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All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Across
This flavor'south highlights? A new festival at Petty Isle, a altogether celebration for Twyla Tharp — and the return of all the things you've missed.
When the world shut downwardly last twelvemonth, whole slates of professional trip the light fantastic toe programming evaporated overnight. Still suddenly everyone was dancing: at virtual trip the light fantastic parties and in TikTok challenges, in the swelling crowds at social justice protests, in the streets as ballot results rolled in. This fall dance is dorsum onstage, with theaters and companies (optimistically) planning busy seasons. Much of the programming feels like concern every bit usual, only some artists are channeling the energy of the moment, reimagining dances created online during shutdowns as alive pieces, or bringing the cathartic power of protest dance to the phase. (Theaters may crave audience members to prove proof of vaccination, and live performances are withal subject to change because of Covid; cheque websites for updated information.)
September
MADELINE HOLLANDER The ballet star David Hallberg was supposed to accept his terminal bows onstage terminal year. The pandemic had other plans. Just before Hallberg departed New York to go director of the Australian Ballet, Madeline Hollander — a choreographer, visual creative person and former professional person ballet dancer — recorded a collection of Hallberg bows, some in the styles of different ballets, some more imaginative. Those "l Last Bows" first were shown during Performa's streamed benefit in November. Hollander has expanded and re-edited the footage for "52 Final Bows," which will stream online every bit part of the Shed'due south digital commissioning program. (Sept. 14, The Shed)
COLLEEN THOMAS Thomas's "Light and Desire" was scheduled to premiere just as Covid-19 shutdowns began final March. Now completely reimagined, it volition open up New York Live Arts' 10th anniversary flavor, with Thomas and a bandage of five other women exploring what it means to be an artist and a feminist during a fourth dimension of global emergency. (Sept. 15-xviii, New York Live Arts)
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Little ISLAND DANCE FESTIVAL Little Island has quickly become something of a dance hot spot — thanks in big office to the resident artist Ayodele Casel, a tap dancer and choreographer of radiant generosity. Casel brought in the manager and producer Torya Beard, her partner in art and life, to help organize Piffling Island's showtime dance festival. A kaleidoscope of percussive trip the light fantastic toe and music from around the world, it includes striking creative person pairings (the kathak dancer Barkha Patel with the tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman; the B-girl Rokafella with the percussive dancer Ryan K. Johnson) and a National Dance Day celebration on Sept. 18 featuring iv new works. (Sept. 15-19, Little Isle)
JOHN F. KENNEDY Middle FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Kennedy Heart'south new Accomplish expansion — a collection of studios, classrooms and public spaces that opened in 2019 — offers a friendly, intimate domicile for some of the organization'due south virtually intriguing dance programming. Two D.C.-expanse artists will nowadays new works in the Reach this fall: the tap dancer Quynn Johnson'south film "Rhythm Is Our Concern" debuts on Sept. xvi, and the choreographer Britta Joy Peterson'south "Already In that location," an immersive installation in the middle'due south Studio K, runs Oct. 28-30.
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP The Mark Morris Trip the light fantastic Center, which helped make Brooklyn a dance destination when it opened in 2001, is one of the most appealing places to dance or run across trip the light fantastic toe in New York. To celebrate the eye's 20th ceremony, Morris'south visitor volition perform two repertory staples, "Words" and "Fugue and Fantasy" — not in the building, just in the open air of a nearby plaza (Sept. xviii). A few days afterward, the company will be back outside, premiering a new piece of work past Morris during a program at Brooklyn Bridge Park (Sept. 25); that lineup will be repeated in the Queens Botanical Garden the following week (October. 3).
BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CENTER The center's autumn season will be entirely digital, with programs offered free on the visitor's website. "In Conversation With Merce" features excerpts from Merce Cunningham's 1972 work "Landrover" performed by dancers from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, complemented past new works from Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring that answer to Cunningham'due south choreography (Sept. 20-xxx). Mats Ek and Ana Laguna — lifetime collaborators, and husband and wife — will debut his-and-hers solos choreographed by Ek and filmed at their home in Sweden (October. 4-14). Several other premieres stem from the BAC Artist Commissions initiative, created to support artists during the pandemic, including Sooraj Subramaniam's "Other Places of Existence" (Nov. 1-15), which explores the choreographer's long-distance friendship with a young man practitioner of Odissi classical dance; and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd'due south "Trip Gloss" (Nov. 29-Dec. 13), which collages the movements of 6 dancers with layered animation.
NEW YORK Metropolis BALLET George Balanchine's middle-catching "Serenade" brought even the imperious Martha Graham to tears. Will in that location exist a dry middle in the house when "Serenade" opens City Ballet's first testify dorsum at its Lincoln Middle abode? The visitor's fall flavour (Sept. 21-Oct. 17) too includes the annual fashion gala, featuring Sidra Bong and Andrea Miller's first phase works for City Ballet — both fabricated digital pieces for the company terminal year — costumed by the designers Christopher John Rogers (for Bell'south piece) and Esteban Cortázar (for Miller's). The principal dancers Lauren Lovette, Inquire la Cour, Abi Stafford and Maria Kowroski will requite cheerio performances, part of a wave of notable dancer departures that continues into the wintertime and jump seasons. And the reliable delights of "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" render Nov. 26-Jan. 2.
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RAGAMALA DANCE Visitor Led by the female parent-daughter collaborators Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, Ragamala uses the South Indian classical dance fashion Bharatanatyam to tell stories that meld the sacred and traditional with the human and gimmicky. The company'southward new evening-length work, "Fires of Varanasi" (which premiered earlier in September at the Kennedy Center), features 11 dancers in an onstage ritual that examines immigrant experiences of life and death. (Sept. 22-26, the Joyce Theater)
HARKNESS DANCE Heart The 92nd Street Y's historic concert hall — where Martha Graham, Pearl Primus, Alvin Ailey and Merce Cunningham developed their era-defining art — has not hosted a dance season for decades. This autumn, Harkness Trip the light fantastic toe Heart offers four programs in the space, all viewable both in person on the first dark and online for the next few days. FLOCK, founded by the former Hubbard Street Dance Chicago dancers Florian Lochner and Alice Klock, volition debut a new piece of work they have choreographed (Sept. 23-26); the former Ailey dancer Hope Boykin and her visitor HopeBoykinDance will nowadays the New York premiere of Boykin's "ReDefine US, From The INside OUT" (Oct. 21-24); Yin Yue, the Shanghai-born, New York-based choreographer who has made works for many companies, will offer a new slice for her own ensemble (Nov. 18-21); and the tap luminaries Michelle Dorrance and Dormeshia will host an evening of tap, featuring dancers and musicians from their impressive network (Dec. 16-19).
ASBURY PARK Dance FESTIVAL Co-founded by the acclaimed Paul Taylor Trip the light fantastic toe Company alums Michelle Fleet, Laura Halzack and Michael Trusnovec, this festival returns for a second installment after making its debut in 2019. A constellation of trip the light fantastic toe stars — including the Martha Graham Dance Company primary Xin Ying, the B-daughter Ephrat Asherie, the tap creative person Maurice Chestnut and the American Ballet Theater master Cassandra Trenary — volition assemble at the Bailiwick of jersey Shore for a one-dark-just functioning benefiting Arts Ed NJ. (Sept. 25, House of Independents)
DANSPACE PROJECT FALL 2021 Recognizing that early-career dance creators felt the pandemic loss of studio time, not to mention paid work, especially acutely, Danspace is focusing its fall flavour on a residency programme that gives infinite and support to emerging artists. The organization will offering a free outdoor event on Sept. 25, in the garden of its St. Mark'south Church building home. Office social gathering, part show, the evening will include performances by Devynn Emory, Mina Nishimura and Samita Sinha.
ALEJANDRO CERRUDO Cerrudo's fluid, virtuosic dances have fabricated him a hot ticket at companies effectually the world for more than a decade; concluding year he became the first resident choreographer at Pacific Northwest Ballet. "Information technology Starts Now," at the Joyce, is his debut solo production. Made for a handpicked group of dancers, it probes the fragmented nature of fourth dimension. (Sept. 28-Oct. iii, the Joyce Theater)
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BILL T. JONES Jones'southward "Afterwardsness," one of the first live dance performances of 2021, shook awake the huge Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall this spring, capturing the pain and exhaustion of a traumatic year. This fall, Jones will be back at the Armory for the long-delayed premiere of "Deep Bluish Sea," a consideration of private and grouping identities inspired by "Moby-Dick" and the writings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. One hundred dancers and community members volition make full the Drill Hall, just the evidence begins with just one: Jones himself, returning to performance for the first time in more than than xv years. (Sept. 28-Oct. 9, Park Avenue Armory)
DENISHAWN Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's Denishawn, founded in 1914, formed role of the bedrock of American mod dance. Withal the visitor's repertoire, trailblazing in its time, has gone largely unperformed in contempo years. This fall at the Theater at St. Jean's, Audrey Ross, a publicist turned producer, revives 10 rarely seen St. Denis and Shawn dances, performed by a cast of venerable artists that includes Arthur Aviles, PeiJu Chien-Pott and Valentina Kozlova. (Sept. 30-Oct. iii; Theater at St. Jean's)
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WORKS & PROCESS During terminal year's shutdowns, this Guggenheim Museum serial helped pioneer the bubble residency, bringing small groups of artists to secluded locations to create together safely. The fall Works & Procedure season includes two chimera-adult premieres. In the first, "The Missing Chemical element," a cast of street dancers and beatboxers, led by the B-boy Anthony Vito Rodriguez and the champion beatboxer Chris Celiz, join forces for a work inspired by natural elements (October. 23). In the other, "Third Bird," John Heginbotham'due south choreography animates a kid-friendly libretto by Isaac Mizrahi near a bluebird, a duck and an ostrich, with music by Nico Muhly (Dec. three-5 and 10-12). In between, Miami City Ballet will present excerpts from coming ballets by Claudia Schreier and new choreography by Durante Verzola (Nov. 21-22).
THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Want to become to know the Chocolate Factory's new dwelling house? Let Aunts show you around. On October. 3, the dance group will put on an event in the theater's new Long Island City space, with overlapping performances filling every corner. The theater's fall lineup also includes Luciana Achugar's "Puro Teatro: A Spell for Utopia," which was first presented last year as a digital work about what it meant to brand theater without a theater. Nov. 10-thirteen, Achugar and iii other performers bring the piece into the Chocolate Factory's existent-life space. (Both the Aunts outcome and "Puro Teatro" are co-productions with N.Y.U.'s Skirball Centre.)
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CALEB TEICHER Teicher — a rhythm connoisseur known for interdisciplinary collaborations (have you heard the song they made with Ben Folds?) — volition nowadays the pandemic-delayed premiere of "Swing Out" at the Joyce. Conceived with Evita Arce, LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh and Macy Sullivan, the work features Lindy Hop and swing choreography set to live music by the Eyal Vilner Big Band. Come ready to join the party: At the end of each operation, the audition will be invited onstage for a jam session. (Oct. v-Oct. 17, the Joyce Theater.)
PILOBOLUS The gymnastic dance-theater of this pop group, named for a genus of fungus, has a durable appeal. For its 50th anniversary, Pilobolus is taking a program of greatest hits, plus a new work featuring its signature shadowplay, on the road. The "Big Five-Oh!" commemoration volition visit 11 locations beyond the country. (Oct. 5-Nov. 18, diverse locations)
RICHARD Motility AND MOVEOPOLIS! In "Herstory of the Universe@Governors Isle," the showtime functioning piece of work commissioned past the isle'south trust, Motion and their company volition lead audiences on a sojourn through the park, with half-dozen site-specific dances inspired past its varied landscapes. Move has spent more than two decades channeling — existence possessed past, actually — Martha Graham, in their "Martha@" serial, and the seven-woman cast for "Herstory" includes both current and former members of the Graham company. (Oct. 9 and xvi, Governors Isle)
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Autumn FOR DANCE A ticket to New York City Middle'southward something-for-everyone festival volition set you dorsum only $15. 4 commissions dot Fall for Trip the light fantastic's five programs this season. The choreographer Lar Lubovitch will brand a work for the New York City Ballet principals and real-life partners Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon, who gave a poignant rendition of the duet from Lubovitch'southward "Concerto Half dozen Twenty-Ii" during concluding yr's digital festival. The Verdon Fosse Legacy, featuring the City Ballet soloist (and newly minted author) Georgina Pazcoguin, will reconstruct three dances originally made for Gwen Verdon. The tap artist Ayodele Casel and Justin Peck, City Ballet's resident choreographer — both in loftier demand right at present — circular out the commission list. (Oct. 13-24, New York Urban center Center)
ABRONS ARTS CENTER Abrons's autumn flavour begins with Ursula Eagly's "The Nature of Concrete Reality," a one-on-i performance in which light (by Madeline All-time), sound (by Kohji Setoh) and the energy healing technique reiki shape the perceptions of a single viewer (Oct. xv-Dec. xviii). In "I Am Also - Monte," the choreographer Molly Poerstel contemplates her relationship with her longtime collaborator, the house dancer Monte Jones, and how his own experiences have seeped into her piece of work (November. eleven-13). The choreographer Marguerite Hemmings and the new media creative person LaJuneé McMillan's "Antitoxin," which had its premiere last twelvemonth every bit a video piece of work that used motion-capture software to create a virtual safe space for Blackness and brownish bodies, will be presented as a alive piece, Dec. ten-12, with a cast of six young artists from local high schools.
PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK Concluding yr, when Performance Space New York'southward "02020" project put a cohort of artists in charge of the institution, the group resurrected an early Performance Space tradition: Open Motility, which gives the public blocks of fourth dimension to piece of work in the theater for gratis. The program moved to a virtual Zoom room during shutdowns, but on Sundays this fall, it returns to Performance Space'due south theaters. Each week, an artist will lead a move session for office of the mean solar day. Follow along, or don't: either choice is equally in the Open Motility spirit. (Oct. 17-Dec. 12, Performance Space New York)
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LUCINDA CHILDS Childs, a pioneer of postmodern minimalism, recently told The Guardian that she is "81 on newspaper." Ane could say that her seminal piece of work "DANCE," with a score by Philip Drinking glass and a motion picture installation by Sol LeWitt, is "42 on paper." Though "Trip the light fantastic" challenged audiences at its 1979 premiere — many walked out — its austere, repetitive geometries, synchronized with projected footage of the work'southward original cast, take come to experience ageless. (Oct. nineteen-24, the Joyce Theater)
AMERICAN BALLET THEATER The company's scrappy summer coach tour might have proved that it doesn't demand red velvet seats, just they don't hurt, either. Ballet Theater will return to more luxurious environment this fall, opening its two-week run at the David H. Koch Theater with "Giselle." The flavor will also include a globe premiere by Jessica Lang, "ZigZag," set up to 11 Tony Bennett songs. Two works that originally debuted online — Alexei Ratmansky's "Bernstein in a Bubble" and Christopher Rudd's intimate "Touché" — will become their offset stage performances. And the visitor will revive Antony Tudor's potent dance-drama "Pillar of Fire" for the first time in several years. (Oct. xx-31, David H. Koch Theater)
PERFORMA 21 BIENNIAL Performa is staging its interdisciplinary biennial outside this year, with programming at locations around New York Metropolis. (Organizers moved the outcome upward by a month for friendlier weather.) The trip the light fantastic toe highlight is Madeline Hollander'south "Review" (Oct. 22-23), featuring 25 dancers who were forced to call off performances during the pandemic. "Review" gives them a chance to perform sections from those canceled dances, or versions of them: Hollander employs the "mark" gestures used by ballet dancers during rehearsals, which form a sort of dance sign linguistic communication. In another Performa committee, the artist Shikeith will present a musical considering the Black queer American male body (October. 23-24), with an eclectic grouping of performers and dancers — the protagonist is a drum majorette — and choreography past Shamel Pitts.
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MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY For its return to full-length, full-strength alive performance, the Graham visitor is bringing a now-characteristic mix of old and new to the Joyce. The choreographer Andrea Miller, seemingly everywhere correct at present, will premiere a piece set to a sound score by Will Epstein. Pam Tanowitz'southward 2019 work "Untitled (Souvenir)," inspired past a variety of Graham works, volition render, as volition the Graham classics "Appalachian Jump," "Diversion of Angels" and "Steps in the Street." (Oct. 26-31, the Joyce Theater)
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS Williams has a gift for making the mythological and historical feel modern. "Narcissus," his new evening-length work at New York Live Arts — ready to Nikolai Tcherepnin's score for the 1911 Ballets Russes production "Narcisse" — looks at the familiar Greek myth from a queer, contemporary perspective. (Oct. 28-thirty, New York Live Arts)
November
ALICE RIPOLL AND SUAVE The Portuguese discussion "cria" tin can mean both "create" and "young creature." In "Cria," at the Brooklyn University of Music'due south Fishman Space (November. 2-6), the Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll channels the wildness of adolescence. The x members of Suave, a group of Black cisgender and transgender performers that Ripoll met in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, weave contemporary dance with the exuberant hybrid street styles passinho and dancinha. (November. 2-6, Brooklyn Academy of Music)
GIBNEY COMPANY Gina Gibney'southward recently expanded ensemble, at present 12 dancers potent, will make its Joyce Theater debut this fall with a plan of iii world premieres. The choreographer Sonya Tayeh — as at abode in the concert dance earth as she was on "And so Y'all Retrieve You Can Dance" — will debut a piece set to a new composition performed live by the folk-stone duo the Bengsons. The Norwegian creative person Alan Lucien Oyen, known for combining dance with theater and text, will make his U.S. debut. And Rena Butler, whose hybrid position at Gibney includes both dancing and choreographing, volition premiere a work reimagining the story of King Kong. (Nov. 2-vii, the Joyce Theater)
PEAK PERFORMANCES The Montclair State Academy arts series brings two trip the light fantastic productions to its campus theater this fall. In Stefanie Batten Bland's dance-theater work "Look Who's Coming to Dinner," inspired past the 1967 motion-picture show of a similar name, seven performers probe issues of race, gender and love on a stage full of tables (Nov. 4-vii). In December, the French group Compagnie Libertivore presents the U.S. premiere of "Fractales," featuring five acrobats and dancers navigating an ever-changing environment (Dec. 16-19).
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CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR STARRING THE RADIO Metropolis ROCKETTES But a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic could have taken down this juggernaut. Just information technology's dorsum this year, with its considerable dance pleasures. In addition to the Rockettes' precision choreography — boggling no thing how many times you've seen it — there's ever a wealth of talent in the non-Rockette dance ensemble. (Keep an heart on the young dancer playing Clara: several alums of the role have grown upwardly to be ballet stars.) (Nov. 5-Jan 2, Radio City Music Hall)
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INDIGENOUS ENTERPRISE This Phoenix-based visitor of Navajo artists — which has performed on NBC's "World of Dance," at the N.B.A. finals, and as part of President Biden's inauguration — is bringing Native American trip the light fantastic traditions into popular culture. At the Joyce, Indigenous Enterprise volition perform a new work, "Indigenous Liberation," featuring songs, storytelling, and the confab dances of several tribes. (November. 9-14, the Joyce Theater)
COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET Founded by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson in 1994, Complexions helped invent a formula now popular throughout the gimmicky trip the light fantastic world: sleek works prepare to familiar music, performed past a diverse group of superhuman bodies. Its fall season at the Joyce includes the world premiere of "Snatched Back From the Edges," with a soundtrack ranging from Beethoven to spoken word to gospel to Aloe Blacc. (Nov. 16-28, the Joyce Theater)
TWYLA NOW Happy birthday, Twyla Tharp. The renowned dancer-director-choreographer turned 80 this summer, and she'due south jubilant at New York City Centre with a programme that looks not just back only also, as ever, forward. The lineup includes two Tharp premieres — 1 pairs stars from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet with a chorus of young performers — every bit well as the duets "Pergolesi" and "Cornbread." ("Pergolesi" is getting a playful twist: City Ballet'south Sara Mearns will trip the light fantastic the office originally made for Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the ballet and Broadway dancer Robbie Fairchild will take on Tharp'south role.) (November. 17-21, New York Urban center Center)
PARSONS DANCE David Parsons'southward crowd-pleasing ensemble, a regular at the Joyce, volition premiere four dances during its two-week flavour. Two are past Parsons: "The Road," set to songs by Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens), and "Balance of Power," a showcase for the arresting dancer Zoey Anderson. "Past Tense," by Matthew Neenan, a founder of BalletX, taps the entire Parsons visitor, and Chanel DaSilva's "On the Other Side" features an original score by Cristina Spinei. (Nov. thirty-December. 12, the Joyce Theater)
December
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER Ailey's return to New York City Center, where its holiday season is an annual tradition, features two premieres and iii milestones. Both new works are phase adaptations of pandemic moving-picture show projects: the artistic managing director Robert Battle's "For Four" has a propulsive jazz score by Wynton Marsalis, which lets the dancers milk shake out all their bottled-up quarantine energy; and the resident choreographer Jamar Roberts's "Belongings Infinite" is a ruminative meditation on the ways nosotros care for each other. Battle's x years at Ailey'south captain will be celebrated in a special anniversary program, as will the 50th anniversary of "Cry," the boggling 16-infinitesimal solo Alvin Ailey made equally a souvenir for his mother, which has get one of the company'due south sacred texts. But the can't-miss engagement of the season is December. 9, the last chance to see Roberts perform with Ailey. For two decades, his serenity authority has transfixed audiences. Now he's leaving the stage behind to focus on choreography. (Dec. i-19, New York Urban center Center)
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RAJA FEATHER KELLY AND THE FEATH3R THEORY Kelly'southward keenly observant works blur the (oft artificial) lines betwixt dance and theater. In December, he and his company the Feath3r Theory will premiere "Wednesday," which Kelly developed as the 2019-twenty Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts. Based on the picture "Dog Day Afternoon," about a existent-life banking company robbery, "Wednesday" puts the trans woman Liz Eden — on whom the moving picture's character Leon is based — at the center of the story, and casts Feath3r Theory artists as journalists tracking the robbery case. (Dec. i-4 and 8-11, New York Live Arts)
Axis Trip the light fantastic toe Company This Oakland, Calif.-based ensemble of disabled and nondisabled artists explores the creative potential of bodies of all kinds. The Joyce will offer a free digital presentation of the artistic director Marc Brew's "Roots Above Ground," a physically integrated projection that considers ideas of dwelling house and belonging, performed by Mash and six other dancers. (December. 7-12, the Joyce Theater)
LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO No one skewers ballet every bit lovingly, or as knowledgeably, every bit this all-male drag visitor. The troupe's iii-calendar week Joyce season volition characteristic its signature parodies of archetype ballets, performed with good humor and meliorate technique. The lineup includes the premiere of "Night Crawlers," a spoof on "In the Night," Jerome Robbins'south collection of rapturous love duets prepare to Chopin — an easy mark for the Trocks. (Dec. 14-Jan. two, the Joyce Theater)
KWANZAA CELEBRATION The Apollo's annual Kwanzaa Celebration — a blithesome mix of dance, music and poetry — will be held virtually this year, every bit it was in 2020. Headlining the effect once once more is the choreographer Abdel R. Salaam's Forces of Nature Trip the light fantastic Theatre, with its distinctive alloy of modern, W African, firm and hip-hop styles. (Dec. 26, Apollo Theater)
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