Catherine Tharin

An hour-long cabaret-style work, Pilobolust, places dancers, as they move freely through the space, in direct relation to the audience.

For a contemporary dance company, walking away from a major presenting opportunity is no small matter. Choreographer Doug Varone had been scheduled to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts but canceled the engagement after Donald Trump attached his name to the venue.

Artists Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, collaborators for nearly three decades under their company name Sweat Variant, recently presented a new three-hour work, my tongue is a blade.

PS21’s upcoming festival, The Dark, takes place in the dead of winter. Vallejo Gantner, the venue’s new artistic and executive director, planned this festival of more than 80 performances across Columbia County sites to give the community a little lift at this cold and dark time of year.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater closes its annual month-long New York City Center season this Sunday, with five more performances on offer.

Nut/Cracked, performed by The Bang Group at Kaatsbaan in Tivoli, New York, this Friday and Saturday, is a smart, funny reimagining of The Nutcracker that draws not only on familiar musical references but also on the choreographic legacy of productions by the Boston Ballet and New York City Ballet.

Brooklyn-based choreographer Shamel Pitts, founder of the multidisciplinary collective TRIBE, brings “Marks of RED” to Kaatsbaan Cultural Center tonight at 6 p.m., as part of its New Work Preview series, which invites artists in residence to share works in progress. Audiences are offered a look into the creative process.

Choreographer Sally Silvers, Guggenheim Fellow recipient and Bessie Award-winner, returns to the stage this Sunday at Flow Chart Space, 348 Warren Street, Hudson, New York, with a new work, EXWHYZEE, performed by dancer Jeremy Nelson.

Each fall, the Hudson Valley Dance Festival transforms the Historic Catskill Point warehouse on the banks of the Hudson River into a theater, where dancers perform in support of those living with HIV and AIDS.

Experience the heat, energy, and passion of flamenco without leaving New York State at the Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival. Now in its eighth year, the festival brings world-class dancers and musicians to the area for a celebration of this living art form.