Joyce Theater

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.

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 🇮🇱

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.

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 🇪🇸

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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.

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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.

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.

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.