BAAND Together Dance Festival

Returning to Lincoln Center after a series of sold-out, tour de force performances as part of last summer’s Restart Stages, the BAAND Together Dance Festival joins Summer for the City August 9-13! Five of NYC’s most iconic dance companies—Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem—share the spotlight and an outdoor stage with pieces from the companies’ repertoire featured each night.

Dance Theatre of Harlem performances will feature Robert Garland’s Return, a piece that deploys his signature “post-modern urban neoclassicism” to magnify the soulful exuberance of the music of James Brown and Aretha Franklin thereby creating a ballet that is pure joy to behold, and Helen Pickett’s original work for DTH, When Love, where her exquisite pas de deux captures the wondrous feeling of timeless love.

SCHEDULE
When Love 8/9, 8/11, 8/13
Return 8/10, 8/12

SHOWTIMES: 7:30PM | GENERAL ADMISSION – FREE and open to the public | Advance Registration available Monday 8/8 12pm LEARN MORE

Join us on August 12th, 5pm for a workshop featuring a live DJ set by former company member Preston Dugger, III aka DJ Duggz! Attendees will participate in a ballet warmup with DTH faculty member Darryl Quinton and learn steps from Return in a fun, hour-long activity led by DTH company artists, with choreography that is “witty fusion of ballet and street gait” (NY Times), featuring music from the ballet and culminating in an old-school Soul Train Line! LEARN MORE

The Festival is made possible by CHANEL with major support provided by the Thompson Family Foundation and the Arnhold Dance Innovation Fund.