Fall for Dance, the annual appetizer sampler of performers and choreographers from around the world, will return to New York City Center in October with four world premieres — including one by Kyle Abraham for the American Ballet Theater star Misty Copeland — and appearances by the Mariinsky Ballet and the tap wunderkind Caleb Teicher.
The festival, in its 16th season, is planned for Oct. 1-13, City Center announced on Tuesday. Tickets, only $15 and so fast-selling, will be available starting at 11 a.m. on Sept. 8.
Program One, which features Mr. Abraham’s new work for Ms. Copeland, will have also appearances by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and the South African troupe Vuyani Dance Company; Mr. Teicher will unveil “Bzzzz” — an expansion of “Bzzz,” which he presented at last year’s Fall for Dance. (Siobhan Burke, reviewing the premiere in The New York Times, called “Bzzz” “rousing, clever, sometimes madcap” and “a music-making triumph.”)
The Mark Morris Dance Group opens Program Two, which also features the French company Dyptik and Washington Ballet, as well as Malevo, of Argentina. On Program Three, the storied Mariinsky Ballet will dance the American premiere of Alexander Sergeev’s “At the Wrong Time”; the evening’s other troupes are the English National Ballet, performing a work by Akram Khan; Skanes Dansteater of Sweden; and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, presenting a portion of Rennie Harris’s “Lazarus,” which had its premiere last season.
Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” (1991), performed by the French Compagnie CNDC-Angers/Robert Swinston, opens Program Four. Also onboard: Madboots Dance; a world premiere by Sonya Tayeh (fresh off choreographing “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” on Broadway); and Alicia Graf Mack — the director of dance at the Juilliard School and a former Ailey star — performing Geoffrey Holder’s “Come Sunday,” originally created for his wife, Carmen de Lavallade.
Program Five includes appearances by Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Monica Bill Barnes & Company and the Martha Graham Dance Company — in Graham’s 1936 work “Chronicle.” But the main draw may be the New York City Ballet stars Taylor Stanley and Sara Mearns, a Fall for Dance regular, in a world premiere by Kim Brandstrup.
Joshua Barone is a senior staff editor on the Culture Desk, where he writes about classical music and other fields including dance, theater and visual art and architecture. @joshbarone • Facebook
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