Venezuelan NYC is most present in Modern Art, Salsa, Latin Rock and Fashion. The Venezuelan Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, is one of the most important Latin contemporary art collections. The Cisneros Institute at MoMA makes the Museum of Modern Art a world center of Latin art. Venezuela has Andean Culture, Caribbean Culture and Trinidad […]
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Chelsea NYC
Chelsea NYC News January 2023 The 7th American Dance Platform, is an African American dance showcase, curated by Ronald K. Brown; that features Les Ballet Afrik, B Moore Dance, and Waheedworks; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, NYC; from January 10-15, 2023. 🇺🇸 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider’s rodeo brings 35 of […]
Italian NYC
Today, Italian NYC is mostly in Throgs Neck & Morris Park The Bronx; Staten Island; and Harlem, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Italians are one of the communities that defines New York City and the United States. The big wave of immigration came between the 1850s and 1930s. Many Southern Italians came between 1880 and 1920. Italy […]
Things To Do in NYC in January 2023
Three Kings Day, Martin Luther King Day
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New York Dominican NYC
New York Dominicans are one of the Latin communities defining New York today. New York City has been Dominican since the first immigrant, Juan Rodríguez, arrived in 1613. He set up New York’s first bodega (colmado or store), in the Financial District where the National Museum of the American Indian is now. We have been […]
Hell’s Kitchen NYC
Hell’s Kitchen NYC (also called Clinton or Midtown West) is an old residential neighborhood along Manhattan’s west side from 34th St to 59th St. Many young actors live here. It used to be a center of Irish power in New York City. Restaurant Row on 46th St is popular for pre-theatre dining because it is […]
Jewish NYC
Jewish NYC is one of the communities that defines New York City. We are the world’s largest Jewish community outside Israel. There are many Jewish communities in the Latin world. NYC’s first Jewish Community arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654. It is now Congregation Shearith Israel, a Sephardic (Spanish & Portuguese) community. We made New […]
Bolivian NYC
Bolivian NYC is centered in Queens and Paterson, New Jersey. Bolivia has Andes and Amazon regions. It was part of the Inca Empire. Spanish colonizers stole the Bolivian silver mountain at Potosí. Bolivians speak Spanish, Quechua, Aymara and other Indigenous languages. Indigenous culture remains strong. Indigenous colonial Mestizo Baroque art is quite beautiful. There is […]
Ecuadorian NYC
Ecuadorian NYC is one of The City’s five largest Latin communities. The community is centered in Corona and Jackson Heights, Queens, but is also in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Fordham, The Bronx; and East Newark, New Jersey. We are a mix of Indigenous Kichwa (Quechua) and Shuar, Spanish, and African. Ecuadorian American Cultural Center is in Astoria, […]
Filipino NYC
Filipino NYC is a small, vibrant community that is strong in health care. NYC’s main “Little Manila” is a five-block stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. There are communities around the Philippine Consulate in Midtown, around the hospitals in the East Village, and in Jersey City, New Jersey. We don’t consider ourselves Latin, but […]
Things To Do in NYC in December 2022
Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve
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Honduran NYC
Honduran NYC is mostly in the West Bronx, Central Islip Long Island, and New Jersey. The Honduran Consulate is in Manhattan’s Garment District. There is a vibrant Garifuna community in Crotona, The Bronx. December 2022 The Mini-Global Mashup: Garifuna Meets Flamenco brings together jazz vocalist Lucy Blanco (Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble), jazz bassist Hilliard Greene, and […]
Harlem
Harlem is NYC’s iconic African American neighborhood. It is famous for Jazz, Swing, Rhythm and Blues, Rap, great food and fun nights. 155th StHudson River | Harlem | Fifth AvenueCentral Park North (110th) A lot of history was made here. The Harlem Renaissance produced legendary artists in the 1920s and 30s. The Black Arts Movement […]
Things To Do in NYC in November 2022
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Things To Do in NYC in October 2022
Panamanian Parade, Hispanic Day Parade, Indigenous Peoples Day Parade, Italian Day Parade, Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, Village Halloween Parade and the Jackson Heights Children’s Halloween Parade
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Queens Museum of Art
The Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is the big art museum in Queens. The Panorama of the City of New York is a diorama of New York City. The world’s largest scale model was created for the 1964 World Fair and is periodically updated. queensmuseum.org The museum hosts community events focused […]
Tompkins Square Park
Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan’s East Village is a bit of a counterculture park – like the neighborhood. It’s calmer now, but the park has been a protest site since the 1870s. There were Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. In the 1980s, the NYPD used extreme violence to clear a homeless encampment – and […]
Things To Do in NYC in September 2022
New York Carnival, Brazilian Day, J’ouvert, Mid-Autumn Festival, Feast of San Gennaro, Hispanic Heritage Month
ART Armory Week, Affordable Art Fair
DANCE NY City Ballet, Fall for Dance
FASHION Fashion Week, FDLA
FILM NY Latino Film Festival, NY Film Festival
INDEPENDENCE Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile
MUSIC Met Opera
PARADES West Indian, African American, Mexican
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Things to Do in NYC in August 2022
DANCE: BAAND Together & Battery Dance Festival
FESTIVALS: Afribembé, Arte Pa’ Mi Gente, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, Harlem Week, Summer For the City, SummerStage, Summer Streets
FOOD: Creole Food Festival, NYC Restaurant Week
MUSIC: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
PARADES: Dominican & Ecuadorian
THEATRE: Shakespeare in the Park
SPORTS: US Open Tennis
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Summer For the City 2022 Brings NYC Together at Lincoln Center
May 14 – August 14, 2022
Dance, Film, Music, Words
Afrobeats, Brazilian Funk, Salsa, Voguing
LINCOLN CENTER
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Things to Do in NYC in June 2022
Things to do in NYC in June 2022 include SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, NY Puerto Rico Week and the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and NYC Pride Parade. June is NYC Pride Month. It’s also Caribbean Heritage Month and African-American Music Appreciation Month. June is a great month to visit because the […]
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico really is the island of enchantment. Famous for some of the world’s best beaches, the mountain heartland is even more beautiful. We are both contemporary and conservative. Old ways survive, especially in the mountains. The drum is alive in Puerto Rico. The island is so many things you never imagined. It is famously […]
Drums Along the Hudson Celebrates Native American and Global Drum Traditions
Sunday, June 5, 2022
INWOOD HILLS PARK
Inwood, Manhattan
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Harlem Week 2021 is Reimagined
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August 6-15, 2021
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Tony Succar is The Salsa Renaissance Man
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Héctor “Coco” Barez & El Laberinto del Coco Take Bomba to the World
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The 11th Cinema Tropical Awards 2021 Winners
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Upper East Side, Manhattan
Things to do in NYC in November 2020
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1-24 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
2 Corn Moon
3 Whitney Museum reopens
4-7 Labor Day Weekend
4 NY Carnival Brass Fest 🇹🇹
5 Morgan Library reopens
6 Roberto Clemente Day 🇵🇷
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7 Labor Day
7 NY Carnival Virtual Road 🇹🇹
7 Brazilian Independence 🇧🇷
9 American Museum of Natural History reopens
11 Remember 9/11
11-16 FDLA Fashion Designers of Latin America 🇩🇴
12 El Museo del Barrio reopens
12 Brooklyn Museum reopens
13-16 RUNWAY360 (NYFW) 🇨🇱 🇻🇪
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15-15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Independence of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua 🇨🇷 🇸🇻 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇳🇮
16 Mexican Independence 🇲🇽
17 MoMA PS1 reopens
18 Chilean Independence 🇨🇱
18-28 High Holidays 🇮🇱
18-20 Rosh Hashanah 🇮🇱
19 Procession of San Gennaro 🇮🇹
20 African American Parade
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25-11 NY Film Festival
26 NY Carnival Panology 🇹🇹
27-28 Yom Kippur 🇮🇱
Things to do in NYC in August 2020
COVID-19
Large outdoor events cancelled to at least the end of September
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Open Streets : Open Restaurants (Fri-Sat)
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1 Pachamama (At home)
1 “Liquidus” Tabula Rasa Dance Theater (YouTube)
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6 Bolivian Independence
9 Dominican Parade (Virtual)
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10 Ecuadorian Independence
14 Shakespeare in the Park (TV)
14-16 Jazz Masters & All Stars Weekend (Virtual)
14-22 Battery Dance Festival (Virtual)
16 Dominican Restoration Day
16-23 Harlem Week (Virtual)
18 19th Amendment
23 Subway Series (TBS)
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19-20 Al-Hijra (school holiday)
21 Haitian Revolution
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25 Uruguayan Independence
28 Remember Emmett Till
28 “I Have a Dream”
29 Metropolitan Museum plans to open
30 MTV VMA Video Music Awards (TV)
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31-13 US Open Tennis (ESPN)
Things to do in NYC in March 2020
Women’s History Month
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3-9 Spring/Break Art Show
4-8 Volta New York
5-15 Rendez-Vous with Frenc Cinema
5-8 Armory Show
5-8 Scope New York
5-8 Art on Paper
5-8 Clio Art Fair
6-8 Independent art fair
8 International Women’s Day
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9 Purim
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17 St. Patrick’s Day
17 St. Patrick’s Day Parade
20 Spring
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26-29 Affordable Art Fair
27 Register to Vote
27-5 Flamenco Festival
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31 Cesar Chavez Day
Things to do in NYC in February 2020
Black History Month
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Broadway Week
Off-Broadway Week
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3-12 New York Fashion Week
5-19 MoMA Doc Fortnight
8 VILLALOBOS BROTHERS
8-11 Westminster Dog Show
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14 Valentine’s Day
14 President’s Day Weekend
14 PISTOLERA
14 Neighboring Scenes Film Festival
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17 PRESIDENTS DAY
21 Carnival weekend
21-15 International Children’s Film Festival
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25 Mardi Gras
26 Ash Wednesday
26 ADAA Art Show
27 Dominican Independence Day
Things to do in NYC in January 2020
1 Haitian Independence
3-5 PBR Professional Bull Riders
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6 Three Kings Day Parade
9-18 Winter Jazzfest
10-14 APAP
12 globalFEST
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17 MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND
17-18 Black Comic Book Festival
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20 Martin Luther King holiday
24-2 Winter Antiques Show
25-1 Master Drawings
26 Grammys
Things to do in NYC in November 2019
Puerto Rican Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month
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1 Auction exhibitions open
1-5 TEFAF antiques fair
1 Day of the Holy Innocents|All Saints Day
2 Day of the Dead | All Souls Day
3 Panamanian Separation Day
3 New York City Marathon
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5 Election Day
6-15 DOC NYC
8-11 VETERANS DAY WEEKEND
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10-11 Impressionist & Modern auctions
11 Veterans Day Parade
12 Beaver Moon
12-16 Django Reinhardt Festival
13 Puerto Rican Film Festival
13-14 Contemporary Art auctions
14 Salon Art + Design fair
14 Latin Grammys
16 Latin American Art auction exhibition
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20-21 Latin American Art auction
21 Macy’s Holiday Windows
21 Beaujolais Nouveau Day
23 Puerto Rican Artisans Fair
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25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
27-1 THANKSGIVING WEEKEND
27 Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Inflation
28 Panamanian Independence Day
28 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
29 Black Friday
29 New York City Ballet ‘Nutcracker’
Things to do in NYC in October 2019
Hispanic Heritage Month
1-13 Fall for Dance Festival
2 Sandy e Junior
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8-9 Yom Kippur
11-14 COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND
11-13 New Yorker Festival
12 Panamanian Day Parade
12 Spain’s National Day
13 Hispanic Day Parade
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14 COLUMBUS DAY
14 Columbus Day Parade
14 Indigenous People’s Day
15 Hispanic Heritage Month ends
15 Casita Maria Gala
(19-20) ColombiaFest
20 Queens Bolivian Day Parade
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21 MoMA reopens
23 World Ballet Day
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31 Winter Village
31 Halloween Parade
DOC NYC 2019
November 6-15, 2019
WEST VILLAGE & CHELSEA, NYC ~ The biggest documentary film festival in the U.S. is at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea
Things to do in NYC in September 2019
1 Brazilian Day
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2 LABOR DAY
2 West Indian Day Parade
3-16 NYC Broadway Week
5 Socrates Annual
6-14 New York Fashion Week
7 New York City Labor Day Parade
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11 New York Philharmonic Opening Night ~ ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’
12 Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Opener
12 Crossing the Line festival
12-22 Feast of San Gennaro
15 Hispanic Heritage Month
15 Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran Independence Day
15 African American Day Parade
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16 Mexican Independence Day
17-30 UN General Assembly
17-13 New York City Ballet Fall Season
22 Queens Hispanic Day Parade
22 Peru to the World Expo
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23-6 NYC Off-Broadway Week
23 Met Opera Opening Night Gala ~ ‘Porgy and Bess’
27 New York Film Festival
29-1 Rosh Hashanah
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Things to do in NYC in August 2019
2-4 Carnaval del Barrio Street Fair
3 Summer Streets
4 Ecuadorian Parade
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10 Ecuadorian Independence Day
10 Eid al-Adha
10 Summer Streets
11 Dominican Day Parade
11 Battery Dance Festival
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12-18 New York Latino Film Festival
16 Dominican Restoration Day
17 Summer Streets
18 Ecuadorian Festival
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24-25 Afropunk
25 Uruguayan Independence Day
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26-8 US Open Tennis
29-2 NY Salsa Congress
30-2 LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Things to do in NYC in July 2019
JULY 2019
SummerStage
Midsummer Night Swing
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn
Shakespeare in the Park
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
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4 U.S. Independence Day
5 Venezuelan Independence Day
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9 Argentine Independence Day
9-13 LAMC Latin Alternative Music Conference
12 Colombian Flower Festival Gala
12-13 Afro-Latino Fest NYC
14 Colombian Flower Festival Parade
14 111th Street Salsa Street Fair
14 Latin Culture Carnival Bronx
14 Colombian Independence Pride Festival
14 Bastille Day NYC
14 Disability Pride NYC
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16-24 ‘Coriolanus’ Shakespeare in the Park
16-25 Jazz in July Festival
20 Colombian Independence Day
21-3 Brasil Summerfest
21 Junta Hispana Street Fair
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22-16 NYC Restaurant Week
23-28 Dominican Film Festival
24-11 Lincoln Center Out of Doors
25 Peruvian Parade Gala
28 Peruvian Parade
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Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2019
Wednesday-Sunday, July 24 – August 11, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER & CONCOURSE, THE BRONX ~ Lincoln Center’s summer festival includes African, Cuban, Dominican, Honduran, Indigenous, Jewish, Mexican, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, & Spanish music, dance, film and word for FREE
Carlos Acosta, the Cuban Ballet Legend, is “Yuli”
Sunday, July 14, 2019
LINCOLN CENTER, NYC ~ This inspiring movie tells the life story of Cuban ballet dance legend Carlos Acosta (Royal Ballet, Acosta Danza)
Things to do in NYC in June 2019
JUNE 2019
Pride Month
SummerStage
American Ballet Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park
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1 Blue Note Jazz Festival
1 Central Park Tango
2 Celebrate Israel Parade
2 Drama Desk Awards
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3 CFDA Fashion Awards
3-5 NYFW Men’s Spring Summer 2020
4 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
7-7 FIFA Women’s World Cup
8 116th Street Festival
9 National Puerto Rican Day Parade
9 Tony Awards
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10 Portugal Day
11 Museum Mile Festival
11-16 NY Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks
13-20 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
14-7 Copa America
15-7 CONCACAF Gold Cup
16 Father’s Day
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22 Coney Island Mermaid Parade
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25-13 Midsummer Night Swing
30 NYC Pride March
Antonio Mannino
A biography of the Italian ballet dancer and actor
Things to do in NYC in March 2019
MARCH
National Women’s History Month
3 Major League Soccer
5 Mardi Gras
5-11 Spring Break Art Show
6 Ash Wednesday
6-10 Volta art fair
7-10 Armory Show
7-10 Scope art fair
7-10 Flamenco Festival
8 International Women’s Day
17 St Patrick’s Day
20 Spring
26-31 Ballet Hispánico
27-7 New Directors/New Films
28-31 Colombian Film Festival
28 Major League Baseball
30 Malena & Lena Burke
Things to do in NYC in February 2019
Black History Month
1-3 Cinema Tropical film festival
5 Lunar New Year
6-10 Film Comment Selects
8-16 New York Fashion Week
9-12 Westminster Dog Show
11-24 Off-Broadway Week
14 Valentine’s Day, Carnival
18 Presidents Day
21-28 MoMA Doc Fortnight
22-17 Int’l Children’s Film Festival
22-26 Neighboring Scenes film festival
28-3 ADAA Art Show
28-10 Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Doc Fortnight 2019
MIDTOWN, daily Feb 21-28, 2019, international documentary film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Indigenous and Peruvian documentaries screened at the home of one of the world’s great film collections
Sleeping Beauty NYC Ballet at the David H Koch Theater
LINCOLN CENTER, Tue-Sun, Feb 13-17 & 19-24, 2019, French ballet dance theatre ~ One of NYC Ballet’s most elaborate productions with over 100 dancers.