November 2026 Dance Calendar

Kyle Marshall Choreography tops this month’s packed calendar. Marshall and company will premiere “Bound,” using text by Fredrick Douglass and visual design by KMC Creative Director Edo Tastic (set, costume, and projection). The cast of five performers — Justin Daniels, Khalid Dunton, Kyle Marshall, Kellye Smith and Syd Worthy — will explore (sub)text and subversive actions by embodying words, gestures, and rhythms that examine American ideals and realities. There will also be live sound design by Cal Fish and Kwami Winfield. Marshall writes, “‘Bound’ is a cryptic work, one layered with subtext, coded movement and subversive sound. It spans time through the words of Fredrick Douglass, voices of today and declarations for a future yet to be seen. Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church provides a timeless space for ‘Bound’s’ world premiere.” Performances run Nov. 5-7. Find out more at https://danspaceproject.org.

STILL RUNNING:

Sept. 15 – Nov. 21: The multidisciplinary festival that celebrates the convergence of Black and Latinx artistry through dance, theater, music, literature, ritual, and performance, The BlakTinX Performance Series returns to BAAD! Find out more at baadbronx.org.

Sept. 22, 2026 – May 30, 2027: New York City Ballet’s 2026-27 Season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center with repertory works, premieres, plus additional works by Kyle Abraham, Jamar Roberts and more. Find out more at nycballet.com.

ALSO THIS MONTH:

Nov. 4 – 7: Cynthia Oliver returns to BAM with “Turn. Turning. TURNT,” a three-part evening of dance constructed before, during, and after the 2020 pandemic. “Tether,” an afrofuturist experiment germinated in 2019, meditates on Black girls’ creativity and play; “Fallow” is the most explicit response to the pandemic: through a facade of stillness, it holds the myriad pressures of that extraordinary time; and “Summon. Sow. Reap.” follows as a companion piece, exploring re-emergence from isolation through deep rhythm and spiritual patterning. Find out more at bam.org.

Nov. 5: “Trikāyā (Three Bodies),” the latest solo by Bijayini Satpathy explores desire, transformation, and identity beyond binaries, and draws from the Mahabharata story of Brihannala, the archer Arjuna’s transgender form. Find out more at asiasociety.org/new-york.

Nov. 5 – 7: At NYU Skirball, Sankai Juku will perform “TOTEM — Void and Height,” the final work created by the company’s late founder, Butoh legend Ushio Amagatsu. Find out more at nyuskirball.org.

Nov. 6 – 7: Japan Society presents Reisa Shimojima and her company KEDAGORO in “The Age is Yours, My Liege! A Tale of Proto-Japan,” “…a frenzied international premiere that hurls audiences headfirst into an ancient Japanese festival eating itself alive,” notes the release. Find out more at japansociety.org.

Nov. 7: For this family friendly day, the Asia Society hosts “Diwali Lights Up Asia Society 2026” filled with music, dance and many more events. Find out more at asiasociety.org.

Nov. 8: Dance Theatre of Harlem “Sunday Matinees” will present performances by Dances Patrelle under the leadership of Artistic Director Christopher Charles McDaniel, a former DTH Company member, plus offerings by the Limón Dance Company. Find out more at dancetheatreofharlem.org.

Nov. 11 – 14: At BAM, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born will present “adaku, part 2,” the continuation of “…a speculative trilogy exploring one family’s entanglement with the transatlantic slave trade, set in a near-future United States,” according to the release. Find out more at bam.org.

Nov. 12 – 14: Triskelion Arts presents Resident Artist Christian A. Warner’s premiere of “WE GATHER HERE,” an ensemble performance and community activation project exploring the intimate spaces where we retreat to confide, rehabilitate, ground, and re-strategize. Find out more at triskelionarts.org.

Nov. 13 – 15: At The Riverside Theater, the Harlem-based VISIONS Contemporary Ballet will present an evening titled “We People,” choreographed by Ranardo-Domeico Grays, and set to music by Missa Cooper with a poem by Kathy Rufus. Find out more at visionscontemporary.com.

Nov. 13 – 15: ALPHA OMEGA THEATRICAL DANCE COMPANY presents “STUDIO TO STAGE: A Choreographer’s Showcase.” Find out more at alphaomegadance.org.

Nov. 14: In the evening titled “A Collection,” at The Apollo Stages at The Victoria, HopeBoykinDance promises: A Collection… of works, ideas, and thoughts, unpacked and translated through movement, voice, and sound and more. Find out more at apollotheater.org.

Nov. 19: Triskelion Arts presents Kayla Farrish’s “A Beast that Came Apart Mid-Air (pt. 1) Work In Process.” The release calls the production, “…an Afrosurrealist dance-theater performance taking shape as a visual mixtape through movement, voice, narrative, film, folktale, and spiritual during a reckoning.” Find out more at triskelionarts.org.

Nov. 19 – 21: Shamel Pitts and TRIBE present a 10th-anniversary performance of “BLACK VELVET” at The Flea Theater. Created by Pitts and performed by Channce Williams and Ke’ron J. Wilson, this anniversary production returns to a work whose original international journey helped lay the foundation for TRIBE. Find out more at itsatribe.org.

Nov. 19 – 21: At Danspace Project, DonChristian Jones’ “I’ve Been Waiting for This Moment for the Rest of My Life,” a new work, “…will begin as a staged reading, dissolving into a performance of Black Quantum Physics — a non-linear chronicling of a life of art making, addiction, and attempts at repair,” notes the release. Find out more at danspaceproject.org.

Nov. 20 – 21: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, A Dance Company returns home to The Billie Holiday Theatre with a season of repertory works. Find out more at thebillieholidaytheatre.org.

Nov. 19 – 21: BAC and the Merce Cunningham Trust continues their ongoing collaboration with “In Conversation with Merce: New RainForest(s).” Conceived by choreographers Claude “CJ” Johnson, Chalvar Monteiro, Chaery Moon, and filmmaker Alex Munro, the program revisits Cunningham’s landmark work “RainForest” through newly commissioned choreography and video design. Find out more at baryshnikovarts.org.

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