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Catch American Ballet Theatre, Maratha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company and more
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Big-name movers and shakers abound this month, including fall runs for American Ballet Theatre and Paul Taylor Dance Company. Festivals such as BAM Next Wave and the inaugural Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels showcase choreographers from across the globe as does The Joyce Theater. And remember, City Center's Fall for Dance and New York City Ballet's fall season, which were covered in our September roundup, continue into October.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs October 3-8. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Olivier Tarpaga, a choreographer and composer from Burkina Faso, created the movement and music for Once the dust settles, flowers bloom, a tribute to the refugees who fled his embattled West African homeland. This evening-length work marks the Joyce debut of his eponymous ensemble of seven dancers and five musicians.
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Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Avenues
Runs October 6-8. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets to NYTB's Once Upon a Ballet: Firebird and Legends & Visionaries.
Versatile chamber troupe New York Theatre Ballet presents a pair of programs that honor its past while looking toward the future. Its latest installment of Legends & Visionaries features a pair of world premieres: one by longtime dancer turned NYTB artistic director, Steven Melendez, the other by former principal dancer Amanda Treiber. Merce Cunningham's Scramble and company premieres by post-modern dance legends David Gordon and Douglas Dunn round out the lineup. At the hourlong family matinees, NYTB presents Richard Holden's take on Firebird.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street on the Upper East Side
Runs October 7 and 10. Free with museum admission.
If you stroll through the Met on October 7 and 10, you may come face-to-face with a dancer performing one of Martha Graham's fierce solos from the 1930s, the decade when her revolutionary aesthetic really took shape. Presented by MetLiveArts, the half-dozen pieces are meant to complement the current exhibition Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs October 10-15.
Cuba's leading contemporary dance company is always a welcome visitor at The Joyce. This mixed bill features A Dancing Island, the latest premiere by artistic director Osnel Delgado, which celebrates salsa, rumba and other social dances from his homeland. The music by Jazz at Lincoln Center mainstay Ted Nash will be played live by a collective of Cuban and American musicians. Rounding out the program are New York premieres by Malpaso cofounder Daileidys Carrazana and New York's own Ephrat Asherie.
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Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in Midtown West
Runs October 12-15.
Christopher Williams continues his Queering the Canon series featuring contemporary reinventions of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes repertory. He turns his imagination loose on Jeux, one of Vaslav Nijinsky's lesser-known choreographic works, created in 1913 and danced to a Debussy score. Also on the program is Williams' revamp of Léonide Massine's 1917 Contes Russes, rechristened A Child's Tale. The stellar duo Reid & Harriet designed the eye-catching costumes.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs October 17-22. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
Words play an important role in the deeply personal and inquisitive creations of Hope Boykin, who's been a prolific choreographer since ending her 20-year tenure with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Her full-evening world premiere States of Hope is a scripted dance memoir set to an original score by Ali Jackson and featuring eight movers who talk, including Boykin as the narrator.
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David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza at 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue in Lincoln Square
Runs October 18-29. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
After a spring of story ballets, American Ballet Theatre offers a more eclectic autumn run. One program pairs two masters of 20th-century ballet: Frederick Ashton's Shakespeare-inspired The Dream and George Balanchine's Ballet Imperial (October 21, 22, 25 and 26). Two other offerings feature more recent works, including a pair of fascinating pieces Alexei Ratmansky made for the company: Piano Concerto No. 1 (October 18-21) set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and On the Dnipro (October 27-29) with a score by Sergei Prokofiev.
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New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Midtown West
Runs October 19-21.
The kickoff event for the inaugural Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels fest, Lucinda Childs' Dance is an evocative collaboration featuring the choreographer's brisk, rhythmic movement fused with Philip Glass' propulsive score and Sol Lewitt's video projections of dancers in motion. The superb corps of the Lyon Opera Ballet put their own spin on this 1979 masterpiece.
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BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street between Ashland and Rockwell Places in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Runs October 19-21.
World-renowned South African dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma, whose powerfully eloquent Cion: A Requiem for Bolero had two smash runs at The Joyce, brings his latest opus Broken Chord to BAM Next Wave. Inspired by a group of South African singers who toured the UK and the US in the 19th century, this evening-length piece combines dance, music by Thuthuka Sibisin and storytelling to conjure this historic but little-known story.
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NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South in the West Village
Runs October 20-21 and 25-26. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets to Room with a View and (La)Horde with Lucinda Childs and Lasseindra Ninja.
The French dance collective (LA)HORDE and the Ballet National de Marseille team up for a pair of innovative programs. On October 20 and 21, they perform Room with a View, a multidisciplinary work for 20 dancers set to the album of the same name by electronic music producer Rone. On October 25 and 26, they present a mixed bill, performing US premieres by Lucinda Childs and Lasseindra Ninja. Part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels fest.
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New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Chelsea
Runs October 21-23.
Another event in the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels fest, L'Étang is director-choreographer Giséle Vienne's stage adaptation of The Pond, an early work by Swiss writer Robert Walser about a young child desperate to win the affections of his seemingly aloof mother. Adéle Haenel and Julie Shanahan embody several characters in this complex tale of filial love.
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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs October 24-November 5.
Founded in 1975, this venerable Tokyo-based troupe presents a compilation of repertory excerpts for a two-week run. Over the decades, Sankai Juku's performances have exposed Western audiences to the wonders of the Butoh tradition, with its emphasis on slow, deliberate movement and pure physicality.
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New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Chelsea
Runs October 26-27.
British-Rwandan singer, dancer and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza brings together five Black, African and Afro-descendant artists for this multi-perspective piece interweaving disparate but connected stories. Part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels fest.
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BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Avenue between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Runs October 27-29.
Adventurous French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane brings his highly athletic Corps extrêmes to BAM Next Wave. This gravity-defying work features a huge climbing wall, a long rope and lots of aerial feats as the performers explore what it means to stand on the brink, both literally and figuratively. Also part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels fest.
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NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South in the West Village
Runs October 28-29. If you're a TDF member, log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
A rare solo performance by acclaimed French dancer-choreographer Boris Charmatz, SOMNOLE examines that hazy, twilight state when one's body is on the cusp of sleep. Whistling is his only accompaniment for this minimalist tour de force. Also part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels fest.
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David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza at 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue in Lincoln Square
Runs October 31-November 12. log in to your account to purchase discount tickets.
This iconic company's 2023 season features 14 pieces by five choreographers: its namesake Paul Taylor of course, along with works by Ulysses Dove, Amy Hall Garner, Larry Keigwin and Lauren Lovette, all danced to live music played by the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Lovette, the company's resident choreographer, offers two new works, one solely for the company's men. The troupe is also adding Ulysses Dove's 1986 work Vespers to its repertory.
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Top image: Olivier Tarpaga Dance Project, which performs at The Joyce Theater this month. Photo by Serge Daniel Kabore.
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