The 92nd Street Y is a legendary Jewish community and cultural center that serves all communities from New York’s Upper East Side.
92nd Street Y festivals include:
Many events are presented both live and online.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
92Y Jazz in July 2022 is NYC’s Hottest Summer Jazz Festival
Tuesdays & Thursdays, July 19-28, 2022
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Berta Rojas, One of the World’s Best Classical Guitarists, Tributes Pioneering Female Artists at the 92nd Street Y
Saturday, November 20, 2021
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February 2023
Scottish classical guitarist Sean Shibe celebrates the Spanish influence on classical guitar through non-Spanish artists including Barrios, Ginastera, Poulenc, Villa-Lobos; at the 92nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall; on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇵🇾 🇪🇸
This is an interesting perspective because a lot of music considered Spanish was written by non-Spanish composers. For example, the famous “Habanera” in Bizet’s opera “Carmen” is Spanish culture with a Cuban dance and a French composer about a people who originated in India. The original habanera is Cuban, not Spanish or French. Habanera is a Creole contraction of the Spanish expression “la Havana manera” or the way they dance in Cuba.
Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero: Westward explores the immigrant experience through Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky (three great Russian composers who emigrated to the United States), and improvisations to Chaplin’s short film “The Immigrant” which inspired her selections. It’s at the 92nd Street Y Kaufmann Concert Hall; on Friday, February 10, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org 🇻🇪
For some reason, migration in both Eurasia and the Americas was historically mostly westward. Montero’s birth country, Venezuela, is currently the source of one of the great migrations in the Americas. We have seen Venezuelans walking in flip-flops, carrying their children across the Colombian Andes. Some go as far as Argentina and Chile.
March 2023
Maurya Kerr (Alonzo King LINES Ballet, ODC) from the Bay Area, brings her contemporary dance to the 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Hall in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Thursday-Friday, March 9-10, 2023. From $20. 92ny.org 🇺🇸
Multiple Grammy-winning South African choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Graceland, 1986), plays for the World Music Institute at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). From $35. 🇿🇦
April 2023
The Harkness Future Dance Festival 2023 brings contemporary dance to the 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Hall in the Upper East Side; on Friday-Saturday, April 14-15, 2023. From $20. 92ny.org
Spanish classical guitar legend Pepe Romero, celebrates his 80th birthday at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 3pm. From $25. 92ny.org 🇪🇸
July 2023
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The Jazz in July festival is at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; in July (July 19-28, 2022).
November 2023
Giving Tuesday is Tuesday, November 28, 2023.
Artists
- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater African American modern dance 🇺🇸
- Assad Brothers Brazilian classical guitar. 🇧🇷
- Baye & Asa contemporary hip-hop & African dance. 🇺🇸
- Berta Rojas Paraguayan classical guitar. 🇵🇾
- Bill Charlap jazz pianist. 🇺🇸
- Dick Hyman jazz 🇺🇸
- Eddie Palmieri Puerto Rican jazz and salsa pianist. 🇵🇷
- Fern Mallis, New York Fashion Week founder
- Ferran Adrià Spanish celebrity chef 🇪🇸
- Leonardo Sandoval Brazilian tap dance. 🇧🇷
- Jennifer Lopez New York Puerto Rican actress. 🇵🇷
- Julien Labro & Takács Quartet is a French bandoneonist who plays classical music and tango. 🇦🇷🇫🇷
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo South African chorus. 🇿🇦
- Marian Anderson String Quartet is the first African Diaspora ensemble to win a classical music competition. 🇺🇸
- Martha Graham American modern dance. 🇺🇸
- Merce Cunningham American modern dance. 🇺🇸
- Pablo Sainz-Villegas, the successor to Segovia, plays Spanish classical guitar. 🇪🇸
- Paco Peña Spanish flamenco guitar. 🇪🇸
- Paquito D’Rivera Cuban classical & jazz. 🇨🇺
- Passion Fruit Dance Company New York Haitian street & club dance. 🇭🇹
- Paul Taylor Dance Company New York modern dance.
- Selena: The Series Regional Mexican tejano singer. 🇲🇽
- Thibaut Garcia Spanish French tango. 🇪🇸🇫🇷
- UNA Productions multicultural dance. 🇩🇴🇭🇹🏳️🌈🇵🇭🇿🇦
- Valentino Italian fashion. 🇮🇹
About 92nd Street Y
The 92nd Street Y is a unique community center in the Upper East Side. From Jewish core values, the 92nd Street Y welcomes and serves people of all races and faiths.
A never-ending stream of world-class talent makes the 92nd Street Y one of NYC’s sacred spaces. It is one of the places where modern dance was born. Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, and others started here. The Giving Tuesday tradition started here. Celebrities in all fields do talks and book launches here.
The 92nd Street Y houses several cultural spaces.
- Kaufmann Concert Hall is a traditional theater that seats up to 917.
- Buttenwieser Hall is 1,260 square foot dance studio that seats up to 280.
- Weill Art Gallery is a 1,419 square foot gallery space that seats up to 150.
- Warburg Lounge is a 1,580 square foot room that seats up to 100.
Kaufmann Concert Hall
Kaufmann Concert Hall is one of New York City’s sacred spaces. It regularly hosts performances and talks with the world’s cultural and thought leaders. That’s what makes it sacred space, the repeated presence of genius over the years.
There is an intellectual character within Jewish culture that is very influential in American life. The 92nd Street Y is one of the places in New York City where world-class artists announce and promote their latest works, or give retrospective looks back at history.
You find events like the Spaniard Ferran Adrià, one of the world’s most influential chefs, talking about his new book; or Fern Mallis, the founder of New York Fashion Week, talking with legendary Italian fashion icon Valentino about his legacy.
When Puerto Rican-American Jennifer Lopez announced her new book True Love, she did it here in a conversation with Hoda Kotb, the Emmy® Award-winning Egyptian-American television personality.
Jazz in July
The 92nd Street Y hosts New York City’s summer jazz festival, Jazz in July. World-renowned jazz pianist Bill Charlap runs it these days. He took over from Dick Hyman. Great artists play the festival every year.
Jazz in July presents mostly Jewish artists. Their Jazz has an Eastern European tinge. It’s sort of Bartok meets Marsalis. It’s definitely something to hear.
92nd Street Y Guitar Institute
The 92nd Street Y Guitar Institute trains all levels of guitarists. The world’s best guitarists regularly perform for 92Y’s Art of the Guitar subscription series.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Started Here
The 92nd Street Y is a place where greatness begins. One of the artists who got his start there is Alvin Ailey (1931-1989). Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater popularized modern dance around the world. Alvin Ailey became known as America’s “Cultural Ambassador to the World.”
When Ailey and twelve other dancers performed together for the first time at the 92nd Street Y in 1958, they were unknown African American dancers. Something magical happened that night in the first performance of “Blues Suite.” Today it is an American classic. It began here at the 92nd Street Y.
Harkness Dance Center
Many other pioneers of Modern Dance developed and taught at the 92nd Street Y, people like Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.
Today the Harkness Dance Center School of the Arts is an important part of the 92nd Street Y’s programs.
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