NYC Dance

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NYC Dance has two sides: Dance Theatre and Latin Dance (social dancing). Most dance theatre companies have some Latin or Black artists.

In Indigenous and African Diaspora tradition, dancing is how we pray and socialize. Dance is an expression of family, faith, community and love. It is cultural, so we tend to be very good dancers.

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Nilko Andreas Plays Cumbia for the Bryant Park Dance Party

Thursday, May 12, 2022
BRYANT PARK DANCE PARTY
Midtown
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Tango La Nacional is NYC’s Most Traditional Tango Dance

Thursdays
LA NACIONAL
Chelsea, Manhattan
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Central Park Tango is Romantic Summer Night Dancing

Saturdays, June 4 to Sep 24, 2022
SHAKESPEARE STATUE
Central Park
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El Destino is one of the NYC Milongas with Very Good Dancers

Sundays
SOLAS
East Village, Manhattan
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Latin Mondays at Taj is One of NYC’s Most Popular Salsa Dances

Mondays
TAJ II LOUNGE
Flatiron District
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Nélida Tirado Teaches Flamenco Rumba at the Bryant Park Dance Party

Tuesday, May 10, 2022
BRYANT PARK
Midtown
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The Bryant Park Dance Party 2022 is Back with Talia-Castro Pozo

Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Flamenco Rumba
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
African Fusion
Thu, May 12, 2022
Cumbia

BRYANT PARK
Midtown, Manhattan
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Ballet Nepantla “Valentina” is a Contemporary Ballet Tribute to Revolutionary Mexican Women at Symphony Space

Friday, May 27, 2022
SYMPHONY SPACE
Upper West Side
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Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Tells the Story of Cinco de Mayo at Count Basie Center

Thursday, May 5, 2022
COUNT BASIE CENTER
Red Bank, New Jersey
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20th Flamenco Festival NYC 2022 Returns to New York City Center

Friday-Sunday, April 22-24, 2022
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown
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Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular is Back in 2022

November 18, 2022 – January 2, 2023
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Midtown, Manhattan

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Dance in NYC This Week

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New York is the World Capital of Dance

New York is a dance city. It was the Vaudeville big time. Broadway remains the center of Jazz Dance and Tap Dance. Modern Dance developed here. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater popularized it around the world.

Ballet in the USA developed here, especially under New York City Ballet founding choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. By the way, Ballet is Latin because it’s an Italian court dance developed in France. Cuba, Argentina and Brazil develop world-class Ballet dancers.

Latin dance tends to be social, although Cali, Colombia has a stage Salsa tradition. Lindy Hop Swing started in Harlem. Salsa on 2 started in The Bronx. NYC helped transform Tango from an obscure folkloric dance into the national dance of Argentina and Uruguay. Hip-Hop dancing was created by Black and Latin kids in The Bronx. Latin kids brought their parents’ Palladium Ballroom moves into it. Let’s dance!

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Latin Dance Origins

In the Latin world, Flamenco is a community dance, but in New York is mostly theatrical. Tango is a community dance with the occasional New York Tango show. Broadway’s “Tango Argentino” (1985-86) seeded Argentine Tango in New York and the United States. A few of that first generation of American Tango dancers are still part of the New York Tango community.

In both Indigenous America and Mother Africa, dance is essential in Latin communities. It’s surprising how similar the traditions are. Through singing, drumming and dancing together, we connect with family, faith, community and love. We start dancing as soon as we can walk, so traditionally, everybody dances. That is why we are great dancers.

Communal drumming, singing and dancing are core organizing principles in Latin communities. In Indigenous and African Diaspora traditions, dance is an expression of family, faith, community and love, so most everyone dances.

Like most human culture, dance is secular now, but originated in religious ceremony. In Latin traditions, dance also has a therapeutic function in which you dance with the spirit who balances your character flaws.

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Country Dance, Contredanse, Contradanza, Danzón, Habanera, Tango, Salsa, Bachata, Reggaeton

Latin dance, both ballet and social dances, derives from a blend of English country dance and Italian court dance in the court of French King Louie XIV. This is not an academic summary, but is our best understanding of the origins of our dance traditions for the moment.

We tend not to think of ballet, the science of dance, as a Latin dance, but it is. Ballet began as an Italian court dance brought to France by Catherine de’ Medici (1519-1589), when she was queen consort and then Queen mother of France (1547-1589).

French King Louis XIV (1643-1715), the “Sun King” loved to party. Ballet developed in his court, but in a way, so did the social dances of the Americas.

English country dancing began influencing dancing in the court (1558-1603) of Queen Elizabeth 1 of England. It was later introduced to the court of Louis XIV where it became the French contredanse.

The Spanish brought “contradanza,” flamenco and Africans to the Americas. The French brought contredanse and the English brought country dance.

Africa has diverse song and dance traditions. African dances can be spiritual, healing or purely social for fun. Like many social dances, African dance is both an expression of belonging to a group and of one’s own individuality within that group. That probably became even more important during the time of human enslavement because family separation was a standard slaver’s tactic. Separated from family, we create our own families and that is still true in New York City today.

In Cuba Spanish contradanza and flamenco began mixing with West African movement into the “habanera,” the way they dance in Havana. Nobody claims Indigenous origins in the dances, but the music has some, so the dances must too. Colonizers didn’t control everything. If you got free, you fled to the mountains where free Africans and remaining Indigenous mixed together. Anyway, from all this we get danzón, the national dance of Cuba.

French Saint-Domingue was the richest Caribbean sugar colony so it influenced the entire region including Puerto Rico and Trinidad. The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) caused a French and African (Creole) diaspora which influenced the habanera and even New Orleans.

Out of the Caribbean we get cumbia, merengue, salsa, bachata and reggaeton. The habanera is the root of tango, the national dance of Argentina with origins in Uruguay. Cuban flamenco traditions even made the round trip back to Spain (flamenco ida y vuelta) and influenced flamenco there. Dictator Trujillo (ruled 1930-1961) liked his island’s country dance, merengue, and made it the national dance of the Dominican Republic. Swing was created by African-Americans in Harlem.

Ballet almost died when the French Revolution (1789-1799) ended the French court. It survived in the courts of Russia and Denmark and was reintroduced to the world by Ballets Russes of Paris on tours of the Americas (1909-1929).

Choreographer George Balanchine started his rise at Ballets Russes and in New York founded New York City Ballet. His first prima ballerina and the first New York City ballet star was Native American dancer Maria Tallchief. As the Sugarplum Fairy she helped make “The Nutcracker” the iconic ballet.

In New York Broadway dancing mixed together African-American, Jewish and other theater traditions. Modern dance pioneers include Alvin Ailey (African-American) and José Limón (Mexican-American). Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater popularized modern dance around the world. Contemporary dance follows.

In dance, as in most other things, to say this is mine and that is yours is usually ignorant and foolish. We are all mixes of each other.

“Just dance.”

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The Palladium Ballroom

The Palladium Ballroom at 1698 Broadway on the northeast corner of Broadway and 53rd St became legendary when it opened its doors to Latins on Sundays in 1947. It was the first place in New York where all peoples could mingle freely, regardless of skin color or social class. The format was so successful that the Palladium soon went all-Latin.

Two bands performed nightly. The “Big Three” most popular bands were Machito and his Afro-Cubans, Tito Puente and Tito Rodríguez. The club was near the row of jazz clubs on 52nd St from Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue. Latin musicians would go to 52nd St to listen and sit in with the jazz cats, and jazz musicians would do the same at the Palladium. There was a whole lot of mixing going on.

In 1948, the Mambo Craze swept the United States. It wasn’t really Cuban mambo and nobody dances quite like that today, but Palladium Mambo popularized Latin dancing across the United States and paved the way for the Cha-Cha-Cha craze of 1953 that spread from Havana to Mexico City and around the world in 1955.

The essence of Palladium Style evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s into salsa dancing and even break dancing when Puerto Rican kids in the Bronx brought their parents’ Palladium moves to hip-hop.

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The Origins of Latin Dancing

This is where culture begins. In the same way that European classical music developed from the chanting of monks, African Diaspora culture (the roots of popular music and dances of the Americas) developed from rituals of faith in Mother Africa.

We learn at home to drum, sing and dance with our family, from the womb really. As soon as we can walk, we start to dance because that’s what Mom and Dad and our brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins do. It is an expression of belonging to our family and community, but also an expression of our individual identity within those frameworks. It’s also a way that we heal our problems. We dance them away to face another day.

The dances in the video are already one step removed in Cuba, but the same rhythms and movements have been used in ceremonies for thousands of years and probably from the beginning of people time. That’s why the “batey” (what we call the dance circle in Puerto Rico) is sacred space.

The music in the video is Afrosideral, an Afro-Cuban Electronic Ensemble. It’s the project of Kumar Sublevao Beat.

Once you are aware of the sacred rhythms and movements, you start to see them everywhere in cumbia, tango, salsa, meringue, merengue, bachata, and reggaeton. They are probably in swing too. Most people don’t realize how that cool dance move you like is a direct connection to Mother Africa.

The chorus says, “they are children of the sea.” Yemayá is the mother of the fishes and that would be us. We come from the sea and your mother’s womb was filled with basically her own seawater.

¡Maferefún Yemayá!
(God Bless You!)

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Dance Me to the End of Love

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“Show me slowly what I only know the limits of.
Dance me to the end of love.”

Leonard Cohen, “Dance Me to the End of Love” (1984)

Leonard Cohen, a Jewish poet who wrote in English from French Canada, wrote some of the most romantic words ever.

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Previously in NYC Dance

20th Flamenco Festival NYC 2022
Returns to New York City Center

Moncho Rivera tributes his uncle, El Sonero Mayor Ismael Rivera, at Stepping Out Studios in Hell’s Kitchen on Sat, Apr 16 at 11:30pm (8pm doors). From $50. 🇵🇷

Uptown Salsa Royalty plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Apr 7 at 9:30 & 11:30pm. $10.

Daniel Calderon y Los Gigantes play Colombian Vallenato, and Arelys Henao sings Colombian Rancheras for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Apr 8 at 10pm. From $48. 🇨🇴

Willy Torres plays Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, April 8 at 11:45pm & 1:30am. $20. 🇵🇷

Astoria Salsa Project plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Apr 9 at 9:30pm & 11:30pm. $20

DJs Hova, Manny Mills and All Out spin the Spanglish Saturdays Reggaeton dance party at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sat, Apr 9 at 10pm. Guestlist free before midnight. Then $25.

El Yaki plays Regional Mexican Banda music for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sun, Apr 10 at 10pm. 🇲🇽

Dance Theatre of Harlem at the 1st City Center Dance Festival starts with a Gala Performance that includes the NY premieres of “Higher Ground” and an extended “Balamouk” by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa at New York City Center in Midtown, Tue, Apr 5 at 7pm, and continues Fri-Sun, Apr 8-10. From $35. 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇨🇺🇭🇹🇺🇸

The 1st City Center Dance Festival features Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Martha Graham Dance Company, and Paul Taylor Dance Company at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan on Mar 24 – Apr 10, 2022. 

Queer the Ballet, an Adriana Pierce project (New York City Ballet, Miami City Ballet) focused on queer women and non-binary dancers, is at Chelsea Factory, Tue-Wed, Apr 5-6 at 7:30pm. $45. 🏳️‍🌈

Paul Taylor Dance Company performs Kurt Jooss’ legendary antiwar ballet “The Green Table” at the 92nd Street Y in the Upper East Side, on Wed, Apr 6 at 7:30pm. From $15.

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Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE presents African Diaspora Contemporary Dance at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea Tue-Sun. From $26. 🇺🇸

Grupo Kual? plays Mexican Cumbia for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sun, Mar 20 at 10pm. $60. 🇲🇽

DJ Mad, DJ Hova, DJ Chocomambo and DJ Rod spin the Spanglish Saturdays dance party at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sat, Mar 19 at 10pm. Guestlist free before midnight. Then $25. 🇩🇴

Jimmy Bosch “El Trombon Criollo” (Spanish Harlem Orchestra) plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Mar 18 at midnight & 1:30am. $20. 🇵🇷

Mora and Omy de Oro sing Puerto Rican Reggaeton for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Mar 18 at 10pm. From $45. 🇵🇷

Flamenco Vivo’s Peña Flamenca NYC brings Spanish Flamenco Tablao to the 4W43 Ballroom in Midtown, Manhattan on Fri, Mar 18 at 7:30pm. $35. 🇪🇸

Anthony Almonte & Yeisson Villamar play Puerto Rican Peruvian Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Mar 17 at 9:30 & 11:30pm. $10. 🇵🇷🇵🇪

Danza España presents Mosaico Flamenco at the Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside, Queens, Fri-Sun, Mar 4-20. From $40. 🇪🇸

Nélida Tirado: Dime Quién Soy dances traditional Spanish Flamenco con sabor Caribeño for the CUNY Dance Initiative at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx on Sat, Mar 12 at 7:30pm. Free with registration. 🇪🇸🇵🇷

Orquesta Broadway celebrates its 60th Anniversary with Cuban Charanga (flute, strings & percussion) for dancing at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center on Fri, Mar 11 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇨🇺

DJ John John, “El Boricua Del Sabor,” plays Salsa and Bachata for dancing at the 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar in NoMad, Manhattan on Thu, Mar 10 from 9pm – 1am. 21+. From $10. 🇵🇷

Balmir Dance Society leads a Salsa Dance Party with live music at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park on Thu, Mar 10, from 6-9:30pm. Free with registration.

February 2022

Los Karkiks, from Guerrero, play Mexican Cumbia for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sun, Feb 27 at 10pm (9pm doors). $50. 🇲🇽

Nélida Tirado: Travesia Flamenca brings traditional Spanish Flamenco to Joe’s Pub in NoHo on Sun, Feb 27 at 7pm (6pm doors). $30. 🇪🇸🇵🇷

Johnny “Dandy” Rodriguez Jr (Tito Puente, Fania All-Stars, Típica 73) plays Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Feb 26 at 12 midnight & 1:30am. $20. 🇵🇷

Nueva York Flamenco City & Juana Cala do the Flamenco at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens on Sat, Feb 26 at 8pm. $15. 🇪🇸

L-E-V: Chapter Three: The Brutal Journey of the Heart brings Israeli Contemporary dance to The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Feb 22-27, 2022. From $26. joyce.org 🇮🇱

New York Dance Festival (ballroom competition) is at the New York Hilton Midtown, Mon-Thu, Feb 21-24. nydancefestival.com

Los Kiero plays Mexican Cumbia and La Sonora Dinamita play Colombian Cumbia for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sun, Feb 20 at 10pm. $40.🇲🇽🇨🇴

Combinación de la Habana makes their NYC debut playing Peruvian Timba at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Feb 18 at 10pm. $65. 🇵🇪

Sankofa Danzafro: Accommodating Lie brings Afro-Colombian Contemporary dance to The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Feb 15-20. From $26. 🇨🇴

The 50th Dance on Camera film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Fri-Mon, Feb 11-14. $15.

DJ Prostyle, DJ Annita and DJ Kass spin the Spanglish Saturdays dance party at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sat, Feb 5 at 10pm. $25.

Zacarias Ferreira and Kiko Rodriguez sing Dominican Bachata Para Enamorados for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Feb 4 at 10pm. From $50. 🇩🇴

January 2022

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dance Spanish Flamenco at The Joyce in Chelsea for two weeks, Tue-Sun, Jan 25 – Feb 6, 2022. From $26. 🇪🇸

Malpaso Dance Company performs Cuban Contemporary Dance at The Joyce in Chelsea, Wed-Sun, Jan 19-23, 2022. From $26. 🇨🇺 CANCELLED BY PANDEMIC SURGE

The New York City Ballet Winter 2022 Season is at the David H Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, Jan 18 – Feb 27. 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇷🇪🇸

Grupo Aurora plays Bachata for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sun, Jan 9 from 8:30pm – midnight. $10. 🇩🇴

Bobby Trends (Hot 97) and DJ J Star play the Spanglish Saturdays Latin dance party at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sat, Jan 8. Free before midnight. $25.

Uptown Salsa Royalty plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Jan 8 at 12 & 1:30am. $20.

Luis Esquilin & SalsaVive play Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Jan 7 at midnight and 1:30am. $20 🇵🇷

All-blind band Los Ciegos del Barrio plays Latin rhythms for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Jan 6 at 9:30pm & 11:30pm. $10.

Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic brings together the Puerto Rican Tap master with live music by Cuban Jazz legend Arturo O’Farrill, at The Joyce in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Jan 4-9, 2022. From $26. 🇵🇷🇨🇺 CANCELLED BY PANDEMIC SURGE

December 2021

DJ Camilo spins a New Year’s Eve dance party at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Dec 31 at 10pm. $50. 🇨🇴

Abdel Salaam’s Forces of Nature Dance Theater celebrates Kwanzaa at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Fri, Dec 26 at 7pm. $10 or pay what you wish.

The Radio City Rockettes Christmas Spectacular is at Radio City Music Hall in Midtown from Fri, Nov 5, 2021 – Sun, Jan 2, 2022. NYC’s Covid-19 outbreak ended the season early.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Fall Season celebrates Artistic Director Robert Battle’s 10th Anniversary and Resident Choreographer Jamar Roberts at New York City Center in Midtown, for three weeks, Wed, Dec 1-19. From $29. nycitycenter.org 🇺🇸

Johnny “Dandy” Rodriguez Jr (Tito Puente, Fania All-Stars, Típica 73) plays Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Dec 18 from 12 midnight – 2am. $20. 🇵🇷

The Spanglish Saturdays dance party features DJ ProStyle, DJ CochoMambo, DJ Manny Mills, DJ 3Sixty and more at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sat, Dec 18 at 10pm. Guestlist before midnight. $25 after.

Sebastian Natal plays Uruguayan Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Dec 17 at 11:30pm & 1:30am. $20 🇺🇾

DJ Pereira celebrates his birthday with Reggaeton at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Dec 17 at 10pm. From $50. 🇩🇴

LowerEastSalsa plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Dec 16 from 9:30pm – 2am. $10.

Latin Mondays at Taj celebrates 15 years at Taj in the Flatiron District on Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $10 🇵🇪

Grupo 5 plays Peruvian Cumbia at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Dec 10 at 10pm. From $65. 🇵🇪

Flamenco Vivo Holiday Fiesta, a Zambomba, the Andalusian Christmas caroling tradition, is at 4W43 Gallery in Midtown on Fri, Dec 10 at 7:30pm. $35. 🇪🇸

AXIS Dance Company: Roots Above Ground streams Disability Dance from The Joyce in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Dec 7-12. Free. 🇺🇸

The Bomba Black & White Party is at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village on Sat, Dec 4 at 11pm. From $20.

Feria de Cali, featuring Ray de la Paz, Luisito Carrion and Ray Sepulveda, plays Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Dec 3 at 10pm (9pm doors). From $40. 🇵🇷

November 2021

Grupo Ocho plays Bachata for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sun, Nov 28 at 8 & 10pm (5pm doors). $10.

Keith y Su Tumbao (Eiko Rikuhashi & Keith Rosello) plays Japanese Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Nov 27 from 11:30pm – 2am. $20. 🇯🇵

DJ Adoni spins the Spanglish Saturdays party at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Sat, Nov 27 at 10pm. $25. @djadoni 🇩🇴

Arturo Ortiz & 7 Con Calle play Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Nov 26 from midnight – 2am. $20 🇵🇷

Harold Puente’s Añoranza de Colombia (Longing for Colombia) is at the Thalia Spanish Theatre in Sunnyside, Queens, Fri-Sun, Nov 26 – Dec 12 at 8pm (4pm Sun). From $37. 🇨🇴 

Johnny “Dandy” Rodriguez Jr (Tito Puente, Fania All-Stars, Típica 73) plays Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez on Fri, Nov 19 from 12 midnight – 2am. $20 🇵🇷

Jarana Beat / Sones de Fandango plays Mexican Fandango outdoors at Terraza 7 in Elmhurst, Queens on Fri, Nov 19 at 7pm. $10. 🇲🇽

COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet is at The Joyce in Chelsea for two weeks, Tue-Sun, Nov 16-28. From $26. 🇺🇸

Dance the afternoon away with Joe Battaglia and his Big Band Orchestra in support of arts-in-education at the 10th Ballroom Basix Gala at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square on Sun, Nov 7 from 3-7pm. eventbrite.com

Avenida B plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Nov 6 at 11:30pm. $20.

Rumba Nation plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Nov 5 at 11:30pm & 1:30am. $20 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇬🇹

Astoria Salsa Project plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Nov 4 from 9:30-11:30pm. $10

October 2021

The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center’s Future Dance Festival finalist performances are with the Martha Graham Dance Company at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan on Sat, Oct 30 at 2pm. From $61. joyce.org

Elvis Martínez plays Dominican Bachata at La Boom in Woodside, Queens on Fri, Oct 29 at 9pm. From $48. 🇩🇴

All-blind band Los Ciegos del Barrio plays Latin rhythms for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Oct 28 at 9:30pm & 11:30pm. $10

Cosmopolitan Mosaic, a live and digital dance and film performance inspired by NYC’s cultural blend, is at Anita’s Way in the Bank of America Tower in Times Square on Thu, Oct 28 from 3-6pm. FREE. chashama.org 🇵🇷🇮🇳🇺🇸

The Fall for Dance Festival is at New York City Center from Oct 13-24. $15. 🇦🇷🇮🇹🇵🇭🇵🇷

The Flamenco Vivo Gala is at the Hotel Chantelle Rooftop in the Lower East Side on Thu, Oct 21 at 7:30pm. From $150. flamenco-vivo.org 🇪🇸

The NY City Ballet Fall 2021 Season is at the David H Koch Theater in Lincoln Center, Tue-Sun, Sep 21 – Oct 17.

Caleb Teicher presents “Swing Out” a lindy hop dance show with live music at The Joyce in Chelsea Oct 5-17. From $26. 🇺🇸

Dance Theatre of Harlem does pop-up performances inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s sculptures in the Kusama garden at the NY Botanical Garden in The Bronx, Sat-Sun, Oct 16-17 from 2-5pm. From $25. 🇧🇷🇨🇺🇭🇹🇺🇸

Jimmy Bosch “El Trombon Criollo” (Rubén Blades, Spanish Harlem Orchestra) plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Oct 16 at 11:30pm and 1:30am. $20. Happy Birthday Jimmy! 🇵🇷

Anissa Gathers sings Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Oct 15 from 12-2am. $20 🇵🇷

The Flamenco Certamen USA 2021 Finals are at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center on Fri, Oct 15 at 7pm. $35. flamenco-vivo.org 🇪🇸

Willy Torres plays Puerto Rican Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Oct 14 at 9:30pm – 2am. $10 🇵🇷

Sonia Olla & Ismael Fernández and other Spanish immigrants celebrate Indigenous People Day at Columbus Circle in Midtown on Mon, Oct 11 at 4:30pm. FREE. instagram.com 🇪🇸

Afro-Dominicano plays Bachata for dancing at the “Brunchata” Bachata brunch at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sun, Oct 10 from 12 noon to 10pm. $10 cover after 5pm. 🇩🇴

Sebastian Natal plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Oct 8 at 11:30pm & 1:30am. $20 🇺🇾

September 2021

Alejandro Cerrudo presents ballet at The Joyce in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Sep 28 – Oct 3. From $26. 🇪🇸

Grupo Encanto plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Oct 2 at 11:30pm & 1:30am. $20 cover after 10pm.

Movement Without Borders, a day of performance about humanizing our immigration system, is at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, Sat, Oct 2 from 11am – 6:30pm. Suggested $20. 🇦🇫🇦🇷🇨🇦🇨🇴🇩🇴🇬🇹🇭🇹🇭🇳🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇷🇸🇻🇺🇸

Sonora Nuyorkina plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Sep 30 at 9:30 & 11:30pm. $10 cover after 9pm.

Los Hermanos De Leon play Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Sat, Sep 25 at 11:30pm & 1:30am. $20 after 10pm.

Last chance to do the Central Park Tango at the Shakespeare Statue in Central Park, Sat, Sep 25 from 6-8:30pm. $15 suggested donation 🇦🇷🇺🇾

LowerEastSalsa plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Fri, Sep 24 at 11:30pm & 1:30am. $20 after 10pm.

Cosa Seria plays Salsa for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez in Greenwich Village on Thu, Sep 23 at 9:30 & 11:30pm. $10

Ragamala Dance Company dances South Asian Bharatanatyam at The Joyce in Chelsea, Wed-Sun, Sep 22-26, 2021. From $26 🇮🇳.

Los Hacheros play Salsa for dancing at Latin Mondays at Taj in the Flatiron District on Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 7pm (5pm doors). From $10. 🇵🇷

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