Harlem Stage is an incubator for Black, Latin, and Asian; dance, film, music, and theater. It draws a fun, creative, uptown crowd.
E-Moves Festival of contemporary dance is a signature program.
We’re beginning to see the impact of Harlem Stage CEO and Artistic Director Dr. Indira Etwaroo. She is connecting the organization with the best of New York City. This is good.
May 2026
Harlem Stage Renaissance Gala 2026 🇺🇸
Chairs: Angela Glover Blackwell, Misty Copeland, Camille A. Brown
Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center
May 18, Mon, 7pm
$1,500+
(OMG, the chairs are giants of civil rights, ballet, and dance theatre. Just OMG.)
Honorees:
Really respect Calvin Royal III. He does a lot of work developing the next generation. “Each one, Teach one.”
April 2026
E-Moves Festival
E-Moves Festival 2026 ~ Camille A. Brown Masterclass and Talk 🇺🇸
Historic choreographer in Broadway, film, opera, television talks with Harlem Stage Artistic Director Dr. Indira Etwaroo
Apr 20, Mon, 6pm
$35
Brown is one of the leading choreographers (and directors) of our generation. Her credits run deep: “Hell’s Kitchen,” “for colored girls…,” “Choir Boy,” “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” “Porgy and Bess.” She is a Guggenheim Fellow, Obie Award-winner, and MacArthur Genius.
E-Moves Festival 2026 ~ Ailey Partnership World Premieres 🇺🇸
Waterworks commissions of Kamani Abu, Derick McKoy Jr., Naia Neal, Kasey Orava
– Student Matinee: Apr 24, Fri, 1pm, Free
– Performance: Apr 25, Sat, 7pm
$35
This is important because Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is the African American dance company that popularized Modern Dance around the world. They and other Black companies maintain a solid African American presence in Modern Dance.
E-Moves Festival 2026 ~ “Paris is Burning“ Screening & Talk 🇺🇸 🇵🇷
Tabytha Gonzalez & Surface Level podcast
Cultural impact of the iconic documentary of NYC’s 1980s voguing ballroom scene in Black and Latin Harlem
Apr 26, Sun, 2pm
E-Moves Festival 2026 ~ Black Men in Dance 🇺🇸
Ronald K. Alexander and ABT Principal Calvin Royal III talk with Robert Battle (Ailey, Juilliard), Donald Byrd (jazz trumpeter), and Lil’ Buck (transforms hip hop movement into classical dance); with a performance of Buck’s “The Swan.”
Apr 27, Mon, 7pm
– Student Matinee, 1pm, free
– Performance, 7pm
$35