boiling rain
A gathering built around a medical mannequin named Jeanie, made by a choreographer who has worked as a frontline nurse for ten years. It honors health care workers and closes a grief trilogy.
Dance
Dance — change
Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Paul Lazar plays the sky itself in Anne Carson's text, moving through song, dance, video and phone calls, with imagery by Annie-B Parson. Strange, funny and tender.
PAF New York 2026: Bestiary of Darkness
Valentýna Janů's neo-noir video, partly shot at Pioneer Works, gets live performance woven through it. Vojtěch Fröhlich scales the building floor by floor, then 33 close with a set.
Limón Dance Company
An 80th-anniversary program that sets the company's legacy beside newly commissioned works and cultural partnerships, with live music accompanying the dancing.
broken (iteration III- for LIC)
A Norwegian duo's farewell to stages, made after they lost their own venue. This version is reworked for The Chocolate Factory Theater and left open, with no set story to follow.
London City Ballet
A British company that once called Sadler's Wells home brings two mixed programs, pairing new ballets with cherished older works, and the performances come with live music.
This Is Unreal
Liz Santoro recounts her life onstage, but some memories are AI-generated and some movements come from an algorithm trained on her dancing. It asks where the body ends and the machine begins.
Next Dance
A 50-minute work from choreographer Neil Greenberg, built from the performers' own recorded improvisations and set to music Zeena Parkins and James Lo composed together. Greenberg dances in it too.
