Get ready to experience Japanese idol culture in Brooklyn, as Idol Village rings in the start of summer with Volume 4! WOTA SANS FRONTIERES PRESENTS: Idol Village Volume 4 The days are getting warmer, and what a better way to ring in the summer season with idols? Get ready to experience Japanese idol culture in […]
We’re celebrating season 5 of Chinatown Block Party 夏日傾情 on Mosco Street! Think!Chinatown x Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 team up for another summer of music and memories at the historic newsstand. We’re back with a stacked lineup of DJs and printmaking artist to light up our Chinatown dance floor with the whole family and neighborhood. See […]
A dance theater work blending Hip-Hop/Street Dance, live storytelling, and Asian folklore. Join House of Chow for the premiere of Find a Good Husband! Created by Yvonne Huatin Chow | 周化炜, Find A Good Husband is a tribute to Yvonne’s paternal grandfather, Mike Kuo-Min Chow (Yeh Yeh), inspired by a message he wrote in his final birthday card […]
The 24th Annual DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON®: A Native American Festival and Multicultural Celebration will take place on Sunday, June 7th, 2026 in Upper Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm, Rain or Shine. This event is free to the public and is presented by Lotus Music & Dance in collaboration with […]
J CHEN PROJECT presents Inside Look: Community Garden! A gathering where J CHEN PROJECT company members plant seeds of identity, community, and diversity, organized by JCP company dancers Grace Blackmar and Tsubasa Nishioka, moderated by artistic director Jessica Chen. Free and open to the public with RSVP. 🗓️June 20, 2026 | 5pm 📍Dance Lab Studios, […]
Allies welcome. An ancient folk dance (Garba) meets House ('Ghar') Techno & Disco. For those wanting more than just 'pride as usual.' GHAR/BA Ghar. The Gujarati word for house. Garba. An ancient folk dance from Gujarat, danced in ancient circles to honor the divine feminine, the generative force at the center of all things. Add […]
Sanctuary After Dark: Legacies of Queer Nightlife Presented in collaboration with Body Hack Alice O’Malley, Body Hack Collective, Julie Tolentino, Lola Flash, and more Saturday, June 27 | 2pm-10pm | Body Hack’s Pride Nonstop will continue all weekend long Sanctuary After Dark is free and open to the public, but RSVP with donation is strongly encouraged, […]
Rooted in the meditative flow of Tai Chi and the expressive force of contemporary dance, BIRDY explores themes of freedom, resilience, and transformation. Set to an evocative blend of electronic and Chinese classical music, the work unfolds as a dialogue between tradition and modernity, where stillness and motion, struggle and hope, coexist. Founded in 2017 by choreographer LAI […]
Experience Live at the Gantries—a free outdoor concert series at Gantry Plaza State Park in LIC. Celebrate the rich cultures of Queens with top local talent and stunning sunsets over the East River. Concerts take place on Tuesdays at 7 PM. It’s free—just show up! Bring a chair, picnic, friends—even your dancing shoes—and enjoy a […]
Part of the Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance As part of Chinese Arts Week and Dance Encounters, a new cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-temporal work MindScape from choreographer Shen Wei features Shen Wei Dance Arts and Guangdong Modern Dance Company, co-commissioned by Lincoln Center and American Dance Festival. Combining contemporary dance with poetry, abstract calligraphy, and painting, the work […]
As part of the opening day's festivities for Lincoln Center's Chinese Arts Week, we present a performance of the millennia-old south China theater procession known as Xing Shi or the Awakening Lion (南国醒狮). The charismatic Awakening Lion hails originally from Guangdong, which is also the home of Yingge dance (英歌), a highly stylized and energetic folk […]
Presented in collaboration with Chinatown Records Summer for the City's Chinese Arts Week kicks off with a Chinatown Records (華埠錄音) block party, presented by special guest DJs yiuyiu (瑶瑶) and Alice Liu (劉凱儀). Chinatown Records is a homegrown collective and living archive of inherited music collections founded by mixmaster historian yiuyiu. Get ready to party with […]
Experience the arts and culture of China during Summer for the City's Chinese Arts Week! This day of music and dance at the Atrium features the Red Silk Dancers—a long-running NYC-based Chinese dance company—who performs to selections from yiuyiu 瑤瑤, founder of local collective and archive Chinatown Records 華埠錄音. Before their performance, join the Red Silk […]
Part of the Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance As part of our new Dance Encounters series, choreographer Benjamin Akio Kimitch dreams beyond the mantra of East-meets-West. Inspired by his formative training in Chinese dance and intimate encounters with Peking opera, Kimitch creates a dance work that honors his late mother, a dancer. He has welcomed a […]
The NYC Cambodian classical dance community is so happy to welcome back artists Peter Veth, Stephanie Seng, and Chummeng Suon from Khmer Urban Ballet (@khmer_urban_ballet on Instagram)! They were so enthused by the response to last fall's workshop and are back for a special summer workshop featuring two levels of Cambodian classical dance and Cambodian folk […]
No admission fees, and anybody can participate. Traditional Bon Folk dancing and Japanese cultural presentation. There will be performance of Soh Daiko and it will be a good opportunity to learn about Japanese culture.