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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.

  • 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