{"id":355423,"date":"2026-09-24T05:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355423\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T05:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T05:44:09","slug":"fall-for-dance-returns-to-new-york-city-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355423\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall for Dance Returns to New York City Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 23rd\u00a0Fall for\u00a0Dance Festival\u00a0brings another stunning lineup of the best in dance from around the world to New York City, including artists from Australia, Germany, Spain, and other places. Of course, there are also many talented New Yorkers dancing in the productions as well.<\/p>\n

The Fall for Dance Festival offers five different programs, each with three dances per showing. 15 different companies are featured with 11 premieres. Fall for Dance continues through October 3, with 10 days of performances.<\/p>\n

Spectacularly, all the seats in the theater are $30, making this program affordable and accessible to those who love dance and those who have never seen a dance performance before. Even from the balcony and mezzanine, one can have a perfect view of the stage.<\/p>\n

This year includes two\u00a0City Center\u00a0commissions: the\u00a0Drama Desk-winning\u00a0Pony Cam\u00a0(Burnout Paradise), offers a retrospective look at the history of the\u00a0Festival; and former New York City Ballet Principal\u00a0and Tony nominee\u00a0Robbie Fairchild\u00a0creates a new work inspired by the origin story of Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0Romeo & Juliet, co-commissioned with Guild Hall.<\/p>\n

This writer had the opportunity to see Program 1, which offered a visual and sonic array of different dances. In the act of undoing, the first show, had its New York premiere, utilizing words on the stage that became a chant and cacophony. Some viewers seemed confused by the lack of narrative or visual cohesion, but Fall for Dance clearly knows how to dance with its audience. The second show, L\u2019Air D\u2019Esprit,\u00a0offered a much more classical ballet narrative with two beautiful dancers, high leg extensions, lifts, and tulle. The audience clapped a lot more for this performance. Finally, Martha Graham Dance Company closed Program 1 out with Cortege, a surreal and active group number choreographed by Brooklyn-based Baye & Asa (Sam Assemany and Amadi Washington). An homage to Martha Graham\u2019s 1967 classic Cortege of Eagles, which depicts the crumbling of the Trojan Empire, this version of Cortege places the power (and the blame) for the cycle of violence on people themselves. The audience resonated with a riotous amount of claps.<\/p>\n

The only complaint this writer had was the short 1 hour and 30 minutes (with intermission) run time. Be sure to check if the performance has an optional free dance lesson prior to the show, as this writer was sadly not aware and missed the lesson.<\/p>\n

Tickets for Fall for Dance can be purchased at https:\/\/www.nycitycenter.org\/events\/2026-2027-fall-for-dance-festival<\/p>\n

Photos Courtesy of Nicollette Barsamian<\/p>\n

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\nPROGRAM 1 \u2502 SEP 22 & 23 at 7:30PM\n<\/p>\n

A.I.M BY KYLE ABRAHAM
US
In the act of undoing
Choreography\u00a0Jermaine Spivey
NY Premiere<\/p>\n

SKYLAR BRANDT & ARAN BELL
US
L\u2019Air D\u2019Esprit
Choreography\u00a0Gerald Arpino<\/p>\n

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
US
Cortege
Choreography\u00a0Baye & Asa<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nPROGRAM 2 \u2502 SEP 24 & 25 at 7:30PM\n<\/p>\n

PHILADANCO! THE PHILADELPHIA DANCE COMPANY
US
HEIRBORNE (my mama ain\u2019t never touched the sky, but she gave me wings)
Choreography\u00a0Juel D. Lane
NY Premiere<\/p>\n

ROBBIE FAIRCHILD\u2019S PLAYERS
US
Lord Chamberlain\u2019s Men
Choreography\u00a0Robbie Fairchild
New York City Center Co-commission with
Guild Hall
World Premiere Preview<\/p>\n

BOSTON BALLET
US
Vertical Road (Reimagined)\u00a02023
Choreography\u00a0Akram Khan
NY Premiere<\/p>\n

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\nPROGRAM 3 \u2502 SEP 26 at 7:30PM & 27 at 2PM\n<\/p>\n

JUAN TOM\u00c1S DE LA MOL\u00cdA
Spain
Buler\u00eda de la Mol\u00eda
Choreography\u00a0Juan Tom\u00e1s de la Mol\u00eda<\/p>\n

LIOR TAVORI DANCE COMPANY
Israel
Crust
Choreography\u00a0Lior Tavori
US Premiere<\/p>\n

THE ROYAL BALLET
UK
Paganini \u2013 The First Virtuoso\u00a0
Choreography\u00a0Loughlan Prior
US Premiere<\/p>\n

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\nPROGRAM 4 \u2502 SEP 30 & OCT 1 at 7:30PM\n<\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
US
Faun
Choreography\u00a0Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui<\/p>\n

FRIEDEMANN VOGEL
Courtesy of The Stuttgart Ballet
Germany
ECHO:SOG
Choreography\u00a0Friedemann Vogel & Thomas Lempertz
World Premiere<\/p>\n

GAUTHIER DANCE \/\/ DANCE COMPANY THEATERHAUS STUTTGART
Germany
Any way the wind blows
Choreography\u00a0Hofesh Shechter
US Premiere<\/p>\n

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\nPROGRAM 5 \u2502 OCT 2 & 3 at 7:30PM\n<\/p>\n

PONY CAM
Australia
kinda like that
Choreography\u00a0Pony Cam
New York City Center Commission
World Premiere<\/p>\n

MIAMI CITY BALLET
US
Roses from the South: Three Waltzes for Toby
Choreography\u00a0Alexei Ratmansky
NY Premiere<\/p>\n

THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET
Australia
Seven Days
Choreography\u00a0Stephanie Lake
US Premiere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23rd\u00a0Fall for\u00a0Dance Festival\u00a0brings another stunning lineup of the best in dance from around the world to New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-355423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}