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The Fall for Dance Festival returns for its 21st season with a thrilling lineup—from the stunning classical ballet of the National Ballet of Ukraine to the whimsical artistry of Gandini Juggling, three new commissions, and more. Every seat in the house remains $20 plus $10 in fees. Come fall in love with dance all over again—or for the first time!
Annual Gala Presentation
Ragtime is a sweeping, powerful musical led by Tony-nominated Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet, featuring Colin Donnell (Father), Joshua Henry (Coalhouse Walker Jr.), Caissie Levy (Mother), Ben Levi Ross (Younger Brother), Shaina Taub (Emma Goldman) Brandon Uranowitz (Tateh), and Joy Woods (Sarah).
From the fleet-footed imaginations of tap dance stars Michelle Dorrance and Josette Wiggan, and their collaborator and downtown theater darling Hannah Heller, comes this jazzy new vision of the holiday tradition. Part seasonal concert, part tap ballet, The Nutcracker Suite is a toe-tapping, hand-clapping revelation set to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s extraordinary arrangement of the Tchaikovsky classic.
Experience the magic of the National Ballet of Ukraine, one of the world’s top ballet companies and the country’s official ballet company, on their premiere tour of the United States, for the first time in over 30 years. This stunning program features timeless classics, including The Dying Swan, Don Quixote, and Giselle. The spectacular Ukrainian Shumka Dancers (Shumka) join the tour to bring beloved folk dances to life with their vibrant energy. All 44 artists perform in front of a state-of-the-art LED screen featuring cutting-edge technology.
ATTACK on TITAN: The Musical is based on one of the best-selling manga series of all time (140 million copies sold worldwide). This adaptation of the Japanese comic/graphic novel by Hajime Isayama combines traditional musical theater techniques with state-of-the-art technology and features a cast of 35 actors.
Fatherland is the true story of an 18-year-old son who turned in his father to the FBI for his militant role in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. Fast-paced and powerful, Fatherland has landed off-Broadway following a sold-out Los Angeles run which the LA Times hails "will leave you shaken." This compelling tale is told verbatim from public statements, case evidence, and official court transcripts from the explosive trial that ignited a media frenzy and grabbed headlines nationwide.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, City Center’s Principal Dance Company, returns for a five-week holiday season celebrating a lineage and legacy that continues to open doors and break new ground. Ailey’s extraordinary dancers bring to life world premieres and new productions, including works by Matthew Rushing, Ronald K. Brown, Jamar Roberts, Hope Boykin, Lar Lubovitch, and Elisa Monte.
Celebrated for their artistic excellence, attracting top talent from the ballet world to perform in meticulously crafted programs, IBStage Stars Galas are a rare opportunity to see a convergence of the world’s ballet elite on one stage.
For over 20 years, the Flamenco Festival has brought Spain’s greatest flamenco talents to City Center. An extravaganza of music, dance, and unforgettable performances, this year’s festival includes Eva Yerbabuena, Compañía Manuel Liñán, and more.
In this dazzling celebration of her company’s Diamond Jubilee, Twyla Tharp presents two career-spanning New York premieres—Diabelli and a piece set to music by Philip Glass performed live by Third Coast Percussion—that offer audiences a breathtaking vista of her range as an artist.
Sara Mearns, “one of the most celebrated ballerinas in the world” (The New York Times), makes her curatorial debut as part of the ongoing Artists at the Center series. In this program, she dances in a World Premiere by choreographer Guillaume Côté and writer Jonathon Young.
Artistic Director Robert Garland ushers in a new season of Dance Theatre of Harlem with an exciting mix of new works and fan favorites, as they once again present a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century.
Ballet Hispánico celebrates the 150th anniversary of the beloved classic ballet Carmen with Gustavo Ramirez Sanso’s CARMEN.maquia, an electrifying take on Bizet’s passionately tragic masterpiece. Plus, the wildly popular En Familia/Family Matinee returns.
This popular evening series of conversations and performance excerpts offers audiences the unique opportunity to get closer to today’s great dance artists. Many evenings feature previews of our mainstage dance programming and are moderated by leading scholars and writers in the dance world.
This season, New York City Center is the place to SEE IT ALL. From Ragtime to Twyla Tharp, from ballet premieres to your favorite musical theater revivals, from Community Nights to free dance lessons, City Center is truly the place to be.
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Sep 27 – Oct 8, 2023
Celebrate 20 years of this New York dance tradition. All tickets just $20.
New York City Center and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels present
Lucinda Childs’s 1979 collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt, a 20th-century masterpiece, is restaged for the peerless dancers of the Lyon Opera Ballet.
Annual Gala Presentation
In this brand-new adaptation, directed by Savion Glover and Tony Goldwyn, Joey Evans—Ephraim Sykes (Ain’t Too Proud)—is a Black jazz singer in the 1940s struggling to make it big his way, with his sound, on Chicago’s vibrant nightclub circuit, alongside Loretta Devine (Dreamgirls) as Lucille and Aisha Jackson (Once Upon a One More Time) as Linda. This Rodgers and Hart classic incorporates additional numbers from the duo’s songbook, for a total of over 18 beloved tunes.
Artists at the Center
NOV 9 – 11, 2023
Direct from its five-star UK run, the New York City premiere of Song of Songs fuses Pam Tanowitz’s “transparently beautiful” (Independent) choreography with Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang’s “gorgeously clear” (The New York Times) choral settings of the Biblical love poem, performed live by six musicians.
A winter tradition returns to the City Center stage with premieres from Amy Hall Garner, Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish, and more.
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30 Years of Encores!
JAN 24 – FEB 4, 2024
Starring musical theater legend Sutton Foster (The Music Man) as Princess Winifred and Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) as Prince Dauntless, Once Upon a Mattress is the uproarious retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Princess and the Pea.” Led by Tony-nominated Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet (Into the Woods, Lionel Bart’s Oliver!) and with a new concert adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), this musical fairytale promises both classic charms and new delights.
30 Years of Encores!
FEB 21 – MAR 3, 2024
Take your seat at the legendary Jungle Inn nightclub for an electrifying musical telling the story of jazz through its self-proclaimed inventor: Jelly Roll Morton. Directed by Robert O’Hara (X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X) and written by Tony-winner George C. Wolfe (Rustin, Shuffle Along), Jelly’s Last Jam is set to Morton’s iconic music. The cast features Nicholas Christopher (Sweeney Todd), Joaquina Kalukango (Paradise Square), Billy Porter (Pose), Leslie Uggams (American Fiction), and more!
A two-week extravaganza of music, dance, and unforgettable performances, this year’s festival features the National Ballet of Spain, Premio Nacional de Danza winner Olga Pericet, and Gala Flamenca, featuring Manuel Liñán, Alfonso Losa, El Yiyo, Paula Comitre, and Sandra Carrasco.
This popular evening series lets audiences get closer to today’s great dance artists.
World famous for their theatricality, stunning technique and unparalleled expression, the dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) return to City Center with a season of unforgettable works.
In a celebratory season, the Company reaffirms that the future of ballet is in Harlem with works by Robert Garland, William Forsythe, and a new staging of George Balanchine’s Pas de Dix.
The Company performs Martha Graham’s The Rite of Spring and Appalachian Spring, as well as Agnes de Mille’s 1942 classic Rodeo and a new work by Jamar Roberts with composer Rhiannon Giddens.
Highlights include the restaging of Mad’moiselle, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s homage to Latina women; and Buscando a Juan, the most recent work by Eduardo Vilaro, and a fun-filled, interactive En Familia Matinee.
Featuring 27 of Sting’s most beloved songs, this thrillingly executed new dance-theater sensation by Kate Prince and ZooNation tells an uplifting tale of humanity and hope through world-class contemporary and street dance.
Dance Against Cancer will bring the global arts community together to fight cancer with this one-night-only annual performance to benefit the American Cancer Society. Past shows have included performances by the dance world’s brightest stars from New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Martha Graham Dance Company, Jacob Jonas The Company, stars of the Broadway community and more.
30 Years of Encores!
An all-star cast sets sail in Titanic, including Chuck Cooper, Eddie Cooper, Andrew Durand, Drew Gehling, Ramin Karimloo, Judy Kuhn, Jose Llana, Bonnie Milligan, Brandon Uranowitz, and Chip Zien. Directed by Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window), this nearly sung-through show from creators Maury Yeston (Grand Hotel) and Peter Stone (1776) paints a heartrending portrait of the individuals whose dreams of America were dashed in the Atlantic.
Qui Nguyen, the wildly inventive playwright (and screenwriter for Marvel and Disney) known for his use of pop culture, pop music, and puppetry, reunites with director May Adrales for this funny, sexy, and brash new play. A young Vietnamese family attempts to put down roots in Arkansas, a place as different from home as it gets. A mom and dad balance big hopes and low-wage jobs as old flings threaten to pull them apart. It all makes for a bumpy road to the American dream.
John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize-and Tony-winning author of Doubt and the Oscar-winning writer of Moonstruck, returns to MTC with this world premiere of a new play. Sometimes big things start from little things; in this case, a bag of laundry.
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