Harlem Stage is a performing arts center for visionary artists of color in Manhattanville, West Harlem. It presents music, dance and theatre by Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latin artists. We are the people of color who together are 69% of New York City.
Having developed emerging talent for 40 years, Harlem Stage is part of the conversation of what it means to be American today.
The 40th Anniversary Season theme is “Looking Back to Create Forward.” This is the West African concept of “Sankofa.”
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Latin Culture at Harlem Stage
nora chipaumire “ShebeenDUB” World Premiere Tryptich Radio Opera, Dance Performance, and DUB Dance Party at Harlem Stage
HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem, Manhattan 🇿🇼 🇺🇸
Flor de Toloache, New York’s Female Mariachi, Plays Harlem Stage for Carnegie Hall Citywide
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE at HARLEM STAGE, Manhattanville, West Harlem ~ These Latin Grammy winners play tradition and fusions with their Caribbean heritage. Even if you don’t like mariachi, you’ll love Toloache. 🇲🇽 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺
Dafnis Prieto and Luciana Souza Play the New York Debut of their Romantic Jazz Album “Cantar” at Harlem Stage
The master drummer and master vocalist bring Cuban jazz and Brazilian bossa nova together in the most romantic way.
HARLEM STAGE in Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, October 27, 2023
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Harlem Stage News
MARCH
African American Jazz, Bebop, Chamber Music, Hip Hop, Afro-Everything
WATERWORKS ESTABLISHED ARTIST COMMISSION
Trumpeter Ambros Akinmusire presents his “Banyan Seed” project which explores how jazz grew into bebop, chamber music, hip hop, and now Afro-everything; at Harlem Stage in Morningside Heights, West Harlem; on Friday, March 29, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸 🇸🇸 🇺🇬
Banyan Seed is an interesting concept. The tree is a ficus native to India. In New York City, it is a common house plant, but in tropical climates the ficus grows big and drops roots from its branches. It’s literally a walking tree. It’s a great metaphor for the African Diaspora, the world’s largest diaspora which puts down roots everywhere it goes.
APRIL
African American Contemporary Dance
E-MOVES
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company performs “Degga” (1995) created with Max Roach and Toni Morrison; at Harlem Stage in Morningside Heights, West Harlem; on April 19-20, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸
MAY
Contemporary Art, Dance and Opera
E-MOVES
Zimbabwean dancer and choreographer Nora Chipaumire presents “afternow,” a monumental sound installation; “Nehanda,” a radio opera about a female Shona spirit who inspired colonial resistance in Central Africa; a performance of “ShebeenDUB,” an indictment of empire in the afternow installation; followed by a dub dance party; at Harlem Stage in Morningside Heights, West Harlem; on May 17-18, 2024. 2pm Radio Opera Installation, 6pm doors, 7:30pm performance, 9pm-midnight dance party. From $10. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸 🇿🇼
JUNE
Gala
The Harlem Stage 40th Anniversary Gala is Monday, June 3, 2024 at 6pm. Save the Date!
African American Contemporary Dance
E-MOVES
Camille A. Brown & Guests perform works on “Black Joy,” featuring work Brown, Chloe Davis, Juel D. Lane, Mayte Natalio, Rickey Tripp, and Maleek Washington; at Harlem Stage in Morningside Heights, West Harlem; on June 14-15, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. harlemstage.org 🇺🇸
Harlem Stage Tickets
Harlem Stage
150 Convent Ave
(at West 135th St)
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Subways
(1) to 137th St – City College
(A)(C) or (B) to 135th Sts
Past Artists
You get to see famous artists, and some who are going to be famous. To date, five Harlem Stage artists have gone on to win MacArthur Genius Fellowship Awards: Kyle Abraham (2013), Vijay Iyer (2013), Jason Moran (2010), Bill T. Jones (1994), and Cecil Taylor (1991).
- Circa ’95, Puerto Rican hip-hop. 🇵🇷
- Curtis Brothers, Puerto Rican, Cuban jazz. 🇵🇷 🇨🇺
- Dafnis Prieto and Luciana Souza, Cuban and Brazilian jazz. 🇨🇺 🇧🇷
- Flor De Toloache Mexican tropical mariachi. 🇲🇽 + 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
- Leyla McCalla Haitian classical, folk. 🇭🇹
- Louis Hayes, African American NEA Jazz Master drummer. 🇺🇸
- Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano, Colombian salsa and folk. 🇨🇴
- Pedrito Martinez Cuban jazz, rumba, timba percussionist. 🇨🇺
- Repertorio Español Cuban and Dominican Spanish-language, repertory theatre. 🇨🇺 🇩🇴
- Yasser Tejeda, Dominican alternative. 🇩🇴
About Harlem Stage
The Croton Aqueduct Gate House was built in 1884 and decommissioned in 1984. In 2006, the gate house, a place where water flows, was converted into Harlem Stage. Water is life. In Mother Africa, we worship water, and in the Caribbean, we say, “somos hijos del mar” (we are children of the sea).
Strong curation brings stars and rising talent to Harlem Stage. Don’t you wish you saw Harry Belafonte, Max Roach, Sekou Sundiata, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou, or Tito Puente there?
Harlem Stage’s small logo for tabs on a web browser, looks to us like it’s based on the Yowa, the Kongo cosmological diagram. It’s a cross in a circle. The horizon in the Yowa is the Kalûnga line. It’s a water boundary between worlds, which in the Kongo context, is the Atlantic Ocean.
The circle turns counterclockwise, like the sun’s journey across the sky, from east to west. We think it’s why the line of dance in Argentine tango (an African Diaspora dance) is counterclockwise. If we are correct, this has a lot of meaning for a former waterworks that presents African Diaspora culture in the Americas. It’s a rich symbol, full of meaning, just like Harlem Stage.
More Information
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