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Today is the LAST DAY to enjoy Sutton Foster | Bring Me to Light! Watch Sutton Foster and friends perform music theater favorites from Anyone Can Whistle, Camelot, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, Violet, The Wild Party, and more. Buy now: https://www.nycitycenter.org//sutton-foster--bring-me-to/

The second episode of Studio 5 | Dancing Across Continents explores the classical Indian dance of Odissi with Sooraj Subramaniam and Bijayini Satpathy. Watch for free through Thursday!

Tune in tonight at 6:30pm to experience our friends at Ballet Hispánico's 50th Celebration! The free event features performances by their internationally renowned Company and students from the School of Dance coupled with special celebrity appearances from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rosie Perez, and more. Learn more at https://bit.ly/Celebrate-BH50

Explore the classical Indian dance of Odissi with influential teacher, dancer, and guru Bijayini Satpathy and multifaceted dancer Sooraj Subramaniam in the next episode of the new five-part digital series Studio 5 | Dancing Across Continents. This second episode is available on demand through June 3. Exploring a diversity of dance styles, a new episode premieres for free at noon every Tuesday and is then available on demand for the next 10 days.

Exciting news! Apprenticeships are back this fall for our 2021-2022 season Paid positions are available in many administrative departments including dance programming, development, education, marketing, and production management. Apply by June 23!

Happy Birthday, Mr. B! We are proud to be the place where it all began. Photo: Paul Kolnik; New York City Ballet performs Symphony in C in the 2018 Balanchine Festival

Coming to a post office near you in 2021: 5 new stamps celebrating tap dance featuring Ayodele Casel, Dormeshia, Michela Marino Lerman, Derick K Grant, and Max Pollak. Thanks US Postal Service!

Dr. King’s message was really prophetic, meaning that he was dealing with something at that particular time, but if you listen to his words, we’re still dealing with those things. Hope Boykin on the inspiration behind the choreography for r-Evolution, Dream, which premiered at City Center in 2017. #MLKDay Learn more about the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater works that shine a spotlight on Apartheid, police brutality, the cradle-to-prison pipeline, and more https://www.playbill.com//reflecting-national-dialogue-thr Photo: Paul Kolnik

"It's an amazing story about how America can be the place for everybody and every kid should dream." -Director Kenny Leon Watch the newest Encores! Inside the Revival episode now featuring Kenny Leon, Lydia Diamond, Dulé Hill and Jared Grimes. #tapdance #CityCenterEncores!

Thanks to Senator Chuck Schumer and his team for securing $15 billion for Save Our Stages, which will provide grants to help keep nonprofit performing arts organizations afloat during this crisis and protect a critical piece of New York’s economy.

"What we get is an experience we wouldn’t have at an in-person gala: the intimacy of Audra as if she’s singing just for you. Which she is. This offers an unprecedented look at this exceptional entertainer at work." -New York Stage Review An Evening with Audra McDonald is available to watch on demand now through Dec 16!

Tonight's 2020 Gala looks a little different from previous years but we're grateful to still be able to present world-class artists on our stage! Your generous support of all streamed performances of the An Evening with Audra McDonald will ensure City Center is able to continue its founding mission to provide access to the best in the performing arts to the widest possible audience and to support artists with new opportunities to create and perform. Video Production: Nel She...lby Productions Photo: Christopher Duggan See more

2020 Fall for Dance Festival Program 1 premieres TONIGHT! Tune in at 7:30pm ET to watch: Ballet Hispánico Jamar Roberts of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Martha Graham Dance Company featuring Natasha M. Diamond-Walker Sara Mearns & David Hallberg... Purchase digital access for $15 at NYCityCenter.org/FallforDance! Lead Sponsor Bloomberg Philanthropies Major Support for Fall for Dance Jody and John Arnhold photo: Christopher Duggan

Tomorrow night: New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns and American Ballet Theatre principal David Hallberg join forces for the first time ever to perform Christopher Wheeldon's new commission! 2020 Fall for Dance Festival premieres Oct 21 at 7:30pm ET.

Join us tomorrow night for the premiere of our 2020 Gala starring Audra McDonald and hosted by Michael Urie! Don’t miss more than an hour of classic songs by Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Herman, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, and Frank Loesser’s Can’t Stop Talking from the 1950 film Let’s Dance. Digital access starts at $35 and includes on demand viewing: https://bit.ly/2IEyjNg... Video production: Nel Shelby Productions

Michael Urie is all of us watching Audra McDonald. Introducing our 2020 Gala host Michael Urie! The first Broadway show he ever saw was Ragtime starring Audra McDonald and like many of us, he has made it his mission to see her perform every chance he gets. Thanks for joining us Michael! An Evening with Audra McDonald premieres next Wed, Dec 9 ... Video Production: Nel Shelby Productions Photo: Christopher Duggan

How are we producing a dance festival during a pandemic? Well we've had to get creative. While some of the team works on site, like Festival Lighting Director Kate Ashton here, many of the lighting designers, choreographers and artistic directors have been watching tech rehearsals via a live camera feed on Zoom and giving notes over the phone. #FallforDance

Tonight, City Center's Principal Dance Company Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater kicks off their annual winter season with a 60th anniversary celebration of "Revelations". The free, virtual benefit pays tribute to the global impact of this American masterpiece. Watch here: https://www.alvinailey.org/suppo/opening-night-gala-benefit Photos: Nicole Tintle, Paul Kolnick

Dancer-turned-doctor Wendy Ziecheck is the woman responsible for keeping dancers and production crews around New York City safe, including those involved in our 2020 Fall for Dance Festival! Read about the multitude of strategies in place to make stage productions possible during COVID-19 (Hint: "Testing is the key")

I’m the first woman of African American descent to perform this solo here in America as a member of the Company. This opportunity could not have come at a better moment in time As part of this year’s 2020 Fall for Dance Festival, Martha Graham Dance’s Natasha M. Diamond-Walker will perform Lamentation, one of Graham’s signature solos that showcases contemporary dance at its very best (NYT). Watch Natasha in Program 1, premiering next Wednesday! ... : Christopher Duggan

Today is the last day to participate in the census. The count directly affects the amount of federal funding distributed to your community and the number of representatives sent to Congress on your behalf. https://my2020census.gov/

As we turn the lights back on to bring you the 2020 Fall for Dance Festival, please consider making a gift to help us get artists back on stage where they belong. This month only, Board Co-Chair Richard Witten and his wife and Board member Lisa are matching all gifts up to $100,000. That means any donation you make to City Center will be doubled! Donate now https://bit.ly/373mJFC : Christopher Duggan

Tech this year involves plenty of screens and sanitizer. #FallforDance Jamar Roberts, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Resident Choreographer, is seen here rehearsing his new commission for the cameras. Morani/Mungu (Black Warrior/Black God) is part of Program 1 premiering Oct 21!

Go inside rehearsals for the 2020 Fall for Dance Festival with dancers David Hallberg, Sara Mearns, Brittany Pollack, Jamar Roberts and Shelby Colona, Dandara Veiga, & Lenai Wilkerson of Ballet Hispánico! Available online Oct 21 - Nov 1 only. Learn more http://bit.ly/FFD2020Access Fall for Dance is produced by New York City Center and Nel Shelby Productions in association with Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Fall for Dance is back! For seventeen years, the Festival has been part of the renewed rhythm of the performing arts each fallwelcoming dance lovers, both existing and new, to experience an array of dance artists and a variety of genres. It is in keeping with this tradition that we are turning the lights back on at New York City Center and presenting the 2020 Fall for Dance Festival, for the first time ever, filmed live on our stage and presented digitally for you.

As beautiful as ever. The crew is back in the house preparing for Fall for Dance!