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Paul Taylor Dance Company: How Love Sounds
November 4th - 23rd, 2025
New York premiere of How Love Sounds by choreographer Hope Boykin
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City
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Miami City Ballet: Carmen
March 26th - April 5th, 2026
Return of evening-length Carmen by choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami, Florida
Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Back by popular demand—Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s fiery Carmen returns for an encore that’s as bold and unforgettable as ever.
This powerhouse production brings fresh perspective to the iconic tale, blending classical ballet with flamenco flair and Ochoa’s signature and sensual theatricality. Set to a rich new arrangement of Bizet’s beloved score, Carmen commands the stage with passion, power, and a heroine who owns her story.
Fierce, fearless, and completely captivating—Carmen is back.
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Miami City Ballet
May 1st - 10th 2026
New work by choreographer Durante Verzola
Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami, Florida
Broward Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Durante Verzola’s World Premiere, set to George Gershwin’s irresistible jazz rhythms, is filled with playful, captivating energy.
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Museum of African Diaspora: Irresistibly Alive
Performance October 1, 2025 . Exhibition continues October 1st, 2025 - August 16, 2026 . Future activations in 2026 to be announced
On the opening night of UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe, audiences are invited into Irresistibly Alive, a rare and unreplicable performance conceived by artist M. Carmen Lane and choreographer Sidra Leigh Bell. Choreographed and performed in collaboration with dancer Sophia Halimah Parker in intricate costumes designed by Mark Eric, the work summons ancestral presence through movement, voice, and ritual.
Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, California
UNBOUND Art, Blackness & the Universe is curated by Key Jo Lee
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Miami City Ballet: Carmen
April 25th - May 4th, 2025
New evening-length reimagining of Carmen by choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Arsht Center, Miami, Florida
Broward Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A story bursting with love, seduction, jealousy, and tragedy, Carmen receives a 21st century reimagining from in-demand choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.
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Dutch National Ballet Junior Company: Scurry Night
On Tour February 8th - March 12th, 2025
European premiere of Scurry Night by choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Made in NL
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa created this compelling work in 2021 for the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, taking inspiration from artworks by the famous graffiti artist Banksy, which are reflected in both the choreography and the costumes.
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Sidra Bell Dance NY: G R A P H
February 7th, 2025
New work by choreographer Sidra Bell
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Performance Pyramid part of the Flight into Egypt Exhibit: Black Artist and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now
For the first time in Met history, live performance is an integral part of a major exhibition. Join us each week in the Performance Pyramid— embedded within the exhibition Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now—to experience music, dance, and performance art that draw on ancient Egyptian themes.
In her new work entitled G R A P H, choreographer and dancer Sidra Bell studies the relationship between existentialism and Black liberation, using the artwork presented in Flight into Egypt as a departure point for a dance that transmits ascendency, power and spirituality.
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Paul Taylor Dance Company: How Love Sounds
February 27th - March 1st, 2025
New work by choreographer Hope Boykin
Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington DC
The company ushers in a new era with the world premiere of How Love Sounds by Hope Boykin (Artistic Advisor for Dance Education at the Kennedy Center). Nine dancers perform boundary-pushing movement, all set to Boykin’s favorite songs that “sound like love.” You’ll hear the joyful timbre of Stevie Wonder, the shimmering pulse of Donna Summer, the heartbroken twang of Patsy Cline, and even the stirring orchestral music of Antonín Dvořák. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center.
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Paul Taylor Dance Company: Chaconne in Winter
November 5th - 24th, 2024
New work by choreographer Lauren Lovette
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City
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Paul Taylor Dance Company: Recess
November 5th - 24th, 2024
New work by choreographer Lauren Lovette
David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City
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School of American Ballet: Tendu
June 11th, 2024
New work by choreographer Lauren Lovette
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City
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Cincinnati Ballet: Delmira
May 1st - 4th, 2025
Regional premiere of Delmira by choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Director’s Vision: No Boundaries
Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio
Delmira, dramatic work inspired by the life of 20th-century Latin American poet Delmira Agustini, one of the first female poets of the modern era. Ochoa tells her story using the symbolism that Agustini employed in her writing.
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SCORE: Featuring Arena an original movement work
November 10th - December 22nd, 2023
New performance work by artist Derek Fordjour and choreographer Sidra Bell
Petzel Gallery, New York City
In SCORE, Fordjour debuts his latest collaboration, Arena, an original ensemble movement piece, jointly composed with renowned choreographer Sidra Bell, founder of Sidra Bell Dance New York. Arena will be performed twice daily in the West Gallery. With live musical accompaniment from Hannah Mayree of The Black Banjo Reclamation Project, five dancers will animate the space, performing the original choreographic score atop a packed dirt floor, within a built environment, which includes a sculptural seating structure and custom tent. Informed directly from the artist’s paintings, original costume and lighting design infuse theatricality into the artist’s oeuvre. Arena grapples with notions of performance and abstraction through live action in a kaleidoscopic exploration of labor, history, power and race.
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Houston Ballet: Delmira
September 21st-October 1st, 2023
New work by choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Wortham Theater, Houston, Texas