14 Dance Performances to See This November
Catch Paul Taylor Dance Company, Garth Fagan Dance, STREB’s gravity-defying fun and more
This November, the venerable Paul Taylor Dance Company returns for its annual run at Lincoln Center; The Joyce hosts Garth Fagan Dance, GALLIM and Complexions Contemporary Ballet; and the spectacular duo Bridgman | Packer Dance conjures a haunting Ghost Factory. While a few Nutcrackers start twirling this month, we’ll be covering the Christmas ballet in December. Why rush the holidays?
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Paul Taylor Dance Company
David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza at 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue in Lincoln Square
Runs November 3-22. If you’re a TDF Member, log in to purchase discount tickets.
Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to Lincoln Center for a three-week run featuring some of its founder’s most beloved classics (Brandenburgs, Esplanade, Airs, Cloven Kingdom and Piazzolla Caldera) along with a pair of exciting world premieres. Former Alvin Ailey artistic director Robert Battle debuts A Starling while erstwhile New York City Ballet principal Lauren Lovette premieres 30 Incoming. Also on the lineup: Pam Tanowitz’s Messengers, Maidens and the End of Something Else and Alwin Nikolais’ 1953 masterwork Tensile Involvement. The Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs live at every performance.
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Mirlitons
L’Alliance New York, 22 East 60th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues in Midtown East
Runs November 4-6.
In French, mirliton has a multitude of meanings, including a pastry, a poor poem, even a kazoo. Choreographer François Chaignaud and beatboxer Aymeric Hainaux’s collaboration is a playful back-and-forth between body and voice as they explore the various senses of the word.
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Aanmitaagzi: All My R(el)ations
The Downstairs at La MaMa, 66 East 4th Street between Bowery and Second Avenue
Runs November 4-6.
Part of the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival, Aanmitaagzi’s All My R(el)ations is a multidisciplinary dance-theatre piece created by professional and community artists examining their hopes and dreams.
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Garth Fagan Dance
The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs November 4-8. If you’re a TDF Member, log in to purchase discount tickets.
While Garth Fagan may be best known as the Tony Award-winning choreographer of Disney’s The Lion King, dance lovers have been following his eponymous company for five decades. Famous for fusing elements of modern, Afro-Caribbean and ballet, the troupe returns to The Joyce with a varied program that includes Fagan’s classic Prelude: Discipline is Freedom as well as the NYC premiere of Priestess Hill by current artistic director Norwood Pennewell.
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Sankai Juku: TOTEM–Void and Height
NYU Skirball, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South in the West Village
Runs November 5-7.
The Japanese dance style Butoh is renowned for its incredibly slow and intense movements. Ushio Amagatsu, who died in 2024, worked in the form for more than a half century. His company Sankai Juku performs his final work TOTEM as a tribute and a farewell. Remarkably, the company’s seven dancers spent the bulk of their careers with Amagatsu and carry the full weight of his legacy with their every gesture.
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this is the beginning, this is the end
New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Chelsea
Runs November 6-7 & 11-14.
Joanna Kotze’s this is the beginning, this is the end explores the pitfalls of conformity and oppressive cycles and how that impacts individuals and communities. Six dancers and two live musicians perform this world premiere.
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adaku, part 2: she shivers with it
BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place between Lafayette Avenue and Hanson Place in Fort Greene
Runs November 11-15.
Speculative fiction brought to life through dance, adaku, part 2 takes place in a future where the history of Black folks has been erased. But one young woman uses her imagination to forge a new path. The second part of a planned trilogy, this multimedia work is the brainchild of sweat variant, aka professional and personal partners Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born. Part of BAM’s 2026 Next Wave Festival.
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GALLIM
The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs November 11-15.
GALLIM‘s founding artistic director Andrea Miller is renowned for creating dance-theatre pieces that focus on visually provocative effects, cabaret aesthetics and rich movements. For its Joyce program, the company performs two of her works—state and YEAR—as well as a premiere by former company member Sean Howe, marking the first time GALLIM has performed a dance not created by Miller.
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WE GATHER HERE
Triskelion Arts, 106 Calyer Street at Banker Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Runs November 12-14.
Inspired by seminal Black art including Octavia E. Butler’s Afrofuturist novel Parable of the Talents and the movie The Wiz, Christian A. Warner’s movement experiment WE GATHER HERE reconnects participants to their roots. Warner and DaMond Lemonte Garner perform this duet to an immersive soundscape.
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Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company: Studio to Stage
@theAO, 70 East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village
Runs November 13-15.
Alpha Omega artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus’ acclaimed choreographer series presents new works by dance makers Damontae Hack, Dahlia Levine, Sky Pasqual, Ainsleigh Rund and Sonja Stahl. Each evening includes special performances by DeJesus’ troupe and the Rod Rodgers Dance Company.
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STREB Extreme Action: Do Not Try This at Home
New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Midtown West
Runs November 14-29. If you’re a TDF Member, log in to purchase discount tickets.
The daredevils of STREB, Elizabeth Streb’s high-energy company that fuses dance with acrobatics and circus machines, show off their death-defying moves in Do Not Try This at Home. Streb dubs her works Action Events rather than dances, and the physical challenges she devises demand strength, courage and confidence. The feats in this program include jaw-dropping leaps and navigating a 100-foot wave simulation.
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet
The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street in Chelsea
Runs November 17-29.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet returns to The Joyce for its annual two-week engagement featuring premieres by founding co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden, Jillian Davis and Tommie-Waheed Evans. Rhoden’s co-artistic director, Desmond Richardson, will give a special one-night-only performance honoring the recently deceased dance icon Carmen de Lavallade alongside former Dance Theatre of Harlem principal Christina Johnson and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater alum Sarita Allen.
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TRIBE: BLACK VELVET
The Flea, 20 Thomas Street between Broadway and Church Street in Tribeca
Runs November 19-21
MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Shamel Pitts presents a 10-year anniversary performance of his award-winning BLACK VELVET. While the pas de deux has been reconceived to highlight the talents of its current performers—Channce Williams and Ke’ron J. Wilson—it remains steeped in Black empowerment, political resilience and freedom.
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Bridgman | Packer Dance: Ghost Factory
92NY, 1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street on the Upper East Side
Runs November 20-21
Veteran dance artists and Bessie Award winners Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have been creating scintillating movement vignettes for over 40 years. Projected images, created by longtime collaborator Peter Bobrow, seem to echo their every gesture and are a hallmark of their multimedia productions. That proves particularly haunting in their latest production, Ghost Factory, about the spirits lingering in a former factory town. An eerie must-see.
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