The Joyce Theater is one of NYC’s leading dance theaters. It’s also a dance producer with a long history developing Contemporary Dance in Cuba. It’s the home theater for many NYC dance companies.
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Los Angeles Dance
L.A. Dance Project, directed by French dancer Benjamin Millepied (NY City Ballet), dances four female choreographers at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, for two weeks, Tue-Sun, May 3-15. From $26. joyce.org 🇫🇷
Italian American Dance
Stephen Petronio Company is at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, May 17-22. From $26. joyce.org 🇮🇹
Petronio is a connection to the Judson Dance Theater era of Contemporary Dance in NYC.
Joyce Theater Tickets
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The Year at The Joyce Theater
Joyce Theater
January
The Joyce usually presents Latin and Cuban dance in January. January 2022 shows were cancelled for the Covid Omicron surge.
Tap Dance
Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic brings together the Puerto Rican Tap master with live music by Cuban Jazz legend Arturo O’Farrill, at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Jan 4-9. From $26. joyce.org 🇵🇷🇨🇺
Casel is the hot tapper of today.
Cuban Dance
Malpaso Dance Company performs Cuban Contemporary Dance at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Wed-Sun, Jan 19-23. From $26. joyce.org 🇨🇺
This Joyce dance company is one of the best Contemporary Dance companies out of Cuba.
Flamenco
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dance Spanish Flamenco at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea for two weeks, Tue-Sun, Jan 25 – Feb 6. From $26. joyce.org 🇪🇸
A NY Times dance critic called Barrio one of the best dancers of her generation.
Joyce Theater
February
Some 2022 shows were cancelled for the Covid Omicron surge.
Flamenco Dance
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dance Spanish Flamenco at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea for two weeks, Tue-Sun, Jan 25 – Feb 6. From $26. joyce.org 🇪🇸
Colombian Dance
Sankofa Danzafro: Accommodating Lie brings Afro-Colombian Contemporary dance to The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Feb 15-20. From $26. joyce.org 🇨🇴
“Sankofa” is a West African concept of recovering what has been lost.
Israeli Dance
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 🇮🇱
Joyce Theater
March
Los Angeles Dance
BodyTraffic brings Los Angeles Contemporary Dance to The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Mar 3-6. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸🇨🇺🇪🇸
African Diaspora Dance
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE is at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Mar 22-27. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸
Brown has done a lot of work developing Cuban Contemporary dance.
Tap Dance
New Yorker Michela Marino Lerman and Love Movement dance tap to live Jazz in “Once Upon a Time Called Now” at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Mar 29 – Apr 3. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸
Lerman is one of the great tappers of her generation, a bridge from the legends to the present.
Joyce Theater
April
Spanish Flamenco
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dance Spanish Flamenco at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Apr 5-10. Curtain chat, Wed, Apr 6. From $51. joyce.org 🇪🇸
Spanish Dance
Compañia Nacional de Danza, led by former City Ballet principal Joaquín de Luz, dances John Inger’s new “Carmen” at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Apr 12-17. Curtain chat Wed, Apr 13. From $26. joyce.org 🇪🇸
It’s a great time to rethink “Carmen.” Once considered a fallen woman, today we see her as a one who lives life to the fullest (like a New Yorker). Bizet was French, and the famous Habanera is not Spanish. It’s the Cuban root of Salsa and Tango. Habanera means “the way they dance in La Habana.”
NY Mexican Modern Dance
Limón Dance Company celebrates its 75th Season at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, for two weeks, Tue-Sun, Apr 19 – May 1. From $26. joyce.org 🇲🇽
New York Mexican founding choreographer José Limón created one of the great Modern Dance techniques.
Joyce Theater
May
Los Angeles Dance
L.A. Dance Project, directed by French dancer Benjamin Millepied (NY City Ballet), dances four female choreographers at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, for two weeks, Tue-Sun, May 3-15. From $26. joyce.org 🇫🇷
Italian American Dance
Stephen Petronio Company is at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, May 17-22. From $26. joyce.org 🇮🇹
Petronio is a connection to the Judson Dance Theater era of Contemporary Dance in NYC.
Joyce Theater
June
Manzanales World Premiere
Paul Taylor Dance Company, one of NYC’s leading Modern Dance companies is at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Jun 14-19. The program includes a Manzanales world premiere. From $26. joyce.org 🇲🇽
Flamenco Dance
Flamenco Vivo, NYC’s big Flamenco company, brings its Flamenco show Fronteras to The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Jun 21-26. From $26. joyce.org 🇪🇸
LGBTQ+ Dance
Christopher Williams dances queer versions of Ballets Russes ballets at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Jun 28 – Jul 3. From $26. Not Latin, but very creative. joyce.org 🏳️🌈
Ballets Russes was the Russian dance company from Paris that seeded Ballet in the Americas. It’s also where City Ballet’s George Balanchine began developing NeoClassical Ballet.
Joyce Theater
August
Indigenous Pacific Dance
Black Grace from New Zealand performs Contemporary Dance rooted in Pacific Folkloric traditions at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Aug 2-7. From $26. joyce.org 🏳️🌈
Hip-Hop Dance
Rennie Harris of Philadelphia dances Gospel, Hip-Hop and House street dance at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Aug 9-14. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸
Harris is for real. He got his start touring with Hip-Hop legends when the music was breaking out in the 1980s.
Thank you Harris for acknowledging that Hip-Hop dance is African American and Latin. It’s from The Bronx, hello. Latin kids in The Bronx brought their parents’ Palladium Ballroom moves into Hip-Hop.
Previously at the Joyce Theater
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dance Spanish Flamenco at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Apr 5-10. Curtain chat, Wed, Apr 6. From $51. joyce.org 🇪🇸
New Yorker Michela Marino Lerman and Love Movement dance tap to live Jazz in “Once Upon a Time Called Now” at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Tue-Sun, Mar 29 – Apr 3. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸
March 2022
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE is Tue-Sun, Mar 22-27. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸
BodyTraffic brings Los Angeles Contemporary Dance, Tue-Sun, Mar 3-6. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸🇨🇺🇪🇸
Sankofa Danzafro: Accommodating Lie is Afro-Colombian Contemporary dance, Tue-Sun, Feb 15-20. From $26. joyce.org 🇨🇴
Botis Seva: Far From the Norm dance English Hip-Hop, Tue-Sun, Feb 7-12, 2022. From $26. joyce.org 🇬🇧
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca dance Spanish Flamenco for two weeks, Tue-Sun, Jan 25 – Feb 6, 2022. From $26. joyce.org 🇪🇸
Malpaso Dance Company performs Cuban Contemporary Dance, Wed-Sun, Jan 19-23, 2022. From $26. joyce.org 🇨🇺
Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic brings together the Puerto Rican Tap master with live music by Cuban Jazz legend Arturo O’Farrill, Tue-Sun, Jan 4-9, 2022. From $26. joyce.org 🇵🇷🇨🇺
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Nightcrawlers dances Classical Ballet for three weeks, Dec 14, 2021 – Jan 2, 2022. From $26. joyce.org 🏳️🌈
AXIS Dance Company: Roots Above Ground streams Disability Dance, Tue-Sun, Dec 7-12. Free. joyce.org 🇺🇸
COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet is two weeks, Tue-Sun, Nov 16-28. From $26. joyce.org 🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸
Indigenous Enterprise performs Native American dance, Tue-Sun, Nov 9-14. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸
The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center’s Future Dance Festival finalist performances are with the Martha Graham Dance Company on Sat, Oct 30 at 2pm. From $61. joyce.org
Swing Out is Caleb Teicher dancing Lindy Hop to live music for two weeks Tue-Sun, Oct 5-17. From $26. joyce.org 🇺🇸
Alejandro Cerrudo: It Starts Now presents Spanish Contemporary Ballet, Tue-Sun, Sep 28 – Oct 3. From $26. joyce.org 🇪🇸
Ragamala Dance Company Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal Pilgrim is South Asian Bharatanatyam Classical Indian dance, Wed-Sun, Sep 22-26. From $26. joyce.org 🇮🇳
Cie Hervé KOUBI 2020
Tue-Sun, February 18-23, 2020
JOYCE THEATER
Chelsea, NYC
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The Algerian-French contemporary dance company celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Mediterranean journey through our common humanity.
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca ‘Entre Tú y Yo’
Tue-Sun, Nov 19 – Dec 1, 2019
CHELSEA, NYC ~ This flamenco show about prowling for partners feels like a Spanish flamenco bar with star power at the Joyce Theater
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Ballet Hispánico stretches Latino horizons at The Joyce
CHELSEA; Tue-Sun, Mar 26-31, 2019; Cuban contemporary dance theatre ~ Explore the Latin diaspora with Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (Colombian), Edwaard Liang (Chinese) & Bennyroyce Royon (Filipino)
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Compañia Irene Rodríguez
Friday-Sunday, January 18-20, 2019
JOYCE THEATER, NYC
One of Cuba’s leading flamenco dance companies returns to New York
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Los Hijos del Director Cuban Contemporary Dance at The Joyce
CHELSEA, Tue-Wed, January 15-16, 2019 ~ One of Cuba’s most daring contemporary dance makers, George Céspedes, makes his U.S. debut at the Joyce Cuba Festival.
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Joyce Theater Cuba Festival 2019
CHELSEA, January 9-20, 2019 ~ Malpaso Dance Company, Los Hijos del Director, Compañia Irene Rodríguez. Some of the best dancers in the world and an island of choreographic talent.
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Malpaso Cuban Contemporary Dance at the Joyce Theater
CHELSEA, Jan 9-13, 2019, Wed-Sun ~ Cuba’s leading international contemporary dance company opens the Joyce Cuba Festival with Ohad Naharin’s “Tabula Rasa.”
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Limón Dance Company 2018 at The Joyce
One of the pioneers of Modern Dance in New York was Mexico-born José Limón. Limón ‘Missa Brevis’ 60th Anniversary, Connor ‘The Body is a House Without Walls’ and Limón’s ‘The Unsung.’
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
Tuesday – Sunday
May 8 – 13, 2018
Ballet Hispánico Spring 2018 Season at The Joyce
Works by Spanish, Colombian, and Mexican choreographers, including two world premieres that salute the beloved Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
Tuesday – Sunday
April 10 – 15, 2018
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Stephen Petronio Company Italian-American Postmodern Dance at The Joyce
The Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
GALA Wednesday, March 21
Tuesday – Sunday
March 20 – 25, 2018
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Tulsa Ballet returns to the Joyce with Colombian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
‘Untitled’ world premiere by resident choreographer Ma Cong, ‘Shibuya Blues’ by Colombian-Belgian dance maker Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and ‘Meðal’ (Among) by Helen Pickett.
Tuesday – Saturday
March 6 – 10, 2018
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RIOULT Dance stops at Queens Theatre before European tour
Saturday-Sunday, March 3-4, 2018
QUEENS THEATRE
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
The French choreographer’s “Te Deum”, “Wien”, and “Dream Suite” inspired by Marc Chagall
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Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca ‘Intimo’ at the Joyce
CHELSEA, Tue-Sat, Feb 13-25, 2018, Spanish flamenco dance theater ~ One of NYC’s great flamenco dancers presents her latest show.
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Compagnie Hervé KOUBI 2018
Choreographer thought he was Pied Noir. Found out he is Algerian. Voila!
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
Tuesday – Sunday
January 30 – February 4, 2018
Malpaso Dance Company
Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
Chelsea
Wednesday-Sunday
January 17 – 21, 2018
Limón Dance Company’s first season of new artistic director Colin Connor
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
Tuesday – Saturday
May 2 – 6, 2017
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Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal at The Joyce
Ballet jazzed up French-Canadian style.
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
May 24 – 29, 2016
Irene Rodríguez Compañía Cuba Festival at The Joyce
CUBA FESTIVAL
Cuba’s leading Spanish Flamenco company.
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
Thursday – Sunday
May 19 – 22, 2016
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DanzAbierta Cuba Festival at The Joyce
CUBA FESTIVAL
Marianela Boán’s avant-garde dance troupe uses the Cuban cabaret as a metaphor for life in “Showroom.”
Joyce Theater
Chelsea, Manhattan
Saturday – Tuesday
May 14 – 17, 2016
São Paulo Dance Company debuts at The Joyce
One of Latin America’s major dance companies makes its Joyce debut.
Joyce Theater
Tuesday – Sunday
May 3 – 8, 2016
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