New York City Center is New York’s original performing arts center.
It continues to make performing arts affordable for all New Yorkers as a theater of dance and Broadway revivals.
New York City Center Features
Dance Theatre of Harlem Bids Farewell to Artistic Director Virginia Johnson at New York City Center
Wednesday-Sunday, April 19-23, 2023
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2022 Fall Season Looks Back and Looks Forward at New York City Center
November 30 – December 24, 2022
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
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Fall For Dance Festival 2022
September 21-October 2, 2022
NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Midtown, Manhattan
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New York City Center News
January 2023
Ballet Nepantla is holding an open call dancer audition at New York City Center Studios in Midtown, NYC on Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 3pm. 🇲🇽
The Hong Kong Ballet dances Septime Webre’s “Romeo + Juliet”; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; Friday-Saturday, January 13-14, 2023. The Shakespeare classic is set in 1960s Hong Kong with kung fu instead of swordplay. Being a universal story, it works everywhere. People are people. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇭🇰
Natalia Osipova Force of Nature, one of the world’s top ballerinas of her generation, dances a night of classic solos and duets from the ballet repertoire and a new contemporary ballet piece “Ashes” by her and Jason Kittleberger; at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 8pm. A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the Ukrainian Relief Effort. From $55. nycitycenter.org 🇷🇺🇺🇦
March 2023
The Flamenco Festival New York 2023 features living legend Sara Baras “Alma” (soul); at New York City Center in Central Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday-Saturday, March 23-26, 2023. From $45. nycitycenter.org 🇪🇸
April 2023
Dance Theatre of Harlem presents New York premieres by William Forsythe and Tiffany Rea-Fisher, George Balanchine’s “Allegro Brillante,” and works by Resident Choreographer Robert Garland at New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan, Wednesday-Sunday, April 19-23, 2023. From $35. 🌍🇺🇸🇧🇷🇨🇺🇭🇹
July 2023
The City Center Dance Festival – Street Dance Edition is being curated by two Bessie Award winners, b-girl Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie and Adesola Osakalumi; at New York City Center in Manhattan’s Midtown Business District, Thursday-Saturday, July 20-22, 2023. From $35. nycitycenter.org
August 2023
[To be confirmed]
Tickets go on sale for the 20th Fall For Dance Festival (Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 11am).
September 2023
[To be confirmed]
The 20th Fall For Dance Festival is at New York City Center in Manhattan’s Midtown Business District. (September 21 – October 2, 2022).
November 2023
[To be confirmed]
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater usually dances a fall season at New York City Center in Manhattan’s Midtown Business District in November (Tuesday-Sunday, November 30 – December 24, 2022).
Resident Companies
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is the African American dance company that popularized modern dance around the world. Really!
- Manhattan Theatre Club is a major Broadway producer.
New York City Center Festivals
- Artists at the Center is a choreographer’s residency.
- The City Center Dance Festival is a spring/summer dance showcase.
- Encores! celebrates great American musicals.
- The Fall For Dance festival affordably presents 20 international dance companies/artists. It sells out every year.
- Studio 5 provides an up close look at the artistic process of great dancers of the day.
Latin Artists
- Annabelle Lopez Ochoa choreographer. 🇨🇴
- Ballet Hispánico contemporary. 🇨🇺🇲🇽🇵🇷
- Caleb Teicher tap. 🇺🇸
- Carmen de Lavallade ballet, modern. 🇺🇸
- Compañía Manuel Liñán flamenco. 🇪🇸
- Dance Theatre of Harlem African American ballet. 🇺🇸
- Eduardo Guerrero flamenco. 🇪🇸
- Graciela Daniele ballet & broadway dance. 🇦🇷
- Jade Hale-Christofi choreographer. 🇬🇧
- Jon Boogz choreographer. 🇺🇸
- Joshua Bergasse Broadway choreographer. 🇺🇸
- María Moreno flamenco. 🇪🇸
- María Terremoto flamenco. 🇪🇸
- Martha Graham Dance Company modern. 🇺🇸
- Mercedes Ruiz flamenco. 🇪🇸
- Suki Schorer, School of American Ballet faculty, former New York City Ballet Prima, and the leading living expert in Balanchine Technique. [Editor Keith: Suki was my Argentine tango partner in 2009-10.] 🇺🇸
Latin Shows
- Prayer for the French Republic 🇫🇷✡️
- Sugar Hill: The Ellington / Strayhorn Nutcracker 🇺🇸
- Where the Mountain Meets the Sea 🇭🇹
About New York City Center
New York City Center was founded in 1943 by legendary Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to make performing arts accessible to all New Yorkers. The neo-Moorish building is visited by around 300,000 people a year.
It continues to make performing arts affordable for all New Yorkers as a theater of dance and Broadway revivals that is also a platform for educational outreach.
Resident artists include Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Manhattan Theatre Club. Signature events include, the City Center Dance Festival, Fall for Dance Festival, and the Flamenco Festival.
New York City Center also has a long tradition of developing dance in Cuba. 🇨🇺
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