DanceAfrica at BAM tops this month’s calendar. Celebrating the forty eighth 12 months because the nation’s largest competition of African dance and tradition, the Memorial Day Weekend festivities (Could 23-26) will embody performances, movies, dance courses, and neighborhood occasions. Below creative director Abdel R. Salaam, Mozambique is the main focus for DanceAfrica 2025, with the theme Mozambique: Motion! Magic! Manifestation!.
This system highlights the historical past, motion, and traditions of Mozambique, the place creative expression is a robust type of cultural reminiscence, non secular connection, and resilience. This 12 months’s efficiency options conventional works — together with the annual Memorial Tribute to the Ancestors — and showcases Mozambique’s internationally acknowledged Track & Dance Firm of Mozambique, alongside Mama Coumba Saaraba, The DanceAfrica Spirit Walkers, and The Billie’s Youth Arts Academy Dance Ensemble. For extra info, go to www.bam.org
Could 2-4: Peridance Up to date Dance Firm’s Season 42 will function works by Igal Perry, Roderick George, Mizuho Kappa, and Lar Lubovitch. For extra info, go to www.peridancecontemporary.org.
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Could 5-19: Motion Analysis on the Judson Church continues its month-to-month choices with performances by Kiera Bono, Stephanie García | Punto de Inflexión and Leslie Parker (Could 5), Mohammadreza Akrami and Abbey McBride (Could 12) and Benin Gardner, Zhangxinan Wu 吴张心安, Queer CI Cohort: Robin Ekeya, Leland Hull, Emily Jones, and Hannah Krafcik (Could 19). For extra info, go to movementresearch.org.
Could 8-9: As a part of Harlem Stage’s dance sequence, E-Strikes, Bebe Miller Firm makes its debut with the brand new ensemble work Detached Forest (2025), and solos Rain (1989) and Rhythm Research (1999). For extra info, go to harlemstage.org.
Could 11th of September: For his or her annual Mom’s Day weekend at NJPAC, and persevering with to have fun the life and legacy of creative director emerita Judith Jamison, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, below interim creative director Matthew Dashing, will current Sacred Songs by Dashing, Jamar Roberts’ Al-Andalus Blues, Hope Boykin’s Discovering Free, Lar Lubovitch’s Many Angels, plus repertory works together with Ailey’s Revelations. For extra info, go to www.njpac.org.
Could 10: Alethea Tempo will reprise between wave and water, a site-specific efficiency rooted in contesting and reclaiming the historical past of an African Burial Floor in Hunts Level, the Bronx. For extra info, go to www.eventbrite.com.
Could 15-17: The experimental movement-based efficiency artist Ankita Sharma will current dhoka/Betrayal/, the place the “Heady and erotic, dhoka entangles Hindu goddess Kali’s final energy with present-day authoritarianism and spiritual violence in a South-Asian diasporic dance-theater duet,” notes the discharge. For extra info go to ci.ovationtix.com.
Could 15-24: For this season, Invoice T. Jones/Arnie Zane Firm will supply two applications: Program A: Curriculum III: Folks, Locations & Issues, “created in opposition to the backdrop of a reminiscence of freedom, and with that reminiscence comes a style for self-determination…” And Program B: Jones’ newest work, Reminiscence Piece solo, the place he “…displays on pivotal moments and influential figures all through his profession …” in response to the discharge. For extra info, go to newyorklivearts.org.
Could 15: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division will current pioneers of Harlem Lite Ft who will share tales of how this New York Metropolis dance custom and tradition was created and the way it has grown. For extra info, go to www.worksandprocess.org.
Could 18: The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Firm, led by creative director Greta Campo and government director Andy Chiang, will launch its thirty seventh anniversary season on the Ailey CitiGroup Theater showcasing Chen’s Unfolding, Tiger and Water Lilies, plus excerpts of Shadow Pressure. The night will shut with Approach of Hearth, and the premiere of UNANiLLUSION by affiliate choreographer Evan Matthew Stewart. For extra info, go to www.nainichen.org.
Could 21-22: On the 92NY Harkness Dance Middle, The Limón Dance Firm celebrates its 79th anniversary with works by José Limón (La Malinche and The Moor’s Pavane), Doris Humphrey (Two Ecstatic Themes), and Be a part of, the premiere by Aszure Barton. For extra info, go to www.92ny.org.
Could 29-31: The Harlem-based, Black female-led dance firm EMERGE125’s 2025 season will occur at El Museo del Barrio, with repertory and restaged works by creative director Tiffany Rea Fisher. For extra info, go to emerge125.org.
Could 29-Jun. 1: Led by creative director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro, Ballet Hispánico celebrates the a hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Bizet’s basic opera “Carmen” with a reimagining of Gustavo Ramírez Sansano’s CARMEN.maquia at New York Metropolis Middle. For extra info go to www.nycitycenter.org.
