New York Latin Dance NYC is both Latin dance theatre and Latin dance. Music and dance are a yin and yang pair. ☯️
Latin dance theatre:
African Diaspora, ballet, contemporary, flamenco, folkloric, jazz, modern, hip-hop and tap.
By the way, ballet is a Latin dance. Broadway is jazz dance.
Latin dance (social):
bachata, bomba, champeta, dem bow, house, merengue, reggaeton, perreo, plena, salsa, swing, and tango.
New York Latin Dance Theatre
New York Latin dance theatre includes: jazz, tap, ballet, modern, contemporary, flamenco, folkloric, hip-hop, African Diaspora, and more.
Bryant Park Dance Party 2024 Free Dance Lessons and Live Music for Dancing Salsa, R&B, Hustle, Bachata, Swing, and Motown
BRYANT PARK, Midtown, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company Performs “Puebla: The Story of Cinco de Mayo” in New Rochelle and Student Programs in Brooklyn
NEW ROCHELLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, New Rochelle, New York 🇲🇽
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn 🇲🇽
ABT Studio Company Steps Into the Future of Dance and Choreography at The Joyce Theater
JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇯🇵 🇵🇭 🇰🇷 🇻🇪
Anthony Blackwell Casa de Tango Explores the African Origins of Argentine Tango at the New Bronx Music Hall
BRONX MUSIC HALL ~ Tango’s African and Spanish Flamenco connections 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇪🇸
BALANCE ARTS CENTER, Chelsea, Manhattan, Tuesdays and 4th Saturdays
CENTRAL PARK, Manhattan ~ Casa de Tango, June-September Thursdays
Ballet Hispánico Celebrates Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro’s Quinceañera at New York City Center
NEW YORK CITY CENTER, Midtown, Manhattan 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
UPPER WEST SIDE, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇸🇻 🇪🇸 🇻🇪
New York Latin Dance
New York Latin social dances include bachata, house, merengue, reggaeton, salsa, swing, and tango.
The New York City Dance Guide
Again, New York’s dance world is both Latin dance theatre and Latin dance, which is social. Even though their are many flavors of Latin, we are all social.
Music and dance are two sides of the same coin. Basically, if there’s music, we dance (or at least the New York Latin Culture Magazine team will dance).
New York Latin Dance Theatre Companies
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre 🇺🇸
- American Ballet Theatre
- Ballet Hispánico 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇻🇪 *
- Ballet Nepantla 🇲🇽 *
- Cali Salsa Pal Mundo 🇨🇴 *
- Calpulli Mexican Dance Company 🇲🇽 *
- Dance Theatre of Harlem 🇺🇸
- Dzul Dance 🇲🇽 *
- Flamenco Latino 🇪🇸 *
- Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana 🇪🇸
- Limón Dance Company 🇲🇽
- Nélida Tirado Dance Company 🇵🇷
- New York City Ballet
- Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca 🇪🇸
* Sponsors
New York Dance Theatres
- David H Koch Theater
- Joyce Theater *
- Metropolitan Opera House
- New York City Center *
Presenters of some dance:
- 92nd Street Y 🇮🇱 *
- BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Flushing Town Hall *
- Hostos Center 🇵🇷 *
- ID Studio Theater 🇨🇴
- Little Island *
- Lehman Center 🇵🇷 *
- On Stage at Kingsborough *
- Queens Theatre
- Purchase College *
- Radio City Music Hall
- Repertorio Español 🇨🇺 *
- Robert Browning Associates *
- Schimmel Center *
- Thalia Spanish Theatre 🇪🇸
- The Town Hall
- World Music Institute *
* Sponsors
New York Latin Dance Theatre Festivals
- BAAND Together
- City Center Dance Festival
- Dance Film Festival
- Dance on Camera film festival
- Fall For Dance
- Flamenco Festival brings top dancers from Spain to New York. 🇪🇸
- Little Island Music & Dance Festival presents New York artists on a Hudson River Pier.
- Harkness Dance Festival
- Mobile Dance Film Festival
New York Dance Wear
- Menkes Theatrical Shoes 🇪🇸 *
- Worldtone Dance *
New York Bachata Dances
- Club Cache
- Gonzalez y Gonzalez (some Sundays).
New York Mexican Dances
- Sunday nights at La Boom is Mexican night with great Regional Mexican banda, cumbia, mariachi, norteño, and tejano for dancing.
- Jarana Beat hosts Mexican fandangos.
New York Reggaeton Dances
- Spanglish Saturdays at La Boom is one of New York’s leading reggaeton parties (perreo, dem bow). 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
New York Salsa Dances
- Gonzalez y Gonzalez has live salsa for dancing Thursdays – Saturdays.
- Salsa Saturdays
- Talia Castro’s Latin Mondays at Taj has been one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties for over 15 years. Monday night is a free night for entertainers and service workers. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
New York Tango Dances
A “milonga” is a tango dance party. It’s also an early form of tango in 2/2 time.
- NYC All Night Milonga is a 3rd Saturday milonga that is one of America’s biggest and longest-running milongas. 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇺🇾
- El Destino is a Sunday night milonga that is popular with many of New York’s best tango dancers. Sunday night is dance night in the Latin world. 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇺🇾
- Tango La Nacional is a Thursday night milonga that is New York’s most traditional milonga. They really keep the floor clean. 🇦🇷
New York Latin Dance Clubs
- Avant Gardner (house).
- Bembé (Latin).
- Club Cache (Latin).
- Elsewhere (House).
- Gonzalez y Gonzalez (salsa and bachata).
- House of Yes (house).
- La Boom (cumbia, reggaeton, Regional Mexican).
- La Nacional (tango).
- Marquee (house).
- Swing 46 (swing).
- Taj II Lounge (Latin dances salsa and bachata).
New York Latin Dance Companies
Cali Salsa Pal Mundo 🇨🇴 *
New York Latin Dance Festivals
- BIG Salsa Festival is a Memorial Day Weekend salsa and bachata dance festival. 🇵🇷
- International Dance Day is April 29.
- National Dance Week is April 14-23, 2023.
- New York Dance Festival (ballroom competition) nydancefestival.com
- New York Salsa Congress is a Labor Day Weekend salsa dance festival. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🇨🇴
New York Latin Dance Studios
We have great places to learn to dance. Alvin Ailey teaches everything, at all levels, from social to professional.
Manhattan
- Alvin Ailey School and Ailey Extension is one of NYC’s leading dance and social dance schools. 🇺🇸
- Baila Society bailasociety.com
- Ballroom Basix is Sidney Grant’s youth dance program. ballroombasix.com
- Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine is Haitian Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine’s dance studio. epadancestudionyc.com 🇭🇹
- Lorenz Latin Dance Studio lorenzdancestudio.com
- New York Tango School is Jon Tariq’s Argentine Tango studio. tangoschool.nyc 🇹🇷🇦🇷
- Nieves Dance Studio nievesdancestudio.com
- Piel Canela pielcaneladancers.com
- Sensual Bachata is popular with Eastern Europeans. sensualbachatanewyork.com
- Strictly Tango NYC is Sergio Sergura’s Argentine Tango studio. learnargentinetango.com 🇦🇷
- Triangulo is Carina Moeller’s Argentine Tango studio. It has a more European perspective. tangonyc.com 🇩🇪🇦🇷
- You Should Be Dancing has a younger Tango crowd led by Adam Hoopengardner and Ciko Tanik. youshouldbedancing.nyc 🇹🇷🇦🇷
Bronx
- Balmir Dance Society is a Latin and Afro dance school. balmir.com
- Nieves Dance Studio nievesdancestudio.com
- Yamulee Dance School yamulee.com
Brooklyn
- Cumbe is a center for African and Diaspora dance in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. cumbedance.org 🇺🇸
- Dance Fever Studios is in Brooklyn. dancefeverstudios.com
- Nieves Dance Studio nievesdancestudio.com
Queens
- Nieves Dance Studio nievesdancestudio.com
- Sol Dance Center is in Astoria, Queens. soldancecenter.com
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