Some Dance This Weekend~
Jun. 24 - Jul. 1
Various Artists
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Jun 22 - 28
“PAIRINGS,” a new intimate improvisational performance series bringing together different music and movement artists each night. “Pairings” is curated and produced by Cameron Sczempka, with Associate Producers Serena Wolman and Milo Milosevic.
The Schedule & Pairings:
Wednesday June 24 - Ben Green x Creams
Thursday June 25 - Chloe Crenshaw x Elori Saxl
Friday June 26 - Madison Wada x Qiujiang Levi Lu
Saturday June 27 - Lavy x Ibrahima Mbaye
Sunday June 28 - Maleek Washington x Melanie Charles
Find out more here
Various Artists
Durham, NC
May 27–Jul. 25
American Dance Festival’s 2026 season features 49 performances by 26 companies and choreographers, including world premieres, commissions and debuts. Find out more here
Various Artists
BAAD!
Jun. 4 - 27
OUT LIKE THAT!, the Bronx’s only LGBTQ+ performing arts festival, a celebration and a declaration that queer artistry, joy, resistance, and community remain vital and unstoppable continues. Artists include Charly Dominguez, Kalik B and Sharron “Slimm” Jones, The Out Like That! Dance Compilation, Andrea Cortez, Malcolm Hines, David Guallpa, Darren Justice, Jaylon McCraven, Josefina Rojas, Ava Desiderio, Brooke Brookshire and more. Find out more here
Various Artists
Lincoln Center/Alice Tully Hall
Jun. 10 - 28
The “Summer for the City 2026” series continues with the first iteration of the inaugural Lincoln Center Contemporary Dance Festival featuring international companies and choreographers, U.S. and New York premieres, as part of the Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance. The calendar continues with Jeremy Nedd’s from rock to rock...aka how magnolia was taken for granite (Jun 18 - 19); Yinka Esi Graves’s The Disappearing Act (Jun 20 - 21); Sung Im Her | Her Project in 1 Degree Celsius (Jun 24-25); Rachid Ouramdane | Compagnie de Chaillot in Tordre, (Jun 27-28); plus the “Social dance on The Dance Floor” series which includes La Tribu de Abrante, Louis Armstrong House Museum Big Band, Herencia de Timbiqui and so much more. Each beginning with a DJ set and dance tutorials across a variety of dance styles. Find out more here
American Ballet Theatre
The Met
Jun. 17 - Jul. 18
The 2026 Summer season includes Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake, John Cranko’s Onegin, both set to music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, a new staging of Don Quixote by Susan Jaffe and Susan Jones set to music by Ludwig Minkus, and Sylvia by Frederick Ashton with music by Léo Delibes. Find out more here
Pilobolus
The Joyce
Jun. 23 - Jul. 12
Pilobolus brings Trips, a “…journey through gravity-defying feats and emotional landscapes…not just a series of works—it is a single, shifting experience led by an intergalactic captain on a voyage through Pilobolus,” notes the release. Find out more here
Chamber Dance Project
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.)
Jun. 24 - 27
Under the Founding Artistic Director Diane Coburn Bruning, on the program are repertory works: Bruning’s Ramblin’ Suite and Berceuse, Bruning and Andile Ndlovu’s Chant, Christian Denice’s Book of Stones, plus the world premiere of William Moore’s Murmur. Find out more here
Malcolm-x Betts and Kat Sotelo
Domino Park
Jun. 24 - 25
In the shared evening, Betts will present Falling castles and broken dreams, an improvisational dance performance, and from Sotelo, IS THIS BEAUTIFUL OR AM I TIRED? “…performance strives for transcendence, only to collapse into something softer, stranger, and sadder,” according to the release. Find out more here
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener
Webinar
Jun. 25
Join 2023 Creative Capital Awardees Mitchell and Riener as they unpack how they created Open Machine, a new choreographic work supported by Creative Capital, with a cast of nine dancers and real-time audiovisual description, virtual renderings, and live video. They will share insights into the creative process with REDCAT Deputy Director and Chief Curator of Performing Arts Katy Dammers and discuss how creative, technological, and budgetary parameters evolved the piece. Reserve here
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company
New York City Center
Jun. 25 - 26
inviting participants in for an intimate conversation about the creative process behind their newest work. The Company will be In The Studio. Reserve free ticket here
Andrew Skeels, Lloyd Knight, Jacqueline Harris
CARVALHO
Jun. 25 - Jul. 9 & Jul. 25
Choreographer Andrew Skeels, plus performers Lloyd Knight (Martha Graham Dance Company) and Jacquelin Harris (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater), will offer responses within a living, site-responsive landscape by designer Nicole Rossi. “Together, the work is a durational study on the fragility of relationships and living systems alike,” notes the release. Find out more here
Various Artists
Arts On Site
Jun. 26 - 27
For An evening of works created and performed by friends, family, former and current members of The Bang Group, titled “Beyond The Bang Group,” performers will be Amber Sloan, Deborah Lohse, Louise Benkelman, Dylan Baker, Margaret Falcone and Tommy Seibold. Find out more here
Lucinda Childs Dance Company
Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Jun. 26 - 28
The company performs at the Sosnoff Theater, part of Bard SummerScape, and alongside collaborators, composers Philip Glass and John Adams, the late theater director Robert Wilson and Frank Gehry, architect of the Fisher Center. The summer season is titled “Momentary Reprise.” The program will include the duet Actus, Childs will perform a new adaptation of Geranium ’64 (1965), Field Dance 2 an ensemble piece staged in special tribute to Robert Wilson (1941–2025), excerpted from Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, and Distant Figure, a new work with music by Philip Glass. Find out more here
Various Artists
Taylor Dance East Theater
Jun 26 - 28
WHITE WAVE Dance announces the 25th anniversary season of the three-day DUMBO Dance Festival showcasing 35 companies from New York and around the world. The roster of companies includes: yoshiko chuma and the school of hard knocks, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Jennifer Muller/The Work, BK Dance Project, Parisa Khobdeh Dance, Samaw Dance Company, Dmitri Peskov, Marez Dance Company, Amos Pinhasi, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Alexandra Light, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, Kris Hudecz, Orphic, Olivia Wang, WHITE WAVE Dance and more. Find out more here
Anna Sperber
Lincoln Center/Hearst Plaza
Jul. 1 - 3
Sperber’s brings her Bow Echo “a work for four performers that unfolds as a landscape of undergoing, traveling through, and spinning out to seek a path forward,” to the Hearst Plaza, notes the release. This is a free performance as part of the Summer for the City “Dance Encounters” series. Find out more here