Dance
The best dance performances and dance events in NYC
Compagnie XY: Il N’est Pas Encore Minuit
Acrobats from Lille, France, explore the quest for balance in a poetic neocirque show
Critics’ picks: Dance
Ballet Festival
The Joyce presents a festival devoted to contemporary ballet dancers and choreographers who work outside of the large-company model
New Dance Theatre: Asylum
Ilan Ben-Yehuda and Shannon Stowe direct a dance-theater work devoted to questions of mental illness, stigma and compassion
Victory Dance
In an offshoot of its kids’ summer programming, the New Vic presents major dance companies in $10 smorgasbord performances
AGA Collaborative: win. place. show.
A dance collective that explores long-distance collaboration—perforce, since it is based in both New Mexico and North Carolina—visits New York with a work that looks at the pressure to be productive.
Secrets and Seawalls
Kinesis Project teams with the South Street Seaport Museum to stage a piece aboard the Wavertree, a restored 1885 cargo ship. Choreographer Melissa Riker and architect Lee H. Skolnick collaborate on the work, which explores questions of power and physical structure.
Ballet Inc.: The Series: Vol. III
Ballet Inc.'s contemporary-dance festival showcases emerging dance companies and choreographers. This edition includes works by six artists and groups.