notes. Find out more at newyorklivearts.org.
Oct. 8 – 10: At Danspace Project, the Vietnamese choreographer Anh Vo will present “a sign, a signal, a delivery, a deliverance, a sign, a signal, a delivery, a deliverance,” revisiting Vo’s upbringing in Vietnam to channel the strange poetics of living under the spell of authoritarianism. Find out more at danspaceproject.org.
Oct. 9 – 10: MODArts Dance Collective will present the ninth annual Move to Change Dance Festival in Speyer Hall at University Settlement. Find out more at modartsdance.com.
Oct. 9 – 10: Waves of Korean Contemporary Dance brings together three voices in contemporary dance, presenting works by WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, Andamiro Art Company, and choreographer Lee Dongha. The event is free. Find out more at koreanculture.org.
Oct. 15: The Kuchipudi dancer, choreographer, and researcher Sreelakshmy Govardhanan will present an evening of performance and conversation with Marina Harss at Danspace Project in partnership with FourOneOne. Find out more at danspaceproject.org.
Oct. 15 – 17: Japanese-American artist Kimiko Tanabe and Moroccan American artist Nora Alami will offer Warm Greetings from one long day in the desert, an evening-length multidisciplinary dance and performance duet at TRISK. Find out more at triskelionarts.org.
Oct. 16: As part of Lincoln Center’s Legacies of San Juan Hill festival, Sekou McMiller & Friends will premiere “Urban Love Suite,” a music-driven celebration of the cultural connections and shared histories among Black and Brown communities at Alice Tully Hall. Find out more at lincolncenter.org.
Oct. 16 – 17: At 92NY, drawing on his upbringing in the Black Baptist church, Johnnie Cruise Mercer brings “The Good News Suite,” “…rooted in memory, ritual, and shared experience,” according to the release. Find out more at 92ny.org.
Oct. 16 – 18: At the Theater at the 14th Street Y, Clark Center NYC and From the Horse’s Mouth will celebrate the legacy of five trailblazing Black ballerinas whose groundbreaking careers and enduring sisterhood are chronicled in Karen Valby’s “The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History.” The cast will include the four surviving “Swans,” Marcia Sells, Sheila Rohan, Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, and Lydia Abarca Mitchell, and in memory of Gayle McKinney-Griffith, alongside former DTH dancers, colleagues, and collaborators. Find out more at 14streety.org.
Oct. 24: Victoria Lynn Awkward and JOYBOY will share works-in-development at Danspace’s DraftWork, facilitated by Ishmael Houston-Jones. DraftWork is free, open to all, and followed by questions and conversation between the artists, curator, and audience. Find out more at danspaceproject.org.
Oct. 22: For “OPEN STUDIOS” at CPR, Anh Vo invites Sol Cabrini, Bao Nguyen, and Karwaan Kotwal for an evening of performance exploring the desire for the incommensurable. Find out more at cprnyc.org.
