DanceAfrica Information

Venue: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Public Transportation: Excellent

Fall for Dance is an annual festival at New York’s City Center that was established in 2004 to introduce audiences to the wide variety of dance that exists around the country and the world. Showcasing different dance performances every evening, the festival lasts for ten days and features large established companies like Alvin Ailey and American Ballet Theater along with smaller and edgier companies that often don’t get the same kind of exposure. ...more...

A venue created by dancers specifically for dance, the Joyce Theater is a top-notch destination for seeing local, national, and international dance companies. Formerly known as the Elgin Theater, this art-deco building served as a revival movie house in the 1940s. When it later turned into a pornographic movie theater, it was closed down, stripped, gutted, and reopened in 1982 …more…