Sep 21 – Oct 2, 2022
All tickets $20
Approximately 90 minutes
“One of the great events of the New York dance year”
—The New York Times
Now in its 19th season, the annual Fall for Dance Festival captures the beating heart of today’s dance scene for two straight weeks. Presenting international artists for the first time in three years, these unique programs feature companies from France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, Spain, and Ukraine alongside beloved local artists—all for just $20 a ticket.
Performance highlights include the New York debut of Kyiv City Ballet; a co-commission with Vail Dance Festival of No Nonsense, a New York premiere by Pam Tanowitz, featuring Melissa Toogood and Herman Cornejo; and the live premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s 2020 Digital Fall for Dance Festival Commission The Two of Us, set to Joni Mitchell classics and featuring Sara Mearns and Robbie Fairchild.
Casting and programming subject to change.
Compagnie Hervé Koubi
Excerpts from Boys Don’t Cry | NY Premiere
Choreography by Hervé Koubi
Margarita Fernandes & António Casalinho
Bavarian State Ballet
Pas de deux from Le Corsaire
Choreography by Marius Petipa
Gibney Company
Bliss | North American Premiere
Choreography by Johan Inger
Music From The Sole
I Didn’t Come to Stay
Choreography and Music by Leonardo Sandoval & Gregory Richardson
Melissa Toogood & Herman Cornejo
No Nonsense | NY Premiere
Co-commissioned with Vail Dance Festival
Damian Woetzel, Artistic Director
Choreography by Pam Tanowitz
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
BUSK
Choreography and Direction by Aszure Barton
James Gilmer
Morani/Mungu (Black Warrior/Black God) | Live Premiere
2020 Digital Fall for Dance Festival Commission
Choreography by Jamar Roberts
San Francisco Ballet
In the Night
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
María Moreno
Tangos & Alegrías
Choreography by María Moreno
with guest singer María Terremoto
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Indestructible
Choreography by Abby Zbikowski
Sara Mearns & Robbie Fairchild
The Two of Us | Live US Premiere
2020 Digital Fall for Dance Festival Commission
Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
Kyiv City Ballet
Thoughts and Men of Kyiv | NY Premiere
Choreography by Vladyslav Dobshynskyi; Pavlo Virsky
Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
In collaboration with Chitrasena Dance Company
Poornāratī | NY Premiere
Choreography by Surupa Sen
Dutch National Ballet
Variations for Two Couples
Choreography by Hans van Manen
Martha Graham Dance Company
CAVE
Choreography by Hofesh Shechter, co-produced by Studio Simkin and MGDC
“Nearly 20 years old, [Fall for Dance] continues to pack the house”
— The New York Times
HERVE KOUBI in Boys Don’t Cry; photo by Frédérique Calloch.
The inaugural Fall for Dance Festival was held in 2004 with the goal of building a new audience for dance. In his closing night review of that season, Jack Anderson wrote in The New York Times, “Fall for Dance has proved to be the brightest idea to light up the New York dance scene in a long time.” In keeping with City Center’s founding mission to make the arts accessible to everyone, all tickets for Fall for Dance are $20.
Since its inception, the Festival has received international recognition for its quality and innovation, and successfully engaging new and younger dance audiences. In 2011, City Center began commissioning new works for Fall for Dance. Recent seasons have featured world premieres from some of today’s leading choreographers, including Kyle Abraham, Lil Buck, Dormeshia, Michelle Dorrance, Ayodele Casel, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Justin Peck. In October 2020, a digital presentation of Fall for Dance—filmed live on the City Center stage—reached a global audience in 28 countries and all 50 states. Fall for Dance returned to the live stage in 2021.
Please consider making a gift today to help ensure our beloved Fall for Dance Festival remains accessible to all New Yorkers at just $20 a ticket.
Lead Sponsor
Major Support for Fall for Dance
Jody and John Arnhold
Major Support for dance at New York City Center
Presenting Partners
Perry and Marty Granoff
Caroline Howard Hyman
Denise R. Sobel
Barbara and David Zalaznick
Support for the Arts Access Fund
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
William and Dewey Edelman Charitable Trust
Additional Support for Fall for Dance
The Shubert Foundation
Joyce F. Menschel
National Endowment for the Arts
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.
The SHS Foundation
Trust for Mutual Understanding
Support for new dance works at New York City Center
Arlene Shuler Artistic Innovation Fund
Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.
Key art: Compagnie Hervé Koubi’s Housni Mijem; photo by Frédérique Calloch
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