City Center Dance Festival
The multi-ethnic Dance Theatre of Harlem delivers a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century with forward-thinking repertoire of treasured classics and innovative contemporary works that use the language of ballet to celebrate Black culture. The company presents recent works including the New York premiere of Resident Choreographer Robert Garland’s Higher Ground, Claudia Schreier’s Passage, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’sBalamouk with live music by The Klezmatics.
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Apr 5, 8 – 10
Tue 7pm, Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm, Sun 5pm
Gala | Apr 5
A special evening celebrating the power of diversity onstage and off
Repertory Program | Apr 8 & 10
Higher Ground NY Premiere
Choreography by Robert Garland
Music by Gary Byrd, Michael Sembello, Stevie Wonder, and Syreeta Wright
Passage NY Premiere
Choreography by Claudia Schreier
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City Center Dance Festival
Dance
Mainstage
Mar 24 – Apr 10, 2022
Tickets start at $35
Overview
The first City Center Dance Festival showcases New York companies making their triumphant return to the City Center stage after more than two years away.
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Mar 24 – 27 & 29 – 31
Ballet Hispánico
Apr 1 – 3
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Apr 5, 8 – 10
Martha Graham Dance Company
Apr 6, 7, 9 & 10
Paul Taylor Dance Company is one of the world’s most iconic modern dance companies. Three diverse programs showcase Taylor classics including Airs, Roses, and the masterpiece Esplanade, alongside works by the next generation of dance makers—Larry Keigwin’s Rush Hour and a world premiere by Lauren Lovette.
The nation’s renowned Latinx dance organization and one of America’s cultural treasures, Ballet Hispánicocelebrates 50 years of dance, access, and innovation. In the full-length world premiere Doña Perón, sought-after choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa presents an explosive portrait of Eva “Evita” Perón, whose ambition and conflicting desires fed her life as an activist and feminist leader.
The multi-ethnic Dance Theatre of Harlem delivers a powerful vision for ballet in the 21st century with forward-thinking repertoire of treasured classics and innovative contemporary works that use the language of ballet to celebrate Black culture. The company presents recent works including the New York premiere of Resident Choreographer Robert Garland’s Higher Ground, Claudia Schreier’s Passage, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’sBalamouk with live music by The Klezmatics.
Martha Graham Dance Company has been a leader in the evolving art form of modern dance since its founding in 1926. Graham’s Acts of Light, presented in New York for the first time in 15 years, and the iconic Appalachian Spring, share the stage with a world premiere by Hofesh Shechter and the premiere of a new Canticle for Innocent Comedians—reimagined by eight extraordinary choreographers.
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Programming subject to change.
Photos: Ballet Hispanico, photo by Rachel Neville; Dance Theatre of Harlem, photo by Rachel Neville; Martha Graham Dance Company, photo by Melissa Sherwood; Paul Taylor Dance Company, photo by Paul B. Goode
Programs
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Mar 24 – 27, 29 – 31
Week 1: Thu – Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm
Week 2: Tue – Thu 7:30pm
Program A | Mar 24, 26, 29
Roses
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Music by Richard Wagner / Heinrich Baermann
World Premiere
Choreography by Lauren Lovette
Music by Alberto Ginastera
Brandenburgs
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Program B | Mar 25, 27, 30
Offenbach Overtures
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Music by Jacques Offenbach
Airs
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Music by George Frideric Handel
Rush Hour
Choreography by Larry Keigwin
Music by Adam Crystal
Program C | Mar 31
Roses
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Music by Richard Wagner / Heinrich Baermann
Offenbach Overtures
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Music by Jacques Offenbach
Esplanade
Choreography by Paul Taylor
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Ballet Hispánico
Apr 1 – 3
Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2 & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm
Program | Apr 1 – 3
Doña Perón World Premiere
Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Music by Peter Salem
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Apr 5, 8 – 10
Tue 7pm, Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm, Sun 5pm
Gala | Apr 5
A special evening celebrating the power of diversity onstage and off
Repertory Program | Apr 8 & 10
Higher Ground NY Premiere
Choreography by Robert Garland
Music by Gary Byrd, Michael Sembello, Stevie Wonder, and Syreeta Wright
Passage NY Premiere
Choreography by Claudia Schreier
Music by Jesse Montgomery
Balamouk (Extended) NY Premiere
Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Music by René Aubry, Lisa Gerrard, and Les Yeux Noirs
Matinee | Apr 9
Higher Ground NY Premiere
Choreography by Robert Garland
Music by Gary Byrd, Michael Sembello, Stevie Wonder, and Syreeta Wright
Odalisques Variations from Le Corsaire
Staged by Dylan Santos after Marius Petipa
Music by Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni
Balamouk (Extended) NY Premiere
Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Music by René Aubry, Lisa Gerrard, and Les Yeux Noirs